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| From | David Loring |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | CSS Menus working in IE7 but not Opera/Firefox/Chrome |
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| Date | 5 January 2010 16:16 |
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A good day to you and many thanks for your site.
I have been trying to convert a static menu to a CSS menu using the code on
the site, but I seem to be having a problem.
Amazingly the menu functions correctly in IE7, but in Chrome, Firefox 3.5
and Opera 10 the menus just appear in a single complete column.
I am scratching my head!!
You can see the menu at [URL] and I
have zipped the files and put a download link.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. (I am trying to get my head
round this CSS/HTML stuff but I am a VB.NET programmer - we all have our
cross to bear!)
Many thanks
David Loring
| From | Me |
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| To | David Loring |
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| Subject | Re: CSS Menus working in IE7 but not Opera/Firefox/Chrome |
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| Date | 10 January 2010 19:43 |
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David,
> Amazingly the menu functions correctly in IE7, but in Chrome, Firefox 3.5
> and Opera 10 the menus just appear in a single complete column.
I have mentioned this in a previous email:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/emails/MichaelBrandon.html
However, it's easy to miss that email, so I'll do a full reply here to make
it easier to find:
IE 7- has a bug; it does not understand </li> tags, and ignores them
completely. Your list is invalid; it has the </li> tags in the wrong places,
or to be more accurate, it has the nested <ul> tags in the wrong places -
they are supposed to be *inside* their parent LI, not after the </li> tags.
INVALID:
<ul>
<li>foo</li>
<ul>
<li>bar</li>
</ul>
</ul>
VALID:
<ul>
<li>foo
<ul>
<li>bar</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
This is a requirement of the HTML specification (UL elements may only
contain LI elements as direct children).
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | David Loring |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: CSS Menus working in IE7 but not Opera/Firefox/Chrome |
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| Date | 10 January 2010 20:59 |
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Thanks for that. I will give it a whirl.
Best regards
David