Min-width in MSIE 6

Question

What is the definitive way to mimic the CSS property min-width in Internet Explorer 6? Is it better not to try?

Answer 1

I dunno, I had some success with:

    min-width: 193px;
    width:auto !important; 
    _width: 193px;  /* IE6 hack */

A combination of dustin diaz' min-height fast hack & How do I specify in HTML or CSS the absolute minimum width of a table cell

Answer 2

Min-height fast hack works for me (also works for width)

Answer 3

do your css tag as _Width: 500px or whatever.

Answer 4

foo { min-width: 100px }      // for everyone
* html foo { width: 100px }   // just for IE

(or serve a separate stylesheet to IE using conditional comments)

Answer 5

Use conditional comments to reference and MSIE 6 specific style sheet, then create CSS as below.

Compliant browsers will use:

min-width: 660px;

Then MSIE 6 will use:

width: expression((document.body.clientWidth < 659)? "660px" : "auto");

Answer 6

Single line button

button{
background-color:#069;
float:left;
min-width:200px;
width:auto !important;
width:200px;
white-space: nowrap}