Posted by dorayme on 07/14/07 01:19

In article
<els.aNOSPAM-8837E5.02014414072007@news.individual.net>,
Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> In article
> <doraymeRidThis-1AD6E7.08590814072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > The source at
> >
> > <http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/iCabCuriousity/iCab
> > Curiosity.html>
> >
> > has the effect on iCab/Safari of
> >
> > <http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/iCabCuriousity/iCab
> > Curiosity.png>
> >
> > This is an interesting curiosity indeed. Basically, it becomes a
> > mess but one can see in the phenomena that the lines are wrapping
> > over themselves! The sentence in the source code of the first of
> > the two urls above can be reduced in iCab to very small sizes
> > indeed and stretched in browser over a very large desktop to give
> > the perfect 'strike thru' effect. But when the browser is reduced
> > to induce wrapping, you get text that wraps over itself.
> > Enlarging the text just makes a bigger blacker mess and brings it
> > on earlier.
>
> At least it's consistent then - only got 1px of space, so let's just all
> pile up :-)
>
> > Surely this one needs a place in a browser phenomena museum.
>
> I just had to test this some more, so I downloaded iCab: it appears the
> line-height of the text is taken from the height of the parent. If i set
> the height of the div to 20px, only the first line disappears against
> the black background, while the next lines neatly wrap below it. If I
> choose a 5px height, the text starts wrapping over itself already.
> Setting an explicit line-height doesn't help though...

Yes, I was messing with line-height after Ben mentioned the
factor. I described in reply what I saw. I think it mirrors what
you are saying above.

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dorayme

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