Reply To: Strange CSS Issue with older IE

[Senff]

Remove the line that comes before the Doctype declaration. Nothing can come before <!Doctype..., not even a space or a blank line, or IE will go into quirks mode. Which is not what you want.

Who came up with that anyway?

<!--
Unless this text is here, if your page is less than 513 bytes, Internet Explorer will display it's "Friendly HTTP Error Message",
and your custom error will never be displayed.  This text is just used as filler.
This is a useless buffer to fill the page to 513 bytes to avoid display of Friendly Error Pages in Internet Explorer
This is a useless buffer to fill the page to 513 bytes to avoid display of Friendly Error Pages in Internet Explorer
This is a useless buffer to fill the page to 513 bytes to avoid display of Friendly Error Pages in Internet Explorer
-->