Dreamweaver spry sub menu problem in IE

Hi. I'm having a problem with my spry sub menu being offset
from the main drop down menu when viewed in IE. Any help? Thanks!
Link:
http://thinkstreet.net/websites/Nathan/AustinDrainageSite/index.html

The position of Spry Menu Bar submenus is controlled by the
margin property on submenu ul tags.
Locate the ul.MenuBarVertical ul or ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
rule.
Change the margin: -5% 0 0 95%; default value to the desired
values.

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Gramps,
I appreciate you providing this. I took a closer look at the errors and I made a few changes but this validator service continued to kick out errors. In fact if you put Adobe's own web site into this application (http://www.adobe.com), it comes up with 44 errors. As I mentioned before, the Adobe Widget Browser application for Spry Menubar 2 is essentially creating my code so I doubted that this was an actual problem.
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My conversation with the supervisor went a bit better. He told me that those running IE 8 and IE 9 on a Windows XP machine are ok. Vista is a problem. Windows 7 is also iffy. My machine is a Vista and my wife's machine is a Windows 7. It does not work on either machine for us.
I told him that Spry Menubar 2 should be withdrawn from their site or there should be a warning to insure that people are aware of the problems. He didn't say that they would do that. He suggested that I should check back with him in a couple of weeks. I did not get a warm and fuzzy feeling that this was a priority item for them.
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G'day Mate,
You are not using the latest Spry files
The latest version of the Adobe Spry Framework is 1.6.1, this is the same version that ships with Dreamweaver CS4. If you use Dreamweaver CS3 (uses Spry 1.4), its wise to upgrade your files to the latest version. This can easily be done using the Spry Updater that can be found here.
Carn the Pies
Gramps

Another SPRY horizontal menu problem with IE7

I posted this before, with no responses, but I think
I've narrowed it down to a CSS response problem with IE7.0. If you
view the attached link in Firefox or Opera, the menu background
color responds correctly on the drop downs. In IE7, the
background-color is ignored, causing the menu to be translucent
and, uh, ugly. Has anyone else had an issue with the
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Prototype
link using spry, css, ajax sprites and other magic.

>>
Regrettably, the silence from the forum has been deafening.
I'm not sure if folks are just wary of SPRY and AJAX issues right
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>>
guess it´s all of that :-) But folks visiting these more
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respectively might not even be interested in that -- you´ll
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the
Spry
forums @ Adobe Labs

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I've made a pretty simple web page, put a spry horizontal menu on it and it works and displays just like it's supposed to in FF but IE and Chrome both seem to have a problem with it. Currently there are no links attached to it but that's not my problem - getting it to display correctly is. Possibly this issuehas already been addressed but I couldn't find it in the forum. Webpage can be viewed here
I've put (what I believe to be) the relevant css on the Main Content section of the page. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I am so glad that you started again, this is the best way to learn, trial and error.
To fix your woes to date, have a look at the following
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal li{width:16.6667%;} /*spread the 6 items over the full width 6*16.6667% = 100%*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a{text-align:left;} /*Set the the alignment back to left for any menu item links that are in a sub menu*/
To add images to your menu items have a look at the following http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/MenuBarSample.html, you will find it at the bottom of the page.
I did not realise that SolidWorks still existed, started using it in the mid 1990's, excellent product, easy to use and promotes fast product development. I lost track of it when I went for retirement 10 years ago.
Gramps.

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menu in a site that I am redesigning. The menus look great in
firefox, but do not load properly in internet explorer. I am hoping
to be able to resolve this problem as the menus look so good in
firefox.
You can view the page at
http://www.greenlevel.abcchicagolimo.com

Hi clead16,
What do you mean by "do not load properly in internet
explorer"? I checked the site in IE6 and IE7 and it the menus
render OK.
You may want to also take a look at the
Menu
Samples and
centering
a horizontal menu
on Adobe labs.
-- Florin

SPRY Vertical Menu Problem (IE Hack?)

