Internet Explorer bug - CSS and DOCTYPES

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Internet Explorer bug - CSS and DOCTYPES

Post by Newgy » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:28 pm

It seems that Internet explorer 6 does not display certain CSS elements when a DOCTYPE is specified. for the record i am using

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
When this is present the scrollbar color CSS elements dont work. My question: is this an Interent explorer bug, or are the scrollbar CSS elements not allowed? from what I can see in the DTD specified above, they sould be allowed.
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Post by TopCat » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:02 pm

HELL! mozilla hates xml documents that ie understands easy. especially the signin to there.
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Post by enisoc » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:44 pm

The scrollbar color elements supported by IE6 are nonstandard extensions. I'm guessing that perhaps the doctype places IE into a more compliant mode in which certain extensions are no longer supported.
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Post by Newgy » Thu Jul 17, 2003 9:10 am

It must be specific doctypes: phpBB uses

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
and can have scroll bars of any colour. the only differneces between that and my doctype is that phpBB uses html rather than xhtml, and my doctype specifies a DTD. Does anyone have any idea which is causing the problem?

<edit> I messed around for a while and descovered the extent of the IE feature/bug. it will only show the scroll bar when the doctype is html transitional or there is not doctype at all.</edit>
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