Drop Down Menu Headache in IE 6

Suckerfish Drop Down Navigation

[svoltmer]

Hi,
I've got my dropdowns for my navigation to work properly in Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE 7 but they don't work in IE 6. I am using the Suckerfish sfHover.js which I thought was supposed to fix IE 6? What am I doing wrong?

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Any help will be appreciated! Thanks.

[edited by: engine at 9:58 pm (utc) on Mar. 26, 2008]
[edit reason] No urls, please post code, thanks [/edit]

[SuzyUK]

svoltmer, could you post the CSS for your menu

shouldn't need the js, but could you confirm you are using a properly nested list (HTML ul) with the ID that the SFish js is targeting

thanks

[sunwukung]

I've read a lot about this problem with dropdowns - the issue may be owing to the fact that IE6 doesn't recognise the :hover pseudo class in association with anything else other than an anchor tag. In fact, it's the same reason I joined this forum - since there was quite a lot of interesting feedback about this issue i.e:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Without wanting to distract from the OP, I wanted to ask an "ethical" question regarding best practice. The dropdown solutions I've seen almost invariably require additional .js*
- but that may endanger the solution in the event of the target user disabling java in their browser. Is this an acceptable risk? Would it be better to implement a dual site - i.e: one with flash/java - one without?

I've tried the Suckerfish technique, but unfortunately I can only test in IE7 and FF, so I'm loathe to employ a fancy menu without being able to test it thoroughly across the board.

I've also seen this method - but not tested it - it seems to be a variation on the "whatever:Hover" solution - [blog.svsportal.info...]

(*barring these: [#*$!...]
[tjkdesign.com...] - but they request a reference to the author's copyright on sites that implement the technique, which might not look so great on a page if you're making it for a commercial client)

[sunwukung]

I'm really sorry, i just read the CSS forum rules about not-posting links off-site - and I'm unable to delete the links from my post. My humble apologies...