[thelist] bad css in IE? help please...

Courtenay court3nay at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 21:47:29 CST 2004


this fixes color problem
and small caps problem

remove this line from your css

body
{
    letter-spacing: 0px; // don't steal sheep
}

:)


how i found this:
  removed one line at a time, refreshed page.


-courtenay

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:24:26 +1100, Viveka Weiley
<viveka.weiley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm just wondering why http://www.karmanaut.com/clients/capegallery/
> looks just as I'd expect it to in Firefox, but utterly wrong in IE6.
> Have I missed an end tag, screwed up an important declaration, or is
> IE really this bad?
> For example, this line:
> <h2><b class="artist">Melissa Hirsch</b> <em class="title">precious
> ocean</em></h2>
> (I realise I should use strong instead of b, OK, but I don't think
> that's the problem) -
> should be given some definition by these declarations in the
> stylesheet at
> http://www.karmanaut.com/clients/capegallery/style.css
> 
> specifically these lines:
> 
> .artist {
>     color: #FF7800;
>     letter-spacing: .1em;
> }
> 
> .title {
>     font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times;
>     color: #758F9C;
>     font-weight: normal;
>    letter-spacing: .1em;
> }
> 
> h2 {
>     margin-bottom: -.5em;
> }
> 
> so, orange text for the artist, bluegrey serif italic for the title.
> But not in IE - I get it all in a dark grey sans-serif. Where is this
> coming from?
> 
> Also, I would have though that:
> 
> h1 {
>     font-variant: small-caps;
>     font-size: 1.5em;
>     letter-spacing:.17em;
>     margin-bottom: -.8em;
> }
> 
> would get me small caps for anything in an H1 - and it does in
> Firefox, but not in IE.
> 
> Any clues would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> V.
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