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Float and the Double Margin Bug

Apparently, MSIE suffers from a nasty little bug where if you float an element and provide a margin, MSIE will double the size of the margin either left or right. To counter it, you need to add:

display: inline (or block)

for your class that you're employing the float. There's a lot of resources on the web for why this occurs as well as more details on this.

Next, there's another annoying bug that I encountered and spent hours knocking my head against my table (okay, not literally). It's where backgrounds disappear if you have numerous div tags and use the background-color attribute. The quick fix is to trick MSIE into redrawing the section, so you add a height attribute of say 1%. The code would look like this:

height: 1%;

Put that in the class that has the background-color attribute and these should disappear.]]> Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:20:02 -0700 http://www.keithwatanabe.net/blogs/2008/3/8/4c8ad283df73bbd43b8be5c133f766a9.html