Adding background image to Spry Menu Bar?

Hi Everyone,
I have a question concerning adding a background image to a horizontal spry menu.
1) I am using Dreamweaver CS4.
2) I am inserting this menu bar on a HTML document.
3) I have created and am using an external style sheet (CSS)
I am not sure on which style(s) ("ul.*) to edit in order to acheive this.
I have a total of four(4) different images I would like to use, they are...
1) Horizontal Menu Bar (main menu bar)
2) Horizontal Menu Bar - Rollover
3) Submenu
4) Submenu - Rollover
Also I would like the text to be centered on the button.
I have somewhat acheived this using the instructions for "customize this widget", yet the image "repeats" because the button is larger than the image.
I have not tried to center the text, this may be a very simple thing, if so just let me know.
What I dont know, and was hoping someone could tell me, is which style(s) ("ul.*) to edit in order to acheive this.
If anyone needs anymore information, just let me know and I will give it to you as soon as possible.
Also I have attached three(3) of the four(4) pictures I would like to use. (this is the maximum)
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Musicman1994

I'd like to thank everyone with their help so far, but I am still having trouble.
I have tried both suggestions and the results are...
The one suggested by dhvani2511 gave me this...
(The cursur is over "Item 1" it is not blue when a cursur is not over it.)
I would like the image to "be" the button, not just "in" it,if that makes sense.
I have slightly tried the one suggested by .V1 but being that I am new to dreamweaver, code, etc. I am not sure where to copy/paste the code that you gave me.
Does anyone have anymore information?
Thanks,
Musicman1994

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Hello,
I'm a photographer by trade and have only picked up enough web design knowledge in order to build a website that isn't distracting to my photographs and is simple to update and mantain. Please breakdown any answers to my questions in very simple terms.
To start off here is a link to my site for reference. www.cechternach.com
1. My Biggest problem right now is that my site works in firefox but appears as a blank white page in chrome and in IE it only shows my background color.
I'm assuming that this has something to do with the spry menu bar I added. The galleries, banner, and footer were all part of a previous version of this website that didn't use the menu bar. I actually used png's exported from an illustrator as buttons. I've been wrestling with this menu bar for a few days now. I had an issue with the menubar forcing down the gallery below it. that was fixed by changing a position value from relative to absolute in the menubar css. Then I couldn't see the submenu over the galleries. I think I fixed that with a wmode change but I"m not sure if I did that right. I believe i needed to change that in the object and embed part of the code. One spot for certain browsers and the other spot for other browsers. I was a little confused on this because i also read that i needed to change the wmode in the javascript file in dreamweaver cs4 which is what i'm using. Whatever wmode I changed it seemed to work in firefox. The submenu background was showing up transparent but i fixed that in the menubar css.
2. I would like the submenu's to have a semi transparent blurred background effect. Is this possible with a spry menu bar?
3. How do I center my text in the submenu?
4. My menu bar buttons should be the same font as my name in my banner. It looks fine on my computer that has that font loaded but on other computers I was testing the site on the menubar buttons show up as a default font. How can i fix this?
5. Is there any way to get rid of the grey lines that show up around my slideshow pro galleries and menu bar buttons when they are clicked?
The last four questions aren't as important as the first one. I may be upsetting the flow of the forum as well. Please let me know if I'm not following procedure with any of my questions. Feel free to point out any other problems you see with my page. I'm trying to learn this as I go. Thanks in advance.

Spry widgets, which includes the SpryMenuBar, in their original state do not pose any problem in any browser!
Widgets contain two parts
JavaScript which drives the widget
CSS which styles the widget to individual tastes
The most common reason for a widget to misbehave especially in IE is because the inexperienced web developer has upset the delicate balance of the CSS. I say delicate, because in the original, great care has been taken by the Spry team to ensure cross browser compatibility.
There are other reasons why a whole page can misbehave. In these cases, the culprit should be sought outside of the Spry framework.
When trouble shooting, I would first of all comment out all of the Spry Spry parts and test the page in IE. If it does work after that, then yes come back here and we will have a look at the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css for you.
If it doesn't work after disabling Spry, then have a look at the coding and the CSS for your page and fix that.
I hope this helps.
Ben

