Jake Churchill wrote:
> http://cfwt.cfwebtools.com
>
> The active 1st level menu item will have class active and any anchor
> with a sub menu will have class drop. 2nd level menus have class
> msubnav. When I have a menu item with class active and an anchor
> with class drop, the sub menu does not display.
Not sure if I understand the conditions.
> I've validated my HTML and CSS through W3C's validators and
> everything is clean. I just can't figure this out for some reason. I
> copied the code below. Let me anticipate and answer one question up
> front. The object tags inside the anchor tags are there because the
> validator said a ul tag cannot be embedded in an anchor tag so the
> HTML wouldn't validate without it. And I couldn't validate the CSS
> before the HTML was first validated. It didn't change how any of it
> worked. I've since removed the object tags and as I said, nothing
> changed.
Maybe nothing changed in some browsers, but not all browsers will eat
the non-valid source-code you have now. You can see for yourself in
Opera 9.x and Safari 2.x.
The good news is that a run through HTML Tidy's "covert to XML" - which
a document with an XHTML doctype should be anyway - turned it into a
well-working 'XHTML 1.0 Strict' without any object-elements in the list.
A properly nested list is what a 'well configured Tidy'[1] returned, and
those dropdowns are working just fine in IE6, Firefox 2.x, Opera 9.x and
Safari 2.x.
Yes, IE6 has some minor problems - not with the dropdowns though, but
it's no use fixing those in the CSS files at my end, before you have
gotten your own source-code up to an acceptable level.
Validity isn't the goal here - browser-support is, and a document with a
doctype that spells "XHTML" isn't XHTML until it at least passes when
served with a proper MIME type[2] to supporting browsers. What you serve
it as in the end - to maybe cater for non-supporting browsers, is up to you.
regards
Georg
[1]http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_07.html
[2]http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_06_03.xhtml
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