Yes - you're bang on. Well observed ;]
L
On Sep 18, 4:47 pm, "ryan.j" <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > comes to supporting CSS correctly. What exactly do you mean by
> > "negative vertical span margins"?
>
> i'd hazard a guess he meant something along the lines of...
>
> span { margin: -12px 0 0 0; }
>
> On Sep 17, 3:18 pm, Nick Fitzsimons <n...@nickfitz.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 2009/9/17 ldexterldesign <m...@ldexterldesign.co.uk>:
>
> > > Thanks for your responses guys. I actually need to detect the Opera
> > > browser and serve up a load of new CSS. Opera doesn't support negative
> > > vertical span margins, so I'm gonna have to reduce the font-size of
> > > some text.
>
> > As a general rule, Opera is one of the most reliable browsers when it
> > comes to supporting CSS correctly. What exactly do you mean by
> > "negative vertical span margins"? Whatever it is, if it's something
> > that can reasonably be expected to work cross-browser (in that it is
> > valid according to the relevant web standards, rather than relying on
> > undefined behaviour in a few browsers) then I'd be extremely surprised
> > to find that Opera didn't support it.
>
> > If you can explain what you're trying to do I would imagine somebody
> > can help. Hacks and browser-specific code should always be avoided
> > except as an absolute last resort.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Nick.
> > --
> > Nick Fitzsimonshttp://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
