IE padding required to affect margin. 1

[1DMF]

Hi,

I've had to create an [IF IE] clause in my code to force my <fieldset> tags to have a margin between each other.

It seems the margin is ignored in IE, but if I put padding I get the required margin.

Is this one of those IE / Form element problems?





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[Vragabond]

It almost sounds like a collapsing margins issue (those are usually cured by adding padding), but it is impossible to tell without seeing your page.

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[1DMF]

sorry : same page as other issue...

http://www.justlifecover.co.uk

The middle floated div #pagetext has a bunch of non-floated fieldsets , the margin is ignored in IE, but padding fixes this.

All works fine in FF

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[Vragabond]

Hard to say. It is not the collapsing margins issue, I think there's a proprietary value that IE puts in for the display attribute of the fieldset that somehow ignores the margins. I think it should work if you state the obvious and add [tt]display: block[/tt] to the style declaration of the fieldsets.

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[1DMF]

Spot on Vragabond, that did the trick - well sort of, damn you IE! - lol

The irony is the fieldsets then adheared to the margin, but the padding made the margin 20px (10px margin - 10px padding), so it still applied the padding as margin.

Web browsers are like the old saying 'You can't please all the *insert here (*people / *browsers) all the time!"

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[Vragabond]

But if you leave just the margin and add the display property for all browsers, wouldn't that give you uniform results? Weren't you using padding only in IE to combat its lack of applying the margin?

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[1DMF]

Yes!

I was just noting the irony of IE, that until I removed the now unwanted padding form the head code of the [IF IE] clause, it showed double margin.





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