[thelist] css/dom drop down menu not working in IE

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Wed Oct 5 17:58:08 CDT 2005


I've got an issue that is stumping me. I was given a design and some 
javascript for the drop down menus. When I first put together a template 
based on it, it was fine. Then as I started adding content, I noticed 
that the lists in the main content area were really screwed. I 
investigated and found out that the reason was the the drop down menus 
were being created/styled using ul/li's and that the styles were being 
applied to the global ul/li's. No problem, the lists for the top and 
bottom menus were in their own div's, so I figured that I would just 
take the existing css rules and make them only apply to lists in those 
particular divs.

All seemed well and good until I tried testing in IE. The menus work 
fine in Firefox/Mozilla under both Linux and WinXP, but there is no 
drop-down in IE. I've looked over the html, css and js, but nothing 
appears to be wrong. It validates as xhtml and there are no JS errors 
showing up in the Firefox javascript console. IE does throw a script 
error but its not terribly useful, just explaining that there is a parse 
error on line 2 (which is the html declaration).

I put up a page of the design at: http://wiredotter.com/sites/index.html

Any clue as to what's going on?

Thanks,
Judah


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