Alan Gresley wrote: >> The most notable difference occurs with >> lists - Safari and Gecko based browsers (e.g. Firefox) use padding-left >> while Internet Exploder uses margin-left to indent, >> > > All modern browser have padding-start for list, not padding-left since > this default (padding-start) is applied regardless of if the text flows > from left to right or right to left.
Pedantically, you are correct. >> but as you are >> discovering Exploder also has a default top padding. >> > > Is this a IE6 whitespace bug you referring to for <li>? Heh, no. It seems I was a little too cute for my own good. I meant IE has a top padding of zero (the OP already knew Firefox had a top padding), hence the difference. That's why a padding of 0 on the UL seemed to fix the problem, at least at my end. >> Further reading: >> [1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/15/resetting-again/ >> > Using the Meyer reset or any other reset is the same a knocking down a > bridge and then building it back up and can add many extra styles to > ones CSS Reset sheets have their limitations, but it seems more of a personal preference than right or wrong to me. > To be fair, IE8 can not be referred to as 'exploder' since it now is the > best in implementing CSS2.1 correctly. > Agreed, and FWIW I consider IE8 to be an excellent browser. adieu Mark ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
