[pmwiki-users] Alt-E doesn't work with IE

[H. Fox]

On 2/26/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:03:41PM -0500, Kemble Oliver wrote:
> > The skin we are using with <http://www.scgis.gov> displays perfectly in
> > Firefox,  but  not in IE.  Removing the GUI editing buttons from the top
> > right of the display cured the problem, but it meant that we had to use
> > the ALT-E command to get into edit mode.
> >
> > The Alt-E command works with Firefox flawlessly.  It does not work with
> > IE at all.
>
> Microsoft's Internet Explorer doesn't honor accesskey= attributes
> in any elements that have the display property set to "none".  So,
> on the page you just mentioned:
>
>   <div id="menubar" style="display: none;">
>     <div id="wikicmds" align="right">
>       <ul><li class='browse'><a accesskey='ak_view'  class='selflink'
>         href='http://www.scgis.gov?n=Main.HomePage'>View</a>
>       </li><li class='edit'><a accesskey='e'  rel='nofollow'  class='wikilink'
>         href='http://www.scgis.gov?n=Main.HomePage?action=edit'>Edit</a>
>       </li><li class='diff'><a accesskey='h'  rel='nofollow'  class='wikilink'
>         href='http://www.scgis.gov?n=Main.HomePage?action=diff'>History</a>
>     ...
>
> the "display:none" property is preventing IE from honoring the
> accesskey= attributes in the links that follow.
>
> At the moment I don't have a really good solution for this, short of
> removing the 'display:none' property somehow and getting it to view
> correctly in IE.  Perhaps moving the links to somewhere else in the
> page template (e.g., the bottom) and setting the color of the links to
> white would work?

Or maybe create a set of "empty" links.

<a accesskey='e' rel='nofollow'
 href='http://www.scgis.gov?n=Main.HomePage?action=edit'></a><a
 accesskey='d' rel='nofollow'
 href='http://www.scgis.gov?n=Main.HomePage?action=diff'></a>

Hagan