Georg, Thank you for the very informative and helpful post. That seems to have done the trick.
Do you have a guess as to why this bug would only appear on certain page refreshes? Phil On 8/23/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phil Trinh wrote: > > http://philsproof.com > > > > Some kind of IE problem (which affects both versions 5 and 6) is > > causing some of my blog posts to display one word at a time. I've > > managed to track the problem to a horizontal line I use to divide my > > posts up. > > The bug is presenting itself on the live page, but cannot be reproduced > locally. Time is involved, which is why I can't reproduce/test locally, > and I never work on-line. > So, I have no clear bug in sight, and no definitive "fix". > > Have solved similar cases by avoiding the combination of the > 'margin-doubling bug' and the fix for it, and IE's 'whitespace bug' that > affects empty containers. > > So, I suggest you try the following... > > .horline { > width: 200px; > border-top: 2px solid #000; > margin: 12px 0 10px 120px; > padding: 1px; > font-size: 1px; > line-height: 0; > } > > ...which doesn't float and doesn't push the right margin, but still will > end up looking the same. The idea is simply to avoid pushing IE's buggy > rendering-engine, by serving it a less complicated construction. > Test it, and we'll see if that is enough. > > I also tend to "kill" IE's 'whitespace bug' by letting that bugger know > that an element really _is_ empty - without loosing it to HTMLTidy. > A "tight" comment in the element usually works well, like this... > > <div class ="horline"><!-- --></div> > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/
