Help with vertical spry menu bar submenu displaying incorrectly!

I’m new to Dreamweaver and am learning as I go. I am having a problem with the vertical spry menu bar submenu in the Live View. When I scroll over the spry menu bar option that has a submenu, the submenu appears in the upper right hand corner of my screen. (My menu bar is going down the left hand side.) However, when I preview it in Internet Explorer it looks fine after I allow the Java Script to run or the Active X controls, which my browser usually automatically blocks. (The browser just displays a small message along the top and I click on it to allow it.) To get it to do this much, I had to play around with the CSS for the spry menu bar a little bit.
Before, when I clicked on the Live View option, a small message ran along the top in Dreamweaver saying it couldn’t find the Flash Plugin and asked me to download the most recent FlashPlayer, which I did twice. It continued to say that and then I just closed that message that kept popping up, but I think that has something to do with the problem. I then researched that problem in the Spry Framework Help and Dreamweaver Help, but couldn’t find a solution that worked. (Someone had posted a link for downloading the Flash Player for Netscape Navigator, but that didn’t seem to do anything.)
Please also note that I am using one of Dreamweaver’s pre-built layouts. I don’t know if that makes a difference with this problem.
How do I fix this problem so that it displays correctly in the LiveView? And will the message that I get on my browser about allowing blocked content appear on other people’s computer when they open my website?

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

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each has a knowledgeable person editing the code for the
poster...and I can't seem to make heads or tails of it.
So, below is my link. What you'll see if viewed in Explorer
is that the "Clinics" listing and the "Services & Specialties"
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problem, I'd be very appreciative.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.chambershospital.com/temp/about.html

Hello,
You might try removing all of the <div> tags you
inserted in the menu.
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in the properties window instead of using CSS to align
things.
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<li>
<div align="left"><<****REMOVE THIS
<a href="clinics.html"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Clinics</a>
<ul>
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<li><a href="clinic.html">Chambers
Clinic</a></li>
<li><a href="clinic7.html">Scenic 7
Clinic</a></li>
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Take care,
Tim
"Zim74" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:fv4vc0$r0t$[email protected]..
> I'm having trouble with a Spry Menu Bar not displaying
correctly in
> Internet
> Explorer, while it displays fine in every other browser
I have available.
> I've
> done some searching on these boards, but the queries
I've found with the
> same
> type of problem each has a knowledgeable person editing
the code for the
> poster...and I can't seem to make heads or tails of it.
>
> So, below is my link. What you'll see if viewed in
Explorer is that the
> "Clinics" listing and the "Services & Specialties"
listing are each on the
> same
> horizontal line, rather than vertical like the rest of
the menu. If
> anyone can
> help me in correcting this problem, I'd be very
appreciative.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
http://www.chambershospital.com/temp/about.html
>
>

Help with vertical Spry menu

I posted this in the general forum, but thought I'd repost
here since this is more specific to Spry.
I'm having issues in IE (6 & 7...surprise, surprise) with
my vertical spry menu. It displays exactly the way I want it when I
use Opera. I think it has to do with the whitespace:nowrap on the
2nd level menu items, but I really don't know. I want the 2nd level
menu to be different width than the 3rd level, so I have both
levels set to auto width with nowrap.
This is how it looks in IE 7:
Menu
in IE
This is how it looks in Opera (correct):
Menu
in Opera
Attached is my CSS as well. Let me know if you need the HTML,
too.
Thank you for helping!
quote:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release
1.4 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights
reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning,
z-order
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with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 8em;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting
z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug:
http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html
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z-index: 1000;
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container and are same fixed width as parent */
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margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 8em;
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off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
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z-index: 1020;
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width: auto;
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top: 0;
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ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
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ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
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DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
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ul.MenuBarVertical
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/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
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display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #EEE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
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background and white text */
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a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical
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background-color: #33C;
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background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
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designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover"
background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered
vertically (50%) */
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background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
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BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless
you are an expert
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controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarVertical iframe
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@media screen, projection
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IE is a big problem child among browsers. Don't use it as your default browser.
For best results, build your site to display & perform well in the web standards browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari & Opera. If it works in one, it should work pretty much the same in all of them.
After you're satisfied with how your site looks in the good browsers, then test in IE. If needed, add hacks or conditional comments to make IE behave. There are many web sites that discuss known bugs in IE and how to work around them.
Lastly, the active X nag screens only appear locally. Once deployed on the remote server, you won't see them.
For better answers to your layout questions, we need to see your page. Can you post a URL?
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

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hi,
first of all: I'm aware that this problem has been discussed
before. but nothing I've found so far has really helped me.
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properly with the internet explorer. I've (clumsily) repositioned
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safari and firefox, in which everything works fine. I'd be very
grateful if someone could have a look at
www.philipbirau.com/portfolio.htm.
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'professional' webdesign, so any hint will be appreciated. if you
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thanks!
philip

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Hi I'm new to Dreamweaver,
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myquirk

Sorry, but your CSS is has been mangled beyound recognition.
The solution is to start with an untouched style sheet. Then add or modify the CSS testing in your browsers as you make the changes.
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<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
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<li><a href="greenwyse natural products/green wyse body care products.html">Luxurious Body Care</a>    </li>
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</div>

