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Okay that makes sense. I guess I have some work to do. Thanks for the help.

Thanks So I guess I should use Firefox as my internal broser. What errors did you see that would cause the problems I'm having in lining up the elements in Firefox? It's eems like an absolute position of <span style="position:absolute;left:170px; top: 150px; padding:6;" class="box2"> would line that box up 170 pixels from the lefy and 150 pixels from the top regardless of which browser you view it in, no?

Yeah I have three "boxes" defined in the header and I used this <span style="position:absolute;left:20px; top: 150px;" class="box"><span style="position:absolute;left:170px; top: 150px; padding:6;" class="box2"><span style="position:absolute;left:770px; top: 150px;" class="box">to align them. Works great in IE and the first box goes right where it's supposed to in Firefox and Netscape. The other two boxes don't.

First let me say hi to the group, this my first post and I hope this post isn't too repetitive as I'm sure a lot of people have this problem. I recently decided to get back into web design after a long lay off. Since I haven't built a site in six tears I'm not well versed in CSS but I figured I'd build my first site as I learned how to use it. Initially things looked pretty good in all three browsers so I quit checking in Firefox and Netscape. The site is still not finished but I posted what I have to a free host and when I checked it in IE it looks good but (you guessed it) it's totally screwed up in every other browser It just doesn't line up right. I used absolute positions but there's stuff all over the place. Also, what doctype should I be using? Here's the link http://boutte.awardspace.com/. By the way, I know it's weird for a novice to be building a web design guide type of site but as I learn I expect the site to grow with me