[TriLUG] CSS question

[Brian McCullough]

Thank you, Glenn.


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:10:00PM -0500, Glenn Hennessee wrote:
> You're sure all your divs are nested properly and all the menu items

I have been over and over this, as well as running it through the W3C Validator multiple times ( which likes things ), and I am certain that the nesting is correct.


> are all <p>menu item</p> (or something similar)? If all the menu items

The menu items are each "<div class='menu_item' ><a href='stuff' >item title</a ></div >".


> aren't identical then IE may not display it right. Have you tested
> with IE 9? 

I don't seem to have IE 9 available, so don't know how it would behave.



> You may need to post a link to the page so we can take a
> look at it and the CSS. 

Unfortunately, this is an internal corporate site, with no access to the outside world.


> You might try a styled unordered list.
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/ is an old article
> (2002) but it should work fine today with any browser.

Hmmm.  That reminder that both margin and padding are involved might move me forward.  At the moment, margin is set to 0, but padding has a value.


> http://www.webreference.com/programming/css_style2/index.html is
> another styled list menu.

I will do some more reading, thank you.


> glenn

Brian