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IE for mac and CSS a:hover rollover color not working
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Jun 15, 2004, 01:02 PM
 
IE for mac andcss a:hover rollover color not working ... anyone have a work around for this? I'm also noticing the cursor doesn't even change now to the hand.
     
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Jun 15, 2004, 02:11 PM
 
out of curiosity, is the IE window active when you are testing the hover on the links?
     
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Jun 15, 2004, 02:55 PM
 
Originally posted by headbirth:
IE for mac andcss a:hover rollover color not working ... anyone have a work around for this? I'm also noticing the cursor doesn't even change now to the hand.
Link hovering works fine in ie:mac. Do you have an example page? I'm guessing it might be some bad syntax.
     
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Jun 15, 2004, 03:22 PM
 
Can we see the a:hover code you're using? That may help us figure out if it's a code problem, or an actual problem with IE/Mac.
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Jun 15, 2004, 03:32 PM
 
Can we see the a:hover code you're using? That may help us figure out if it's a code problem, or an actual problem with IE/Mac.
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Jun 16, 2004, 07:18 AM
 
It's a bit of a mess at the moment, but actually none of the rollovers CSS or JS seem to be working now in IE 5.2 Mac. I haven't tested anything yet on Windows.

http://home.earthlink.net/~headbirth...ng/index2.html
     
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Jun 16, 2004, 09:15 AM
 
Originally posted by headbirth:
It's a bit of a mess at the moment, but actually none of the rollovers CSS or JS seem to be working now in IE 5.2 Mac. I haven't tested anything yet on Windows.

http://home.earthlink.net/~headbirth...ng/index2.html
Well the problem appears to be with your fixed positioning of the case listings. Apparently links on ie:mac don't function properly when inside fixed positioned elements. I'm not sure what aspect of your JS isn't working but the blurring of the links when clicked works. Since you're already relying on JavaScript, you could easily color the links using JavaScript. I don't know about changing the cursor though.

FWIW, I'm not sure if fixed positioning is exactly what you want to do anyways. If you don't know already... what fixed positioning does is take the elements out of the flow of the document and position them relative to the window. This can give you effects like having a header at the top of your page that remains static while you scroll through the page. Have you tried making window small enough so that it covers the case listings? Notice how it doesn't scroll? If your page ever grows in height, this might present a problem in your users not being able to scroll! To alleviate this problem, you might be able to switch to absolute positioning which would probably be more appropriate for your situation. Absolute positioning positions the object relative to it's parent element... in your case the page itself. It's the same as fixed positioning (in your case anyways) except your document will actually scroll. This would have the double benefit of letting the page scroll and letting your links work properly. If you're willing to restructure your page, you could probably create a page devoid of any positioning, simply relying on page flow and using margins/padding to do what you want.

Anyways, HTH

BTW... did Dave Brasgalla give you permission to use his icon on your site? If not, I don't think he'd allow its use.. Just a heads up.
     
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Jun 16, 2004, 10:03 AM
 
Thanks for the fixed positioning info ... I'll give it a shot.

The icon is only for positioning and will not be used on the final site.

Another problem i seem to be having is image rollovers: if you look at this page and select the first case study >return and then select the second case study the proper image does not load.

http://home.earthlink.net/~headbirth...t2/index5.html

Any thoughts?
     
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Jun 16, 2004, 09:04 PM
 
Originally posted by Synotic:
BTW... did Dave Brasgalla give you permission to use his icon on your site? If not, I don't think he'd allow its use.. Just a heads up.
not to demean the guys work (cause it is great work), but I think a better question is, did Dave Brasgalla have Warner Brothers permission to make those icons.
     
   
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