CSS to put a border around text

Hi--

Here's the CSS that I'm using to put a box around some text, a small text
block that I'm centering on the page as a highlight box.  The font is
rendering fine in both browsers. In Netscape I get a neat little box that
just surrounds the small block of text--just what I'm looking for.  IE
inserts a box that reaches the full width of the page, far beyond the text.
Other than making it a table cell, is there anything I can change so that
the box fits the width of the text in IE?

p.box { border: thin solid black;
            padding:  10px;
            font:  italic 12pt Georgia;
           }

Thanks
Debbie

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