Double vertical spry menus and IE8

I am trying to use two vertical spry menus on one page. This works in Chrome and Firefox, but the fly outs will not work in IE8. I am using Dreamweaver CS4, Operating System is XP Pro. Is there a fix for this issue? Bushmom

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Thanks Gramps.
I totally forgot about the Xpath filtering.
Trusty Hammer
altruistic gramps <[email protected]>
01/11/2011 05:06 PM
Please respond to
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To
patrick dennis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Spry Data Sets and IE8
A quick fix: add the following to your document
A better fix: reduce the number of datasets to just one and use Xpath
filtering triggered by an onclick event, as in clicking the relevant tab.
Gramps
For a more specific answer, please supply a link to your site.

Spry and IE8 Strikes Again

I am doing pages www.foxhill1.com and the spry menu looks fine in IE7, Firefox, Chrome and Safari but is terribly off center in IE8
Can anyone help. I don't use IE8 but some of my viewers do. HELP!!!!!!!

Thanks Ben. No I tried it on my wife's Inspiron with Vista and IE8 and
it looked fine. It must be some crazy anomaly with my son-in-laws computer
and IE8. Thanks again.
Joe
In a message dated 5/20/2010 1:15:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
You must have fixed it in the meantime because it OK to me.
If you are still worried you could put the following in your header so
that IE8 emulates IE7
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
I hope this helps.
Ben

Disappearing Vertical Spry menu buttons in IE

I have some experience with web developement, but this is my first attempt at Spry menus. I have a horizontal menu that is working great, but the vertical menu doesn't work correctly in IE (I'm using IE8). It works just fine in Firefox. When I mouse over a button, all the other buttons disappear, and then most of the buttons don't appear again even when I move the mouse off of the menu.
Here's the temporary URL to the page in question: http://web.mst.edu/~cdcgg3/AAVG/template_USLI.html (Note: this is just the preliminary layout, none of the links go anywhere yet.)
Any ideas? Like I said, I'm new to Spry so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
~clueless

I think you may have an issue with height:auto in IE
Have a look at this tutorial by David Powers http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/sprymenu/customize1.php

Vertical Spry Menu-IE alters positioning. How do I fix this? Works in all other browsers correctly.

I've recently uploaded a new website and am having a glitch with internet explorer with the vertical spry menu. It appears perfectly in all other browsers. I had added css rules to move up some of the longer submenus so they would all appear on the screen without needing to scroll down on the main page to view them. In internet explorer, it positions the top menu item, but the rest of the list does not follow in suit. Any ideas? This is super frustrating! Thanks!
link is here:
http://www.academypublishing.com

Hi,
I see now and it's really a little crazy, because the menus are there, just not where they should be.
I still need to investigate the matter thoroughly a little more closely, because I never saw it till now. Too bad that Gramps has not seen the thread, I'm convinced he will do the trick immediately! What if you would write a letter to him?By the way, did you make a try it with the original version of "SpryMenuBarVertical.css".
Hans-G.

Using images in Spry menus

Can someone please point me to instructions on how to incorporate button images in horizontal Spry menus?

Here's the working model for the menu I created using images for the main menu tabs: http://mmfc.org/HomePage_CleanUp/index_working.html. And here is the style sheet: http://mmfc.org/HomePage_CleanUp/SpryAssets/working.css.
I have one remaining problem, and hope someone can help.
There are three states/images for the main menu tabs: normal state, hover state (when the cursor is over the tab), and visible state (when a submenu is open and the cursor is over a submenu item).
In OS10.6.4/Safari, it works correctly:
Normal state
Hover state
Visible state
In Windows XP/IE 6, the 3rd state works incorrectly -- the hover state doesn't get replaced by the visible state:
In OS10.6.4/Opera and OS10.6.4/Firefox, it also works incorrectly -- but this time the hover state gets replaced by the hover color, not the visible state image:
For reference, I've copied the CSS below.
@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.MenuBarHorizontal {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
float: right;
/* 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: auto;
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: auto;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
background-color: #FDE9BB;
/* 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 variable width according to submenu item text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {
width: auto;
/* 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
/* No borders on all sides */
/* ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #666666;
/* Menu items are a light colored block with no padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
white-space: nowrap;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
color: #000000;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
font-size: 11px;
/* For setting the background color of the spry menu you need to edit the background in the CSS pane. Click on the spry menu bar and then open up the CSS pane. Window > CSS Styles. There's a few CSS items that set the background by default. The "a" item sets the background for the items that don't have a dropdown and the MenuBarItemSubmenu sets the background for the items that have a dropdown. You can set the background to an image just like you would any other element in your HTML. */
/* The following selectors define images for the (orange) normal state of tabs */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #AboutUs {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_aboutus.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #Missions {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_missions.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #Help {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_help.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #NewsAndEvents {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_newsandevents.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #Media {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_media.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #PatientStories {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_patientstories.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a #ContactUs {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_contactus.gif);
/* The following selectors define images for the (bright) active state of tabs.*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #AboutUs, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #AboutUs, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #AboutUs {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_aboutus_vis.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #Missions, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #Missions, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #Missions {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_missions_vis.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #Help, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #Help, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #Help {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_help_vis.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #NewsAndEvents, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #NewsAndEvents, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #NewsAndEvents {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_newsandevents_vis.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #Media, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #Media, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #Media {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_media_vis.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #PatientStories, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #PatientStories, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #PatientStories {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_patientstories_vis.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover #ContactUs, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover #ContactUs, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible #ContactUs {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_contactus_vis.gif);
/* The following selectors define images for the (red) hover state of tabs.*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #AboutUs, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #AboutUs {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_aboutus_hover.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #Missions, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #Missions {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_missions_hover.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #Help, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #Help {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_help_hover.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #NewsAndEvents, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #NewsAndEvents {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_newsandevents_hover.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #Media, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #Media {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_media_hover.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #PatientStories, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #PatientStories {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_patientstories_hover.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover #ContactUs, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus #ContactUs {
background-image: url(../img/DropDownMenu_contactus_hover.gif);
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a dark background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus {
background-color: #bf2e1a;
color: #FFFFFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a dark background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible {
background-color: #bf2e1a;
color: #FFFFFF;
/* Sets width of submenus and makes text non-wrapping */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {
display: block;
float: none;
width: 12em;
white-space: nowrap;
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%;
/* 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;
/* 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; */

