On Jun 2, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Steve Tyron wrote: > As much as I enjoy a good laugh, I'm pretty tired of trying to track > down why my inline UL links (say it with me...) work fine in FF, > Safari, > Opera, and Camino, but produce an amusing shell game in MSIE 5.5/Mac. > > Shell game? Yes. Visit http://www.floralore.com/ with MSIE and roll > the > mouse over the nav links at the top of the page. You should see > links up > and down the line flashing like Christmas tree lights as you roll over > the line. Q: What link are you hovering over? No, wrong! > > I should have left things alone, but noooo, I had to "improve" > stuff. I > had a perfectly fine set of links (yes, a styled UL inline set) doing > their job with no showing off. Then I wanted to try the universal > identifiers of <body id="home"> and <li class="home"> to mark a > current > page.I have set the UL LI back color to silver so that you can see > that > the mouse over the LI area triggers a hover reaction farther down the > line. Boo hiss...!
I suppose you mean IE 5.2 Mac. There is no version 5.5. What you see is known as the phantom-links problem. <http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/phantom-links/> In your case, using display:inline-block ought to fix many problems. And yes, in some cases, some kind of formatting my trigger text- reflow in other areas. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
