teylyn - 12:05 am on Dec 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

Redesigning our web site, I use two html includes, one for the navigation and one for some footer content with images.

It works fine in all the browsers (FF, IE5.01, IE5.5, IE 6), but Opera throws a wobbly. The page loads but sans the footer. BUT as soon as I hover over the menu, (which is also an include, remember) and the first menu drops down, Voila! - the footer pops up too.

Duuhh?

The footer is static html containing the XHTML validator images. The menu is some nested ul li construct fashioned after the sons of suckerfish dropdown menu. It formats purely with CSS and uses a few lines of JavaScript to force the a:hover pseudoclass down IE's throat.

In the html code, the div that calls the footer include is positioned before the div that calls the menu include.

Now, for this particular instance I don't much care if the few Opera browsers see the footer but the behaviour is definitely strange and I worry what will happen to other includes.

Anyone come across that before?