CSS padding quirk?

[Vespasian]

Hi all,

I've noticed that the CSS padding attribute for DIV
works differently on different browsers. Actually, so
does the left attribute.

On Firefox, padding is added to the entire width
of a DIV, whereas in IE 6.0, it is not.

As for left, the default left value in Firefox
if left unspecified is 0, whereas in IE 6 it isn't.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks,
Vesp

[Tony Vasquez]

Yeah, it's been like this since netscape was big. I am not surprised that
no one at MS has decided to fix this. They always do things, just a HAIR
different. Cross browser javascript code is the way to go on this one my
friend. Client side scripting at it's fullest!

Qz

"Vespasian" <ve***@klsaldjfldskjfkldjf.org> wrote in message
news:WJ********************@comcast.com...

Hi all,

I've noticed that the CSS padding attribute for DIV
works differently on different browsers. Actually, so
does the left attribute.

On Firefox, padding is added to the entire width
of a DIV, whereas in IE 6.0, it is not.

As for left, the default left value in Firefox
if left unspecified is 0, whereas in IE 6 it isn't.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks,
Vesp

[VK]

IE tried to lock the privacy vulnerability
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777> w/o success, just
more mess in its model.

It seems to be nor fixable

[Michael Winter]

On 03/06/2005 16:50, Vespasian wrote:

[snip]

On Firefox, padding is added to the entire width
of a DIV, whereas in IE 6.0, it is not.

When IE6 is put into Standards mode by including a complete DOCTYPE
declaration, it will act correctly. However, earlier versions will
always use the broken model.

Google "Box model" for more information.

[snip]

Mike

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