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IE6 Text Jump Bug

The minimal conditions for this bug are a doctype that triggers standards mode, a % margin or % padding on the containing div, and a change of background colour or font-weight on the link on hover.

When you hover the cursor over the link, one or two lines of text above jump to the left. This text fills the space to the end of line. A fake link. The text in the lines after the link also jumps if there is a short word at the beginning of the line like here.

The next link is not inside a paragraph, and shifts just the line above it but not others in the paragraph.

Another fake link. Text not in paragraph but same line jumps.

Text in paragraph below the link is not affected.

Refresh to reset bug.

Fix: either avoid % margins or padding or
Avoid changing background color or font-weight.