Hello and thank-you for replying, Zoe ... please skip to the bottom of this message for a continuation ....
I did get a reply from francky, but unfortunately I've not accomplished anything with francky's input yet ... Mark Baber wrote: > In order to reproduce a client site, I've used ul li lists for the top > navigation menu. There are special graphical images on the left AND right > sides of the list items that must change when the anchor is hovered over. For > that reason I added the spans in there, especially as without the spans, I > can't get a li:hover background-image to show up. > (But that's another problem, which I don't have to deal with at the moment.) > Let's just leave the spans in there for a moment. > > Anyway, it all looks fine in FF 2.0, but things go strange in IE 6. > > I > > have added a special color blue so that it's obvious what happens. > When > > you hover over the menu items in IE6, you can see that the background-color > > of the anchor is leaching over the top of that same anchor's > > background-image. > To the same width as the parent li. > > I tried to track this down with FF Firebug, but of course that doesn't work > > in IE :) and I can't figure out why the blue bit extends over. > > It's not the padding-bottom that's causing the error - I tried changing it > > and that does affect something else, but not this leaching problem. > > The site is a subdomain: http://spip.novado.ch/squelettes/pmcbox.html > Mark, I don't have time at the moment to look into this, but since you > haven't received any responses yet, I wanted to point out that you *can* use > Firebug in IE on your own pages, by adding a piece of JavaScript to your page > while testing. Read up on it here: http://www.getfirebug.com/lite.html Also, > Iyour messages says the bug occurs in IE6, but if I'm correctly interpreting > your bug, I'm seeing it in IE7 as well. Can you confirm this? Zoe -- Zoe M. > Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center > http://www.hsrc.unc.edu I've loaded Firebuglite on the webserver, inserted the required code into the html (same as before and above), but when I fire up Firebuglite using ctrl-shift-l in IE6, the typical firebug console is not at the bottom of my screen, and it is completely obscured by my html. The only thing I see are the little "clear" and "close" links at the top of the screen. Unfortunately, CTRL-SHIFT-L seems to be the only key sequence that works in IE6 on this page. I can't get to the INSPECT console or start it up. Can anyone confirm this ? Is there something in my IE6 blocking the scripts ? Maybe I need to change the file protections on the firebuglite server components ? I don't know if anyone else has this problem with firebuglite on IE6. I suspect my HTML is overriding something, but I don't know what... As for IE7 ... last I heard, one can't run IE and IE6 on the same machine, and so I won't be able to test on IE6 if I "upgrade". I strongly suspect that the bug occurs in IE7 as well, but can not confirm at the moment. PS ... I still have the strange extended blue box problem in IE6 :) Cheers, Mark ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
