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Why are these scalable css rollover images not working properly in IE?

Asked by MorningThief581 in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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I'm having difficulty getting my personal page navigation to work properly in IE.  The navigation works as intended in Firefox and in Safari.  The problem is visible in IE here:
http://www.morningthief.com/fwj/updates.php

The page also has a brief description of the problem I've had implementing the navigation.

As concisely as possible, I'd like scalable (per user's browser magnification settings) rollover image links using css.    The style declaration below for "visibility:hidden" should apply to all rollover-class links and should also denote the current active page (hence the  "#updatesbody..." portion).  On the  actual updates page in Firefox (or Safari), you can see that the Updates link is displayed boldly and the rest of the links respond accordingly.  In IE, the Updates TEXT is displayed boldly, but the Updates LINK is rendered inactive as if the entire anchor tag (which contains the rollover-class image) has been hidden.  All the other links on the page (in IE) also act buggy, flickering as the mouse crosses every pixel.  I've tried formatting this a number of different ways, including denoting the anchors as a class and trying to hide 'a.classname:hover img', but that didn't work either.  Whatever i do, it seems that IE attempts to hide the entire anchor whenever its contained image gets hidden.  Or I could be misinterpreting the problem.

I've included what I believe are the important snippets of code below, though right now the page itself is a pretty empty shell.  Full stylesheets (works in progress) are here:
http://www.morningthief.com/fwj/fwj_main.css
http://www.morningthief.com/fwj/fwj_nav.css

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#headerbg {
	position:absolute;
	top:0em;
	left:0em;
	width:47.5em;
	height:6.26em;
	z-index:0;
}
 
#updateslink {
	top:4.45em;
	left:12.63em;
	height:1.44em;
	width:4.75em;
}
 
#medialink {
	top:4.45em;
	left:19.95em;
	height:1.31em;
	width:3.50em;
}
 
#tourlink {
	top:4.45em;
	left:25.94em;
	height:1.31em;
	width:2.69em;
}
 
#aboutlink {
	top:4.45em;
	left:31.22em;
	height:1.31em;
	width:3.50em;
}
 
#contactlink {
	top:4.45em;
	left:37.38em;
	height:1.31em;
	width:8.50em;
}
 
img.rollover
{
border:none;
margin:0em;
padding:0em;
}
 
a:hover img.rollover, #updatesbody #updateslink img.rollover
{
visibility:hidden;
}
 
 
<div id="header">
    	<img src="img/header.gif" id="headerbg"/>
    	<div id="homelink">
            <a href="index.php"><img class="rollover" src="img/transparent.gif" style="height:5.50em; width:8.13em;"/></a>
        </div>
        <div id="updateslink">
            <a href="updates.php"><img class="rollover" src="img/nav/updates_button.gif" style="height:1.44em; width:4.75em;"/></a>
        </div>
        <div id="medialink">
            <a href="#"><img class="rollover" src="img/nav/media_button.gif" style="height:1.31em; width:3.50em;"/></a>
        </div>
        <div id="tourlink">
            <a href="#"><img class="rollover" src="img/nav/tour_button.gif" style="height:1.31em; width:2.69em;"/></a>
        </div>
        <div id="aboutlink">
            <a href="#"><img class="rollover" src="img/nav/about_button.gif" style="height:1.31em; width:3.50em;"/></a>
        </div>
        <div id="contactlink">
            <a href="#"><img class="rollover" src="img/nav/contact_links_button.gif" style="height:1.31em; width:8.50em;"/></a>
        </div>
</div>
 
Keywords: Why are these scalable css rollover im…
Title
1 CSS rollover button
2 CSS Compliance on MSIE and FF?
3 Javascript and CSS Remote Rollover
4 CSS in FireFox not displaying correct
5 hover not working in IE
6 CSS Hover image?
 
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Zone: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Tags: CSS IE rollover a:hover web-development
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Solution Provided By: MorningThief581
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Solution Grade: A
 
 
 
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