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CSS - Cascading Drop-down Menu. Positioning Problems
Hi, I'm trying to make a drop-down menu using CSS and javascript. I'm posting this here because the javascript (and most of the css!) is working fine, I just need some help with the positioning.
You can see the menu so far on the website I'm beginning to develop, 10pinleague.com. As you can see the initial drop downs work as intended but when you attempt to open a submenu, that should appear to the right of the drop down menu, it appears in completely the wrong place. And for some odd reason the distance from the drop-down menus to the submenus increases more and more as you progress from Menu 1 to Menu 2 and 3. I'm no expert at either javascript or CSS, so the drop down menu was something that I downloaded from a website, here, and then adapted to suit my site. Perhaps this wasn't intended to work as a cascading drop down menu. I just thought if I apply the same principle of wrapping the link in a div and getting that to show another new div containing the submenu it should work. And it kind of does, just in the wrong place - which I do not understand why this happens. Here is the HTML code for the menu. (note this is not the actual code on my website, this is code that is generated from a php loop I've made. But the HTML remains the same). Code:
<!-- START OF MENU !-->
<table width='730' height='30'>
<tr>
<td width='20%' align='center'>
<div id='menu1a'>
<a href='#'>Menu 1</a>
</div>
<div id='menu1b' class='menu_dropdown'>
<table width='150' height='50'>
<tr>
<td class='padded'>
<table width='100%' height='100%'>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu1_1a'>
<a href='#'>Item 1</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu1_2a'>
<a href='#'>Item 2</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu1_3a'>
<a href='#'>Item 3</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>at_attach('menu1a', 'menu1b', 'hover', 'y', 'pointer');</script>
</td>
<td width='20%' align='center'><div id='menu2a'>
<a href='#'>Menu 2</a>
</div>
<div id='menu2b' class='menu_dropdown'>
<table width='150' height='50'>
<tr>
<td class='padded'>
<table width='100%' height='100%'>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu2_1a'>
<a href='#'>Item 2</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu2_2a'>
<a href='#'>Item 2</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu2_3a'>
<a href='#'>Item 3</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu2_4a'>
<a href='#'>Item 4 ></a>
</div>
<div id='submenu2_4b' class='menu_dropdown'>
<table width='150' height='50'>
<tr>
<td class='padded'>
<table width='100%' height='100%'>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<a href='#'>Item 4a</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<a href='#'>Item 4b</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>at_attach('submenu2_4a', 'submenu2_4b', 'hover', 'y', 'pointer');</script>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'>
<div id='submenu2_5a'>
<a href='#'>Item 5</a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>at_attach('menu2a', 'menu2b', 'hover', 'y', 'pointer');</script></td><td width='20%' align='center'><div id='menu3a'><a href='#'>Menu 3</a></div><div id='menu3b' class='menu_dropdown'><table width='150' height='50'><tr><td class='padded'><table width='100%' height='100%'><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu3_1a'><a href='#'>Item 3</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu3_2a'><a href='#'>Item 2</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu3_3a'><a href='#'>Item 3</a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><script type='text/javascript'>at_attach('menu3a', 'menu3b', 'hover', 'y', 'pointer');</script></td><td width='20%' align='center'><div id='menu4a'><a href='#'>Menu 4</a></div><div id='menu4b' class='menu_dropdown'><table width='150' height='50'><tr><td class='padded'><table width='100%' height='100%'><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu4_1a'><a href='#'>Item 4</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu4_2a'><a href='#'>Item 2</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu4_3a'><a href='#'>Item 3</a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><script type='text/javascript'>at_attach('menu4a', 'menu4b', 'hover', 'y', 'pointer');</script></td><td width='20%' align='center'><div id='menu5a'><a href='#'>Menu 5</a></div><div id='menu5b' class='menu_dropdown'><table width='150' height='50'><tr><td class='padded'><table width='100%' height='100%'><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu5_1a'><a href='#'>Item 1</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu5_2a'><a href='#'>Item 2</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class='menuNormal' onmouseover='expand(this);' onmouseout='collapse(this);'><div id='submenu5_3a'><a href='#'>Item 3</a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><script type='text/javascript'>at_attach('menu5a', 'menu5b', 'hover', 'y', 'pointer');</script></td>
</tr>
</table>
Here is the related CSS.....but I doubt this is important. Code:
.menu_dropdown { background-color: #a5caad; border: 1px solid #057c1f; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; font-size: small; }
.menu_dropdown A:link {text-decoration: none; color: #000; font-weight: normal; }
.menu_dropdown A:visited {text-decoration: none; color: #000; font-weight: normal; }
.menu_dropdown A:active {text-decoration: none; color: #000; font-weight: normal; }
.menu_dropdown A:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: #000; font-weight: normal; }
td.menuNormal
{padding: 0px;
font-weight: bold;
vertical-align: top;
background-color:#a5caad;}
td.menuHover
{padding: 0px;
font-weight: bold;
vertical-align: top;
background-color: #87bc93;}
And here is the javascript file, that I have not modified in any way from the site I linked to above. Code:
// <script>
// Copyright (C) 2005 Ilya S. Lyubinskiy. All rights reserved.
