Could you please post this page in full, or better, upload it and post
the URL? Then we can test what's going on easily. I will say that
animate seems a little buggy to me, so I wouldn't be surprised if
you're right.
On Oct 2, 10:42 am, ThatSteveGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone had a problem animating the left position of an element
> when using em units in IE? It works fine in Firefox, but in IE it
> seems to reset my container to either it's original position or zero,
> not sure which, before running the animation. I would like to leave
> the units in ems if at all possible. My javascript is a little rusty,
> but here it is:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
>
> $(".btnScreen").click(function()
> {
> // force ems
> if($(".sectioncontainer").css("left") == '0px')
> {
> $(".sectioncontainer").css("left",".01em");
> }
>
> var elementid = this.id;
> var distance = 0;
> var objLeft = $(".sectioncontainer").css("left");
> var position = objLeft.substr(0,objLeft.length - 2);
>
> // numeric position of section container
> position = position - 0;
>
> switch (elementid)
> {
> case 'art':
> distance = (0 + position);
> break;
> case 'photo':
> distance = (60 + position);
> break;
> case 'ria':
> distance = (120 + position);
> break;
> default:
> distance = 0;
> break;
> }
>
> var d = distance + '';
>
> if(distance > 0)
> {
> d = '-=' + d;
> }
> else
> {
> d = '+=' + d.substr(1,d.length);
> }
>
> $(".sectioncontainer").animate({"left": d+'em'}, "slow");
>
> return false;
> });
>
> });
>
> TIA for any help.
