Question

I have a sort of an image map, where I’ve used li’s to create the elements, and on hovering the information pops up. The html code is:

<li id="b906" style="z-index: 1000;">
    <a href="#">
        <span>&nbsp;</span>
        <span class="para">Some text and maybe an image goes here.</span>
    </a>
</li>

And the CSS code for the corresponding HTML is:

#map ul li {
position: absolute;
list-style: none;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
text-align: center;
display: block;
}

#map ul li a {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}

#map ul li:hover a {
display: block;
}

#map ul li a span {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
border: 2px solid #777;
}

#map ul li a span.para {
display: block;
background: #777;
padding: 2px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
width: 100px;
}

This works splendidly in all the browsers, but IE8 does not show the spans on hover. However, if I put a border: 1px solid red; on the li, the spans do show up, but only if my mouse is exactly on that 1px thin border. Doesn’t show up still if the cursor is inside the li.

What am I doing wrong here? 🙁
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Internet Explorer has some problems with dealing with :hover events, especially for li elements. You need to use this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html

Should work for you then.
If all else fails, and in my case, I use jQuery’s hoverIntent to show menus reliably.