[pmwiki-users] improved markup for floating images...?

[V.Krishn]

On Friday 29 July 2005 23:42, Bronwyn Boltwood wrote:
> On 7/29/05, V.Krishn <mistyfire at autograf.pl> wrote:
> > Does browsers converts any span element to a block if "float" is defined?
>
> It seems so.  I checked this article:
> http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2004/12/10/floating
>
> Quote:
>      Fortunately, there is a simple solution that fixes many of the IE
> float bugs. We saw earlier that all floats become a block box. The
> standard says that the display property is to be ignored for floats,
> unless it's specified as none. If we set display:inline for a floating
> element, some of the IE/Win bugs disappears as if by magic. No one
> knows exactly why. IE/Win doesn't make the element into an inline box,
> but many of the bugs are fixed.
>
> Bronwyn
Thanks for the insight.
Implementing cross-browsers compatibility can be a pain at times.
V.Krishn