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The Bug Report system is entirely dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs. Anyone can report bugs, and I hope that the existence of this system will lead to more and better bug reports.

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position:relative breaks out of overflow constraints
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 9 September 2005
In any non-quirks mode doctype, content with position:relative within a block container with overflow: auto, scroll...
body:after bug
0 comments | Safari | 8 September 2005
Specially crafted :after pseudoelement with <body> may lead elderly versions of Safari to crash....
span width affected by width of fixed-width div
1 comments | Explorer Windows | 7 September 2005
A fixed-width div causes a span elsewhere on the page to have a foreshortened width when the browser window is less wide...
a:visited and a:link styles cause slowdown in reading offsetWidth
0 comments | Opera | 6 September 2005
On Opera, if a webpage has a CSS with a:visited, a:link that involves changing the size of the element, there is a severe...
IE 5.5 and 6 set left coordinate relative to wrong block
1 comments | Explorer Windows | 5 September 2005
IE 5.5 and 6 set the left origin of the positioning co-ordinates to the edge of the content of the first element of the containing block, and ignor...
Event handlers not cloned when using traditional registration
4 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Opera, Safari | 2 September 2005
Registering events to an element using element.event=function() {...} does not carry over to clones of elements. This behavior seems improper....
Safari Enlarged Text + Generated Content Width Bug
0 comments | Safari | 1 September 2005
When the font size is enlarged in Safari, generated content can cause the text to be pushed outside of its bounding box. ...
IE6-Hover-Shrink-Situation
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 31 August 2005
Applying onmouseover- and onmouseout-event-handler to html-tag in combination with changing the height of the div-block via javascript to a value h...
overflow: auto elements and mouseout on layers
1 comments | Mozilla | 30 August 2005
A scrollable element (overflow: auto) triggers a mouseout event on an overlaying layer, even when the mouse doesn't move outside the l...
offsetTop and borders
1 comments | Explorer Windows, Mozilla | 29 August 2005
Firefox and IE don't take the border width into account when calculating the offsetTop and offsetLeft JavaScript properties of an element. ...
Wrong offsetWidth on absolute elements
3 comments | Mozilla, Opera | 3 August 2005
When an element is positioned outside its parent element, Mozilla gives 0 as offsetWidth, Opera -1. Mozilla also gives incorrect values, when...
backgrond-image gets stuck on hover
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 2 August 2005
Under certain conditions, the background image shown on a:hover remains when the mouse moves away. ...
Floated items with trailing whitespace lose padding-right
0 comments | Safari | 1 August 2005
Safari will omit the right padding of an element in a floated container if that element has trailing whitespace. Workaround is to ensure any eleme...
Setting accesskey attribute using setAttribute() is case-sensitive
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows | 29 July 2005
In IE6, if you need to set the accesskey attribute using setAttribute(), the attribute name passed in must be "accessKey" and NOT "accesskey"....
Safari onblur Crash
1 comments | Safari | 28 July 2005
If a blur event fires from an input when you close a tab (and not the entire browser), Safari crashes. ...
Setting position: relative on html and body in strict mode
1 comments | Explorer Windows, Safari | 20 July 2005
In Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, setting html, body {position: relative;} while in strict mode causes the browse...
Unwanted gap in bottom of tables
3 comments | Explorer Windows | 19 July 2005
In IE 6, placing the TD tags on a line of their own creates an unwanted gap at the bottom (see Table 1 on the bug report page). Placing the TD tag...
Ordered list rendering with width on LIs
3 comments | Explorer Windows | 8 July 2005
It seems that if I attempt to specify the width of a list item tag (<li>) using either a CSS class or a STYLE attribute, IE does not incremen...
float left and background problem
3 comments | Explorer Windows | 6 July 2005
Elements don't display correctly if they have a background color and a child element that uses float: left....
Wrapped inline+nowrap elements lose padding-left
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 4 July 2005
When IE6 wraps an inline element with white-space:nowrap onto the next line, the element loses its left padding. Workaround is to use ...
display:-moz-inline-box + text-align = bug
0 comments | Mozilla | 1 July 2005
Text inside a display:-moz-inline-block element cannot be aligned. Not only that, it doesn't do word wrapping....
Can't change the value of textarea after hiding it once
0 comments | Opera | 30 June 2005
If you hide a textarea element with javascript and then make it visible again and try to change the value with javascript, the textarea will not di...
