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HELP - Self Closing tags in XHTML strict causing page to render incorrectly in all browsers.

SethCrews_1
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Below is a snippet of code that I believe SHOULD render differently than it does.

Step one: Create an image that is a 16 x 16 .PNG file, name it slider.png and place it the same folder as the HTML code listed below.  Basically you should get what looks like a slider bar and the .PNG is the part you click on with your mouse and move back and forth on the bar.

The issue is this:  in the body section I have four <DIV> tags.  Two of these are self closing tags.  When they are self closing tags, you cannot see the majority of the .PNG image.  Change the two <DIV> tags to not be self closing and it displays correctly.

My question is WHY.  This works the same in all browsers so am I doing something wrong in my style?



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-Strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Slider Bar</title>
    <style type="text/css">

    .currentVal {
      position:relative;
      display:inline;
      top:12px;
      margin:0px;
      font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 10px;
    }
    .sliderFrame {
            height: 38px;
            padding: 4px;
            border: 1px #000;
            overflow:hidden;
    }

    .slider {
      position:relative;
      z-index:2;
      top: -5px;
      width:16px;
      height:16px;
      margin:0px;
      overflow:hidden;
      background-image: url(slider.png);
    }    
    .sliderBar {
      position: relative;
      height:2px;
      top:5px;
      margin:1px;
      clear:left;
      overflow:hidden;
      background-color:#CCCCCC;
      border-top-width: 1px;
      border-right-width: 1px;
      border-bottom-width: 1px;
      border-left-width: 1px;
      border-top-style: solid;
      border-right-style: solid;
      border-bottom-style: solid;
      border-left-style: solid;
      border-top-color: #666666;
      border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
      border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;
      border-left-color: #666666;
      }
 
    </style>

</head>
<body>

<div   id="slider1-sliderFrame" style="width: 250px;"  class="sliderFrame">
  <div id="slider1-currVal"     style="left:  220px;"  class="currentVal">50</div>
  <div id="slider1-bar"         style="width: 213px;"  class="sliderBar" />
  <div id="slider1-slider"      style="left:   50px;"  class="slider" />
</div>      

</body>
</html>
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