CSS - Spry Menus Don't Appear Properly In Ie7

I've been working on this issue for nearly 20 hours ... about 10 hours ago I had things working only to realize I hadn't committed my code, and now I have no idea how to get back to where I was (as my process was just hitting and missing).

I'm working on installing a vertical spry dropdown menu at: www.leonianj.gov using the drupal framework.

You can see by visiting the site that the drop-down menus are positioned underneath the remaining content on the page (not flash).

I've manipulated pretty much all z-index values (in as many combinations as I could figure).

Of course the menu is fine in FF 2+ and Safari 2+

If anyone out there could point me in the right direction it would be GREATLY appreciated!

Regards,
Justin

The spry tabs works fine if the page is directly accessed, however, when the page is accessed through the pop-up window (image below) the spry tabs are not click-able and all the contents are displayed all at once.

URL

I am using a local server so I do not have a url link.

CSS Code

Code:

@charset "UTF-8";

/* SpryTabbedPanels.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */

/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */

/* Horizontal Tabbed Panels
 *
 * The default style for a TabbedPanels widget places all tab buttons
 * (left aligned) above the content panel.
 */

/* This is the selector for the main TabbedPanels container. For our
 * default style, this container does not contribute anything visually,
 * but it is floated left to make sure that any floating or clearing done
 * with any of its child elements are contained completely within the
 * TabbedPanels container, to minimize any impact or undesireable
 * interaction with other floated elements on the page that may be used
 * for layout.
 *
 * If you want to constrain the width of the TabbedPanels widget, set a
 * width on the TabbedPanels container. By default, the TabbedPanels widget
 * expands horizontally to fill up available space.
 *
 * The name of the class ("TabbedPanels") used in this selector is not
 * necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
 * want to style the TabbedPanels container.
 */
.TabbedPanels {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	float: left;
	clear: none;
	width: 100%; /* IE Hack to force proper layout when preceded by a paragraph. (hasLayout Bug)*/
}

/* This is the selector for the TabGroup. The TabGroup container houses
 * all of the tab buttons for each tabbed panel in the widget. This container
 * does not contribute anything visually to the look of the widget for our
 * default style.
 *
 * The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTabGroup") used in this selector is not
 * necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
 * want to style the TabGroup container.
 */
.TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

/* This is the selector for the TabbedPanelsTab. This container houses
 * the title for the panel. This is also the tab "button" that the user clicks
 * on to activate the corresponding content panel so that it appears on top
 * of the other tabbed panels contained in the widget.
 *
 * For our default style, each tab is positioned relatively 1 pixel down from
 * where it wold normally render. This allows each tab to overlap the content
 * panel that renders below it. Each tab is rendered with a 1 pixel bottom
 * border that has a color that matches the top border of the current content
 * panel. This gives the appearance that the tab is being drawn behind the
 * content panel.
 *
 * The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTab") used in this selector is not
 * necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you want
 * to style this tab container.
 */
.TabbedPanelsTab {
	position: relative;
	top: 1px;
	float: left;
	padding: 4px 10px;
	margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
	font: bold 0.7em sans-serif;
	background-color: #DDD;
	list-style: none;
	border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
	border-bottom: solid 1px #999;
	border-top: solid 1px #999;
	border-right: solid 1px #999;
	-moz-user-select: none;
	-khtml-user-select: none;
	cursor: pointer;
}

/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearnce of a tab button
 * container as the mouse enters it. The class "TabbedPanelsTabHover" is
 * programatically added and removed from the tab element as the mouse enters
 * and exits the container.
 */
.TabbedPanelsTabHover {
	background-color: #CCC;
}

/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearance of a tab button
 * container after the user has clicked on it to activate a content panel.
 * The class "TabbedPanelsTabSelected" is programatically added and removed
 * from the tab element as the user clicks on the tab button containers in
 * the widget.
 *
 * As mentioned above, for our default style, tab buttons are positioned
 * 1 pixel down from where it would normally render. When the tab button is
 * selected, we change its bottom border to match the background color of the
 * content panel so that it looks like the tab is part of the content panel.
 */
.TabbedPanelsTabSelected {
	background-color: #EEE;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
}

/* This selector is an example of how to make a link inside of a tab button
 * look like normal text. Users may want to use links inside of a tab button
 * so that when it gets focus, the text *inside* the tab button gets a focus
 * ring around it, instead of the focus ring around the entire tab.
 */
.TabbedPanelsTab a {
	color: black;
	text-decoration: none;
}

/* This is the selector for the ContentGroup. The ContentGroup container houses
 * all of the content panels for each tabbed panel in the widget. For our
 * default style, this container provides the background color and borders that
 * surround the content.
 *
 * The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContentGroup") used in this selector is
 * not necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
 * want to style the ContentGroup container.
 */
.TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
	clear: both;
	border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
	border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
	border-top: solid 1px #999;
	border-right: solid 1px #999;
	background-color: #EEE;
}

