Reputation: 1564

:hover cant get third menu level to display in IE6

I'm trying to get a suckerfish style dropdown menu to work in IE6 using whatever:hover but cant for the life of me get the 3rd level to display! Its driving me nuts any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

My fiddle

Heres the code HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <body>
        <header>
            <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styleIE.css" />
        </header>
        <form>
            <div id="container">
               <div id = "menu">
                    <ul id="nav">
                        <li><a class="rhlinkstart" href="#"><span>Home</span></a></li>
                        <li><a class="rhlink" href="#"><span>Blad<br> Securities</span></a></li>
                        <li><a class="rhlink" href="#"><span>Market<br> Update</span></a></li>
                        <li><a class="rhlink" href="#"><span>Membership</span></a></li>
                        <li><a class="rhlink" href="#"><span>asdasd Info</span></a>
                            <ul>
                                <li><a class="linkchild" href="#"><img class = "arrow" src="Images/arrow.gif" alt="&#9658;">About the DOOB</a>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">DOOB Explained</a></li>
                                        <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">DOOB Jurisdications</a></li>
                                    </ul>
                                </li>
                                <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">International Recogintion</a></li>
                                <li><a class="linkchild" href="#"><img class = "arrow" src="Images/arrow.gif" alt="&#9658;">Advantages of listing</a> 
                                     <ul>
                                        <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">Advantages of Listing</a></li>
                                        <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">Offers</a></li>
                                    </ul>
                                </li>
                                <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">Advantages Of Membership</a></li>
                                <li><a class="linkchild" href="#">Publications</a></li>
                                <li><a class="linkchild" href ="#">Links</a></li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li><a class="rhlinkend" href="#"><span>Contact Us</span></a></li>
                       <li>&nbsp;</li>
                    </ul>
               </div>
            </div>
        </form>
     </body>
</html>

CSS:

body{
  line-height:1;
  background: #e3e3e3; 
  behavior: url("csshover3.htc");
}

/*------------------------------------*\
 Main
\*------------------------------------*/
div#container
{
    width:1024px; 
    margin:0 auto;
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: white;
    border: 1px solid #8b8b8b;
 }

.contentwrapper {
    width: 964px;
    margin: 0px auto;
    text-align: left;
    height: 100%;
}

.clearall {
 clear: both;
}


/*------------------------------------*\
   Home Page - Menu Styling
\*------------------------------------*/

#menu {
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding-left: 2%;
    height: 47px;
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    border: 1px solid rgb(140,51,61);
    font-size: 75%;
    display: block;
}
#nav {
     margin:0;
     padding:0;
     list-style-type:none;
     list-style-position:outside;
     position:relative;
     height:47px;
     background: none;
     background-color: transparent;
     width: 100%;
}

#nav ul {
     margin:0;
     padding:0;
     list-style-type:none;
     list-style-position:outside;
     position:relative;
}

#nav a.rhlinkstart:link, #nav a.rhlinkstart:active, #nav a.rhlinkstart:visited {
    position: relative;
    float:left;
    font-family: Georgia;
    color: rgb(131,0,26);
    width: 148px;
    text-align: center;
    height: 47px;
    margin-right: -.07em;
    margin-left: 0.5em;
    line-height: 47px;
    text-decoration: none;
}

#nav a.rhlink:link, #nav a.rhlink:active, #nav a.rhlink:visited {
    position: relative;
    float:left;
    font-family: Georgia;
    color: rgb(131,0,26);
    width: 148px;
    text-align: center;
    height: 47px;
    margin-left: -47px;
    line-height: 47px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

#nav a.rhlinkend:link, #nav a.rhlinkend:active, #nav a.rhlinkend:visited {
    float:left;
    position: relative;
    color: rgb(131,0,26);
    width: 148px;
    height: 47px;
    line-height: 47px;
    margin-left: -3.780em;
    font-family: Georgia;
    text-decoration: none;
}

#nav li {
    float:left;
    position:relative;
    display: block;
}

li a.rhlink span {
    line-height: 1em;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: center;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

#nav li a.rhlink:hover, 
#nav li a.rhlinkstart:hover,
#nav li a.rhlinkend:hover
{
    background: red;
    color: white;
    text-decoration: none;
}

#nav a.linkchild:link,
#nav a.linkchild:active,
#nav a.linkchild:visited 
{
    display:block;
    padding:0px 10px;
    text-decoration:none;
    color: white;
    background: pink ;
}

#nav a.linkchild:hover {
   background: rgb(118,0,18);
   color: white;
}

#nav ul {
    position:absolute;
    top:47px;
    left:0;
    margin: 0;
    width:200px;
    display:none;
}

#nav li ul a {
    width:15em;
    float:left;
    display: inline-block;
    line-height: 2.5em;
    text-align: left;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

#nav li {
     display: inline-block !important;
     float: left;   
}

#nav li a {
    display: inline-block !important;   
    vertical-align: middle;
}

#nav ul ul {
    top:auto;
}

#nav li ul ul {
    left:200px;
    margin:0;
}

#nav ul ul li ul {
    left:200px;
    margin:0;
}

#nav ul ul {
   display:none;
}

#nav li:hover ul {
   display:block;
}

/* 2 and 13 */
#nav ul ul, 
#nav li:hover ul ul { 
   display:none;
}

/* 12 and 23*/
#nav li:hover ul, #nav li:hover li:hover ul { 
   display:block;
}

Upvotes: 3

Answers (4)

Spudley

Reputation: 168655

One possible solution:

display:inline-block has some severe bugs in IE6; I'd suggest trying display:inline instead.

In addition to that, you'll also need to do something to trigger IE to put the element into "hasLayout" mode. You can't do this directly as it's an internal IE flag, but setting any one of a number of CSS properties will trigger it. The most common one to use is zoom:1 since that doesn't have much other effect, and is ignored by other browsers.

If it works, use an IE6 CSS hack to make it so that other browsers can carry on using inline-block. I suggest either using the underscore hack, or conditional comments.

Here's the code, using the underscore hack:

display:inline-block;
_display:inline;
zoom:1;

Hope that helps.

[Note: answer edited to include hasLayout, expand on the IE6 css hack options, and give a chunk of code]

Upvotes: 5

davey

Reputation: 1564

Thanks for the comments guys, in the end I rewrote the menu from scratch and got it working in IE6. I know IE6 is dead but my clients biggest client uses this browser :( so it had to be done.

Upvotes: 0

John

Reputation: 13719

At this point Internet Explorer 6 is dead, in fact it's beyond dead. 99.9% of IE6 user agents are bots and I've had three visitors who weren't show up. My browser market share is based on DOM object detection so it's actually reliable unlike statistics based on user agents. Even if you can be tricked in to thinking IE6 actually has 10% market share you still have to deal with the fact that it's been and will continue to shrink. I don't even bother to really test IE7 out as I've had only a single digit number of visitors using it. The amount of time and thus money invested in to IE6/7 at this point is beyond any justification unless a client is dead set and is so out of their mind that they would pay you $50 an hour to fix IE6/7 specific bugs.

Upvotes: 0

Billy Moat

Reputation: 21050

You seem to be using HTML5 but not using the HTML5 shiv which will allow HTML5 tags to be recognised by old browsers.

http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/

You're also loading your stylesheet up within the HTML5 'header' tag instead of within the regular 'head' tag of the document which you don't seem to have.

Fixing those issues may help resolve your problem.

Upvotes: 5

:hover cant get third menu level to display in IE6

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