[thelist] IE 5.5 & CSS

[Teresa_Molina at hartehanks.com]

Stranger still, sometimes CSS in Netscape 4.x won't work if there's a space
between the colon of the property and its value. That is
"font-size: 13 pt;" doesn't work, but "font-size:13pt;" does. Wacky.


"kev.skindrill wrote:
> Now this used to work fine, but now it all works except the 1st line
>
> #heading1{font size: 24pt; font-family: arial; font-variant:
> small-caps}

Kev,

     Strangely, I got your sample CSS to work in IE 5.5. In point of
fact, however, the "font size" declaration should not work; "font size"
should be "font-size". This is apparently another case of IE's lax
enforcement of CSS rules. However, you'd be well-advised to include the dash
on all hyphenated property names -- most UAs won't be so forgiving, and with
some (namely Netscape 4), none of your properties will show up at all.

James Aylard
jaylard at equilon.com"