Re: a:hover action not working in MSIE

Kevin Smith wrote:

I'm trying to use the hover pseudo-attribute to display footnotes in
documentation. The footnotetext is hidden until you hover over the
footnotemark. This work well in Safari and Firefox, but I can't seem
to get it to work in MSIE. Is this even possible in MSIE? If so, can
you explain why this CSS doesn't work?

As Jukka pointed out it does not work because of IE's very limited

:hover implementation and it is only half-assed for <a>.
You can get the function you want, somewhat, in a way, vaguely, by
changing
a.footnote .footnotemark { color: #ff8000; }
to
a.footnote sup { color: #ff8000; }

and add the required "href" attribute to the link. "Name" will not do.
Even so, while the footnote appears doing the above, it does not
disappear. :-(

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