Hi again :)

i have solved this problem. it was because when I save the document in notepad i need to change the coding to ANSI. it was saving it in utf-8 and therefore breaking the coding so presumably my web host couldnt read it properly, even though the spanish.php is set to utf-8 coding.

anyway, if anyone else has any css layout issues after making changes to any php files in this spanish language pack, or probably any other language pack, always check what coding the file is being saved as.

hope this helps other people

cheers

TED