Apparently, IE6 doesn’t display bullets on a list that’s floated, or display inline. The solution for the floating problem: wrap the list in a div and float the div.
No list bullets in IE6
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Windows XP Mode for Testing IE6 on Windows 7 Machine
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010When I was researching ways to run IE6 for browser testing purposes on my Windows 7 machine (other than with IE Tester, which is buggy, or Multiple IE, which I don’t think even runs on Windows 7), I came across XP Mode.
It’s simple to install, and it comes preinstalled with IE6. You don’t even need a serial number for XP. Just follow the steps on the page (they’re surprisingly straightforward) and you’re golden. The only thing that was even slightly tricky was configuring BIOS if your hardware virtualization isn’t turned on, but I managed with no problems, and I never do any configuration.
I never thought I’d say this, but “Thanks Microsoft for this helpful development tool.”
Installation page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
BIOS configuration instructions: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/configure-bios.aspx
IE6 Duplicate Content Bug
Thursday, November 12th, 2009When you have text mysteriously repeating after a series of floated elements in Internet Exploder 6, the general consensus is that it is due to comments being sandwiched between floats, as explained here:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html
However, when I faced this problem today, I systematically removed all of my comments from my html, and the problem still persisted. I also tried adding a 3px negative right margin to the element as the above article recommended, as well as ‘display:inline;’ with no luck. So, still not knowing the issue, I took a stab at a solution, and it worked.
I applied the style ‘position: relative;’ to the element containing the repeated text. (Not the element that contains the unwanted text, but the original text.)
As with other positioning bugs, this one seems to be rectified with relative positioning. As for the actual cause of my repeated content as separate from the usual cause of float-sandwiched comments, I guess it will remain a mystery.
Why is background 1 pixel off in Firefox?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Okay, this one really stumped me. My non-repeating, centered content background was shifted one pixel to the left in Firefox, but looked correct in Safari and Internet Explorer. Something that looks right in Safari (the most compliant browser) and Internet Explorer (no comment) … hmmm. This was more perplexing than the usual randomness of IE’s bugs. After checking everything from floats to margins, I came across this post:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/246908
The solution: move the css background-image from the body tag into a container, like the content wrapper. I would have done this initially by instinct, but since I’m using a CMS template, most of the layout was already done for me. Apparently, the body tag in Firefox is shifted one pixel to the left, and styling it with a background image results in that image being shifted also.
Textarea Scrolling in Firefox
Monday, June 15th, 20091. Firefox will put a vertical AND horizontal scrollbar on a textarea by default.
To get rid of the horizontal scrolling, use this:
overflow-y: scroll; (or overflow-y: auto if you don’t want your scrollbar to appear if it’s not needed)
overflow-x: hidden;
Not this, as I’ve seen suggested on various blogs:
overflow: scroll;
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical;
I’m not sure what the advantage is to the extra styles, as I’ve seen no difference in rendering.
2. Firefox will not wrap a single word. Use text with spacing for testing. I’ve made the mistake of testing with one long string of keyboard gibberish, and wondered why I could only get horizontal scrolling. Also, if you have your x-scrolling disabled, the string of characters that exceeds the width of the text box will be cut off from view.
Spaces are good
Single string is bad
3. Be sure to set the height of the textarea great enough for the browser to render a scroll icon. If the textarea isn’t tall enough, all you’ll get is a gray box on the right hand side, which is still functional, but not intuitive.
With a specified height
Without a specified height
Without ambition one starts
nothing. Without work one
finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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