CSS - Newbie Position And Menu Help

I am not an expert on developing websites, but I've been able to get our site up and running without much challenge. I used a menu I found on www.dynamicdrive.com that allowed you to have our menu in a horizontal or verticle layout.

We don't use frames in our site but we wanted a frames-type look. So we use the menu in the vertical layout. What I'd like to do is find a way to keep the menu on the screen as people scroll down. I've seen other websites do this and have looked at a couple that were recommended from a previous post, but I can't figure out how to make it work propertly.

Our website is www.indyartistgroup.com. If someone could take a look at the site and suggest some ideas on how to make the menu on the left hand side stay on screen no matter how low you scroll I would appreciate it. I'm out of options at this point.

Thanks for the help.
John

I have seen this done but can't find any examples at the moment, but what I am looking to emmulate is have a page that required vertical scrolling. On either the left or right hand side is (for example) a square image and directly below it is a menu. When the user scrolls down the page the image goes off the top but the menu sticks to the top so is always visable. When the user scrolls back up as soon as the image starts to appear it pushes the menu back down so it is sat below the image. If i used position:fixed I can keep the menu in the same place when scrolling but I would like it to rise to the top of the browser when space is availble when scrolling.
Make sense?

Hi,

I need to adjust only the 1st link(for 1st menu item) of my main menu. I have used pat pat template and have managed to apply a background image for the first item. Here is the css:

Code:

#first-suckerfish-vertical{
background:url(../images/menutop.jpg) no-repeat;
height:75px;
margin-top:-2.5px !important;
margin-top:-3px;
position:relative;
}

Now to apply style on the main menu item, i use a.mainlevel.
but i cant use the a.mainlevel..coz it will adjust all the links. I need to apply style only to the first link of my menu.

I am wondering if there's a way in css to access a class from another class or id. I already have this style(#first-suckerfish-vertical) for the 1st menu item. is it possible now to access the a.mainlevel from it..

Thx

I have a vertical menu on the left-hand side of my website, everything appears correctly when the page is first loaded but when I click on a menu item the entire div appears to shift to the left (10px). If I refresh the page it also appears correctly, so it is only when I have clicked on a menu item.

I do know that there are plenty of problems with IE, but the menu does appear and function correctly in both IE and Opera. I am only having the problem with Mozilla.

I am thinking that it may be something to do with the link visited properties but am not sure what.

I have validated the css via the W3C website but there were no errors reported.

The css segment is as follows:

#subnavcontainer {
position: absolute;
left: 10px;
top: 0px;
margin-top:0px;
padding-top: 0px;
height: 700px;
width: 160px;
background: url("../images/bg_vert.gif") no-repeat;
}

#subnavcontainer ul
{
list-style-type: none;
color: #000;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
display: block;
width: 200px;
background-color: #D7D7D7;
}

#subnavcontainer li
{
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 1px;
}

#subnavcontainer ul li {
margin: 0 0 1px 0;
padding-left: 0px;
}

#subnavcontainer ul a
{
display: block;
padding: 0px 2px 2px 5px;
width: 160px;
color: #000;
background-color: #F0EFEE;
text-decoration: none;
border-left: 4px solid #B09292;
}

#subnavcontainer ul a:hover
{
color: #000;
background-color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
border-left: 4px solid #FF0000;
}

The html segment is as follows:

<div id="subnavcontainer">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../content/company/se_company_overview.htm" target="mainFrame">Overview</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="../content/company/se_company_location.htm" target="mainFrame">Location</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="../content/company/se_company_contact.htm" target="mainFrame">Contact</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

Hi,

I am new to css and have written a code for a list menu in my page and i have added an image for instead of selecting the default bullets in css (ie. square, circle etc. so now my problem comes it looks perfect in Firefox browser but in IE 6 & 7 the position of the bullet image changes . In firefox it shows the bullet besides the text written and it is centered and perfect as i need but in IE 6 and 7 the image of the bullet moves up and sticks to the text instead of maintaining some distance with the text.

i am providing u the link of my page below:

r-interactive.net/clients/reed%5Fcss/

Also i am mentioning the css code which i have used for the list menu below :

