Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: pgmethodist
Dated: Tuesday April 15 2008 - 3:48:29 BST

I am having a problem with my site. I am using the same menu code on most of the pages in my website. When I go from one page with the menu to another page with it, the menu is not working on the new page until I hit F5 to refresh. I am noticing this in IE7 on windows XP, which I expect willl be the majority of my viewers at this point. I am using the 5_792 release. You can see this at http://www.pgmethodist.com/newindex.html. Follow the links to the "Greensburg Kansas Mission Trip" or "Worship->Scheduled Sunday Services" and back to Home to observe the behavior. I'm hoping that I'm just overlooking some simple config step, but I haven't found the answer in the other posts and docs I've read here so far. Any ideas? Thanks for the assistance!

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: pgmethodist
Dated: Friday April 18 2008 - 4:42:27 BST

I'm not feeling any love yet on this forum. Is anyone else seeing what I am seeing on IE? It seems like the js isn't kicking off for the menu when I go from one page to another. It does this when I go from http://www.pgmethodist.com/newindex.html to any page on the Worship menu. For some reason the Home (newindex.html) page seems to work correctly every time. Do I have something wrong in my page? I've tried everything I know to try with my very limited scripting skill set and I could sure use some help. Thanks.

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: John
Dated: Friday April 18 2008 - 13:30:08 BST

Followed your instructions, but I'm not seeing any problem at all with the menu in IE7. Coming back in to the home page works just fine.

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: pgmethodist
Dated: Friday April 18 2008 - 13:41:31 BST

Thanks John... now I'm feeling it! Strange... I am seeing the behavior from both of my home computers and my work computer, all running XP with IE6 or IE7. The behavior has changed a bit and I'm not sure why. Now the Home (newindex.html) page seems to work every time, but if you go back and forth on the different pages in the Worship menu, when the new page loads I see the menu but cannot select any thing on it, I cannot see any menu items highlighting with mouseover and I cannot see the submenus. When it gets like this, I hit F5 to refresh and the menu works fine, but if I go to another page on the Worship menu it does the same thing.

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday April 18 2008 - 20:52:24 BST

I am seeing it in IE 6, but only on the worship pages. I can't find the problem but am still working on it.

Ruth

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: pgmethodist
Dated: Friday April 25 2008 - 4:29:05 BST

Ruth... have you had any luck finding my problem? Thanks!

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday April 25 2008 - 5:51:03 BST

Hi,

I have been unable to find anything that is different on the two pages that might cause the problem. However, I did notice that you have the menu set as position="center"; which is not valid. That should be position="relative"; since you are placing it in the table. Now, since it is the same code on all pages, then that shouldn't be causing the problem, but try changing that position to position="relative"; and see if that fixes the issue. If not, please post back and I will have to try and get it to Milonic for help.

Ruth

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: pgmethodist
Dated: Friday April 25 2008 - 23:17:59 BST

Wow...good catch! It is looking like the position="center" is the issue. Changing that to "relative" seems to resolve the issue. I guess my brain is finally starting to go because I don't even remember sticking that in there! Thank you! I really appreciate your help on this. So... where do I send that box of "Thank you" chocolates?

Re: Menu needs refresh in IE7

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday April 26 2008 - 4:45:27 BST

Oh, wouldn't I love them, but you better send them to someone not trying to lose 30lbs

Ruth