CSS - Drop-down Menu Img. Borders & Absolute Positioning In Ie

I thought I had this issue resolved on Friday, but upon viewing my page in IE I realized that it isn't in the slightest.

I have a .title style that is devoted to headings that have a bottom border and sometimes some text that right aligns which is encapsulated within <p></p> tags...
This all looks fine and dandy when viewed in Firefox, but within IE I get no bottom border and the text within my <p></p> tags is at the very bottom of the page.

Here is what I have so far:
Code:

.title { border-bottom: 1px solid #0033FF; position: relative;  }
.title h1 {
   color: #0033FF;
   margin: 0px;
   padding: 0px;
   font-size: 1.6em;
   font-weight: bold;
}
.title p {
   margin: 0px;
   position: absolute;
   padding: 0px;
   bottom: 0px;
   right: 0px;
}
.title p A { color: #000; text-decoration: none; } 

Code:

<div class="title" align="left">
   <p><a href="index.php?p=admin">Add News</a></p>
   <h1>News Updates:</h1>
</div>

If 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

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.

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;
}