[thelist] IE5 CSS bug/JS fix
Sarah Sweeney
mr.sanders at designshift.com
Thu Jun 10 14:28:20 CDT 2004
fstorr wrote:
> I've encountered an annoying CSS bug in IE5.0 (no, really). I've got a
> background image attached to the <html> tag, which works fine in IE6,
> Moz etc. In IE5, for some reason the image won't load unless something
> is done to the browser. That something can be anything: scrolling,
> re-sizing, alt-tabbing, anything. I need an IE5 fix for about 4 months
> (my company is upgrading to IE6 as we speak), and I've run out of ideas
> on hacking the CSS, I figured I'd just use some JS to re-size the
> browser by 1px to force the image to appear. A very dirty, nasty
> solution but (unless anyone knows of this CSS bug and a fix for it), I'm
> stuck.
>
> I can't work out the JS needed to do this in IE5. I need to get the
> height of the user's current browser window and shrink it by 1px. It
> has to be possible!
Can you show us some code, or send a URL? I or someone else might be
able to suggest a more elegant solution, if we can take a look at the code.
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Sarah Sweeney
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