HELP! My spry menu drop-downs won't "un-drop".

I'm sure this is a simple fix, but I'm new to Dreamweaver and don't really know what I'm doing yet. Any suggestions?

As an FYI, Adobe stopped supporting the Spry framework late last year after CS6 was released. You might want to consider replacing Spry with a menu system that better supports modern browsers like IE10 and Touch Screen devices.
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
Nancy O.

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Need help with Spry Menu Bar

Hello, I have two templates that I am using. Both have a horizontal menu bar across the top of the page and then two Vertical Spry Menu Bars down the left hand side of the page - one above the other. On one template, all menu bars are working correctly. On the other template, 2 out of three are working correctly. Not sure what's happening here. The spry menu bar that is not working correctly is under "Books & Materials" heading. The menu bar is supposed to turn green when you mouse over it, but instead everything turns white and looks like it "disappears". I have no idea why it would work on one template and not the other. Or for that matter, why it is working on one vertical spry menu bar, but not the other on the same page. Can anyone help me?   www.springerlejoy.com/proanimals4.html This is a page that shows where it is not working. Basically, all of the products pages are having this problem. If you go to the home page: www.springerlejoy.com you will see that this page is working - using a different template. Can anyone help me? I'm at a loss! Thanks!
Debbie
Here is the code for the template that is NOT working:
<!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>

<link href="../thrColFixHdr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>


