The new Google Chrome web browser, uses the Apple WebKit engine for displaying its pages – which in turn is used to display pages in Safari. Webkit was built on the Konqueror browser on Linux.

Pages don’t render 100% exactly the same on these browsers compared to Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer – treat it as a completly new browser with its own quirks. Mainly pages render fine but tend to fail when positioning textual elements, as well as differences in the way padding works. Its weird, but you will see tiny errors which will bug the hell out of you in Chrome / Safari but don’t know how to fix.

Enter the Safari hack – shake this baby into line for we’ve got a hack coming and its not easy to remember, so best copy and paste this in your notebook for future reference (or bookmark this page).

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As we all know, there are many ways to get CSS in Internet Explorer to play ball, i know its not easy at times and it can be half the job of a web developer to get CSS working correctly in all browsers.

For the purists, look away now – for here is a dirty, low down css hack!

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