Using numbers as property names causes syntax errors
0 comments | Explorer Mac | 29 June 2005
When creating an object using the inline object syntax, it is possible to use numbers as property names: var foo = {7:'bar'};</...
Opera overflow bug when no explicit width is set
2 comments | Opera | 28 June 2005
Without an explicit width set, overflow:auto and overflow:scroll do not work in Opera 6.06, 7.23, 7.54 or 8.0. Oddly enou...
space in classname uses classname .infobox
1 comments | Explorer Mac | 27 June 2005
As ppk reported spaces in classnames will have buggy effects in Explorer Mac. It will use a class called .infobox for every element with an empty c...
window.toString() fails and causes errors
0 comments | Safari | 24 June 2005
In Safari 1.2 (and related browsers like OmniWeb and Shiira - but not Konqueror), window.toString() returns an undefined value instead of a string....
Multiple interval timers cannot be used
0 comments | Mozilla | 23 June 2005
Setting multiple interval timers to run simultaneously causes the timers to become completely unreliable in Mozilla/Firefox and iCab....
Breaking floats into rows
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera | 22 June 2005
When trying to break a list of floats into rows with clear: left on the first cells in the future "rows", the cells after the cleared ...
Can't title pop up page with document.write
5 comments | Safari | 21 June 2005
I am creating a new popup window using window.open and document.write. I include a line that gives the page a title but the name of the new window ...
Setting location.hash to the same value twice causes reload
0 comments | Safari | 20 June 2005
Setting location.hash to the same value twice in succession causes the page to reload. ...
position:absolute and overflow:auto causing text box cursor to disappear
3 comments | Mozilla | 17 June 2005
When several DHTML layers on top of each other all contain an input field, and one of these layers has overflow: auto the cursor in th...
Padding and overflow causes gaps
2 comments | Mozilla | 15 June 2005
When a non-visible overflow, and either left or right padding are used on an element, Mozilla/Firefox over compensates for the required height of the ...
Handler for event target is executed during the capture phase
0 comments | Mozilla, Safari | 13 June 2005
The DOM 2 event spec requires that the capture phase event handlers should only be activated on ancestors of the event target, and not the event ta...
Text-indent value renders checkboxes unclickable
0 comments | Safari | 7 June 2005
Wrapping a checkbox form field and descriptive text in a selector that includes a text-indent style definition renders the checkbox unclickable.</...
Disappearing dropdown in lists
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Mozilla | 6 June 2005
When a floated list with overflow: auto; contains a dropdown, the dropdown disappears when changing its value (Mozilla) or never appea...
Border around iframe
1 comments | Explorer Windows | 3 June 2005
Setting a border around an iframe creates a padding-right and padding-bottom twice as large as the border. This bug occurs in MSIE 6 in Strict ...
Backgrounds on table rows
2 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera, Safari | 1 June 2005
A background on a TR doesn't work. Instead the TDs inherit the TR's background image. ...
Percentual width of absolute element is computed relative to wrong block
2 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera | 30 May 2005
A percentual width of an abolutely positioned element should be calculated relative to the containing block (the body, if there is no ...
Padding difference with windows and linux
6 comments | Mozilla | 25 May 2005
Using firefox in Windows and Linux (same version) i get a problem where i cannot specify a shadow underneath text to be consistent, because the mar...
Invisible text with background and float
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 23 May 2005
Text in a div with a background color followed by a div which floats to the left and another which is clear on the left is invisible. ...
Explorer needs a width/height for absolute CSS layout
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 20 May 2005
A valid way to position an HTML element with the absolute type is by defining only the left offset, right offset, top offset, and bottom offset fro...
Window.opener.closed behavior differs among browsers
0 comments | Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Opera | 18 May 2005
window.opener.closed works in IE 6 but not in Mozilla or Opera due to a ...
Links lose underlining with text-align applied
1 comments | Opera | 16 May 2005
In Opera 8.0, links lose their default underlining style when text-align is applied to them....
Diagonal borders on images with empty ALT text
0 comments | Opera | 13 May 2005
When an empty ALT attribute is used on an IMG tag, Opera 8.0 uses diagonal borders around the image - it draws a diamond ...
guillotine w/ absolute positioned divs
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 11 May 2005
In Internet Explorer you won't be able to view all of an absolutely positioned div because IE doesn't 'create' a scrollbar....
