What is it good for (cross post)

I came across a strange style I've never seen before...

#container{
width:760px;
\width:770px;
w\idth:760px;}

I guess the \ hides the width for some browsers... but which and why?

Kim

Kim wrote:

I came across a strange style I've never seen before...

#container{
width:760px;
\width:770px;
w\idth:760px;}

I guess the \ hides the width for some browsers... but which and why?

Kim

Not sure about the width with the escape character before the property
but the one with the escape character before the i is seen by IE6 FF and
most modern browsers. You would do this to feed in a different value to
those.

The escape character should not be placed before the letters a,b,c,d,e
or f - the hex value letters. So w\idth is ok and wi\dth is not ok.

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Kim wrote:

I came across a strange style I've never seen before...

#container{
width:760px;
\width:770px;
w\idth:760px;}

I guess the \ hides the width for some browsers... but which and why?

See:
http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/escape_before_property.html
http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/simplified_box_model.html



Gary

Excellent... thanks both

Kim

Kim wrote:

I came across a strange style I've never seen before...

#container{
width:760px;
\width:770px;
w\idth:760px;}

I guess the \ hides the width for some browsers... but which and why?

Kim

Kim wrote:

Excellent... thanks both

You're welcome.


Gary

Gary White wrote:

You're welcome.

Ditto.

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