Sent by Edwardson Tan on 3 September 2002 12:12
Big John wrote:
> My guess is that IE6 is having a problem with that
> universal selector (*). I vaguely recall that the
> * selector is still buggy/unsupported in some browsers.
buggy indeed. For some reason IE6 IE5.5/win erroneously
interpret the following selectors as if the (first)
universal selector didn't exist
* html
* * body
* html body
So IE thinks the above correspond to:
html
* body
html body
Prefix more asterisks and IE wises up. I guess html has a
mystery parent. Wonder who the mother of html is ;-)
Silly bug which can actually be put to good use as an IE
specific selector.
--
Edwardson