Css :
Code:

ul#listmenu {
margin: 0;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #959595;
padding-top: 0;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
text-indent: 5px;
list-style-type: none;
list-style-image: url(../images/main_images/img_industry_bullet.gif);
list-style-position: inside;

}

ul#listmenu li {
list-style-image: url(../images/main_images/img_industry_bullet.gif);
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-left: 0;
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
padding-left: 0;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-bottom-color: #207EC9;
clear: both;

}

Html :
Code:

<ul id="listmenu">
<li> Jewelry Industry</li>
<li> Aluminium Industry</li>
<li> Electronics Industry</li>
<li> Pharmaceutical Industry</li>
<li> Oil & Gas Industry</li>
<li> Cosmetics Industry</li>
</ul>

Help is always appreciated.

I have having issues with IE displaying my page wrong.

The page is http://]http://tampabay-online.org/cetr/about.php (or any page within that site)

and the css can be found at
http://tampabay-online.org/cetr/cetr.css

It displays fine in Firefox and Opera but IE makes the content class lower from the top than the #right navigation bar (they should both be 20 pixels form the top)

Any help much appreciated.

Code:

.content {
	position:relative;
	width:320px;
	margin-left: 125px;
	margin-top: 20px;
	border:1px solid black;
	background-color:white;
	padding:10px;
	z-index:3;
}

#right {

	position:absolute;
	width:200px;
	top:20px;
	left:500px;
	border:1px solid black;
	background-color:white;
	padding:10px;
	z-index:1;

}

Following sample is from http://www.code-couch.com/jeff/snippets/general/tektips-navigation-example.html
is what I am trying to reference to create a template. But how do I how keep the state of Menu on each requested page any help is appreciated. The following menu is saved in a separate jsp file i.e. navs.jsp. I include this navigation jsp file in all of my files. Initially the drop down looks like:


Code:

. Ask.Jeeves 
. [+] Google.com 
. [+] Yahoo.com

Now clicking [+] in front of Google.com will look like.

Code:

. Ask.Jeeves 
. [-] Google.com 
     . Google.co.ie
     . Google.co.ie
     . [+] Google.co.nz 
. [+] Yahoo.com

Lets's say now if I click on Google.co.ie it takes me to sample.jsp and on this requested page (sample.jsp) how can I show the following menu hierarchy with Google.co.ie bold/underlined/colorchanged showing what menu content I clicked and am viewing the appropriate content i.e.


Code:

. Ask.Jeeves 
. [-] Google.com 
     . Google.co.ie
     . Google.co.ie
     . [+] Google.co.nz 
. [+] Yahoo.com

Same way clicking Google.com or Yahoo.com or Ask.Jeeves shows you the following hierarchy on the requested page with higlight/bold/colored the link we just selected. i.e.


Code:

. Ask.Jeeves 
. [+] Google.com 
. [+] Yahoo.com

Any time clicking on the menu takes me to some page but on that page I want to show th hierarchy of the menu all the way to which is recently clicked with different color setting.

Here is the source for the above:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en"/>
<title>Test Harness</title>

<style type="text/css">

ul li ul {display:none;list-style-type: none;}

#myNav li a:hover {
color: blue;
}

#myNav li a:active {
color: #FF0000;
background: #FFFFFF;
}

#myNav { list-style-image: url(page.GIF); }
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function initNav() {
	var navObj = document.getElementById('myNav');
	var ulCollection = navObj.getElementsByTagName('li');
	for (var loop = 0; loop < ulCollection.length; loop++) {
		if(ulCollection[loop].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0) {
			/* we have an LI that contains a UL */
			if (ulCollection[loop].getElementsByTagName('span').length > 0) {
				/* there is at least one SPAN tag present */
				ulCollection[loop].getElementsByTagName('span')[0].innerHTML = "[<a href=\"javascript://\" onclick=\"this.innerHTML=this.innerHTML=='+'?'-':'+';temp=this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0].style;temp.display=temp.display=='block'?'none':'block';\">+</a>] ";
			}
		}
	}
}
window.onload = initNav;
//-->
</script>

