[Web4lib] RE: Blockquote, italics and IE6

[Jonathan Bloy]

Robert VanderHart 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
>
> http://library.umassmed.edu/~rvanderh/newsite3/omha/fmch/specialty3.cfm


Right after I sent my reply to your message I remembered a nice site that covers a lot of IE6 bugs, www.positioniseverything.net.  They've got an article about IE and italics that might help:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html