<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body class="thrColFixHdr" onload="MM_preloadImages('../history2.gif')">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<table width="810" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <td><div class="hdrtxt">
      <p>2104 Clairmont Drive<br />
        Pittsburgh, PA 15241<br />
        T 412-616-9066<br />
        F 412-220-2074 </p>
      </div></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="../index.html"><img src="../logo3.jpg" width="313" height="149" border="0" /></a></td>
    <td><div class="rthdrtxt">Cookie Molds from <br />
      the Old World for <br />
      Baking and Crafts</div>
      </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="189" background="../lines.gif"></td>
    <td width="409" align="center" background="../lines.gif"> </td>
    <td width="182" background="../lines.gif"></td>
    </tr>
<tr bgcolor="#BB7C4E">
    <td colspan="3" align="left"><ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="../aboutus4.html">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="../howtoorder4.html">How To Order</a>          </li>
      <li><a href="../information4.html">Information</a></li>
      <li><a href="../contactus4.html">Contact Us</a></li>
      <li><a href="../recipeshome.html">Recipes</a></li>
      <li><a href="../events4.htm">Events</a></li>
      <li><a href="../gallery4.html">Photo Gallery</a></li>
    </ul></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<div class="divmenubar"> </div>
</div>
<div id="sidebar1">
    <div class="FeatureItem">
<div align="center"><span class="FeatureItemHead"> </span>
<div>
    <div class="Products">Products
      <br />
      <br />
    </div>
<div class="proHeaders">Molds</div>
</div>
</div>
<ul id="MenuBar2" class="MenuBarVertical">
<li><a href="../proangels4.html">Angels</a>      </li>
    <li><a href="../proanimals4.html">Animals</a></li>
    <li><a href="../probaby4.html">Baby</a>      </li>
    <li><a href="../probiblical4.html">Biblical</a></li>
    <li><a href="../probirds41.html">Birds</a></li>
<li><a href="../prochildren4.html">Children</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prochristgen4.html">Christmas, General</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prochristrel41.html">Christmas, Religious</a></li>
    <li><a href="../procornucopia4.html">Cornucopia</a></li>
    <li><a href="../procultfig4.html">Cultural Figures</a></li>
    <li><a href="../profishing4.html">Fish</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proflowers4.html">Flowers & Plants</a></li>
    <li><a href="../profruits4.html">Fruit</a></li>
    <li><a href="../progeometric4.html">Geometric</a></li>
    <li><a href="../progermany4.html">Germany</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prohearts4.html">Hearts</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proinsects4.html">Insects</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proluck4.html">Luck</a></li>
    <li><a href="../promarriage4.html">Marriage</a></li>
    <li><a href="../promultiple4.html">Multiple Images</a></li>
    <li><a href="../promusic4.html">Music</a></li>
    <li><a href="../pronautical4.html">Nautical</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proscenes4.html">Old Time Scenes</a></li>
    <li><a href="../propeople4.html">People in Old Times</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prosayings4.html">Sayings</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proschool4.html">School</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proseasons4.html">Seasons</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prostar4.html">Star</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prostory4.html">Story / Legend Characters</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prosunmoon4.html">Sun & Moon</a></li>
    <li><a href="../proswitzerland4.html">Switzerland</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prosymbols4.html">Symbols</a></li>
    <li><a href="../protransportation4.html">Transportation</a></li>
    <li><a href="../prozodiac4.html">Zodiac</a>    </li>
</ul>
<div class="proHeaders"><br />
Books & Materials</div>
<ul id="MenuBar3" class="MenuBarVertical">
<li><a href="../probooks4.html">Books</a>    </li>
<li><a href="../procookies4.html">Cookies</a></li>
<li><a href="../procutters4.html">Cutters</a>    </li>
<li><a href="../proflavoring4.html">Flavoring</a></li>
<li><a href="../profoodcolor4.html">Food Coloring</a></li>
<li><a href="../promaterials4.html">Materials</a></li>
<li><a href="../protools4.html">Tools</a><br /></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div></div>
<div id="sidebar2">
    <div class="nxtevents">
      <div class="MenuBarActive">
        <div><a href="http://order.store.yahoo.net/cgi-bin/wg-order?yhst-40727766898036 "><img src="../cart1.gif" name="imgfloatright" width="87" height="26" border="0" id="imgfloatright" /></a></div>
        <p><br />
          <br />
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="nxtevents">
        <div class="maincontenttxt">
          <div class="moldscenter"><span class="maincontenthdr1">Featured Item<br />
            </span>
<p class="thumbnail"><a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><span><img src="1142.jpg" /></span></a> <a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="1142-1.jpg" width="93px" height="100px" border="0" /></a></p>
            <br />
            <table width="130" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="61" align="right" class="maincontenttxt">1142</td>
      <td width="67" align="right" class="maincontenttxt"><div align="right">$31.00</div></td>
    </tr>
</table>
            <br />
            <a href="../proanimals4.html">The Three Rabbits springerle mold, dia. 3.5" (90mm)</a><br />
            <br />
            <form method="post" action="">
          <p align="left" class="buttoncenter">
            <input type="submit" value="Order Now" />
          </p>
        </form><br />
          </div>
          <p class="nxteventshdr">News...        </p>
        </div>
        <p>2/8: Just Arrived from Switzerland today<br />
          <strong><U><br />
          <a href="../prohearts4.html">11 New Heart   Molds</a></U></strong><a href="../prohearts4.html"><U>!</U></a><U><br />
        </U></p>
      </div>
      <div id="moreevents">
        <p>2/7: See our new photos in the <a href="../gallery4.html">Photo Gallery</a>!</p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div>
      <p class="nxteventshdr">Newsletter</p>
      <p class="nxtevents">To automatically receive our e-mail newsletter with new mold information, tips and tricks, photos of cookies and art, and historical profiles of featured molds, please fill in the form below and press <Submit></p>
      <form method=post action="http://us.1.p6.webhosting.yahoo.com/forms?login=springerlejoy" id="form1" name="form1">
        <p class="maincontenttxt">First Name
<input name="formFirstName" type="text" class="maincontenttxt" id="formFirstName" />
        </p>
        <p class="maincontenttxt">Last Name
          <input name="FormLast" type="text" class="maincontenttxt" id="FormLast" />
        </p>
        <p><span class="maincontenttxt">Email Address
            <input name="FormEmail" type="text" class="maincontenttxt" id="FormEmail" />
        </span></p>
        <div id="button">
          <input type="submit" name="SubmitButton" id="SubmitButton" value="Submit" />
        </div>
        <p> </p>
      </form>
      <p> </p>
      <p><a href="http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/" target="_blank"><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/smallbiz/gr/ecomby_128bit.gif" alt="ecommerce provided by Yahoo! Small Business" width="118" height="55" border="0" align="middle"/></a> <br />
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      <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Springerle-Joy/243604195833?ref=search&sid=1000000928365 99.173275996..1&v=wall#!/pages/Springerle-Joy/243604195833?v=wall&ref=search"><img src="../5u84f48n.gif" width="144" height="44" /></a> </p>
    </div>
    
