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IE8 test: z-index problem is no more

By On Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 In CSS With 1 Comment Permanent Link to IE8 test: z-index problem is no morePermalink

I have updated my z-index tutorial with tests in IE8 beta 1. There was nothing new to write as IE8 correctly passed all tests and rendered test cases according to CSS2.1 spec. The horrible z-index scripting trickery I used to control complicated layouts (like on boylesports.com) will not be required in few years.

I took the opportunity to add some screenshots of reference rendering vs IE6/7 rendering, to make it easier on those just casually reading to see what the errors are (previously you needed to open the pages in IE6/7 to actually see what is wrong).

Additionally, IE8 also supports :after, which I use for float clearing.
As it is, there will be no need for ie8.css hidden under conditional comments. Yipi! :)

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  1. Subeesh says:
    Fri, Nov 14th, 2008 at 11:39 ·

    Hi

    I cannot set z index using javascript

    obj.style.zIndex is throwing the javascript error

    “object does not support.…” in IE 8

    How to get around
    Thanks and Regards
    Subeesh.K.K

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