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Posted by Neredbojias on 08/27/06 13:13
To further the education of mankind, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> vouchsafed:
> In article <Xns982BB53B24155httpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251>,
> Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html>
> wrote:
>
>> To further the education of mankind, dorayme
>> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> vouchsafed:
>>
>> > In article <Xns9829E3FF9BD96httpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251>,
>> > Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> > What about the specific condition of a div that has nothing at
>> >> > all in it, is a child of the body that has no size specs and is
>> >> > css'd to have a background image, be 50px high and margined left
>> >> > 1%. Shall I add width:100%?
>> >>
>> >> If you did, it would cause a horizontal scrollbar (I think).
>
> I came across a baffling little thing today in respect to this.
> In all browsers I have bar one, the background image in this div
> shows fine. But quite missing in Mac IE! Stumped me for a while
> but in between teasing the hell out of Luigi, I kept coming back
> to it and it was that it was the only browser that did not like
> the single quotes around the reference to the pic concerned
>
> It alone did not understand
>
> background: #fffcdf url('pics/montageStrip50.jpg');
>
> As it happened there was no need not to put in doubles, this
> fixed it.
>
> I like to be nice to this browser in spite of never using it in
> anger any more.
I've had trouble with quotes on background images, too. Was long ago and I
can't remember the exact circumstances, though I never used a Mac or Mac
browser. Anyway, removing the quotes solved the problem and since then I
don't use any quotes and haven't had any mishaps.
--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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