What about using Yahoo YUI menu? Also, to troubleshoot, I'd get Expression Web Superpreview to see the DOM layout differences in IE 6&8.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Rod Castello <flashju...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Alan Gresley <a...@css-class.com> wrote: > > From: Alan Gresley <a...@css-class.com> > Subject: Re: [css-d] Trouble with drop down navigation tabs in IE 6/7 > To: "Rod Castello" <flashju...@sbcglobal.net> > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 1:48 AM > > Rod Castello wrote: > > I'm using Chromestyle from Dynamic Drive for my Navigation Drop Downs. > > The down arrow.gif is supposed to be contained within the navigation > > tab. It works fine in FF and Safari, but in IE 6/7 it doesn't. Here's > > the link to see what I mean: http://transitiontogreen.org/index2.php > > > > Here is the link to Dynamic Drives site: > http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/chrome/index.htm showing the > effect and this one does work in IE6/7. Sorry if this link doesn't work, > but I copied it straight from the url line. > > > > If someone could help me > > find the reason for this I would appreciate it. > > Also, if you know of a better approach then let me know that as well. > > > Rod Castello > > > With javascript disabled, this menu does not work. Maybe this approach > may work better using *nested list* (more semantic). > > <http://adipalaz.awardspace.com/accessible_ddmenu-en.html> > > < > http://adipalaz.awardspace.com/experiments/css/accessible_ddmenu_test.html > > > > > This is partly based on the menu I created (from styles by Duncan Hill) > that does not require javascript. > > <http://css-class.com/articles/ursidae/bears5ddh-kbaccess.htm> > > > -- > Alan http://css-class.com/ > > Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo > > Alan, > Thanks for your response. I was hoping to avoid making the change, but you > may be right. I'll try your method, I'm sure it will work fine. > Do you have any idea why the down arrows wouldn't display properly in > IE6/7? Did you see it in IE? I know it's not "semantic", but I'd sure like > to find a quick fix and leave it as it is. Spent too much time on this > project already. > > Thanks again, > Rod > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/