CSS borderline wont show in IE

.xboxcontent {
display:block;
 background:#000000; 
 border:3px solid #fff; 
 border-width:0 3px;
 }
 .xsnazzy h1, .xsnazzy h2, .xsnazzy p {margin:0 10px; letter-spacing:1px;}
.xsnazzy h1 {font-size:2.5em; color:#fc0;}
.xsnazzy h2 {font-size:2em; color:#234; border:0;}
.xsnazzy p {padding-bottom:0.5em; color:#eee;}
.xsnazzy h2 {padding-top:0.5em; padding-left:10px;}
.xsnazzy {background: transparent; margin:1em;}
.xsnazzy em {display:block; width:0; height:0; color:#d8d8ee; overflow:hidden; border-top:12px solid #fff; border-left:12px dotted transparent; border-right:12px dotted transparent; margin-left:50px;}
/* hack for IE5.5 */
* html .xsnazzy em {width:24px; height:12px; w\idth:0; hei\ght:0;}
.xsnazzy span {display:block; width:0; height:0; color:#fff; overflow:hidden; border-top:10px solid #000000; border-left:10px dotted transparent; border-right:10px dotted transparent; margin-left:52px; margin-top:-15px;}
* html .xsnazzy span {width:20px; height:10px; w\idth:0; hei\ght:0;}
 .xb1, .xb2, .xb3, .xb4, .xb5, .xb6, .xb7 {display:block; overflow:hidden; font-size:0;}
.xb1, .xb2, .xb3, .xb4, .xb5, .xb6 {height:1px;}
.xb4, .xb5, .xb6, .xb7 {background:#ccc; border-left:1px solid #fff; border-right:1px solid #fff;}
.xb1 {margin:0 8px; background:#fff;}
.xb2 {margin:0 6px; background:#fff;}
.xb3 {margin:0 4px; background:#fff;}
.xb4 {margin:0 3px; background:#000000; border-width:0 5px;}

.xb5 {margin:0 2px; background:#000000; border-width:0 4px;}
.xb6 {margin:0 2px; background:#000000; border-width:0 3px;} 
.xb7 {margin:0 1px; background:#000000; border-width:0 3px; height:2px;} 

the result of this is: http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3583/ffwork.png

in FF.. but ofcourse stupid IE: http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6628/ieno.png

Why is this happening and how to solve this..

Theres no images involved.

<div class="xsnazzy">
<b class="xb1"></b><b class="xb2"></b><b class="xb3"></b><b class="xb4"></b><b class="xb5"></b><b class="xb6"></b><b class="xb7"></b>
<div class="xboxcontent">
<p>
Hello, my name is Azzyh
</p>
</p>
</div>
<b class="xb7"></b><b class="xb6"></b><b class="xb5"></b><b class="xb4"></b><b class="xb3"></b><b class="xb2"></b><b class="xb1"></b>
<em></em><span></span>&开发者_Python百科lt;/div>

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Try specifying a width and height for your .xboxcontent - either in pixels or percentages.