</head>
<body>
<ul id="myNav">
	<li><a href="http://www.askjeeves.com">Ask.Jeeves</a></li>
	<li><span></span><a href="http://www.google.com">Google.com</a>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="http://www.google.co.uk">Google.co.uk</a></li>
			<li><a href="http://www.google.co.ie">Google.co.ie</a></li>
			<li><span></span><a href="http://www.google.co.nz">Google.co.nz</a>
			<ul>
			   <li>*3*</li>
			   <li>*4*</li>
			</ul>
</li>
		</ul>
	</li>

	<li><span></span><a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo.com</a>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="http://www.yahoo.co.uk">Yahoo.co.uk</a></li>
			<li><a href="http://www.yahoo.co.nz">Yahoo.co.nz</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

Any help is really appreciated thanks.

EDIT:: Simplier way to write the question ^.^ :: When I scroll off the menu/link onto the first link in the submenu it stays, but when I mvoe down to the next item in the submenu it disappears.
(My drop down is vertically aligned on the left.)
(bits of the code that relate to the menu)

PHP Code:
.btn1 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 200px; } 
.btn2 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 240px; }
.btn3 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 280px; } 
.btn4 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 320px; }
.btn5 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 360px; } 
.btn6 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 400px; }
.btn7 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 440px; } 
.btn8 { position: absolute; left: 165px; top: 480px; }
.link1 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 240px; }
.link2 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 280px; }
.link3 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 320px; }
.link4 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 360px; }
.link5 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 400px; }
.link6 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 440px; }
.link7 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 480px; }
.link8 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 520px; }
.link9 { position: absolute; left: auto; top: 560px; }

#nav, #nav ul { padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style: none; }
#nav a { display: block; width: 100px; }
#nav li { width: 100px; }
#nav li ul { position: absolute; width: 100px; left: -9999px; display: none; top: 0; z-index: 3; }
#nav li:hover ul { display: block; left: 266px; z-index: 3; }
#nav li:over ul { display: block; left: 266px; z-index: 3; } 





PHP Code:
<ul id="nav">
  <li><a href="HOBmain.htm"><img class="btn1" src="../mainbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="MainBtn"></a></li>
  <li><a href="HOBmain.htm"><img class="btn2" src="../blogbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="BlogBtn"></a>
    <ul>
      <li class="link1"><a href=""><img src="../mbtn.gif" alt="bMainBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link2"><a href="#"><img src="../anmbtn.gif" alt="bAnimeBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link3"><a href="#"><img src="../mgabtn.gif" alt="bMangaBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link4"><a href="#"><img src="../gmebtn.gif" alt="bGameBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link5"><a href="#"><img src="../bookbtn.gif" alt="bBookBtn"></a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
    <li><a href="HOBmuse.htm"><img class="btn3" src="../musebtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="MuseBtn"></a>
    <ul>
      <li class="link2"><a href="HOBmuse.htm"><img src="../mbtn.gif" alt="mMainBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link3"><a href="HOBmuse.htm"><img src="../pmbtn.gif" alt="mPoemBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link4"><a href="HOBmuse.htm"><img src="../stybtn.gif" alt="mStoryBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link5"><a href="HOBmuse.htm"><img src="../drmbtn.gif" alt="mDreamBtn"></a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
   <li><a href="HOBodd.htm"><img class="btn4" src="../oddbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="ComicBtn"></a>
    <ul>
      <li class="link3"><a href="HOBodd.htm"><img src="../mbtn.gif" alt="cMainBtn"></a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
   <li><a href="HOBart.htm"><img class="btn5" src="../artbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="ArtBtn"></a>
    <ul>
      <li class="link4"><a href="HOBart.htm"><img src="../mbtn.gif" alt="aMainBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link5"><a href="HOBart.htm"><img src="../recbtn.gif" alt="aRecentBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link6"><a href="HOBart.htm"><img src="../gaibtn.gif" alt="aGaiaBtn"></a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
   <li><a href="HOBpic.htm"><img class="btn6" src="../picbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="PicsBtn"></a>
    <ul>
      <li class="link5"><a href="HOBpic.htm"><img src="../mbtn.gif" alt="pMainBtn"></a></li>
      <li class="link6"><a href="HOBpic.htm"><img src="../recbtn.gif" alt="pRecentBtn"></a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
   <li><a href="HOBfaq.htm"><img class="btn7" src="../faqbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="FaqBtn"></a></li>
   <li><a href="HOBcon.htm"><img class="btn8" src="../contactbtn.gif" width="100" height="38" alt="ContactBtn"></a> </li>
</ul> 





