To counter my point and support yours though, setting a width on the P tag also makes the elements clickable. Which does seem to suggest that the P tag extends vertically down further than its border suggests it does.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Breton Slivka <z...@zenpsycho.com> wrote: > So you think that there's an invisible part to the <p>aragraph that is > not outlined by the border? Kind of makes the border 1px approach to > development kind of useless in IE in the face of behavior like this, > don't you think? But I still don't think this idea quite matches up. > In the broken version, try clicking on the <ul> using the IE developer > tools element select. You end up selecting not the P tag, which you've > hypothesised is covering the UL. Instead you end up selecting the body > tag. > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Kepler Gelotte > <kep...@neighborwebmaster.com> wrote: >>> I see I have still not conviced you of the weirdness of this bug. I've >>> updated my version to have a 1px border, and more items in the list, >>> which are NOT covered by the P element. None of them are clickable, >>> disconfirming your conclusions. >> >> Actually, I was agreeing with you that it is a bug. >> >> I still think I am correct. The <p>aragraph is still on top of the <ul> even >> if it is not covering all the list elements. >> >> I created another version where all I did was add a "clear:both" to the >> paragraph and now all links are clickable. You can see it here: >> http://neighborwebmaster.com/tests/iefix.html >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Kepler Gelotte >> Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. >> 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 >> www.neighborwebmaster.com >> phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
