title: CSS issues in IE8 XP but not in IE8 Vista or 7
body: <p>I've implemented a landing page design for a campaign we are launching at work, and did testing on IE 7 on my XP machine at work and IE 8 on my 7 machine at home. These both worked and so I thought I had beaten IE, but as it turns out, different OS's IE render HTML differently even though they claim to be the same browser.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone who has XP and IE8 will not see the site correctly at all. </p>
  
  <p>I use two different CSS links. One for IE and one for !IE:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!--[if IE]&gt;
  &lt;link href="../images/content/pagebuilder/idop_2010/free-to-believe-IE.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
  &lt;![endif]--&gt;
  
  &lt;!--[if !IE]&gt;&lt;!--&gt;
  &lt;link href="../images/content/pagebuilder/idop_2010/free-to-believe.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
   &lt;!--&lt;![endif]--&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I had to use !IE because IE was still pulling CSS from the good stylesheet, and the IE sheet wouldn't update correctly (a different issue).</p>
  
  <p>If I create IE specific CSS (IE7/IE8 vs just IE) could that fix the problem?</p>
  
  <p>What's a good way to overcome an issue of Operating Systems + IE?</p>
  
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  <h2>Edit</h2>
  
  <p>I installed IE 8 on my work computer and it has the same problem as all the other IE 8 computers. I have Internet Explorer developer tools, and I noticed that IE was running in "IE8 Standards Mode" When I switched it to "IE7 Standards Mode" the layout worked perfectly. I also noticed on my laptop with Windows 7, that the compatibility mode icon was activated. When I turned it off, I was able to duplicate my problem. So now I know for sure it's an IE8 issue in general, not necessarily an OS issue.</p>
  
  <p>I've now created an IE8 specific stylesheet which I'm going to start overhauling to get it looking right.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the site: <a href="http://members.opendoorsusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=IDOP_2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://members.opendoorsusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=IDOP_2010</a></p>
  
  <p>Anyone who wants to take a look at it and give me suggestions as far as CSS is concerned, I would appreciate it (I didn't do the design, just implementation, so no design critiques please)</p>
  
  <p>Now that I know that this is the problem, I have another question. Why in the world does IE 8 display so different than IE7?!</p>