Question

Hello pls could someone help… I’ve tried everything to get this to work in IE (typical) – I need to get a span to hover with a background image, with multiple background hover images also in the same div. It’s for a nav bar.

Here’s the code:

<div class="menu2">
     <ul> 
    <li><a href="#"><span><img src="/images/Structure/home-active.png" /></span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Directory</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Events</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Jobs</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Property</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>News</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Community</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Travel</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Advertise</span></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span>Login</span></a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>

And the CSS:

/* Main Menu */
.menu2 {clear:both;position:relative;z-index:2;margin:0 auto;width:100%;height:41px;max-width:1280px;}
.menu2 ul.first {float:left;}
.menu2 li {float:left;height:41px;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/left.png) left top no-repeat;margin:0 5px;}
.menu2 li a {padding:0 4px;float:left;color:#222222;font-size:14px;line-height:40px;font-weight:bold;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/right.png) right top no-repeat;}
.menu2 li a span {height:41px;padding:0 8px;display:block;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/repeat.png) repeat-x;}

.menu2 li:hover {text-decoration:none;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/hov-left.png) left top no-repeat;}
.menu2 li a:hover {text-decoration:none;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/hov-right.png) right top no-repeat;}
.menu2 a:hover span {display:block;color:#fff;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/hov-repeat.png)repeat-x;}

As you can see the very last style in the CSS is where it’s not working…

This is what’s happening (view in ie obv.) http://www.dev.inside-guides.co.uk/brentwood/pages/news.html

Any help would be amazing..

Answer 1

There appears an issue with the selector .menu2 a:hover span. Try replacing that line with:

.menu2 li a:hover span {display:block;color:#fff;background:transparent url(/images/menu-icons/test/hov-repeat.png) repeat-x;}

Note the extra ‘li’. It should overwrite the style defined by .menu2 li a span ...

Also, you may want to add a space between the ) and repeat-x.