Problems with Vertical Spry in IE

Hi,
I am having this problem viewing Vertical Spry menu only on internet explorer. It's ok on google chrome but it messes up on the internet explorer.
I would highly appreciate if someone could help me sort this out please.
The link to my website.
http://www.hbmrc.org/index-1WIP.html
a@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.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, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
margin: 0;
padding: auto;
list-style-type: circle;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 13em;
border-top-color: #edeeee;
border-top-style:groove;
border-bottom-color:#313132;
border-bottom-style:groove;
border-left-color:#cbcccd;
border-left-style:groove;
border-right-color:#3d3d3e;
border-right-width: thin;
border-right-style:groove;
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
margin: 0;
padding: auto;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 13em;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
overflow: visible;
    background-image: url(../images/sidebarbk.jpg);
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 12em;
left: -1000em;
top: 6px;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li ul li{
    clear: left;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: -11px;
border-top-color: #edeeee;
border-top-style:groove;
border-bottom-color:#313132;
border-bottom-style:solid;
border-bottom-style:groove;
border-left-color:#cbcccd;
border-left-style:groove;
border-right-color:#3d3d3e;
border-right-width: thin;
border-right-style:groove;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
width: 12em;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides
ul.MenuBarVertical
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
border: 1px solid #ccc;
/*Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
/*background-color:#AECFF4;*/
background-image: url(../images/sidebarbk.jpg);
padding: 0.7em 0.75em ;
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover
/*background-color: #777777;
color: #50cffc;*/
border-top-color: #edeeee;
border-top-style:groove;
border-bottom-color: #50cffc;
border-bottom-style: groove;
border-left-color:#cbcccd;
border-left-style:groove;
border-right-color:#3d3d3e;
border-right-width: thin;
border-right-style:groove;
padding: 0.45em 0.60em;
ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover
background-color: #09F;
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, /*ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
background-color: #7A85AD;
color: #333;
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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryAssets/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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryAssets/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.MenuBarVertical iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
margin: 0;
padding: auto;
list-style-type: katakana;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 13em;
border-top-color: #edeeee;
border-top-style:groove;
border-bottom-color:#313132;
border-bottom-style:groove;
border-left-color:#cbcccd;
border-left-style:groove;
border-right-color:#3d3d3e;
border-right-width: thin;
border-right-style:groove;
/* 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.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;

I am sorry, but you have changed the CSS beyound recognition; I do not want to spend my time going through it to correct it.
One example that has angered me is
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.MenuBarVertical iframe
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1010;
    filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
    margin: 0;
    padding: auto;
    list-style-type: katakana;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: 13em;
    border-top-color: #edeeee;
    border-top-style:groove;
    border-bottom-color:#313132;
        border-bottom-style:groove;
    border-left-color:#cbcccd;
        border-left-style:groove;
    border-right-color:#3d3d3e;
    border-right-width: thin;
        border-right-style:groove;
Changing this has not made you an expert
Another example on or about line 155 is this line which is sure to upset the browser.
ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
Yet another one
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
   left: -11px;
    border-top-color: #edeeee;
    border-top-style:groove;
    border-bottom-color:#313132;
    border-bottom-style:solid;
        border-bottom-style:groove;
    border-left-color:#cbcccd;
        border-left-style:groove;
    border-right-color:#3d3d3e;
    border-right-width: thin;
        border-right-style:groove;
I suggest you start with a new widget, but before you do, read this http://www.dwcourse.com/dreamweaver/ten-commandments-spry-menubars.php#one
Gramps

