everything displays how it should with any browser than internet explorer...the main problem is the links i make on text do not work in IE (the email link also does nothing) and the upload form does nothing, and the buttons are messed up looking. the site is here: [url=http://208.106.23.186/index.html]http://208.106.23.186/index.html[/url] css 1 (index page)[url=http://208.106.23.186/style_home.css]http://208.106.23.186/style_home.css[/url] css 2 (all others)[url=http://208.106.23.186/style_reg.css]http://208.106.23.186/style_reg.css[/url] this is my from html [code] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Royce Printing</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link href="style_reg.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!--[if IE]> <style> * html #wrapper { background: url(images/body_t1.gif) 24px 0px no-repeat; backgro\und: none; } * html #ie { filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='images/body_t1.png'); height: 39px; width: 434px; position: absolute; margin-left: 24px; } * html #body { background: url(images/body_bg.gif); backgro\und: none; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='images/body_bg.png', sizingMethod=scale); } .footerie { display: block; disp\lay: none; } .footer { display: none; disp\lay: block; } </style> <![endif]--> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style5 { font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="ie"></div> <div id="wrapper"> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="index.html"><img src="images/home_tab.gif" alt="home" width="31" height="69" border="0" /></a></li> <li><a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact_tab.gif" alt="contact" width="31" height="69" border="0" /></a></li> <li><a href="index.html"><img src="images/archive_tab.gif" alt="archive" width="31" height="69" border="0" /></a></li> <li><a href="upload.html"><img src="images/upload_tab.gif" alt="upload" width="31" height="69" border="0" /></a></li> </ul> <h1><a href="/"><img src="images/logo.gif" width="135" height="30" alt="Royce Logo" /></a></h1> <div id="body"> <div align="center" class="style5"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p align="center" class="style6">Send Us A File </p> <form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <p> </p> <label for="file"></label> <div align="center"> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> <br /> </div> </form> <p> </p> </div> <div id="footer"> <img src="images/footer.gif" width="435" height="196" alt="footer" class="footer" /> <img src="images/footer_ie.gif" width="435" height="196" alt="footer_ie" class="footerie" /> </div> <!-- end footer --> </div><!-- end body --> <!-- end paper --> </div> <!-- end wrapper --> <div style="clear:both;position:relative;display:block;margin-top:530px;" > <p> </p> <p>Royce Printing </p> </div> </body> </html> [/code] and this is the css for the page... [code]body { font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; background: #d9d6cc url(images/page_bg.gif) top center repeat-x; color: #868686; margin: 0; padding: 10px; } html, #wrapper, h1 { margin: 0; padding: 0; } img { border: 0; } #wrapper { margin: auto; text-align: left; width: 458px; position: relative; } h1, h2, h3 { font-size: 10px; } h1 { line-height: 1; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } h2 { margin: 0 0 5px 0; padding: 0; } h3 { padding: 4px 0 0 0; } .block { display: block; } .clear { clear: both; height: 10px; } .left { float: left; margin: 5px 20px 0px 0px; } .right { float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; } .readmore { text-align: right; } /* page structure */ #wrapper { background: url(images/body_t1.png) 24px 0px no-repeat; height: 40px; } h1 { position: absolute; top: 16px; left: 43px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 135px; z-index: 10; } #nav { position: absolute; top: 31px; left: 0; width: 31px; margin: 0; padding: 0; z-index: 5; } #nav li { float: left; width: 31px; padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style: none; } #nav img { display: block; } #body { background: url(images/body_bg.png) repeat-y; position: absolute; top: 39px; left: 10px; width: 448px; margin: 0; padding: 10px 0 0 0; z-index: 2; } #body .inner { width: 300px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; } #body .inner #content { width: 200px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 1em; } #body .inner #content p { margin: 1em 0; padding: 0; } #body .inner #content div { padding: 17px; border-top: 1px solid #d4d6cf; border-bottom: 1px solid #d4d6cf; } #body .inner h2 { font-size: 12px; } #page_title { float: left; width: 57px; border-right: 1px solid #d4d6cf; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: -50px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 50px; padding-left: 0; } * html #page_title { margin-left: 7px; } #news { float: left; width: 129px; margin: 10px 0 0px 6px; background: url(images/box_bg.gif) repeat-y; } #news div { background: url(images/box_t.gif) no-repeat; } #news div div { padding: 12px 12px 7px 12px; background: url(images/box_b.gif) bottom left no-repeat; } #news p { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 3px 0; } #news .readmore { padding-top: 4px; } #paper { position: absolute; top: 39px; left: 243px; width: 196px; z-index: 9; background: url(images/paper_bg.gif) repeat-y; } #paper .inner { background: url(images/paper_b.gif) bottom no-repeat; padding: 8px 30px 18px 30px; } #paper .readmore { text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0; } #paper p { margin: 1em 0; padding: 0; } #footer { text-align: right; margin-top: -10px; } .footerie { display: none; } .clear { margin-top: -20px; } a { color: #575e58; font-weight: bold; } a:hover { color: #b31d00; } [/code] thank you for the help!