---------------------------------------- > Subject: Re: Bottoms Up > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:15:57 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Joan, > > You've run across, in my opinion, one of the most intractable and frustrating > bugs in IE - congrats! While I can't exactly explain why IE does what it's > doing (I doubt anyone can...), I can tell you it probably has to do with the > background color hover effect that's being applied to the links you mentioned. > > See, IE redraws the screen when the hover effect is applied, and for a > variety of reasons it will calculate lengths incorrectly. These include, but > are almost certainly aren't limited to: > > * A confluence of floats, a parent element with padding, and a background > property (like a background color being applied) > * Floats with negative margins > * Applying both the left and right properties under certain circumstances > > I also think the problem is related to the peekaboo bug, so you may want to > check the fixes here: > http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html > > I had to re-do my CSS for my last site because someone noticed that when a > background-color hover effect on my nav menu was triggered, the entire nav > column would shift over 10 pixels. I ended up having to remove the padding > off the parent element (the body) and muck around with the dimensions of > every container element - fun! > > If you want a quick fix, I think you could simply remove the background-color > text effect. Not ideal, I know, but you could probably trigger a > text-decoration:underline; instead. > > HTH, > > C. > Thank you very much! I went for the simple way and removed the hover background and all is fine.
I thank you for the education on this bug also... something I may need to know one day. I appreciate your help! Joan _________________________________________________________________ Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0100000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/signup.aspx ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
