It’s a good thing there are people smarter than me out there. People like Jose Olarte , Martin and Peter who have cleaned up my original solution to long buttons in IE.
As it turns out, I missed that it was the lack of units which caused width:1 to fail.
Anyway, thanks to Jose and Peter: here is the updated fix. It removes the need for conditional comments for IE (which is nice because it makes it easier to integrate into your css file)
[css]
input.button {
padding: 0 .25em;
width: 0;
overflow:visible;
}
input.button[class] { /*ie ignores [class]*/
width: auto;
}
[/css]