Posted by false-name@false-account.net on 10/12/05 03:13

is this a known IE bug/quirk ?

a not-very-complex web page with several <div>
( some of those <div> nested )
with navigation by menu links down the left and near the top

using CSS a:link and a:hover
to modify link color and background-color

running on WinXP SP2
all seems fine in Mozilla browsers and Opera 8.5

but in IE6 - hovering over a link *sometimes* changes the page layout
slightly by changing the margin of a different div in an unconnected
part of the page, with no obvious reason for this


removing all the a:link and a:hover rules from the CSS file
removes this quirk completely

admittedly it's a very small effect, but it just looks *amateurish*
when the page is viewed in IE...

thanks in advance :)

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