[Web4lib] Blockquote, italics and IE6

[Chris Barr]

Did you try any of the techniques listed on this Position is Everything
post:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html

--chris



VanderHart, Robert wrote:
> I'm developing a website that uses several "pull quotes" in the body of
> the text.  I'm using the blockquote element and a stylesheet to set
> apart longer quotes and make the font style italic.  Unfortunately,
> IE6's rendering of the pages with blockquotes[1] is broken, causing the
> center div containing the text to shift down the page to just below the
> longer sidebar.  The strangest thing about this buggy rendering is that
> if I click the "Restore Down" button and then slowly drag the right edge
> of the window to the right, the center div will jump back to its proper
> position at one point then jump back down as I keep expanding the
> window.  After a lot of trial and error, I isolated the problem to the
> italic styling of the blockquote; when I remove the font-style
> declaration the page renders OK.  When I Google'd the issue, I found at
> least one site mentioning similar behavior in IE6[2].
>
> Has anyone successfully dealt with this issue?  Thanks in advance for
> any help.
>
> [1]
> http://library.umassmed.edu/~rvanderh/newsite3/omha/fmch/specialty3.cfm
> [2] http://simonwillison.net/2003/Apr/9/italicBlockquotesCauseScrollba/
>
>
> Robert Vander Hart
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Lamar Soutter Library
> University of Massachusetts Medical School
> Worcester  MA  01655
>
> Voice: 508-856-3290
> Email: Robert.VanderHart at umassmed.edu
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