I have installed the Boldy theme from site5 on one of my projects and have run into one major problem.
When browsing in internet explorer (8 or lower), the top dropdown menu gets displayed behind some other elements (main content slider, H1's etc.). I've tried everything from changing all the z-index's to fixed positions, with no luck.
You can view the problem by visiting site5's Boldy demo page http://wordpress.site5.net/boldy/ and hovering over the top menu's blog tab in IE.
I have asked site5 to look into it, they are aware of the problem, but have failed to find any solutions.
Ok originale solution here - Swiss credit website. This works but uses a complicated z-index solution.
Here is very simple and improved solution here - Jeyjoo stock image gallery
This works in IE6+, firefox, opera, safari and chrome
Solution
The HTML
<div id="container_page" class="container_page">
<div id="container_header" class="container_header">
NAV BAR GOES HERE
</div>
<div id="container_body" class="container_body">
...body text...
</div>
</div>
The CSS
#container_page #container_header {position:relative;z-index:2;}
#container_page #container_body {position:relative;}
why it works
You have to tell IE how the two divs relate to one another.
(not my script) Pretty sure i may have found the answer to this on here, but i cant find it. Either way, this worked great for me...
$(function() {
var zIndexNumber = 1000;
$('ul').each(function() {
$(this).css('zIndex', zIndexNumber);
zIndexNumber -= 10;
});
});
just make sure your css includes position and z-index so the script can access the values.
kudos to whomever came up with this - saved me a whole lot of trouble.
If I'm not mistaken, IE is not properly inheriting the z-index from the top-nav for the children li items in the menu. That is why the Photos with a z-index of 60 are covering it up. You can do two things here.
Eliminate the photo z-index.
Directly specify a z-index of 100 for the sub list, not just the top-nav list.
I see you still havent solved this on.
I found a solution here on a submenu - Chkredit - swiss credit website
Works in all versions of IE and is light and 100% CSS (no javascript).
Basically the problem was that IE does not use z-index correctly.
Check the z-index's in the CSS code. Yo will need to put a z-index -1 on the items your menu is hiding behind.
I working on exactly the same problem for my own image gallery right now (go to "top image" page) - jeyjoo image gallery
Related
I am pretty good with css, but can't figure out why my menu is being destroyed by IE7. Looks perfect in all other browsers I tested. First image link is correct. Second image link is how it looks in IE7.
http://www.asingularcreation.com/Forums/download/file.php?id=8368&mode=view/ie8+.jpg
http://www.asingularcreation.com/Forums/download/file.php?id=8367&mode=view/ie7.jpg
Here is the page: http://www.asingularcreation.com/calls-to-artists.php. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You do not need to float (or clear) the menu container. It looks like it is causing IE7 to calculate the width incorrectly which forces the menu to flow down, underneath the sub-menu.
<div style="height:40px; line-height:40px; float:left; clear:both"><!--Main Menu --></div>
Removing the float and clear properties fixes the display in IE7 and also still works in Chrome and IE8 and IE9.
There is a lot of inline styles in the example page so I would also look at moving the CSS into an external file if possible.
i have spent 3 days trying to figure out this issue and cannot come up with a viable solution.
ive even tried using javascript to load stylesheets tailored to each browser, but even that didnt work.
my problem is my horizontal menu (http://mydomainsample.com/fire_rebuild) is displaying perfectly fine i n chrome, but when i load in safari or firefox, the child menu is way out of position. oddly enough IE(9) is closer to being correct than the other two, but even thats not quite correct.
i have played with the stylesheet trying to figure it out, but when i get it right in fff, safari, or ie its screwed up in chrome.
i cant seem to find a solution that works in all browsers.
can someone please help me find a solution to this?
ive tried using a different menu but this one looks the best and any vertical drops ive used give me z-index problems between the menu and the slideshow that i cant seem to fix.
I do not think src is an optional attribute for link tags. Replace it with hrefs like the first two. When I look at the page in firefox, I do not see two files above being imported.
