HTML quirk of the day: Italics bug with Internet Explorer

Only on some PCs and only on Windows, there is a lovely bug with italics blocks rendering too wide. On one customer site this forced the content area a few pixels, which was enough to move a whole left hand side menu down to the bottom of the page. But only on some machines. Both my colleague and I have the same IE (from Windows XPSP2). I get the problem he does not. Specifying italics in CSS instead of an HTML tag doesn't help either.

In our case forcing some line breaks was an acceptable workaround to keep the text from getting too close to the margin it was forcing too wide.

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html

You've gotta love web development.