Sent by Andrew S. Townley on 29 June 2007 18:06
Doh! Forgot the URL.
For anyone who's interested, the updated version is here:
http://atownley.org/wip/menu2/
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 17:57, Andrew S. Townley wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:44, Bruno Fassino wrote:
> > Andrew S. Townley wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on why I'm
> > > getting some strange behavior under Opera 9. It seems to be
> > > doing exactly what IE 6 is doing--meaning that it's recognizing
> > > content inside a "Holly Hack".
> > >
> > > Any ideas (or suggestions of better ways to solve the problem)
> > > would be most appreciated. The demo is:
> > > http://atownley.org/wip/menu/
> >
> > I haven't seen any Holly Hack [1] in your CSS :-)
> > You have this:
> > #nav li.sfhover ul {
> > border: 1px dashed green;
> > /* this is necessary for IE/Win \*/
> > padding-top: 1.2em;
> > /* end hack */
> > }
> >
> > As for hacks, you only have the backslash comment, that hides things from
> > IE5/Mac. All other browsers read your padding-top.
> > But only the browsers that get the "sfhover" class, which is applied via
> > javascript, actually use that rule. And Opera seems to get this since it
> > understands the Microsoft method attachEvent. You should filter Opera out
> > (many ways to do this) in order to avoid the javascript to affect it (the js
> > is only necessary for IE6-)
> Yeah, I noticed that later, but I guess I only sent a reply to Ingo.
> That was a Reply vs. Reply All mistake. Sorry about getting my hacks
> confused.
>
> > As an additional note, instead of using that padding you can define
> > explicitly the top property (top:1.2em) for your absolutely positioned ul (I
> > think this is better, and you can apply the same value for all browsers.)
>
> I discovered this by accident when I was playing with themeing the
> menu. I was actually just in the middle of posting the updated example
> when I saw this email. :)
>
> Obviously, this is a more straightforward way to solve the problem, but
> it wasn't obvious that was going to need it until now.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> ast (the slow one)
>
> > [1] http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0
> >
> > --
> > Bruno Fassino http://www.brunildo.org/test
> >
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