Thankfully I don't have to play with the details of web user interfaces all that often. But occasionally, they are forced upon me. Thankfully I know enough HTML and CSS to be dangerous!

Even with such knowledge I am still frequently amazed at the obscure browser (in this case IE6) bugs that have to be worked around.

Today's IE6 bug is that you have to force/trick it into repainting the actual a tag on :hover if you want it to considering repainting any of the children of the a tag!

Aaarrrggghhh!

See this article for all the details.