Help with spry menu bar in liquid layout

I need help getting a spry menu bar with a 6-item list to stay in place in a liquid layout. Trying to get it horizontally under the header image. I am new to web design (new to html and code: reading books, searching web, and doing tutorials for many hours now), using CS4, working on a mac. You can view my trial page on cc-tn.com. I would appreciate any help offered!

Problem stems from the fact that your page is looking for files contained on your local hard drive instead of the web site.
<script src="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Templates/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Templates/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
In addition, the links to PDF files are pointing to your local hard drive.
p><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Documents/Foundations_one-page_green.pdf">Foundations</a> is a grammar-stage program for students K4 through sixth grade. Parents attend morning classes with their children as trained tutors model the tools of learning facts from a variety of interesting subjects. Students also participate in science and fine arts projects and practice public speaking each week.</p>
<p><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Documents/Essentials-One-page.pdf">Essentials</a> is a dialectic-stage program for students in third through sixth grade. Trained tutors model the dialectic tools of learning in English grammar, writing, and math drills. Emphasis is placed on the development of writing skills that will enable students to become effective communicators through the written word. Classes meet in the afternoon following lunch.</p>
<p><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Documents/Challenge_one-page.pdf">Challenge A & B</a> are dialectic-stage programs for seventh and eighth graders. Emphasis is placed on group discussion as students become more independent learners. Students focus on logic and debate.</p>
Did you define a local site folder in DW before you began this project? Without this critical first step, DW cannot correctly manage assets for you.
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<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
File cannot be found. Try
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File cannot be found. Try
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/julesmazur/Desktop/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
This link points to a local file on your local harddrive and can therefore not be found. However, this file is not needed because the file will be linked as above.
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CS4 Help with spry menu bar. Want Top Centered and Subs left-justified.

Hi there, using DW8 mostly, but have the trial version of CS4
for the spry menu bar. WinXP.
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http://www.manmeetswoman.com/example4.html
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audio90 wrote:
Not quite what I was looking for. I'm wanting the top menu to be grouped together and to the right and the submenu boxes to all a single square box, not just with backgrounds extending only the length of the word. Also, your menu bar doesn't display properly in IE6 either.
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Now, if you feel liek helping all the way, I also need to place those SUBMENUs closer to the PARENT button. They seem to be in a "box" that I can't modify.
And if you REALLY want to help even more! I want to set a border to the buttons on the submenu, a thin black border without affecting the upper PARENT button.
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THANKS VERY MUCH FOR READING!!!!
Hermes

Hermes, the most useful thing for us to see will be the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css file. The answers will be in your code.
Short of that, if you create a new site and a new page with an unaltered version of the menubar css stylesheet, compare that stylesheet with the one you have edited on your own page. Working carefully from top to bottom and looking at the differences, you might be able to pinpoint the problems. As you will see, the stylesheet is carefully commented, and a careful reading will reveal much to you about how the styles are applied.
One reason submenus might show all the time is if you have altered the style rule that places the submenus at a position of left: -1000em; That is a technique for 'hiding' the submenus way off to the left of the viewport until the Javascript calls them back on when you hover over the main menus. If you have altered any part of that rule, look at it carefully and replace your edits with original code.
Submenus are actually list items in unordered lists. If you can position the top of the unordered list higher, you will shift those submenus higher.
In order to style submenus but not the main menu items, you will style rules whose selectors begin like this:
ul.SpryMenuBarHorizontal ul
That means, the unordered list that is inside the unordered list whose class is "SpryMenuBarHorizontal".
To put rules around submenu items, style the borders of
ul.SpryMenuBarHorizontal ul li
Beth

Help with Spry Menu Bar Vertical

I have a page (html) with 3 frames (Top, Left, and Main). The
Left Frame will have the Spry Vertical Menu that will expand it's
submenus to the right, which I want it to overlap to the Main Frame
(which is to the right of the Left frame) .
Attempts:
1) I have increase the Z-Index of the Menu to a greater value
than anything on all frames, but this didn't working.
Please help!
Respectfully,
-Victor

quote:
Originally posted by:
Enchauva
I have a page (html) with 3 frames (Top, Left, and Main). The
Left Frame will have the Spry Vertical Menu that will expand it's
submenus to the right, which I want it to overlap to the Main Frame
(which is to the right of the Left frame) .
Attempts:
1) I have increase the Z-Index of the Menu to a greater value
than anything on all frames, but this didn't working.
Please help!
Respectfully,
-Victor
I too have a similar problem if not exactly the same. I am
finding it difficult getting information about it because I don't
really know how to describe what is happening!
In essence when I have a menu bar as you describe on the left
and another placeholder AP div to teh right of that menus when I
preview in a browser the whole things collapses and is very very
sensitive when you try to navigate to the right and drop out menu
Mine are vertical (popping out to the left!)
Now if I remove the place holder all is fine BUT I need to
use the place holder to position a collapsible panel.
At one stage I thought it was the collapsable panel causing
issues but an empty AP DIV tag all cause the issue!

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#rollover6 a.item6:hover,
#rollover6 a.item6:active,
#rollover6 a.item6:focus {background: white;}
#rollover7 a.item7 {background: #F2D0E9; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover7 a.item7:hover,
#rollover7 a.item7:active,
#rollover7 a.item7:focus {background: white; }
/**END ROLLOVER**/
Can anyone please give me a steer?
Thanks
Graham

I'm back again. I actually managed to get the rollover effect to work by creating new classes in my css so I'm thinking of staying with Spry 2.0. However I've found that using an image file for each of the top line menu items stops the menu popping out in my iPad. If I revert to a coloured box it works just great.
Can anyone please tell me how I can change the top level of the vertical menu so that I have a different colour for each item in much the same way as the old image version?
http://bucknellprimaryschool.org/spry.html is my test file and I have (sort of) fudged the Home item with a coloured 'button'.
Hope someone can step in to help me.
Thanks
Graham

Help with Spry menu bar 2.0

I installed a spry menu 2.0 bar for this site I am working. Test site is here.
It seems to be working in every broswer but IE7. The menus will not drop down but I guess the links on the top level navigation (home about etc) work. I hate IE. I'm also unsure if it works in earlier versions of Firefox like 4.0.
The Adobe Lab Browser either doesn't like me, or I don't know how to properly use it, but I don't understand how to make sure your links work. I do the control command click thing. But for example: It will work one day when I preview the page in IE8 but not the next day (and I know it works in IE8 because I have physically tested it in IE8). So the lab browser leaves me feeling confused.
If anyone can help me fix the problem in IE7 (or other browsers, who knows what's going on I sure don't :/ ) I would be very grateful.
Thank you for any help you can give me.