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
<div class="maincontenthdr"> 
    <p class="maincontenthdr">Products</p><div class="leafpic"><img src="../leaves3.jpg" width="420" height="32" /></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="maincontenthdr1">
    <table width="418" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      
        <tr>
          <td width="87" rowspan="2" valign="top"> </td>
          <td width="255" valign="bottom" class="itemno"> </td>
          <td width="76" valign="bottom" class="price"> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="maincontenttxt"> </td>
          <td class="orderbutton"> </td>
        </tr>
        
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p> </p>
    <div class="maincontenttxt"></div>
    <p> </p>
<div class="maincontenttxt"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>
   
</p>
<p><br class="clearfloat" />
</p>
<div id="footer">
<div id="copyrighttxt">
<p>Copyright© by Springerle Joy, LLC 2010</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

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

<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
File cannot be found. Try
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
File cannot be found. Try
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/julesmazur/Desktop/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
This link points to a local file on your local harddrive and can therefore not be found. However, this file is not needed because the file will be linked as above.
Gramps

Help with Spry menu bar 2.0

I installed a spry menu 2.0 bar for this site I am working. Test site is here.
It seems to be working in every broswer but IE7. The menus will not drop down but I guess the links on the top level navigation (home about etc) work. I hate IE. I'm also unsure if it works in earlier versions of Firefox like 4.0.
The Adobe Lab Browser either doesn't like me, or I don't know how to properly use it, but I don't understand how to make sure your links work. I do the control command click thing. But for example: It will work one day when I preview the page in IE8 but not the next day (and I know it works in IE8 because I have physically tested it in IE8). So the lab browser leaves me feeling confused.
If anyone can help me fix the problem in IE7 (or other browsers, who knows what's going on I sure don't :/ ) I would be very grateful.
Thank you for any help you can give me.

Actually Spry Menu 2.0 is pretty stable.
Using IE-Tester, your drop-menus appear to work fine in IE6, IE7, IE8 & IE9.
Also works in Chrome & Firefox 3.6x.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
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Help with Spry menu bars needed please?

Hi all
I am brand new to this forum, so please forgive any mistakes!
My problem is this:
I have created a 10 page web site in DW, and created a Spry horizontal drop down menu within it. I have created all the links on all pages, and all is working fine. However - here is my question - if I want to add another page to my site (making it 11 pages) is there a way of just creating it on one page (say index.html) and then automatically updating the other 9 pages with this new page - or do I have to open every page to add my new page manually?
Please help me out if you can.
Many thanks and regards
Mark

Hans - that was exactly what I was looking fro - thank you so much.
Have a good day
Regards
mark

Spry Menu Bar Submenu won't show in Safari or Dreamweaver LiveView

I am trying to get my submenu to show up on my website's spry menu bar. It will show up when I test the site using firefox or IE but it won't show when I try LiveView in Dreamweaver or when I test using Safari. The site is www.fuseut.com/fuse
Here are is the CSS for the menubar:
@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: 100%;      position: relative;      text-align: left;      cursor: pointer;      width: 125px;      float: left;      font-family: "MS Serif", "New York", serif;      overflow: visible; } /* 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: 50;      cursor: default;      width: 7em;      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: 7em; } /* 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: 0;      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;      padding: 0.5em 0.75em;      color: #FFF;      text-decoration: none;      font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;      text-align: center;      background-image: url(../menubgdefault.png); } /* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus {      color: #FFF002;      font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } /* 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 {      color: #FFF002;      text-decoration: underline;      font-weight: bold; } /******************************************************************************* 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%;      background-color: #999; } /* 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;      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;      } }
And here is the HTML code:
<!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" xmlns:spry="http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>FUSE UT</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/xpath.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
<meta name="Keywords" content="fuse ut utk university of tennessee tommy jervis avery howard ross rowland angie sessoms sga campaign elections" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="menubarparent" style="z-index: 20; position: absolute; overflow: visible;">
<div id="menubar" style="z-index: 10;">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="index.html">FUSE</a>      </li>
    <li><a href="senators.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Senators</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Untitled Item</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li><li><a href="executive.html">Executive</a>      </li>
    <li><a href="policy.html">Policy</a></li>
    <li><a href="organizations.html">Organizations</a></li>
    <li><a href="bios.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Bios</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Untitled Item</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<p>
<p>
<div id="apDiv1">
    <div id="apDiv4"></div>
    <object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="550" height="265" wmode="transparent">
      <param name="movie" value="Components/CandidatesHomeSlideshow.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
       <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      
      <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
      
