Nice Menus in Internet Explorer 6 using the Blueprint theme causes IE to crash.

I can fix it if I comment out line 18 of nice_menus.css

ul.nice-menu,
ul.nice-menu ul {
  z-index: 5;
/*  position: relative;*/
}

I haven't been able to figure out the fix to this, and I can't reproduce the error in a system using Multiple IEs, just IE6 proper.

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fcb’s picture

fcb commented

I was having the same error in IE6 only, but with a customized Zen theme, not Blueprint as in the example above.
Unfortunately the CSS posted above didn't fix my problem.
After a couple of hours of looking in all the wrong places, the following line of CSS solved my problem:

ul.nice-menu ul {
  position:relative;
}

Which, you may notice, is almost the exact opposite of the solution listed above.

The theme I'm working on has been customized quite a bit from it's Zen roots, so in my case I think this wasn't a problem with either Zen or Nice Menus, but rather just a case of having to have the appropriate position type set. My guess is that depending on the type of positioning you're using throughout your CSS the solution will change: hence two opposite solutions for what appears to be the same problem.

I hope this is helpful to someone!

spitfire72’s picture

spitfire72 commented

Hi - I just posted a question about nice menus and a customized Zen theme but haven't heard anything. Your post response is the closest I have found to my problem since you have both a customized zen theme and nice menus. Was this IE crash the only major stumbling block you had with your nice menus displlaying "nicely" in IE? I am encountering layout, visiblity, background color, clickability : you name it in MSIE 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0.
http://class.educationgrove.com
this is a volunteer project that is eating up all my time for paid work AND everyone is at the beach today while I struggle to get this site live.

Oh and I am new to posting on this site, so may be doing it wrong....not sure if anyone here supports nice menus in fact.

Thank you!

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liberatr
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Primary language English
Location Portland, OR
commented

spitfire, if you're having trouble with nice menus, the first thing you will notice everyone say is "try it in a core theme". Zen (with no customizations) seems to be OK with most people here in the issue queue as well.

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add1sun commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (fixed)

Closing old support issues without activity.