Using internal link triggers load event
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Safari | 9 May 2005
Explorer Mac and Safari also trigger the onload event when you use an internal anchor to jump to. The jump is executed time and again....
li {overflow: auto} generates unnecessary horizontal scroll bar
1 comments | Mozilla | 25 April 2005
When an li element is set to overflow: auto Firefox creates a horizontal scroll bar in most cases. Short entries not containing block level tags do...
Crash when hiding :after pseudo class
2 comments | Safari | 1 April 2005
Safari 1.2 will crash if you try to hide a block level element with an :after pseudo-class....
Table rows collection incorrect
1 comments | Safari | 31 March 2005
The rows collection for tables in Safari is incorrect. It appears that Safari includes <th> elements in the rows collection. Using getE...
Test table inheritance bug
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 30 March 2005
This page documents a bug in IE5.5/Win2K. Page renders correctly in IE6/WinXP. CSS sets font-size and line-height, which are correctly inherited b...
Remotely loaded XML DOM converted to HTML content model
2 comments | Safari | 29 March 2005
When loading XML through XMLHttpRequest, the resulting DOM does not allow access to content of elements, which happen to have the same element name...
Problem with em values greater than 20.47em
4 comments | Opera | 25 March 2005
Opera 7 shows a rough quantization error when a margin or a padding is expressed in em units and the value o...
setAttribute does not work when used with the style attribute
6 comments | Explorer Windows | 24 March 2005
Using setAttribute, you should be able to set any attribute on an element. It appears that in IE, trying to set the style attribute does not work.<...
Lack of spaces can cause css image failure
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 23 March 2005
When using a css image, if there is no space between the end url bracket and the attributes following it, IE6 will not display the image. ...
Font inheritance <font/> tag vs CSS
4 comments | Mozilla | 22 March 2005
When there is unsupported font name in the font-face attribute of a font tag Mozilla based browsers don't revert back to the surrounding elements C...
Small-caps and spaces
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 18 March 2005
Be careful using small-caps in IE6 because spaces have the size of the original font and can cause positioning problems....
Containing floats inside overflow:auto
2 comments | Explorer Windows, Opera | 17 March 2005
When a block set to overflow: auto contains floats Opera does not contain the floats correctly. ...
Usemap attribute wrongly case sensitive
3 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows | 16 March 2005
IE is wrongly case sensitive about the usemap attribute of an image map. To change the map for an image in run time, you have to set the attribute ...
Disappearing select box text within block labels
1 comments | Mozilla, Opera | 15 March 2005
When using an attribute selector like label[accesskey] in conjunction with the display: block: on a label element, a ch...
Inline fieldsets and floating form fields
1 comments | Safari | 14 March 2005
When you place a display inline on a fieldset and the form elements within the fieldset are floated, the form elements wont be clickable by Safari....
Capitalizing "text-transform: capitalize"
2 comments | Mozilla, Opera | 11 March 2005
If the string "text-transform: capitalize" is text-transformed to capitalize, should the "t" of "-transform" be capitalized, too?...
Safari white space bug
1 comments | Safari | 10 March 2005
&#8203; works only when a text string is present. When the text consists of numbers only it doesn't work....
Absolute positioning and text-align
0 comments | Explorer Mac, Opera | 9 March 2005
Opera misplaces absolutely-positioned elements when their containing block is subject to text-align of center or right. It places them where they ...
Image swap resize bug
4 comments | Safari | 8 March 2005
When swapping images with javascript Safari will stretch the new image to the size of the previous image, unless the previous and new images have d...
click EventListener on select box ignored in capturing phase
1 comments | Opera | 7 March 2005
Opera 7.54 seems to ignore a click EventListener on Select boxes in capturing phase. ...
getAttribute("HREF") is always absolute
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera | 25 February 2005
In some browsers getAttribute("HREF") on an A element returns a complete URL, even if the HREF attribute in the source sp...
White-space IE5.5 bug
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 24 February 2005
When you try to overrule a white-space: nowrap IE5.5 ignores it....
Hovering over node when it's above an overflow:auto node
1 comments | Mozilla | 23 February 2005
Hovering over a node doesn't count as a hover over its parent when it is positioned above an element with overflow:auto. The practical...
Hidden iframes don't work
8 comments | Safari | 22 February 2005
Safari doesn't count iframes with display: none at all. They are not represented in the frames array and refreshing the pages in them ...
setAttribute('maxlength', 5); on input doesn't work
4 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera | 21 February 2005
Setting of the maxlength attribute with Javascript using the setAttribute() function doesn't work in IE Windows 6.0, whil...
