add the following at line 1:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
without the doctype tag, IE will use quirks mode rendering which causes the css to break.
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