<script type="text/javascript" src="drop_down.js"></script>
the "nav" is referring to a bit of js, and this is in my header. Also not sure if it's correct, but I can worry about that later.
link: The Page

I am a photographer for a website and I know very little about anything other than basic html. With the website lady gone on a trip around the world for a year, I ended up being the person to attempt to modify our side menu to show an additional column of subcategories. I tinkered around with the code we had and I managed to get this to work in Firefox, however in IE7 the contents of the menu shift down a few pixels when you hover over a category.

To view my problem, go to scannerparts.biz

I've messed around with this for a few days and everything has become a big confusing mess so I have no choice but give in and ask for help. I thank anyone in advance for any assistance you can offer.

-Emerson

Here is the code:

hover.css

Code:

<!--
body {
	behavior: url(/images/csshover2.htc);
}

div#categorynav ul {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
.submenu {
	position: relative;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 2px 0px;
	width: 178px;
}

div#categorynav ul.level1 li a {
	position: relative;
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding:  0px;
}

div#categorynav ul.level2 li {
	position: relative; 
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	margin: 0px; 
	padding: 0px;
}

div#categorynav ul.level3 li {
	position: relative; 
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	margin: 0px; 
	padding: 0px;
}

div#categorynav ul.level1 ul.level2 a {
	background-color: #000000;
	color: #fff;
	width: 178px;
	font-weight:normal;
	padding: 4px 4px 4px 14px;
}

div#categorynav ul.level2 ul.level3 a {
	background-color: #000000;
	color: #fff;
	width: 178px;
	font-weight:normal;
	padding: 4px 4px 4px 14px;
}

html>body div#categorynav ul.level1 ul.level2 a {
	width: auto;
	padding: 0px; 
	margin: 0px;
}
html>body div#categorynav ul.level2 ul.level3 a {
	width: auto;
	padding: 0px; 
	margin: 0px;
}

div#categorynav>ul a {width:auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;} 
div#categorynav ul ul {position: absolute; display: none; width: 100px; z-index:900; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;}
div#categorynav ul ul li {padding: 0px; margin: 0px;}
div#categorynav ul.level1 li.submenu:hover ul.level2 {
	display: block;
	list-style-image: none;
	list-style-type: none;

	
}
div#categorynav ul.level2 li.submenu:hover ul.level3 {
	display: block;
	list-style-image: none;
	list-style-type: none;

	
}

div#categorynav ul.level2 {
	top: 0px;	
	left: 178px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	width:160px;

} 
div#categorynav ul.level2 li a:hover {
	background-color: #000000;
	color: red;

}

div#categorynav ul.level3 {
	top: 0px;	
	left: 178px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	width:160px;

} 
div#categorynav ul.level3 li a:hover {
	background-color: #000000;
	color: red;


}

Abbreviated Header Source (abbreviated for max character requirement, I think I left all the vital stuff there)
Code:

<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>

<ss:comment><link href="hover.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"/></ss:comment>
<link href="$store.images['hover.css']" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"/>


<style type="text/css">
<!--
/* Style Sheet */
body {
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
	margin-left: 1px;
	background-image: url(/images/backgroundgray.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	background-position: center bottom;
}
html { height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; }
#outline{
	border :0px solid #ffffff;
	width :760px;
	}
#categories{
	background-color:#000000;
	color:#ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align : left;
	display: block;
	padding : 5px 5px 1px 0px;
	font-weight :bold;
	font-size:9pt;
	font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>;
        width :178px;
	padding: 0px; 
	}
#cat1{
	background-color:#000000;
	color: #ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align: left;
	display: block;
	font-weight :normal;
	font-size: 9pt;
	font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>;
        width: 178px;
	padding: 0px; 
	}
#cat1 a{
	background-color:#000000;
	color: #ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align: left;
	display: block;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size:9pt;
	font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>;
        width :178px;
	padding: 0px; 
	}
#cat1 a:hover{
	background-color:#000000;
	color:#ff0000;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align : left;
	display: block;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size:9pt;
	font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>;
        width :178px;
	padding: 0px; 
	}
.leftnav {
	background-color:#000000;
	color:#ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-weight :bold;
	font-size:9pt;
	font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>;
	padding : 2px 5px 1px 0px;
	}
.leftnav A:link {
	background-color:#000000;
	border-bottom : 1px solid #666666;
	color:#ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align : left;

