Sent by Dragon Vision Design on 11 September 2002 20:08
It doesn't crash IE5.1.5 on OS9
At 1:01 PM -0500 9/11/02, Ian Leckie wrote:
>While helping out a fellow listee over on webdesign-l, I tracked down a
>nasty little CSS bug that actually crashes most (maybe all?) versions of IE
>on Mac OS X v10.2 (not sure about 10.0 or 10.1. My personal setup is IE
>5.2.1 on OS X v10.2.).
>
>I have posted simplified test cases here:
><http://www.ianleckie.com/ie_crash.html> (embedded styles)
><http://www.ianleckie.com/ie_doesnt_crash.html> (inline styles)
>
>It seems that the combination of "vertical-align" (with any value) and
>"background: inherit" applied to the same element in a linked, imported or
>embedded style sheet triggers the bug. Applying the same styles inline does
>not trigger the bug.
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