Issues with dropdown menu in ie7 WordPress

darryl crosby comments:

Thanks Mike,

I noticed that behavior. I disabled all my plugins including Smooth Slider which created the slide show but no luck. I have the same problem on pages without the slider. i may have to create a new nav bar or break it down to a point where it works and add elements from there. The site is built from Branford Magazine theme.

Peter Michael comments:

Darryl,

yes, you can try by removing all and then adding one-by-one to see where the issue comes from. I would suggest changing the menu, maybe use [[LINK href="http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#examples"]]Superfish[[/LINK]]

Note, you have included jQuery twice: leave the one in the header, but you should remove the one further down, probably copied from Mailchimp (http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js).

Good luck, Pete

darryl crosby comments:

OK,
I went ahead and added the Superfish menu. It works fine with just the CSS, just needs styling. I will try to get the js working tomorrow. One question: Should I just add in the SuperFish js files to my js folder or is it necessary to remove the old files that were used by the previous menu. Can jquery-1.2.6.min.js replace version 1.2.3?

thanks

Peter Michael comments:

You should only include JS files which are needed on your site. You should also make use of [[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script"]]wp_enqueue_script[[/LINK]] and [[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_style"]]wp_enqueue_style[[/LINK]] and assign any dependencies.

As an example, to load the superfish JS and also make sure jQuery is loaded before, you would use:


wp_enqueue_script( 'js-superfish', 'path/to/superfish.js', array('jquery'), '1.4.8' );


HTH