djn - I gave it a quick try and it seemed to work for me in IE7. Were you having problems in IE7 or IE6?
-Eric On Sep 6, 5:53 am, Dejan Kozina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list. > > Is there somebody here that could help me understand a strange thing > about IE rendering a Google Map inside of a modal overlay? > > I've just put together a simple one-page website for a local event > athttp://www.krasnopolje.com(valid HTML and CSS). Clicking on the > 'GoogleMaps' link with scripting enabled opens a modal window (I used > theSimpleModalplugin) and the map is drawn into it. > > Now the IE mistery: the browser we all learned to curse won't draw the > images composing the map unless there is a rendered element in the > document body besides the main div (#container) where everything else > is. I had to put a paragraph with on line 137 of the source: > without it every sane browser (FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome) would draw the > map as requested, only IE would draw the map background, the navigation > gadgets, the Google logo and all, but not the actual pictures that the > map is made of. > > After some testing I found that the elements that trigger the correct > behaviour can be an empty paragraph (even without the ), an empty > span, a single character or an empty anchor (a name=whatever); elements > that do not are non rendered stuff like script, style, floated elements > or those with display: none. > > Does this make some sense to any of you? > > Do not waste too much time about it... The site is already out and > working fine (and it was a pro-bono thing anyway). I'm just curious > what's going on with that paragraph. > > djn > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Dejan Kozina Web design studio > Dolina 346 (TS) - I-34018 Italy > tel./fax: +39 040 228 436 - cell.: +39 348 7355 225 skype: > dejankozinahttp://www.kozina.com/ - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