      
      <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="Components/CandidatesHomeSlideshow.swf" width="550" height="265" wmode="transparent">
        
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
          <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
        <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
        
        <div>
          <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
          <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
        </div>
        
      </object>
      
    </object><div id="HomeEvents">
      <p> </p>
      <p> </p>
      <div id="EventsXML">
        <div spry:region="event2">
          <dl spry:repeatchildren="event2">
            <dt>{date}</dt>
            <dd>{title}</dd>
            <dd>{location}</dd>
          </dl>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
</div>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
Sorry if it's something really basic...I'm a noob to web design.
Thanks!

Don't use reserved words in JS
var event = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("events.xml", "catalog/event", {sortOnLoad: "date", sortOrderOnLoad: "descending"});
event is such a reserved word. If you change this to event1 then all is well.
I hope this helps.
Ben

Customizing Spry Menu - Drop items different from tabs at the top

How can I remove the background image from the dropped down items on a Horizontal Spry Menu while keeping the image for the tabs at the top? It seems every time I change something for the top tabs, the change is carried to the drop down menus as well.
Here is a link:
http://www.monicagraphicdesign.com/Bill/spiritual.html
You can see what is happening if you hover over "About Bill"

Open your SpryMenu.css file. Scroll down a ways to this:
/* 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;
    background-color: #000;
    background-image: none;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
    background:none;
    width: 8.2em;
Nancy O.

Help with spry menu

HI guys, very good forum! I am new to web design..
I am trying to build a web but i can not figure out how can get the menu button stay in diferent colour when is clicked and page changed.
I will give you examples
http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/
Let say i inserted a spry menu bar horizontal and designed it how i like. What rule would i need to add to get buttons to stay the diferent colour when they are clicked/selected. Could you please help me wth that?
Thank you very much.
Roman

The way to make the button for the current page a different colour is to add an ID to the link, and create a separate style rule for it. For example, the following menu uses "here" as the ID to indicate the current page:
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#" id="here">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>
With the following rule in the style sheet, the first item is a rusty brown:
#here {
background-color:#C60;

CS4 Help with spry menu bar. Want Top Centered and Subs left-justified.

Hi there, using DW8 mostly, but have the trial version of CS4
for the spry menu bar. WinXP.
Can someone help me with the spry menu bar on this page? I'd
like the main menu to be centered, as it looks better for
appearance, and the sub menus to be left-justified.
http://www.manmeetswoman.com/example4.html
But I can't seem to do that, if I make the main menu
centered, it seems to override the submenus even if I make a class
just for the submenu to be left-justified.
Am I doing something wrong or is this not possible?
And the menu bar looks horrific in IE6. I assume it looks ok
in IE7 and above. Can someone help me with a code just for IE6 for
this?

audio90 wrote:
Not quite what I was looking for. I'm wanting the top menu to be grouped together and to the right and the submenu boxes to all a single square box, not just with backgrounds extending only the length of the word. Also, your menu bar doesn't display properly in IE6 either.
1) You should be able to achieve a square box for your submenu items by fixing the widths of all of your submenu items to something larger than the content of your widest submenu <li> tag. This should be achievable with a single change of setting in the following CSS rule.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {
width:???em;
Set your width using em units, so that the box shrinks and grows with the size of the text when the latter is changed by the user.
2) Getting your top menu items to group together to the right may be more difficult as the entire menu bar is built on an HTML list structure with left-floated <li> tags. If it is possible, then you should begin your experimentation with the following CSS rule
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li {
float:right;
Change the float property from left to right, as I have indicated.
My suspicion, however, is that many subsequent adjustments will have to be made. So, back up your current CSS file before you begin.
Roddy

