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Hello everyone, I need help with a site I'm trying to design.?

Hello everyone, I need help with a site I'm trying to design. I'd like to start off by saying I'm a newbie in the world of Web Design. I found a free CSS template and have edited it and edited the rest of the site using Dreamweaver CS4. Here is my site (www.mollaunformayor.com). The major problem I'm having is with IE8. The text wants to become a link. It renders fine in Firefox and Safari, but not in IE8. I wouldn't be concerned, because I do not use IE8 ever, but I know a lot of people do. I can send you any code you might need, just let me know. Thanks in advance Thanks devils i, I can not rate your answer but that did work. Is a situation like this common knowledge, or is this something you have to toy with to get it to work?

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1. Yes, I can see your problem. Perhaps, the solution is that you have an unclosed tag. Specifically the <a> tag. You have put all the closing statements in conditional comments only to include the tag for IE7 and not IE8. Try changing the conditional comment to <!--[if gte IE7]</a>[endif]--> It should then work fine. I do not see your reasoning for including closing tags in conditional comments but you must have needed them. Edit: All other browsers 'must be' detecting the open tags and closing them automatically, if the closing tag were not explicitly mentioned. Edit: I don't have your email-id so this is the best way I can reply. I didn't help just for the ratings :D. It is actually the 'standard' to end tags. Once declared, it must be closed in the correct order. I noticed you set the <!DOCTYPE ..> as xhtml strict. The browser then expects the </a> tag. It would explain why IE let the <a> tag overflow into all elements declared afterwards. If you are ever in doubt of your html code not working you can run it through http://validator.w3.org/ and fix the errors it mentions. Although some code could cause errors that are mean't to be there for compatability.