I didn't make this site, but I'm picking up the pieces. The navigation uses CSS rollovers which seem to work fine in most browsers, but completely stuff up in IE5 Mac. As in no navigation appears at all.
I'm not well versed in css-rollovers (or the quirks of IE5 Mac), so before I plunge into this
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I didn't make this site,
but I'm picking up the pieces. The navigation uses CSS rollovers which seem to
work fine in most browsers
Pete,
You might be better to start again. The author is fooling around with
background images for the menu, making the text disappear with a
span. Farhner image replacement? Better to give that the boot.
-Hugh
PS No idea why IE Mac isn't seeing the images.
I'm not well versed in
Thanks Hugh but the client doesn't want to pay for that at this stage. He just wants to get it 'fixed' to work in IE5 Mac. Bummer I know.
P
On 24/03/2004, at 12:49 PM, Hugh Todd wrote:
Pete,
You might be better to start again. The author is fooling around with background images for the menu,
Peter wrote:
Thanks anyway. Any other ideas folks?
I have got a similar problem with IE5.2 on the Mac
A navigation bar (div id=one) that is horiziontal on all other browsers is vertical
in IE5.2 on the Mac.
Fortunately another very similar navigation bar (div id=two) worked as expected.
The
Curses, still no luck! No absolute positioning in this case.
Help me obiwan! I've run out of ideas!
Peter
On 24/03/2004, at 2:07 PM, Nick Cowie wrote:
What the problem appears to be is IE5.2 on Mac can not float items that are inside a absolutely positioned div.
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Peter
yes it doesn't show in IE5 Mac and this bowser is very touchy with heights in percents. I think you need to define the height in #mainnav and remove the height and width 100% from the descendant a> element but I'd also scrap display block and let your li>s flow inline. The links are
Pete,
Try taking out all the overflow: hidden and see what happens.
-Hugh
Curses, still no luck! No absolute positioning in this case.
Help me obiwan! I've run out of ideas!
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Once again the remarkable Hugh comes through with the goods. Hugh, you deserve a knighthood.
Why does this work? I don't know! And frankly ... I don't care! ;)
Thanks mate
Peter
On 24/03/2004, at 3:18 PM, Hugh Todd wrote:
Pete,
Try taking out all the overflow: hidden and see what happens.
