[thelist] Mac IE5 CSS weirdness

Austin Harris austin at dotmail.co.uk
Wed Oct 1 05:11:37 CDT 2003


I have also been experiencing weirdness with css on IE5 on Mac OSX, 
(see earlier question about css menus).

This may help;
<http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/ie5cssbugs.html>

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 10:51 AM, Richard Livsey wrote:

> From: Richard Livsey <R.Livsey at cache-22.co.uk>
> Date: Wed Oct 1, 2003  10:51:21 AM Europe/London
> To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: [thelist] Mac IE5 CSS weirdness
> Reply-To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> We are experiencing some oddities in IE5 on the Mac on a layout we are 
> developing.
>
> http://development.incutio.com/newlumshomepage/new/
>
> In IE5.2 the layout appears to be fine when the page loads up, but 
> when you mouse over any of the links in the content, the container of 
> the link expands and ruins the layout.
> Taking the border off the :hover of the link fixes this but it would 
> be good to know why it is doing it (and if there is a fix).
>
> IE5.2.1 however does not start off OK. When the page is loaded the 
> main content looks like what happens in 5.2 when the links are hovered 
> (IE the main content area is expanded by a huge amount and obscures 
> the rest of the page).
> Here is a screeny of that:
>
> http://development.incutio.com/newlumshomepage/new/mac5.2.1.jpg
>
> Both CSS and XHTML validates and has been tested and works ok in every 
> other browser we have here.
>
> Any help would be great thanks.
>
> -- 
> R.Livsey
> Incutio Web Developer
> www.cache-22.co.uk
> www.incutio.com



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