There are a few CSS parsing bugs that are unique to IE as well. You
can use those to easily specify both dimensions. For example, IE will
transparently ignore // "comment" in stylesheets, while Mozilla
correctly recognizes the invalid syntax and ignores through the end of
the rule. That lets you do things like this:
#mydiv {
width: 50px;
border: 1px solid #f90;
padding: 3px;
margin: 0px;
// width: 58px;
}
Now the "mydiv" box will appear the same width on both IE and FF (50
pixel content area, 58 pixels to the outside of the borders). There
is also a hack termed the "box model hack" that a google search should
turn up quite easily.
To return to the discussion (read: flame war) of a few days ago, this
is a good example of developing compliant code, and then tweaking it
for IE's discrepancies. In other words, I deal with the first four
lines of that style block, and then when I'm finished with everything,
fire it up and IE and see what bits of hackery I need to add (the
fifth line). In general, there aren't very many unless you'd doing
pretty complicated layout stuff that requires pixel perfection.
cheers,
barneyb
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:04:20 -0500, Victor Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interesting. So how are people coding for this? Determine the browser
> and then have two dimensions?
>
> I was wondering if M$ is doing this on purpose or just doesn't care.
>
> Thanks Barney
>
> Victor
>
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