/* This is the selector for the Content panel. The Content panel holds the
 * content for a single tabbed panel. For our default style, this container
 * provides some padding, so that the content is not pushed up against the
 * widget borders.
 *
 * The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContent") used in this selector is
 * not necessary to make the widget function. You can use any class name you
 * want to style the Content container.
 */
.TabbedPanelsContent {
	padding: 4px;
}

/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearnce of the currently
 * active container panel. The class "TabbedPanelsContentVisible" is
 * programatically added and removed from the content element as the panel
 * is activated/deactivated.
 */
.TabbedPanelsContentVisible {
}

/* Vertical Tabbed Panels
 *
 * The following rules override some of the default rules above so that the
 * TabbedPanels widget renders with its tab buttons along the left side of
 * the currently active content panel.
 *
 * With the rules defined below, the only change that will have to be made
 * to switch a horizontal tabbed panels widget to a vertical tabbed panels
 * widget, is to use the "VTabbedPanels" class on the top-level widget
 * container element, instead of "TabbedPanels".
 */

/* This selector floats the TabGroup so that the tab buttons it contains
 * render to the left of the active content panel. A border is drawn around
 * the group container to make it look like a list container.
 */
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
	float: left;
	width: 10em;
	height: 20em;
	background-color: #EEE;
	position: relative;
	border-top: solid 1px #999;
	border-right: solid 1px #999;
	border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
	border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
}

/* This selector disables the float property that is placed on each tab button
 * by the default TabbedPanelsTab selector rule above. It also draws a bottom
 * border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and right border from
 * the TabGroup, and its top border from the TabGroup or tab button above it.
 */
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTab {
	float: none;
	margin: 0px;
	border-top: none;
	border-left: none;
	border-right: none;
}

/* This selector disables the float property that is placed on each tab button
 * by the default TabbedPanelsTab selector rule above. It also draws a bottom
 * border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and right border from
 * the TabGroup, and its top border from the TabGroup or tab button above it.
 */
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTabSelected {
	background-color: #EEE;
	border-bottom: solid 1px #999;
}

/* This selector floats the content panels for the widget so that they
 * render to the right of the tabbed buttons.
 */
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
	clear: none;
	float: left;
	padding: 0px;
	width: 30em;
	height: 20em;
}

I'm using the Spry tabbed panels widget on a website. I would like to center align the horizontal tabs. The default setting is left align. And I'm able to right align it.

Here is part of the css code:

.TabbedPanels {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
clear: none;
width: 100%;
}

.TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.TabbedPanelsTab {
position: relative;
top: 1px;
float: left;
padding: 2px 6px 6px 6px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
list-style: none;
border-left: solid 1px #999;
border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
border-top: solid 1px #CCC;
border-right: solid 1px #999;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
cursor: pointer;
background-image: url(../sprylight.png);
color: #333333;


I've tried changing the "padding" under the ".TabbedPanelsTabGroup" rule to "auto". This causes the tabs to kind of be centered, but not exactly. Also, one of the tabs breaks apart from the row and spills over to the next line.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Please help me. This is driving me crazy.

I am getting a problem in IE and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it. Of course, it works just fine in Firefox, but not IE.

In IE, go to to this page. On the horizontal drop-down menu, go to "Guides." Then scroll through the three drop-down options and back up. Notice how the 3rd level menu suddenly dissapears behind the 2nd level menu?

Here's the portion of my CSS file controling the menu:
Code:

/********** LAYOUT - HEADER **********/
#header {background: #ffffff;
         margin-top:    10px;
         margin-bottom: 25px;
         padding: 0 0 8px;}

img.headerimg {margin-left: 25px;}
	
  /** NAV - top horizontal nav **/
  #nav,
  #nav ul
    {padding: 0;
     margin: 0;
     list-style: none}

  #nav {height:1.5em;
        font: 80% arial;
        margin-top: 1em;
        margin-left: 75px;}

  #nav li {position:relative;
           float: left;
           width: auto;
           display:block;
           margin: 0;
           padding:0}

  #nav a
    {display: block;
     padding: 3px 10px 2px;
     border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(98,61,15);
     border-top: 1px solid rgb(98,61,15);}

  /************* 2nd tier *************/
  #nav li ul {width: 15em;
              position: absolute;
              left: -999em;
              background: #ffffff}

  #nav li:hover ul,
  #nav li.sfhover ul
    {left: 10px;
     z-index:55555}

  #nav li li {background:#9BCD9B;
              float:none;
              border: 1px solid rgb(98,61,15);
              border-top: none;
              padding-left: 0}

