Re: IE7 bug - font-style: italic; not harmless?


In article <5o5sd49bkujtphbca9v9ks9q02ofsr66sj@xxxxxxx>, on Sat, 27 Sep
2008 12:27:43 +0100, Rip van Winkle wrote:

| Here's a strange thing which took me hours to track down. I'd have
| thought that 'font-style: italic;' was generally harmless, but
| apparently not to IE7 and/or Vista.
|
| The stripped-down version of the web page is at
| http://www.wessex100.org.uk/index_demo.html and the style*** is at
| http://www.wessex100.org.uk/shared/wessex_demo.css . Both validate.
|
| The odd behaviour affects the width of the page displayed and thus the
| placing of the centered background image. Everything works as it
| should with WinXP running Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE6, and with
| Vista running Firefox. It goes wrong with Vista running IE7.
|
| To make the page display correctly in Vista/IE7 I've found I have to
| take out two occurrences of font-style: italic; . The demo version has
| these suppressed, but if you take either of them out where I've
| indicated you'll see the effect. None of the other OS/browser
| combinations I've mentioned are affected.
|
| Is this a known bug, and can anyone explain it?

"Bug: IE7 absolutely positioned italics"
<http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/12/28/bug-ie7-absolutely-positioned-italics/>

May be your problem.

p{ overflow: auto; } is suggested as a workaround.
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Rasal Postill
Dance your Life - <http://www.danceyourlife.eu>
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