[thelist] IE5 Mac margins?
Erika Meyer
emeyer at lclark.edu
Fri Nov 16 11:29:24 CST 2001
Margin attributes in the body tag are deprecated.
With an HTML4 DTD IE5 Mac wants to see margin specifications where
they belongs: in the stylesheet.
Nonetheless, that's an interesting tip & could indeed prove handy.
Erika
>I've never seen this behavior, and I've never had to use an empty
>script block for mac ie5 happiness. Are you using topmargin and
>leftmarin instead of marginwidth and marginheight? If so, do you have
>a test page that does this? I'd be curious to see it in action.
>
>-bill
>
>On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:11:38AM -0500, Michael McGlynn wrote:
>
>> <tip>
>> IE5 on the Mac ignores margin attributes in the body tag unless there is
>> javascript in the header. The javascript does not actually have to do
>> anything, putting
>> <br>
>> < script language="javascript" >
>> < /script ><br>
>> Will usually do the trick.
> > </tip>
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