Archive: Web Standards
IF Internet Explorer THEN Do Something Else
Posted on Monday, August 14th, 2006
I have been working on my first job this week, hence my lack of posting recently. It has been quite an experience finally designing a site for someone else, but this is not really the issue on my mind.
The Box Model Hack Strikes
The design of the site that I was creating this week prompted me to think about support for CSS within IE and the highly documented ways to work around it. I was using the CSS from the method for sticking a footer to the bottom of a page from A List Apart and noted the use of Tantek Çelik’s box model hack. As I progressed with the design, I came to rest on a fixed width layout and deployed the box model hack again. By the time I came around to the third use of the hack I had almost forgotten what the first two were for and had to read the code carefully to work out what I was trying to achieve.
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