problem with Internet Explorer

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problem with Internet Explorer

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Each page of my site (http://weekendwakeup.com/test) has the same menu.
When on a secondary page, the menu item that reflects that page is set to the color of the background, while the others keep their normal color (dark blue.) I don't know how that happens, but I like it.

However, in IE, when the background of the menu item takes on the background color, the text disappears completely and you see only a blank space.
In Firefox the background changes but you can still read the item.

Firefox is obviously "right" and I would like to have it do the same thing in IE.

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Post by Ruth »

Hi,

Actually, the problem is in your menu_data.js file, go to pagecolor= you have that set the same as the bg color. FF notes that the hash mark is not there so it doesn't implement that and keeps the offcolor as the font color. IE on the other hand, like it does with most things....i.e. a beginning p but no ending one, it assumes there was supposed to be an ending one there and acts like it is there. In this case it goes, hmmm color should have a # so it assumes one and renders that pagecolor. Now, since you have the pagebgcolor and the pagecolor set to the same color IE is rendering them that way. If you like having that path highlighting, which is good for people to know where they are in the menu, just change the pagecolor to be something that will show on the pagebgcolor.

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Post by jaymulberry@gmail.com »

Thank you! Your answer was very helpful.

Jay Mulberry
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