Connect horizontal with vertical spry menu

Hi,
I am a beginner, so maybe this is a stupid question... But here we go
Is there a way to "link" horizontal and vertical menu bars together?
I'll try to give an example...
The horizontal bar (main menu, in the header of the page) is:
Item 1          Item 2        Item 3          Item 4
(sub 1.1)      (sub 2.1)
(sub 1.2)      (sub 2.2)
Now, when clicking on one of the links, let's say "Sub 2.2", I would like to have the sidebar show this:
Item 2
sub 2.1
sub 2.2
     subsub 2.2.1
     subsub 2.2.2
     subsub 2.2.3
sub 2.3
Where "Item 2" stays fixed as a title, and the subs form an accordion menu revealing sub-submenu's (you can open and jump to another sub by clicking on it)
Now, the easy way to do this, is to create a separate page with a separate accordion menu in the side bar for each of the "Items". But that means that when I alter something (add a submenu, change its name, change a link, etc), I'd need to change the separate pages as well.
Is there a not too complicated way to link them together? So that the Item 2 in the side bar is not just a word, and the menu below not just a separate menu, but refer to the horizontal menu which is in the header? In other words, I would like to create one single list with all the "Items", "Subs" and "Sub-subs" to which I can refer and use them in different spry formats and locations.
Thanks in advance!
Tom

Short answer, no way to do that with Spry menus. Also, Spry is a dead framework. Adobe abandoned it in 2012 and removed Spry from DW CC because it has outlived it usefulness and is not mobile friendly.
You might want to consider a different navigation approach such as a jQuery Mega Menu.
5 Best jQuery CSS3 Navigational Mega Menus | Jaspreet Chahal
Nancy O.

Spry Menus on Spry Tabbed Panels?

Hi,
I'm designing a site that has major tabs at the top, each of which takes the visitor to an appropriate section of the site... each with a default section overview page and a horizontal nav menu that's appropriate for that section. (This design is similar to going to a site like AT&T and clicking on top tabs for Home, Small Business or Enterprise. Once you've done so, the menu below then presents links appropriate to the Home, Small Business or Enterprise products.) I've been trying to implement this by putting instances of Spry Menus in Spry Tabbed Panels within the TabbedPanelsContentGroup div. Specifically, I have the MenuBarHorizontal class is each TabbedPanelsContent div/class.
I have the basic layout working, but the wiring is mystifying me. Clicking the various tabs indeed presents the correct corresponding menus. But I also need to figure out how to make clicking a section tab go to the section overview page (which happens to also correspond the first menu item, "Overview", in each section). There's no real <a href> kind of option that's apparent in conjunction with the TabbedPanelTabs in the TabbedPanelsGroup. Is there a way to force a particular page to display when switching tabs? Or am I trying to use the wrong tool for the job and there's a better technical approach to implementing this design?
I've tried David Powers' blog entry re "Opening Specific Tabs and Panels from Another Page" (http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/spry_url_utils.php), but it describes exactly what the title implies.
Thanks!
Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey,
I think I'm going to need to diagram this out!
Let's see...when you say "major tabs at the top" are you referring to a separate MenuBar or are you speaking of Spry Tabbed Panels?
You of course realize that if you are speaking of Spry Tabbed Panels, that EVERYTHING on the panels is on one page. If that is your main organization, yeah, it's a little hairy.
Now, if you have a "normal" one-level set of nav buttons that each takes you to a page that contains a set of Tabbed Panels for that "department," that will get you where you need to be without quite as much mind-blowing follow-the-wire through the wall hijinks, if you know what I mean.
Here is a site that I put together using Spry Tabbed Panels: http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/index.html Although the top "tabs" nav looks like Tabbed Panels tabs, the Tabbed Panels don't start until you get inside the site, and there I use Vertical tabs (on the left side) and on the Panels have put lots of Spry Accordions.
By using this technique, you have an effective "landing page" on each "department" linked to with the top navigation buttons.
Best of luck, and watch out for short-circuits!
Beth

Help with vertical Spry menu

I posted this in the general forum, but thought I'd repost
here since this is more specific to Spry.
I'm having issues in IE (6 & 7...surprise, surprise) with
my vertical spry menu. It displays exactly the way I want it when I
use Opera. I think it has to do with the whitespace:nowrap on the
2nd level menu items, but I really don't know. I want the 2nd level
menu to be different width than the 3rd level, so I have both
levels set to auto width with nowrap.
This is how it looks in IE 7:
Menu
in IE
This is how it looks in Opera (correct):
Menu
in Opera
Attached is my CSS as well. Let me know if you need the HTML,
too.
Thank you for helping!
quote:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.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, a fixed width box
with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 8em;
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 8em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right
(95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially
off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
left: -1000em;
top: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation
MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 0;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
width: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text
decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #EEE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue
background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
background-color: #33C;
color: #FFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to
MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical
a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical
a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;

IE is a big problem child among browsers. Don't use it as your default browser.
For best results, build your site to display & perform well in the web standards browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari & Opera. If it works in one, it should work pretty much the same in all of them.
After you're satisfied with how your site looks in the good browsers, then test in IE. If needed, add hacks or conditional comments to make IE behave. There are many web sites that discuss known bugs in IE and how to work around them.
Lastly, the active X nag screens only appear locally. Once deployed on the remote server, you won't see them.
For better answers to your layout questions, we need to see your page. Can you post a URL?
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Double vertical spry menus and IE8

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