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.
Web Design Browsers
IE6 Duplicate Content Bug
November 12, 2009 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 [...]
Why is background 1 pixel off in Firefox?
August 6, 2009 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 [...]
Textarea Scrolling in Firefox
June 15, 2009 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; [...]
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