Is it worth supporting IE6 still?
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp

On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Simon wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I added the "display:inline" to solve the extra spacing that appeared,
> and this seemed to work when embedded in the page but not when in a
> seperate .css file.
> 
> Here is a link to the site if this helps any further
> http://www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
> On Dec 8, 4:41 am, "Mike G." <deafni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the problem is the "display:inline" rule you have set for the li. 
>> IE6 will only show a background image on a block element.
>> 
>> The phantom spacing could be the extra white space you have in your markup 
>> for IE6.  I know this used to be a bug in IE6 but not sure so something you 
>> might want to try..
>> 
>> M
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Simon <webservi...@telford.gov.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi,
>> 
>>> I was hoping someone could help me a problem I have with a website
>>> that I have created. It works fine in IE 7/8 and Firefox however I am
>>> having an issue with IE 6.
>> 
>>> The issue is that I am using two images for my left hand navigation
>>> menu, one for active/visited and one for hover. In IE 6 the images are
>>> all present when you first visit the site, however after clicking on a
>>> link the active/visited image is no longer displayed - only a blank
>>> area - and when hovering over the link the hover image is displayed.
>> 
>>> In addition to this in IE 6 there is phantom spacing between the list
>>> items, to address this and the issue above I updated my CSS and
>>> managed to resolve the issues - however this was with embedding the
>>> CSS in the header of a test page. When calling the CSS from a seperate
>>> file the issues return.
>> 
>>> Any ideas/tips would be greatly welcome.
>> 
>>> html (for the menu section)
>> 
>>> <div class="widget">
>> 
>>> <ul>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/">Home</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/info/1/our_service/1/our_service">Our
>>> service</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/landsearch">Property &amp; land
>>> search</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/info/4/news/3/news">News</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/info/5/business_support/4/business_su...">Business
>>> support</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/info/8/tenants_handbook/7/tenants_han...">Tenant&#039;s
>>> handbook</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/info/6/people/5/people">People</a></li>
>> 
>>> <li class="widget_link"><a href="http://
>>> www.estatesandinvestments.co.uk/info/7/testimonials/6/testimonials">Testimonials</a></li>
>> 
>>> </ul>
>> 
>>> </div>
>> 
>>> CSS
>> 
>>> p.widget_p a:link,p.widget_p a:visited,p.widget_p a:hover,p.widget_p
>>> a:active {color: #222;}
>> 
>>> .widget {margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;}
>> 
>>> .widget li {margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;list-style: none;}
>> 
>>> .widget li a {padding-left: 20px;}
>> 
>>> .widget ul li {margin: 0; padding:0; display: inline;}
>> 
>>> .widget_link a:link, .widget_link a:visited, .widget_link a:active
>>> {background-position: left center;background-color:
>>> transparent;background-image: url(../images/eandi-link.gif);background-
>>> repeat: repeat-y;color: #fff;padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;margin: 2px 0 0
>>> 2px;display: block;font-size: 1em;font-weight: bold; text-decoration:
>>> none;}
>> 
>>> .widget_link a:hover    {background-position: left center;background-
>>> color: transparent;background-image: url(../images/eandi-
>>> link-2.gif);background-repeat: repeat-y;color: #fff;padding: 10px 0
>>> 10px 10px;margin: 2px 0 0 2px;display: block;font-size: 1em;font-
>>> weight: bold; text-decoration: none;}
>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>>> Simon
>> 
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