Horizontal menu bar -- submenu display

Hi, everyone --
This is my first post here, and my first time using spry. I
am trying to set up my horizontal menu bar so that the submenus
open up horizontally -- instead of vertically -- below the parent
menu item. (If the submenu list opens up vertically below the
parent item it takes up too much space.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks so much!
Lisa

Found topic.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=602&threadid =1381916&highlight_key=y

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/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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@media screen, projection
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display: inline;
f\loat: left;
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Hi,
Before I give you the solution, please be advised that nothing goes above supplying an online URL. This helps us more than anything else. In fact, with an online URL ther is no need for further code.
So, in your case, thank you for the URL.
For the solution to your problem, just remove the red coloured part.
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I'll see you in the Maldives.
Ben

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    padding: 0.9em 0.75em;
    color: white;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
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BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
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@media screen, projection
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ul ul a { background-color: #436d9c; }
ul a.MenuBarItemHover { background-color: #19385a; }
ul .MenuBarItemSubmenu ul li a { border: none; }
ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover { background-color: #19385a; }
ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible li { border: none; }
I appreciate any help I can get with this as I have tried everything I know.

Horizontal Menu Bar - 2 issues

Hello, I have been here asking questions before and I still
have a couple more.
I am using the horizontal menu bar with the spry 1.5
pre-release files.
LINK
2 things, first:
I want the submenu text to be smaller than the menu text,
i.e. menu text should be 11px and submenu should be 10px, I just
cant seem to rustle it out of the css to make it happen.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
display: block;
float: none;
width: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
font-size:10px;
the bold addition does not seem to be working.
Secondly:
When this menu is viewed in IE7 it looks as if the border is
sunken/iframe is being used, and there is the text "
false" located inside the submenu.
I have commented out the hacks in the css for IE to no avail.
Wondering why the border looks so weird and the word false is being
imposed on my submenu
Thanks in advance

To change the font-size, try placing the font-size property
on the <a> element of the submenus.
The IE7 sunken/iframe problem is a hack that is necessary to
make the submenus appear above any native windows (Flash, Selects,
etc) that may be in the browser window. It's showing because you
removed the background color off of the <a> elements. Try
making the <li> or the <a> background color white and
it should hide the iframe.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {
background-color: white;
border-bottom: solid 1px white; /* Workaround IE Gap bug */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a {
font-size:10px;
I also noticed that your menus were suffering from the
infamous link in list gap IE bug. You can either remove *all*
whitespace in your lists to get around the bug *or* use the bottom
border property like I did above.
--== Kin ==--

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hi everyone!
i have an xml file which i want to turn into a spry horizontal menu bar:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
<menuitem heading="Kennel" url="">
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     <submenu heading="*******" url="includes/html/*******.html" />
     <submenu heading="Puppies" url="includes/html/puppies.html" />
     <submenu heading="Champions" url="includes/html/champions.html" />
     <submenu heading="Hot Prospect" url="includes/html/hotprospects.html" />
     <submenu heading="Family" url="includes/html/family.html" />
     <submenu heading="Exports" url="includes/html/exports.html" />
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    <submenu heading="Breeding Plans" url="includes/html/breeding.html" />
    <submenu heading="Available" url="includes/html/available.html" />
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<menuitem heading="Other" url="">
    <submenu heading="Gallery" url="includes/html/gallery.html" />
    <submenu heading="Tribute" url="includes/html/tribute.html" />
    <submenu heading="Links" url="includes/html/links.html" />
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i managed to make each menuitem display but ther submenus can't/wont populate! you cant have nested spry regions, so how is it done???
any help would be appreciated!
thanks!
a very confused delboy :-s

actually you can have nested spry xmldataset so long as your spry is up to date ;-)

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I'm trying to put a horizontal menu bar into a table cell
that's 507px wide by 21px high. I've run into two issues.
First, adding a Spry MenuBar to this cell causes it to grow
by 1px in height and thus throwing off all of my graphics in other
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 extends off the screen

I have the horizontal menu bar working great with a standard
CF query results set. however, the problem i am having is that the
right most menu item has two levels of children that expand right
on rollover, but that pushed them off the browser so you can;t
actually see them. is there a way to have them expand to the left
instead?

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
Try to disable hardware acceleration.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.

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Our horizontal menu bar does not load into IE. It works fine in Safari, Firefox and Chrome. It used to work on all four
browsers so I've gone back and uploaded an older version of our site to see if I could get it to work in IE. Even this older
site does not load anymore, also reloaded all our older Spry Assets and CSS.
The Website is www.sundogexpeditions.com
Thanks for any help and I'll provide any additional info to help diagnose my problem

We found the problem in the ul.MenuBarHorizontal li MenuBarItemIE . The display listed "none" We deleted it
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