Nice job Francky! I was going to suggest it might be a repeating background but got caught up in urgent requests here at work.
regards, Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Logan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 3:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org; Pringle, Ron; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [css-d] IE 6.0 Crashes browser on text resize > > > Hi Francky > > I logged off just before I got this last night! > > First off apologies for working on the page whilst you were > looking at it. > I have left the page as is and am working on a new directory now > > http://www.spotlessdesign.com/clients/chp/new/index.html > > Your fix was perfect! I can't believe it was just one > font-size tag that > was required! > > God I love this list! > > Cheers > > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of francky > Sent: 17 March 2006 02:02 > To: Ben Logan > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org; Pringle, Ron; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [css-d] IE 6.0 Crashes browser on text resize > > Pringle, Ron wrote: > > >Ben wrote: > > > >>[...]Link to page: > >>http://www.spotlessdesign.com/clients/chp/index.html > >>[...] > >>There are a few other glitches in the page such as the bottom > >>curves on the right hand boxes. > >> > >> > >At a quick glance, I'm going to suggest this is related to IE's > >duplicate characters bug. It appears that some of the content in your > >righthand menu (the curves you mention) is getting duplicated. Under > >certain circumstances and depending on what content is > duplicated, this > >can cause IE to crash outright. > > > >Try going to > >http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html and > >then take a peek at your code and see if you can solve it that way. > > > >I'll try to take a longer look at it here soon as well. > > > >Ron > > > > > Ben Logan wrote: > > >Hi guys > > > >Ron very kindly sorted out one of my problemd relating to > the duplicate > characters bug. (I removed all comments as suggested) the > other problems > with duplicate images on the base of the right hand column > containers in IE6 > I have still not been able to fix? > > > >Can anyone shed any light > > > >Cheers > >Ben > > > > > Hi Ben, > HA! I'm starting with the good laugh I got at the end of my story, to > keep you optimistic. > > I was trying to find the culprit yesterday, and got it > almost, but could > not finish in a mail because a lack of time. To do it the > simple way, I > was taking the html-code for experimenting, while linking to > your css-sheet. > In the meantime, I see, you have changed the original css: so > going on > with the new one. > But 1 min. ago I saw the css had changed again ... ho, and > now again ... > you are working on it! :-) > The last stylesheet does not show the bottom corners anymore. > I'm happy > I didn't empty my cache, so I can reconstruct. > Here we go. > > Wondering what combination of things could cause the "duplicate > characters bug" and double the bottoms of the rounded boxes, > I started > commenting out. > No, not the #topnavigationbar. > No, not the #searchboxarea. > No, not the #tabcontainer. > No, not the whole #leftnavcolumn. > Okay, then the #maincontentarea. > No, not ... > No, no, no ... > And no #maincontentarea to see, just the #rightcolumnarea. > No, don't need 3 boxes, 1 is sufficient. > No, the middle parts can be missed. > Hé, the top roundings seem duplicating as well... > No, I need just one working double thing. > > So, in the end of the story I had just one small, still doubled > 'blue_right_col_btm.gif' on a white page. > And there was the bigrinn! > The doubling in IE is *not *a double rendering, but just showing the > background-img as repeating! > Reason is that in an empty div, IE is thinking it is a normal > line, with > the default line-height, default font-size and so on. > > * I described that in the article Liquid Round Corners - step 1 > > <http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/liquidcorners/liquidc orners.htm#ste p1>. I solved it with using a small font-size; but if you have the good distances when positioning the 3 colored boxes, then you can also add a *no-repeat* to the background-image. Hoping you don't have changed the main.css while I'm writing this ;-) , here is the: * testpage <http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/nwtest-chelmer.htm>. Cheers, francky ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/