"nospam" wrote

| I had to recompile the help file, after fixing
| the CSS, so that I could read it. (The text is invisible!)
| Very few people can or will recompile help files.
|
| very few people intentionally cripple their browser to where most sites
| fail to display properly.
|
I'm talking about a Windows help file, not a
webpage. And of course you don't know much of
anything about Windows.

Windows help is a CHM file, which is a compiled
package including HTML pages, images, CSS, index,
etc. It has nothing to do with browser settings.

A CHM file is rendered by an IE window but there's
no choice in how it's done. It's handled by the help
system. In other words, it's not renered in IE. It's
rendered in a special help window that uses an
IE browser sub-window to display the help content.

The problem was that the CSS inside the CHM
file is faulty. The technical details: The text area
was positioned in absolute terms but had no
positioned parent. That's like saying Oshkosh
is 6 miles east. It means nothing because we
don't know what it's 6 miles east of.

At least some versions of IE will not render the
text at all when that error occurs. Since I'm on
Windows I have no choice in the matter.