Actually Spry Menu 2.0 is pretty stable.
Using IE-Tester, your drop-menus appear to work fine in IE6, IE7, IE8 & IE9.
Also works in Chrome & Firefox 3.6x.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Help with Spry menu bar editing

I posted this discussion topic, and have received loads of viewing but no comments:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4657643#4657643
When I looked at the discussion just now, it was saying Read Only, but I don't understand why. Can anyone help me the original query, or why the discussion has changed to RO.
If you need more information, or I'm posting in the wrong place, perhaps someone could let me know.
Thanks.

Thanks, I understand GitHub a little better now. I didn't link to the CSS and JS files on the Adobe Labs server so I'm glad to know my website will be ok.
My site isn't live at the moment as I've taken it down whilst working on it. However, my question was more about tring to understand how to do something' in principle'.
I currently have around four templates and one individual screen. When I add/remove/edit the Spry drop down menu, I currently go to each of the four templates + the screen and make the adjustments to each one. It works fine, but is there a more efficient way of making changes so that I only have to do it once?
The second question is linked to the first - having made the changes to the Spry menus, when I make the site live, the majority of users see the 'old' version of the website. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just the way it works (presumably something to do with the pages being cached??)? I advise them to use Refresh, but not all of them are happy with this especially as they have to do it for each page.
Lulu

Help with Spry menu bars needed please?

Hi all
I am brand new to this forum, so please forgive any mistakes!
My problem is this:
I have created a 10 page web site in DW, and created a Spry horizontal drop down menu within it. I have created all the links on all pages, and all is working fine. However - here is my question - if I want to add another page to my site (making it 11 pages) is there a way of just creating it on one page (say index.html) and then automatically updating the other 9 pages with this new page - or do I have to open every page to add my new page manually?
Please help me out if you can.
Many thanks and regards
Mark

Hans - that was exactly what I was looking fro - thank you so much.
Have a good day
Regards
mark

Please can someone provide me with Spry Menu Bar Horizontal code for Dreamweaver CS5.5?

Please can someone provide me with Spry Menu Bar Horizontal code for Dreamweaver CS5.5?

Log-in to the Adobe Exchange with your Widget Browser and grab "Spry Menu 2.0."
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/widgetbrowser/
In Widget browser, style the menu as desired and Save files to your DW Local Site folder.
Nancy O.

