Jul
20
2005
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By category: Accessibility, Browsers, Front End Engineering.
Nick Rigby discovers and writes that Opera 8 has a maximum text-indent value of 32697 pixels.
Clearly this is an edge case and not all that common, but those that use the "off-left" technique might find something familiar in his quote:
There would be no need to ever use a value this large, but I happened to be using -9999em originally, which, depending on the default font-size of the document, is a lot more than this limit value. Hence, it did not work in Opera 8.
Anyways, just a little tip for your toolbox.
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Anup Shah July 22nd, 2005 - 5:13 am
Why not use the ‘off-top’ alternative instead?
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/hiddentext
Nate Koechley July 22nd, 2005 - 10:05 am
Yes, I didn’t post this to recommend one method over another — off-top should be fine too — just to point to an obscure fringe-case browser issue.
thanks for the comments!
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