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• IE Box Model... (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2004.02.25 9:10 (#28766) Homepage Journal

  Chances are you're discovering that IE implements the CSS box model incorrectly. You can work around this using the voice-family hack [tantek.com]. I reccomend the Bad Hat [zeldman.com] book for more discussion...

  -Dom

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  • Re:IE Box Model... (Score:2)

    by ajt (2546)

    If only! In this case it's a float bug. I have the DTD set correctly so IE6 should be using the correct box model, and at this stage I don't care about IE5's totally broken implementation.

    The man in the scary hat is a jolly clever chap, and I read his book while stuck in hospital last year - a very useful read indeed. I keep trying to get people to read it. I've not rad it yet, but Eric Meyer On CSS [ericmeyeroncss.com] may also be a goo read.

    My problem is that IE5 and IE6 do odd things with floats. Mozilla and Opera do wha

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    -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
    • Re:IE Box Model... (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      I've got the Eric Meyer book and it's really very good. Reccomended. It really opened my eyes to what you can acheive in CSS.

      -Dom
  • Re:IE Box Model... (Score:1)

    by brianiac (4158)

    I tend to prefer to exploit the CSS-BE support in IE to spoon-feed it special instructions: .class
    {
        width: 300px;
        width: expression( '400px' );
    }
    • Re:IE Box Model... (Score:2)

      by ajt (2546)

      Not seen that. Normally I force [alistapart.com] IE6 into standards mode, and I either don't care about older broken IEs, or use the infamous Tantek Hack [tantek.com].

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      -- "It's not magic, it's work..."