On or about 3/10/2008 11:37 PM, it came to pass that totalstranger wrote:
> On or about 2/29/2008 1:48 AM, it came to pass that GTalbot wrote:
>> On 24 fév, 09:48, totalstranger <totalstran...@not.yahoo.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone please take a look at this and give some
>>> suggestions.http://www.arnb.org/testmenu.html
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I checked your stylesheet and I saw a few problems:
>>
>> /* Set up the first level list items */
>> #nav li {
>> position:relative; /* this allows positioning of second level */
>> display: inline; /* show as a horizontal line */
>> }
>>
>> but that's not the correct CSS rule for the first level items. The
>> correct rule is:
>>
>> #nav > li {
>> position:relative; /* this allows positioning of second level */
>> display: inline; /* show as a horizontal line */
>> }
>>
>> and when correcting such CSS rule, that makes this other CSS hack
>> [
>> background:transparent url(IMAGES/transparent.gif);/*forces IE7 to
>> work without scripting*/
>> /* otherwise secondary menu blanks out on a hover*/
>> ]
>>
>> ... completely useless, pointless: so, you can remove that
>> background: transparent url(...);
>> declaration entirely.
>>
>> Some other points:
>>
>> #nav, #nav ul { /* all lists */
>> padding: 0;
>> margin: 0;
>> list-style: none;
>> font-weight:normal;
>> text-align: center;
>> }
>>
>>
>> can be better replaced by
>>
>> ul
>> {
>> padding: 0;
>> margin: 0;
>> list-style: none;
>> text-align: center; /* although we explained centering is not best */
>> }
>>
>>
>> Also
>>
>> The selector
>> #nav li ul li a, #nav li ul li a:visited { ... }
>> can be better replaced by
>> #nav ul a, #nav ul a:visited { ... }
>>
>> You may think those changes are cosmetic but they in fact parse
>> the CSS code faster and with lesser chances of triggering bugs in
>> browsers.
>>
>> I then checked in Opera 9.26 and my demo works .. although Opera 9.26
>> is a bit iffy. It works better in Opera 9.50 build 9807 though.
>>
>> Regards, Gérard
> Gérard
> Just want to thank you for providing your excellent suggestions and
> taking the time to look at this code. Also thanks to everyone else who
> responded, even when the suggestions were not easy for me to accept. I
> have much more to learn about CSS.
>
>
Unfortunately about 43% of folks looking at my site are using IE6 which
does not eat most CSS selectors including child selectors (>). Kind of
suspect many of them are Windows 2000 in corporate offices. Since I
already adjust for IE and the rest of the browser universe, it's a
simple matter to another css file for IE6.

Arn