  #nav li li a,
  #nav li li a:link,
  #nav li li a:visited,
  #nav li li a:hover
    {color:#000;
     padding: 3px 10px;
     border-bottom: none;
     border-top: none;}

  #nav li li a:hover {color: #000;
                      background: #FFDAB9;}

  #nav li.active {background: #FFDAB9;}
  #nav li.active a {color: #000000}

  /************* 3rd tier *************/
  #nav li ul ul {width: 30em;
                 font-size: 100%;
                 margin-left: 7em;
                 margin-top: -.7em}

  #nav li:hover ul ul,
  #nav li.sfhover ul ul
     {left: -999em;}

  #nav li li:hover ul,
  #nav li li.sfhover ul
     {left: auto;}

  #nav li li li
             {background: #f6f6f6;
              border-top: 1px solid #fff;}

  #nav li li li a,
  #nav li li li a:link,
  #nav li li li a:visited,
  #nav li li li a:hover
    {color: #006400}

  /************* 4th tier *************/
  #nav li ul ul ul{width: 30em;}

  #nav li:hover ul ul ul,
  #nav li.sfhover ul ul ul
     {left: -999em;}

  #nav li li li:hover ul,
  #nav li li li.sfhover ul
     {left: auto;}

  #nav li li li li {background: #FFDAB9;}

  #nav li li li li a:hover {color: #000;
                            background: #9BCD9B;}

Please help me!

Thanks!

Manny

Hi there.

I've become fond of the idea of non-javascript menus. I've been experimenting a little.

So with help from various sources I managed to get a simple set working.

I have this...
Code:

#menu ul li > ul { 
  display: 	none; 		
  position: 	absolute; 
  top: 		18px; 		
  left:          0;		
  width:       170px;		
}

which correctly 'hides' the sub-menu.
Then I have this
Code:

#menu ul li:hover > ul {
  display: 	block;
}

which should 'unhide' the sub-menu.

Now, because I'd had success with the menu, I thought I should now look at validating my html and css. So far, I've just looked at the html part.

My question is, why does it work with this code (which doesn't validate under Strict doctype)?
Code:

  <div id="menu">
  <ul>
    <li class="small"><a href="blah.php">About</a>
    <li>Details On...
      <ul>
        <li class="small"><a href="blah.php">Registering</a>
      </ul>
  </ul>
  </div>

and not this (which does validate)?
Code:

  <div id="menu">
  <ul>
    <li class="small"><a href="blah.php">About</a></li>
    <li>Details On...</li>
    <li>
      <ul>
        <li class="small"><a href="blah.php">Registering</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>
  </div>

I'll listen to any thoughts on this, even the use (or not) of doctype strict.

Thanks for listening!
Stay JOLLY
H

Hi,

I wanted to do a horizontal popout menu. I have the code and it works but I am trying to undertsand it better.
It uses a csshover.htc file which i didn't download but the thing still works fine with a ie sniffer code in it. It doesn't use any javascript which I thought it needed.

There seems a few ways to do expanding menus in css (with/without javascript)?

Menus are more complicated than they look but I would some explanation on the above points before i continue.

Hi folks. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I have a template I've been working with (struggling with).

It has a style sheet attached to it and I'm trying to replace the main, static menu with a drop down Spry Menu.

I've managed to get most of it figured out but my dropdowns aren't colored correctly. The Spry Menu isn't centered on the page. The menu titles are spread out too far also (ie. it's suppose to be "About Me" but the "Me" is way below the "About").

I'm guessing it's probably an easy fix for you all but I've been playing with it all day without a lot of progress. Thank you. Let me know if I should post links.

Can someone recommend a workaround for this issue I am having please. Rollover the top blue menus to see what i mean. There is an advert appearing in an iframe and it is blocking the drop down menus above it. Z indexes etc don't seem to help.

this is the link ( very frustrating you can't post a link - it would make things easier for people to help )

sidouglas.net/nz-tourism-guide-prototype/index.html


index.html:
Iframe source is the same as the domain; menu can appear above the iframe no problem.

index2.html:
iframe source references another domain; menu dissapears.

index3.html:
iframe source is same as domain - but references swf resources from another domain. menu dissapears.

Surely someone has faced this same issue? I am tied down to having to a situation with index2.html as there has to be a click tracking registering from another domain.

Very frustrating, please help.
Thanks.

I've been grappling with this for a long while now. I pretty much have it working, except for the life of me I cannot get the drop down menus to appear under the corresponding link. position: absolute makes the menus always appear off to the left. Does anyone know what the secret is to this?

