very strange rendering in IE6 (bug?)

javascript folding menu elements appear in other frames

[marcvangend]

I have a very strange problem with a website I'm building. You can see it at
<Sorry, no personal URLs. See TOS [webmasterworld.com]>

I use a horizontal menu with some submenu's that appear on a mouseover. It's programmed in javascript (not by me) and I've seen it working on other sites. The html containing the menu placed in a frame. When I click certain menu items, parts of the menu and other visual elements are repeated vertically - even into the frames below!

Even stranger: I can erase this visual weirdness by moving any other window over it. To me, this suggests very strongly that it is a bug in IE6. Nonetheless, I would like to have a way around is and keep using this javascript menu. Who knows a workaround for this problem? Thank you.

[edited by: tedster at 11:56 pm (utc) on Nov. 28, 2004]

[marcvangend]

Woohoo I solved the problem myself. Just letting you know what the problem was:
The css file for the mainframe files didn't contain a background-color specification. IE6 seems to render the content of the top frame all over the window and then place the mainframe content over it. No background color obviously means 'transparent', causing the topframe contents to bleed into the frame below.

[edited by: BlobFisk at 12:45 pm (utc) on Nov. 29, 2004]

[tedster]

That is a fascinating report - thanks.

I work hard to remember background-color on my own pages, but if someone ever brings up similar issue, I'll know where to start looking.

[BlobFisk]

Does background-color have to be specified implicitly or does shorthand background work ok also?

[marcvangend]

I tried, background works just as well.