On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:44, Bruno Fassino wrote: > Andrew S. Townley wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on why I'm > > getting some strange behavior under Opera 9. It seems to be > > doing exactly what IE 6 is doing--meaning that it's recognizing > > content inside a "Holly Hack". > > > > Any ideas (or suggestions of better ways to solve the problem) > > would be most appreciated. The demo is: > > http://atownley.org/wip/menu/ > > I haven't seen any Holly Hack [1] in your CSS :-) > You have this: > #nav li.sfhover ul { > border: 1px dashed green; > /* this is necessary for IE/Win \*/ > padding-top: 1.2em; > /* end hack */ > } > > As for hacks, you only have the backslash comment, that hides things from > IE5/Mac. All other browsers read your padding-top. > But only the browsers that get the "sfhover" class, which is applied via > javascript, actually use that rule. And Opera seems to get this since it > understands the Microsoft method attachEvent. You should filter Opera out > (many ways to do this) in order to avoid the javascript to affect it (the js > is only necessary for IE6-) Yeah, I noticed that later, but I guess I only sent a reply to Ingo. That was a Reply vs. Reply All mistake. Sorry about getting my hacks confused.
> As an additional note, instead of using that padding you can define > explicitly the top property (top:1.2em) for your absolutely positioned ul (I > think this is better, and you can apply the same value for all browsers.) I discovered this by accident when I was playing with themeing the menu. I was actually just in the middle of posting the updated example when I saw this email. :) Obviously, this is a more straightforward way to solve the problem, but it wasn't obvious that was going to need it until now. Thanks for your help, ast (the slow one) > [1] http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0 > > -- > Bruno Fassino http://www.brunildo.org/test > -- Andrew S. Townley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atownley.org ______________________________________________________________________ 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/