IE6 abbr css bug

On a current Sandbox project, we’ve committed to delivering an IE6 friendly version. WHY?!!!!

Anyhows, after some head banging with an AWOL <abbr> tag not even being noticed by IE6 – some digging shows that its never been supported! Good news is ie7+ now take notice.

This handy little JS DOM hack takes the offending tag and adds a span for IE6 to work with.

http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/abbr.html

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Posted by nick on 29 July 2009; This entry is filed under css.

2 Comments

  1. Jon August 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    I tried this on my site, and although I was able to style the site correctly, the fix prevented JavaScript working on my site.

    I have posted a fix for this on my site http://www.bytesite.co.uk/styling-abbr-tag-in-ie-javascript-fix.

  2. nick August 26th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    cheers buddy, your my DOM hero!

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