Dynamic Page Tabs in IE6
Note: This is a re-posting/summary of a post that was written and released on the Onehub blog; I'm just posting up a snippet so that you can see what it's about. If you want to read the full text, please visit: http://www.onehub.com/past/2009/1/2/dynamic_page_tabs_in_ie6/
While working to ensure that the Onehub experience was of the best possible quality for our Internet Explorer 6 users, I ran in to a unique challenge: we have page tabs that need to be completely flexible. I had no guarantee that they would be a certain width, height, or even how many tabs there would be.
Anyone who has worked with IE6 for long enough will know what a headache scenario that can be, but I needed to make sure that these tabs were as usable in IE6 as they were in any other browser. After doing no small amount of research, I realized that very few people have written about how they have solved this problem; in fact, I found very few examples of tabs that were as complex as ours were. So, I had to solve the problem for myself, and this is what I did.