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dropdown menu woes

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:50 am
by lc
Ok well here's the thing.

I have a dropdown menu which works rather nicely. Now I know I could have done it in css completely without javascript but that's not the specific issue.

The thing is that when you move over the text links in the dropdown menu the cursor flickers (in IE that is).
So you get the "hand pointer" as you should but regularly you see a pink hand that's twice the normal size flicker into and out of being.

In firefox the top image flickers as well btw.... which might be javascript related but I'm not really bothered with firefox at the moment.

It shouldn't be the old known IE background image flicker on mouseover cause there isn't a background image there... the links are on a sepparate layer.

I know it's not javascript related since I get it in a pure css version of the script as well.

Does anyone know what it might be?

You can find a testpage here:
http://www.alienhelpdesk.com/misc/cms

I'd really appreciate any help! ;)

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:03 am
by Buddha443556
Error line 15:

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img3.src = "cms/images/darkmenu/cms_profile_over.gif";
        img4 = new Image();
->      img5.src = "cms/images/darkmenu/cms_location_over.gif";
        img5 = new Image();
        img5.src = "cms/images/darkmenu/cms_language_over.gif";
I have no idea about the flicker though. It does look better in FF rather than IE.

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:08 am
by lc
Oh lol yeah... well that's not a bit of script that influenses the flicker anyway ;)

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:22 am
by n00b Saibot
I haven't had flicker of any sorts in IE6 SP2 :?

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:11 am
by lc
yeah that's what I have myself... I get some definite oddities though.

It looks like IE tries to rethink the hover/mouseover stuff every time the mouse moves over a regular textlink within something that has either a hover or a mouseover property. And it might have some trouble finding out what's what... or at least, it may take a millisecond too long on my 1ghz machine. I tested it on a 2ghz at work as well though which had exactly the same problem.

I don't get it.