Lauri Raittila <la***@raittila.cjb.net> writes:
In article Haines Brown wrote: This may seem a pointless question, but I'm trying work around an
inconsistency between browsers.
I have a template that contains a division that holds a text that
sometimes exists and sometimes not. I use top and bottom borders to
separate this material from its environment:
[snip code]
When there is no text to use as a header, I remove the paragraph
container (so that the division completely collapses). On one browser,
the two borders nicely converge to become a single line, which is what
I want. But on IE5, the border simply disappears.
How can I get IE5 to print the border even though there's nothing in
the division container?
Try printing <!-- comment --> in place of content. May work, or may not.
(there is cases where this does help IE5 to get things right.)
Good thought, but unfortunately, does not work. I also tried the same
by using <p class=... >... instead of <div class=...><p>..., but a
paragraph suffers the same fate as a division: without content, it
looses its borders; with content, the borders don't converge.
I even tried this:
div.Z1 { border-top: solid thin; }
div.Z2 { border-bottom: solid thin; }
Oddly, each div here creates a line which is entirely independent of
the other, but if one div immediately follows the other, the lines
disappear!
I found a solution to the problem, but it creates another problem in
IE5:
div.Z1 {
height: 1px;
background-color: black;
}
div.Z2 {
height: 1px;
background-color: black;
}
...
<div class="Z1"></div>
<!-- no content -->
<div class="Z2"></div>
<div class=Z1"></div>
<p>Content</p>
<div class="Z1"></div>
This looks ugly on paper, but works nicely with my usual browser
(galeon). But when it comes to IE5, while I do now get a single line
with no content, and I get lines above and below some content, for
some odd reason, IE5 won't allow me to create a block that is 1 pixel
high. Instead, the single lines look like, say, 1 em, and the double
line is twice as thick. Is this minimum block size a known behavior of
IE5? This approach would probably work under IE5 if I could figure out
how to create a 1px high box.
I tried definining line-height as 0 em in Z1 and Z1, but no effect. I
tried to use a 0.5px border instead of background-color. This time,
with or without content, the line disappears as before.
--
Haines Brown
