On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:14 PM, bill scheider wrote: > bill scheider wrote: >> I've just taken over as the website manager for a recently-launched >> site at <http://portland.shambhala.org/> . The main menu is a css >> dropdown and it's working as it should in FF, Opera, Chrome and >> Safari. In IE6 and 7 (and maybe 8; I haven't checked), the main menu >> is present but the menu doesn't drop down. > > ... > Thanks for the quick response. Switching the doctype to xhtml 1.0 > transitional did the trick with the menu. Thanks for the help. > > Of course, it introduced 390 validation errors into that page, mostly > syntax. So the fix is a mixed blessing. Did I mention that I just > took this > site over? And as a volunteer :-)
You don't need to switch to an XHTML doctype. You could use HTML 401 transitional (like you originally had) but with a full doctype. <http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/> Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