Problem with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (1.0) re - CSS

Hello:
I am having some difficulty with a Spry Menu Bar (horizontal) 2.0 (1.0) that I have created. Initially I thought the problem was with regard to rendering issues on IE 6.0, however the problem seems to be more general than that and I have come to believe that it has to do with the CSS created by the Widget Browser and modified once imported into the webpage. Hence I have elected to post my issue here rather than on the spry page.
I have relied on the tutorial provided by David Powers (Bayside.css) and in addition other documentation regarding the Spry menu bar UI. The problem appeared to be one of IE 6 rendering the page with a gap that is created when the drop down menus appear, thus pushing down any divs that appear below the page.
However, through a painstaking process of trial and error my problem now seems to be that when I export the CSS generated by the widget browser to an external style sheet (the general style sheet governing the whole site), it conflicts with other CSS styles regarding links etc. The end result is that all the padding, background colours, background images, and text colours are lost. So long as the CSS remains within the head this doesn't happen.
My thinking is that this must have to do with issues of specificity, inheritence, etc.
The site can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.aclco.org/testing/index.html. In its current form all CSS related to the menu bar is found in the head of each page. (see CSS below).
My question is can I establish a separate style sheet for the horizontal menu bar and have those styles applied specifically (and only) to the menu bar. My only other alternative is to work through the remainder of the general style sheet and work through any issues of specificity/inheritance -- which may be the "best" practice, but it risks causing other "cascading" [sic] problems elsewhere.
Any advice or suggestions or directed reading (that would point to a solution) that could be offered would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Webster
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
    these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
     These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
    .MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
    .MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
    You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
    They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
        MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
        MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
        MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
        MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
                        and centered in its parent container.
        MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
    In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
    with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
    there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
    background-color:transparent;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
                                                MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
                                                at a given level all use same definition for ems.
                                                Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
                                                so use caution in using relative sizes other than
                                                100% on submenu fonts. */
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 17px;
    font-style: normal;
    padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
    display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
    float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
    width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
    float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
    width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
    float: left;
    width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
    float: none;
    width: 80em;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
    clear:both;
    display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
    display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
    float: left;
    width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    margin: 0;     /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
    padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
    background-color:#000088;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent-Dark.png);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
    border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
    border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
    text-align:center;
    line-height:1.4em;
    color:#ffffff;
    background-color:transparent;
    padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
    width: 10em;
    width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
    width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 15px;
    font-style: normal;
    background-color:#000088;
    padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
    border-width:0px;
    border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
    /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
    border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
    border-style: none;
    padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
    padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
    border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
    padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
    text-align:left;
    line-height:1em;
    background-color:transparent;
    color:#ffffff;
    padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
    width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
    background-color: #2E35A3;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent%20Light2.png);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
    color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
    background-color: transparent;
    color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
    background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
    background-color: transparent;
    color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
    background-color: transparent;
    min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
    border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
    top: 100%;    /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
    left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
                    and your personal taste.
                    0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
                    on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
                    menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
                    the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
    z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
    top: 0px;
    left:100%;
    min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
    background-color: transparent;
    min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
    top: 0px;    /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
                that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
                vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
    left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
                negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
                to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
    color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
    color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
    margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style>
The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below: (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
@charset "utf-8";
body {
    font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bug that is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8. For More information see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
    margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
    padding: 0;
    text-align:center; /* This allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
    color: #000000;
    list-style-image: none;
    background-color: #FCFCFC;
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
color:#000066;
a:link {
    color: #151A96;
    text-decoration: underline;
a:visited {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #1B8DCD;
a:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #F30A0A;
a:active {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #151A96;
#container {
    width: 960px;
    margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
    text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
    background-image:
    url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection%20_960.png);
    background-repeat: repeat-y;
#header {
        padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
        width:960px;
        height:332px;
        background-image:
        url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960.png);
        background-repeat:no-repeat;
#header h1 {
    margin-right: 0px; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
    padding: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
    display:none;
#header img {
    display: none;
#Main_nav_contents {
    padding: 0;
    margin-top: 0px;
    height: 39px;
    width: 950px;
    padding-top: 275px;
    padding-left: 39px;
    z-index: 3;
#MenuBarVertical {
    margin-bottom: 50px;
    padding-top: 50px;
    padding-bottom:200px;
    padding-left: 15px;
    padding-right: 15px;
.mainContent_left {
    margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the column down the right side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
    padding-left:30px;
    padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
    width: 600px;
    float: left;
.sidebar_right {
    float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
    width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
    margin-top: 30px;
    margin-left:0;
    margin-right:10px;
    font-size:90%;
.mainContent_right {
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding-left:30px;
    padding-right:20px;
    width: 600px;
    float: right;
.sidebar_left {
    float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
    width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
    margin-top: 30px;
    margin-left:30px;
    margin-right:0;
    overflow: hidden;
    font-size:90%;
.main_content_centered {
    width: 650px;
    margin-left: 155px;
.main_content_centered_header {
    margin-left: 75px;
.sidebar_textbox {
    margin: 0px;
    width: 260px;
    padding: 2px;
.sidebar_textbox_header {
    width:255px;
    height:58px;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20He ader.png);
.sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
     width: 255px;
    padding-top: 12px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Mi ddle.png);
    background-repeat: repeat-y;
.sidebar_textbox_content {
    /* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks in browser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within the background of the text box */
    width: 230px;
    padding-left: 20px;
    padding-right: 40px;
.sidebar_textbox_footer {
    width:255px;
    height:64px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Foo ter.png);
#issues_menu a:link {
    color: #151A96;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight:bold;
#issues_menu a:visited {
    color: #151A96;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:hover {
    color: #F30A0A;
    font-weight:bold;
    font-style: oblique;
    text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:active {
    color: #151A96;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-decoration: none;
#archives {
    padding-top: 15px;
    padding-right: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 20px;
    padding-left: 0px;
.landscape_textbox {
    width: 500px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    margin-left: 30px;
    padding-top:35px;
    padding-bottom: 25px;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
.landscape_textbox_hdr {
    width:500px;
    height:38px;
    margin:auto;
    padding:0;
    background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20Header.png);
.landscape_textbox_middle {
    width:auto;
    margin:auto;
    padding-top: 12px;
    padding-bottom: 12px;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/landscapte%20Textbox%20 Middle.png);
    background-repeat:repeat-y;
.landscape_textbox_content {
    width:450px;
    padding:25px;
.landscape_textbox_ftr {
    width:500px;
    height:44px;
    margin:auto;
    padding:0;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20F ooter.png);
#footer {
    padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
    width: 960px;
    height: 222px;
    background-image:
    url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_960.png);
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
#footer p {
    margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
    padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
    text-align:center;
    margin-left: 50px;
    margin-right: 50px;
    padding: 10px;
    font-size: small;
#footer h5 {
text-align:center;
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
    float: right;
    margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
    float: left;
    margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
    clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
.dropcap {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    line-height: 80%;
    font-size: 250%;
    font-weight: bolder;
    color: #000066;
    padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
.red_arrows {
    list-style-position: outside;
    list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);
.blue_bullets {
    list-style-position: outside;
    list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Full.png);
.attention {
    color: #F30A0A;
    font-size:x-large;
    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-style: italic;
    font-weight:900;
.attention_small {
    color: #F30A0A;
    font-size:large;
    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-style: italic;
    font-weight:900;
.table {
    table-layout:fixed;
.blue {
    color: #00F;
#container .mainContent_left p .blue {
    color: #0303A0;

Hello Martin:
Thanks for your input. However I am not certain we have resolved this issue adequately, or understand the principles governing the css as regards this spry menu framework 2.0 (1.0).
For example, the menu only works in IE 6.0 if the css remains in the head. I agree with your original post that it shouldn't make any difference whether the css is posted in the head or in a separate style sheet (so long as specificity issues are addressed). Both should work -- and yet it doesn't.
If the CSS is placed in the separate style sheet governing the total site, it doesn't work for 6.0. If placed at the top of the style sheet, conflicts of specificity prevent the menu from rendering properly in any of the browsers causing the rules for general links to govern the menu.   This has been verified using a cross browser testing. If the styles are placed at the bottom of the style sheet to help them take precedence, they work in all the browsers except for IE 6.
The website I am building needs to support IE 6 for a variety of reasons, and because it is catering to the non-profit community and to low income persons, I am mindful of even small differences in page weight.
So for me, at least, the issue remains baffling.
I appreciate your input, but also would appreciate the input from others, and especially Adobe Community Professionals and employees. The spry framework in this regard is not well documented. I am not certain if this is exclusively a CSS problem, if it might also be complicated by the architecture of the spry framework, or if indeed other variables are at play.
I would be my hope that in resolving the problem, other users of the this particular spry framework might also benefit.
Thanks,
Steve.

