Submenus are blank in zBench
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When a visitor comes to my blog and hovers on the top-level item for a menu (for example, “Fiction” or “Non Fiction” on my blog), the items in the submenu show properly. However, if the visitor clicks on the top-level menu item to select it (thereby showing the entries in that category instead of the home page), the sub menu now shows up blank. Hovering over the submenu allows the individual menu item under the mouse to display.
I have tested this with pages as well and the same thing occurs – click the menu item at the top and the submenu items below no longer display text.
Is there a way to work around this?
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
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I’m using Firefox 5.0.1 and I don’t experience that behavior. For me all is well, so I’m wondering which browser and version of it are you using and if you would like to try troubleshooting > http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/
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Ok with me too, in all three browsers I’m using. The only (intentional) difference after you’ve clicked on a top-level item is that its sub-items change to a text-shadow effect.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned all of that. I am using IE 9 as my default browser.
I just tried Firefox 5 and IE 8 and I do see that the menus appear. However, the font of the sub menu items is different when you click on the top menu. When you don’t have the top category selected, the font looks normal and clear for the submenu items; when you click the top category, the submenu items appear blurry or etched in these browsers. I find it hard to read, but if it’s intentional… that’s fine.
For what it’s worth, in a test blog, I’ve changed to a different theme and do not have the same problem. So, the combination of this specific theme and IE9 seems to be the problem.
Thanks for the help. I should have tried the other browsers before posting.
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Thanks for the confirmation.@lousywriter13
I came back to tell you I also see a normal display in IE8. Yes the highlighting (text shadow effect) is intentional as it cues the reader to which page or sub-page they are viewing. However, the disappearance of text in IE9 ought to be brought to Staff attention. -
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Text shadows, linear gradients and the more advanced CSS are supported by all browsers, but the problem with IE is that just, like has always been the case with Microsoft, they do it there way and require designers to use “filters” instead of the standard CSS that everyone else uses. That is why web designers get out the pitchforks and torches whenever anyone mentions IE or Microsoft.
Fingers crossed that by the time MS gets to IE 27 they will have fully embraced standards and designers will not have to juggle chainsaws while jumping through flaming hoops just to get their sites to render correctly in IE.
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