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Old July 2nd, 2004, 01:25 AM
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I can hardly believe my eyes. Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

I have a div with 5px borders and 5px padding on each side. My php does a browser detect, and pulls the appropriate css file. In the IE stylesheet, I have the div's width set to 820px (800px + 5px + 5px +5px + 5px = 820px) as described as part of the Tan Box Hack (which wasn't working right for some reason). In the Mozilla stylesheet, I have the width set to 800px, because, well, that's how wide it's supposed to be.

Now, when I open IE6 and Firefox, and send them both to the page, IE renders the box somewhat larger than the box in FF. What's even stranger is, when I set the width in the IE stylesheet to 800px, it renders correctly, matching the width rendered by FF.

Any thoughts on this? I can post my code if you really wanna see it, but I figured you'd all understand what I'm trying to describe...
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If you are using a doctype that triggers standards compliant mode, IE6 uses the W3 box model. The box model hacks can still be applied to IE5.x. Personally, I always use a strict doctype and usually don't have to worry about it.

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Ohhh... Ok. I'm just so used to seeing IE run in quirks mode, I guess. It's good to know IE does work correctly sometimes. Thanks!
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