Horizontal Spry Submenu Alignment Problems

I am experiencing a massive emotional low with not being able to figure this problem out.
I have incorporated a Spry menu in the site I'm building, but I'm having trouble getting the
drop down submenu to align properly in Firefox/ Chrome AND IE8
What seems to be the heart of the problem is the CSS for the Spry class "ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible"
By default, it's set to this:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
If I leave it like this, the submenus drop down where I want them to (upon rollover) - with the left edge
of the submenu aligned with the parent button (ul li item). However this only works properly in Chrome / Firefox.
If I use IE8 to look at the site. The submenus drop down such that the left edge of submenu aligns
with the the center of the partent button (ul li item) upon rollover.
I can get IE to overcome this alignment issue by adding "position:relative" to the CSS for "ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible"
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
position:relative
After making this addition, IE8 works fine, and the submenus align to the left. But now, if I browse in Chrome
or Firefox, the 1px border of the submenus do not appear on the left, right and bottom edges. It's only there
for the top edge???!!!??
It seems that the property listed below gets compromised and does not work if I add the "position:relative" attribute
to "ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible"
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
If anyone can offer and explanation to this I would be hugely appreciative.
Thanks so much,
Hosanna_Bizarre

Please find the html and css attached.
Yes, I have used text-align: center on the main menu.
Like I say, adding position:relative to the css for "ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible"
fixes the problem for IE and it displays left justified submenu items underneath a center-aligned
main menu button.
Problem is the submenu borders do not display properly any more for Chrome / Firefox.
Thanks
H

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        if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
            return;
        ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("&#92;&#92;s*&#92;&#92;b" + className + "&#92;&#92;b", "g"), "");
    // addEventListener for Menu Bar
    // attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
        try
            if (element.addEventListener)
                element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
            else if (element.attachEvent)
                element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
        catch (e) {}
    // createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
    // creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
        var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
        layer.tabIndex = '-1';
        layer.src = 'javascript:""';
        layer.frameBorder = '0';
        layer.scrolling = 'no';
        menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
        layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
        layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
        layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
        layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
    // removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
    // removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer =  function(menu)
        var layers = ((menu == this.element) ? menu : menu.parentNode).getElementsByTagName('iframe');
        while(layers.length &gt; 0)
            layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
    // clearMenus for Menu Bar
    // root is the top level unordered list (&lt;ul&gt; tag)
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
        var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
        for(var i=0; i&lt;menus.length; i++)
            this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
        this.removeClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
    // bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
    // identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
        return Spry.is.safari &amp;&amp; (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 &amp;&amp; event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget));
    // showSubmenu for Menu Bar
    // set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
        if(this.currMenu)
            this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
            this.currMenu = null;
        if(menu)
            this.addClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
            if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' &amp;&amp; !Spry.is.opera &amp;&amp; navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
                if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, this.horizontalClass) || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
                    menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
            if(Spry.is.ie &amp;&amp; Spry.is.version &lt; 7)
                this.createIframeLayer(menu);
        this.addClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
    // hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
    // remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
        if(menu)
            this.removeClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
            if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' &amp;&amp; !Spry.is.opera &amp;&amp; navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
                menu.style.top = '';
                menu.style.left = '';
            if(Spry.is.ie &amp;&amp; Spry.is.version &lt; 7)
                this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
    // initialize for Menu Bar
    // create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
    // show and hide submenus
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element)
        var opentime, closetime;
        var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
        var menu = (submenus.length &gt; 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
        if(menu)
            this.addClassName(link, this.hasSubClass);
        if(!Spry.is.ie)
            // define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
            // if a node is within another node
            listitem.contains = function(testNode)
                // this refers to the list item
                if(testNode == null)
                    return false;
                if(testNode == this)
                    return true;
                else
                    return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
        // need to save this for scope further down
        var self = this;
        this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e){self.mouseOver(listitem, e);}, false);
        this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e){if (self.enableKeyboardNavigation) self.clearSelection(); self.mouseOut(listitem, e);}, false);
        if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
            this.addEventListener(link, 'blur', function(e){self.onBlur(listitem);}, false);
            this.addEventListener(link, 'focus', function(e){self.keyFocus(listitem, e);}, false);
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
        this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length &gt; 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        this.hasFocus = true;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
        this.clearSelection(listitem);
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
        //search any intersection with the current open element
        if (!this.lastOpen)
