I've been searching the Internet for weeks now trying to solve the problem of my jumping links. Every time I hovered over links displayed using unordered lists, the text would jump to the right. The problem was affecting the navigation tabs as well. I've been looking for a CSS hack and thinking it was the IE hover problem, but normal links were okay.
Tonight I realised the problem only existed in my main weblog, so I've been comparing the style-sheets for the quotes blog and my main blog. All along the problem has been padding. The text was jumping 2 pixels to the left when the mouse went over, but only on the LI. It's fixed now and I can stop fretting. In the meantime I've learned lots about the problems with CSS standards and IE and that hacks will no doubt be necessary for a while longer, but it was my own fault all along.
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