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Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs

The best strategy for dealing with Internet Explorer 6 is not to support it. Stop. Ok, I feel your frustration. You’re a web developer and you’re ready to tear your hair out because you have to support Internet Explorer 6, but, to put it tactfully, IE6 doesn’t support you. You’ve spent hours on it, but […]
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CSS Position Fixed for IE6

How do you get position:fixed css working in Internet Explorer 6? The trick is to use an Internet Explorer CSS expression. You can’t simply put the logic in there directly or it’ll cache the result and not update. The simplest fix is to wrap your logic in eval…
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Definitive Guide to Taming the IE6 Beast

For years, Internet Explorer 6 IE6 has been the bane of existence for web designers around the world. Designers and users alike have come to enjoy the increasingly predictable, standards-compliant behavior of great modern browsers like Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Meanwhile, IE6 continues to haunt our designs, lurking in dark places while dying a painfully […]
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ie6fixer – Online Tool to Help Fix IE6 CSS

Welcome to the IE6 CSS Fixer: starter kit page. A tool specifically designed to ease the pain of the ie6 css debugger. If you want to read up on all the specifics, I advise you to check the articles on the ideology, the specific fixes and the scope of this tool…
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Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6

All (sane) web developers are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that (as of this writing) roughly 25% of the world is still using it. […]
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An IE6 post – thoughts on handling Internet Explorer 6

No matter how much we all hate IE6, we never seem to agree on what’s the best way to finally get rid of it. Web designers and developers alike have realized that investing too much time and effort in fixing its quirks is not viable from a business perspective, but they still want to reach […]
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Vertically aligning text without the use of JavaScript

This is one of those really annoying CSS bugs that should be so simple to do but is actually fairly problematic because of old browsers like IE6. Vertical-align should be all that’s needed but nope, certain browsers like IE6 don’t support it so we need to do some wizardry to get it to work cross […]
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Internet Explorer and the CSS box model

One of the differences between Internet Explorer and standards compliant Web browsers that cause a lot of trouble for CSS beginners is the CSS box model. Since the box model is what browsers use to calculate an element’s total width and height, it is quite understandable that different browsers producing different results can be both […]
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Making Internet Explorer use PNG Alpha transparency

Internet Explorer supports some extra style features for providing transitions and filters to images. Two of these can help us with transparency in IE6. One is the AlphaImageLoader, which applies an image to the background of any element whose height and width are both explicitly set (or if the position: absolute; style is set) and […]
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