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IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:10 pm
by JellyFish
Why is this happening on my website and on IE6 only?
Link. What bug is causing this to happen in IE6?
That's pretty much it. I'd like to keep the question simple: "Why is this happening in IE6?".
Thanks for reading. I'd so much appreciate any help with this.

Re: IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:32 pm
by matthijs
Could you also describe the problem? (so I won't have to open IE

, my doctor told me to do that as little as possible)
Re: IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:41 pm
by califdon
JellyFish wrote:Why is this happening on my website and on IE6 only?
Link. What bug is causing this to happen in IE6?
That's pretty much it. I'd like to keep the question simple: "Why is this happening in IE6?".
Thanks for reading. I'd so much appreciate any help with this.

I only have IE7, but I don't see any difference between that and FF.
Keeping the question simple is good, but not defining "this" is not.
Re: IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:00 pm
by JellyFish
You both are right.
IE7 works fine, but in IE6 I get a display bug with my tooltips. It's as if the content of the tooltips are shoved off to the right side or the page, out of site, and the container div spans it's width to the width of the entire page. That's my attempt at describing IE6' oddity, the thing is, I don't even know what's happening myself. If you could I'd recommend you opening the link up in IE6 yourself, getting a visual would be worth more value then my description.
And with that said, I'll be right back to edit this with a picture.
EDIT: Okay I figured it out. IE6 acts like this whenever I set the height of "#theToolTip .description" to 55px or any other pixel value. SOOOOOOOOOO... Why is this happening and how can I fix this problem without removing the "height: 55px;" declaration?
Re: IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:53 pm
by nickvd
JellyFish wrote:how can I fix this problem without removing the "height: 55px;" declaration?
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Re: IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:25 pm
by JellyFish
So be it conditional comments.
But there is one other problem, not with IE6 but with opera. In the latest version of opera some tooltips are whacked, as if it's just out of randomness. I don't know why some tooltips in opera would be unnecessarily wider.
Oh how I wish there was a universal firebug for every browser.

Re: IE6 bug(confused).
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:55 am
by matthijs
I can't take the time to figure it out exactly (takes time with these bugs) but I would suggest trying different things to make sure elements "have layout". Sometimes adding something like height, width, display:block, etc suddenly makes IE behave.
Setting a height to #thetooltip probably triggers "hasLayout" for that element. Maybe it's parent elements need hasLayout as well.