CSS - Dropdown Menu Issue

First I am using Dreamweaver MX2004.

I am still new to CSS, have not used it much. Still using tables (yeah i know) for the layout. Mainly because when I've tried positioning in the past, IE doesn't display it right. Layers don't seem to work for me!

What I'd like to know is: can I use CSS (the son of suckerfish dropdowns) for my drop down menu in a separate HTML file that would be saved as a library item? I'd like the nav separate so I can update it easily. Should I also use a separate CSS file that would only be associated with the nav? Is necessary to have an external css sheet, if it only applys to this nav? The nav would get dropped into a table row under the top banner. My issue is: will it get positioned right ? And will it view ok in IE??? Hope I explained this right. I fear that what I have already coded, would get messed up if I do this! But due to search engine optimization, I'd like to avoid a fully functioning javascript dropdown.

If you have a better suggestion/usage for a dropdown horizontal nav, I'd appreciate your ideas!

Thanks for the advice!

Valerie

Hi,
on my site http://www.mattmdesign.com, sometimes when you mouseover the portfolio the menu appears in the wrong spot. someone also said that it is appearing on the left side of the page everytime with mozilla 1.0
Does anyone know how I can make it appear right under the porfolio link every time?
Thanks, Matt

Hi yall, i'm a quite newbie on css and i'm having an issue with my drop menu on the site i'm trying to do , with wordpress, multi level menu...i started from the code generated by the css generator and tried to fit it to my meeds.
but, i can't control the li li menu (categories), i want it to appear exactly at the end of the li categories.
2) the second issue is that i'm trying to add a margin to the main ul because it's to near from the top.
can someone help me plz?

here my code
Code:

#suckerfishnav,
#suckerfishnav ul {
  float: left;
  height: 2.98em;
  width: 960px;
  list-style: none;
  line-height: 1;
  background: white;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em;
  padding: 0;
}

#suckerfishnav a {
  display: block;
  color: #7c6240;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding-top: 0.25em;
  padding-right: 0.7em;
  padding-bottom: 0.1em;
  padding-left: 0.2em;
}

#suckerfishnav li {
  float: left;
  padding: 0;
  width: 13em;
  height: 2.8em;
}

#suckerfishnav ul {
  position: absolute;
  left: -999em;
  height: auto;
  margin-left: 2em;
  line-height: 1;
  z-index: 500;
}

#suckerfishnav li li {
  width: 9.6em;
  border: solid #eda;
  border-width: 1px;
  padding-top;
  10px;
}

#suckerfishnav li ul a {
  width: 9.8em;
}

#suckerfishnav li ul ul {
  margin: -0.20em 0 0 9.8em;
}

#suckerfishnav li ul {
  position: absolute;
  left: -999em;
  height: auto;
  width: 9.9em;
  w\idth: 9.8em;
  font-weight: normal;
  border-width: 0.20em;
  margin: 0;
  z-index: 500;
}

#suckerfishnav li ul a {
  width: 9.9em;
  w\idth: 9.8em;
}

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

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

#suckerfishnav li:hover,
#suckerfishnav li.sfhover {
  background: #eda;
  width: 9.5em;
  w\idth: 9.4em;
}

My second level menu items are not showing in IE, but show fine in firefox.

Code:

#menucontainer {
	width: 100%;
	clear: both;
	position: relative;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 auto;
	padding-left:0px;
	padding-top:35px;
	padding-bottom:15px; }

#menu {
text-align: center;
display:table;
padding:5;
margin:0 auto;
list-style-type:none;
white-space:nowrap;
background: #eee;
}

#menu ul {
font: small-caps bold 12px/15px "lucida grande", tahoma, arial, verdana, sans-serif;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 7em;
float: left;
}

#menu a {
font: bold 11px/16px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
display: block;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #ccc #888 #555 #bbb
margin: 0;
padding: 2px 3px;
}

#menu a {
color: #C7C7C7;
background: #000;
text-transform: small-caps;
}

#menu a:hover {
color: #fff;
background: #000000;
}

/* ********* secondary links ************** */

#menu li li a {
color: #C7C7C7;
background: #292A2C;
text-decoration: none;
}

#menu li li a:hover {
color: #FFF;
background: #292A2C;
}

#menu li:hover { z-index:1;}

#menu li {position: relative}

#menu ul ul {
position: absolute;
z-index:100;
left:0;
top:auto;
display:none;
}

div#menu ul ul,
div#menu ul li:hover ul ul
{display: none;}

div#menu ul li:hover ul,
div#menu ul ul li:hover ul
{display: block;}

<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {
behavior: url(behavior.htc); /* call hover behaviour file */
font-size: 100%; /* enable IE to resize em fonts */
} 

}
#menu ul li a {
height: 1%; /* make links honour display: block; properly */
} 
</style>
<![endif]-->

Help!! I am trying to design this website: nitrocanine .com/D/DDesign and the dropdown menus won't work in IE, while they work in Chrome, Safari, Firefox... does anyone know how to make them work in IE as well?? You can view the source and see the css coding and the relevant HTML.

Need some help with some dropdown menus.

I have been reading many of the tutorials on other sites.