No margins on table
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 18 February 2005
Explorer 6 Windows ignores all margins on a table. 5.0 and 5.5 ignore top and bottom margins. Test page. Workaround is not included. Reported by ppk.....
Class names starting with space
1 comments | Explorer Mac | 17 February 2005
Explorer Mac can't handle class names that start with a space: it applies very weird styles to the element....
font-family causes gap
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 16 February 2005
Using a sans-serif font-family may cause an unwanted gap between tightly stacked items. Test page. Workaround is included. Reported by: Maxine.......
Properties of radio button arrays
0 comments | Explorer Mac, Safari | 15 February 2005
Safari and Explorer Mac have trouble with reading JavaScript properties of an entire radio button array....
Windows IE Underscore Bug
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 14 February 2005
The HTML specification does not allow use of a number in a class or id, it is suggested that you preceed a leading number with an underscore (_). W...
Hover with adjacent selector doesn't work
1 comments | Opera, Safari | 11 February 2005
The hover selector combined with an adjacent selector (dt:hover + dd { color : red; } works buggily (Safari) or not at all (Opera), wh...
Absolute layer on top of iframe
2 comments | Explorer Mac, Opera | 10 February 2005
An absolute layer positioned on top of an iframe will always disappear behind the iframe, even if you set its z-index....
Floated form element hidden by background
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 9 February 2005
A floated (but otherwise unstyled) button in a relatively-positioned div is hidden by any background. The button is hidden only when the div does ...
Labels and click events
8 comments | Explorer Mac, Opera | 8 February 2005
When you click on a label, the click event of the related form field should fire. Unfortunately Opera and Explorer Mac don't always do this....
Floating image seen as :first-letter in paragraph
0 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Safari | 7 February 2005
I wanted to use text-indent and p:first-letter; to style my paragraphs. When using an image set to float:right or float:left right at the beginning...
Pure CSS Popups bug
1 comments | Explorer Windows | 4 February 2005
Eric Meyer's Pure CSS Popups turn out not to work in Explorer Windows unless you use one of a list of declarations to make a:hover "ha...
Cascade limit via @import rule
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 3 February 2005
It seems IE is limited in the importation of stylesheets via the @import rule. If you try to import more than 4 levels of CSS, the fifth one is not...
Custom DTDs interpreted incorrectly
5 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Safari | 2 February 2005
When creating custom DTDs all browsers except Opera see the end of the ATTLIST as the end of the DOCTYPE. The result is that they print "]>" on ...
Opera dotted border style differs with text length
0 comments | Opera | 1 February 2005
Opera 7.54u1 and 8.0 Beta show a different dotted border style depending on the length of the text styled....
Invalid keyCode given on a keyboard event
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Safari | 31 January 2005
Keyboard events for non-alphanumeric keys create an incorrect keyCode attribute on the event. This appears to be a problem on IE6 and Firefo...
CSS width on TDs and colspans
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 28 January 2005
If you give TD's a CSS width and then use colspan, Explorer Windows still uses the declared CSS width for the content of ...
button margin-bottom
0 comments | Opera | 27 January 2005
Giving a <button> element a margin-bottom makes the text drop down....
IE nested boxes (padding-top/margin-top)
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 26 January 2005
For nested boxes IE doesn't add the outer box padding and the inner box margin, as all other browsers do. ...
Misaligned list delimiters
1 comments | Mozilla | 25 January 2005
Changing an OL elements start number to a multi digit number and then changing in back to a single digit number will mess up the alignement of the ...
CSS 'bottom' and 'right' properties in IE (Strict)
7 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows | 24 January 2005
The CSS 'bottom' property can be used to place an absolutely positioned element relative to the bottom of the containing block. When 'top' is also ...
An element both floated and cleared is ignored by a subsequent float
0 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera | 21 January 2005
In IE/Win an element both floated and cleared is ignored by a subsequent float: the latter is positioned higher than the former, and overlaps it.</...
Resizing iframe font
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 20 January 2005
When the font of a page in an iframe is resized, Explorer Windows retains the line-height of the previous font size. ...
line-height not respected in presence of inline images
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 19 January 2005
IE/Win does not respect a set line-height in presence of an inline image shorter than the line-height. ...
Back and forward between named anchors doesn't update window.location
1 comments | Explorer Windows, Opera, Safari | 18 January 2005
When navigating between named anchors in IE, the window.location object changes to reflect the change in the URL. The window.lo...
