7 posts tagged haslayout

IE 8 does not support the CSS opacity property, but it also does not support the proprietary Microsoft filter. This means there is no way to emulate opacity, short of using images. As I was merrily testing out IE 8’s support for CSS selectors and properties, I noticed it did not support opacity.

Here’s a few references that explain the different CSS display properties as well as the workarounds to render them consistently across browsers using hasLayout triggers, CSS extensions, and conditional comments CSS3 Display Properties CSS2 Display Properties IE6 hasLayout matrix

After spending a while on web development forums, you start to see the same questions being asked regularly. So here I’m going to answer some of these common beginner questions and hopefully save me typing answers out repeatedly in the future because I can just refer the poster to here or copy it myself.

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So, once again, IE has tested my patience … and lost. Here’s the scoop: I have a div styled with a width, height and an overflow set to hidden [so it qualifies for IE’s oh-so-crucial “hasLayout” attribute]. In essence this div will be populated with content dynamically with JS using the inner HTML property via an ajax call.

If I could, I’d give you a special present this christmas - I’d tell you how to make IE on Windows behave like a grown-up browser. Sadly, reality sucks - as does IE on Windows - so I can only offer to share with you a couple of CSS tips to ease the pain of working with that piece of crappy software.