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    • CommentAuthorMcJay
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2006
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    Hi everybody..

    I have this really weird problem. I'm making navigation using Nick Rigbys drop-down menu script (http://www.nickrigby.com/article/25/drop-down-menus-horizontal-style-pt-3) and using png backgrounds over another image with AlphaImageLoader in IE. All looks fine in IE and Firefox but the problem is that in IE the second level links show but aren't clickable. If I remove the PNG background all works fine.

    Anyone have had this same problem?

    btw: I'm using this neat little script for the PNG's in IE: http://www.allinthehead.com/retro/69 and I know that it isn't causing problems cause I tried simply putting the backgrounds manually with AlphaImageLoader and still the links weren't clickable.
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      CommentAuthoranblik
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2006 edited
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    just for a curosity, did you downloaded IE7 beta 1 and tested it to get a full support of alpha channel in PNG images ?
    • CommentAuthorMcJay
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2006
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    Nope.. didn't test it but I'm quite it works just fine. And IE7 wouldn't even get to read the scripts because of the "Less Than or Equal ->> IE6" conditional comment.

    I got the png backgrounds and links working now. Buggy IE! Had to make my backgrounds a little simpler and just 1px wide.. if the bg was as big as the second level ul like before the IE somehow just messed the links and they weren't clickable. Can someone explain me why that happens?
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      CommentAuthoranblik
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2006
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    IE not to be blame alone :) Thanks to thousend hacks available for IE. PNG images with multi-level transparency is possible now only with this new release but not with the older one. Is it possible to see an example/link you are referring ?
    • CommentAuthorMcJay
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2006
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    Haven't fixed IE5 boxmodel yet but in IE6 all is fine now:
    http://www.dotcom.ms/demot/rn/

    I stripped everything else from there but the navigation. :)
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