As pointed out in some earlier comments, there’s a great way to fix IE bugs without hacks or relying on one browser bug to solve another one. I present to you conditional comments.
<!–[if IE 6]><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”stylesheets/ie6.css” type=”text/css” media=”all” /><![endif]–>
Yes, you read that correctly. If the browser is IE6, apply these styles. It’s that simple.
Other […]
I always forget about this bug and end up being puzzled as to why the spacing on my page is all wrong, so remember this! This bug happens when you have a floated element with a margin defined in the same direction of the float. For example:
#sidebar {
float: left;
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What’s up with the <sup> tag? It’s a semantic way of marking up superscripts, but it acts funny in IE6 (are you surprised?).
You will notice here that the screenshot on the left looks a little cramped. Here is the fix:
sup {
text-align: vertical
}
If you want to move the number higher […]
Dreamweaver Fails Conditional Comments
Comments (2) October 15, 2008 – 4:43 pmIf you create Dreamweaver templates for yourself or clients and have pages in multiple subdirectories, you’ll notice Dreamweaver fails to update the relative path to the IE stylesheets if you use conditional comments for them. Because they’re comments, Dreamweaver ignores them. Luckily, Dreamweaver has a plethora of parameters to get around almost any problem, so […]