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 at http://www.krasnopolje.com (valid HTML and CSS). Clicking on the 'GoogleMaps' link with scripting enabled opens a modal window (I used the SimpleModal plugin) 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: dejankozina http://www.kozina.com/ - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
