Re: css/special character conflict in ie

by "Donna M Smillie" <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>

 Date:  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:57:53 +0100
 To:  <hwg-style(at)mail.hwg.org>,
"Mike Cunningham" <mike(at)imagebusiness.com>
 References:  bmts
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hi Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cunningham" <mike(at)imagebusiness.com>


> I am having a problem with a page that uses an external style
sheet and
> contains a number of em dashes. In netscape, everything is
fine. In
> explorer, the em dashes are rendered as some pipe-like vertical
line.
> Anyone know a fix? The url:
>
> http://www.highwaystarmagazine.com/log.html

Try ampersand #8212; instead of #151;

I checked the list of character entities in the HTML 4.01 spec
and couldn't find any mention of a #151 entity, but it did give
#8212 for the em dash.

HTH!

Regards,
Donna
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