Can someone explain the significance of the asterisk in the following
code? Thanks.
body {font:13px
arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x-small;}
Scott
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It is probably an IE 6 hack. The asterisk before the element makes it
visible to IE.
paul
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On 5/16/06 1:33 PM, Demers, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
body {font:13px
arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x
Demers, Scott wrote:
Can someone explain the significance of the asterisk in the following
code? Thanks.
body {font:13px
arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x-small;}
It is not valid. Probably the author( a control freak) meant to comment
out stuff, as in:
body
On 5/16/06, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
body {font:13px
arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x-small;}
It is not valid.
I didn't think it was. 'font:' with _only_ a size attribute is incorrect. No?
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Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [css-d] asterisk in front of font property
On 5/16/06, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
body {font:13px
arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x-small;}
It is not valid
Demers, Scott wrote:
This is interesting. As I mentioned, this is code released as part of
the Yahoo User Interface Library ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ ). If
it is in fact invalid, I'll mention it on the bug list.
The question came up on the YDN-javascript list (may 12th) and the