	display: block;
	padding : 2px 5px 1px 0px;
	font-weight :bold;
	}
.leftnav A:visited {
	background-color:#000000;
	border-bottom : 1px solid #666666;
	color:#ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align : left;
	display: block;
	padding : 2px 5px 1px 0px;
	font-weight :bold;
	}
.leftnav A:hover {
	background-color:#000000;
	border-bottom : 1px solid #666666;
	color:#ff0000;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align : left;
	display: block;
	padding : 2px 5px 1px 0px;
	font-weight :bold;
	}
.leftnav A:active {
	background-color:#000000;
	border-bottom : 1px solid #666666;
	color:#ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align : left;
	display: block;
	padding : 2px 5px 1px 0px;
	font-weight :bold;
	}
A:link {text-decoration:underline;color:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.color/>;}
A:visited {text-decoration:underline;color:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.color/>;}
A:hover {text-decoration:none;color:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.color/>;}
A:active {text-decoration:underline;color:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.color/>;}

.content {font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>
;color:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.color/>;}

.title {font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>
;color:#ffffff;}

.footer {font-size:9pt;font-family:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.face/>
;color:<ss:value source=$font.paragraph.color/>;}

-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<center>
<div id="outline">
<table width="760" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<!-- banner image -->
	<tr valign="top"><td colspan="4"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><ss:image source="$templateSet.images['header.jpg']" border="0"/></a></td></tr>

	<tr valign="top">
<!-- left nav -->
		<td bgcolor="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="175" bgcolor="#000000">
			<div class="leftnav">
		<!-- store logo -->
			</div>
		
			<div class="leftnav">
				<div style="border-bottom : 0px solid #666666;">&nbsp;</div>
			<!-- home -->
				</div>
			
			<!-- categories -->
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="white"><b>Parts and Products:</b></font></p>
<div id="categorynav">
<div id="categories">
	<ul class="level1">                        			 
	<ss:foreach item="category" within="$catalog.categoryList()">
	<ss:sortby item="categorypriority" direction="asc"/>
	<ss:if test="$category.treeLevel == '1'">
	<ss:set name="hasSub" value="0"/>
		<ss:foreach item="subcategory" within="$category.childrenToDepth(1)">

		<ss:set name="hasSub" value="1"/>
		</ss:foreach>
                <li class="submenu">
		<div id="cat1"><ss:link source="$category"/></div>
			<ss:if test="$hasSub == '1'">
			<ul class="level2">
			<ss:foreach item="subcategory" within="$category.childrenToDepth(1)">
			<ss:sortby item="categorypriority" direction="asc"/>

			<ss:if test="$category.treeLevel == '2'">
			<ss:set name="hasSub" value="1"/>
			<ss:foreach item="subcategory" within="$category.childrenToDepth(1)">

                        		<ss:set name="hasSub" value="1"/></ss:foreach></ss:if>
</li>
                                 	<li class="submenu">
					<div id="cat1"><ss:link source="$subcategory"/></div>
						<ss:if test="$hasSub == '1'">
						<ul class="level3">
						<ss:foreach item="subcategory" within="$subcategory.childrenToDepth(1)">
						<li><ss:link source="$subcategory" title="$subcategory.name"/></li>
						</ss:foreach>
						</ul>
						</ss:if>
						</ss:foreach>
						</ul>
						</ss:if></ss:foreach>

					</li>

					</ss:if></ss:if></ss:foreach>
				<br>                      
			 </ul>
			</div> 
			</div>

Hi all,

I've got a horizontal menu that is working just fine in every browser but IE 6 and 7. In IE it's almost there, except that the submenus will only appear one level deep. The menu is created with nested lists. The :hover functionality is simulated via JavaScript for IE 6. The IE developer toolbar shows the 3rd level menu is correctly being changed to display: block when its parent is hovered, and the border the dev toolbar draws even puts it in the correct place, it just doesn't actually appear.

