Question

I have some CSS and HTML for horizontal tabs that works perfectly in jsfiddle. However, in both Firefox 13 and IE6 (the browser I most need this to work in) the tabs are displayed as a vertical unordered list.

Here is the CSS:

.tablist
{
    list-style:none; 
    height:2em;
    padding:0; 
    margin:0; 
    border: none;
}
.tablist li
{
    display:inline-block;
    float: left;
}

.tablist li a
{
    float: left;
    margin-right:0.13em; 
    padding:0 1em;
    text-decoration:none;
    border:0.06em solid #000;
    border-bottom:0;
    font:bold 0.88em/2em arial,geneva,helvetica,sans-serif;
    color:#000;
    background-color:#ccc;

    /* CSS 3 elements */
    webkit-border-top-right-radius:0.50em;
    -webkit-border-top-left-radius:0.50em;
    -moz-border-radius-topright:0.50em;
    -moz-border-radius-topleft:0.50em;
    border-top-right-radius:0.50em;
    border-top-left-radius:0.50em;
}

.tablist li a:hover
{
    background:#3cf; 
    color:#fff;
    text-decoration:none;
}
.tablist li#current a
{
    background-color: #777;
    color: #fff;
}
.tablist li#current a:hover
{
    background: #39C;
}

And here is the HTML:

<div class="tablist">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="#Dashboard"><strong>Tutorialsphere</strong></a></li>
        <li><a href="#"><strong>Photoshop</strong></a></li>
        <li><a href="#"><strong>Illustrator</strong></a></li>
        <li><a href="#"><strong>Fireworks</strong></a></li>
        <li><a href="#"><strong>Flash</strong></a></li>
        <li><a href="#"><strong>CSS</strong></a></li>
        <li><a href="#"><strong>PHP</strong></a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

For a while this was working in Firefox and I don’t remember changing anything — but I must have.

Any advice is appreciated.

Regards.

Answer 1

I don’t have IE6 handy, but try display: block; float:left to this selector: .tablist li a