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Uncovering the “Explorer 6 Duplicate Characters Bug” in the wild

March 3, 2008 by Russ Weakley

I don’t know about you, but I get very excited when I see an Internet Explorer 6 bug in the wild. It’s like bird-watching – coming across these weird and quirky rendering bugs in their natural habitat.

Take for example a recent update I made to a client’s home page. The two new buttons at the bottom of the page looked ok in all browsers except IE6 – where the last character – the “s” was repeated on the line below

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Why does this occur?

As the IE bug bible states, the bug is triggered

“…only when the final float fills the container to the right edge, or to within less than 3px away from it. This is because IE6/win seems to have a weird 3px “bumper” margin on the right side of that last left float.”

Explorer 6 Duplicate Characters Bug

In my case, the two floated elements fitted the parent exactly. Luckily I have encountered this rare creature before. To solve the problem, I quickly added 3 extra pixels width to the parent container and the bug disappeared.

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I can only hope that you manage to see it some day, in the wild, before it becomes extinct. Then you, too, will have something to tell your grand children about some day.

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