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• 23 Jan 09
  

  amit_e

  Of course you do need some experience in spotting haslayout disturbances rather than coding errors but usually when part of an element disappears or appears in a position it shouldn't be then you can hazard a guess that "haslayout" is an issue and you jus

  IE haslayout hacks

• 16 Sep 07
  

  Jason Bao

  css iebug

  • n these cases you can apply a height:1% hack. Why 1% ?
  • IE treats height as a minimum and if you give an element a specific height then the element will start at that height but should the content be greater than the specified height then the element will automatically expand.
  • min-height:0 is the perfect candidate for forcing "haslayout" in IE7

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• 10 Jul 07
  

  quibulicet

  This is probably the most important thing that you need to know (apart from the broken box model) when dealing with IE. [the reason for the hack, height: 1%]

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