// Technical support: http://www.php-development.ru/
//
// YOU MAY NOT
// (1) Remove or modify this copyright notice.
// (2) Distribute this code, any part or any modified version of it.
// Instead, you can link to the homepage of this code:
// http://www.php-development.ru/javascripts/dropdown.php.
//
// YOU MAY
// (1) Use this code on your website.
// (2) Use this code as a part of another product provided that
// its main use is not creating javascript menus.
//
// NO WARRANTY
// This code is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either
// expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties
// of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. You expressly
// acknowledge and agree that use of this code is at your own risk.
function expand(s)
{
var td = s;
var d = td.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0);
td.className = "menuHover";
}
function collapse(s)
{
var td = s;
var d = td.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0);
td.className = "menuNormal";
}
// ----- Popup Control ---------------------------------------------------------
function at_display(x)
{
var win = window.open();
for (var i in x) win.document.write(i+' = '+x[i]+'<br>');
}
// ----- Show Aux -----
function at_show_aux(parent, child)
{
var p = document.getElementById(parent);
var c = document.getElementById(child );
var top = (c["at_position"] == "y") ? p.offsetHeight+2 : 0;
var left = (c["at_position"] == "x") ? p.offsetWidth +2 : 0;
for (; p; p = p.offsetParent)
{
top += p.offsetTop;
left += p.offsetLeft;
}
c.style.position = "absolute";
c.style.top = top +'px';
c.style.left = left+'px';
c.style.visibility = "visible";
}
// ----- Show -----
function at_show()
{
var p = document.getElementById(this["at_parent"]);
var c = document.getElementById(this["at_child" ]);
at_show_aux(p.id, c.id);
clearTimeout(c["at_timeout"]);
}
// ----- Hide -----
function at_hide()
{
var c = document.getElementById(this["at_child"]);
c["at_timeout"] = setTimeout("document.getElementById('"+c.id+"').style.visibility = 'hidden'", 333);
}
// ----- Click -----
function at_click()
{
var p = document.getElementById(this["at_parent"]);
var c = document.getElementById(this["at_child" ]);
if (c.style.visibility != "visible")
at_show_aux(p.id, c.id);
else c.style.visibility = "hidden";
return false;
}
// ----- Attach -----
// PARAMETERS:
// parent - id of visible html element
// child - id of invisible html element that will be dropdowned
// showtype - "click" = you should click the parent to show/hide the child
// "hover" = you should place the mouse over the parent to show
// the child
// position - "x" = the child is displayed to the right of the parent
// "y" = the child is displayed below the parent
// cursor - Omit to use default cursor or check any CSS manual for possible
// values of this field
function at_attach(parent, child, showtype, position, cursor)
{
var p = document.getElementById(parent);
var c = document.getElementById(child);
p["at_parent"] = p.id;
c["at_parent"] = p.id;
p["at_child"] = c.id;
c["at_child"] = c.id;
p["at_position"] = position;
c["at_position"] = position;
c.style.position = "absolute";
c.style.visibility = "hidden";
if (cursor != undefined) p.style.cursor = cursor;
switch (showtype)
{
case "click":
p.onclick = at_click;
p.onmouseout = at_hide;
c.onmouseover = at_show;
c.onmouseout = at_hide;
break;
case "hover":
p.onmouseover = at_show;
p.onmouseout = at_hide;
c.onmouseover = at_show;
c.onmouseout = at_hide;
break;
}
}
Can somebody please help me get the submenus appearing next to the divs in the drop-down menus that they relate to, rather than half way across the page? Thank you very much! PS. If you think I've asked this in the wrong place and it should be in the Javascript forum, could you move it for me? Thanks. Similar TutorialsIf you look at the main menu(Home-About MCAEC-The Academy-Adult Education-Shining Star-Giving) on this page and hover over one of the parent categories you'll see issues with the positioning of the dropdown. I adjusted the margin and it looks fine in IE but the dropdown floats over the parent tabs in Firefox and Opera. Is there a way to adjust this so it's consistent in all browsers? Here's the code for the dropdown ul ul li a: Code: #dropmenu { z-index:100; position:relative;}
