- From: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:38:54 -0700
- To: "'Jonas Salling'" <salling@cooper.xanthus.se>, www-style@w3.org
IE4 does not support escaping characters as per the CSS spec at all.
-Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonas Salling [SMTP:salling@cooper.xanthus.se]
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 1998 6:23 AM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: IE4's handling of escape characters in CSS class names
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but IE4 may have a problem with escaped
> characters
> is class names.
>
> Consider the following HTML/CSS document:
>
> -------------------
>
> <!doctype HTML public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>Title</TITLE>
> <STYLE TYPE="TEXT/CSS" >
> span.My\0020Style {
> font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
> font-weight: bold;
> }
> </STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <P>a <SPAN class="My Style" >b</SPAN> c
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> --------------------
>
> In IE4 (Windows) the rule isn't matched, so "a", "b", and "c" all look the
> same.
>
> BTW: I've tried variants like class="My\0020Style" to no avail.
>
> Am I missing something here (Håkon, Bert)? Is there a workaround (Chris
> Wilson)?
>
> --
> salling@xanthus.se
> Senior Software Engineer
> Xanthus' iWrite
Received on Friday, 24 April 1998 12:39:00 UTC