IE9 letter-spacing problem

Question

I have a page that renders ok, in FF (3x, 4x), Chrome, IE (6, 7, 8).

When tested on IE9 the texts are wider. Investigating the problem it appears that the text is actu

Answer 1

Afraid I don't have IE9 on this machine - will try and look again tomorrow on a PC that does, but my immediate thought is that the w3c validator says your HTML is invalid.

It doesn't like the fact that your text is directly in the BODY and isn't in some other container. I just wondered if that was the issue? Perhaps the other browsers are 'correcting' on your behalf and assuming a paragraph container.

Does the appearance change if you put the text inside a paragraph or a DIV?