I'm having a problem with the Spry vertical menu bar. The one
I created works fine in Firefox and in Safari, but not in Internet
Explorer. In IE the sub-menu containers open AT THE TOP of the menu
bar, and not next to the selected menu item. I'm not sure how to
fix it. Any help is appreciated.
You can see the problem here (view in IE and roll over any of
the menu items in the middle or lower part of the menu bar):
http://southerncharmgifts.net/thesouthernsportsman/html/ssarchery.html

I downloaded the Spry update but it didn't fix the problem.
It changed my menu box to white, when it should have remained
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quote:
Originally posted by:
SnakEyez02
First your Spry is out of date. Please click on the following
link below to get the Spry Updater. It will be inside the package
as an Extension. Then next time you start up DW click on Sites and
then you will see an option at the bottom to update Spry in your
site.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html
Looking at your page it appears to validate except for one
thing. All images need alt tags assigned to them.
See if updating the Spry helps.
Also there is a Spry forum that Adobe does check in case
there are bugs. The link to the forum is on that page and I will
also link it below:
http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_spry_pr1_forum
With regards to Pitmaster you can check the above links but
depending on the issue it could be something else. So if you need
further assistance post a link to your page.

Spry vertical menu problem with IE

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categories of a products catalog. It has almost 1800 categories
organizad at about 5 levels, some categories have about 30
subcategories. These categories are extrated from a database.
It works in mozilla but in IE present this problem:
- The response time is slow when you change from one category
to ahother. And the effiecience decrease.
See in
http://edit.panamericana.com.co/
Thanks,
Alejandro

I tried in Firefox 3 and IE7 and they both seemed fairly slow
for any action to take place. But IE7 did seem pretty slugish.
It seems that you're already determined what the issue is,
you have waaaaaay too many menu items. Seems to me that that number
of items don't belong in a menu. There are even menus that are too
long to appear entirely on the page, so they can't be easily
accessed without accidentally hiding the menus again, which I did
several times. IN particular:
Cartuchos > Technologica
If you cannot change to a different format to show all of the
items, then perhaps you can split up the menu so that you don't
have too many at one time. I checked the code of your page and it
seems that you've got a lot of other scripting going on there
besides Spry, so is the issue with Spry or with everything else
you're trying to do with that menu. If you can try to recreate the
page with only the menu items on it (and not pulled in dynamically
on the fly), and then add back to your page a bit a time, you might
be able to find out what is really causing the delays.

Positioning of spry sub menu in IE8

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http://www.clinicafiore.co.uk/jan2012/indexJan2012_1.html
In all the browsers I have tested (Chrome,FF,Safari,Opera) on Mac and PC platforms it works fine. In IE8 it doesn't (hooray).
The critical attribute is:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 189px;
top: 0;
I.e. I have pushed the sub-menu out 189px when visible and set the top value to 0 thinking this would align the sub-menu with the top of the main menu item.
Is there a better way to do this to cover all browsers or do I need some conditional code for IE?
Really.really grateful for any help
For good measure here's all the html & the css
HTML
<div id="leftNav">
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          <li><a href="#">Ageing Neck</a></li>
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        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Ageing Lips</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Double Chin</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Downturned Mouth</a></li>
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            <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>
CSS
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
          margin: 0;
          padding: 0;
          list-style-type: none;
          font-size: 0.9em;
          cursor: default;
          width: auto;
/* 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: 0.9em;
          position: relative;
          text-align: left;
          cursor: pointer;
          width: 189px;
          float: left;
          font-weight: bold;
          text-transform: uppercase;
/* 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: 189px;
          position: absolute;
          left: -1000em;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
          left: 189px;
          top: 0;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
          width: 189px;
          font-weight: normal;
          text-transform: none;
/* 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;
          font-weight: normal;
          text-transform: none;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
          display: block;
          cursor: pointer;
          background-color: #aee56b;
          padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
          color: #333;
          text-decoration: none;
          border-bottom-width: thin;
          border-bottom-style: dotted;
          border-bottom-color: #FFF;
/* 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: #999999;
          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
          background-color: #999999;
          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
          background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.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(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 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;

I may be misinterpreting what it is that you want, partly because I thought we were talking horizontal menu and you point out a vertical menu.
I think that you used the vertical menu as an illustration to shopw how you want the submenu alligned. If that is correct, then please copy an paste the following into a new document and see the result in an IE8 browser.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul {margin-left: 8em; margin-top: -35px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<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>
<script src="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/includes_minified/SpryMenuBar.js"></script>
<script>
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
If the above is not what you want, then please explain.
Gramps

