On 23 Nov 2005, at 6:09 am, Richard Grevers wrote:

> Wow, it works! Thanks. Now I'm wondering WHY it works?
> The other question is, if IE7 supports child selectors and
> display:inline-block, what effect will this have in IE7?

display:inline-block establishes a new block formatting context [1], 
and thus contains the floats in the head part of your document.

As long as you serve your documents in standard compliant mode for IE 
win, IE 7 will ignore that * html>body selector.

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q15>
for some tests
<http://dev.l-c-n.com/IEW/simulations.php>

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
<http://emps.l-c-n.com/>

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