Having Problem with Spry Menu - Help appreciated

Hello there
I am currently developing my website but I am having terrible problems with the spry menu. I have tried lots of things but not yet resolved the issue. I will try to give as much info as possible. My website is www.huntfilms.ie
When I am in dreamweaver the site looks fine and when I preview in browser also looks fine but when I have uploaded to server there is the problem as you can see.
I uploaded all the files that are required I think . I have attached a screen grab of my server view below. : I have six spry files : js,css and four giff files : I have included the code below. I would apprecaite help as been at this for best part of day with no luck ; going mad here
thanks
Barry
<script src="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/barryhunt/Desktop/huntfilms1/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/barryhunt/Desktop/huntfilms1/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body class="oneColElsCtrHdr">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
    <h1>Hunt Films</h1>
</div>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/barryhunt/Desktop/huntfilms1/home.html">home</a>    </li>
    <li><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/barryhunt/Desktop/huntfilms1/sample.html">Sample work</a></li>
    <li><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/barryhunt/Desktop/huntfilms1/Contact.html">Contact Us</a>    </li>
</ul>
<div id="mainContent">
    <p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17962693?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="320" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Welcome! </p>
    <p>Hunt Films was set up in January 2011 by documentary maker Barry Hunt.</p>
    <p>Barry received training in TV and Video Production with FÁS in Tralee, Co Kerry. During this training Barry produced a series of short films about local artists. In 2006 he worked as assistant editor on the successful RTÉ drama series, ‘Love is the Dfile:///Users/barryhunt/Desktop/Picture%201.pngrug’.</p>
    <p>Since 2010 Barry has embarked on solo projects producing two entertaining half hour documentaries. 'Liberation', explores the world of pigeon racing in Dublin. This film was very well received at the Galway Film Festival 2011. More recently Barry produced 'The Gregory Seat', a documentary which follows Maureen O'Sullivan’s campaign to be elected in the 2011 General Election.</p>
    <p>Barry looks forward to producing more documentaries. He is interested in human stories and hopes that this will form the basis of his future work. At present, Barry is developing projects for film festivals and general broadcast    </p>
    <p> </p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
    <p>Footer</p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
server view of files uploaded file:///Users/barryhunt/Desktop/Picture%201.png

here is the code still not working can anyone tell me why
<!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>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body class="oneColElsCtrHdr">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
    <h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <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>
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          </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>
    <h1> </h1>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio. Donec et ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce varius urna id quam. Sed neque mi, varius eget, tincidunt nec, suscipit id, libero. In eget purus. Vestibulum ut nisl. Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</p>
    <h2>H2 level heading </h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
    <p>Footer</p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

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

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

Problem with Spry Menu

I have two problems related with Spry Menubar in Dreamweaver CS3.
First I would like to make the menu transparent (I have a nice graphic I would like to show under). I cannot make it in IE. I wonder if anybody has any ideas.
Second my menu has a strange behaviour.
I use the following code to load a page named test1.html into a div named MyDiv of the page that has the menu:
<li><a href="javascript:loadURL('Test1t.html','Mydiv');" target="_parent">Item1.1</a></li>
the LoadURL function runs correctly.
However the first time I load the page in IE I need to click 2 times on Item1.1 to load test1.html. After that the menu works correctly loading test1.html with only one click. Pretty strange!!!!
Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Carly

Hi Charly,
CarlyJ schrieb:
Hi Hans,
Unfortunatelly the page is just on my machine.
Thanks,
C.
Then off to the server with your site and let us know the link!
Hans-G.

Problem with spry menu bar position:fixed?

Hello technical heros,
I'm having trouble with my website's spry menu bar... here is the site.
As you can see, when you scroll down, the spry menu overlaps the header fixed block, which the rest of the content smoothly scrolls under. How do I tell the spry object to do the same?
I also want the sidebar 2 (menu bar) to be a fixed block like my header and footer. I know how to do this, but when I change the css, it throws my spry menu over to the left of the page, ontop of my sidebar 1.
Help, please!!

Hi,
Have a look here: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_positioning.asp
I hope this helps.
Ben

Internet Explorer Problem with Spry Menu Bar

http://www.cloud9industries.com/clients/jewelryworld/index4.html
OK here we go
#1) In IE, the toolbar doesn't appear with the same decreased
opacity as it does in Firefox and Safari. I'm using a png
background image with a transparent background and I've defined the
background color the same as the lower layer's color. Any ideas?
#2) THE BIG ISSUE - IE doesn't display the drop down portions
of the menu properly as they display horizontally. If the cursor
moves into the <li> from another <li> the menu displays
as aforementioned. If the cursor moves into the <li> from
outside the menu bar, the menu bar behaves properly.
This is the first page I've done with a Spry menu bar as it
seems the former navigation bar process has been removed from
Dreamweaver. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
cloud9industries

