Posted by KiwiBrian on 10/31/07 19:20

"Neredbojias" <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:51:08
> GMT KiwiBrian scribed:
>
>> My IE7 and IE6 are both displaying only 20 px between the inside of
>> the green border at the top and the outside of the top black border of
>> the first contained div.
>> However FF displays 30 px.
>> They all display 30 px at the corresponding bottom location.
>> I would love an explanation that makes any sort of sense.
>> Brian
>
> Yeah, I played with it quite a bit trying to find an "elegant" workaround,
> but it's just like Ben C. said: a bug. I'd try something like dorayme
> suggested. Conditional Comments are usually a decent fix.
>

Thanks Ben and N. I was just trying to get a handle on the logic of the
situation but am "happy" now that the groups heavyweights have confirmed
that it is just a bug and there is nothing specific to be learned from the
example.
IEx seems to be buggy in various ways when a padding butts up against a
margin.
So far my tests have indicated that with a strict doctype, IE6 and IE7 seem
to be consistent in (mis)behaving in similar ways.
Brian.

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