IE6 CSS Hover Margin Fix in UL

I found a weird thing today. IE6 will remove the top margin of a hover link when it’s in a list if it has hover attributes. It’s too hard to explain without the code, so here is the code to re-create the phenomenon. This will make a list that when you hover over the links they jump up as the top margin is removed.


<p>&lt;style&gt;<br />
ul li a {<br />
display: block;<br />
width: 155px;<br />
margin-bottom: 3px; <br />
}<br />
ul li a:hover {<br />
color: #FFFFFF;<br />
background-color: #FC7C00;<br />
} </p>
<p>&lt;/style&gt;<br />
&lt;body&gt;<br />
&lt;ul&gt;<br />
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;<br />
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;test&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;<br />
&lt;/ul&gt;<br />
&lt;/body&gt;</p>


The only fix I could find is simply to add a space before the closing a tag like so:

&lt;ul&gt;<br />
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;test &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;<br />
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;test &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;<br />
&lt;/ul&gt;

If you know of a better way to fix it, or if you know why it does this, please let me know!