On 10/19/07, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> IE7 isn't any good at handling vertical padding on inline-elements, so
> the parent's area doesn't reach down to the children.
>
> Try changing the line-height instead, to achieve something like...
> <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/sea/test_07_1019.html>
> <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/sea/2menu.css>
>
Excellent!  Initial tests show success.  I had noticed a text-shaped
box when using the IE developer tools to try to debug; never even
considered tweaking the line-height.  I'll need to be aware of the
vert padding issues in future.

> BTW: You shouldn't try to fix your document with neither the right nor
> the wrong doctype...
> <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_25.html>
> ...because even though you may convince a browser, the validity of your
> document depends on anything *but* doctype...
> <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edison-albright.com%2Findex.2menu.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0>

Point taken!  Thanks again.
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