IE8 and border css property on select menus

Question

I am getting a really strange behaviour when viewing a very simple piece of HTML in IE, served up by IIS. I am at a loss to explain this...

Take the following html

Answer 1

Try this:

border: 1px solid red;

The border shorthand syntax should be weight, style, colour. You appear to have this in the wrong order.

Putting these in the wrong order might put IE8 into quirks mode, possibly causing your problem.