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IE CSS box height bug

25th April 2007

A small but infuriating CSS bug in IE… No shit.

I’m creating a box with rounded corners around some content using my usual method:

  • Place empty <div>s with ids above and below the content <div>
  • Create background images for the top and bottom of the box <div>s, and put them in (with fixed width and height for the <div>) with CSS
  • Continue the border along either side of the content <div> with CSS borders

All well and good. Only, on IE6/Win, the top <div> wouldn’t shrink to less than about 16px, leaving a gap of whitespace below the 8px high background image.

After much searching, I found a workaround buried in the life-saving Explorer Exposed pages. You can read about the ins and outs over there; here you’re just going to get a nice quick fix.

Put this in the CSS rule for the <div>:

overflow: hidden;

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The holding page and the 503 status code

4th April 2007

NOTE: I’ll leave the information here for reference as it’ll probably still be useful to some. But for anyone using WordPress who wants a convenient way of putting up a holding page without confusing search bots and without blocking yourself from using the site while it’s “down”, I’ve just found the very neat Maintenance Mode plugin. Seems to work like a treat. 14/2/08

Ever wanted to have a system in place that allows you to easily “switch on” a holding page for the whole of your site for when you need to do some maintenance? Well, that’s relatively easy to do; but what about bots? Even if you’re only down for 10 minutes, what if your luck is such that Googlebot makes its random rounds at precisely that time? Depending on how you’re holding page works, it might register a load of “404 – Not Found” errors, or replace your indexed content with your holding page… Who knows? Not I.

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