Posted by false-name@false-account.net on 10/12/05 04:52

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 :)


er...
I think I've "solved" it

I went back through the CSS and noticed that not all of the <div>
elements had a width: specified...

setting width: on all the elements...
er...
solved it...
:)

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