After some testing, I have found that this is technically happenning on all MSIE 7 browsers, just that unless the monitor is big, few would actually resize. So reports of this being just some versions are wrong. That relieves me and makes me think may be a standard fix for these of which I am unaware. Suggestions welcome. :)
-Edward At 11:49 AM +0800 8/18/09, Edward Spodick wrote: >Good morning, everyone. > >I have just learned that our updated website design breaks our navigation bar >in MSIE7 on 22" wide monitors with 1680x1050 resolution and 96 DPI Windows >settings. Several other MSIE7 configurations are not showing this problem. > >The page loads fine, and looks fine initially. But when the window is >resized, the navbar under the banner image remains in a fixed location, >instead of moving with the rest of the layout. > >This seems to be caused or triggered by position: relative; in the >navigation.css, but without that the navbar becomes rather useless. > >I would greatly appreciate some help on this - hopefully some innocuous thing >which would resolve the entire issue smoothly. Note that except for our home >page, we do not use separate stylesheets for different browsers, nor is that >an option here - so I need a solution which can be placed in the existing >stylesheet(s), would fix the IE7 sometimes issue, and not break everything >else. On the other hand, I no longer care if IE6 breaks. :) > >I just had a vision of Don Quixote charging a windmill. > >Specific page example: > http://library.ust.hk/serv/qqq-faculty.html > the drop-down navigation bar does not move when the window is resized. > it uses http://library.ust.hk/css/navigation.css > >If you have read this far - thank you. I sort of hope someone will read >partway in and realize I have missed something obvious. > >I remain, yours in styled pain, > >-Edward > >-- >Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager >Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library >lbspo...@ust.hk tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
