I'm am currently struggling with the same issue right now. Looks like it might have to do with the way jquery pulls an elements width or height and IE's padding messes it up
checkout: http://old.nabble.com/Invalid-Argument-Line-12-1.3.2-IE-7-and-8rc1-td22410753s27240.html Ouptput your total_widths var before you pass it to the .css() method what does it look like? On Nov 23, 9:06 am, LuisFernando <luiscastill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check it out > > HTML > <ul> > <li>one</li> > <li>two</li> > <li>three</li> > <li>four</li> > <li>five</li> > </ul> > > CSS > > ul{ > display:block; > overflow:hidden; > padding:0px; > margin:0px;} > > ul li{ > list-style-type:none; > float:left; > background-color:#666; > margin-right:10px; > position:relative; > top:0px; > padding:5px 10px; > > } > > JAVASCRIPT > > var menu_node = null; > var menu_lenght = $("ul").children().length; > var menu_elements = $("ul").children(); > var total_widths = 0; > var speed = 1000; > > for(i=0;i<menu_lenght;i++){ > menu_node = menu_elements[i]; > total_widths += $(menu_node).outerWidth(); > total_widths += > parseInt($(menu_node).css("margin-left"),10); > total_widths += > parseInt($(menu_node).css("margin-right"),10); > $(menu_node).css({"left":"-"+total_widths+"px"}); > } > for(i=0;i<menu_lenght;i++){ > menu_node = menu_elements[i]; > $(menu_node).animate({left:"0px"},speed); > } > > ERROR IN IE7 and IE8 :'( > > Webpage error details > > User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; > Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR > 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0) > Timestamp: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:24 UTC > > Message: Invalid argument. > Line: 12 > Char: 12949 > Code: 0 > URI:http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js > > ERROR LINE: > > $(menu_node).css({"left":"-"+total_widths+"px"}); > > Tracing with the developer tool of IE8 i > foundhttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.jsor > either other jquery 1.3.2 > > 1661: elem[ name ] = value; > > Any suggestion? > > Thanks....
