The Life and Times of Michael Shadle » ie6 http://michaelshadle.com "Lazy people are efficient." - My boss. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:12:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Disappearing text in IE6 and "dead" JavaScript links http://michaelshadle.com/2007/12/01/disappearing-text-in-ie6-and-dead-javascript-links http://michaelshadle.com/2007/12/01/disappearing-text-in-ie6-and-dead-javascript-links#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:31:12 +0000 mike http://michaelshadle.com/2007/12/01/disappearing-text-in-ie6-and-dead-javascript-links/ We discovered a couple little annoyances with IE6, and I thought it would be useful to publish their workarounds.

Issue #1:

Random text would "disappear" on a page. It actually was still there and would show sometimes after hovering over it. The fix turns out to be setting the CSS for the text in question to "height: 0.01%" - it's so simple but so needless. It shouldn't have to be done. It should just work.

Issue #2:

<a href="javascript:anything" onclick="something()">

Won't work. It will just act like a dead link (or perhaps just ignore the onclick...) This will work however:

<a href="javascript:something()">

Note: Typically I try to keep my href's to be plain "javascript:;" if I need to use anchor-based links, and then chain events off of it using the element's ID and jQuery.

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