Help with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 customization

I am having trouble converting my original Spry menu to version 2.0.
On my website http://bucknellprimaryschool.org/ the 'old' menu system works just great but not in iPads (ie the sub menu does not pop out).
I discovered hat Spry 2.0 does work but I cannot replicate the submenu of the original - I can get the menu to pop out but configuring the different colours for each button has me beat this time. The original was modified using this piece of css to get the coloured rollover effect for the sub menus but I just cannot figure our how to replicate this.
/**LINK CLASSES**/
#rollover1 a.item1 {background: #BDDBEC; border-top-right-radius:15px; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover1 li a.item1:hover,
#rollover1 li a.item1:active,
#rollover1 li a.item1:focus {background: white; }
#rollover2 a.item2 {background: #B4DE8F; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover2 a.item2:hover,
#rollover2 a.item2:active,
#rollover2 a.item2:focus {background: white;}
#rollover3 a.item3 {background: #F8B084; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover3 a.item3:hover,
#rollover3 a.item3:active,
#rollover3 a.item3:focus {background: white;}
#rollover4 a.item4 {background: #CCCCCC; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px;}
#rollover4 a.item4:hover,
#rollover4 a.item4:active,
#rollover4 a.item4:focus {background: white;}
#rollover5 a.item5 {background: #CC8BD2; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover5 a.item5:hover,
#rollover5 a.item5:active,
#rollover5 a.item5:focus {background: white;}
#rollover6 a.item6 {background: #FDD760; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover6 a.item6:hover,
#rollover6 a.item6:active,
#rollover6 a.item6:focus {background: white;}
#rollover7 a.item7 {background: #F2D0E9; border-bottom-right-radius:15px; border-top-right-radius:15px; }
#rollover7 a.item7:hover,
#rollover7 a.item7:active,
#rollover7 a.item7:focus {background: white; }
/**END ROLLOVER**/
Can anyone please give me a steer?
Thanks
Graham

I'm back again. I actually managed to get the rollover effect to work by creating new classes in my css so I'm thinking of staying with Spry 2.0. However I've found that using an image file for each of the top line menu items stops the menu popping out in my iPad. If I revert to a coloured box it works just great.
Can anyone please tell me how I can change the top level of the vertical menu so that I have a different colour for each item in much the same way as the old image version?
http://bucknellprimaryschool.org/spry.html is my test file and I have (sort of) fudged the Home item with a coloured 'button'.
Hope someone can step in to help me.
Thanks
Graham

Help with spry menu bar in liquid layout

I need help getting a spry menu bar with a 6-item list to stay in place in a liquid layout. Trying to get it horizontally under the header image. I am new to web design (new to html and code: reading books, searching web, and doing tutorials for many hours now), using CS4, working on a mac. You can view my trial page on cc-tn.com. I would appreciate any help offered!

Problem stems from the fact that your page is looking for files contained on your local hard drive instead of the web site.
<script src="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Templates/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Templates/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
In addition, the links to PDF files are pointing to your local hard drive.
p><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Documents/Foundations_one-page_green.pdf">Foundations</a> is a grammar-stage program for students K4 through sixth grade. Parents attend morning classes with their children as trained tutors model the tools of learning facts from a variety of interesting subjects. Students also participate in science and fine arts projects and practice public speaking each week.</p>
<p><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Documents/Essentials-One-page.pdf">Essentials</a> is a dialectic-stage program for students in third through sixth grade. Trained tutors model the dialectic tools of learning in English grammar, writing, and math drills. Emphasis is placed on the development of writing skills that will enable students to become effective communicators through the written word. Classes meet in the afternoon following lunch.</p>
<p><a href="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Allison/CC Web/Documents/Challenge_one-page.pdf">Challenge A & B</a> are dialectic-stage programs for seventh and eighth graders. Emphasis is placed on group discussion as students become more independent learners. Students focus on logic and debate.</p>
Did you define a local site folder in DW before you began this project? Without this critical first step, DW cannot correctly manage assets for you.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Help with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (vers. 1.0) - Placement of customized styles files

