Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote:
Question: Is it possible to make IE6 use the broken box model for a
PART of the document?
No, DOCTYPE switching applies to the whole document, not just parts of
the document.
The different box model may one day be able to be chosen using the
proposed 'box-sizing' property [1] in the CSS3 box model module.
Mozilla has some support for it as '-moz-box-sizing'. Although, as
noted in the CSS3 draft, 'box-sizing' may actually be dropped in
favour of a better solution.
This means I have an XHTML 1.0 Strict / Transitional document with a
<div> in it for which the inner content should be rendered with the
broken box model, only in IE 6, not Firefox.
Your going about trying to solve this the wrong way. Instead of
trying to solve the problem by making a browser use intentionally
broken behaviour (quirks mode) because it gives the intended result,
try and work out the cause of the different rendering and find an
alternate method or (as a last resort) use a hack. You may find that
your problem is one of the many well documented IE bugs for which many
workarounds are readily available.
As for quirks mode, you should basically try to forget it even exists
as an alternative and never, under any circumstances, attempt to
develop a page using it. Use of quirks mode is never a good solution
to any problem.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-box-20021024/#the-box-width
Unless you're trying to write an example page to demonstrate the
different behaviours of different browsers.
Stephen
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