Hi,
Im trying to create a navigation consisting of tabs. The nav item is in an unordered list with each list item having an anchor tag as the link.
it is a horizontal menu with the anchor tag floated left. I have created a class that displays a border at the top,left and right hand sides of the tab. this class is used to highlight the active tab i.e the tab that corrosponds to the page the user is on.
The <ul> tag has a border at the bottom, so to create the effect of no border on the active tab the anchor tag is floated and given a slighltly increased height so that it overlaps over the border of the <ul> tag.
This all works fine until it comes to IE6 - IE6 seems to just push the <ul> tag down as if the anchor tag wasnt floated. i believe this is because IE6 has a "haslayout" property. However, removing heights etc from containg element doesnt seem to solve this because i have to clear floats after
has anyone any ideas how i can solve this for ie6?
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by: siliconbritPosted on 2007-05-21 at 09:03:57ID: 19127781
I'd really need a look at your code to be able to tell you.
Take a look at the following code that I have used to do something similar. I've cut and paste this from source, and hope to have included everything you might need, so you may be able to drop this into a couple of files on a test server somewhere and see how it works. If not, let me know and I'll send a URL. Just in a bit of a rush right now, so can't come back here for an hour or so.
HTML:
<div id="header">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="index.html" id="current">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="expertise.html">Expe
<li><a href="services.html">Servi
<li><a href="products.html">Produ
<li><a href="library.html">Librar
<li><a href="aboutus.html">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contac
</ul>
</div>
CSS:
body {
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #313031;
font-size: 8pt;
}
#header {
width: 746px;
height: 40px;
border-bottom: 1pt solid #ede8c4
}
#navlist
{
position:relative; margin:0; padding-left: 204px; top:24px; visibility: visible;
}
#navlist li
{
font-size: 9pt;
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
border-bottom: none;
display: inline;
}
#navlist li a
{
padding: 3px 0.5em;
margin-left: 1px;
border-bottom: none;
border: 1px solid #ede8c4;
background: #ede8c4;
text-decoration: none;
}
#navlist li a:link { border-bottom: medium none;color: #827b17; }
#navlist li a:visited { border-bottom: medium none;color: #827b17; }
#navlist li a:hover
{
border-bottom: none;
color: #e77b1e;
background: #fdf0e4;
border-color: #827b17;
}
#navlist li a#current
{
background: white;
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
}