Re: Fw: Malpositioned dropdown menus

Olivier Vit <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.jahia.template
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You may find some interesting clues here
http://www.quirksmode.org/viewport/compatibility.html
Be also very careful with your DOCTYPE

You can also look at how Valeo.com is done, but it is not really pure 
DIVs and CSS positioning, and I compromised on how nice is the 
javascript code to make it work on Mac/IE

Best wishes ;-)

Philippe Vollenweider a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I have the same problems with things like this:
>
> div.wrapper {
>     left: 50%;
>     position: absolute;
>     clear: both;
> }
> div.main {
>     position:absolute;
>     width:700px;
>     left: -350px;
> }
>
> and the page is like
>
> <body>
> <div class="wrapper">
>     <div class="main">
>         here is my page.
>     </div>
> </div>
> </body>
>
> Is it the same kind of problem you have?
>
> I think that the methodes getPageOffsetLeft and getPageOffsetTop (file 
> action.js) return the wrong value. So you will need correct them by 
> substracting the PageOffset (top or left) of the element.offsetParent.
>
> For me it works with Firefox but not with IE :-(
>
> If you find another solution, please contribute it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philippe.
>
> At 01.12.2004 11:49, you wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> Didn't get any suggestions from dev-list so I'll try here.
>>
>> Thx,
>> Christian
>>
>> ----- Forwarded by Christian Karlsson/Integration/Generic on 2004-12-01
>> 11:48 -----
>>
>> [email protected] wrote on 2004-11-10 12:57:03:
>>
>> > Hello all
>> > I'm having problems with positioning of the dropdown menus.
>> > The getX and getY methods don't seem to be working any more. They did
>> until
>> > I changed the design into a CSS-based layout. Now all the menus 
>> appear in
>> > the same spot in Win/Mozilla and slightly misplaced in Win/IE. So it
>> works
>> > better in IE but I've had to make some hacks with absolute 
>> positioning to
>> > make CSS work there. Are the getX and getY methods dependant on a 
>> table
>> > oriented design or on an absolutely positioned design?
>> > The site is at http://192.68.102.165/jahia.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Christian
>> >
>
>
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