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In previous years, the technique of setting height to 1%, and hiding the declaration
from all browsers except Internet Explorer 6 and earlier versions, was known as the
Holly hack.18 These days, the recommended method for specifying CSS declarations
for Internet Explorer only is through the use of conditional comments (p. 394).
The good news is that Internet Explorer 7 is a lot more robust than previous versions,
and many (though not all, unfortunately) of the issues concerning layout have
disappeared??”you??™ll need far fewer fixes than you might have in previous versions
of the browser. For more information about the layout issue, see ???On Having Layout???
at the Satzansatz web site.19
Formatting Concepts
This section describes how boxes are laid out in the normal document flow. It
applies to elements whose float property has the value none, and whose position
property has the value static or relative, although in the latter case, additional
factors described in Relative Positioning (p.


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