Changing Dimensions of spry horiz menu: problems

You change the dimension of menu items by changing the width
properties of the menu item’s li and ul tags.
Locate the ul.MenuBarVertical li or ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
rule.
Change the width property to a desired width (or change the
property to auto to remove a fixed width, and add the property and
value white-space: nowrap; to the rule).
Locate the ul.MenuBarVertical ul or ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
rule.
Change the width property to a desired width (or change the
property to auto to remove a fixed width).
Locate the ul.MenuBarVertical ul li or ul.MenuBarHorizontal
ul li rule:
Add the following properties to the rule: float: none; and
background-color: transparent;.
Delete the width: 8.2em; property and value.
Ok: My sub menu is now wrong. It renders horizontally,
instead of vertically, and the sub-sub menu also.
Any one see any problems with the above instructions?

Actually, the problem is that the list contains three sets of
instructions, each beginning with the word 'Locate'. What should be
done is label each instruction set and then make the actual
instruction set a subsidiary ordered list, e.g.
1. Select Width or Auto, with Nowrap:
1. Locate ...
2. Change ...
2. Select Width or Auto, without Nowrap
1. Locate ...
2. Change ...
3. Add rules
1. Locate ...
2. Add ...
3. Delete ...
What you need to do is select ONE of the choices, and then
play with it a bit.
Incidentally, I noticed that IE does not like the transparent
background, consequently I had to create a rule specific to IE for
the CSS rules to work.
Skip Keats

SPRY Vertical Menu Problem

Hey Guys,
I am have been trying to figure this thing out for hours. I
am new to coding. I made a vertical menu with one sub menu in
products. It works fin on my mac computer when running it on
firefox and safari, but when I run it on on a pc in Internet
Explorer it does not work. Can you please help me, I have a
deadline I am trying to meet.
here is the link:
http://www.fcsenterprises.com/test/cabinetman/index.html

Hi,
I'll give exactly the changes you have to do to have the menu
working on both browsers:
On the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css file make the following
changes:
- on this rule: ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE ,
delete background: #FFF; property. (This seems to have an influence
here)
- on this ul.MenuBarHorizontal li rule add a fixed height,
height: 30px for example;
- on this ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe rule add the line:
filter: alpha(opacity=0.1); (This is a known bug that is fixed for
Spry 1.6)
Diana

Using a Spry Vertical Menu problems

I'm getting some extra spaces on the very top portion of my menu bar here is the link:
http://highdeftapetransfers.com/storefront.php
it's also duplicating the sub menu from below "symphonies" I'm pretty sure it's a coding problem but can't seem to figure it out
any help sould be appreciated
Thanks

As long as you have got inconsistancies in your code as the hightlighted parts in the following, I would not worry about the menubar not showing properly.
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' />
<title>High Definition Tape Transfers Online Store</title>
<link href="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/catmenu3.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
<link href="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/default_css.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
<style type="text/css">

</style><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/javascript.php"></script></head>
<script type="text/javascript">var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write("\<script src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'>\<\/script>" ); </script><script type="text/javascript">var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1046402-1"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script><body>
<form action="http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/search_results.php" method="post" name="search_form" class="style3" id="search_form">
<table width="750" height="35" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="1%" nowrap><div align="center"><img src="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/images/topbanner.jpg" width="750" height="107"></div></td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form>
<table width="750" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <td height="40" align="center" background="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/images/gradient-two.gif" class="lighttext headline"><strong><a href="http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/" class="lighttext">Store Home</a> | <a href="http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/customers/" class="lighttext">My Account</a> | <a href="http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/basket/" class="lighttext">View Basket</a> | <a href="http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/checkout/" class="lighttext">Checkout</a> </strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="750" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#616669">
<tr>
    <td class="lighttext"><strong>Your basket contains 0 products. </strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="750" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <td><strong><img src="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/images/spacer.gif" width="20" height="10"></strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<strong></strong>
<table width="750" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <td valign="top"><strong><a href="http://www.modularmerchant.com/clients/hdtt/category/63/Chamber-Music" target="_parent"><!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="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="/design_packages/HDTT_Site_081308/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/javascript.php"></script></head>
<body>
Gramps

How do I move the text in the spry sub-menu down?

