Hello list,

I'm (painfully) aware of RTL text behaving badly in software in
general, and especially in HTML documents styled with CSS in IE7. I'm
also aware that changing text direction causes a new rendering context
for IE.

What I was previously unaware of is hasLayout (the immediate effect
being whether the box contains its children or they spill out all over
the place) turning on and off intermittently. Scrolling, hovering over
the element in question or selecting some of its text seem to toggle
hasLayout (not reliably — sometimes I will struggle to reproduce the
bug for a minute or so). The fact that all the troublesome elements
have overflow: hidden and zoom: 1 takes affect at first, then breaks
(I stress that this is without scripting or anything — this is simply
the progressive rendering of the page and basic user interaction).
This problem occurs exclusively in IE7. 6 & 8 are fine, so are the
sane browsers.

Reseting a hasLayout trigger via JavaScript or by using the DOM
inspector works, but immediately breaks again when one of the
intermittent triggers mentioned occurs.

I am utterly at a loss.

Any previous experience?

Regards,
Barney Carroll

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07594 506 381
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