Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:

>You're gambling with font-size and em-based margins and what not -
>relative to a percentage-positioned background for the whole area. That
>paragraph is living its own life, and just happens to line up with the
>"I" in the background - at some font-sizes - in some browsers.
>If you want to use a background-image as drop cap, then you should set
>it as background on the paragraph itself. That should make it line up
>perfectly stable across browser-land.

thanks, I will give this method a try.

>In addition: .hide {display:none;} will make some (if not most) screen
>readers hide it completely, so some off-screen positioning should be
>used instead if you want that paragraph to make any sense in those.

can you elaborate more on this, or provide a link that describes this method?

Thanks for the assistance Georg!



On 7/8/05, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce Gilbert wrote:
> > I noticed on my home page of my personal web site 
> > (http://www.inspired-evolution.com) my drop cap (the large I in 
> > inspired) doesn't exactly fit in with the rest of the word in IE 6 
> > (pc), that is it is too far to the right. In the browser I designed 
> > the site for (Mozilla for Mac), it looks good and is positioned how I
> >  want it.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on a IE 6 hack without messing up the positioning on
> >  the good browsers?
> 
> It's already messed up in the good browsers - all of them. Try text-zoom
> in your preferred browser...
> 
> You're gambling with font-size and em-based margins and what not -
> relative to a percentage-positioned background for the whole area. That
> paragraph is living its own life, and just happens to line up with the
> "I" in the background - at some font-sizes - in some browsers.
> 
> If you want to use a background-image as drop cap, then you should set
> it as background on the paragraph itself. That should make it line up
> perfectly stable across browser-land.
> 
> In addition: .hide {display:none;} will make some (if not most) screen
> readers hide it completely, so some off-screen positioning should be
> used instead if you want that paragraph to make any sense in those.
> 
> regards
>       Georg
> -- 
> http://www.gunlaug.no
> 


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::Bruce::
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