S. Friss – Design + TechnologyFreelance Interactive Design and Development

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While developing some CSS based sites, I've run into a number of problems with cross-browser compatibility. Mainly with IE's rendering. One of the first things you should do is switch your doctype. It turns out that IE renders in "quirk" mode by default, you want it to render in "compliance" mode, which will make your development process much easier. How you do that is by adding a doctype switching to HTML 4.01 strict for example, or XHTML, something like this

you can check out all kinds of tags and modes here: http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch/table.html

IE height fix:  What worked for me is adding line-height like this:

#banner {
height: 105px;
}

* html #banner {
height: 105px;
line-height: 0px;
}