Explorer ignores closing </li> tags
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 17 January 2005
Internet Explorer on Windows completely ignores closing LI tags.This means that if the list item contains a block level link, the blank spac...
Box model of TDs
0 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Opera | 14 January 2005
The box model of a td turns out to be unchangeable in Explorer (Win and Mac), Mozilla and Opera. Explorer Mac forces it into the traditional model, wh...
Opera CSS clipping bug
8 comments | Opera | 13 January 2005
When clipping an element in Opera any underlaying content becomes visible, but does not allow user interaction. The clipped region is somehow still...
Crash when appending an existing table row
0 comments | Explorer Mac | 12 January 2005
If you use appendChild to move a table row to the end of its table (tbody), Explorer 5 Mac will hang up....
Dynamic style change impossible with rule with 2 ID-selectors
1 comments | Opera | 11 January 2005
When an element has a CSS rule applied using 2 ID-selectors, eg. #element1 #element2 { background-color: red; } it is impossib...
first-letter selector in anchor crashes IEWin
8 comments | Explorer Windows | 10 January 2005
Using the :first-letter selector (such as to do drop-caps) crashes IE Win when that first letter is part of an underlined link which i...
Overflow on body in frameset
3 comments | Explorer Mac | 7 January 2005
In a frameset a body {overflow: hidden} declaration is carried on to the next page....
getAttribute() doesn't get existing attributes on wrong tag
0 comments | Opera | 6 January 2005
The getAttribute() method allows you to read out any attribute from any tag. Except in Opera 7.54 and lower, which refuses existing attributes on t...
Imported print style sheets
5 comments | Explorer Windows | 5 January 2005
Explorer 5.5 Windows and below see an imported print style sheet as a normal screen style sheet. Test page. Workaround is not included. Reported by pp...
Overflowing element may make page longer
2 comments | Explorer Mac | 4 January 2005
When using overflow: auto for an element inside a page, the page nonetheless may become long enough to contain the entire content of the element, e...
IE 5.0 - position: relative and left
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 3 January 2005
When placing an absolutely positioned element in a relatively positioned one, Explorer 5.0 Windows may calculate the left relative to ...
Float following header is buggy
5 comments | Mozilla | 24 December 2004
When a floating box appears directly after a header in Mozilla, the very first line of text after the float doesn't obey the float but is rendered ...
Submit button and cursor
4 comments | Opera | 23 December 2004
Opera doesn't accept a cursor: pointer for an input type="submit". ...
Background images underneath borders
2 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows | 22 December 2004
Explorer positions a background-image underneath the border of the element. Therefore it's impossible to get the position of a background image in ...
Generating centered text
1 comments | Safari | 21 December 2004
When using a script to replace a text in a <center> element, the text gets incorrectly aligned in Safari: it aligns the new text...
Multiple class names
1 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows | 20 December 2004
When using multiple class names for an element, Explorer will ignore all but the last of class names: element.class1.class2 { }<br...
Text node maximum size
2 comments | Explorer Mac, Mozilla, Opera | 17 December 2004
Mozilla and Opera split up one huge text node into several smaller text nodes. Mozilla's maximum size for a text node is 4K, Opera's is 32K. ...
Linking into overflowing absolute elements
3 comments | Opera, Safari | 16 December 2004
Anchor (or "#name")links don't work when the target anchor is inside an overflowing element. ...
Bottom margin bug on hover
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 15 December 2004
In IE with SP2 if you a few a few anchor tags for a menu that have some vertical distance from each other (by using the bottom margin) and on hover...
Animated gifs unreliable
2 comments | Safari | 14 December 2004
When more than one animated GIF features on a page, Safari sometimes does not display play the animation. ...
Background image problems inside relative container
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 13 December 2004
<A> elements with a background image have a problem when contained in an element with position:relative ...
Removing inline border styles
1 comments | Explorer Windows, Safari | 10 December 2004
Setting an inline border style (element.style.border) works in all browsers. Removing it, however, is tricky in Explorer Windows and i...
Tables and relative position
0 comments | Explorer Mac, Mozilla | 9 December 2004
Mozilla doesn't honour a position: relative on a table, while Explorer Mac always behaves as if a table has position: relativ...
Duplicate characters bug without comments
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 8 December 2004
Setting up a row of floats in Explorer 6 can lead to a plethora of erratic behavior, namely duplicate characters; in this bug report, I go into det...
clear: both not obeyed on <br>
3 comments | Opera | 7 December 2004
<br style="clear: both"/> is not obeyed following some <a>-tags that have been floated left. The following <div> with the headin...
