[UPHPU] More CSS frustration

[Scott Hill]

On 1/17/07, cole at colejoplin.com <cole at colejoplin.com> wrote:
>
> It's my understanding that in this example the '#' is visible to all
> versions of IE, but becomes invisible for all standard browsers. If
> you remove the '#', they will be rendered by all browsers, changing
> the vertical. This is just one strategy, from the IE side. There are
> more.
>
> Let's go the other way. For example, you could also use an underscore
> before a property, like '_top' versus just 'top', which would do the
> exact opposite. This would be read by standard browsers, but IE would
> ignore it.
>
> I've even seen people use both. A third strategy is to use a
> combination of child selectors, adjacent selectors, and adjacent
> sibling selectors. It's a lot more complicated, but a lot of fun to
> watch someone else do. A great example of this is at
> www.csszengarden.com/062. There is one design for standard browsers,
> and a separate one for IE6 and lower.  It's interesting that IE7 now
> supports selectors to some extent. Check out the difference, it's
> pretty funny.
>
> You can play the browser-visible/invisible game, or just tweak the
> line-height/padding/margins to make it look good on the actual pages
> your creating. I tend to do the latter myself, as Wade was writing.
> Even if the look is not 'identical', it's close enough. Two reasons
> why I make this choice: 1) You keep the markup clean and 2) While you
> can't future-proof per se, it minimizes the risk of severe render
> breakage.
>
> I'm not going to say there's a 'wrong' answer. For my personal taste,
> I have a 'preferred' answer, which doesn't really take any more time
> to implement than a table solution.


Well, as always, I have received much more than I could ever contribute to
this list.  This conversation certainly has peaked my curiosity again
regarding CSS.  I feel I have still only scratched the surface of this, but
I have ordered the book so I can dedicate some time to study before making
any concreate decisions.  Thanks again for the information and insight.

-- 
Scott Hill

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