[SOLVED] IE6 problem using a:hover to display img

[ifubad]

hover pop up img test page http://ifubad.awardspace.com/hoverpopup.html

 

trying to get it to work similar to this http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox

 

Test page works in FF 2 and IE7 and 8, but not 6. The second link works in IE6, but I can't see where the work around are located (if any). Does IE6 have a problem with "a:hover img"?

 

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Came across this pretty cool browser simulator for IE5.5, 6, 7, 8 beta 1, so far, seems to work pretty good at simulating those different IE versions http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage (just spreading the good words for the ones who have not yet heard about it)

 

Honestly, should one just give up on supporting IE6 completely, even though there are still a percentage of people still using it, here are the statistic of the first 7 from my other site.

 

1. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 19,745

2. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 10,038

3. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 7,751

4. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 6,700

5. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 6,162

6. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 4,221

7. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 3,906

 

 

[haku]

I didn't look at your link, but with IE6 you can only apply :hover to <a> tags, nothing else will work. So if you are trying to apply it to something else, it won't work.

[jcalabro]

As haku mentioned, you can only use the :hover pseudo-class on A elements in IE6. If you want to accomplish that in IE6 I would suggest heading back to cssplay and looking a bit more into it. There's much involved.

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/slide_show.html

[ifubad]

I did see the page that you linked to, that one looks like it is do-able in IE6 with a bit of work like you stated. However, the one I provided a link to, with the pop up image, I looked at the css, couldn't figure out what he did in-order to make it work in IE6. Heck, maybe just drop support for IE6, IE sux anyway, damn MS. I just need to decide on which layout method to use first that is cross browser compatible without hacks.

 

Thnx to both anyway