Conditional IE6 menu question.

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:00 pm

I did a new theme for my site and it looks great in IE 7 & 8, Firefox 3.1 & 3.5, Safari 2.1 & 3, Google Chrome and Opera 9 & 10. IE6 pushes the header image and nukeNAV down about 2 inches lower than it should. I like the nukeNAV placement in my header so I was thinking of not using it in IE6. I can't test this until Monday when I return to work (IE6 on office comp). I need some input on this code snippet, would this be ok or is there a better way.

Code:

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE 6.0') !== FALSE) {


    $navtop = '&nbsp;•&nbsp;<a href="index.php"><b>'._HOME.'</b></a>&nbsp;•&nbsp;<a href="modules.php?name=Downloads"><b>'._UDOWNLOADS.'</b></a>&nbsp;•&nbsp;<a href="modules.php?name=Your_Account"><b>'._FSIYOURACCOUNT.'</b></a>&nbsp;•&nbsp;<a href="forums.html"><b>'._BBFORUMS.'</b></a>&nbsp;•&nbsp;';


}





else {


    $navtop = $nukeNAV;


}

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:41 am

That should work, or another option would be to use an ie6 specific CSS file or use a CSS conditional IF statement in your CSS file to override.

Code:




<!--[if IE 6]>


Special instructions for IE 6 here


<![endif]-->

If you are tempted by the CSS method, you could put the style information in includes/custom_files/custom_head.php (not customer_headerer.php and you wouldn't have to worry about over writing the code during an RN update in the future Smile

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:01 am

It seems to work just fine. My site looks much better in IE6 now.