I hate IE

Yesterday i had to create a demo page.
Something simple: to put together a few links sorted in a few categories.
I decided to go with a vertical menu using unsorted lists and jQuery for a fading effect.
Easy job at first sight. Indeed, until IE8 decided to make me spend hours for a stupid bug.

I wasted  a lot of time to find out why A:hover didn’t work.
In fact is working but IE8 is sooo, sooo stupid.
It fails to render White or #FFFFFF (#FFF) as hover color so, if you really want to use white as hover, you better use something like #FFFFFE !!!

Check this link for more. A friend found it after i found the fix by trial and error and told him about the bug.

Edit:
In fact using white color for A:hover is working too but only if you specify a background color for A (in this case orange)

a{
    display:block;
    color: white;
    background-color: orange;
    text-decoration:none;
    padding:5px 5px 5px 25px;
}

a:hover {
    color:#333;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

If you want to use a transparent background, your only chance is to use #FFFFFE as background for A:hover:

a:hover {
    color:#333;
    background-color: #FFFFFE;
}

3 Responses to 'I hate IE'

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1. Internet Explorer 8 seems to be better than any previous version of IE. IE8 is very stable and rarely crashes or cause blue screens.
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   Bruce Stoner

   6 Dec 09 at 11:57 PM

    

2. Internet Explorer 8 is very good because it is as stable as Opera. I hate the previous versions of IE like IE6 because it hangs frequently. :

   

   Reece Khan

   28 Apr 10 at 2:58 PM

    

3. Internet Explorer 8 have been my most used browser this year, it is definitely stable and fast loading too. “”

   

   Savannah Scott

   6 May 10 at 4:43 PM

    

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