Posted by eslachance on 10/14/05 03:16

Mark Parnell wrote:
> > 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.

Well, I actually set everything from font size to weight so it won't
really matter anyways if it's div or h2...

>
> > 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.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

>
> > 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.

Well well, following different links almost at random (just kidding) I
ended up on a page that said most bugs are fixed using position:
relative ... I slapped that into my div and Voilà! bug is gone.
Ref: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=C37E0

>
> > The weirdest thing is, firefox displays it properly, but IE messes it
> > up.
>
> And we're surprised about this because...? ;-)

Right.

>
> [1] http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html
>
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> Mark Parnell
> http://clarkecomputers.com.au
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Thanks for the info Mark, it's very much appreciated!

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