Hello I am currently developing a website in Dreamweaver CS6 and I have come to a problem I can't seem to solve. I have created a fairly straight forward spry menu bar and used css to edit it, however as you can see in the image below, the sub-heading below the 'My Work' is really close to the 'My Work' heading and it doesn't look too good. I was wondering if there is a way I can move the 'Graphic Design' text in the sub-heading down a bit using css so everything looks more neat and spread out.
Thanks

Here's the code, I think this is the one you asked for?
@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: 0;
          padding: 0;
          list-style-type: none;
          font-size: 100%;
          cursor: default;
          width: auto;
/* 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: 9pt;
          position: relative;
          text-align: center;
          cursor: pointer;
          width: 170px;
          float: left;
          font-family: Helvetica;
          font-weight: bold;
          /* [disabled]background-image: url(../IMG/spry%20bg.jpg); */
/* 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: 172px;
          position: absolute;
          left: -1000em;
          top: 23px;
          height: 88px;
/* 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: -1px;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
          width: 170px;
          height: 30px;
          background-color: #1F1F1F;
          text-align: centre;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
          position: absolute;
          margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
          padding-top: 10px;
          margin-top: 5px;
/* 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;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
          /* [disabled]border: 1px solid #CCC; */
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
          display: block;
          cursor: pointer;
          padding: 0.2em 0.75em;
          color: #CCCCCC;
          text-decoration: none;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
          /* [disabled]background-color: #333333; */
          color: #FFFFFF;
/* 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
          /* [disabled]background-color: #333333; */
          color: #FFFFFF;
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: 78% 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: 78% 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;

Spry Horizontal Menu problem in Safari Mac/Windows

Hello!
Has anyone run into a problem using a horizontal spry menu and it showing up corectly in Safari? The menu is centered but I cannot get the table to center underneath. I then wrapped the table in a div and center aligned it, after addeding a <br/> (just trying stuff to no avail.)
Here is a link to a site I am working on.
http://tesibridal.com/NEW/index.html
So far I have found it does not work in Safari 3.2.1/Mac & Safari 3.2.2 and gives me a whole new set of spacing problems in Explorer (which I will address all of those next).
Thank you in advance for your time.
~TMC
P.S. - Here is the CSS for the menu:
@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
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
cursor: default;
width: 55em;
margin: auto;
/* 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: 11px;
    font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color:#000000;
    background-color:#FF0000;
    text-align:center;
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 8em;
    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: 11px;
    color:#000000;
    background-color:#FF0000;
    text-align:center;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 10.1em;
    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: 10.1em;
/* 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:#000000;
    border-style:solid;
    border-width:1px;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #FF0000;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    border:#000000;
    border-style:solid;
    border-width:1px;
    padding-top: 1em;
    padding-right: 0em;
    padding-bottom: 1em;
    padding-left: 0em;
/* 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: #FF0000;
    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
    background-color: #FF0000;
    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
    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: #FF0000;
Message was edited by: TMCDesign
Message was edited by: TMCDesign

Hi clead16,
What do you mean by "do not load properly in internet
explorer"? I checked the site in IE6 and IE7 and it the menus
render OK.
You may want to also take a look at the
Menu
Samples and
centering
a horizontal menu
on Adobe labs.
-- Florin

Spry Horizontal Menu problem in IE7

Hello all,
Just wondered if one can help with this problem?
I have the horizontal manu bar pull down going across the
page
www.martinbleasby.co.uk
The problem can be seen in the aircraft pulldown.
Many thanks Martin.
Here is a copy of my CSS file.
@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;
width: auto;
/* 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: 12pt;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 120px;
float: left;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
height: auto;
/* 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: 12px;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #E4E4E4;
background-color: #E4E4E4;
/* 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: 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: #969fa0;
color: #E4E4E4;
text-decoration: none;
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.75em;
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
padding-left: 0.75em;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 12px;
/* 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: #696077;
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
background-color: #3D466D;
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
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;
}

What kind of problem are you having? I'm using IE 6 and don't
see a problem. I was looking because I'm having a problem with the
drop down getting scrambled and rendering as a horizontal structure
sometimes and working right others.

Dreamweaver spry sub menu problem in IE

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