Internet Explorer 6 issues

[Mandor]

I recently switched to IE6 (forgive me for I have sinned). Since that text elements like node texts have become aligned to the right rather than to the left. This is not the case for any other website I have visited. I am not completely sure if this is a problem with my system or a fault in IE6. Just in case it is a bug or misbehaviour in IE6 it would be nice if you could check what might be causing this and take countermeasures (which don't screw up the display for other browsers of course). Maybe it's an unnoticed bug and MS needs to be made aware of this.

Thank You

[agent00013]

This same topic has been brought up twice recently in the following nodes. You may be interested in the responses to them, as well
Page rendering with IE6
Weirdness in IE6

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[Ovid]

Mandor, please prepend the title of off-topic nodes with OT - or something similar. Most monks don't seem to mind OT nodes, so long as there is something peripherally related to what we do.

As for your question, our IS director recently switched to IE6 but didn't tell me. I wasted a good chunk of time trying to debug the text alignment problem before I realized what was going on. Rest assured, you're not the only one with this problem. Further, this problem is occuring on some of the Web-based administrative consoles that I've been creating. Sometimes it centers the text and other times it right-justifies it. I've resolved the issue by telling our users that IE6 should be considered beta quality and therefore we cannot support it.

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: In retrospect, this thread's not off-topic. I'll shut up now :)

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[myocom]

Sometimes it centers the text and other times it right-justifies it. I've resolved the issue by telling our users that IE6 should be considered beta quality and therefore we cannot support it.

Actually, as has been discussed previously here (notably in Everything is centered and Weirdness under IE6), elements in IE6 inherit attributes from their parents. So nested tables, for example, will inherit their alignment from the outermost one unless specified otherwise.

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[John M. Dlugosz]

elements in IE6 inherit attributes from their parents

Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? Or is that only the case for some attributes (e.g. colors)? I don't recall a some when reading CSS documentation.

Update:W3C says Some style properties are not inherited from the parent element to the child element... but it also says that text-align is inherited. It mentions elsewhere that margin stuff is technically not inherited, but positioning is relative to the parent so it gives a similar effect.

—John