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Asked: 2026-06-15T00:29:23+00:00

My new website features a navigation built into and overlapping the header image. Sadly,

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My new website features a navigation built into and overlapping the header image. Sadly, in internet explorer (All version < 10), both my header and navigation are simply gone. Everything programmed with classic row-by-row HTML seems to work fine.
I have tried the doc-type fixes, no avail.
I tried messing with my current numbers, nothing.

This is the CSS for the header: (Php selects random image)

Header 
   {
      height: 128px;
      background: url(<?php echo $selectedBg ?>);
      text-indent: -9999px;
      border-bottom: 0px solid #00;
      padding: 0px;
      margin: 0;
   }

And for the navigation: (Simple used inside this class)

div.navigation
{
   position: absolute;
   top: 81px; left: 425px;
   height: 47px; width:575px;
   background-color: transparent;
   z-index: 10;
   padding: 0px;
   margin: 0;
   margin-left: 15px;
}

Announcement CSS: 

div.announcement{
    position: absolute;
    top: 140px; left: 425px;
    height: 47px; width:575px;
    z-index: 20;
}

All I need to do is make this show correctly in all browsers. Thank you to anyone who can help.

REQUESTED CODE SNIPPET:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<?php
  $bg = array('images/header1.png', 'images/header2.png', 'images/header3.png', 'images/header4.png', 'images/header5.png', 'images/header6.png', 'images/header7.png', 'images/header8.png' ); // array of filenames

  $i = rand(0, count($bg)-1); // generate random number size of the array
  $selectedBg = $bg[$i]; // set variable equal to which random filename was chosen
?>

<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>BitFracture.com</title>
    <link rel="icon" href="images/site.ico" type="image/x-icon">
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/site.ico" type="image/x-icon">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="screen,projection">
    <link href="*" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <style type="text/css">
    Header {
        height: 128px;
        background: url(<?php echo $selectedBg ?>);
        text-indent: -9999px;
        border-bottom: 0px solid #00;
        padding: 0px;
        margin: 0;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container" class="clearfix">
<div class="navigation"> 
    <a href="#"><img src="images/home.png" onmouseover="this.src='images/homeh.png'" onmouseout="this.src='images/home.png'"></a> 
    <a href="#"><img src="images/repairs.png" onmouseover="this.src='images/repairsh.png'" onmouseout="this.src='images/repairs.png'"></a> 
    <a href="#"><img src="images/articles.png" onmouseover="this.src='images/articlesh.png'" onmouseout="this.src='images/articles.png'"></a> 
    <a href="#"><img src="images/software.png" onmouseover="this.src='images/softwareh.png'" onmouseout="this.src='images/software.png'"></a> 
</div>
<div class="announcement">
    <p> <b>News:</b> Our new site is up and running!</p>
</div>
<header></header>
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  1. Editorial Team

    what is 

    Header 
   {...}

    exactly? If you are using a <header> tag then delete it and replace the css header {} with div.header {} and apply it to a div tag like <div class='header'>...</div>

    also #00; should be #000; (three colours, not 2 as that may give you funny results across different browsers).

    You may also want to use a container element that has position:relative; set just to help browsers out on where to start positioning from.

    Can you maybe post a working snippet of the html that the css goes with?

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