CSS - Menu Trouble - Please Help

I've created my first attempt at a pure CSS drop-down menu using an AlistApart article as a guide. It works great in Firefox, but in IE the menu's are reloading the background image and the list bullet images each time you move to a new link in the drop down.

The page is here

Any ideas?

Here is the CSS for the Menu (not cleaned up so pardon it's rag-tagness):

Code:

ul {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  list-style: none;
  }

/* First Level */
li {
  float: left;
  position: relative;
  width: 10em;
  }
  
li#first {
	border-left-width: 2px;
	}

li#last {
	border-right-width: 2px;
	}

/* Second Level -- Drop Downs */
li ul {
  display: none;
  position: absolute; 
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
  background: url(../images/backgroundvert.gif) bottom left no-repeat;
  padding: 3px 0 3px 8px;
  border-right: solid 1px #777777;
  }

/* Reset for all non-IE Browswers*/
li > ul {
	top: auto;
	left: auto;
	}

/* Show Second Level when First Level is Rolled Over */
li:hover ul, li.over ul{ display: block; }

a {
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:link {
	color: #080;
}

a:visited {
	color: #790;
}

a:active {
	color: red;
}

a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#nav a {
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #149AF1;
	font-size:13px; 
}

#nav a {
	text-decoration: none;
}

/* Drop Down Menu Links */
#nav li li a {
	display: block;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #149AF1;
	padding: 0.2em 10px 0 15px;
	background-image:url(../images/bullet.gif);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
}

#nav li li a:hover {
	padding: 0.2em 10px 0 15px;
	background-image:url(../images/bullet2.gif);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#navs {
border:1px 0 0 0;
border-right: 0;
width: 100%;
padding-left:4px;
height:20px;
padding-top:3px;
}

.nonlink {
font-weight: bold;
color: #149AF1;
font-size:13px;
cursor:default;
}

tomm[.]bnesfinest[.]net/underattackwebsite/test/menu.html
tomm[.]bnesfinest[.]net/underattackwebsite/test/menu.css

For some reason, it refuses to rollover... in the actual site I've tried implementing it, all of them come up in the secondary start (black text, blue bg) rather than the default state (white text, transparent bg).

Neither times does it actually "rollover". What am I doing wrong?

Code from: webvamp[.]co[.]uk/blog/coding/graphical-css-rollover-menu/#example

Hi,
I'm breaking my head over IE6.0: adjusted this page and it now works at least in IE 5.0, 5.5, Opera, Firefox but in IE6.0 the damn thing doesn't align vertical in a right way and the menu doesn't scroll with the page anymore. Anybody who can tell me what's upsetting IE6.0? I don't have a clue no more.
Cheers,
Ziggy

I am having problems with my xhtml (css here). As you can see, the frog is pushing the menu (vert1 in the css) down. I am also told that the news (vert2) is being pushed down in IE6...can anyone help?

Hey guys,

Here's my problem:

http://www.3rdcoastpc.com/moonstoys/

Basically I want the menu in the rounded rectangle area, not underneath (outside) of it. You can see what's happening in the URL. If I use a span tag instead of a div in the head_content class, the background (the right corner of the rounded rectangle) doesn't show. I'm not sure what's going on here because in my HTML I'm putting the <ul> tags right after the logo image, so I would think that it would sit next to the logo and not underneath it. I'm just confused as this is my first attempt at doing a tableless design.

Here's my css:
http://www.3rdcoastpc.com/moonstoys/main.css

and the HTML:
http://www.3rdcoastpc.com/moonstoys/index.html

Thanks in advance!
Dustin

I would like to align left images so that they touch against each other.
Here is a capture of my problem.
dollhedz.com/test

[CODE]
<style type="text/css">

body{
background-color:#000033;
color:#00cc33;

}


#wrapper{
background-color:#000000;
margin:15px auto 0px;
width:700px;
height:800px;
}



#sitenav{
background-image:url(sitegrax/sitenavback.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height:55px;
padding-left:213px;
border: 0px;
margin:0px;
text-align:left;
}

#one{
float:left;
text-align:left;
align:left;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}




</style>
</head>

<body>

<div id="wrapper">

<div id="banner"><img src="sitegrax/banner.jpg" alt=" yellow Jacket dodging a 355 smoothbore slug" border="0" />
</div>

<div id="sitenav" >
<div id="one"><a href=""><img src="sitegrax/bt_game_nav.jpg" alt="site navigation games" border="1" /></a>
<a href="" align="left"><img src="sitegrax/bt_history_nav.jpg" alt="site navigation history" border="1" /></a>
<a href=""><img src="sitegrax/bt_pilot_nav.jpg" alt="site navigation pilot"border="1" /></a></div>
</div>

</div>

</body>
</code>

Problem: There is a 5 to 6 pixel space between each image that I would like gone. The 1px border around each image is there to show the edge of each image.

thank you for your time

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 */ 

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.

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'm using the suggestions of those on here and using the
http://www.dynamicsitesolutions.com...2/#relatedLinks menu (I'm a little confused over what the differences are but that's the least of my problems) What I want is a 2nd level drop down menu, but I'm clueless on how to go about it..???