Microsoft recently announced on their blog that they will continue to support their now 8-year-old  browser IE6 until 2014. For readers unfamiliar with the reasons why this might be news-worthy,  it is mainly because we web designers have wasted half our lives trying to get our client’s websites to display correctly in this antiquated browser [...]

I hear a lot of talk on Twitter and the bloggosphere about rendering issues in IE6 * and in my experience the most common one is the double margin problem.

Anyone using Dreamweaver CS3 to create Spry horizonal menus will discover that they don’t display correctly in Internet Explorer.  There is a simple fix for this. In the CSS file add a width to the submenu style – around line 42: ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul { width: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; z-index: [...]