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Glossary Terms

MultipleIEs

MultipleIEs was a popular standalone application that allowed web developers to run multiple versions of Internet Explorer simultaneously on a single Windows machine, enabling testing…

Box Model Hack

The Box Model Hack was a CSS technique used to work around Internet Explorer's incorrect implementation of the CSS box model, where IE included padding…

Conditional Comments

Conditional comments were HTML comments that only Internet Explorer would parse and execute, allowing developers to serve IE-specific CSS, HTML, or JavaScript without affecting other…

CSS Expression Hacks

CSS expressions were Microsoft-specific CSS properties that allowed JavaScript code to be executed within CSS rules, primarily used to work around IE's lack of support…

HasLayout Property

HasLayout was an internal Internet Explorer property that determined how elements calculated their size and positioned their children, often causing mysterious rendering bugs when elements…

IETester

IETester was a free application that allowed web developers to test websites in multiple versions of Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, IE8, and later versions) within…

Peekaboo Bug

The Peekaboo Bug was a notorious Internet Explorer rendering glitch where content would mysteriously disappear and reappear when users scrolled or hovered over page elements,…