# an animatable menu with gracefull IE 8 support
long story short:
- you can easily animate/transition the `height` and also the `opacity` of the menu, which gives it a nice _fade'n'slide_ entrance.
- IE does not understand transitions or opacity, and depending on your setup, just the `height: 0` wouldn't suffice (i.e. when you have negative margins…), so we go for `visibility` here, which does the – non animated – trick.
- you absoluteley _need_ to do transition on `visibility` as well, otherwise the menu would just _pop_ in or out of view.
- if you _do not_ need to support IE 8, then forget about `visibility`, as IE 9 understands `opacity`, but doesn't understand transitions – which is fine.