Posted by Andrey Tarasevich on 04/25/07 17:31

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> ...
> IE has a bug associated with italic fonts in calculating the width,
> especially next to floated blocks. You are lucky that is only produces a
> scroll bar, a typical result is similar to the peek-a-boo bug and the
> text simply disappears! As a side note, italic fonts are harder to read,
> and best to limit their use. I would not use them for any significant
> amount of text but rather as a couple of words emphasis.
> ...

Well, in my case I only used italics for a secondary and rather non-intrusive
navigation link. I liked the way it looked and it worked in IE6. Now I get this
stupid scroll bar in IE7. I wonder why it only happens in combination with
'position: relative'. But of course bugs don't have to follow any logic...

Is there a general workaround for IE7 italic font bug?

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Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich

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