submenu font different than main menu only in IE 8

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 18:05:25 BST

I just noticed that in IE v8 that my submenus have a bolder and blurry font than my main menu text. It is only in IE 8. This did not show in IE 7 or below or FF or OPera or Safari. Any idea why this might be?

Re: submenu font different than main menu only in IE 8

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 22:02:31 BST

Apparently the shadow attribute not only does a shadow behind the box that the menu is in but also the text inside of the box but only in IE. I liked the affect but had to remove it since it only works in IE and makes the font very ugly.

Thanks

Re: submenu font different than main menu only in IE 8

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday April 24 2009 - 4:19:25 BST

Hi,

Well, all the filters and transitions attributes are IE only since they are from Microsoft Filters and Transitions and run from the ? activeX thing. If you want to see them there is an interactive demo so you can play around http://support.milonic.com/demos/filters/index.htm

Now, as to your menu, I am not seeing what you are seeing when I test your page with the shadow still set. I use browsershot.org and the text looks fine. Do you have something set on your OS, effects or something?

Also, your data files look as if they were converted from version 3? If that is the case, you need to remove this part at the top. That is how it was in 3, but in 5 those effects are done with the overfilter and outfilter code.


And, you need to check your data files, because they look as if they have double ; in places not where you have the n b sp; coded but it looks like in most places just before the status=

As to status, that's a waste of time coding since the browsers no longer support that. It became a phising issue, so Milonic removed that ability from the menu. It doesn't do anything being there, but there's no sense in coding it since it does nothing

Ruth

Re: submenu font different than main menu only in IE 8

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Friday April 24 2009 - 5:36:19 BST

Yes it has gone through many transistions over the years and I basically have just not messed with it as long as it works. The problem may be more with ie 8 than anything else since even the milonic drop down menus have started looking faded and blurry while the main top level menus look fine.
I do not think now that it is anything in my code as much as the browser since all other browsers opera, ff, safari look fine.

Good to know about the status thing and will go thru and clean up the double commas.

Re: submenu font different than main menu only in IE 8

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday April 24 2009 - 6:19:53 BST

Hi,

But that is what I don't understand. Here is a screenshot of your menu with a submenu open in IE8.



As you can see there is no shadow on the text. It's why I wondered if it is some setting on your browser, probably under internet options advanced. Anyway, just trying to check it since I can't see the problem in the screenshot.

Ruth