Horizontal Menu Bar not formatting correctly in IE

I am trying to get my menu bar to properly format in IE. It
works fine in Opera, Firefox, and Safari. What I am having problems
with is with how the sub menus pop up. In IE they show up above the
menu bar instead of below the menu bar. Any help would be
appreciated. My web page is www.artsbeercans.com Thanks!

OK, I went ahead and posted it live, even though it's not how I want it.
I think if I could make the horizontal menu boxes smaller, they could
all fit across - is there anyway to make each box fit the word that's
in it, instead of them all being 160 px? That might make room for
them all to fit across.....
Because can you see that the "Other" is now on the second row, and
pushes over the vertical menu box?
www.itsaboutourkids.org
thanks!!

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Horizontal Menu Bar - Not displaying correctly in Internet Explorer

My issues are occuring in Internet Explorer 8 and 7, haven't tested earlier versions.
I am currently using DW CS5, Spry 1.6.1
The website (not yet complete) is at www3.sympatico.ca/mitchell.richard/
The menu bar as viewed in Firefox is correct. In Internet Explorer the menu bar is left justified, hides visited links, and lists horizontal menu items in reverse order.
I work for a Women's Shelter in Canada, as the Information Systems Manager. We don't have the funds to hire someone to build a website and it was decided and I quote "You know computers, you can buld the website". I couldn't get them to understand the analogy that just because a Neurosurgeon can use a scalpel he isn't a Cardiothoracic Surgeon... needless to say, I am floudering on this menu bar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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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: 12pt;
    cursor: default;
    width: inherit;
    font: calibri;
    font-family: Calibri;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-color: #4F91CD;
    /* [disabled]height: 27px; */
    /* [disabled]border-bottom: 1px solid #A7C9E5; */
    /* [disabled]border-top: 1px solid #A7C9E5; */
/* 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: 6
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    float: right;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 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;
/* 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
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #4F91CD;
    padding: 0.2em 0.75em;
    color: #FFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #A7C9E5;
    border-top: 1px solid #A7C9E5;
/* 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: #A7C9E5;
    color: #FFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
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    color: #FFF;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
    /* [disabled]background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif); */
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<tr>
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      <li><a href="contact_us.html">Contact Us</a>        </li>
      <li><a href="helpful_links.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Resources</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="helpful_links.html">Helpful Links</a></li>
          <li><a href="community_agencies.html">Community Agencies</a></li>
          <li><a href="of_interest.html">Of Interest</a></li>
</ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="checklist.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Safety</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="safety_checklist.html">Safety Checklist</a></li>
          <li><a href="things_to_bring.html">Things to Bring</a></li>
          <li><a href="child_safety_plan.html">Child Safety Plan</a></li>
</ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="signs.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Abuse</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="what_is_abuse.html">What is Abuse?</a></li>
          <li><a href="signs.html">Signs of Abuse</a></li>
          <li><a href="characteristics.html">Characteristics</a></li>
          <li><a href="why_women_stay.html">Why Women Stay</a></li>
          <li><a href="donate.html">Survivors Speak</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="donate.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Support Us</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="donate.html">Donate</a></li>
          <li><a href="events.html">Events</a></li>
          <li><a href="volunteering.html">Volunteering</a></li>
          <li><a href="statistics.html">Statistics</a></li>
</ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="join_us.html">Join Us</a>        </li>
      <li><a href="our_story.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">About Us</a>
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          <li><a href="residential.html">Our Services</a></li>
          <li><a href="our_mission.html">Our Mission</a></li>
          <li><a href="our_story.html">Our Story</a></li>
          <li><a href="board_of_directors.html">Board of Directors</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul></td>
    <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="26" alt=""></td>
</tr>

/* 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: 6
.em;
     float: right;
The red coloured line causes your menu to be displayed the wrong way round in FF. IE shows the menu as you have listed it with Contact Us as the first item.
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change the float to left so that the listed items start on the left hand side
change the listed items in the order that you want them to appear.

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Hi! I am new to this forum and new to Dreamweaver. I recently used Dreamweaver to build a website to display my digital portfolio. I am not very good at this and don't understand much of this works. I inserted a spry horizontal menu bar for my navigation. I did change the original set up to have the background the colors I wanted and I also changed the size so it would go across the top of my page. This looks fine in Firefox and Safari but in Internet Explorer the bar displays vertically, which does not look good. Can anyone look at my code and tell me how I can fix this problem?
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/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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cells. Setting the height in ul.MenuBarHorizontal to 21px does not
change this (20px, auto, inherit didn't change it either). I've
tried smaller fonts. Any ideas on how to get this work?
Second - if I don't set the height to a pixel value in
ul.MenuBarHorizontal, my background image is only displayed behind
the menu items. That leaves a good bit of white space. My
background image is 1px wide by 21px high and is stretched to fill
the full background. Setting a height will make the background
image cover the complete cell. Is that a feature?
thanks,
Dan

If I change the positioning element in ul.MenuBarHorizontal
to absolute, my horizontal menubar fits within the cell and does
not cause it to grow. Any other setting for positioning throws off
the cell size and screws up my sliced graphics in other cells of
the table. I don't understand why the menubar shifts in a fixed
width/height cell. If it's set to static or fixed, the cell grows
by 1px in height. If it is set to relative, it grows much
larger.

Horizontal Menu Bar works when index.html is appended to url, but not otherwise

My spry horizontal menu bar works like I want when I put /index.html at the end of the url for my website, but when I just go to the website without typing that in the index page shows up fine, but some of the links in the menu don't work. How is that possible if the index page is what shows up when you put in the usual www.domain.com?

You're fine; don't worry about how you sound!
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<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
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Beth

Spry Horizontal Menu Bar background image IE8 not visible.

I have a slight problem with a horizontal menu bar that I have placed on my site and am hoping someone can help me. It views fine in Firefox, however in IE8 the top menu background image is white instead of the image I specified. Firefox image is below.
Below is IE8 image lacking top menu background:
I am a novice and this is driving me nuts. How can something view fine in Firefox and loose the image in IE explorer? I must have a code incorrect, I know it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,

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@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background-color: #FFF;
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