Somehow IE refuse to display properly with width:auto. FF and Safari had no problem with this property and displayed correct width size to match content. IE would set the width size to 1 pixel wide. Fortunately, I came across this post. Thanks to orcrist’s recommendation, removing the width attribute fixed the issue for me on IE. 
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Width issue in IE
IE Specific CSS
This blog post saved my day. I was able to keep a page look relatively the same by using browser specific css definitions. Maintaining separate css definitions is undesirable, but necessary to work within the current situation.
