Sent by Gerry Porter on 17 November 2003 20:08
Stellar work! Thank you.
Big John wrote:
> Ah but it IS the 3px jog! (heh heh) Your floats are both left and
> right. I tried it with only left or right floats, and in that case
> just 3px of spare width in the container cures the bug. Further,
> applying the -3px margin fix mentioned on the 3px jog demo also
> fixes it! With opposite floats, the -3px margin must be applied
> on the two directly opposing floats, and on the sides that face
> eachother, or 6px neg margining in all.
>
> So it seems that not allowing room for those "ghost margins" and
> having some comments in the inter-float whitespace causes duplicated
> characters to be dumped after the last float of the group.
>
> This 3px bug seems to keep spreading, like a hideous space fungus.
> We may have to use nuclear force!
> Big John
When I got serious about CSS a few months ago, the last thing I'd reckoned
was that IE6 would be such a horrible monster. (I believe the peasants in
the area call it "frunobulax").
> PS--Don't do the "Peekaboo" in public...
What about the "Creeping Text"...?
Gerry Porter
Distance Education and Learning Technologies
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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