Trouble with Spry Menu Bar Not Opening on Hover

I have two Spry Menu Bars on this one page. They were both working fine. Now the menu bar on the top right is not opening on rollover. I have uploaded the Spry .JS and .CSSfiles to the server.Could it be that I added 2 to the names of the CSS styles, but not all of them? I just tested them all with 2 after the style name, and it didn't fix it.
I also noticed that the ability to edit these two navigation bars using the Property Inspector went away. I can't seem to click on them to edit. Now I edit them through the code only.
Rebuild it on another page, and paste in the code?
Suggestions?
ALso, getting an error message on line 2 of HTML below, which I don't remember editing.
I will paste the template page HTML, then the CSS, then the Javascript Spry file for Menu Bar Horizontal. I did not edit the JS file at all.
Link to the uploaded files: http://www.sproulcreative.com/filetest/panin_website/
Thanks for any help you can offer.
D
HTML for template page:
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<title>Press Reviews of Paninos Italian Restaurant Food in three Colorado Locations</title>

<link href="../styles_paninositalianrestaurant.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar_topnav.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal_topnav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<a href="#skiptomaincontent">
     <img src="../images/spacer.gif" alt="Skip to main page content" name="spacer" width="1"
height="1" class="invisible" id="spacer">   </a>

<div id="topnav">

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
<ul id="twittermenu" class="MenuBarHorizontal2">
      <li><a href="../paninos_local_italian_restaurant_fort_collins_colorado_springs_minnesota.html">H ome</a></li>
      <li><a href="../reviews_italian_restaurant_food.html">Reviews</a></li>
      <li><a href="../history_of_paninos_local_italian_restaurant_coloradosprings_fortcollins_minnesot a.html">History</a></li>
      <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu2" href="#">Twitter</a>
                  <ul>
                        <li><a href="http://twitter.com/Paninosfc">Follow Fort Collins, CO, Paninos</a></li>
                        <li><a href="http://twitter.com/paninosmn">Follow Minnesota Paninos</a></li>
                  </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu2">Facebook</a>
            <ul>
                  <li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Paninos&init=quick#/pages/North-Oaks-MN/Paninos/13234142 7180?v=wall&ref=search">Minnesota Twin Cities Four</a></li>
            </ul>
            </li>
</ul>

</div>

<div id="pagebg">
<div id="centralpageborder">

<div id="headerbox">
      <div align="left">
            <img src="../images/web_logo_paninos_final.png" alt="Paninos Italian Restaurant Logo (black text with a tomato for the letter O), Your family's Italian restaurant for over 35 years, locally owned and operated." width="215" height="118" class="paddingbottom" />

<ul id="MainFourNav" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"><img src="../images/img_mainnav_locations_contact.png" alt="Paninos Italian Restaurant Locations and Contact Information: Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Minnesota" name="locationscontactbutton" width="167" height="24" border="0" id="locationscontactbutton" /></a>                 <ul>
                     <li><a href="../contact_info_italian_restaurant_fort_collins_colorado_paninos.html">Fort Collins, Colorado, by CSU</a></li>
                     <li><a href="../contact_info_italian_restaurant_colorado_springs_downtown_colorado_paninos.html" >Colorado Springs Downtown: Tejon St. by Colorado College</a></li>
<li><a href="../contact_info_italian_restaurant_colorado_springs_8th_street_colorado_paninos.htm l">Colorado Springs: South Eighth St.</a></li>
                  <li><a href="http://paninos.com/minnesota/">Minnesota website</a></li>
                  </ul></li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"><img src="../images/img_main4nav_download_menus.png" alt="Download Italian Restaurant Menus in PDF format for restaurants in Fort Collins, Colorado; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Minnesota" name="menudownloadbutton" width="142" height="24" border="0" id="menudownloadbutton" /></a>
            <ul>
                  <li><a href="#"><em>Please pick your favorite Paninos:</em></a></li>
                  <li><a href="../online_menus_local_italian_food/Paninos_Menu_ColoradoSprings_Downtown.pdf">Color ado Springs Downtown: Tejon St. by Colorado College</a></li>
<li><a href="../online_menus_local_italian_food/Paninos_Menu_ColoradoSprings_Eighth_Street.pdf"> Colorado Springs: South Eighth St.</a></li>
                  <li><a href="../online_menus_local_italian_food/Paninos_Menu_Fort_Collins_Colorado.pdf">Fort Collins, Colorado, by CSU</a></li>
                  <li><a href="http://paninos.com/minnesota/">Minnesota (go to website)</a></li>
            </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="../photo_gallery_pasta_dishes_pizza_italian_food.html"><img src="../images/img_main4nav_photo_gallery.png" alt="Photo Gallery of Local Italian Food including pizza and pasta" name="photogallery" width="56" height="24" border="0" id="photogallery" /></a> </li>
      <li><a href="../pizza_coupons_and_special_deals_italian_food.html"><img src="../images/img_main4nav_specials.png" alt="Pizza Coupons and Specials" name="pizzacouponsandspecials" width="71" height="24" border="0" id="pizzacouponsandspecials" /></a> </li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
            
            <p class="headerphotos"><img src="../images/imgheader_lasagna_beef_hot_cheesey_coloradosprings_fortcollins_italian_res taurant.png" width="263" height="133" /><img src="../images/imgheader_spinach_salad_with_chicken.png" width="263" height="133" /><img src="../images/imgheader_big-t-pizza2.png" width="263" height="133" /></p>
            </div>
</div>
<div id="bodybox">
<div id="pagetitle"><img src="../images/img_title_press_reviews_italian_restaurant.png" width="307" height="38" /></div>
<div id="innerbdybox">
<div id="content">
<div id="maintext">

<a name="skiptomaincontent" id="skiptomaincontent"></a>
<h1>A Tradition Food And Sports: <br />
                        CC & Panino’s Love of Hockey Runs From Colorado to Minnesota</h1>
      <h4>Byline: By Jim Bainbridge, The Gazette</h4>
      <p>No Colorado Springs business has had a deeper bond with the Colorado College hockey program during the past three decades than Panino’s Restaurant, a connection seen on its walls, in its clientele and in its bloodlines.<br />
            Panino’s has been tied to the school’s hockey program since the restaurant was bought in 1974 by former CC All-America hockey player Tony Frasca. It’s still the place to be on game day a generation later with his son Mike running things. <a href="http://daily.gazette.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VGhlR2F6ZXR0ZS8yMDA1LzAzLzI5I0FyMDMzMDI=&Mo de=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom"><span class="smalltext">Click here to view entire article.</span></a><br />
<span class="smalltext">(Reprinted with permission of The Gazette)</span></p>
       </div>

