CSS is being overridden by default link color in old IE

Discussion in 'CSS' started by smotta, Oct 17, 2007.

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    Hi All,

    I have a website that was created in dreamweaver, that uses spry menu drop downs, which of course are stylized by a css script. It works beautifully in all browsers i have tried except some older IE ones. I have set the default link color of the pages (using dreamweaver) to a dark blue (the same as the BACKGROUND of the menu bar). The problem is that in older IE, the supposed to be white lettering (on the menu bar, stylized by css) is turned dark blue (the default link color) and therefore can't be seen at all as it's the same color as the background.

    Does anyone have any idea how i might get around this?
    Thanks in advance
    -Sean
     
    smotta, Oct 17, 2007 IP
  2. Clive

    Clive Web Developer

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    Forget about older IE versions, is it older than 5.0? I would not worry about IE <6 browsers any more.
     
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  3. renderman

    renderman Peon

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    ..i don't even care about IE6 users at all.. the earlier they get rid of their old crap and switch to IE7, the better:)
     
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    soulscratch Well-Known Member

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    You must not work on large sites, where the majority of users are (sadly) using MSIE6. I will still continue to support IE6 for another 2 or so years, or until IE next comes out.
     
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  5. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Longer than that - I'm not planning to drop support until the user numbers drop below 1% - it's not THAT hard to support IE 6.x (despite wild claims to the contrary by people who don't understand things like doctypes and trying different techniques BEFORE diving for the hacks, or simple 'non-hack hacks' like haslayout) and the simple fact is, a lot of people are still using Windows CE devices, Windows 98, Windows 2K and other systems that cannot even run IE7.

    Of course, life has gotten a lot simpler since I've been coding for IE, Opera and Safari, then hacking around gecko's shortcomings since most of what I want out of layouts FF can't do like RoW. (WORKING colgroups, min-width and max-width on tables, display:inline-block that doesn't flake out)

    Hell, that's part of why I say **** gecko, they're running their mouths about adding CSS3 and parts of HTML5 for FF3 - here's an idea, finish off CSS2 and HTML 4 first?

    Though on topic, I still say 99% of the problem is right here:
     
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