Hi,
I took a look over your page and I noticed that you are using
a very old spry version 1.4. The current released version is Spry
1.6 and contains some major bug fixes for Menu Bar widget.
Please update to this last Spry version. You can download the
new files from
here.
The problem with the transparent background is an IE6 problem
which doesn't support transparent backgrounds. This problem is
fixed on IE7 and I check it and it works there.
Please let us know if you still have problems with MenuBar
after updating it to the new version
Thanks,
Diana

Safari bold text causing problem with Spry Menu Bar

I have made a web site using a Spry Menu bar. It worked fine across all browsers, as far as I knew. I was just alerted by th esite owner that the menu bar had the last link out of position when viewed in Safari. I'm not sure when this started happening. I notice the text in Safari is more bold than firefox or IE. My guess is that's the problem. I searched on google for help and found this
Add - text-shadow: 0 0 0 #000; to the css.
I tried that but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
the site is here:
http://www.telluridegravityworks.com/
Can anyone offer any advice on how I might fix this? Thanks!

I'm not seeing the issue in Win 7/Safari (assume it's a Mac issue) but I do see it in Win 7/IE9.
In the CSS file, http://www.telluridegravityworks.com/css/gravity-works-winter.css
tweaking the width of the navbar container fixes it here
#nav-menu {
width: 455px; /* adjusted from 445px */
padding: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
float: left;
margin-left: 515px;

Having Trouble with Spry Menu Bar Hover Image

I added a hover image to the spry menu bar, however, whenever I roll my mouse over the buttons all, but one of the buttons' fonts grow in size, also increase the size of the button. Can someone please help me with this?

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

Problem with spry menu bar

i'm using dreamweaver CS3 to create a website using php
scripting. for some reason, my spry menu bar has become messed up.
it is now in bulleted form and the font and font color are all
wrong. i checked but the styles are turned on.. so how can i solve
this?

Find that some reason that the spry menu bar became messed up
and revert to how it was before that some reason occurred.
Hope that helps!

Can anyone help? having problems with Spry Horizontal Menu in IE

Hi can anyone take a look at the code ive got or go to the site www.cj-it-pcfix.info ( using IE ) and see why the sub-submenu covers half of the submenu box? If you hover on "computer Store" then hover over any of the tabs below that you will see what i mean. here is the code...
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT!!
@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;
/* 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: 10.3px;
    position: relative;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 12em;
    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
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 8.2em;
    position: absolute;
    margin: 0;
    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: 13.5em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    margin-top: 0%;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 100%;
    position: absolute;
/* 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;
#MenuBar2 {
    padding-left: 5px;
.border {
    border-right-width: 1px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #f0f0f0;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #0579b1;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding-top: 0.5em;
    padding-right: 0.75em;
    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
    padding-left: 0.75em;
    border-left-width: 1px;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-left-color: #f0f0f0;
    text-align: left;
/* 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: #000000;
    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
    background-color: #a8a8a8;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
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
/* 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
/* 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
/* 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
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;
    background: #FFF;
    float: left;

You have a set of conflicting widths:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li { width: 12em;}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul { width: 8.2em;}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li { width: 13.5em;}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    margin-top: 0%;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 100%;
    position: absolute;
So, to translate:
All list items will be 12 ems wide
First submenu list (ul) will be 8.2ems wide
First submenu list items will be 13.5ems wide
this supersedes the 12ems for all sub and sub-submenu list items
Sub-submenu lists (ul) will hang off the right side (margin-left: 100%)
Internet Explorer is interpreting #4 to mean at the right side of the ul (which is at 8.2em)
Other browsers are interpreting #4 to mean at the right side of the li (which is at 13.5em)
I believe that is what is happening on your menus.
Beth

Having Problem With Syncing Ipod Help Really Appreciated

hello im trying to sync my ipod to my itunes but it says "cant sync because of corrupted files" and i have no idea how to fix the problem. anyone if you can help me it would be greatly appreciated
thank you
Brian

First off, don't be so impatient.
So the iPod shows up in iTunes ok? If so, can you do a restore on it?
Patrick

Problems with spry menu bar in IE

Hi.... I'm sorry if this has been covered somewhere, I promise I looked and couldn't find anything. I've been working with Dw for a little over a month now and have generally been able to find whatever I needed. But I've hit a wall: My pages display just fine in Opera, Safari, Firefox.... but in Mac's IE, none of the spry works (loaded from the server) and in Windows IE 7 & 8 the collapsible panels work but for the menu bar, the children menus come down from the top of the page (instead of below the parent). I've tried putting the menu in its own header container and the problem still happens. Nothing I do or can find as patches have helped make the Mac IE work (but from what I hear that's typical....). I am absolutely desperate for help!
The original page is: http://www.tumorvirology.pitt.edu
and a testing with the separate header can be seen at: http://www.tumorvirology.pitt.edu/dev/testsite/test1.html
The css files for the menu bar and panel for the first site is attached below.
Thank you so much for your time and help!
Susan

