trouble with IE Conditional Comments

Soldato
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Hi,

I have used the CSS drop down menu template from http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/dd_valid.html but have run into an issue.

I have successfully edited it to how I want it to work and it does work very well in Firefox, Chrome & IE7, however a problem arises with IE6. Many of the PCs in the office are still running IE6 due to the IT lad not being bothered to upgrade it. The problem is that I am getting the menu duplicate again directly under the first menu.

What I did was reread the guide and created a test.html with just the menu code in but it still doesn't work. Am I using it correctly? Never used conditional comments before and what I have posted here practically comes straight off the guide. :(

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	
	<head>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> 
		<!--[if lte IE 6]>
		<link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="css/dropdown_ie.css" />
		<![endif]-->
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="dropdown.css" /> 
		
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<title></title>
	</head>

	<body>


<div class="menu">

<ul>
<li><a class="hide" href="../menu/index.html">DEMOS</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="../menu/index.html">DEMOS
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="../menu/zero_dollars.html" title="The zero dollar ads page">zero dollars</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/embed.html" title="Wrapping text around images">wrapping text</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/form.html" title="Styling forms">styled form</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/nodots.html" title="Removing active/focus borders">active focus</a></li>

	<li><a class="hide" href="../menu/hover_click.html" title="Hover/click with no active/focus borders">HOVER/CLICK &gt;</a>

    <!--[if lte IE 6]>
    <a class="sub" href="../menu/hover_click.html" title="Hover/click with no active/focus borders">HOVER/CLICK &gt;
    <table><tr><td>
    <![endif]-->

		<ul>
			<li><a href="../menu/form.html" title="Styling forms">styled form</a></li>
			<li><a href="../menu/nodots.html" title="Removing active/focus borders">active focus</a></li>
			<li><a href="../menu/hover_click.html" title="Hover/click with no active/focus borders">hover/click</a></li>
		</ul>

	<!--[if lte IE 6]>
	</td></tr></table>
    </a>
    <![endif]-->

	</li>

	<li><a href="../menu/shadow_boxing.html" title="Multi-position drop shadow">shadow boxing</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/old_master.html" title="Image Map for detailed information">image map</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/bodies.html" title="fun with background images">fun backgrounds</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/fade_scroll.html" title="fade-out scrolling">fade scrolling</a></li>
	<li><a href="../menu/em_images.html" title="em size images compared">em sized images</a></li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>

<li><a class="hide" href="index.html">MENUS</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="index.html">MENUS
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="spies.html" title="a coded list of spies">spies menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="vertical.html" title="a horizontal vertical menu">vertical menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="expand.html" title="an enlarging unordered list">enlarging list</a></li>
	<li><a href="enlarge.html" title="an unordered list with link images">link images</a></li>
	<li><a href="cross.html" title="non-rectangular links">non-rectangular</a></li>
	<li><a href="jigsaw.html" title="jigsaw links">jigsaw links</a></li>
	<li><a href="circles.html" title="circular links">circular links</a></li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>

<li><a class="hide" href="../layouts/index.html">LAYOUTS</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="../layouts/index.html">LAYOUTS
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="../layouts/bodyfix.html" title="Cross browser fixed layout">Fixed 1</a></li>
	<li><a href="../layouts/body2.html" title="Cross browser fixed layout">Fixed 2</a></li>
	<li><a href="../layouts/body4.html" title="Cross browser fixed layout">Fixed 3</a></li>
	<li><a href="../layouts/body5.html" title="Cross browser fixed layout">Fixed 4</a></li>
	<li><a href="../layouts/minimum.html" title="A simple minimum width layout">minimum width</a></li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>

<li><a class="hide" href="../boxes/index.html">BOXES</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="../boxes/index.html">BOXES
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="spies.html" title="a coded list of spies">spies menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="vertical.html" title="a horizontal vertical menu">vertical menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="expand.html" title="an enlarging unordered list">enlarging list</a></li>
	<li><a href="enlarge.html" title="an unordered list with link images">link images</a></li>
	<li><a href="cross.html" title="non-rectangular links">non-rectangular</a></li>
	<li><a href="jigsaw.html" title="jigsaw links">jigsaw links</a></li>
	<li><a href="circles.html" title="circular links">circular links</a></li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>

<li><a class="hide" href="../mozilla/index.html">MOZILLA</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="../mozilla/index.html">MOZILLA
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/dropdown.html" title="A drop down menu">drop down menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/cascade.html" title="A cascading menu">cascading menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/content.html" title="Using content:">content:</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/moxbox.html" title=":hover applied to a div">mozzie box</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/rainbow.html" title="I can build a rainbow">rainbow box</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/snooker.html" title="Snooker cue">snooker cue</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/target.html" title="Target Practise">target practise</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/splittext.html" title="Two tone headings">two tone headings</a></li>
	<li><a href="../mozilla/shadow_text.html" title="Shadow text">shadow text</a></li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>

<li><a class="hide" href="../ie/index.html">EXPLORER</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="../ie/index.html">EXPLORER
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="../ie/exampleone.html" title="Example one">example one</a></li>
	<li><a href="../ie/weft.html" title="Weft fonts">weft fonts</a></li>
	<li><a href="../ie/exampletwo.html" title="Vertical align">vertical align</a></li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>

<li><a class="hide" href="../opacity/index.html">OPACITY</a>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<a href="../opacity/index.html">OPACITY
<table><tr><td>
<![endif]-->

	<ul>
	<li><a href="../opacity/colours.html" title="colour wheel">opaque colours</a></li>
	<li><a href="../opacity/picturemenu.html" title="a menu using opacity">opaque menu</a></li>
	<li><a href="../opacity/png.html" title="partial opacity">partial opacity</a></li>
	<li><a href="../opacity/png2.html" title="partial opacity II">partial opacity II</a></li>
	<li><a class="hide" href="../menu/hover_click.html" title="Hover/click with no active/focus borders">&lt; HOVER/CLICK</a>

    <!--[if lte IE 6]>
    <a class="sub" href="../menu/hover_click.html" title="Hover/click with no active/focus borders">&lt; HOVER/CLICK
    <table><tr><td>
    <![endif]-->

		<ul class="left">
			<li><a href="../menu/form.html" title="Styling forms">styled form</a></li>
			<li><a href="../menu/nodots.html" title="Removing active/focus borders">active focus</a></li>
			<li><a href="../menu/hover_click.html" title="Hover/click with no active/focus borders">hover/click</a></li>
		</ul>

	<!--[if lte IE 6]>
	</td></tr></table>
    </a>
    <![endif]-->

	</li>
	</ul>

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
</td></tr></table>
</a>
<![endif]-->

</li>
</ul>

</div>

</body>
</html>
 
Forget it, got it working now :D

Hadn't bothered to read the conditional comment that pulled the IE CSS file in and when I did I realised that the css was hosted in the same folder and not CSS/ :D D'oh!

All ive got to do now is to get it working with my page & links!
 
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