I have come up with this code for my drop down menus:

Code:

.dropmenu {
   position: absolute;
   left: -1500px;
   visibility: visible;
   z-index: 101;
   float: left;
   width: 122px;

   border-width: 1px;
   border-style: solid;
   border-color: #BFBFBF;	
   background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.dropmenu ul {
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
   list-style-type: none;
}
.dropmenu li {
   display: inline;
}
.dropmenu a, .dropmenu a:visited, .dropmenu a:active {
   display: block;
   width: 120px;

   padding: 2px;
   margin: 1px;
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 10px;
   font-weight: normal;
   text-align: center;
   text-decoration: none;

   color: #000000;
   background-color: #D4D4D4;
}
.dropmenu a:hover {
   padding: 2px;
   margin: 1px;
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 10px;
   font-weight: normal;
   text-align: center;
   text-decoration: none;

   color: #000000;
   background-color: #BFBFBF;
}

but no matter how much I adjust settings that I know, I cannot get the dropdowns to show up below my original buttons, they always show up to the right hand side.

Can someone here please point me in the right direction...

Hi

I am trying to create a drop down menu on my existing design.

Code:

http://dfinnema.com/help

How would I add a drop down to Page 3 menu that looks like this:

Code:

http://dfinnema.com/help/images/dropdown_active.png

Without the menu:

Code:

http://dfinnema.com/help/images/dropdown.png

Any Ideas / Suggestions? :|

I'm looking to add a drop down menu for my site but Instead of the menu dropping down i want it to go up and I found a few things about it but nothing really helped me I was wondering how can i get a css drop down to go up? sorry if this is the wrong forum to post on.. but i am clueless on this part i am going to be starting on the script soon just wanted to know how to code the script to make it go up

Thank you
Smackadoo

Link: http://cemtec.quicksites.co.za

CSS:
http://cemtec.quicksites.co.za/wp-c...grass/style.css

Hi

This dropdown menu on Products works in Firefox but when I goto IE7 I dont see anything at all. I have tried changing the div Class to a Div Id also without any change. Anybody have any clues to what I have todo?

L.

I have been hunting around for an all CSS drop down menu that when you hover on the heading the menu expands down to show the heading 1 menu and if you hovered over the next menu item this expands to show that menu list instead a bit like the 'be the first to apply' on the right of this page, http://www.fish4.co.uk/iad/jobs
search for say 'admin' just to get to the results page as this is where the menu is.

the look is not important but the function is

BUT....

i wanted to have many links in the drop down not just the one as in this example.

this is the extracted code i have got so far that does what you see on this page.

Code:

<style>

#rightcolumn {
 float: right;
 width: 170px;
 text-align: center;
}

#leftcolumn {
 float: left;
 width: 545px;
 padding: 10px;
}

h3#bftahead {
	text-align:left;
	color:#c1001f;
	font-size:1.5em;
	font-weight:bold;
	margin:23px 0px 10px 0px;
	}

#bfta h4 {
	font-size:1.1em;
	margin:0em;
	padding:0.4em 0.1em 0.6em 0.1em
	}

#bfta {
	width:170px;
   	text-align:left;
   	padding:0px;
   	margin:0px 0px 10px 0px;
   	list-style-type:none;
   	height:47em;
   	overflow:hidden;
   	background:#ffffff url('images/bfta-background.jpg') bottom no-repeat;
	border-bottom:1px solid #cfcfcf;
   }

#bfta li {float:left;width:100%;}

#bfta li a {
   	padding:0.5em 3%;
   	display:block;
   	width:94%;
   	height:1.95em;
	margin-bottom:-0.4em;
   	overflow:hidden;
   	text-decoration:none;
   	background:transparent url('images/bfta-background.png') no-repeat;
   	color:#333333;
   	font-family:arial, sans-serif;
   }

#bfta li a#last, #bfta li a:hover {height:24em;}

#bfta-whitebrand {list-style:none;margin:0em 0em 1em 1em;padding:0px;}
#bfta-whitebrand li {padding:0em 0.4em;}	

</style>

<div id="leftcolumn">
<ul id="bfta">

	<li>
	<h4>a1</h4>
	a1
    </li>

	<li><a href="a2">
	<h4>a2</h4>
	a2</a>
    </li>

	<li><a href="a3">
	<h4>a4</h4>
	a3</a>
    </li>

</ul>
</div>

Hey all,

having a bit of trouble getting my drop down menu to display properly. It's modeled after the suckerfish menu, only modded a bit.

Here's the site...hover over 'machines' to see what i'm talking about (have to use FF, i haven't added the JS for IE yet).

The drop down is adopting the rollovers from the mainmenu, and I don't know what to change to make 'em different.

