Hello, My name is JAYME.

Stephane Koenig

Thank god you wrote that up.

Thank you.

~ Steph

Amen, brother. Thanks for sharing.

Ben

Yes! Thanks for sharing. You saved me.

Jeremy

Thank you! Until now I’ve always used:

margin-left:20px;
_margin-left:10px;

First one gets read by IE7 and FireFox. Second gets read by IE6. Awesome!

Bonny

Jeremy’s method of above is super helpful when you have a DIV that is set to display:none; but needs the IE6 fix ! You Rock!

James

Whew, that was an easy fix, I was expecting a much more complicated fix like all the others. Thanks a million.

James

And Jeremy — you just fixed the other one of my bugs. Thanks for the tip!

My God fella, just spent 3 hours trying to work out why my page was getting chewed up by IE6, then I found your answer, thankyou!

ryan

You lost me at ‘beloved’ :P

Haha! But in all seriousness… that’s a very helpful tip. Thanks.

Dude… thank you so much!

IE6 should be banned.

Thanks!

I can only agree with the ones above: Thank you so much!

//Dave

Bart-Jan

So much better than writing up IE specific hacks every time, thanks a lot!

My god this is a life saver :D I hate Exporer 6 with a passion but so many of my clients still use it, this really makes my work so much easier ^^

THANK YOU!

Paul Koppen

Whish all Google #1 hits were this short and this accurate!!

You’re my hero for today.

Definitely a helpful fix, thanks.

Atze

i was nearly goin’ nuts with IE6 – until i figured out that the margin was exactly doubled…
so a “IE6 double margin” in google brought me to your “anyone reading this except me” :D post.
amazing – i don’t like those * html etc. hacks in my stylesheets.
your solution works like charm :)

Ashish

Hi,
In my case, I have floated the left element and the right content is relative positioned with a left margin. The left sidebar includes “display: inline” Still, IE 6 shifts the right element below the left. Any clue why?
Thanks a ton.
Ashish

Patrick

Hi there,

I was going nuts too, this saved me. Thanks for the fix!

hey dude
more love to you man, easy fix, thank god i found this page haha

russellnation

sweet just what i needed

Roger Gordon

I encountered this before and though I must be going crazy. So tonight I encountered the same problem, tested and measured it, and yip, IE6 does indeed double the margin. What the heck?

Anyway, thanks for this elegant fix. I was about to revert to a new IE6 style sheet, but will probably be able to retain just the one now.

Googled ‘ie6 double margin’ and got this … which works like a charm! Top man!

Ian.

Same as all the others, you’re a life saver.

Kai Chan Vong

Thanks. Just spent ages thinking I was going out of my mind.

Justin

Thanks for this.

Bryony

Kudos to you!
Thanks muchly :)

Rapidz

You sir, are a GOD. Many thanks.

Alexandra

Wow! Thanks a lot for this!!!!
It saves me lots of hours of pulling my hair ;-)
good work!
greetings from France

Very helpfull, thanks.

You have saved my scalp many a missing hair.

Nice one :)

dj

Fantastic. HOWEVER, and I’d love to have someone confirm this, but until I put the display:inline rule *above* the margin rule, IE6 still doubled up on me.

If this is true, I wonder what other nuances and bugs are caused simply by the ordering of style rules? Perhaps I haven’t been crazy all of this time trying to devise the best order to type out my styles…

Anyway thanks A MILLION for this!

Thilina

awesomesauce! ty!

This is what i love about blogs…
You use it as a tool to remember something and in turn help thousands!

Adrian Diaconescu

Thanks Jayme! You just saved me a lot of time.

Jaison James

nice :)

volker

DANKE from Germany!

Thank you! I, too, was thinking that the problem wasn’t as easy as this. In the past, some of the floating problems in IE6 were fixed by simply wrapping the div with a nameless container div.. but that didn’t help this time around. your “Display: inline;” did the trick.

Does anyone know “why” this works and “why” IE6 doubles the margin, though?

Thanks again!

Thanx alot, i’ve been almost crazy about that!

Quick and clean – perfect!

Keith Foster

Simple… I love it.

I was aware of the double margin issue… and was just doing a quick search to see what the hell was actually going on with IE6.

I was just about to do a *margin-left, thanks for the non hacky solution.

Brooks

Oh joy,
love it thank you very much!

BJ

Thanks. I thought I just needed some sleep. Damn IE6!

DanDan

I would like to award you the IE destroyamagator award. Way to go.

Russell Bishop

My god sir, you are my hero :D

Was working late for a client – deadline tomorrow – going crazy, then I googled ie6 double margin and found this LOVELY fix.

Ken

Works like a charm. This problem took me hours! thanks

Patrick O'Connor

You are a godsend! a simple Google search brought this up and saved me a ton of time and frustration!

