CSS - Drop Down Menu Is Still Under Text In Ie

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 working on a CSS to display a round-shouldered-tab menu. My result is acceptable:
http://rickduley.webs.com/roundShoulderTabMenu.jpg
except for the fact that the tabs are set below the menuBar on which the are supposed to display.

I have run out of ideas. Would someone please set me on the right path?
Thanks.

P.S.: the code is at
http://rickduley.webs.com/roundShoulderTabMenu.zip.kgb -
you have to delete the 'dot key gee bee' suffix.

I am sure this has been answered many times over, but I can't seem to find a solution that works. Sorry if I am re-posting something that has been asked before.
I am trying to add a drop down menu to a website I am working on, the menu works great in all browsers except IE7 (I haven't tried anything earlier).
In IE7, when I hover over the menu items they show the selections like they are supposed to, but when I move the cursor to select an item from the drop down it disappears.
I've tried many different things, but can't seem to get anything to work. Any help would be much appreciated.

Links to files:
simad.ca/wp/test/index.html
simad.ca/wp/test/nav.css

Alright, I've started to design the other pages on my site. I had to change some things in the code in order for my design to work properly. I didn't have it set up correctly before. So everything works the way I want it to now...except for the drop down menu. I am only a beginner with CSS and do not know much about it. I can't figure out what it is I did that made the navigation stop working. If maybe somebody that is more experienced than myself can take a look at it to see what I did, I would really appreciate it.

Oh yea, here is the link to the beggining stages of my "about" page:
About

Keep in mind, nothing is really for sure yet. I just want to get the coding done, so if you think the page could use some sprucing up, you're not alone. As of now the site works best in Firefox and the drop down menu should appear when "Portfolio" is hovered over.

Here is the link to the CSS:
CSS

Thanks

I have made a menu which I love because it is the layout that I want.
However, I am having problems with the menu when I try to add a "Drop Down" feature to it.

The menu I currently have and use is:
http://www.gc40.com/menu2.html



I would like to turn some of the tabs like services into a drop down menu. I found a script that was a drop down menu and I tried to customize it to match my original menu but failed.
The script that I found is: http://www.gc40.com/menu1.html

Is there anyone that can customize http://www.gc40.com/menu2.html for me using http://www.gc40.com/menu1.html so that I can have drop down capabilities?

I would really appreciate the help. Thanks guys.

I had made a site with a pure CSS drop down menu (using hover). The problem is that it works fine in the various browsers... IE6, FF1.x, NS, Opera... But it doesn't work in IE7. Anyone know a work around for using the hover as a drop down with IE7? I can paste the code later (when I get back to where my site is) if needed.

Thanks for any input.

Hi this theme had an old dropdown menu that was acting weird in some browsers so I updated it with a plugin and now to need to customize it to look a certain way.

There are a few stylesheets at work because of the plugin but I am unable to discern why the "Contact Us" text is off-center in the button. I can see that it seems to be too long, but I don't know why it is favoring the right side of the background, instead of being centered in the background. If someone could help me demystify this I would be MUCH obliged.

I will post a link so that it can be inspected... When I am allowed after 4 more posts!

Please inspect the elements (too much code to post with all different style sheets at play!).

Thank you.

EDIT: here is link: http://drewclifton.com/clients/northern-computer/

You can also see that the dropdown under 'Services' looks funky; I'm thinking a 'sliding door' solution would be appropriate yes? Thank you.

Hey guys,

New to the forum. Mainly came on here to get help with my nav bar. It works perfectly in FF and IE 8.07+, but the problem it with IE8.06, where it doesn't show at all. Not too worried about pre-8.06, only a small amount of my page hits comes from below that version.

I've spent ages looking for a problem, but can't find where I've went wrong. There's may be some superfluous stuff in there that I've added to try and fix the problem.. Please help? =)

------------------------

Code:

#PageList1 ul {
height: 1.5em;
overflow:hidden;
margin: 10px -10px 5px;
width: 100%;
padding: 10px;
background-image:url('http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WKkxGKrRVcw/TbFWFn_2VxI/AAAAAAAAAis/NKf1k3sO9A8/s1600/nav_bg2.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}

#PageList1 li {
height: 1.5em;
list-style-type:none;
float:left;
}

#PageList1 li a {
display:block;
height: 1.5em;
width:auto;
clear:left;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:9pt;
line-height: 0.5em;
margin: -9px 0px -23px;
color: #ffffff;
background-image:url('http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vhqPwC7csIg/TSUQG6Q3tfI/AAAAAAAAAYU/5ceiGi8na3s/s1600/gradient40px.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;

padding: 10px 10px 15px;

	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	border-right: 0px solid #ccc;
	border-bottom: 0px solid #ccc;
	-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
	-moz-border-radius: 5px;
	border-radius: 5px;
    -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000;
    box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000;
}
#PageList1 li a:hover, #PageList1 li a.sfhover {
background:transparent;
font-weight:bold;
color: white;
}

#PageList1 li ul {
	left: -999em;
        position: absolute;
	width: 13em; /* Width to help Opera out */
height: auto;	
background-color: #ccc; 
colour:#fff; 
clear: left;
}

#PageList1 li:hover ul, #PageList1 li.sfhover ul {
	left: auto;
	margin: 8px -80px 0px;
width: 13em;
height: auto;
background: #ccc;

