Re: IE bug in vertical sizing of elements

2010-02-04 Thread Thad
Yay! Kudos Tom. Thank you. Changing DOCTYPE to http://www.w3.org/ TR/html4/strict.dtd"> clears up this height problem. I am now looking at three devmode browser windows--Firefox 3.5 in Linux, IE7 in WinXP, and Safari 4 on MacOS 10.5--and they all look the same. Moreover (and the real acid tes

Re: IE bug in vertical sizing of elements

2010-02-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Feb 4, 5:51 pm, Thad wrote: > Thanks, Tom.  It seems like a bug in IE: > > 1) I'm already using > > for my page.  Should I be using a different one? Yes, definitely! http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/test-quirks.php?doctype=%3C!DOCTYPE+HTML+PUBLIC+%22-//W3C//DTD+HTML+4.01+Transitional//EN%22%3

Re: IE bug in vertical sizing of elements

2010-02-04 Thread Thad
Thanks, Tom. It seems like a bug in IE: 1) I'm already using for my page. Should I be using a different one? 2) From Firebug, the Firefox style for the is "width: 128px; height: 1px; background-color: rgb(123, 123, 123); position: absolute; left: 5px; top: 13px;" >From the IE Developer Toolba

Re: IE bug in vertical sizing of elements

2010-02-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Feb 3, 8:05 pm, Thad wrote: > I have the requirement read to display widgets, rendering them similar > to how they display in a Mac/Windows application (not a web app, but a > client that provides forms for a database). The widgets are fairly > common things--labels, text boxes, checkboxes, p

IE bug in vertical sizing of elements

2010-02-03 Thread Thad
I have the requirement read to display widgets, rendering them similar to how they display in a Mac/Windows application (not a web app, but a client that provides forms for a database). The widgets are fairly common things--labels, text boxes, checkboxes, pictures, etc. The display is dynamic--the