      <div id="photosidebar">
            
            <img src="../images/img_waiter1_pizza_lasagna.png" alt="Happy waiter serving Pizza and Lasagna" width="190" height="158" /> <br />
            <img src="../images/img_panino_italian_grinder_sandwich.png" alt="Grinder Hot Italian Sandwich called a Panino" width="190" height="158" /></div>
      
</div>
      
<div id="linkssidebar">
        <p>The Gazette<br />
            The Coloradoan<br />
            The North Forty News<br />
            Colorado Springs Times</p>
</div>

</div>
<div id="footer"> </div>
<br />
<br />
</div> 
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS for Spry Menu Bar:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
    /*margin-top: -10px; */
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0px;
    padding-top: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
    z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 li
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 95%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    float: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-size: 100%;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 8.2em;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul li
    width: 8.2em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul ul
    position: absolute;
    margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
    top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul
    border: 1px solid #9E2532;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    color: #F3E8CC;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color: #663300;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a:focus
    color: #FFF;
    background-color: #663300;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    color: #FFF;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a.MenuBarItemSubmenu2
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 100% 50%;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu2
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 100% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 100% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 100% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 iframe
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1010;
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 li.MenuBarItemIE
        display: inline;
        f\loat: left;
        background: #FFF;
JAVASCRIPT FILE FOR MENU BAR HORIZONTAL:
/* SpryMenuBar.js - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
// Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated.
// All rights reserved.
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
//   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
//     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
//   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
//     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
//     and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
//   * Neither the name of Adobe Systems Incorporated nor the names of its
//     contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
//     software without specific prior written permission.
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
// ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
// LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
// CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
// SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
// INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
// CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
// ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
// POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
SpryMenuBar.js
This file handles the JavaScript for Spry Menu Bar. You should have no need
to edit this file. Some highlights of the MenuBar object is that timers are
used to keep submenus from showing up until the user has hovered over the parent
menu item for some time, as well as a timer for when they leave a submenu to keep
showing that submenu until the timer fires.
var Spry;
if(!Spry)
    Spry = {};
if(!Spry.Widget)
    Spry.Widget = {};
// Constructor for Menu Bar
// element should be an ID of an unordered list (<ul> tag)
// preloadImage1 and preloadImage2 are images for the rollover state of a menu
Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
    this.init(element, opts);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
    this.element = this.getElement(element);
    // represents the current (sub)menu we are operating on
    this.currMenu = null;
    var isie = (typeof document.all != 'undefined' && typeof window.opera == 'undefined' && navigator.vendor != 'KDE');
    if(typeof document.getElementById == 'undefined' || (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == 'undefined') || (isie && typeof document.uniqueID == 'undefined'))
        // bail on older unsupported browsers
        return;
    // load hover images now
    if(opts)
        for(var k in opts)
            var rollover = new Image;
            rollover.src = opts[k];
    if(this.element)
        this.currMenu = this.element;
        var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName('li');
        for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++)
            this.initialize(items[i], element, isie);
            if(isie)
                this.addClassName(items[i], "MenuBarItemIE");
                items[i].style.position = "static";
        if(isie)
            if(this.hasClassName(this.element, "MenuBarVertical"))
                this.element.style.position = "relative";
            var linkitems = this.element.getElementsByTagName('a');
            for(var i=0; i<linkitems.length; i++)
                linkitems[i].style.position = "relative";
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
    if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
        return document.getElementById(ele);
    return ele;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hasClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || !ele.className || ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1)
        return false;
    return true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || this.hasClassName(ele, className))
        return;
    ele.className += (ele.className ? " " : "") + className;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
        return;
    ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
// addEventListener for Menu Bar
// attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
    try
        if (element.addEventListener)
            element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
        else if (element.attachEvent)
            element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
    catch (e) {}
// createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
    var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
    layer.tabIndex = '-1';
    layer.src = 'javascript:false;';
    menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
    layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
    layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
    layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
    layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
// removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer = function(menu)
    var layers = menu.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
    while(layers.length > 0)
        layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
// clearMenus for Menu Bar
// root is the top level unordered list (<ul> tag)
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
    var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
        this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
    this.removeClassName(this.element, "MenuBarActive");
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
    return (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget)));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
    if(this.currMenu)
        this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
        this.currMenu = null;
    if(menu)
        this.addClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible");
        if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && typeof window.opera == 'undefined' && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
            if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, "MenuBarHorizontal") || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
                menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
        if(typeof document.uniqueID != "undefined")
            this.createIframeLayer(menu);
    this.addClassName(this.element, "MenuBarActive");
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
    if(menu)
        this.removeClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible");
        if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && typeof window.opera == 'undefined' && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
            menu.style.top = '';
            menu.style.left = '';
        this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element, isie)
    var opentime, closetime;
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = false;
    if(menu)
        this.addClassName(link, "MenuBarItemSubmenu");
        hasSubMenu = true;
    if(!isie)
        // define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
        // if a node is within another node
        listitem.contains = function(testNode)
            // this refers to the list item
            if(testNode == null)
                return false;
            if(testNode == this)
                return true;
            else
                return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
    // need to save this for scope further down
    var self = this;
    this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e)
        if(self.bubbledTextEvent())
            // ignore bubbled text events
            return;
        clearTimeout(closetime);
        if(self.currMenu == listitem)
            self.currMenu = null;
        // show menu highlighting
        self.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? "MenuBarItemSubmenuHover" : "MenuBarItemHover");
        if(menu && !self.hasClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible"))
            opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, 250);
    }, false);
    this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e)
        if(self.bubbledTextEvent())
            // ignore bubbled text events
            return;
        var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
        if(!listitem.contains(related))
            clearTimeout(opentime);
            self.currMenu = listitem;
            // remove menu highlighting
            self.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? "MenuBarItemSubmenuHover" : "MenuBarItemHover");
            if(menu)
                closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, 600);
    }, false);

It has to do with all of your absolutely positioned elements. What's happening is that the menu is falling behind the absolutely positioned elements on your page. Since there is nothing there, it's like trying to click a link that is outside your home while you are staring through a window. Personally with that page setup you have now I really don't see a need for absolutely positioned elements. But if you feel you will require them as part of your design you need to ensure the z-index of your menu layer is greater than that of the body elements positioned below it.

