title: IE 6 does not recognize the current page
body: <p>I am using a simple list as navigation which brings up the appropriate background image depending on the state of the link normal, hover or current. In IE6 the current or actual page is being ignored, not displaying the different image and leaving the link active. The code is -</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="mainNav"&gt;
    &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="../index.html"&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="../work.html" class="current"&gt;Projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="../contact.html"&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The CSS for the navigation is -</p>
  
  <pre><code>#topcontent1 #mainNav {
      position: absolute;
      left: 86px;
      width: 328px;
      font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 0.9em;
      padding: 0px;
      clear: both;
      color: #666633;
      margin-right: 0px;
      margin-bottom: 0px;
      margin-left: 0px;
      font-weight: 700;
      text-transform: uppercase;
  }
  #topcontent1 #mainNav ul {
      list-style: none;
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      float: left;
      width: 100%;
  }
  #topcontent1 #mainNav li {
      float: left;
      margin: 0;
      padding:0;
      display: block;
  }
  #topcontent1 #mainNav li a:link, #topcontent1 #mainNav li a:visited {
      font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 1em;
      color: #fff;
      text-decoration: none;
      display: block;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      margin-right: 10px;
      width: 99px;
      height: 62px;
      margin-top: 0px;
      line-height: 62px;
      padding-right: 0px;
      padding-bottom: 0px;
      padding-left: 0;
      text-align: center;
      padding-top: 60px;
      background-image: url('../images and html/images/tabnorm.jpg');
  }
  #topcontent1 #mainNav li a:hover {
      color: #f8b449;
      border: none;
      background-image: url('../images and html/images/tabhover.jpg');
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
  }
  #topcontent1 #mainNav ul li a.current {
      color: #AAB3B2;
      background-image: url('../images and html/images/tabcurr.jpg');
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
  }
  #topcontent1 #mainNav ul li a.current:hover {
      color: #AAB3B2;
      cursor: default;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The #topcontent1 #mainNav ul li a.current style is seemingly being ignored by IE6.</p>
  
  <p>can anyone see an issue or suggest a work around</p>