Thanks for this great reference!

Paff

Thank You for this very useful and time-saving tip! :)

imran khalid

I was worried about this problem but you solved my problem…..

Thanks

Pip

Great tip! Thanks. Saved me a lot of hassle.. :)

Paul Feakins

Microsoft suck.

You rock.

Cheers.

Ben Walker

I love you. Which is more than I can say for IE6. ;o)

Superior!

Many thanks for your post – has ended a couple of hours of hacking around!

James

Do you need a job?

Valerie

Bless your heart from Durham!

Eddy

i love you!

Mody

Thank you!

Todd

Best tip ever.

Eric

Just for fun I punched “margin double” in Google and found this toward the top. I know IE is horrible, but I thought, “No way, it could be something this obvious.” I didn’t even expect to find a solution. This is just such a great post.

Jonathan

Woah… I can’t believe that worked.

E Meline

Bless you kind sir!

IE6… Why???? Why too much people still use it????

Thanx to all the guys than gave some solutions, everyone have his magic ;-)

Mainly thanx to the publisher of the note in the begining, cause the rest not happen

Greetings from Argentina!!!

Jimbo

According to W3C browser statistics, 28.9% of all computers on the web still use IE6. So this is a great tool for helping those of us who hate Microsoft cope. Thanks for the tip.

slarty

Thanks a lot man, having just finished sorting out transparent PNG problems in IE6 I got to work trying to figure out with the heck was going on with my margins.
Worked like a charm

Daniel Perin Tavares

Great!!!

Thanks for share!

J0n

Wow… I love Google and I love YOU!

Stephen Lombardo

I’m sure this just saved me an hour+ of hacking… Thanks!

Kris

Worked a charm

Thanks a lot!! You’ve saved me another hours solving this problem…

Chris Allen

YOU ROCK!!

Thank you very much. Internet Explorer 6 has proved itself to be the worst browser I have ever tried to make a web design work for.

thank you. i didn’t realize what was happening until i saw the title of this post.
goodKarma++;

nice…….

Ivo

thanks for sharing bro!

Smillie

I build web sites all the time and I always forget the answer to this so it’s about the 5th time I have checked your site!

Thank you and please dont remove the page!!

Karlheinz Dereser

Hey, my partner and me we think this (_margin) is the best and shortest bug fix we ever have seen. Thanks a lot and for all lucky bug fixing!

Nice One. THANK U!

john

found this via google, saved me a load of time, thanks very much!

AmandaO

YOU ROCK!!! So you glad you posted it “just for yourself.”

Ben Palmer

You’re a life saver mate, thanks for the heads up

Melody Morgan

hope affirming! xxx

name

ie 6 is a balls up. thank you, i expected the “feeling lucky” to take me to positioniseverything but this was a short solution! thank you :)

James

I’ve posted here before… forgot about this post, forgot the hack, came across the same problem, googled it and came across the same post. quite funny. guess that’s what bookmarks and code snippets are for. anyway… thatnks for the fifth time, i think. great design, btw.

Matt

you rock

mike scott

Bless you!! Wish I’d have Googled this about 4 hours ago…

Vesters

Thanks so much – awesome!

Thank you!

Dude, you saved me..

Thanks a lot!

Jan

Thanks for posting this :)

nuSpace

Thanks! I’ve been meaning to start adding all thses fixes to my blog as well to help me remember.

Freek

Thanks for posting this fix – It saved me hours (maybe days) of scratching my head.

you are the f***in man for posting this!

Thanks for posting this. Saved me a lot of time.

pickupjojo

You are god… Really!
Thanks for this very nice tip. <3

thanks for the blog post. saved me a lot of hassle! damn ie6!

Google would be worthless without people like you posting fixes like this – many thanks!

“I know this doesn’t pertain to anyone reading this except me I’m sure.”

You were wrong about that :p

Thank you!

thanks buddy!!!

thanks a lot you saved me there

Dave

Another day in web dev, another IE6 bug. Thanks for the tip :)

WOW! I should have come across this post before, it could have saved me 2 hours of trying to figure out the problem… Thank you very much!!! they need to disappear ie6 from every computer.

Chip

Thankyou so much. I still wonder why so many people are still using ie6!

andrew

thanks for the tip. very helpful. nice ‘n’ concise.

Nate

thank you thank you you solved a big issue I was having

THANK YOU!!!!!

Alex

thanks for writing it down. I always forget it ;)

Angel

Thanks for the help. I’ve got stumped on this often. Have book marked until it sinks in!

Ahhhhh!!! Brilliant! :-) This has been bugging me for ages! Thanks!

Elisabeth

Thanks, you just saved my day for posting this.