You can find the page he
http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/

The CSS and JS (uses jQuery) can be found he
http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/css/screen.css
http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/css/ie.css (loaded with a conditional comment)
http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/js/tdps.js
http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/js/ie.js (loaded with a conditonal comment)

For a specific example of what I'm talking about, try hovering over the second item, Filters & Parts. This will give you another level with four choices. Each of those also has child elements, but when hovered over, the next level doesn't appear. Try it in something other than IE 6 or 7 to see how it's supposed to look.

Thanks very much in advance!

I'm helping these fine folks fix a few little issues with their site but this one I can't seem to quite figure out. If you roll over the main menu you will see the sub menu slide down on the left. For the life of me I can't get it to line up under the main nav. I've tried many, many things. Can anyone provide a few hints, tips, suggestions? Thanks so much!!!

98.214.188.71/life at excel.htm

Code:

/*******************menu starts********************/  #menu{float:left; width:100%; background:#ffffff;} #menu a{font-weight:bold; line-height:16px;} #menu table{float:left; width:100%; background:transparent;}  #menu .menu01{width:147px;} #menu .menu01 a{float:left; /*width:149px;*/width:100%; height:26px; background:url(images/menu01.gif) no-repeat right 0; float:left; color:#fff; text-decoration:none; text-align:center; padding:10px 0 0 0} #menu .menu01 a.current{float:left; /*width:149px;*/width:100%; height:26px; background:url(images/menu01.gif) no-repeat right 0; cursor:pointer;}  #menu .divider{width:.5%;  height:36px; background:url(images/white_divider.gif) repeat-x 0 1px;}  #menu .menu02{} #menu .menu02 a{display:block; background:url(images/menu02.gif) repeat-x right 0; padding:10px 0 0; height:26px; color:#fff; text-decoration:none; text-align:center} #menu .menu02 a.current{float:left; width:100%; background:url(images/menu02.gif) no-repeat right bottom;  color:#fff; cursor:pointer;}  #menu .menu03{} #menu .menu03 a{display:block; background:url(images/menu03.gif) repeat-x right 0; padding:10px 0 0; text-align:center; height:26px; color:#fff; text-decoration:none;} #menu .menu03 a.current{float:left; width:100%; background:url(images/menu03.gif) no-repeat right bottom; height:26px; color:#fff; cursor:pointer;}  #menu .menu04{width:152px; } #menu .menu04 a{float:left; /*width:152px;*/width:100%; background:url(images/menu04.gif) no-repeat right 0; padding:10px 0 0; text-align:center; height:26px; color:#fff; text-decoration:none;} #menu .menu04 a.current{float:left; /*width:152px;*/width:100%; background:url(images/menu04.gif) no-repeat right bottom; height:26px; color:#fff; cursor:pointer;}  #menu .menu05{width:143px;} #menu .menu05 a{float:left; /*width:143px;*/ width:100%;background:url(images/menu05.gif) no-repeat right 0; padding:10px 0 0; text-align:center; height:26px; color:#fff; text-decoration:none;} #menu .menu05 a.current{float:left; /*width:143px;*/width:100%; background:url(images/menu05.gif) no-repeat right -43px; height:26px; color:#fff; cursor:pointer;}  .exp{ display:none; clear:both; text-align:center; background:#BA8747; z-index:4; }  #menu DIV.sub-mlinks A  { color:#000; background:none; font-weight:bold; padding-top:2px; padding-bottom:0px; display:block; height:auto; }  #menu DIV.sub-mlinks A:hover{ color:#FFF; }  /*******************menu ends********************/     <div id="menu">      <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="970"><tbody><tr>  	 	<td style="width: 19.6%;" id="item1" class="menu01"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/">Home</a></td>   	 <td class="divider">&nbsp;</td> 	 	<td style="width: 19.6%;" id="item2" class="menu02" onmouseover="expand(this.id, 'menu2');" onmouseout="collapse(this.id, 'menu2');" onmouseleave="collapseIE(this.id, 'menu2');"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/">Excel Tools</a><div id="menu2" class="exp" onmouseout="collapse('item2', this.id);" onmouseleave="collapseIE('item2', this.id);"><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/improvement" target="_new" class="menuitem">Continual Improvement</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/service" target="_new" class="menuitem">Crusher Service (FLSP)</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/xlu" class="menuitem">Excel University</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/crm/data" target="_new" class="menuitem">Excelerator CRM</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://ezlmwc.adp.com/" target="_new" class="menuitem">EZLabor</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/First%20Article/First%20Article%20Parts.xls" class="menuitem">First Article Parts</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="https://login.postini.com/exec/login" class="menuitem">FLS Spam Filter Login</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/ecr/" target="_new" class="menuitem">FLSP ECR</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/forms" class="menuitem">Forms Library</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/iso9001" class="menuitem">ISO 9001 Procedures</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/helpdesk" target="_new" class="menuitem">IT Help Desk</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/machine-info" class="menuitem">Machine Info</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/Manu_Memos/Memos.html" target="_new" class="menuitem">Manufacturing Memos</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/metrics" class="menuitem">Metrics</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/msq" target="_new" class="menuitem">MSQ Editor</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/manuals" class="menuitem">Parts Manuals</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/parts" target="_new" class="menuitem">Parts