Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/12/05 03:21

false-name@false-account.net wrote:
> 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 :)

Don't thank use yet false-name, we cannot do much without a URL to 'see'
this problem to have any idea what the cause could be....

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Jonathan
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