This is not necessarily a jquery problem, but I'll raise it here anyway because perhaps jquery could fix it.
The HTML below demonstrates a problem with IE8/Win7 (and I believe IE7/ XP although I don't have such a box next to me right now). There is a CSS style .header.selected + .body { ... }, so that if a header object is selected, the adjacent body object is highlighted also. However if I use jquery to toggle the .selected class on the .header item, the highlight on the .body isn't being updated - it's as if the screen is waiting to be redrawn. It's the same both in normal mode and in compatibility mode. The same page works properly in Firefox and Chrome though. Is there a way I can force the CSS to be "recalculated" or "redrawn" in IE8 after making such a change to the DOM - either through jQuery, or to some lower layer? Could jQuery make such redraw requests automatically? Thanks, Brian. P.S. in my real application the page is somewhat more complex, and I find that moving the mouse around outside of the div will cause the styles to be redrawn. I haven't been able to replicate this behaviour in the simple page below though. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http:// www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html lang='en-US' xml:lang='en-US' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/ xhtml'> <head> <title>Test</title> <script src="jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery( function($) { $('.toggle').live('click', function() { $(this).closest('.header').toggleClass('selected'); return false; }); }); </script> <style type="text/css"> .header.selected { background-color: #e81; } .header.selected + .body { background-color: #fc5; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="header"> <a href="#" class="toggle">This is the header</a> </div> <div class="body"> And this is the body. When I select the header, the body should be selected too. </div> <div class="header selected"> <a href="#" class="toggle">Another header</a> </div> <div class="body"> And another body which is initially highlighted </div> </body> </html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en.