            return;
        if (el)
            el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
            // check children
            var item = this.lastOpen;
            while (item != this.element)
                var tmp = el;
                while (tmp != this.element)
                    if (tmp == item)
                        return;
                    try{
                        tmp = tmp.parentNode;
                    }catch(err){break;}
                item = item.parentNode;
        var item = this.lastOpen;
        while (item != this.element)
            this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
            var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
            this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
            this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
            item = item.parentNode;
        this.lastOpen = false;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
        if (!this.hasFocus)
            return;
        if (!this.lastOpen)
            this.hasFocus = false;
            return;
        var e = e|| event;
        var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
        var link = this.lastOpen;
        var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
        var menu = (submenus.length &gt; 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
        var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
        var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
        if (!opts[3])
            opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
        var found = 0;
        switch (e.keyCode){
            case this.upKeyCode:
                found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
                break;
            case this.downKeyCode:
                found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
                break;
            case this.leftKeyCode:
                found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
                break;
            case this.rightKeyCode:
                found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
                break;
            case this.escKeyCode:
            case 9:
                this.clearSelection();
                this.hasFocus = false;
            default: return;
        switch (found)
            case 0: return;
            case 1:
                //subopts
                this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
                break;
            case 2:
                //parent
                this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
                break;
            case 3:
            case 4:
                // left - right
                this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
                break;
        var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
            opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
        this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length &gt; 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        this.lastOpen = link;
        opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
            //stop further event handling by the browser
        return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
        var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
        var menu = (submenus.length &gt; 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
        var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
        if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
            this.clearSelection(listitem);
        if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
            // ignore bubbled text events
            return;
        if (listitem.closetime)
            clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
        if(this.currMenu == listitem)
            this.currMenu = null;
        // move the focus too
        if (this.hasFocus)
            link.focus();
        // show menu highlighting
        this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        this.lastOpen = link;
        if(menu &amp;&amp; !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
            var self = this;
            listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
        var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
        var menu = (submenus.length &gt; 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
        var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
        if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
            // ignore bubbled text events
            return;
        var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
        if(!listitem.contains(related))
            if (listitem.opentime)
                clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
            this.currMenu = listitem;
            // remove menu highlighting
            this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
            if(menu)
                var self = this;
                listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
            if (this.hasFocus)
                link.blur();
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
        var child = element[sibling];
        while (child &amp;&amp; child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
            child = child[sibling];
        return child;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
        var found = 0;
        var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
        var ref = rect(els[found]);
        var hideSubmenu = false;
        //make the subelement visible to compute the position
        if (els[1] &amp;&amp; !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
            els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
            this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
            hideSubmenu = true;
        var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
        var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
        for (var i = 1; i &lt; els.length; i++){
            //when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
            if(prop=='y' &amp;&amp; isVert &amp;&amp; (i==1 || i==2))
                continue;
            //when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
            if(prop=='x' &amp;&amp; !isVert &amp;&amp; !hasParent &amp;&amp; (i==1 || i==2))
                continue;
            if (els[i])
                var tmp = rect(els[i]);
                if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) &lt; (dir * ref[prop]))
                    ref = tmp;
                    found = i;
        // hide back the submenu
        if (els[1] &amp;&amp; hideSubmenu){
            this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
            els[1].style.visibility =  '';
        return found;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
        if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
            return str;   
        var oStringList = str.split('-');
        var isFirstEntry = true;
        var camelizedString = '';
        for(var i=0; i &lt; oStringList.length; i++)
            if(oStringList[i].length&gt;0)
                if(isFirstEntry)
                    camelizedString = oStringList[i];
                    isFirstEntry = false;
                else
                    var s = oStringList[i];
                    camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
        return camelizedString;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
        var value;
        try
            if (element.style)
                value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
            if (!value)
                if (document.defaultView &amp;&amp; document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
