Today's CSS bug
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/ie5win_relative.html
Not quite as fixed in IE 6.0 as that site claims. I'm guessing it's because IE6 is using a fallback mode triggered by the xml declaration, but I'll have to leave testing it for a while.
Update: see comments for testing notes.
So how to fix it, without shifting the semantic order of the html page elements? I set the h3 containing the blog item title to
This is quite definitely into the domain of the hack, and I suspect IE-mac might completely foul it up (I've no mac here to test on). Expect further changes.
Not quite as fixed in IE 6.0 as that site claims. I'm guessing it's because IE6 is using a fallback mode triggered by the xml declaration, but I'll have to leave testing it for a while.
Update: see comments for testing notes.
So how to fix it, without shifting the semantic order of the html page elements? I set the h3 containing the blog item title to
display: inline
to stop the line break after it, then float: right
on the date to shift it to the required horizontal position, and finally position: relative; top: -18px;
for the vertical position. Result: http://www.phase.org/index.2004040803.phpThis is quite definitely into the domain of the hack, and I suspect IE-mac might completely foul it up (I've no mac here to test on). Expect further changes.
Posted by parsingphase, 2004-04-08 19:25