What do you wish you knew before you spent hours trying to fix a bug in IE6 [closed]

Answer 1

I wish I'd known about Position is Everything, but specifically the peekaboo bug has always got me.

Answer 2

the underscore trick

if you put an _ infront of the css atribute it only gets read by ie6.

ie. _border: 1px solid #000000; creates a border only in ie6

Answer 3

Don't code for IE6 first. That's the path to madness.

Answer 4

Transparent PNG should have been supported...

Answer 5

Number one thing: hasLayout If I had known about this from the start most of my worries would've been solved. I even regard it as a worse problem than IE6's stupid box model.

Answer 6

*{margin:0; padding:0; border:none}

i swear to god this line changed everything. presto! everything is the same size! and then i dove into the rabbit hole that ya'll find me in now. marvelous.