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Prevent float drop in IE

Internet Explorer’s propensity to drop floated elements adds time to site development, and sometimes causes a page to appear blank if the floated content drops below the window “fold”. Ignoring the problem and designing only for standards-adhering browsers is not always possible, particularly in enterprise environments where IE (and not always the latest version) is the only officially supported standard. Of course, other browsers are being used as well.

I’ve finally came across a fix that appears to work well cross-platform, thanks to Thierry Koblentz in the YUIblog.

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