CSS and XHTML?

Mozilla messes up

[johnnie]

Strange...

As soon as I pass the correct mime-type to mozilla, my XHTML-page will render completely messed up. It looks like the DIV's are ignored?

My CSS file is lower-case and conforms to W3C standards. What could be wrong?

[encyclo]

Are you adding styles via the

body

element? This is one of the major issues to deal with when styling for

application/xhtml+xml

- without going into the excruciating details, because you're dealing with XML rather than HTML,

body

doesn't have the same importance - it's just a tag like any other.

Without seeing your CSS, I can't be very specific about advice, but try moving styles up to the

html

element instead of

body

and see if that makes a difference.

[johnnie]

Wow, are you a psychic or something? Awesome piece of bit-reading ;)

Moving the id to HTML doesn't make a difference though...

[encyclo]

Unfortunately, johnnie, my psychic powers aren't strong enough to debug your page without a snippet of relevant markup. ;)

Can you reduce the problem down to a simplified example that you'd be able to post here (both CSS and XHTML)? When you say "messed up", in what way? Is it margins, floating, inherited styles?