Stylesheets - Problem with disappearing menus

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Problem with disappearing menus

Tony Marston

2006-04-13, 7:01 pm

I have a site at http://www.radicore.org which has a menu bar down the left
hand side. When certain menu items are selected (What is Radicore? Products,
Documentation, Licensing, Legal) a sub-menu automatically appears. This
works fine in FF and Opera, but in IE as soon as the "Legal" option, or any
of its sub-menus, are selected, all the hyperlinks disappear from view as if
the foreground and background colours have become the same. However, these
links will appear if you move the mouse over them.

This is all done with CSS, not javascript, and I'm using the same technique
for all the sub-menus. I cannot understand why everything works fine in FF
and Opera, and why it is only IE that screws up with the "Legal" menu item.

I've tried everything I can think of, but I'm totally lost. Can any of you
gurus cast any light on this peculiar behaviour? Is it a bug in my code or a
bug in IE?

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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2006-04-13, 7:01 pm

Tony Marston wrote:

> I have a site at http://www.radicore.org which has ...
> this peculiar behaviour? Is it a bug in my code or a
> bug in IE?

Using W2K IE6, I don't see any problem such as you describe. Could you
try a different computer?

Only other comment I have after a quick glance: is this a new site? And
if so, why are you using a Traditional doctype instead of Strict?

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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Tony

2006-04-13, 7:01 pm

Tony Marston wrote:
> I have a site at http://www.radicore.org which has a menu bar down the left
> hand side. When certain menu items are selected (What is Radicore? Products,
> Documentation, Licensing, Legal) a sub-menu automatically appears. This
> works fine in FF and Opera, but in IE as soon as the "Legal" option, or any
> of its sub-menus, are selected, all the hyperlinks disappear from view as if
> the foreground and background colours have become the same. However, these
> links will appear if you move the mouse over them.
>
> This is all done with CSS, not javascript, and I'm using the same technique
> for all the sub-menus. I cannot understand why everything works fine in FF
> and Opera, and why it is only IE that screws up with the "Legal" menu item.
>
> I've tried everything I can think of, but I'm totally lost. Can any of you
> gurus cast any light on this peculiar behaviour? Is it a bug in my code or a
> bug in IE?

From the description and looking at the actual page - it's a known IE
bug - google "Peekaboo bug"

Tony Marston

2006-04-14, 6:44 am

"Tony" <tony23@dslextreme.WHATISTHIS.com> wrote in message
news:123tkqnb20af0bc@corp.supernews.com...
> Tony Marston wrote:
>
> From the description and looking at the actual page - it's a known IE
> bug - google "Peekaboo bug"

Thanks. That gives me something to work with.

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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

David Harmon

2006-04-16, 6:50 pm

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:43:15 GMT in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, "Beauregard T.
Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote,
>Only other comment I have after a quick glance: is this a new site? And
>if so, why are you using a Traditional doctype instead of Strict?

What kind of doctype do you consider Traditional? ;-)

Maybe it's because Strict is actually a regression... several things
that were previously just fine are no longer included.

Neredbojias

2006-04-16, 6:50 pm

To further the education of mankind, David Harmon <source@netcom.com>
vouchsafed:

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:43:15 GMT in
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, "Beauregard T.
> Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote,
>
> What kind of doctype do you consider Traditional? ;-)
>
> Maybe it's because Strict is actually a regression... several things
> that were previously just fine are no longer included.

I agree with the second phrase of your sentence but not the first.
However, they really shouldn't have axed "target". It smacks of prideful
self-righteousness.

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Neredbojias
Infinity can have limits.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2006-04-16, 6:50 pm

David Harmon wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote,
>
> What kind of doctype do you consider Traditional? ;-)

XHTML 1.0 Transitional, HTML 4.01 Transitional.

Oh wait. Heh. I see ... I spelled it (or my speelchucker changed it) as
TraDitional. <lol>

> Maybe it's because Strict is actually a regression... several things
> that were previously just fine are no longer included.

Strict is to further reinforce separating content from presentation. At
least that is how I view the difference.

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer