I am creating a one column, fixed width layout. It works fine as long as I put a comment at the top.
http://www.clickbasics.com/test_v3/l...ixed/index.php

However, it does not when there is none such comment or just a blank line.
http://www.clickbasics.com/test_v3/l...no_comment.php

The style sheet script is:

Code:
 body {
 width: 600px;
 padding-left: 50%;
 }
 
#frame {
 /* set the width of the column */
 /*WinIE value first, then the desired valuethe next 2 times */
 width: 600px;
 margin-left: -300;
 }
The page script without the comment at the top is:

PHP Code:
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "[url="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd[/url]">
<html xmlns="[url="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/url]">
<head>
 <base href="[url="http://www.clickbasics.com/test_v3/"]http://www.clickbasics.com/test_v3/[/url]" />
 <title>One Column Fixed Width -  Template</title>
 <meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="css/one_column_fixed.css" title="One Column Fixed Width " />
</head>
<body>
<!-- begin frame div -->
<div id="frame">
<h2>Your Website Name here</h2>
<h3>Your Website Description here</h3> ...
</div>
</body>
</html> 
Any clue why the comment at the first line makes this script work OK?