[thelist] horizontal menu and IE6

Roel Mulder roel.mulder at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 16:03:24 CDT 2008


Thanks Georg,
Are you able to check if it works now? Your code suggestion was added,
but I not have IE6 around at the moment to see for myself.

Roel

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <gunlaugs at c2i.net> wrote:
> Roel Mulder wrote:
>> There is this CSS thing I just can't grasp. We put a site together
>> today, which features a horizontal menu. Only in IE6 the buttons
>> spread to full width, and underneath each other.
>>
>> url: http://helen.mta.nl/
>
> The float-width is pushed to full ul-width because of the 'display:
> block' declared on its content - the anchor - pushes outwards.
>
> Since you need the 'display: block' declaration for other browsers, the
> easiest solution is to add something like...
>
> * html #navcontainer ul li {width: 3em; white-space: nowrap;}
>
> ...which works with such a small width-value because IE6 auto-expands
> too small elements to the width of their content - the 'auto-expansion
> bug' - and the anchor-text can't wrap.
>
> regards
>        Georg
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