Can Spry Menu subs display upwardly?

I would like to know if it is possible for a horizontal spry
menu's sub items to load upwardly instead of the normal dropdown
method? The client would like their menu at the bottom of the page
instead of the top, so the sub items would need to load in an
upward direction. If someone has managed to achieve this, can you
please assist and if there's no chance of this happening, please
let me know.
Many thanks
Steve

Its intended to be run locally so I dont have a link but here is the html for my index file. As you can see I have set the top row at 200 so it will display all the items in the menu bar when a user hovers over one of the bars. What I am trying to do is eliminate the white space by setting the top frame to around 60 but doing so you wont be able to see the drop down items. Make sense?
<html>
<title> Testing </title>
<frameset rows="200,*">
<frame src = "menu.html"
<frame src = "Homepage.html"
name="showframe">
</frameset>
</html>

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        layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
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    Hi Ben,
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    However when i uploaded the new css file, the change is not visible. It´s still the old mistake.
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    Can this be correct? Also the SpryMenuBar.js files are different in size.
    Do you have any idae what the problem here is?
    Thanks again !
    Add: I just recognized that also my html. files are different in size. So i guess this is normal. But where is the mistake hiding? I´courious
    Or could you pleas check again from your pc in iexplore? Thanks

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    /* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
    LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
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        margin-right: 0px;
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    // 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
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    // SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
    // INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
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        this.rightKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT;
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    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP = 38;
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            return false;
        return true;
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            return;
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        if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
            return;
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        try
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                element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
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        catch (e) {}
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        var menu = (submenus.length &gt; 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
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                    return false;
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        // 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);
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        this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length &gt; 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        this.hasFocus = true;
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        this.clearSelection(listitem);
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        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;
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        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 &gt; 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 &gt; 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 &gt; 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 &amp;&amp; !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 &gt; 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 &amp;&amp; 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] &amp;&amp; !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 &lt; els.length; i++){
            //when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
            if(prop=='y' &amp;&amp; isVert &amp;&amp; (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' &amp;&amp; !isVert &amp;&amp; !hasParent &amp;&amp; (i==1 || i==2))
                continue;
            if (els[i])
                var tmp = rect(els[i]);
                if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) &lt; (dir * ref[prop]))
                    ref = tmp;
                    found = i;
        // hide back the submenu
        if (els[1] &amp;&amp; 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 &lt; oStringList.length; i++)
            if(oStringList[i].length&gt;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 &amp;&amp; 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 &amp; (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
            if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari &amp;&amp; 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 &amp;&amp; cas != 'BODY' &amp;&amp; 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 &amp;&amp; optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
                continue;
            obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
    And last, here is the HTML code that has also not been modified in any way:
    &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
    &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;script src="../BXC Main Navigation Spry Drop Menu/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;link href="../BXC Main Navigation Spry Drop Menu/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal"&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop from Private Owner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop Direct from Stores&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Buying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Bid&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop from Auction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Bidding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Trade&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop for Trades&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Trading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"&gt;List Items&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items in Auction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items for Sale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items for Trade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Listing Items&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Intro&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Flash Site &amp;amp; Intro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;About Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;My Xchange&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Account&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Help&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Main Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Site Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    &lt;!--
    var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
    //--&gt;
    &lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
    &lt;/html&gt;
    Thanks in advance for any of your help.
    Jose H.

    Hello Nancy,
    I was troubleshooting For the next 8 hours after my post here and eventually I got it right, I uploaded the files to the test server and at the time did not have the chance to post the solution here. This is why, as you saw, it is working correctly now.  Both the CSS and HTML files needed modifications. While working on the code I had to run IE8, Chrome and Firefox simultaneously and refresh all three after every change in the code because what would fix the problem in one would cause a problem for the other.
    In addition to the problems listed in my original post, there were also other graphical issues in IE8, such as; the main menu buttons without sub-menus would only display at half their size vertically. The border around the buttons would not display despite that the background images were rendered in Photoshop as flattened JPEGs with boarders as part of the background image. Being so, I removed all borders from the CSS script.
    By the way.. the IE8 security measure did pop up while working from the server.
    Anyhow for those of you who are experiencing similar problems you can take a look at the working code bellow and compare it to the initial code. I've included detail comments on every line I have changed, modified or added.
    Good luck.. as I know it can become a complicated task when creating custom Spry menus.
    <b>Here is the finished CSS script</b>
    <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: 10;
        padding: 0;
        list-style-type: none;
        /* font size for top menu*/
        font-size: 80%;
        cursor: default;
        width: auto;
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
        text-align: center;
        /*whole menu moves*/
        margin-left: 100px;
    /* 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;
    /* My Note --Top buttons' background, height and font size adjust-- */
    /* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
        /* My note --I added the height and background-image as Main-Buttons.jpg-- */
        height: 55px;   
        background-image: url(../Main-Buttons.jpg);
        margin: -2;
        padding: 0;
        list-style-type: none;
        font-size: 100%;
        position: center;
        /*text-align: left;*/
        cursor: pointer;
        width: 99px;
        float: left;
    /* My note --Submenu font size adjust-- */
    /* 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: 87%;
        z-index: 1020;
        cursor: default;
        width: 160px;
        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
        /* My note --this margin alligns the drop buttons up and down-- */
        margin-top: 0px;
        height: 25px;
        left: auto;
    /* My note --drop menu size adjustments-- */
    /* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
        height: 25px;
        width: 162px;
        /* New addition */
    /* 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;*/
    /* My note --Text Allignment global-- */
    /* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
        /*My note -- took out borders &amp; changed text color to #333(black)&amp; added my own mouse not over image-- */   
        /*border: 0px solid #333332;*/
        background-image: url(../Main-Buttons.jpg);
        /*height: 40px;*/
        text-align: center;   
        display: block;
        cursor: pointer;
        padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
        text-decoration: none;
        /*My note --Text Color-- */
        color: #333;        /*background-color: was #CCC;*/
        letter-spacing: -0.00px;
        margin-left: 1px;   
        margin-right: 0px;
        /*alligns text up or down globally*/
        margin-top: 1px;
    /* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
        /* My note --took out all backgound &amp; text color for mouse over-- */
        /*background-color: #33C;
        color: #FFF;*/
    /* 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
        /*My note -- took out background &amp; text &amp; added my own mouse over image-- */
        background-image: url(../Main-Buttons-mouse-over.jpg);
        /*background-color: #33C;
        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.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
        /* My note --!!!!!This height setting adjusts the main buttons' background height in IE8!!!!-- */
        height: 40px;
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: 95% 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.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
        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-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: 95% 50%;
    /* My note --mouse over-- */
    /* 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-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&#92;loat: left;
            /* My note --The backgound color below was changed here to the same color #3e6487 as the darkest tone in the background image graphic to mimic the original image borders; dark blue, since IE8 for some reason would cut them out. This change allows this dark blue background to display around the main top buttons in IE8 giving the appearance of borders*/
            background: #3e6487;
    </code>
    <b>Here is the modified HTML script</b>
    <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
    &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;script src="/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;link href="/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal"&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop from Private Owner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop Direct from Stores&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Buying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Bid&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop from Auction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Bidding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Trade&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop for Trades&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Trading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"&gt;List Items&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items in Auction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items for Sale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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