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.