IE position:fixed; hack doesn't like 4.01 strict DOCTYPE?

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pete@pwilson.net - 26 Jul 2005 20:55 GMT

Trying to get this hack to run in IE6. But it seems that it works for
me only if there is no doctype. Is this the case?

If not, then can someone tell me, please, how I've screwed up the
styling?

Page with proper doctype:

http://www.pwilson.net/cleanweb/fixed-position/fixpos-ie.html

Page with no doctype:

http://www.pwilson.net/cleanweb/fixed-position/fixpos-ie-no-doctype.html

Thanks!

-- Pete

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Fig - 26 Jul 2005 22:03 GMT

> Trying to get this hack to run in IE6. But it seems that it works for
> me only if there is no doctype. Is this the case?
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> http://www.pwilson.net/cleanweb/fixed-position/fixpos-ie-no-doctype.html

You need to validate your HTML. You have closed <html> and <body> twice.

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pete@pwilson.net - 27 Jul 2005 01:39 GMT

You are so right! Thanks. Now how did I mess up the styling in this
first page, the page with proper doctype:

http://www.pwilson.net/cleanweb/fixed-position/fixpos-ie.html

And how come the hack works on this page with no doctype, which of
course will never validate:

http://www.pwilson.net/cleanweb/fixed-position/fixpos-ie-no-doctype.html

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pete@pwilson.net - 27 Jul 2005 01:39 GMT

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Jedi Fans - 27 Jul 2005 01:54 GMT

> You are so right! Thanks. Now how did I mess up the styling in this
> first page, the page with proper doctype:
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> http://www.pwilson.net/cleanweb/fixed-position/fixpos-ie-no-doctype.html

<br/> should be <br /> in a html document if not <br> [<br /> is more up
to date aka xhtml]

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IE position:fixed; hack doesn't like 4.01 strict DOCTYPE?