Here's the CSS for the menu:
Code:

#mainmenu {
width:780px;
height:41px;
margin:auto;
position:relative;
}

#mainmenu li.navigation {
width:78px;
height:41px;
float:left;
text-align:center;
background:#B8A488 url(images/mainmenu_roll.gif) no-repeat;
}

#mainmenu li.navigation a{
background:#66563D url(images/mainmenu_off.gif) no-repeat;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
color:#F4F1E5;
height:31px;
padding-top:10px;
}

#mainmenu li.navigation a:hover {
background:transparent;
color:#66563D;
}

#mainmenu li#home {
background-image:url(images/home_roll.gif);
}

#mainmenu li#home a{
background-image:url(images/home_off.gif);
}

#mainmenu li#home a:hover {
background:transparent;
}


#mainmenu li#contact {
background-image:url(images/contact_roll.gif);
}

#mainmenu li#contact a {
background-image:url(images/mainmenu_off.gif);
}

#mainmenu li#contact a:hover {
background:transparent;
}

	/* BEGIN DROP DOWN MENU */
	
	li ul {
	  display: none;
	  position: absolute; 
	  top: 1px;
	  margin-left:-2px;
	  background-color:#B8A488;
	  border-left:1px solid #66563D;
	  border-bottom:1px solid #66563D;
	  padding:2px;
	  z-index:500;
	}
	
	* html li ul {
	top:26px;
	}
	
	/*
	li ul li {
	padding:0;
	}
	*/

	li > ul {
	top: auto;
	left: auto;
	}

	li:hover ul, li.over ul{ 
		display: block;
	}
	

Thanks!

Hi guys,

Can someone possibly take a look at this page, my css dropdown (sub menu part) isnt showing up under menu where its meant to ??

** Its showing up off to the right and not under the toplevel menu.

Its driving me nuts!

http://www.goonlinewebdesign.com.au/dear-mr-mechanic/demo15/test.php

I am trying to create a website for my business and I cannot seem to center the navigation at the top of the screen and have the areas to the left and right of the screen be filled with the same bg color as the UL. I know usually you would set the margins to 0 auto to center that element on the page but for some reason its not working and the UL is just sticking to the left part of the screen. If anybody knows how to get this centered or how to fix my html/css i would sincerely appreciate it. Here is my code (html then css):

<body>
<div class="wrap">
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="products.html" target="_self" >Products</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="seaisland.html" target="_self">Sea Island Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="grandoak.html" target="_self">Grand Oak Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="airflow.html" target="_self">Air-Flow </a></li>
<li><a href="pure.html" target="_self">Pure Visor</a></li>
<li><a href="coldweather.html" target="_self">Cold Weather</a></li>
<li><a href="fahrenheit.html" target="_self">Fahrenheit Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="caddietowels.html" target="_self">Caddie Towels</a></li>
<li><a href="woventowels.html" target="_self">Woven Towels</a></li>
<li><a href="sunprotection.html" target="_self">Sun Protection</a></li>
<li><a href="" target=""></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="embelishments.html" target="_self" >Embellishments</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="embroidery.html" target="_self">Embroidery</a></li>
<li><a href="wovenlabels.html" target="_self">Woven Labels</a></li>
<li><a href="medallions.html" target="_self">Medallions</a></li>
<li><a href="laserappliques.html" target="_self">Laser Appliques</a></li>
<li><a href="ballmarkers.html" target="_self">Ball Markers</a></li>
<li><a href="ultrasuede.html" target="_self">Ultra Suede</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="specials.html" target="_self" >Specials</a> </li>
<li><a href="whatsnew.html" target="_self" >Whats New</a> </li>
<li><a href="order.html" target="_self" >Order</a> </li>
<li><a href="contact.html" target="_self" >Contact</a> </li>
</ul>
</div>


body{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333333;
background-color:#b7b7b7;
padding: 0px;
overflow:auto;
border: #0F0 solid 5px;
margin: auto;
}

.wrap{
margin:0 auto;
background-color:b7b7b7;
border:0px;
padding:0px;

}

.menu{
border:0px;
padding:0px;
font: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
background-color:#F0F;
}
.menu ul{
background:#b7b7b7;
height:35px;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.menu li{
float:left;
padding:0px;
}
.menu li a{
background:#333333 url("images/seperator.gif") bottom right no-repeat;
color:#cccccc;
display:block;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:35px;
margin:0px;
padding:0px 25px;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menu li a:hover, .menu ul li:hover a{
background: #2580a2 url("images/hover.gif") bottom center no-repeat;
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menu li ul{
background:#333333;
display:none;
height:auto;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
border:0px;
position:absolute;
width:225px;
z-index:200;
/*top:1em;
/*left:0;*/
}
.menu li:hover ul{
display:block;

}
.menu li li {
background:url('images/sub_sep.gif') bottom left no-repeat;
display:block;
float:none;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
width:225px;
}
.menu li:hover li a{
background:none;

}
.menu li ul a{
display:block;
height:35px;
font-size:12px;
font-style:normal;
margin:0px;
padding:0px 10px 0px 15px;
text-align:left;
}
.menu li ul a:hover, .menu li ul li:hover a{
background:#2580a2 url('images/hover_sub.gif') center left no-repeat;
border:0px;
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menu p{
clear:left;
}

im trying out zope, and im trying to add a THEME section to my site like the themes on PHPNuke.. i have allready designed all the diffrent css sheets.. lets call thes 1.css 2.css 3.css 4.css how would i refrence the sheets in my header, and create a dropdown menu that would change the css layout?