Doubled top padding after float
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 6 December 2004
When a floated box does not have non-floated content alongside it that extends the full height of the float (including its vertical margin), the ne...
Secret right margin of absolute elements
0 comments | Explorer Mac | 3 December 2004
Absolutely positioned elements have a secret right and bottom margin of 15px. When you place such an element flush right or bottom, an unwanted scr...
Safari wobble with resizeBy
0 comments | Safari | 2 December 2004
When resizing a window vertically through resizeBy, Safari seems to move the entire window instead....
Dynamic first-line/letter bug
1 comments | Mozilla | 1 December 2004
When seting class names dynamically through JavaScript, Mozilla doesn't apply the first-letter and first-line styles....
Absolute child of fixed element
1 comments | Opera | 30 November 2004
A fixed positioned div element has an absolutely positioned child div element. The stacked layers overlap. The desired result is that the child sho...
Crash when adding unsupported selector to style sheet
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 29 November 2004
When using addRule() to add a CSS rule with a selector that IE6 doesn't support, the browser hangs....
width on ol/ul
3 comments | Explorer Windows | 26 November 2004
When you apply a width to an ol or ul, Explorer Windows secretly applies more rules. Moreover, 5.0, 5.5 and ...
Load and unload events don't always fire
14 comments | Opera | 26 November 2004
When you navigate with the Back and Forward buttons, Opera doesn't fire any load and unload events....
IE6 SP2 crash
2 comments | Explorer Windows | 25 November 2004
Explorer 6 WinXP SP 2 seems to crash on a combination of Strict Mode, padding, position: relative and white-space: ...
innerHTML and text normalization
5 comments | Explorer Windows | 22 November 2004
IE applies HTML normalization to the data that is assigned to the innerHTML property. This causes incorrect display of whitespace in elements that ...
Cloning nodes from an iframe
3 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Opera | 21 November 2004
It is impossible to clone nodes in an iframe and append these clones to a node in the main page. Copying innerHTML works fine, though....
* {visibility: hidden}
6 comments | Explorer Windows, Safari | 20 November 2004
When you define visibility: hidden on * Explorer Windows doesn't show anything ever again....
Safari and document.forms
2 comments | Safari | 19 November 2004
When you remove the elements of a form, Safari nonetheless keeps references to these removed elements in the document.forms.elements a...
document.write xml prolog
5 comments | Mozilla | 18 November 2004
If both a strict XHTML doctype tag and an XML prolog are written into a popup using separate document.write commands, Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko based b...
font-weight: 600 and font-weight: bold
0 comments | Explorer Windows, Mozilla, Opera | 17 November 2004
font-weight: 600 and font-weight: bold are not equivalent. The browsers stretch up their fonts when you use 600....
Buttons and font size
3 comments | Explorer Mac, Explorer Windows, Mozilla | 7 November 2004
When you change the font size of button elements, odd things start to happen in IE Win & Mac, and Mozilla. Of course, each browser has its own ...
padding-top is padding-bottom?
3 comments | Opera | 3 November 2004
In certain situations Opera seems to copy the padding-top to the padding-bottom....
innerHTML in XHTML pages
8 comments | Mozilla, Safari | 2 November 2004
Handling of innerHTML in XHTML pages (with MIME type application/xhtml+xml) is weird. Getting works, setting doesn't....
@i valid
1 comments | Explorer Windows | 1 November 2004
Up to XP SP2 Explorer 6 Windows supported @i url(some.css)....
Box model of form button
3 comments | Explorer Windows, Mozilla | 30 October 2004
Any button uses the traditional box model instead of W3C's, regardless of rendering mode....
Moving checkboxes through document
3 comments | Explorer Windows | 29 October 2004
If you move a checkbox through the document by W3C DOM methods, the checkbox returns to its default state (checked or unchecked)....
document.onclick firing twice
0 comments | Mozilla | 28 October 2004
When you define a document.onclick before the page has loaded completely and you use the Netscape 4-required captureEvent...
Floating and absolute position
2 comments | Opera | 27 October 2004
Floating doesn't work in absolutely positioned elements....
iframes and body position
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 26 October 2004
If an iframe contains body {position: relative}, the scrollbars of the main window may disappear....
innerHTML and overflow: auto in tables
0 comments | Explorer Windows | 25 October 2004
IE 5.0 only: If you add content by innerHTML to table cells which have overflow: auto or hidden, only the fi...