Posted by Els on 03/22/07 15:35

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Classic IE Peekaboo bug. B*itch ain't it! Aside of El's link which has a
> very good explanation of it, I stumbled upon a possible easy fix, seems
> to work in all cases but time will tell. Define for IE the line-height.
> The default value is 'normal' but having any numeric value for IE seems
> to work, '1.2' ≈ 'normal'.
>
> I have found just adding:
>
> BODY { line-height: 1.2; }
>
> Appears to fix it.

Yup - I've come across that one lately too, (and forgot about it when
replying to Barry!), and it would be interesting to test it on all
classic peek-a-boo occasions. If it works for all of them, it kinda
makes all the other solutions obsolete though - means we can throw out
about half of all CSS discussions from the web ;-)

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