Posted by dorayme on 11/11/05 05:59

> From: Dylan Parry <usenet@dylanparry.com>

> Trapped in the departure lounge at alt.html, dorayme got bored and
> wrote:
>
>> No, sorry! It was not you on this! It was Andy D.
>
> I see :) What he was showing is that if you have two (or more) space
> characters between the classes specified in a class attribute, then
> IE5/Mac will crap up, eg. 'class="foo bar"'.
>
> Whereas using 'class="foo bar"' will work just fine, with IE5/Mac using
> both the foo and bar classes.
>
> The problem here, as I suggested earlier, is that IE5/Mac does not cope
> well with optional spaces.
>
OK I get it now, it /does/ do strange things... and it does
different strange things according to whether you have the
double space between foo and bar in the first div or the second.
Anyway, that is interesting to me, something I don't notice
because of my habits (not to have such spaces and to be rid of
them by grep search and replaces anyway). Thanks for this. In
the future, if anyone says anything I find puzzling, I am going
straight to you to clear it up. I did this accidentally just
now, in future it will be deliberate.

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dorayme

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