[SOLVED] Problem with menus on IE8

billc108 · #1 Oct 28, 2012, 02:40 AM

Menu dropdowns are not appearing for me on IE8.

I'm running ATA 3.7.9 on WP 3.4.2. The dropdowns are actually appearing a tiny bit - a couple of pixels where the dropdown overlaps the parent menu item shows up and is clickable to the first sub menu item. But the rest of it appears to be hidden behind the center and side columns.

I've searched around here a fair bit and haven't found any problems that are similar.

The development site is dev.windcoalition.net. I've already tried turning off all the plugins... no difference.

Would entering a z-index value somewhere help? And if so, where?

Any hints or ideas appreciated.

Thanks!

juggledad · #2 Oct 28, 2012, 04:33 AM

what happens if you remove all the contents in CSS Inserts? (copy it to a text file so you can put it back in)

juggledad · #3 Oct 28, 2012, 05:02 AM

The real way to fix this is to increase the number of columns the logo area takes up and decrease the number that the menu takes up. Remember you hav to think responsive here. The changes would take place in the 'header.php' sub-template.

billc108 · #4 Oct 28, 2012, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juggledad

The real way to fix this is to increase the number of columns the logo area takes up and decrease the number that the menu takes up. Remember you hav to think responsive here. The changes would take place in the 'header.php' sub-template.

Sorry if I'm being dense...

I see at line 60 in header.php:

<td id="header" colspan="<?php echo $cols; ?>">

<?php echo bfa_header_config(); ?>

Those are the only lines in the section marked Header. There's a lot more detail in bfa_header_config.php for both logo area and menu, did you mean there instead? If so, I don't see any explicit mention of number of columns.

juggledad · #5 Oct 28, 2012, 12:41 PM

Sorry my last post was an answer for a different thread - I've got to cut down having so many windows open at the same time

billc108 · #6 Oct 28, 2012, 12:54 PM

No prob. That explains why I was confused, at least.

Still, just 1 or 2 px of the dropdowns are displaying in IE, with or without the CSS inserts.

Any ideas? As much as I hate to do so, I still have to support IE for this site.

billc108 · #7 Oct 28, 2012, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juggledad

what happens if you remove all the contents in CSS Inserts? (copy it to a text file so you can put it back in)

Well, aside from totally messing up the layout of the rest of the page, it doesn't do much to the menus on IE. Dropdowns are still there on everything but IE. (Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome on Mac, Firefox on Windows all show dropdowns).