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Cross Browser Inline-Block

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li {
        width: 200px;
        min-height: 250px;
        border: 1px solid #000;
        display: -moz-inline-stack;
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: top;
        margin: 5px;
        zoom: 1;
        *display: inline;
        _height: 250px;
}

Reference/Explanation here and here.

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  1. Anton
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    Thank you

  2. Inline-block come in really handy for form layouts (applied to labels, inputs, error spans). Works brilliantly in IE6+, Mozilla 3.6+, Safari, Chrome, etc.

  3. bogdan

    This is very useful hack! It’s much better than floating li items. Thank you.

  4. Striker
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    If you want to avoid nasty CSS hacks and don’t care about IE6 (which you shouldn’t), you can ensure proper inline-block handling in all browsers if you use a tag that has a default display of inline (other than the <p> tag).

    So tags such as <span>, <b>, <s>, <q>, <u>, <i>, or <a> work perfectly in all browsers if you apply display:inline-block to them.
    I recommend <span> because it’s semantically similar to <div>.

    Just remember that whitespace between inline-blocks is rendered just like it is between text.

    Click here to see a demo and test it in various browsers.

  5. Trev
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    I gotta say, your site is very useful, I end up here frequently, also the css frog rules.

    Not ready to share my site yet, perhaps when It’s a little more finished!

  6. Amit
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    Hi there, any known issues with inline-block with Chrome, look at this weird behaviour I have found at the new beta version of WordPress 2012 – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentytwelve-nav?replies=17

    Any suggestions or ideas anyone ?

  7. sataj
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    want this with divs

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