Dave Cline wrote: > XPOST to MOZILLA - DOM > > Tribe, > Wondering why this is so and how it can be rectified. > Given the crude code and graphic below: > > <div style="position:absolute;background-color:red;border:10px solid > blue;width:100;height:30;top:100;left:100;margin:0;padding:0;overflow:auto"></div> > > IE 5+ > xxxxxxxxxx > x x > xxxxxxxxxx > > NS 6.2 > xxxxxxxxxxxx > x x > x x > x x > xxxxxxxxxxxx > > A specified HTML element given a width, height and borderwidth - IE > renders the element as if the entire visual control were absolutely > contained within the given height width constraints - regardless of > the border width. > > Where as Mozilla - disregards the actual visual height and width of > the object and instead applies the height and width only to the client > area of the HTML element. > > Obviously this entirely different behaviour will cause havoc with any > developer trying to implement complex positional cross browser DHTML. > > Am I really going to have to take into account that with MOZ a DIV > width/height is actually DIV width - borderwidth/height - > borderheight?
This is an known bug in IE5. Fixed in IE6 strict mode. http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html Tim.
