Posted by EnigmaticSource on 10/05/07 07:33

Sounds like a pain to generate programmatically, but I'm always
interested in new techniques. I just _hate_ having to write hacks
into my codebase because someone at Microsoft decided that standards
don't matter. I just wish for the day when there is a _clean_ way to
do anything the standards allow.

On Oct 5, 7:04 am, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
> "EnigmaticSource" <mark.rodu...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
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> > Thanks, it worked nicely. Oh and good call for spotting me cheating
> > with the .htc It's the only way I could get my code to look halfway
> > pretty and make it load in IE6 at all.
>
> There *is* another way.
>
> It involves using some conditional comments to enclose the dropdown <ul> in
> a table that is stuck inside an <a>, for IE6 and below only. Other browsers
> see an <a> and a <ul> inside a <li>, with the hover applied to the <li>.
>
> Of course a table inside an <a> is not actually valid but then IE is not
> actually a valid browser so I don't mind spitting invalid HTML at it. It
> works and that is enough. No other browser sees the invalid HTML anyway.
>
> IE5.x also gets a few of its own CSS hacks to make it behave.
>
> I have one myself that I'm refurbising (so it adjusts itself to the users
> font face and size, plus a few other things). It'll be ready for display in
> about a week if you are interested. 100% CSS (no javascript anywhere).
> Tested in IE5.5, IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera and Windows Safari. Should work in
> most other browsers as well. Plus it's completely search engine friendly.
>
> --
> Richard.

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