Posted by dorayme on 08/30/07 21:46

In article
<1188383107.237208.304390@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Chris Hughes <Chris.Hughes.Personal@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I'd forget about the conditionals.
>
> Setting display: block on a table should make it consume the entire
> width on all browsers (I use it all the time on my own site). Setting
> width: 100% conditionally on other browsers just makes it more
> complex, and is ultimately redundant.
>
> My personal opinion about relying on browser quirks (e.g. html * blah
> { ... }) is to avoid them at all costs, because you end up with
> stylesheets that are difficult to maintain or even make sense of
> unless you're a CSS guru. But take my comments with a grain of salt,
> because I generally only support IE6 and above plus recent versions of
> FF, Safari and Opera.
>
> Chris
> http://webdevfu.com

Thanks for this Chris, I am interested in your comments, support
for IE6 and other modern browsers is quite relevant, but what
more exactly are you responding to please? Setting width
conditionally on what browsers? Perhaps you refer, from my
memory, to my mentioning trying setting table {width: 100%;} and
then afterwards telling IE6 to forget about widths with, for IE
eyes only, table {width:0;}

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dorayme

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