#dropmenu .menu ul ul {z-index:99; margin:0; width:160px; background:url(images/bg_sub.png) top left no-repeat !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px ; position: absolute; display:none; padding-bottom:10px !important; clear:both; padding-top:13px;}
#dropmenu .menu ul ul li { line-height:inherit; height:auto; text-align:left; width:160px; text-align:left; line-height:1.69em;}
#dropmenu .menu ul ul li a{ font-weight: normal; color:#fff; font-size:13px; text-transform:none; }
#dropmenu .menu ul ul li a:hover { color:#edc951; font-weight:normal; }
Thanks Hi all! I'm trying to make a horizontal menu with vertical drop downs.. However, the dropdowns don't go where they're supposed to. The menu is more or less at hybrid between a horizontal menu and a drop-down menu, so it's probably all more or less messed up You can check out the site at: cleopatra.gebodesign.no The files are at: gebodesign.no/cleopatra/menu.php gebodesign.no/cleopatra/stylesheet.css Thanks for any input My first question relates to my earlier problem which I fixed, excpet that the code that was messing it up was "img { border-width: 0; }" The problem w/ this is that I do not want any borders around my images, it makes the page look bad. Does anyone have a workaround? (Note that I also tried #menu a img { border-width....etc } ) For the second question:: I've noticed that my background positions fine in IE but the rest of the images won't move to where I positioned them. link to my page:: main link to css page:: css page i am trying to use the suckerfish dropdown menu. starting from the pretty example, i got it going in IE6 but it looked pretty off in mozilla. i tinkered around further the the IE code which changed things a bit there and made things look a bit better in mozilla but not much! my code is at http://www.fizzycherry.com/menutest.html - i would *really* appeciate any ideas. the main things really bugging me a how can i get the menu bar to fill the width of the screen in mozilla? my navbar div did this before i inserted the sub menus! once i tinkered with my css, placing padding on the links rather than the li elements, huge vertical gaps started appearing in the submenus in both IE and Mozilla, even with no margins padding and borders. i need to *add* a bottom border (same colour as background) to remove these gaps! why?? ideally i would like the submenus to look somethign like they do in ie6 but even if someone could just tell me how to make the bar fill the screen i'd be chuffed! I'm having trouble with the drop down menu for my website and I know it just has to be an easy fix, but I can't figure it out! I've spent grueling hours on it and now I've probably just messed up the original code! The menu will not center, and if I get it to, either the entire background turns white, the background for the menu turns white, or something else goes wrong (mostly more IE problems). Any help would be great....it looks like I can't post a link to the site, nor can I post the enormous amount of code in here??? Can someone tell me how I can do either or simply direct you to my site? I'm not self-promoting it, I just need help! I've got a drop down menu that has a hover feature. Problem is that as soon as you try to mouse over the options in the menu after they pop up on the hover on the title of the menu, the menu disappears. it does this in FF and Safari but in IE it works. weird, eh? any ideas? hi, Am nearly finished my first website but this issue won't go away and it's driving me crazy. www.leehughes.co.uk As you can see I have a drop down menu at the top. The problem is a couple of my friends have reported trouble trying to access the sub menus. They can hover over the main choice but when they move the mouse down to select a link the links disappear. it's not like they can not be selected though if you press ctrl and go down then they can be selected. Am so puzzled and so close to the end it's driving me crazy.. NEVER MIND I'm having a problem with my drop menu
Code: #nav ul a:focus being too wide. It's set at 100%, and will shrink if I set it to 50%, but can't match the different sizes of my menus. Here is the link to the page so you can see when the menu drops, then you hover mouse over one of the links in the list, the image is wider than the box. http://www.alliancemonterey.org/temp/ Here is the drop menu css. Any help would be appreciated Code: #nav,
#nav ul { background-image:url(images/button.gif); list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; z-index: 20000; }
