Hi Nathan, thanks for bringing up the question to Ingo, otherwise I might just happily copy his code without asking why.
Now I am going back to read the article second time. tee > Nathan Rutman schrieb: >>>> Whenever a background is disappearing, try to give layout to the >> parent of the element via the Holly hack. >> >> What does that mean? You want to give a height:0 to the parent >> element? I don't get it... > > Holly Bergevin's hack is described in detail here: > http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0 > > The intention of this hack is not to give whatever height to the > container, but to let the block gain "layout". "Layout" can only be > described roughly as a IE-Win proprietary undocumented concept to > establish a rectangular rendering entity that is responsible for drawing > its own content. > > Explorer's "dimensional" bugs are related to the presence or absence of > "layout": http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html > > Note: I don't know if this hack fixes the bug in tee's page, it does on > a local simplified copy, though. > > You mentioned the dependence on some characters more or less, and I can > confirm this. Sometimes these characters more or less shift the wrapping > of the content just by some microns, i.e. lines do not end with > italicised content, or the wrapping content next to a float leaves a > single line blank near to the last "bottom line" of the float, and so > on. Or a tight fitting of the related containers induces more problems > like duplicated last characters. > > Would be interesting to see your minimalized bug test page. > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
