Link hover glitch – basic UL Links make page jump on hover?

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— For those eagerly awaiting for yet another Update (April 30 2012, 3:23PM), here it is:

I’ve managed to fix the problem by adding a min-height to my main container. It’s a bad fix, and I hate it – because I have to adjust per content. But this is the only solution I have gathered thus far.

Last minute hints? …

Update of unsucess. April 24 2012, 4:35PM EST // WildPeaks identified the problem in his below comment.

I need to maintain defining the height when my slider toggles. I’ved tried multiple attempts at all suggestions in the directed SO reference question, but can’t seem to get the syntax. I’ve also tried different FX’s – HELP!!

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    $("#photo-rotator").tabs({fx:{opacity: "toggle"}}).tabs("rotate", 6000);
});

</script>

—— Original Question Below:

I’ve coded some basic HTML / CSS links within an Unordered List. For a strange reason, on hover, with some of the links, the page jumps and scrolls up. Almost as if the user has clicked an ‘#’. But this occurs on hover?

Here is my COMPLETE footer.php (This is within a WordPress website)

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Default_Theme
 */
?>

        <div id="endPage">
            <div id="contactus">

                <br /><br />
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                </p>                
                </div>

<?php //<!-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=BEGIN RH FOOTER-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= --> ?>




    <div id="footer" style="margin-top: 30px;">

    <div style="float:left;"><img src="http://www.osmproduction.com/RIF/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/RIF-Footerlogo.jpg" style="border:0px;" /></div><br />

    <div style="position: absolute; margin-right: -150px; width: 350px; height: 250px; margin-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 15px;">
    <ul id="feetnav" style="list-style: none; padding-left: 5px;">

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    </ul>
    </div>

    <div id="searchfoot" style="margin-left: 550px; margin-top: 75px;">

    <?php get_search_form(); ?>


    </div>

    <br />

    <hr style="color: #fff; border: 1px solid white; height: 1px;" /></hr><br />


    <div id="footer_categories">


    <div style="">

    <ul id="feetnav2" style="list-style: none; padding-left: 5px;">

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    </div>

</div>
</div>
</div>

<?php
function homepagename() {
    $homepagename = "";
    if(strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) < 2) {
        $homepagename = "Read It Forward Homepage";
    }
    print $homepagename;
}
?>

I’ve also tried the below CSS snippet (Doesn’t make too much sense but worth a shot, I guess)

.footlink li:hover { 

margin: 0px;

}

LIVE URL [ http://tinyurl.com/cz6sawg ] (Hover over a few bottom footer links)

Suggested that my slider may be causing it? I can’t seem to find anything in the code that should cause this though? Slider code:

<!-- Top of Page Slider -->


<div id="photo-rotator">
<?php $slide_id=1; ?>
<?php
 $featuredPosts = new WP_Query();
 $featuredPosts->query("showposts=4");
 while ($featuredPosts->have_posts()) : $featuredPosts->the_post();
 ?>


    <div id="slide-<?php echo $slide_id; $slide_id++;?>">
     <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="post-image">
         <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'rotator-post-image' ); ?>
         <span class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
     </a>
     </div>

    <?php endwhile; ?><!--/close loop-->

    <ul id="slide-nav">
        <?php $nav_id=1; ?>
        <?php while ($featuredPosts->have_posts()) : $featuredPosts->the_post(); ?>
            <li>
                <a href="#slide-<?php echo $nav_id; ?>">
                    <span class="thumbnail" style="display:none;">
                    </span>
                    <? the_title(); $nav_id++;?>

                    <div style="">

                    <!--<?php the_excerpt(); ?>-->

                    <?php if($text= get_post_meta($post->ID, "slidetext", true)) { ?>
                         <div class="">

                         <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px;"><?php echo $text; ?></p> 

                         </div>
                        <?php } //else { print"<div>"; } ?>  

                    </div>   

                </a>
            </li>
        <?php endwhile; ?><!--/close loop-->
        </ul>
        </div>

<!-- End Top page Slider -->

Here’s the JS initiating the slider:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    $("#photo-rotator").tabs({fx:{opacity: "toggle"}}).tabs("rotate", 6000);
});

</script>

(Also just tried stipping out the UL / LI within markup and CSS in case somehow the JS was interacting. ) 🙁