{"id":164,"date":"2006-04-16T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/peter-nederlofs-whateverhover-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:35:19","slug":"peter-nederlofs-whateverhover-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/peter-nederlofs-whateverhover-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Nederlof&#8217;s whatever:hover to the rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I found a way to do CSS2 drop-down menus and force IE to accept them. It takes a little bit of JavaScript madness created by Peter Nederlof called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~peterned\/csshover.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\">whatever:hover<\/a>  which forces IE to accept the :hover psuedo-class for any element (as is the spec for CSS2).<\/p>\n<p>While it uses IE specific tricks to make it work, it can be done in such a way as to not break in other browsers. (In other words, the changes are only applied if the browser is IE.)<\/p>\n<p>There is a handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seoconsultants.com\/css\/menus\/tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial<\/a> at SEOConsultants that was incredibly helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I found a way to do CSS2 drop-down menus and force IE to accept them. It takes a little bit of JavaScript madness created by Peter Nederlof called whatever:hover which forces IE to accept &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,46,32],"tags":[188,183,169],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-css","category-internet-explorer","category-javascript","tag-css","tag-internet-explorer","tag-javascript"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-2E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}