Having problem with spry menu bar in Internet Explorer.

I'm having a problem with my spry menu bars in Internet Explorer.
Here are the pictures:
Firefox
Internet Explorer
HERE ARE THE CODES:
HTML CODE:
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<style type="text/css">
#apDiv3 {
    position:absolute;
    width:254px;
    height:206px;
    z-index:2;
    left: 123px;
    top: 1529px;
#apDiv4 {
    position:absolute;
    width:250px;
    height:194px;
    z-index:3;
    left: 381px;
    top: 1528px;
#apDiv5 {
    position:absolute;
    width:256px;
    height:200px;
    z-index:4;
    left: 636px;
    top: 1529px;
#apDiv6 {
    position:absolute;
    width:349px;
    height:205px;
    z-index:5;
    left: 889px;
    top: 1530px;
</style>
<style type="text/css">
#apDiv7 {
    position:absolute;
    width:887px;
    height:204px;
    z-index:6;
    left: 324px;
    top: 905px;
#apDiv8 {
    position:absolute;
    width:1295px;
    height:74px;
    z-index:1;
    left: 212px;
    top: 668px;
</style>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
</script>
<style type="text/css">
#apDiv2 {
    position:absolute;
    width:209px;
    height:197px;
    z-index:2;
    top: 1220px;
    left: 171px;
#apDiv9 {
    position:absolute;
    width:331px;
    height:97px;
    z-index:3;
    left: 385px;
    top: 1218px;
#apDiv10 {
    position:absolute;
    width:292px;
    height:199px;
    z-index:4;
    left: 724px;
    top: 1218px;
#apDiv11 {
    position:absolute;
    width:200px;
    height:115px;
    z-index:1;
body {
    background-color: #000;
    background-image: url();
    text-align: center;
    color: #F00;
.none {
    font-size: 80px;
    font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-weight: bold;
#apDiv12 {
    position:absolute;
    width:991px;
    height:60px;
    z-index:5;
    left: 198px;
    top: 192px;
#apDiv13 {
    position:absolute;
    width:200px;
    height:115px;
    z-index:1;
    left: 588px;
    top: 322px;
</style>
<body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/WebConfroll.png','images/youthfootballroll.png','images/ statefbsweatshirt.png')">
<p align="center" class="none"><img src="images/footballtitle.png" width="941" height="183"></p>
<div align="center">
<ul id="MenuBar2" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">[Placeholder]</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">[Placeholder]</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Videos</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">2008 Videos</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="videos/2009 videos/Glenbard part one/partone.html">Glenbard South Game</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">             &# 160;         [Placeholder]</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">2009 Videos</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">2010 Videos</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </li>
</ul>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><span class="cent"><img src="images/bulldoghelmit.png" width="150" height="99" /></span></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p class="cent"> </p>
<div align="center">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li> <a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Football Season 2008</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/2008%20Defense%20Stats.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/2008%20Offense%20Stats.pdf">Offense and Records</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/BHS%20All%20Time%20Stats.pdf">AllTime Data</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/Western%20Sun%202009.pdf">Western Sun Final Standings</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li> <a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Football Season 2009</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/2009%20Banquet%20Record%20and%20Stats.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/2009%20Banquet%20Record%20and%20Stats.pdf">Record Book and Offense</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/All-Time%20Data%202009.pdf">Alltime Data</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li> <a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Football Season 2010</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2011%20Checklist.pdf">2010-2011 Offseason Checklist</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20Defense%20Stats%20Final.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20Stats%20Packet.pdf">Record Book and Offense</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20ALL%20TIME.pdf">Alltime Data</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
</ul>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><img src="images/Batavia Youth football.png" alt="" width="869" height="200" /></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image4','','images/WebConfroll.png',1)"></a></p>
<div align="center">
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.athletics2000.com/upstate8/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image7','','images/WebConfroll.png',1)"><img src="images/WebConf.png" name="Image7" width="206" height="194" border="0" id="Image7" /></a><a href="http://www.bataviayouthfootball.org/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image6','','images/statefbsweatshirt.png',1)"><img src="images/statefbsweatshirt.jpg" name="Image6" width="375" height="199" border="0" id="Image6" /></a><a href="http://www.bataviayouthfootball.org/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image8','','images/youthfootballroll.png',1)"><img src="images/youth football.png" name="Image8" width="329" height="197" border="0" id="Image8" /></a></div>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image5','','images/youthfootballroll.png',1)"></a></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><img src="images/Logos.png" width="1167" height="199" /></p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar2 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar2", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
CSS CODE
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    margin: auto 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: 54em;
    border-top: thick solid #00F;
    border-left: thick solid #00F;
    border-right: thick solid #00F;
    border-bottom: thick solid #00F;
    height: 2.2em;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
    z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 18em;
    float: left;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 18em;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
    width: 18em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    position: absolute;
    margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
    top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #000;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    color: #C96;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: center;
    height: 1.2em;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
    background-color: #900;
    color: #009;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    background-color: #900;
    color: #FFF;
    text-decoration: underline;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
    color: #FF0;
    font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1010;
    filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
        display: inline;
        f\loat: left;
        background: #FFF;
The website is http://wwww.bataviabulldogfootball.tk

