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Is there any way to get Win IE6 to understand CSS applied to <optgroup>
elements?

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Jul 20 '05 #1
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"Philipp Lenssen" <in**@outer-court.com> wrote in message
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Is there any way to get Win IE6 to understand CSS applied to <optgroup>
elements?


Buy it dinner and take it to a show?

Seriously, how would you expect to force IE6 to have functionality that it
doesn't already have? (I'm assuming that your observation that IE6 *doesn't*
apply CSS to optgroups is correct.)

Jul 20 '05 #2
Harlan Messinger wrote:

"Philipp Lenssen" <in**@outer-court.com> wrote in message
news:2s*************@uni-berlin.de...
Is there any way to get Win IE6 to understand CSS applied to
<optgroup> elements?


Buy it dinner and take it to a show?

Seriously, how would you expect to force IE6 to have functionality
that it doesn't already have? (I'm assuming that your observation
that IE6 *doesn't* apply CSS to optgroups is correct.)


That's why I'm asking, because I don't know! There's often a workaround
for those problems -- for example, one can use "<acronym>" instead of
"<abbr>" to make IE recognize the title-attribute (this is just an
example, let's not get into how dirty this workaround is). There are
also workarounds like using an "id" or "class" or wrapping a "div"
around something, and so on. Do you always reply if you don't have an
answer, for the sole purpose of making fun of people?

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Jul 20 '05 #3

"Philipp Lenssen" <in**@outer-court.com> wrote in message
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Harlan Messinger wrote:

"Philipp Lenssen" <in**@outer-court.com> wrote in message
news:2s*************@uni-berlin.de...
Is there any way to get Win IE6 to understand CSS applied to
<optgroup> elements?


Buy it dinner and take it to a show?

Seriously, how would you expect to force IE6 to have functionality
that it doesn't already have? (I'm assuming that your observation
that IE6 *doesn't* apply CSS to optgroups is correct.)


That's why I'm asking, because I don't know! There's often a workaround
for those problems -- for example, one can use "<acronym>" instead of
"<abbr>" to make IE recognize the title-attribute (this is just an
example, let's not get into how dirty this workaround is). There are
also workarounds like using an "id" or "class" or wrapping a "div"
around something, and so on. Do you always reply if you don't have an
answer, for the sole purpose of making fun of people?


I did give you an answer, which boiled down to "You can't make IE6 do
something it doesn't do." That's factual and, I thought, fairly
obvious--obvious enough that I was trying to elicit from you why you thought
there *would* be anything one can do to change IE6's functionality.

Your first example illustrates my point, not yours. You aren't making IE
recognize ABBR. You're discarding it and use ACRONYM instead. As for your
second example, again: if any of these workarounds *works*, you're not
making IE recognize anything, you're just substituting something that it
does recognize.

If anything, I took your question too literally. If so, I'm sorry.

Jul 20 '05 #4

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