IE6 Phantom Text / Duplicate Text Bug

Antonio — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:56:31 +0000

Just for purposes of documenting this useful knowledge:

When viewing in Internet Explorer 6 and experiencing the “strange-repeated-text” problem, try applying this CSS to the element containing the text that gets repeated:

float: none;
clear: both;

Knowledge from: http://uxdev.blogspot.com/2008/10/phantom-text-in-ie6.html

Force IE8 to Render Like IE7

Antonio — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:15:51 +0000

Found this little snippet yesterday. I’m not saying that this is best practice in any way, but if you’re looking for a quick fix, here it is:

<meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'/>

I think this has the effect of enabling “Compatibility Mode” that the user would normally have to turn on.

As a side note, the specific reason I used this was to make a Google Friend Connect widget render properly — there are plenty of posts on the web about those widgets not working in IE8.

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IE6 Phantom Text / Duplicate Text Bug

Force IE8 to Render Like IE7