[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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