Rails spinoffs - Dec 2006 - Problem with inserting new list items in IE7 (and BlindDown efect)

I have this strange problem with a BlindDown on IE7 only (IE 6,
Firefox, Safari and Opera all OK). I''ve got a tree-like structure made
up on nested ULs. Using Edge Rails.

When the page opens it shows a list of the base-level items, together
with an icon for those items with children (and a hidden UL with empty
LI). When you click the icon it fires an Ajax request which gets the
children, and inserts the children (as LIs) into the hidden UL and then
shows the UL with a blind down.

So far so good. Except in IE7 only, immediately after the blind-down is
finished the list items are all moved left so they are flush left with
the left hand side of the content area. Then when the mouse is moved
(anyway, even just a little bit), they go back to the correct position
(which is indented from the parent LI by 2em via a CSS margin).

I can post some of the code if necessary, but has anyone come across
anything like this befoer. Have tried googling various combinations,
but not getting anywhere.

Thanks in advance
Chris


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I have this strange problem with a BlindDown on IE7 only (IE 6,
Firefox, Safari and Opera all OK). I''ve got a tree-like structure made
up on nested ULs. Using Edge Rails.

When the page opens it shows a list of the base-level items, together
with an icon for those items with children (and a hidden UL with empty
LI). When you click the icon it fires an Ajax request which gets the
children, and inserts the children (as LIs) into the hidden UL and then
shows the UL with a blind down.

So far so good. Except in IE7 only, immediately after the blind-down is
finished the list items are all moved left so they are flush left with
the left hand side of the content area. Then when the mouse is moved
(anyway, even just a little bit), they go back to the correct position
(which is indented from the parent LI by 2em via a CSS margin).

I can post some of the code if necessary, but has anyone come across
anything like this before. Have tried googling various combinations,
but not getting anywhere.

Thanks in advance
Chris



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Chris Taggart wrote:
> I have this strange problem with a BlindDown on IE7 only (IE 6,
> Firefox, Safari and Opera all OK). I''ve got a [...]
It doesn''t matter what you''re inserting, I''ve seen it
with almost any
block element.
> So far so good. Except in IE7 only, immediately after the blind-down is
> finished the list items are all moved left so they are flush left with
> the left hand side of the content area. Then when the mouse is moved
> (anyway, even just a little bit), they go back to the correct position
Yes, same behaviour noticed here. I''ve done some research some time ago
on these issues, gathered lotta info but still didn''t had the time yet
to arrange''em somehow. Here are some quick notes (i repeat, _notes_,
_many_ may be proved to be false):
- - cumulativeOffset fails when dealing with elements in "position:
relative" containers (IIRC at least 2 levels of different positioning);
- - various Effects fails to properly position their elements when dealing
with "margin: auto" containers (your BlindDown is just an example,
I''ve
seen it with Slide, Move, Scroll, etc);
- - many weird stacking related issues (z-index)
... etc ... (the ambient is getting way too cheeeeerful here to be able
to remember anything at this point... cheers!) ;-)

hope this will help you finding your workarounds ;-)

happy new year :)
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Marius Feraru
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OK. Not sure if that''s good news or bad news. Will try & see if I
can
find any workarounds (though I''m pretty much a novice on both CSS and
js


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I''ve had some problems with IE7 with elements "popping" like
you''ve
described. Mainly my concern is coding for IE7 and FF which then just
kills things in IE6. I have IE6 eolas installed but it doesn''t let me
use cookies and it''s too much work to implement a work around (turning
cookies off). I''ll just design for the newer browsers and advise
clients to upgrade.

Microsoft has IE7 on a security update so it will be everywhere. I know
this doesn''t help your problems, what I''m saying is I hope
that we can
work with just the latest browsers and the IE7 will replace the crappy
IE6 which causes me endless headaches.


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