border-bottom in IE6

interrupt · February 10th, 2006, 11:22 AM

Hi,

I have tried to apply a bottom border to a font tag like so:

The text

How come border-bottom doesn't render yet border-left does?????

Thanks
Joe

ceadge · February 10th, 2006, 11:51 AM

Out of curiosity I tried running this XHTML document in IE6, and both the borders displayed ok, so I don't know what the problem is!

Code:

<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
   <title>Template</title>
</head>

<body>
The text
</body>
</html>

Kong · February 10th, 2006, 12:37 PM

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the CSS syntax, however you shouldn't be using presentaional elements such as in your markup.

interrupt · February 11th, 2006, 05:15 AM

Why not Kong? What am I supposed to do if I want to do something different to one block of text?

Joe

meow · February 11th, 2006, 05:54 AM

Is it a few words in the middle of a paragraph, i.e. you can't style the para? Why do you want them different? There's probably e a better elelement that can be used. Like if it is for emphasis, use EM.

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ceadge · February 11th, 2006, 07:53 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by interrupt
Why not Kong? What am I supposed to do if I want to do something different to one block of text?

Joe

You can use a <span> tag for styling a couple of words within a paragraph (i.e. inline) or apply style to a <p> tag if you want all the paragraph to be styled (i.e. block-level). Using the tag is a little bit out of date and as Kong says, it blurs the distinction between structure and presentation that style sheets were implemented for.

interrupt · February 17th, 2006, 07:31 AM

Sorry, I'm a bit of a novice at CSS, being more of a Javascript monkey. Can you explain what you mean about being a presentational element as opposed to EM or <SPAN>? Do you have any good links I can follow for reading up on CSS?

foddie · February 17th, 2006, 08:03 AM

Some good tutorial stuff here:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

HTH

David