What the hell is wrong with IE8? 2

[1DMF]

Is it me or is IE8's rendering engine a downgrade from IE7 rather than an improvement?

Things just won't obey CSS values, images are vanishing and now i can't get dashed borders to show correctly.

The attached image shows IE8 rendering vs firefox , on IE8 only part of the bordering is dashed and some is solid.

Is it possible to fix this?

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[feherke]

Hi

If you are using [tt]border-collapse: collapse[/tt], I would try without that.

Feherke.

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[1DMF]

yup i'm using border collapse, and I also realised I was being a dumb ass! - I know nothing new there

the browser was in compatability mode so it wasn't strictly IE8.

I'm not sure what that compatability option does, is it like turning it into IE7?

it's fine in IE8 non-compatability mode.

I can't beleive the difference between IE8 & IE7 , it's driving me nuts - :-(

I just found my form didn't look right in IE7 & Compat mode if you have a clearing div of

clear:both;
float:left;

All the floated form elements were squashed to one per line instead of the label and form element side by side.

I had to add

width:100%;

to the clearing div CSS to fix the problem, but divs are by nature block elements 100% wide, aren't they?

Why didn't I become a plasterer or plumber I ask myself!

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[ChrisHunt]

divs are by nature block elements 100% wide, aren't they?

Not if they're floated. You've floated your clearing div left (for some reason), which makes its width default to the width of its contents

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[1DMF]

Got ya,

I'd floated it becasue the elements inside were floated and I thought floating elements takes them out of the normal document flow, which is where you end up with divs that have no content in them.



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