Re: Flicker

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:24:38
GMT Shelly scribed:

XXpadding: 3px 0 0 0;

/* padding: 3px 0 0 0; */

It's just a cheater way of removing the line from counting.
Browsers don't parse malformed css so this is like eliminating it.
I wouldn't advise publishing the page that way; remove the line or
change it so it no longer has the bad effect. -And you're quite
welcome.

Using comment markers to 'remove' it is better. <g> Doing so leaves
no doubt as to your intentions, and also protects you from next
year's browser, which might disregard /all/ CSS from that point on.

Agreed. I use it only for "easier" preliminary testing on browsers
whose reactions I know from experience. (Saves keystrokes.)

For any permanent change, the line should be dealt with correctly.

What I normally do to eliminate a line but not remove it is to enclose
it in a /* */ set.

That's the right way to comment-out a line in the <style> element.

As far as handling it correctly, what was wrong with the line:

padding: 3px 0 0 0;

that caused it to flicker?

I can only guess, but first of all, ie handles margins and padding
differently than standards-compliant browsers. Whether that is relevant
may not be pertinent in any case; it just might be simply a matter of ie
redrawing the page with margins/padding included on hover styles and
execution.

Maybe someone here knows more about it. I just chalk it up to the
"brokenness" of ie.

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