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    Hey guys, I've run into a problem while testing in IE6. I'll just get straight to the point. I am using an absolute positioned, horizontal ul nav with five li's located at the bottom of the header. Everything seems to work fine in Firefox (Mac) and Safari. However, the first li in IE6 spans the entire bottom of the header and then the next li drops to the next line, etc. I have tried several things and can't seem to figure it out. I've come close, but not quite. I'm guessing that the error is somewhere in the following code, but feel free to visit the links at the bottom.

    #navcontainer ul li {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 100%;
    padding: 0 3px 0 0;
    margin: 0 10px 0 0;
    }

    #navcontainer ul li a {
    background: none;
    width: 100%;
    height: 35px;
    padding: 5px 4px 0 4px;
    margin: 0 0 10px 0;
    color: #d6ccbc;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    }

    The obvious guess by just looking at this code would be the 100%, but from what I've tried, that's not it. By changing display: block to display: inline , achieves the closest result, but doesn't allow the background color to appear in a block or "tab" if you will.

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    Any help will be greatly appreciated, so thanks in advance! If you need anything clarified, please let me know.

    Edit: The same thing actually happens in IE5 Mac. Not sure if that gives anyone any hints or not, but I just thought it might.
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    You need to change the width to "auto" and float the links inside the list items:

    #navcontainer ul li a {
    float:left;
    width: auto;

    Everything else looks fine.
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    Yep, that did the trick. Thanks so much for your help kari.patila. I'm glad it was something as simple as that, and it was the 100% that was causing the problem!
    • CommentAuthorneerz
    • CommentTimeMar 5th 2010 edited
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    I also have same problem. It is not showing in the IE6. In other browsers it is working well...


    a:focus {
    outline:none;}

    .menu {
    width:1000px;
    height:32px;
    position:relative;
    z-index:100;
    font-family:arial, sans-serif;
    }

    /* hack to correct IE5.5 faulty box model */
    * html .menu {
    width:1000px;

    }

    /* remove all the bullets, borders and padding from the default list styling */
    .menu ul {
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
    list-style-type:none;
    }

    .menu ul ul {
    width:149px;
    }

    /* float the list to make it horizontal and a relative positon so that you can control the dropdown menu positon */
    .menu li {
    float:left;
    width:149px;
    position:relative;
    border-top: #999 1px solid;
    margin-right:10px;
    }

    .menu li:hover {
    float:left;
    border-top: #ff0 1px solid;
    }

    .nav-selected {
    font-weight: bold;
    }

    .menu li li:hover {
    float:left;
    border-top: none;
    color: #999;
    }

    .menu li li {
    float:left;
    width:149px;
    position:relative;
    border-top: none;
    }


    /* style the links for the top level */
    .menu a, .menu a:visited {
    display:block;
    font-size:12px;
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#999;
    width:149px;
    height:26px;
    line-height:29px;
    }

    /* a hack so that IE5.5 faulty box model is corrected */
    * html .menu a, * html .menu a:visited {
    width:149px;
    w\idth:149px;
    }

    /* style the second level background */
    .menu ul ul a.drop, .menu ul ul a.drop:visited {}
    /* style the second level hover */
    .menu ul ul a.drop:hover{}
    .menu ul ul :hover > a.drop {}
    /* style the third level background */
    .menu ul ul ul a, .menu ul ul ul a:visited {}
    /* style the third level hover */
    .menu ul ul ul a:hover {}

    /* hide the sub levels and give them a positon absolute so that they take up no room */
    .menu ul ul {

    visibility: hidden;
    position:absolute;
    height:0;
    top:26px;
    left:0;
    width:150px;

    }

    /* another hack for IE5.5 */
    * html .menu ul ul {
    top:26px;
    t\op:27px;
    }

    /* position the third level flyout menu */
    .menu ul ul ul{
    left:149px;
    top:-1px;
    width:149px;
    }

    /* position the third level flyout menu for a left flyout */
    .menu ul ul ul.left {
    left:-149px;
    }



    /* style the table so that it takes no ppart in the layout - required for IE to work */
    .menu table {
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    border-collapse:collapse;
    }

    /* style the second level links */
    .menu ul ul a, .menu ul ul a:visited {
    color:#999;
    height:auto;
    line-height:15px;
    padding-bottom:4px;
    width:149px;
    }

    /* yet another hack for IE5.5 */
    * html .menu ul ul a, * html .menu ul ul a:visited {
    width:149px;
    w\idth:149px;
    }

    /* style the top level hover */
    .menu a:hover {color:#ff0;}
    .menu ul ul a:hover {color:#ccc;}
    .menu :hover > a {color:#ff0;}
    .menu ul ul :hover > a {color:#ccc;}

    /* make the second level visible when hover on first level list OR link */
    .menu ul li:hover ul, .menu ul a:hover ul{
    visibility:visible;
    width: auto;
    }
    /* keep the third level hidden when you hover on first level list OR link */
    .menu ul :hover ul ul{
    visibility:hidden;
    }
    /* make the third level visible when you hover over second level list OR link */
    .menu ul :hover ul :hover ul{
    visibility:visible;
    }


    Can anybody help with it....Please, i need it ASAP
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    Post a link first.

    DS
    • CommentAuthorneerz
    • CommentTimeMar 5th 2010
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    This is the link of site http://syncgroup.at/

    Just look it in IE6, its dropdown is not working
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    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2010
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    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2010
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    Your sites dropdowns works fine for me in IE8

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