On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
>> zoom triggers haslayout; without it, you inline element wouldn't take a >> 'width' (width would only trigger haslayout, but would otherwise be ignored, >> that is the inline element would remain at its intrinsic width - I know this >> sounds crazy, we're talking IE here). > > Very interesting. While researching I stumbled onto one of Bruno's test pages > regarding inline-block and hasLayout. > > <http://www.brunildo.org/test/InlineBlockLayout.html> > > Lower down staring me in the face was another solution that has been called > the "trip switch hasLayout trigger". > > li { display: inline-block; width:100px;} > *+html li { display: inline;} /* IE7 */ > * html li { display: inline;} /* IE6 */ Yeah, I'm aware of that page, and it _should_ always work - display: inline-block sets the 'hasLayout' flag, and that flag is not / cannot be reset by the subsequent 'display: inline' [1]. However, a couple of times I've seen IE 7 refuse to play along, and adding 'zoom:1' for IE 7 (and 6) was the only way to force it to comply. [1] http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html#reset Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
