Luke Ryan Jernejcic

IE8 Doubling Heights And Borders And Such

July 21, 2010

Well I had yet another problem with IE today, but this time it was only happening in Internet Explorer 8. I had a header and footer where the height was specified as 100px, but the browser was doubling it… and not just to 200px, but it was practically creating a copy, with the top border being displayed at the top and straight through the middle at 100px.

Well, in both areas I had some anchors like this:

<a name="header" />

Yeah, IE8 doesn’t like self closing tags. I have seen this issue before in IE 7 (which was working for me this time). You need to actually add a closing tag to all self-closed tags (although I think it works okay on <br />) like this:

<a name="header"></a>

That worked for me. Hopefully Microsoft will finally get this right in IE9.


Written by Luke Ryan Jernejcic who lives and works in Austin Texas building useful things. Follow him on Twitter