Sent by Alek Vila on 30 November 2004 22:10
Thanks Charlie!
I fixed that, I think... will you let me know please? :-)
http://www.racingheart.com/JayE
~ Alek
Charlie Barr wrote:
> I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there's no background color
> on the sidenav popup menus in FF 1.0 on Win2k. The hover color change
> shows up, but otherwise the <li>'s are transparent. Looks good
> otherwise, and it also validates -- pretty sweet!
>
> Charlie
>
> Alek Vila has created a disturbance in the Force.
> I felt its presence on 11/30/2004 4:25 PM.
> Its substance was as follows:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I have an answer to share with you!
> >
> > First, take a look at my design in progress at: http://www.racingheart.com/JayE
> >
> > Note: Submenus will appear when you roll over "Can I Help You?" and "Legislative Issues"
> >
> > I followed Eric's advice from "More on CSS: Project 6" and positioned the containing element
("li.withsub") relatively. The submenus ("ul.level2") are positioned absolutely, like this...
position: absolute; top: 0; left:
> > 174px;
> >
> > Today I discovered that Internet Explorer for Windows shrinkwraps the "li" element... EVEN IF
the ul has a width defined as 177px. My list items are right justified, so that means that the
left border of the list items varies
> > with the length of the words in the list item.
> >
> > In order to get the submenus to position in the right place (since the list items are right
justified), I have to give the list items a width of 177px to match the width of the nav bar and...
that solves the problem I've been
> > battling with for over a week!
> >
> > I'm happy today... :-)
> >
> > ~ Alek
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