Search</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/po" target="_new" class="menuitem">PO Tool</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/flows" class="menuitem">Process Flows</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/revSupport" target="_new" class="menuitem">Revision Support</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/routing" class="menuitem">Routing Guide</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=excel-tools/safety" class="menuitem">Safety & Training</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/docs/QRM%20Schedule.xlsx" class="menuitem">QRM Schedule</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/training" class="menuitem">Training Request System</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://my.concureworkplace.com/default.asp?companyid=excet5jvd2telbgk" target="_new" class="menuitem">Travel Expense (EFM)</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://my.concureworkplace.com/default.asp?companyid=smid5gr1t0br0czj" target="_new" class="menuitem">Travel Expense (FLSP)</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/xcalibur" target="_new" class="menuitem">Xcalibur</a></div></div></td>   	 <td class="divider">&nbsp;</td>  	 	<td style="width: 19.6%; color: black;" id="item3" class="menu03" onmouseover="expand(this.id, 'menu3');" onmouseout="collapse(this.id, 'menu3');" onmouseleave="collapseIE(this.id, 'menu3');"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/">Our People</a><div style="top: 168px; left: 376px; width: 183px; position: static; visibility: hidden; display: none;" id="menu3" class="exp" onmouseout="collapse('item3', this.id);" onmouseleave="collapseIE('item3', this.id);"><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="https://login.fidelity.com/ftgw/pages/fesco/html/NBParticipantLogout.html" target="_new" class="menuitem">401k Login</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/classifieds" class="menuitem">Classifieds</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/hr/directory" class="menuitem">Employee Directory</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/eu" class="menuitem">Excel University</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/insite" class="menuitem">FLSmidth Insite</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.com/about-excel/company-history" class="menuitem">History of Excel</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/hr" class="menuitem">Human Resources</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/dates" class="menuitem">Important Dates</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/jobs" class="menuitem">Job Openings</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/mlb" class="menuitem">MLB Standings</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-people/phone" class="menuitem">Phone Directory</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=node/380" class="menuitem">Quality and Mission Statement</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/docs/EFM%20HR%20XLU%20Servant%20Leadership%20Academy.pdf" class="menuitem">Servant Leadership Academy Info</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/training" target="_new" class="menuitem">Training Request System</a></div></div></td>   	 <td class="divider">&nbsp;</td>  	 	<td style="width: 19.6%;" id="item4" class="menu04" onmouseover="expand(this.id, 'menu4');" onmouseout="collapse(this.id, 'menu4');" onmouseleave="collapseIE(this.id, 'menu4');"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/">Departments</a><div id="menu4" class="exp" onmouseout="collapse('item4', this.id);" onmouseleave="collapseIE('item4', this.id);"><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/accounting" class="menuitem">Accounting & Administration</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/support" class="menuitem">Customer Support</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/engineering" class="menuitem">Design Engineering</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/foundry" class="menuitem">Foundry</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/hr" class="menuitem">Human Resources</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/it" class="menuitem">IT</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/machine" class="menuitem">Machine Shops</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/maintenance" class="menuitem">Maintenance</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/mktg_wo" class="menuitem">Marketing</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/materials" class="menuitem">Materials</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=node/193" class="menuitem">Manufacturing Engineering</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=node/192" class="menuitem">Production Control</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/quality" class="menuitem">Quality Engineering</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=node/187" class="menuitem">Sales</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/toolcrib" class="menuitem">Tool Crib</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=departments/warehouse" class="menuitem">Warehouse</a></div></div></td>   	 <td class="divider">&nbsp;</td>  	 	<td style="width: 19.6%; color: black;" id="item5" class="menu05" onmouseover="expand(this.id, 'menu5');" onmouseout="collapse(this.id, 'menu5');" onmouseleave="collapseIE(this.id, 'menu5');"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/">Our Customers</a><div style="top: 168px; left: 752px; width: 183px; position: static; visibility: hidden; display: none;" id="menu5" class="exp" onmouseout="collapse('item5', this.id);" onmouseleave="collapseIE('item5', this.id);"><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-customers/highlights" class="menuitem">Customer Highlights</a></div><div class="sub-mlinks"><a href="http://www.excelfoundry.net/lifeatexcel/?q=our-customers/equipment" class="menuitem">Equipment Profiles</a></div></div></td>   	  	      </tr></tbody></table>  	   </div>

