I've embedded the guestbook on my page, and it's worked fine in chrome, opera, firefox and safari, but it shows up as a big, blank square in Explorer.

I tried a couple of workarounds, for example creating a separate javascript file which the page html invokes. Nothing changed, though.

Is this just an IE 8 thing? Does anybody have a solution?

Browser: ie, firefox, safari, opera, chrome

I remembered that I altered the code a bit, so I thought I'd provide a little more info.

Because the Bravenet-provided code did, in fact, show up in all browsers; unfortunately, it doesn't conform to my css height specifications; it runs right off the page. I want the guestbook to show up just in the space laid out for the div it's in.

so instead a verbatim paste of the "embed" code from the Bravenet site, I used this (I'm removing the html brackets so you can see the code rather than my guestbook itself):

object data=http://pub39.bravenet.com/guestbook/3342379131/ width="343" height="415"
embed src=http://pub39.bravenet.com/guestbook/3342379131/ width="343" height="415"
embed
object

This code makes the guestbook stay inside the div. As I said, though, it works everywhere but explorer, where it no longer shows up at all.

So I guess my real question ought to be "is there a way to set size and position boundaries for the embedded guestbook and still have it show up in IE?"

Browser: ie, firefox, safari, opera, chrome

You can't change the Bravenet copy and paste code.

I suggest leaving the Bravenet copy and paste code exactly as it is. And put it inside of a div that has a set width and height and set it to scroll.