[thelist] HV menu "phantom line" problem
Duncan Hill
dunkaz at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 19:06:56 CDT 2008
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:28:14 -0000, Gersten, John <JGERSTEN at lchb.com>
wrote:
> I recently added a horizontal "HV" menu from Dynamic Drive to one of our
> sites so as to provide multi-level menu functions that could (at least
> sometimes) be properly read/rendered by IE6. (I really wanted to go the
> CSS route, but could not find a CSS-driven menu that would work to
> properly show menu sub-levels in IE6).
>
> Soon after posting the pages with the HV menu, I realized that something
> in the script was throwing a one-pixel red line underneath the menu
> itself. This line appears to be #800001 in color (a color that was
> originally utilized in the menu script for a hover background, but has
> been replaced with pink in this example). I cannot figure out what is
> causing the "#800001" one-pixel line to appear.
>
> If you look at this page,
> http://www.lieffcabrasersecurities.com/working.htm, you should be able
> to see the "phantom" red line. The extra line runs the full width of the
> table containing the menu, even though the menu only appears in the 500
> rightmost pixels of the table.
>
> If anyone could explain where this extra line is coming from (not to
> mention how to remove it) I'd be extremely grateful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John
Hi John,
You've fixed your problem now but on the menu subject did you look at Son
of Suckerfish, it only takes a very small piece of javascript to give IE6
full functionality, everything else handles the menu with just CSS.
I think it is on http://www.htmldog.com/articles/
Best wishes
Duncan
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