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Just use Firefox. :)

Honestly, I think you'll need to use a strict dtd:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;

See more on the IE blog.

Jeff Meatball Yang 2009-06-06 04:56:12

Why should I choose strict over transitional? It wasn't clear from the link you sent me.

Nathan DeWitt 2009-06-06 11:44:03

Answer 2

+1 A:

It seems that IE7 doesn't like that you have assigned the background image to the container .nav and that just shines through the transparent backrounds of actual links.

When I set the background image to the links directly, they started to work just fine. I suggest you do the same.

BTW, instead of writing long lines like these:

.nav .vision a:link, .nav .vision a:visited { ... }
.nav .vision a:hover, .nav .vision a:focus, .nav .vision a:active { ... }

I would just use:

.nav .vision a { ... }
.nav .vision a:hover { ... }

The first selector targets all A elements in whatever state they are and a:hover overrides that when the cursor is over A. (I guess you don't really care about all those :focus and :active states.)

Rene Saarsoo 2009-06-06 07:38:26

Bad advice. One should cover all link states.

Wolfr 2009-06-06 11:41:29

Well, in general case I would agree with you, but for navigation you usually don't want to differentiate visited links. I have never cared about the :active state and :focus is something, that the user agents handle quite well with some special styling which you just have to avoid overriding.

Rene Saarsoo 2009-06-06 13:39:26

Answer 3

+1 A:

Emily 2009-06-06 11:32:08

I care, sort of. Does Microsoft still have a downloadable VM with IE6?

Nathan DeWitt 2009-06-06 12:16:28

Nathan DeWitt 2009-06-06 12:21:18

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