Hitting a Brick Wall!
I seem to have hit a brick wall with the WP-Andreas00 page menu at the moment, and can’t get it right no matter what I do. It’s just about perfect in Firefox but I can’t get IE to look right.
There are times when cross browser compatibility can be so frustrating. It can drive you mad! Still if all browsers were equal life would be boring.
So I’m going to forget about it for a few days and hopefully when I come back to it everything will fall into place. Sometimes I find that a break and trying something else works wonders when things aren’t going well.
I need to tidy a few things here on webgazette.co.uk as the theme isn’t really finished so maybe now would be a good time.
I’ll keep you posted.
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May 16th, 2006 at 1:37 am
First off, long time reader, first time commenting.
I totally understand about hitting a brick wall with designs and cross browser stuff.
You have the right idea to take a break and walk away for a few days to clear your head.
What’s going to happen over the next few days is you’ll be watching TV, reading a book or maybe even sleeping when the fix will just come to you. Bam! Just like that. It happens to me all the time.
Good luck and keep up the good work!
May 16th, 2006 at 2:40 am
Hey, I got your e-mail. I’m pretty sure I can fix this. I’ll try to do it on the dev site, and if I manage to do it you can just grab the code from there.
May 16th, 2006 at 3:15 am
Ok, here is what I found: The thing that causes the error in IE is the .page_item class. It has a margin-bottom of 5px. Firefox displays this as expected, with 5px applied to each list item including the last li.page_item in the nested list. But in IE those 5px adds up into 20px at the end of the nested list. I don’t know why, but when the margin-bottom is removed, the space shrinks.
In any case, I’ve built a new menu (inline instead of block) which can handle multi-line links. I’ll send it to you soon, but I’ll try to make sure that it works with the same nested list first.
May 16th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
New menu is finished, and the annoying IE bug is gone. I’ll send you version 1.2 of the andreas00 template with the new menu later today. It is once again in template format, so you will need to customize it for the theme. But it is only CSS changes, no markup changes, so it should be easy.
May 16th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Seanrox, many thanks for your kind words of encouragement. You’re right inspiration comes when you least expect. Fortunately I also have the continuing expert support of Andreas when I hit that brick wall!
Andreas, thanks you are a star! I have pulled things apart here, there and everywhere over the last few days. I’ll check it out later.
May 22nd, 2006 at 7:33 pm
your new theme looks great but on 800×600 resolution, i really have to scroll a lot on the right side of the windows to see the rest of your page. may be you want to fix it.