More Browser Fun

Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 05:05PM

By Eric Richardson

Firefox (and Camino) on the Mac apparently can't pop an element up over the scrollbar on a div. The scrollbar just shows through, cutting into your popped up element. This is not the case with Firefox on Windows. Neither IE or Safari have a problem with it.

On the other hand, I've managed to create a bold style that Safari decides to just not show sometimes the first time you display a list that features it. As soon as you touch the scrollbar it pops into view. Sometimes I even see the text before it disappears. Changing the tag doesn't alter the behaviour. Of course it has no problem if I load the same HTML and style into a flat HTML file, so I don't know how to even begin to debug that one. None of the other browsers have an issue with it.