Melville

informative post, keep it up.,

Piero Di Carlo Dalla-Bona

Thank you very much!

This hack work parfectly!

=)

Mukul

You’re a lifesaver! I’ve cursed IE for ages but somehow never got around to finding a solution to this particular problem…Thanks a ton!

Maki

You saved me hours upon hours of frustrating labor! Thank you so very much!!!!!!!

Anton

Haha! You rock brotha.

Sky

Thanks a lot!

Christian

Thanks are due! Thats allowed me to claw back a few minutes from the countless hours that IE6 has cost me :)

Mac

Great post, many thanks!

cybergord

Thanks for that. Its something I keep forgetting about!

Thanks a lot for the help……. just solved the problem in no time

That was awesome….

Thanks this has helped me.

ross

Thanks… maybe someday IE will be gone….

Murray Lunn

Awesome!

I was going nuts because I had my new site perfect in Firefox and IE7, and loaded up in 6 only to find it all wacky. Now it’s good to go.

Dave

Thank you. Was first result on google, my exact problem. Now fixed.

Wojciech

Exacly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Kel

Wow, if only it were always this easy to do a google search, click on the top result and fix my problems with one little copy and paste!

Joe Michaud

Simple problem, simple solution. You just saved me hours of digging. Thanks!

Mark Smith

You rock my socks, unfortunately IE6 does not!

PoZel

thanks! saved me some hassle!

Chris

Thanks for posting this man! I’ve been trying to figure this problem out!

Hussain

Thanks a lot. you have solved my problem regarding ie6.

I am facing another problem of height of iframe in ie7
Other browsers are displaying height of iframe very well but ie 7 is compressing it.. I am not getting why?

If you have the solution then please help me..

Thanks.

jignesh

Thanks a lot.

Jason

Thanks a million man. I am just finishing the Teach yourself series for CSS by Sams Publishing. So far this book has been amazing and I’ve got CSS down pretty good as far as layouts. Unfortunatley most of the work I do is in IE6 at work (practicing) and I have IE7 at home on my new laptop. This was bugging the heck out of me when it worked in IE7 and Firefox but not IE6.

The book I’m reading and working with is awesome but this must be one of the few ie6 hacks that is not listed in it. Greatly appreciated bud. And as the others stated google FINALLY had the best hit listed as number 1!

Luke

Thanks for this solution. Nothing like playing whack-a-mole with CSS.

Richard Adams

THANK YOU!

John Tedesco

so much for thinking you’re the only one needing this info… as a web developer, I’m forced to make all my websites work in ALL browsers, current and one version back. I would love to phase out IE 6 AND IE 7, but the truth is, 90% viewers are using IE… and 50% of THEM are using IE6. Needless to say, it’s going to be awhile before they phase it out.

katie

cheers!

Tom

This is brilliant. Thank you so much–you probably saved my sanity.

Jason Vanstone

I found you through twitter by accident, and found you again on this hint….

Whatever you are doing keep it up. Obviously you know how to communicate with the current tech.

Congrats!

Jason

PS: The site looks very cool too!

Tanner

Thank you much!

Thanks for sharing

Rob Kille

Fantastic. Been grilling my brain for the last hour trying to fix it.

great fix

Aeternum

Thanks!!

Me

Great tip, worked like a charm but… If we keep fixing IE6 then people will continue to use it! Isn’t it time to just say, “you know what, if you want to see my page then get a proper browser.”

2¢

Michael B

Congratulations, this is the number 1 google link when I searched for “IE6 margin”.
WHEN I SAY I WANT MARGIN RIGHT TO BE 10 PX I MEAN JUST 10PX…. NOT 20PX YOU STUPID WEB BROWSER!!!!!!!!

Ben

I just spent 3 days trying to iron out a CSS bug in IE6, so didn’t want to waste another 3 days on another one. – Thankfully came across your excellent page BEFORE I attempted to solve it. Bam – worked first time! A real life saver.

THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU!

Rajeev

Hey! thank you so much for saving my hours debugging this issue.

newbie

Im new to computers so are vague to how to do the fix. Could someone explain what Im meant to click on and how to go about it. Many thanks.

You are awesome

Thank you a lot!

Rick

IE6 drives me nuts with this bug, many thanks!

Tim

Thnx mate !!

Actually that prevents lots of headaches to me!
Thanks guy!

Ben H.

Thank the maker!

That put an end to an hour’s worth of head on desk slamming interspersed with enough profanity to make a ex-con blush.

Bhupi

Thanks a lot :)

James Dismukes

Worked like a charm, thanks for reminding me that it’s IE6 that’s crazy and not me…

Hutch

Thanks, also very glad you wrote this up… :)

Bill

Great tip.
Jeremy’s (comment 4) actually fixed my problem. Thanks Jeremy!