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Hello,
the culprit must be in your (horizontal or vertical) "SpryMenuBar.........al.css". Please send us a link to your website in question, so we can better analyze.
BUT, and I quote from different contributions of the forum:
"Spry has been deprecated and is no longer officially supported by Adobe", “Adobe abandoned Spry late last year after CS6 came out. Future products will probably not contain any Spry so learning to use jQuery is a valuable skill to have for the future.” “The news was released in August last year: http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2012/08/update-on-adobe-spry-framework-availability.htm l”.
I'd recommend you switch to a jQuery library for your further requirements.
If you have a budget to work with, look at PVII's Pop-Menu Magic3:
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm3/index.htm
jQuery Superfish (free): http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/ aso.
Hans-Günter

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How can you create the first level of a spry menu bar to have no colour? I have a coloured background right now and the colour matches when you load the site in Internet explorer but does not match in Firefox. Any suggestions are welcomed on how to fix this.
Thanks!
HK

Here is the site:
http://partnersnaturally.ca/
I am learning with code, (obviously) so any feedback would be nice. I use dreamweaver CS4, but when I originally designed the site it was in a much older version of dreamweaver. I wonder if that could also be a cause. (besides human error)
Thanks again,
HK

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Hi,
I have already read this answer "how to show active page in spry menu bar" but I am using images, not text. I have mouse-over and mouse-out working in the Spry Menu Bar using image.png and image-over.png, but I cant' figure out how to get the image-over.png to appear on the active page since the spry menu bar is locked on the individual pages. (I tried to put it in an editable comment, but spry wouldn't go for it. :-)
Any ideas. Here is the code:
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       <li><a href="../index.html" id="home" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image8','','../images/all_pages/home-over.png',1 )"><img src="../images/all_pages/home.png" alt="Home Page" name="home" width="58" height="20" border="0" id="Image8" /></a></li>
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        <li><a href="../team.html" id="team" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('team','','../images/all_pages/team-over.png',1)"><img src="../images/all_pages/team.png" alt="The Team" name="team" width="97" height="20" border="0" id="team" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="../company.html" id="company" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('company','','../images/all_pages/company-over.png',1)"><img src="../images/all_pages/company.png" alt="The Company" name="company" width="139" height="25" border="0" id="company" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="../beatles-tickets.html" id="tickets" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('tickets','','../images/all_pages/tickets-over.png',1)"><img src="../images/all_pages/tickets.png" alt="Tickets" name="tickets" width="75" height="20" border="0" id="tickets" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="../media.html" id="media" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('media','','../images/all_pages/media-over.png',1)"><img src="../images/all_pages/media.png" alt="Media" name="media" width="61" height="20" border="0" id="media" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="../news-reviews.html" id="news" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('news_reviews','','../images/all_pages/news_reviews-over.png',1 )"><img src="../images/all_pages/news_reviews.png" alt="News-Reviews" name="news_reviews" width="149" height="20" border="0" id="news_reviews" /></a></li>
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     </ul>
Thanks so much for helping!
Cheers,
Janell

Just found this page:
Persistent Page Indicator
Update: Drat, it is for text menus only not using images. :-(
Cheers,
Susan

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Is there any way for an image (logo) to be directly placed along side of a Horizontal Spry Menu Bar? I am having a difficult time.
If I draw an AP div, I can place it next to the menu bar, but it remains fixed when I expand the browser window. I know that AP divs have an absolute position.
I'm sorta new at this, so any advice would be appreciated!

Dear 7,
I had luck floating the logo image to the left and floating the menubar to the left next to it
<!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>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<img src="logo text copy.jpg" alt="logo" width="100" height="104" class="fleft" />
<div class="fleft">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 1</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Item 1.1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 1.2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 1.3</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3.1</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Item 3.1.1</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Item 3.1.2</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 3.2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 3.3</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
Using this as the additional style rule:
.fleft {      clear: none;      float: left; }
Notice that I wrapped the menubar in a div that then took the .fleft class, and also set the .fleft class on the logo image.
I did not edit the menubar css file in any other way. The menubar hops down when the page gets too narrow, but that can probably be fixed, too.
http://www.gravenimagedesign.net/menubartest/testpage.html

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