Ok, I know virtually nothing about css, but realized that that a css menu is better for SEO. Anyway I found this vertical menu that works the way I want it. But I also need a horizontal version of it with dropdown submenus. Can someone help with this? I have been trying a bunch of things but it just looks awful and doesn't work right. It has 3 basic componets; Html, Javascript, and css.

Here they are below.

drop_down.js:
Code:

// JavaScript Document

startList = function() {
if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {
navRoot = document.getElementById("nav");
for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) {
node = navRoot.childNodes[i];
if (node.nodeName=="LI") {
node.onmouseover=function() {
this.className+=" over";
  }
  node.onmouseout=function() {
  this.className=this.className.replace(" over", "");
   }
   }
  }
 }
}
window.onload=startList; 

HTML:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Horizontal Drop Down Menus</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="drop_down.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
@import "style2.css";
</style>
</head>
<body> 
<ul id="nav"> 
  <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> 
  <li><a href="#">About</a> 
    <ul> 
      <li><a href="#">History</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Team</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Offices</a></li> 
    </ul> 
  </li> 
  <li><a href="#">Services</a> 
    <ul> 
      <li><a href="#">Web Design</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Internet Marketing</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Hosting</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Domain Names</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Broadband</a></li> 
    </ul> 
  </li> 
  <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a> 
    <ul> 
      <li><a href="#">United Kingdom</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">France</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">USA</a></li> 
      <li><a href="#">Australia</a></li> 
    </ul> 
  </li> 
</ul> 
</body>
</html> 

Style2.CSS:
Code:

body {
	font: normal 11px verdana;
	}

ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	width: 150px; /* Width of Menu Items */
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
	}

ul li {
	position: relative;
	}
	
li ul {
	position: absolute;
	left: 149px; /* Set 1px less than menu width */
	top: 0;
	display: none;
	}

/* Styles for Menu Items */
ul li a {
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #777;
	background: #fff; /* IE6 Bug */
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	border-bottom: 0;
	}

/* Fix IE. Hide from IE Mac \*/
* html ul li { float: left; height: 1%; }
* html ul li a { height: 1%; }
/* End */

ul li a:hover { color: #E2144A; background: #f9f9f9; } /* Hover Styles */
		
li ul li a { padding: 2px 5px; } /* Sub Menu Styles */
		
li:hover ul, li.over ul { display: block; } /* The magic */ 

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