Nicole Aebi wrote:
> Thanks for that. I could have sworn I hadn't specified a height -
> it's amazing what you miss when you're looking really hard!
Tell me about it... :-)
> Quick question about the * html bit, if that's OK. What's that doing
> exactly?
>
> * html .content { overflow: visible; }
>
> In the .content I've added overflow: hidden, but here we're saying
> overflow: visible.
>
> Is that a bug fix or something? I can't find reference to it in my
> books.
It's a bug fix, with a 'star html' hack to target only IE versions prior
to IE7 (and IE7 in quirks mode).
The regular 'overflow: hidden' is meant to make the container expand by
establishing a new 'block formatting context'[1].
- Works as intended in new, standard compliant, browsers.
- IE6 falls back on its 'hasLayout'[2] bug, and actually ignores the
'hidden' part.
- Older IE/win will see 'hidden' and no height, and this combination may
make them hide the entire content-container. This is the last thing we
want, I guess, so the fix is for older IE5.x/win in case one should
happen to pass by.
regards
Georg
[1]http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q15
[2]http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
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