Re: Re: (Ovid) Re: Internet Explorer 6 issues

elements in IE6 inherit attributes from their parents

Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? Or is that only the case for some attributes (e.g. colors)? I don't recall a some when reading CSS documentation.

Update:W3C says Some style properties are not inherited from the parent element to the child element... but it also says that text-align is inherited. It mentions elsewhere that margin stuff is technically not inherited, but positioning is relative to the parent so it gives a similar effect.

—John

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Re: Re: Re: (Ovid) Re: Internet Explorer 6 issues by myocom (Deacon) on Sep 07, 2001 at 02:57 UTC
Yes indeedy. So it's not a bug in IE6: it's supposed to be rendered this way. The fact that browsers didn't do so previously is just something that most people took advantage of (by leaving out explicit `align`s and whatnot). "One word of warning: if you meet a bunch of Perl programmers on the bus or something, don't look them in the eye. They've been known to try to convert the young into Perl monks." - Frank Willison	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: (Ovid) Re: Internet Explorer 6 issues by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Sep 07, 2001 at 03:02 UTC
I wonder why Opera users hadn't reported the problem with PM, then. I've found really picky CSS typos that Opera catches that IE and Netscape don't.	[reply]