Image Hover Annoyance

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Image Hover Annoyance

Mousing over an image in MSIE shows a popup pallette

rainborick

10:35 pm on Jul 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

A client wanted a wallpaper-style background image that scaled. I searched for alternatives, but the only solution I could find was to rely on layers with the lowest layer containing a width:100% <div> with a <img width="100%"> inside. It actually works reasonably well as long as the content doesn't extend below the image. But the annoying part is that in MSIE when you mouse over any area not overlaid with content the pop-up save/print/etc icon pallette appears. Is there any way to prevent that? Thanks.

BjarneDM

11:04 pm on Jul 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

insert this in the <head> section :
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

g1smd

1:59 am on Jul 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Does anyone still do the other related "kill the annoying Microsoft feature" on their sites now?

<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">

rainborick

2:09 am on Jul 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Many thanks!

Now that I have the attention of the MSIE fans, was there any workaround for the bug that causes MSIE to occasionally not display images (particularly .jpg's as I recall). I searched the site here and Google this afternoon and came up empty. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

BjarneDM

11:57 am on Jul 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

MSSmartTagsPreventParsing:

It's standard practise for me to insert both the image menu pop-up preventing as well as the smarttags banning thing on all websites i develop.