jQuery Cycle in an horizontal scrollable div: IE problem

Question

Hi, I've a problem in IE 6 and 7 with a Cycle slideshow embed in a horizontal scrollable div. I've used this technique ( http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/using-jquery-slider-to-scroll-a-div ) to create the horizontal scrollable div. I would embed the Cycle slideshow in the scrollable div. All work normally in FF3, Opera, Chrome. In IE 6 and 7 the container of the images and the nav thumbnails are fixed, they don't scroll. Every other div or element in the scrollable div work fine.

This is my code:

<div id="content">
  <div id="contentscroll">
    <div id="contentholder">

      <div class="contentitem">
        <span class="name">ABC</span>
        <span class="price">25 €</span>
    <div class="photo">
          <img src="642_03_prod[1].png" height="280" width="280" />
          <img src="855_02_prod[1].png" height="280" width="280" />
          <img src="856_01_prod[1].png" height="280" width="280" />
        </div>
        <ul class="colors">
          <li><a href="#"><img src="642_03_prod[1].png" height="25" width="25" /></a></li>
          <li><a href="#"><img src="855_02_prod[1].png" height="25" width="25" /></a></li>
          <li><a href="#"><img src="856_01_prod[1].png" height="25" width="25" /></a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>

      <!--- other contentitem --->

    </div> <!--- end contentholder --->
  </div> <!--- end contentscroll --->
</div> <!--- end content --->

This is the CSS:

#contentscroll {
    background: transparent;
    width: 990px;
    height: 386px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

#contentholder {
  width: 1500px;
  height: 386px;
}

.contentitem {
  width: 330px;
  height: 100%;
  padding: 0;
  float: left;
}

.contentitem .name, .contentitem .price {
  width: 330px;
  height: 18px;
  margin:0;
  padding: 0;
  float: left;
  text-align:center;
  font:12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: #FFF;
}

.photo{
    height: 280px;
}

ul.colors { margin:0; padding:0; height: 18px;}
ul.colors { list-style-type: none; display: inline; margin:0; padding:0; }
ul.colors li { background: none; display: inline; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
ul.colors li a { background: none; border: 0; margin: 0; margin-right: 2px; padding:0; color: #FFF;}
ul.colors li a img { background: none; border: 0; margin: 0; padding:0; }

This is the JS:

$('.photo').cycle({ 
 fx:     'turnDown', 
 speed:  'fast', 
 timeout: 0, 
 pager:  '.colors',
    fastOnEvent: true,
 slideExpr:     null,
 cleartype:  true,
    cleartypeNoBg:  true,
 pagerAnchorBuilder: function(idx, slide) { 
  // return selector string for existing anchor 
  return '.colors li:eq(' + idx + ') a'; 
} 
});

Can anyone help me? Does Cycle apply CSS proprety to .photo and .colors and this fact create this issue? .name span e .price span scroll.

Answer 1

I've controlled with DebugBar: Cycle add some styles and properties:

<DIV class=photo style="WIDTH: 280px; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 280px" cycleStop="0" cyclePause="0" cycleTimeout="0" jQuery1245766927421="13">

<IMG style="DISPLAY: none; Z-INDEX: 3; LEFT: 0px; ZOOM: 1; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 280px; HEIGHT: 0px" height=280 src="642_03_prod[1].png" width=280 cycleH="280" cycleW="280" jQuery1245766927421="10">
<IMG style="DISPLAY: block; Z-INDEX: 4; LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 280px; ZOOM: 1; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 280px" height=280 src="855_02_prod[1].png" width=280 cycleH="280" cycleW="280" jQuery1245766927421="11">
<IMG style="DISPLAY: none; Z-INDEX: 1; LEFT: 0px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px" height=280 src="856_01_prod[1].png" width=280 cycleH="280" cycleW="280" jQuery1245766927421="12">

</DIV>

There is a position:relative on images div container and position: absolute, display: block on the imgs. I think that these attributes are responsible for the issue but i don't know how to remove them.

Answer 2

File jquery.cycle.all.js:

Line 187:

// container requires non-static position so that slides can be position within if ($cont.css('position') == 'static') $cont.css('position', 'relative');

Line 212:

// set position and zIndex on all the slides $slides.css({position: 'absolute', top:0, left:0}).hide().each(function(i) { var z = first ? i >= first ? els.length - (i-first) : first-i : els.length-i; $(this).css('z-index', z) });

I think these 2 parts of the JS are important to solve the problem but I don't know how.