CSS Negative Margins and Vanishing Text

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March 22nd, 2004, 08:10 AM

atomgiant

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CSS Negative Margins and Vanishing Text

In Internet Explorer 6, the following HTML and CSS with negative margins causes the first letter of the heading to disappear:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css" media=screen>
#siteBody {
 position: absolute;
 top: 100px;
 left: 100px;
 width: 700px;
 margin-left: 2em;
}

h1 {
 margin-left: -1em;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="siteBody">
<h1>This is the heading</h1>
<p>
This is the content.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

There are ways to get the negative margin to work in IE properly, but at a loss of functionality. For instance, if I remove the width property from the siteBody CSS, and change the position to 'relative', the letter will appear. Also, if I remove the div and just place the 'siteBody' id on the body tag, then the first letter will appear.

Any help is greatly appreciated as I've been searching for a solution for a couple of days now.

Thanks,
---atomgiant

March 23rd, 2004, 12:37 AM

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This may give you some ideas.

http://www.positioniseverything.net...irstletter.html

gary

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