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IE6 Box Article Model
Result IN IE6 Without Doctype
When you specify the width of
a box, any padding or margin
should be added to the width of
it. Internet Explorer 6, however,
has a quirk whereby it includes
the padding and margins in the
width of the box.
The way around this is to ensure
that you provide a DOCTYPE
declaration for the HTML page.
(DOCTYPE declarations were
covered on page 181.) You can
use either the HTML5, HTML
4 strict, or HTML 4 transitional
DOCTYPE declarations to
ensure that IE6 follows the
correct box model.
RESULT IN ie6 WITH DOCTYPE
To demonstrate this, you can
see the example from the left
hand page shown in IE6, first
without a DOCTYPE declaration
and then again with the HTML5
DOCTYPE declaration.
BOXES
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