Gerhard Schoening wrote: > > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=BoxModelHack > > user name: css-discuss > > password: letmein > It's my understanding from the following style example > (that's in your wiki page) and from your explanations that > it works correctly for IE6/Win in *standards mode* but not > in *quirks mode* ? > > div { > width: 100px; > } > div { > \width: 140px; > w\idth: 100px; > } > > So... when my page uses XHTML Strict _and_ the XML > declaration on the first line which will switch IE6/Win into > quirks mode - would I be correct to use > > div { > width: 100px; > } > div { > \width: 140px; > } > > because: IE6/Win [quirks_mode] == IE5.x/Win [mode] ?! No. IE6/quirks does not equal IE5.x, because while ie6/quirks does emulate the faulty box model of IE5.x, it also fully understands escapes like Moz, so it reads the last value. :-0 If you need 'quirks' mode in IE6, use a 'conditional comment' directly after the hack to feed IE6 the "140px" value. It would look like this: <style> div { width: 100px; /* for Op5 (no escapes allowed in rule) } div { \width: 140px; /* for IE5.x/win */ w\idth: 100px; /* for modern browsers */ } </style> <!--[if IE 6]> <style> div { width: 140px; /* for IE6 only */ } </style> <![endif]--> <!-- this entire previous comment is ignored by all but IE6 --> HTH Big John PS--It's not really MY wiki page; all are welcome to modify it! Anything set in stone will go on my own site, rest assured. ;-\ It's nowhere near complete yet. What about that new CSS comment hack that came up just last week...? ===== "What the world needs is a good bug ring"--Big John <http://users.rraz.net/mc_on_the_rocks/testpage/pie.html> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
