Saturday, 6 December 2008

Adright - a reserved word ... somewhere

The following page looks fine in IE7 and in FF3 when opened as a file. But when opened on localhost using WAMP, any css classname starting with "adRight" (case sensitive) causes the div to disappear.

I can't work out whether this is an oddity with my particular setup, with Apache or with FF3. But in case anyone hits it, I thought it worth noting.



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Postscript 23 December

The problem lies with Adblock Plus - and it is a moving target. replacing "adRight" with "addDateRight" worked for a while - and then suddenly today, that disappeared too. It looks as if any style name beginning "ad" is vulnerable - which is a bit of a nuisance, eg if you have a style called "address".


Suddenly, "addDateLeft" is also falling foul of

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