This was brought to my attention by a colleague, Stephen Tang, so I’ll let him tell the story:

I found an obscure rendering bug in Safari 3 when whitespace or a line-break appears in the inline box with side padding in a floated right container.  See this URL in Safari 3.x:
http://css-class.com/test/bugs/safari/whitespace-line-break-bug.htm

From the explanation given, Safari 3.x doesn’t show the padding-right inside the anchor when whitespace or a line-break is present inside the element at the end.  Instead, it shows the padding-right on the outside, like it was a margin-right. The first example on that page does not have whitespace or a linebreak, so it displays fine.

In conclusion, make sure that the contents of the anchor tag are tight with the markup.

Thanks, Stephen!

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