Code:

<div id="nav_wrapper">
<div id="nav_bar">
<div id="nav_content">
	<ul id="nav_ul">
	<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="/forum/">Forum</a>
			<div class="nav_subcontent">
			<ul>
			<li><a href="/forum/search.php">Search</a></li>
			<li><a href="/forum/memberlist.php">Members</a></li>
			</ul>
			</div>
		</li>
	<li><a href="#">A link without a menu</a></li>
	</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Code:

/* Wrapper */
#nav_wrapper {
	clear: both;
	}
/* Bar */
#nav_bar {
	background: url('images/nav_swish_fade.jpg');
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	height: 36px;
	}
/* All the buttons within the bar, the middle portion */
#nav_content {
	display: inline;
	margin: 0 auto;
	text-align: center;
	background: #fff;
	height: 36px;
	}
	
/* Entire unordered list */
#nav_ul {
	list-style: none;
	position: relative;
	}
/* Top level unordered list */
#nav_content ul>li {
	display: block;
	}
/* Top level unordered list links */
#nav_content ul>li a {
	display: block;
	float: left;
	
	padding: 9px;
	margin-left: 2px;
	margin-right: 2px;
	
	}
/* Menus */
.nav_subcontent {
	display: none;
	position: absolute;
	background: #222;
	
	margin-top: 8px;
	}
/* Menu link */
#nav_content .nav_subcontent a {
	display: block;
	padding: 9px 20px 9px 0;
	margin-left: -5px;
	text-align: left;
	
	min-width: 100px;
	}
	
/* Show menus */
#nav_content ul>li:hover .nav_subcontent {
	display: block;
	}

Hi All,

I seem to have made a mistake in installing a CSS drop-down menu b/c despite my best efforts, I cannot seem to make it work in Internet Explorer.

I am using the Suckerfish method found http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns

My CSS file is here

And a sample page can be found here

Does anyone see a mistake I made? All other browsers work beautifully, so the problem must lie in the Internet Explorer hack.

i have 2 menus on my page. one is a vertical sliding menu & other is a floating menu.
i want the vertical sliding menu to slide over the floating menu. i tried giving the floating menu a z-index of -2 since the vertical menu has z-index of -1. but it doesn't work coz the floating menu disappears.

the vertical menu is written with tables while the floating menu has a div tag around it. this is the style for the vertical menu
Code:

table.topnav
{position: relative; 
top: 0;
left: 0;
padding-left: 2px;
}

table.menu
{position: absolute;
bottom: 0; 
z-index: -1;
}

.pad{padding-top: 2px;}

.banner{z-index: 1;
position: relative;}

and this is the style for the floating menu
Code:

<script>
if (!document.layers)
document.write('<div id="divStayTopLeft" style="position:absolute">')
</script> 

thank you
xia

Hello,

I'm trying to replace one CSS nav menu with another, is there anyone who is familiar enough to assist me?

Dear Forum,
I am designing a website using HTML and Java for the drop down menus. Although for one page this seemed ok at the begining, now I want to add links to other catagories where I only want to change the main body of the page. Up to now I have had to insert the Java script into every page I want to link to. The problem is A) The pages blink and the menu is lost while the graphics are being loaded, B) If I need to change the menus in the future I have to change all pages.
Is there a way I can use CSS to keep the consistency of the Top and sides of the page and only change the body for other pages. I can do this with frames but I prefer not to use them. The test page can be seen at http://test.kipseli.com

Thanks
Rob

I am learning CSS and started to like it
I was trying to make an image gallery
so was just playing around with this link I got
Please see this
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/tabmenu.html

When I added five more images in this, the last images ceases to display
How can I correct that

I was testing this by adding this code 5 times

<li>
<a href="#nogo">




William Turner<br />
(1775-1851)
<span>
<img src="../img/turner.jpg" alt="painting"
title="painting" />
This English painter was one of the greatest
romantic interpreters of nature in the history
of Western art and is still unrivaled in
the virtuosity of his painting of light.
</span>
</a>
</li>
I was anticipating that a scrollbar would come automatically in the browser but that dint happen
What should I do?

I am very new to this whole css thing, but am trying to get all learned about it. I think I am doing badly so far.

I am trying to make css drop-down menus, and have pulled code from all over the place, and modified it to look correct (so as to match my design comp). it is based on the suckerfish model <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/> and it works exactly as it should in safari, firefox (mac & pc). but doesn't work correctly at all in IE (mac or pc). I have implemented the "ie fix" with the javascript code several sites instructed me to use, and while it now sorta works (in the sense that the menus drop down), there are still problems. such as in IE on pc you can't roll down to the drop down menus, because they go away as soon as you roll off the top menu item.

in IE on mac they are messed up in a whole other way. you can roll down to them, and they don't go away as soon as you're off the top nav option, but the hover is all jacked, and the menu is broken, sending the last nav button down to the next line! aaahhh!

can anyone help me?! I'm sorry I'm so stupid and helpless, but... well. I am.

any tips/etc would be mighty appreciated!

-daniel