Note that running your page through the W3C Validator gives this list of errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bataviabulldogfootball.tk%2F&charset=%2 8detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
I see that you have a very thin doctype at the top. I suggest you create a new page in Dreamweaver and copy the bit at the top of the page:
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Then put that code in place of these lines from your current page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
I see that you have two opening <body> tags. Delete one; it is not needed. Add the preload images from the second into the first body tag and delete the second.
I see code below the closing </html> tag. Re position it before the closing </body> tag.
Because of these errors mentioned above, it was impossible to see the page. Fix and reply here when you have done so.
Also, it is not possible for me to divine what difficulty you are having. If you can please also express it in English (LOL), I'll be happy to suggest a correction for you!
Beth
p.s. Posting entire blocks of code is NEVER as helpful as giving us a link to the pages in action. I seldom read through code dumps here in the Forum.
Message was edited by: Zabeth69

Help with Horizontal Menu Bar in IE

I am having trouble with my menu bar in IE. It works fine in Opera, Firefox, and Safari. In IE when you hover over it it opens on the left hand side and not straight down. I have tried many things others have suggested with no luck. I am not very good with code and this is the first website I have worked on as part of my job (wasn't hired on as a web designer! I work on a horse farm!). Here is the link to the site www.garnercreekfarms.com.
Here is my JS:
// SpryMenuBar.js - version 0.12 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1
// Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated.
// All rights reserved.
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
//   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
//     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
//   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
//     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
//     and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
//   * Neither the name of Adobe Systems Incorporated nor the names of its
//     contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
//     software without specific prior written permission.
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
// ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
// LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
// CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
// SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
// INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
// CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
// ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
// POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
SpryMenuBar.js
This file handles the JavaScript for Spry Menu Bar. You should have no need
to edit this file. Some highlights of the MenuBar object is that timers are
used to keep submenus from showing up until the user has hovered over the parent
menu item for some time, as well as a timer for when they leave a submenu to keep
showing that submenu until the timer fires.
var Spry; if (!Spry) Spry = {}; if (!Spry.Widget) Spry.Widget = {};
Spry.BrowserSniff = function()
var b = navigator.appName.toString();
var up = navigator.platform.toString();
var ua = navigator.userAgent.toString();
this.mozilla = this.ie = this.opera = this.safari = false;
var re_opera = /Opera.([0-9\.]*)/i;
var re_msie = /MSIE.([0-9\.]*)/i;
var re_gecko = /gecko/i;
var re_safari = /(applewebkit|safari)\/([\d\.]*)/i;
var r = false;
if ( (r = ua.match(re_opera))) {
this.opera = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
} else if ( (r = ua.match(re_msie))) {
this.ie = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
} else if ( (r = ua.match(re_safari))) {
this.safari = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[2]);
} else if (ua.match(re_gecko)) {
var re_gecko_version = /rv:\s*([0-9\.]+)/i;
r = ua.match(re_gecko_version);
this.mozilla = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
this.windows = this.mac = this.linux = false;
this.Platform = ua.match(/windows/i) ? "windows" :
(ua.match(/linux/i) ? "linux" :
(ua.match(/mac/i) ? "mac" :
ua.match(/unix/i)? "unix" : "unknown"));
this[this.Platform] = true;
this.v = this.version;
if (this.safari && this.mac && this.mozilla) {
this.mozilla = false;
Spry.is = new Spry.BrowserSniff();
// Constructor for Menu Bar
// element should be an ID of an unordered list (<ul> tag)
// preloadImage1 and preloadImage2 are images for the rollover state of a menu
Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
this.init(element, opts);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
this.element = this.getElement(element);
// represents the current (sub)menu we are operating on
this.currMenu = null;
this.showDelay = 250;
this.hideDelay = 600;
if(typeof document.getElementById == 'undefined' || (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == 'undefined') || (Spry.is.ie && typeof document.uniqueID == 'undefined'))
// bail on older unsupported browsers
return;
// Fix IE6 CSS images flicker
if (Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7){
try {
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
} catch(err) {}
this.upKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP;
this.downKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN;
this.leftKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT;
this.rightKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT;
this.escKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC;
this.hoverClass = 'MenuBarItemHover';
this.subHoverClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenuHover';
this.subVisibleClass ='MenuBarSubmenuVisible';
this.hasSubClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenu';
this.activeClass = 'MenuBarActive';
this.isieClass = 'MenuBarItemIE';
this.verticalClass = 'MenuBarVertical';
this.horizontalClass = 'MenuBarHorizontal';
this.enableKeyboardNavigation = true;
this.hasFocus = false;
// load hover images now
if(opts)
for(var k in opts)
if (typeof this[k] == 'undefined')
var rollover = new Image;
rollover.src = opts[k];
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions(this, opts);
// safari doesn't support tabindex
if (Spry.is.safari)
this.enableKeyboardNavigation = false;
if(this.element)
this.currMenu = this.element;
var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName('li');
for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++)
if (i > 0 && this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
items[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].tabIndex='-1';
this.initialize(items[i], element);
if(Spry.is.ie)
this.addClassName(items[i], this.isieClass);
items[i].style.position = "static";
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
var self = this;
this.addEventListener(document, 'keydown', function(e){self.keyDown(e); }, false);
if(Spry.is.ie)
if(this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass))
this.element.style.position = "relative";
var linkitems = this.element.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i=0; i<linkitems.length; i++)
linkitems[i].style.position = "relative";
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC = 27;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP = 38;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN = 40;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT = 37;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT = 39;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
return document.getElementById(ele);
return ele;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hasClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || !ele.className || ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1)
return false;
return true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || this.hasClassName(ele, className))
return;
ele.className += (ele.className ? " " : "") + className;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
return;
ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
// addEventListener for Menu Bar
// attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
try
if (element.addEventListener)
element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
else if (element.attachEvent)
element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
catch (e) {}
// createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
layer.tabIndex = '-1';
layer.src = 'javascript:""';
layer.frameBorder = '0';
layer.scrolling = 'no';
menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
// removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer = function(menu)
var layers = ((menu == this.element) ? menu : menu.parentNode).getElementsByTagName('iframe');
while(layers.length > 0)
layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
// clearMenus for Menu Bar
// root is the top level unordered list (<ul> tag)
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
this.removeClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
return Spry.is.safari && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
if(this.currMenu)
this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
this.currMenu = null;
if(menu)