Hello:
I would like to congratulate the authors of the new Spry Menu Bar Framework 2.0 (vers. 1.0) -- it has truly been an advance and over the previous generation, and is much more user friendly for those without extensive knowledge of the spry framework. I have also appreciated the tutorial created by David Powers that is found on the Adobe labs site, and find that it has been very helpful.
However, I do have one general question that I would seek some clarification before completing the task of deploying the widget in its final form. I have gone beyond the tutorial insofar as I have customized the styling to allow me to use background images for the menus and submenus in both static and hover states. I have also gone directly (with add of the tutorial) to work on my own site rather than recreating the bayside tutorial. I know have my styles embedding into a template page (.dwt).
My question is whether those styles embedded in the head of the template page should be transferred to a separate styles page and attached (or possibly included in the styles page that handles the CSS for the layout aspects of my site), or whether it should overwrite the styles included in the basic styles skin for the widget. The latter seems the most likely answer, as many of the classes are for the same names as those in my template page, but have different (and conflicting settings). However I wanted to make certain of this before proceeding.
Once again let me thank those responding to this query in advance for the helpful tips I have received along the way, and that will likely follow this post.
I could post the css and the html with this querry, but I hope I have explained the question well enough that a general response will be all that I need.
Thanks again for the help.
Steve Webster

Thanks for your helpful response.
I had already tried the various options (overwriting basic styles, skins, etc) and quickly learned to back track as they were definitely not the answer to the question I posed. I then included them in the customized style sheet for the entire site and clearly de-marked them as styles governing the spry menu widget 2.0 (1.0) with the warning that future developers working on the site should use care in amending them, and warning that they be remain included in the general styles file.
I was going to indicate in response to my own query that this seemed to be the best practice, but your response confirmed what I had learned.
Thanks once again for your helpful advice and intervention.
Steve Webster.

Help with spry menu css

Very new to this, so...in an effort to code a page using a spry menu bar for a mobile device, I made the following edits: 1) renamed MenuBarHorizontal to MenuBarMyCompany 2) renamed MenuBarVertical to MenuBarMyCompany 3) moved the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css code to MyCompanyStyle.css 4) moved the SpryMenuBarVertical.css code to mobile.css. These changes are displayed exactly as I’d hoped in Dreamweaver CS5.5 Live View; however, the menu bar styling is does not display at all in Safari or Firefox browsers. Any advice? Thanks so much.

When I reviewed the source, I realized I hadn't removed one of the style links. I am so sorry to have posted this question.

Help Please - Spry Menu

Hello,
I'm trying to figure out a problem with a spry menu. It looks fine in Firefox and Safari, but shows white space at the top of the menu (and above each sub-menu) in IE. The site is at http://espcfrederick.com.
Does anyone know what could be causing this issue, and better yet, how to fix it?
I greatly appreciate any insight you can offer.

If the DOCTYPE declaration does not appear on the very first line of the document, IE goes into Quirks mode, in other words, it degrades to IE5
Fix that and your woes will have gone.
Gramps

Horizontal spry menu drop down background issue in Firefox

Hi, I have used the spry horizontal menu (version0.6) with drop down sub menus in a site that I am building. The menu is working fine in IE but the submenus do not show background colour or images in firefox or Chrome. I have looked on numerous sites for a fix but have had no luck with finding a resolution. Can anyone help? Or shall I start looking for a new menu script?
Thanks
Mark

Add/modify the following style rule adjusting the values to suit
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a {
background: red url(home-button.png);

Frames and spry menu drop downs

Final question here. How do I make the drop down menus appear
in front of the bottom frame instead of behind it.
If I have a long menu list, only the first few are visible,
the remainder are hidden behind the bottom frame.
looking for a "send to back" if you will

There is no practical way to make a layer (that's how
drop-down menus work)
cross the boundary between two separate frames (i.e., two
unique HTML
pages).
It is true. Your choices are limited now -
1. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in
a non-framed
site.
2. Redesign your menus so that they do not need to span a
frame boundary.
3. Redesign the frameset so that you leave enough room for
the largest
popup.
4. Move the layer code for the popups from the page in the
navigation frame
to each page in the content frame.
5. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in
a non-framed
site.
I recommend either #1 or #5, depending on what your needs
are. You just
have no idea the horrors that await you if you continue with
the frames.....
8)
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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> Final question here. How do I make the drop down menus
appear in front of
> the
> bottom frame instead of behind it.
>
> If I have a long menu list, only the first few are
visible, the remainder
> are
> hidden behind the bottom frame.
>
> looking for a "send to back" if you will
>

HELP! My spry menu drop-downs won't "un-drop".

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