<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js"></script>
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LICAP Webmaster wrote:
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<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/spry-menu-bar-widget.html

Adobe has discontinued further Spry development.
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2012/08/update-on-adobe-spry-framework-availability.htm l
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Project Seven's Commercial Extensions:
http://www.projectseven.com/products/templates/pagepacks/adaptations/index.htm
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/index.htm
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http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/site-elements/big-menus-small-screens-responsive-m ulti-level-navigation/
https://github.com/mattkersley/Responsive-Menu
http://speckyboy.com/2012/08/29/10-responsive-navigation-solutions-and-tutorials/
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     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

Spry Menu bar wrongly displayed in IE

Hi,
on my website i integrated a Spry Menu bar with one Submenu, which really works fine in Firefox. The boxes have a defined width of 124 px.
My problem is, if you view this site with IE, the drop down menus don´t work and you are asked to activate activeX or scripts. If you do so the whole menu is displayed white unless you roll over the buttons, you can see what actually should be there. Another bug is that the submenus, are oriented horizontally instead of vertically.
Can anyone help me with this nice IE problem?
Thanks a lot !
Here my CSS-Code:                      and my website:http://www.grassnet.info/transfer.html
@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;
    font-weight: normal;
/* 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: 90%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 125px;
    float: left;
    font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-color: #078601;
    border: thin solid #333;
    color: #FFF;
/* 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;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
    font-weight: normal;
    visibility: visible;
    border-top-style: none;
    border-right-style: none;
    border-bottom-style: none;
    border-left-style: none;
    color: #FFF;
/* 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: 124px;
    text-align: left;
    font-weight: normal;
    background-color: #80c35d;
    border-top-width: 1px;
    border-right-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-left-width: 1px;
    border-top-style: dashed;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-bottom-style: dashed;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #078601;
    border-right-color: #078601;
    border-bottom-color: #078601;
    border-left-color: #078601;
    font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif,;
    list-style-type: none;
    list-style-position: inside;
/* 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;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-transform: none;
    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: #A5FC76;
    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: #A5FC76;
    color: #000;
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;
    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;

Hi Ben,
thanks a lot for your great help. I integrated your recommendations in my sprymenubarhorizontal.css file and uploaded it.
When i preview the site in the browser (Dreamweaver -> Preview in Iexplorer) it all looks like it should.
However when i uploaded the new css file, the change is not visible. It´s still the old mistake.
What am i doing wrong? What i also wonder about is, that the css file has a size of 6.554 Bytes. When i upload it, it only has 6.353 bytes.
Can this be correct? Also the SpryMenuBar.js files are different in size.
Do you have any idae what the problem here is?
Thanks again !
Add: I just recognized that also my html. files are different in size. So i guess this is normal. But where is the mistake hiding? I´courious
Or could you pleas check again from your pc in iexplore? Thanks

Vertical spry menu bar 2.0 - orientation of submenus (left vs. right fly-out)

Hello:
I have a general question I would like to pose to anyone who has worked with the vertical spry 2.0 menu bar regarding the orientation of sub-menus (left vs. right flyout). In the previous version of the spry menu bar it was possible to to designate that the flyout sub-menus would appear to the left (as opposed to the right (normal or standard position) of the main level menu bar.
In reviewing the tutorials for the new version, and reviewing the settings for the widget I can't seem to see anything similar for the latest version of the spry menu bar. Does anyone now if this is possible? Does it require adjustments to the Javascript or can it be done directly from within the widget customization.
I realize that it isn't normal practice to pose questions in such general terms, however I thought I would try to determine if anyone has had experience in this regard before launching into the project.
Thanks in advance.
Steve Webster

OK, here's what I've done. By adjusting the right padding on #MenuBarVertical .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel, AND #MenuBarVertical .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel, I was able to position the right arrows to where I wanted them. I also removed all links from top-level menu items so that the fly-out submenus would appear on a touch screen. You can see the results on my client site: www.gcssepm.org. I must say that this solution was not intuitive; it took a lot of experimentation to figure out which rule to adjust, and menu rules vs. submenu rules seem to operate in the opposite manner as far as padding and arrows go.
I do have a similar issue with Scott, in that it takes two or more "taps" to get the submenus to fly out, but at least the arrow is there so the user knows there is a submenu to be had. The only real issue I still have is that for sub-submenus (i.e., third-level), no amount of tapping will get those to display long enough to select them (only an issue on the iPad). I don't know a way around this for the iPad, other than to also eliminate all links from second-level menus that have a third level, and that's more reprogramming than I want to do for today.
Final questions regarding the Spry 2.0 widget. Obviously, after I customized the widget, saved it, and imported into my site template, it took some additional tweaking before everything was working properly. Is there a way to export the settings back out to the widget, so that all the tweaking is there? Also, is there a way to save my menu text back to the widget, because it is obviously NOT Home, Entertainment, Music, etc.
Thanks for all your help, and I hope someone else benefits from my experiences as well.
Gail

Spry menu bar content displays under flash content

I have a spry menu bar with sub bars and below that menu bar
I have flash video. Well, the submenu content of menu bar is not
fully displayed, as flash content blocks it. Is it possible to
order the flash content (or menu bar) somehow i.e send to back,
bring to front?

All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so
to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and
Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There
is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but
if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this
properly!).
Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
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> somehow i.e send to back, bring to front?
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