this.addClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, this.horizontalClass) || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
this.createIframeLayer(menu);
this.addClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
if(menu)
this.removeClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
menu.style.top = '';
menu.style.left = '';
if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element)
var opentime, closetime;
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
if(menu)
this.addClassName(link, this.hasSubClass);
if(!Spry.is.ie)
// define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
// if a node is within another node
listitem.contains = function(testNode)
// this refers to the list item
if(testNode == null)
return false;
if(testNode == this)
return true;
else
return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
// need to save this for scope further down
var self = this;
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e){self.mouseOver(listitem, e);}, false);
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e){if (self.enableKeyboardNavigation) self.clearSelection(); self.mouseOut(listitem, e);}, false);
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
this.addEventListener(link, 'blur', function(e){self.onBlur(listitem);}, false);
this.addEventListener(link, 'focus', function(e){self.keyFocus(listitem, e);}, false);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.hasFocus = true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
this.clearSelection(listitem);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
//search any intersection with the current open element
if (!this.lastOpen)
return;
if (el)
el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
// check children
var item = this.lastOpen;
while (item != this.element)
var tmp = el;
while (tmp != this.element)
if (tmp == item)
return;
try{
tmp = tmp.parentNode;
}catch(err){break;}
item = item.parentNode;
var item = this.lastOpen;
while (item != this.element)
this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
item = item.parentNode;
this.lastOpen = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
if (!this.hasFocus)
return;
if (!this.lastOpen)
this.hasFocus = false;
return;
var e = e|| event;
var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
var link = this.lastOpen;
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
if (!opts[3])
opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
var found = 0;
switch (e.keyCode){
case this.upKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
break;
case this.downKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
break;
case this.leftKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
break;
case this.rightKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
break;
case this.escKeyCode:
case 9:
this.clearSelection();
this.hasFocus = false;
default: return;
switch (found)
case 0: return;
case 1:
//subopts
this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
break;
case 2:
//parent
this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
break;
case 3:
case 4:
// left - right
this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
break;
var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.lastOpen = link;
opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
        //stop further event handling by the browser
return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
this.clearSelection(listitem);
if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
if (listitem.closetime)
clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
if(this.currMenu == listitem)
this.currMenu = null;
// move the focus too
if (this.hasFocus)
link.focus();
// show menu highlighting
this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.lastOpen = link;
if(menu && !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
var self = this;
listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
if(!listitem.contains(related))
if (listitem.opentime)
clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
this.currMenu = listitem;
// remove menu highlighting
this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
if(menu)
var self = this;
listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
if (this.hasFocus)
link.blur();
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
var child = element[sibling];
while (child && child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
child = child[sibling];
return child;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
var found = 0;
var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
var ref = rect(els[found]);
var hideSubmenu = false;
//make the subelement visible to compute the position
if (els[1] && !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
hideSubmenu = true;
var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
for (var i = 1; i < els.length; i++){
//when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
if(prop=='y' && isVert && (i==1 || i==2))
continue;
//when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
if(prop=='x' && !isVert && !hasParent && (i==1 || i==2))
continue;
if (els[i])
var tmp = rect(els[i]);
if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) < (dir * ref[prop]))
ref = tmp;
found = i;
// hide back the submenu
if (els[1] && hideSubmenu){
this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
els[1].style.visibility = '';
return found;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
return str;
var oStringList = str.split('-');
var isFirstEntry = true;
var camelizedString = '';
for(var i=0; i < oStringList.length; i++)
if(oStringList[i].length>0)
if(isFirstEntry)
camelizedString = oStringList[i];
isFirstEntry = false;
else
var s = oStringList[i];
camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
return camelizedString;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
var value;
try
if (element.style)
value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
if (!value)
if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
else if (element.currentStyle)
value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
catch (e) {}
return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
if (isNaN(a))
return 0;
return a;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
doc = doc || document;
if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
el = doc.getElementById(el);
if (!el) {
return false;
if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
//element must be visible to have a box
return false;
var ret = {x:0, y:0};
var parent = null;
var box;
if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
} else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
ret.x = box.x;
ret.y = box.y;
} else { // safari/opera
ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
ret.y = el.offsetTop;
parent = el.offsetParent;
if (parent != el) {
while (parent) {
ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
parent = parent.offsetParent;
// opera & (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari && Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
if (el.parentNode)
parent = el.parentNode;
else
parent = null;
if (parent.nodeName){
var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
while (parent && cas != 'BODY' && cas != 'HTML') {
cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
if (parent.parentNode)
parent = parent.parentNode;
else
parent = null;
return ret;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
if (ev.stopPropagation)
ev.stopPropagation();
else
ev.cancelBubble = true;
if (ev.preventDefault)
ev.preventDefault();
else
ev.returnValue = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
if (!optionsObj)
return;
for (var optionName in optionsObj)
if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
continue;
obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
Here is my CSS:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: auto;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 70em;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 10em;
float: left;
color: #F59CB0;
background-color: #FFF;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
width: 250px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 9em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 9px;
color: #EF9CCF;
background-color: #FFF;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.2em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #FFF;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #EB91B6;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: center;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
background-color: #FFF;
color: #EF93B0;
text-align: center;
font-size: 100%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
background-color: #FFF;
color: #EF93B0;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
color: #EF93B0;
background-color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
color: #EF9CCF;
background-color: #FFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
color: #EF93B0;
background-color: #FFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;
#table2 tr .header p {
font-family: "Apple Chancery";
#table2 tr .header .regular2 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

Alyssa,
Have you tried putting this rule back as it was originally:
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto; /*was 9px*/
    color: #EF9CCF;
    background-color: #FFF;
That is, changing your 9px back to auto.
And giving us a link (as you did) is much better than printing out the code for us! Thanks!
Beth

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