CSS Menuwriter menu does not drop down in IE6/IE5

[gvmorris60336443]

I have a site that works perfectly under FF & IE7 but the menus wont drop down in earlier IE.
I have checked paths and they seem to be correct. I use almost identical menus in another site and they work fine in the earlier versions of IE. Im stumped. Its probably something simple but I could really use some ideas.
Here is the site with the problems http://www.ehsgrads.org/alumnimenu.php. Both this menu page and the listing page does the same thing.

Thanks ahead of time.
Gary Morris.

[this_is_me]

I know a lot of webdesigners who refuse to make their websites compatible with IE6 and earlier versions, since there are so many differences to agreed web standards.
Or they charge extra for making a site compatible to those messy MS browsers.

I am doing the same because IE6 loses market share anyway since its automatically updated by Microsoft to ver. 7 or 8. They seem to work much better than their predecessors. I think we should fight this policy of misusing market power to not keeping up to standards which were setup and agreed by http://www.w3.org/ and others. Microsoft produced this nonsense because of lack of competitors, which now exists.

Sorry again for not offering a solution to your problem but since my designer needed 3 extra days to figure out some non - documented MS_only_rubbish_pseudo_standards of IE6 we reacted to this unhealthy situation as described.

[Ray Borduin]

The page seems to work in IE6 when I try it. What exactly isn't working for you? What version of IE are you trying?

[gvmorris60336443]

HI Ray,
If you click on the decade (1960's 70s ...) those menus dont drop down.
Im really stumped. I have tried it at home with IETester and IE5, at work with IE6 and have had several people tell the webmaster (Im only doing the database/alumni pages) that they dont work.

Gary.

[Ray Borduin]

I see that now. I swear I tested it and it worked yesterday.

I'll try to look some more, but I don't see the problem.

If you apply the menu on a blank page does it work? Is it possible something you updated caused an issue? You may want to post a support incident with the menu export included so they can test to find the cause if this problem is easily reproduced it may be a bug.

[gvmorris60336443]

Well, I found the first problem. It was something I did. It at least shows now. Can you take a look and give me an idea of which style to look for on menu-ie.css. Its there but in the wrong place. I have looked but dont see what Im looking for.
Thanks.
Gary

[Ray Borduin]

What exactly is the problem now that you are trying to fix now?

[gvmorris60336443]

In ie6 if you hover over one of the top menu items the submenus now come up but over to the right.

[Ray Borduin]

Does this happen when you apply on a new page?

Please attach a copy of your exported menu theme. I will see if I can reproduce the problem which may help me figure out the cause.

[gvmorris60336443]

Yes it does it with a seperate blank page. I even recreated the menu for this page. It does it there also. Attached is the menutest.php page with cssmw folders.
Thanks.

[Ray Borduin]

Please go to the menu layout manager and export the menu. That is the file I would like to look at to diagnose the cause.

[gvmorris60336443]

I did not save it as a preset. Should I just export the one I based it off of? Which is the Vista Style Deep Jungle.

[Ray Borduin]

Or edit it and save it as a preset so that you can send it. Does the problem happen when you apply the Vista Style Deep Jungle menu on a new page? The idea here is that if I can reproduce it I can debug it. If you send me a file that I can't reproduce the problem with then we are wasting each others time.

[gvmorris60336443]

I created another menu, this time using glow / deep jungle. I put something in only 3 of the decades just to test. It does the exact same thing.

It is at http://www.ehsgrads.org/menutest.php . the lower menu is the new one.
I saved it and exported it. find menutest new.zip attached.

I really appreciate all your help.
Gary.

[gvmorris60336443]

Ray,
Did you not find anything? Any ideas..

Gary.

[Ray Borduin]

Sorry I haven't had time to look into it further and didn't see anything immediately. I'll have support start an incident for you and try to find the solution. Since you can reproduce it in an export we can treat it as a bug and have somebody spend the time necessary looking into it.

[Jason Byrnes]

The problem is being caused by the iepngfix.htc script.


In the menutest.php page, find and remove the following
<style type="text/css" media="all">
img, div, ul, li, span, a {
behavior: url("CSSMenuWriter/cssmw1_images/iepngfix.htc");
}
</style>

[gvmorris60336443]

Thank you very much. That fixed it.

Gary.

[bobrossi315677]

I have had the same problem with the last 3 sites I have designed with Web Assist Pro and CSS Menu Writer. They look fine in Firefox, IE7, IE 8, Safari, Chrome, etc, but in IE6 (which is still heavily used--my web reports show about 18% or visitors use IE6)they fail to funtion.... here is the latest site where it fails www.casariomarina.com It is just plain embarassing to have a customer report this. I really think that WebAssist needs to take a look at why their programs do not work correctly with IE6.

[bobrossi315677]

Doesn't work for me in IE 6 either...here is the latest of sites where menus don't work with IE6 www.casariomarina.com

[Ray Borduin]

It appears you forgot to upload your IE css file:

CSSMenuWriter/cssmw_home/menu_ie.css

Put that up to your server and it should improve. You might just want to concentrate on a single post. Answering your same question 10 times is getting redundant.