Sorry, I'm just now getting back to this guys (I was sick yesterday). I appreciate all the suggestions. I'll bet it's malformed markup. I don't create it though. This is an osCommerce shopping cart. I'll see if I can find where the HTML is getting messed up.
Thanks heaps! Chris On Jan 21, 2008 7:02 PM, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > Sorry, I was looking in Firefox. I see now that the problem exists in IE > only. It might have something to do with the fact that the page is running > in quirks mode and that the markup is invalid. Try running it through an > HTML validator (e.g. http://validator.w3.org/)<http://validator.w3.org/%29>. > In particular, you have two extra DOCTYPE declarations throughout the page. > And if you want to stick with HTML 4.01 transitional, replace this ... > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > with this ... > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > > If cleaning up the HTML doesn't help, we can look at some other stuff. In > the meantime, I'll poke around the plugin code and the stylesheets a bit to > see how the positioning is being done. > > > --Karl > _________________ > Karl Swedberg > www.englishrules.com > www.learningjquery.com > > > > On Jan 21, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Chris Jordan wrote: > > You said it was positioning correctly for you? What version of IE was that > in? For me, in IE6 it shows up in the top left (0,0) of the view port... > it's supposed to show just below the top-level menu choice. > > Also, I know there are broken images. Ignore those and look mostly at the > ones that do have images. I'm still waiting on my graphic artist guy to get > me the rest of the images. I also don't see anywhere (unless I'm just > missing it) where the sub-menus are being positioned. You can check out all > the css if you have the Web Developer extension for FF. > > Thanks again, > Chris > > On Jan 21, 2008 1:01 PM, Chris Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > going to lunch. I'd like to exchange emails with you about this. I'll be > > back in about an hour or so. Thanks so much Karl. > > > > Chris > > > > > > On Jan 21, 2008 12:52 PM, Karl Swedberg < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It looked to me like it was being positioned correctly. Also looks > > > like you have a broken link to a rollover image for the top-level nav > > > items. > > > I'm guessing that the sub-menus are using position:absolute for their > > > positioning, so you'll need to have a parent element given > > > position:relative > > > in order for the submenus to be positioned relative to those parent > > > elements > > > rather than the body element. > > > Hope that helps. > > > > > > > > > --Karl > > > _________________ > > > Karl Swedberg > > > www.englishrules.com > > > www.learningjquery.com > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Chris Jordan wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks. > > > > > > I'm having another problem with the jdMenu plug-in. In IE when I hover > > > over the top-level menu the sub-menu appears in the absolute top left of > > > the > > > view-port! Bah! I don't know what I've done wrong. I've used jdMenu at > > > another client of mine, and it works great in both FF and IE. This time > > > around however, I *am* customizing the css file quite a bit to better suit > > > my needs. > > > > > > The problem can be seen here <http://seidal.com/dev/furniturehotspot/> > > > . > > > > > > This is causing me much aggravation, and more time at this one > > > particular client that I should really be spending. > > > > > > I would *really* appreciate anyone's help on this problem. Of course, > > > I'll keep working on finding a solution, but if someone knows what I'm > > > going > > > through, or can offer suggestions, that'd be great. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://cjordan.us > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://cjordan.us > > > > > -- > http://cjordan.us > > > -- http://cjordan.us
