Comments on: Help verify some bustage?

By: Almanca tercüman

Almanca tercüman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:47:42 +0000

Cool thanks guys. I’ll test Bill’s proposed fix shortly…

By: Almanca tercüman

Almanca tercüman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:47:42 +0000

Cool thanks guys. I’ll test Bill’s proposed fix shortly…

By: Dao

Dao — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:23:32 +0000

Microsoft’s Markus Mielke says the bug is fixed :)

http://design-noir.de/log/2006/04/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-veroeffentlicht/#comment-20

By: dria

dria — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:59:41 +0000

Dao: your float:left; fix works. Thanks a million :)

‘Course I still have to test in all the other browsers…

By: Dao

Dao — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:50:30 +0000

IE7 has the same problem with my site’s menu: http://design-noir.de

IE6 had this too. That’s why you added a workaround (_width: 1%). But IE7 won’t recognize _width (which is correct).
#navigation #contenttypes li a { float: left; } would do the trick. But I suggest you leave it as it is and ask Microsoft to fix this ancient CSS1 bug.

By: MT

MT — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:21:43 +0000

[sorry for reposting but some my text was handled as real anchor tags while it's not]

Just don’t use height and line-height for [A] element inside navigation (in common case I usually use vertical padding instead of height + line-height).

But it’s definitely a BUG of IE7b2 that DOESN’T NEED for any workaround and should be reported to Microsoft and fixed by IE programmers before final IE7 ships.

P. S. Removing _width doesn’t change nothing for me. But to make links clickable at its whole area (that probably is the aim of using _width: 1%) I usually use “Star HTML” hack with 1px height for [A] element. That hack now (since IE7 ignore it in strict mode) is a good way to address CSS rules (that are workaroud of bugs that are NOT longer takes place in IE7) separately for IE5-6 and IE7.

By: MT

MT — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:19:04 +0000

Just don’t use height and line-height for element inside navigation (in common case I usually use vertical padding instead of height + line-height).

But it’s definitely a BUG of IE7b2 that DOESN’T NEED for any workaround and should be reported to Microsoft and fixed by IE programmers before final IE7 ships.

P. S. Removing _width doesn’t change nothing for me. But to make links clickable at its whole area (that probably is the aim of using _width: 1%) I usually use “Star HTML” hack with 1px height for element. That hack now (since IE7 ignore it in strict mode) is a good way to address CSS rules (that are workaroud of bugs that are NOT longer takes place in IE7) separately for IE5-6 and IE7.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:29:15 +0000

I think the _xxxxxx aer IEisms. Our Web designer once told me that alot of CSS hacks he uses make use of this "feature". IE(6) will make use of _xxxx attributes while Firefox ignores them. He can then manage to get pages to behave identically (or close to it) on IE and FF.

BOCICBW (but of course, I could be wrong).

L

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:29:15 +0000

I think the _xxxxxx aer IEisms. Our Web designer once told me that alot of CSS hacks he uses make use of this “feature”. IE(6) will make use of _xxxx attributes while Firefox ignores them. He can then manage to get pages to behave identically (or close to it) on IE and FF.

BOCICBW (but of course, I could be wrong).

By: Gérard Talbot

Gérard Talbot — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:25:10 +0000

Deb, I confirm that there are layout problems of the navigation links when using the latest IE 7 beta 2 build 5346.5.

Note that the javascript console report CSS parsing errors:

#navigation #personal a {
_width: 1%;
}

_width is not a CSS property.

Warning: Unknown property ‘_width’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://developer.mozilla.org/css/base.css
Line: 194

Gérard

By: dria

dria — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:40:48 +0000

Cool, thanks guys. I’ll test Bill’s proposed fix shortly. :)

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:21:11 +0000

Yup there’s bustage. Not sure if I can help with the fix.

By: Bill Mason

Bill Mason — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:28:04 +0000

The problem is the display: block line in the #navigation #contenttypes li a definition in base.css.

Removing that line seems to fix it (playing with a locally saved copy of the page) in IE7b2 without breaking FF 1.5 or IE6. That said, I don’t know what older browser might be using that bit of code and be affected by losing it.