I have this exact same problem. My submenus are dropping down from the top of the screen in IE. I did what you suggested here and it did not work for me. Help! Here is my CSS:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
position: inherit;
left: 98px;
top: 234px;
/* 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
/* 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: 7.5em;
float: left;
background-color: #D35D35;
/* 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%;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
position: absolute;
z-index: inherit;
top: auto;
#leftnav {
padding: 7px 5px 5px;
width: 158px;
float: left;
height: auto;
position: absolute;
z-index: 20;
/* 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: #D35D35;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #FFFFFF;
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
background-color: #D35D35;
color: #333333;
/* 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: #D35D35;
color: #333333;
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: inherit;
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;

Having problems with burning - need help please!

when I try and burn a disk itunes says no recording
software found. Everytime I start up itunes it says the drivers associated with burning are missing. It ask me to
reinstall the software which I do and I have the same
problem. I have other burning software but cant burn any
itunes Ive purchased do to the format. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The german note is:
Achtung
Die Registrierungseinträge für die iTunes Treiber zum Import und Brennen von CDs und DVDs fehlen. Diese kann Folge der Installation einer anderen Software zum Brennen von CDs sein. Bitte installieren sie iTunes erneut.
Could anybody please help me??

I need more information about your hardware configuration. Run the iTunes Help menu -> Run CD Diagnostics... command and post the results here.
I'm assuming that you're not running 64-bit windows.
It sounds like the driver didn't get installed. You could try doing a repair install on iTunes --
Windows Start menu -> Settings -> Control Panels -> Add or Remove Programs
Select iTunes, Select Change/Remove button, Select "Repair" radio button, click OK.
If that doesn't work, you might try downloading just the CD drivers from :
http://www.gearsoftware.com/support/drivers.cfm
Get the first link, not the second one that talks about gearsec compatibility.

Having problem with trigger.(help needed)

HI all,
i m totally new to the PL/SQL.... hope someone can help me with this.....
i am now using trigger to block inserting into "attendance99" table when the record reach the maximum limit and insert the record to the "waiting_list" table.
The problem i face is by using RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR, it will block the insertion to the "waiting_list" table as well.....
i had try to use only DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE instead but end up >>> inserting record into both table "attendance" and "waiting_list" tables.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_attendance
Before insert on attendance99
referencing new as new
for each row
DECLARE
maxstud NUMBER(2);
currstud NUMBER(2);
Begin
SELECT COUNT(*) INTO currstud FROM attendance99 WHERE offering_id=:New.offering_id;
SELECT max_no_students INTO maxstud FROM offering WHERE offering_id=:New.offering_id;
IF currstud >= maxstud
THEN
insert_waitinglist(:New.offering_id, :New.student_id, :New.evaluation, :New.amount_paid);
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20500, 'Sorry, this Offering ID has reach maximum students, you will be placed into waiting list!');
END IF;
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE insert_waitinglist
(v_offeringid IN waiting_list.offering_id%TYPE,
v_studentid IN waiting_list.student_id%TYPE,
v_evaluation IN waiting_list.evaluation%TYPE,
v_amountpaid IN waiting_list.amount_paid%TYPE)
IS
BEGIN
     INSERT INTO waiting_list (offering_id, student_id, evaluation, amount_paid)
VALUES (v_offeringid, v_studentid, v_evaluation, v_amountpaid);
END insert_waitinglist;
-----------------------------------------------

SQL> create table a (x number);
Table created.
SQL> create table b (x number);
Table created.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure insert_b(x in number) is
2    pragma autonomous_transaction;
3 begin
4    insert into b values (x);
5    commit;
6* end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace trigger trig_a
2 before insert on a
3 for each row
4 declare
5    v_cnt NUMBER;
6 begin
7    select count(*) into v_cnt from a;
8    if v_cnt >= 5 then
9      insert_b(:new.x);
10      raise_application_error(-20500, 'Limit exceeed. Inserted to B instead');
11    end if;
12* end;
13 /
Trigger created.
SQL> insert into a values (1);
1 row created.
SQL> insert into a values (2);
1 row created.
SQL> insert into a values (3);
1 row created.
SQL> insert into a values (4);
1 row created.
SQL> insert into a values (5);
1 row created.
SQL> insert into a values (6);
insert into a values (6)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20500: Limit exceeed. Inserted to B instead
ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.TRIG_A", line 7
ORA-04088: error during execution of trigger 'SCOTT.TRIG_A'
SQL> select * from a;
         X
         1
         2
         3
         4
         5
SQL> select * from b;
         X
         6
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