Comments on: IE6 bug: Ignored selector hover bug

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:22:08 +0000

@zcorpan

Is valid and has the same problem.

By: Roger Gordon

Roger Gordon — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:22:14 +0000

Thank you so much for this sanity-saving fix. I’ve spent the last 6+ hours trying to figure this one out with no luck. It works perfectly now with
a:hover {paddding-top: 0;} applied.
Much appreciated, and I agree that you should contact the guys over at P.I.E with this bug, as I couldn’t find a solution to this problem there.

By: Arne

Arne — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:55:20 +0000

Yes, but it isn’t just annoying, it’s really corrupting the web… this crappy browser… :-(

I really hope that systems with OS’ “below” Windows XP will disappear soon, as we can assume that in the world of Windows XP we will at least see a great migration from IE6 to IE7 this year. Doesn’t solve all the problems, but the most annoying ones I think. Microsoft should only be more rigorous in distributing the new version… and yes, to users of illegal versions too, as they are a great amount of windows users at all. So if they really want to help us developers and the web itself they should make possible to update to IE7 without genuine authentication I think. I think it’s a better choice to help the web than to manage excluding illegal versions…

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:46:19 +0000

@Arne: That’s easy, IE6 does not support the adjecent sibling selector at all. You’ll have to use javascript for that… Annoying, isn’t it?

By: Arne

Arne — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:06:26 +0000

It seems that this fix doesn’t work for all combinations. At least when using adjacent sibling selectors the fix doesn’t work.

a:hover + .nextElement { display:block; }

does not work in IE6, no matter what I am trying. Have you got a tipp how I could get this running with IE6?

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:18:43 +0000

@Rasmus Kaj: Sorry for not answering until now. I don’t think they are related. IE probably does not even generate an event for mouseover on anything other than links, and I doubt that’s the problem here.

By: zcorpan

zcorpan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:37:17 +0000

Siegfried, a button inside a link is invalid, and HTML4 does not define what should happen when you click on a button that is inside a link, so no behavior is wrong.

By: Rasmus Kaj

Rasmus Kaj — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:08:47 +0000

This feels somwehat related to the fact that IE6 ignores :hover on elements other than a …

Is that fixed in IE7?

By: Siegfried

Siegfried — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:26:43 +0000

There is another IE bug with links. I already posted it on several sites, but this seems to be ignored.
As you know, inside any anchor (a element) there may be any text or html inline element, and anything which is rendered visually then becomes clickable and should lead to the destination referenced by the href attribute. Not so with the IE. Just try to put a button inside the anchor. The destination is shown in the status line, but clicking on that link does nothing. This is a bug in the most basic and important feature of the web.

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:15:17 +0000

@Adam: Seems that setting almost anything on a:hover works.

By: Cerebral

Cerebral — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:07:14 +0000

Yeah I found this one too ;-)

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:03:01 +0000

I’ve come across this before and found that:

a:hover { cursor: pointer; }

also works.

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:45:13 +0000

@Cerebral: Good idea, I have a lot of these little bugs in my posts, I’ll contact them.

By: Cerebral

Cerebral — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:55:35 +0000

Good to know. Do you know another site than PIE(maybe you should contact them to add this one to their list) which gathers all those IE6 bugs ?