#nav { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.855em; /* 14px / 16px */ font-weight: bold; height: 2.286em; /* 32px / 14px */ line-height: 1.5em; /* 21px / 14px */ width: 760px; margin: 0; }
#nav li { background-image:url(images/button.gif); float: left; height: 2.286em; /* 32px / 14px */ margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; z-index: 10000; }
#nav a { color: #c7d0d9; display: block; padding: 0.286em 5px 0.5em; /* 4px 30px 7px */ text-decoration: none; }
#nav a:hover,
#nav a:focus { color: #fff; background-image:url(images/button_over1.gif); }
#nav ul { background-image:url(images/button_over2.gif); left: 0; font-size: 0.857em; /* 12px / 14px */ line-height: 1.5em; /* 18px / 12px */ position: absolute; top: 2.667em; /* 32px / 12px */ width: 100%; }
#nav ul li { background: none; float: none; height: auto; width: 100%; }
#nav ul a { background: none; padding: 0.083em 30px 0.25em; /* 1px 30px 3px */ width: 70%; }
#nav ul ul { font-size: 1em; }
#nav ul a:hover,
#nav ul a:focus { background-image:url(images/button_over1.gif); width: 100%; }
#nav ul.hover { background-image:url(images/button_over1.gif); width: 100%; }
#nav ul ul { left: 0px; top: 0.5em; /* 6px / 12px */ }
#nav ul,
#nav :hover ul ul,
#nav .hover ul ul { margin-left: -9999px; }
#nav li:hover>ul,
#nav li.hover>ul,
#nav a:focus>ul,
#nav ul ul,
#nav .hover a:focus { margin-left: 0; }
#nav ul a:focus { margin-left: 0; }
Hello everyone, I have a drop-down menu that is currently working well. The only change I need to make is to have the right edge of the drop-down menu to align with the right edge of the parent menu. When you hover over the menu, it currently "drops" down and to the right, with the left edges aligned. I want the menu to "drop" down and to the left, so the right edges are aligned. I have tried fiddling with floats and absolute/relative positioning. I'm not sure what needs to be changed. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated! I'm learning via "cut and paste", so please go easy on any terminology you may use. Thank you! Here is the page: http://www.littlebuddymedia.com/site05/012.html The menu currently drops like this (aligned along the left edge): http://www.justskins.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/drop-down-menu.gif I want the menu to do this (align along the right edge; see how "Artists" is aligned under "Music" along the right edge): http://artatm.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mtvmenu.JPG Here is my code: Code:
.chromestyle{
width: 100%;
font-weight: bold;
float: left;
height: 29px;
}
.chromestyle:after{ /*Add margin between menu and rest of content in Firefox*/
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
.chromestyle ul{
border: 0px solid #BBB;
width: 100%;
background: url(chromebg.gif) center center repeat-x; /*THEME CHANGE HERE*/
padding: 4px 0;
margin: 0;
text-align: right; /*set value to "left", "center", or "right"*/
}
.chromestyle ul li{
display: inline;
}
.chromestyle ul li a{
color: #000000;
padding: 4px 7px;
margin: 0;
text-decoration: none;
border-left: 1px solid #DADADA;
}
.chromestyle ul li a:hover, .chromestyle ul li a.selected{ /*script dynamically adds a class of "selected" to the current active menu item*/
background: url(chromebg-over.gif) center center repeat-x; /*THEME CHANGE HERE*/
}
/* ######### Style for Drop Down Menu ######### */
.dropmenudiv{
position:absolute;
top: 0;
border: 1px solid #BBB; /*THEME CHANGE HERE*/
border-bottom-width: 0;
font:normal 12px Verdana;
line-height:18px;
z-index:100;
background-color: white;
width: 200px;
visibility: hidden;
}
.dropmenudiv a{
width: auto;
display: block;
text-indent: 3px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #BBB; /*THEME CHANGE HERE*/
padding: 2px 5px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
}
* html .dropmenudiv a{ /*IE only hack*/
width: 100%;
}
.dropmenudiv a:hover{ /*THEME CHANGE HERE*/
background-color: #0000ff;
color: #fff200;
}
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 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 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"> </td>
<td width="175" bgcolor="#000000">
<div class="leftnav">
<!-- store logo -->
</div>
<div class="leftnav">
<div style="border-bottom : 0px solid #666666;"> </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>
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