The order of the files in those link tags are very important as well.
href="stylesheets/reset.css"
href="stylesheets/coda-slider-2.0.css"
I do not know if you already have them but firefox and chrome has the firebug and web developer plugins that makes life easier.
jQuery has been updated to v1.7.2; I would update all your plugins & see if that helps.
First of all, remove all the javascript you applied to match for different browsers.
Then Remove the width:750px; and left: 548px; on style.css line 83 (ul#nav li:hover > ul)
Hope this will solve your problem
Also your page width is 1220px. Stick with the 960px width in order to compatible with small screen sizes.
I have a couple dropdown menus that are giving me issues in IE7. I've wasted the entire morning trying to fix it. The client is monitoring the site using IE7 so it's a top priority.
I've got a live demo and a jsfiddle demo set up. Here is the actual site I'm working on today as well just for reference, but the demos have the problems isolated. I left some of the reset css and such in case any of it is related.
There are 2 problems:
Most Important: There are z-index issues with the top menu and the header content in IE7. The headings are above the dropdown.
Less Important: There is a small gap in the top menu between the first link and the dropdown that sometimes causes the dropdown to disappear when moving the mouse to it from the top link. This occurs in at least Firefox 4 and IE 7. This issue doesn't occur in the bottom menu.
I removed javascript, tried removing any clearfix css, whittled down the css and html, switched from html5 to xhtml1 strict, played with the position and z-index properties, and read several articles here and elsewhere about z-index bugs in IE but I still can't get this one to budge.
I don't care about IE6 support or if I have to use javascript, I just need to get it working in IE7 for the client. Any help is greatly appreciated.
To #header and #nav add:
position:relative;
and
z-index:10 //for #nav
z-index:0 //for #header
You can see my issue here:
http://pmind.com/staging/123.html
I've tested this in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera so I know it's not just an Internet Explorer wonky bug.
In the top right of the content, there are two text links, that are being hidden under the graphic. The <div> that contains the text links comes further down in the page, and my understanding was that that alone would make the z-index of the links such that they would be on top. But because that didn't do it, I set the z-index of the <div> containing the text links manually, which still didn't fix the problem.
One partial solution I found was to set the z-index of everything on the page but the <div> to -1. This however broke the roll-over functionality of the navigation items. I hate to ask something like this, and then it be some extremely simple issue I've just overlooked, but I'm at my wit's end.
Adding "position: relative;" to #top_links brings them to the front in Firefox. I haven't tested this in other browsers.
I have a div and an iframe on the page
the div has
z-index: 0;
the iframe has its content with a popup having a z-index of 1000
z-index: 1000;
However, the div still overshadows the popup in IE (but works fine in Firefox).
Does anyone know what I can do?
Explorer Z-index bug
In general, http://www.quirksmode.org/ is an excellent reference for this sort of thing.
Which version of IE?
I'm no javascript guru, but I think hiding the div when the popup pops might accomplish what you need.
I've had to work with divs and iframes when creating a javascript menu that should show overtop dropdown boxes and listboxes -- other menu implementations just hide these items whose default behavior in IE6 is to show on top of any DIV, no matter the z-index.
I face the same problem. The problem in my case is that the content in the iframe is not controlled by IE directly, but by Acrobat as it is a pdf file. You can try to show the iframe without the content, in which case the popup displays normally. For some reason IE is not able to control the z-index for external helpers.
It was tested with IE7
Without seeing your code, it's difficult to determine the problem. But it's worth noting that z-index only works when the element has been positioned (e.g. position: absolute;), so perhaps that could be an issue?
There's a good article on CSS Z-index from the Mozilla Developer Center.
Without seeing a code snippet, it's hard to determine what the issue is. You may want to try appending an iframe under your popup that is the same size as your popup. With IE7 if you render the iframed popup after the other iframe has already loaded you should be able to cover up elements that are beneath. I believe some JS calendars and some lightbox/thickbox code does this if you are looking for examples.
never set your z-index to anything bellow 1 enless you want to hide it. I'm not sure about 7.0 but older versions of IE I've had issues with doing that. IE doesn't like z-index that much. Also check your positioning. Positioning may be your issue. sorry, i don't have enough info to help you further.