Posted by Els on 11/07/07 16:22

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> VUNETdotUS wrote:
>> Hello,
>> IE shows spaces between a few boxes made of ul-li elements in CSS
>> unlike Firefox. I tried padding/margin in different places but cannot
>> fix it. The URL is http://www.vunet.us/wic/test/ztop.asp, see pop-up
>> menu over link "My Test"
>> Please, recommend a fix for IE. The menu keeps disappearing because of
>> the gaps (spaces) when moving mouse up and down.
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> You're in quirks mode IE will use old non-standard rendering. First
> switch to the 4.01 strict doctype. Remove all those z-index properties
> they are not needed. Many times to successfully debug you need to
> *remove* not *add* things...

As far as I can see, his page is rendered in standards mode; a
transitional doctype doesn't mean quirksmode. Only IE5 does quirksmode
on this page, but it would do that on a Strict page too.

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