IE7 ignores CSS attribute selector only on pages coming from production server

Question

On my website, IE7 seems to be ignoring certain CSS attribute selectors. The strange thing is that it only happens when the page comes from the production server. If I have the

Answer 1

I get a feeling it has something to do with the server (Based on the apache/coyote I guess you're using tomcat?) and either something to do with whitespaces, or BOF, or improper utf-8 setting (i've heard of issues where header claims to be utf-8 but isn't). If you have any whitespace before the html declaration, that might also trigger it to go into quirks mode. While I may be wrong, I get the feeling that your problem is similar to this one Why is ie7 always in Quirks mode?