I've just blown some time trying to debug my CSS as rendered by IE6,
finally discovering that the problem had nothing to do with CSS.
In Windows IE, a forward-slash (virgule) that follows whitespace
suppresses word wrap:
http://juniperwebcraft.com/demo/slashwrap.html
It's only these Windows IE-class browsers that share this peculiarity:
- IE 5.0
- IE 5.5
- IE 6.0
- IE 7.0
- AOL 9.0
http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=237505
Solutions: I haven't found a way to negate the effect. The CSS rule
{white-space: normal} does not override it, nor does using the HTML
entity /
Workarounds: Preceding the slash with a BR tag works, of course, but
I haven't yet found anything else.
Your suggestions are welcome.
I'm croggled that I've never stumbled on this before. I haven't
found any reference to it on the net.
Is it a bug or could Microsoft possibly consider it a feature?
This may be a trivial point, but it hung me up for a while because I
couldn't believe it wasn't my CSS that was causing a text box to
exceed its styled width in IE. The client's text I was marking up
separated two words with a space and a forward-slash. Fortunately
this character sequence is highly unusual.
Grumpily,
Paul
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