}

#PageList1 li:hover li a, #PageList1 li.sfhover li a {
background:#ccc;
	border: 0px solid #ccc;
	border-right: 0px solid #ccc;
	border-bottom: 0px solid #fffccc;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0px;
	-moz-border-radius: 0px;
	border-radius: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin: 5px 0px 0px;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #000;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #000;
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #000;
	color: #000; 
}
#PageList1 li li a:hover, #PageList1 li li a.sfhover {
	background-color: #ccc; 
color: #fff;}

<script type='text/javascript'>
sfHover = function() {
	var sfEls = document.getElementById("PageList1").getElementsByTagName("LI");
	for (var i=0; i<sfEls.length; i++) {
		sfEls[i].onmouseover=function() {
			this.className+=" sfhover";
		}
		sfEls[i].onmouseout=function() {
			this.className=this.className.replace(new RegExp(" sfhover\\b"), "");
		}
	}
}
if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", sfHover);
</script>

Hi, I am working on my site, and was wondering if anyone knew how to do a menu like this http://www.vh1.com/music/

The one on the left in blue.. how it turns to white. I am pretty sure this is done with css. Can anyone tell me how this is done? Thanks

How easy is it to create one of these where when you hover over a link a menu appears underneath?

Hi,

I am trying to make a drop down menu using only CSS. I want to be able to set the width of the menu and don't want the width to be dependant of size of the menu option.

This is the XHTML code (I am using 1.0 strict):

<div class="option">
<form name="navigation">
<select name="selectname" SIZE="1">
<option class="">not wide enough</option>
<option class=""></option>
<option class=""></option>
<option class=""></option>
</select>
</form>
</div>


And the CSS part:


div.option
{
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
left: 0px;
width: 520px;
height: 50px;
z-index: 3;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
}


What I would really like is to set the menu width to preffered (in pixels) and not as wide as the phrase "not wide enough" makes it.

Is this possible with CSS. I am rying to avoid Javascript and tables (btw I'm using only divs as much as possible. Can someone point me where to look for this kind of thing.

Thanks.

I have a horizontal menu that drops vertically when you hover over a menu item.

In IE7, the menu hides behind images making it invisible if it drops in a spot where an image is at.

I haven't been able to find the answer to my problem, so I'm hoping someone here is familiar with this issue.

I should mention it works in Firefox, but I haven't tested any other browsers.

Hi all,
I'm having an issue with a drop down menu and have been beating myself up trying to figure it out. If I position the menu as relative it works when I resize the page/browser but it screws up the layout of the page (I put the <div> code right below the menu images to get it lined up but it throws the layout way off). By works I mean the menu will open right below the "Company" menu item regardless of browser size.

Positioning the menu using absolute, it doesn't move if I resize the browser, etc. but it doesn't screw up the layout of the page. So my question is, how can I get this menu to always be under the correct menu option? You can use the link below to view my test page. The page is currently using absolute positioning and the coordinates are off since I was playing with the various positioning schemes.

http://www.info-adv.com/test/css

Any insight/help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. If you need me to elaborate or better explain my problem please let me know.

Thanks,
Tim

Ok I am creating a CSS/Javascript Horizontal drop down menu and everything looks great except when I go down and highlight items on my submenu the styles go away on the Menu Item Selected, how can I have those attributes maintain when I go on it's sub elements?

Thanks alot

Seth

Code:

<div id="Nav">
                    <ul class="menu">
                        <li>
                            <a href="#">
                                Home
                            </a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" onclick="javascript:showlayer('sm_1')">
                                Profile
                            </a>
                            <ul class="submenu" id="sm_1">
                                <li><a href="#">Portfolio</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Resume</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">About Me</a></li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#">
                                Contact
                            </a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" onclick="javascript:showlayer('sm_2')">
                                Login
                            </a>
                            <ul class="submenu" id="sm_2">
                                <li><a href="#">Friends</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Family</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Admin</a></li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>

Code:

ul, li
{
	margin:0; border:0; padding:0; list-style:none;
}
#Nav
{
	font-size:11px;
	color:#3b5d14;
	font-weight:bold;
	padding:4px;
	height:30px;
	font-family: Lucida Sans;
}
#Nav .menu li 
{
	/*background:url(Images/Light/Left-Menu.png) left top no-repeat;*/
	height:30px;
	float:left;
	margin-right:10px;
}
#Nav .menu li a
{
	color:#F1F1F1;
	width: 75px;
	text-decoration:none;
	padding:0 10px;
	height:30px;
	line-height:30px;
	display:block;
	float:left;
	padding:0 26px 0 10px;
	background:url(Images/Light/Right-Menu-Off.png) right top no-repeat;
	font-family: Lucida Sans;
}


#Nav .menu li a:hover
{
	color:#666666;
	background: url(Images/Light/MenuRight.png) right top no-repeat;
}

#Nav .menu li:hover
{
		
	background: url(Images/Light/Menu-Hover.png) left top no-repeat;
}

#Nav ul .submenu 
{
	border:solid 1px #7ea3bb;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	/*border-top:none;*/
	background:#FFFFFF;
	position:relative;
	top:1px;
	width:100px;
	padding:6px 0;
	clear:both;
	z-index:2;
	display:none;
	filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=90);opacity:.95
}
#Nav ul .submenu li
{
	background:none;
	display:block;
	float:none;
	margin:0 6px;
	border:0;
	height:auto;
	line-height:normal;
	/*border-top:solid 1px #DEDEDE;*/
}
#Nav .submenu li a
{
	background:none;
	display:block;
	float:none;
	padding:6px 6px;
	margin:0;
	border:0;
	height:auto;
	color:#105cbe;
	line-height:normal;
}
#Nav .submenu li a:hover
{
	background:#ebf4fa;
}