Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/14/05 02:59

In our last episode, <eslachance@gmail.com> pronounced to alt.html:

> I'm displaying a blog, and each blog title is in a div with a class of
> "title" (<div class="title">Blog Title</div>)

Why? Surely they are headings? h2 seems most likely after a quick look.

> div.title { font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt;

Points are a paper measurement. They are mostly meaningless on screen.
Plus IE users won't be able to resize the text. Use % or em.

> Now, I have more than one of these entries evidently, but for some
> goddamed reason, the first one refuses to display the background color
> and borders, and the second one does it intermittently (if I select the
> text, sometimes they dissapear).

Hmmm...the peekaboo bug[1] is the only one that springs to mind, but
generally it's the text that would disappear, not the border and
background.

> The weirdest thing is, firefox displays it properly, but IE messes it
> up.

And we're surprised about this because...? ;-)

[1] http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html

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