Shawn Neumann wrote:
> I've notice a difference between the way IE 6.0 anc Mozilla deal with
> CSS <div>s and I'm wondering which is correct in terms of the standard.
> If you set a <div> to have a width of 150px and then give it a right
> border of 5px this is what results:
>
> Mozilla: Created a 155px box (tacking the 5px border on the outside of
> the box)
> IE: Creates a 150px box (the 5px border remains inside of the box)
>
> This causes lots of issues trying to get cross browser design stability.
> Is this a bug in Mozilla's implementation of the CSS1 or CSS2 standards
> or an IE issue?
>
> Cheers,
> Shawn
>
This is an IE bug, and one of the most annoying. But IE6 will correctly
render the box to the standards, as Mozilla does, if you use a proper
doctype. More info on that here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp#cssenhancements_topic3
Alex
