Stylesheets - IE compatible vs. strict mode

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IE compatible vs. strict mode

2005-12-21, 3:41 am

Somewhere on MSDN I've seen a very small burk about how offsetSomething
is calculated in compatibility vs. strict mode. Something like some
margins(?) are included into calculation and some not - depending on
the mode. I put my life on that I've seen it but I was stupid enough to
not bookmark it right away. Now I cannot find it: was it offsetWidth?
innerHeight? some addon article?
I'm just sure that it was on MSDN and orginally navigated using IE from
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rence_entry.asp>

Anyone?

RobG

2005-12-22, 3:31 am

VK wrote:
> Somewhere on MSDN I've seen a very small burk about how offsetSomething
> is calculated in compatibility vs. strict mode. Something like some
> margins(?) are included into calculation and some not - depending on
> the mode. I put my life on that I've seen it but I was stupid enough to
> not bookmark it right away. Now I cannot find it: was it offsetWidth?
> innerHeight? some addon article?
> I'm just sure that it was on MSDN and orginally navigated using IE from
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rence_entry.asp>
>
> Anyone?

Maybe this helps:

<URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/viewport/compatibility.html >

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Rob

2005-12-24, 6:58 pm

RobG wrote:
> Maybe this helps:
>
> <URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/viewport/compatibility.html >

This too, thanks.

Finally I've found it:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...nhancements.asp>
<quote>
With Internet Explorer 6 or later, when you use the !DOCTYPE
declaration to switch on standards-compliant mode, the width and height
properties specify the distance between the left and right edges and
top and bottom edges of the bounding box, respectively. The border and
padding belts are not included.
</quote>