The use of italics on long text blocks makes the containing DIV wider.
Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Howard Russell.
Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 | Reported on 18 September 2006.
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1 Posted by Milo on 18 September 2006 | Permalink
There's a nice writeup of this bug (or at least a related bug), along with other workarounds over here:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html