                    var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
                    value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
                else if (element.currentStyle)
                        value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
        catch (e) {}
        return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
        var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
        if (isNaN(a))
            return 0;
        return a;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
        doc = doc || document;
        if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
            el = doc.getElementById(el);
        if (!el) {
            return false;
        if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
            //element must be visible to have a box
            return false;
        var ret = {x:0, y:0};
        var parent = null;
        var box;
        if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
            box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
            var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
            var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
            ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
            ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
        } else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
            box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
            ret.x = box.x;
            ret.y = box.y;
        } else { // safari/opera
            ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
            ret.y = el.offsetTop;
            parent = el.offsetParent;
            if (parent != el) {
                while (parent) {
                    ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
                    ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
                    parent = parent.offsetParent;
            // opera &amp; (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
            if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari &amp;&amp; Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
                ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
        if (el.parentNode)
                parent = el.parentNode;
        else
            parent = null;
        if (parent.nodeName){
            var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
            while (parent &amp;&amp; cas != 'BODY' &amp;&amp; cas != 'HTML') {
                cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
                ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
                ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
                if (parent.parentNode)
                    parent = parent.parentNode;
                else
                    parent = null;
        return ret;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
        if (ev.stopPropagation)
            ev.stopPropagation();
        else
            ev.cancelBubble = true;
        if (ev.preventDefault)
            ev.preventDefault();
        else
            ev.returnValue = false;
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
        if (!optionsObj)
            return;
        for (var optionName in optionsObj)
            if (ignoreUndefinedProps &amp;&amp; optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
                continue;
            obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
    And last, here is the HTML code that has also not been modified in any way:
    &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
    &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;script src="../BXC Main Navigation Spry Drop Menu/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;link href="../BXC Main Navigation Spry Drop Menu/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal"&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop from Private Owner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop Direct from Stores&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Buying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Bid&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop from Auction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Bidding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Trade&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Shop for Trades&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Trading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"&gt;List Items&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items in Auction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items for Sale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;List Items for Trade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Help Listing Items&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Intro&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Flash Site &amp;amp; Intro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;About Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;My Xchange&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Account&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"&gt;Help&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Main Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Site Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    &lt;!--
    var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
    //--&gt;
    &lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
    &lt;/html&gt;
    Thanks in advance for any of your help.
    Jose H.

    Hello Nancy,
    I was troubleshooting For the next 8 hours after my post here and eventually I got it right, I uploaded the files to the test server and at the time did not have the chance to post the solution here. This is why, as you saw, it is working correctly now.  Both the CSS and HTML files needed modifications. While working on the code I had to run IE8, Chrome and Firefox simultaneously and refresh all three after every change in the code because what would fix the problem in one would cause a problem for the other.
    In addition to the problems listed in my original post, there were also other graphical issues in IE8, such as; the main menu buttons without sub-menus would only display at half their size vertically. The border around the buttons would not display despite that the background images were rendered in Photoshop as flattened JPEGs with boarders as part of the background image. Being so, I removed all borders from the CSS script.
    By the way.. the IE8 security measure did pop up while working from the server.
    Anyhow for those of you who are experiencing similar problems you can take a look at the working code bellow and compare it to the initial code. I've included detail comments on every line I have changed, modified or added.
    Good luck.. as I know it can become a complicated task when creating custom Spry menus.
    <b>Here is the finished CSS script</b>
    <code>@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: 10;
        padding: 0;
        list-style-type: none;
        /* font size for top menu*/
        font-size: 80%;
        cursor: default;
        width: auto;
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
        text-align: center;
        /*whole menu moves*/
        margin-left: 100px;
    /* 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;
    /* My Note --Top buttons' background, height and font size adjust-- */
    /* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
        /* My note --I added the height and background-image as Main-Buttons.jpg-- */
        height: 55px;   
        background-image: url(../Main-Buttons.jpg);
        margin: -2;
        padding: 0;
        list-style-type: none;
        font-size: 100%;
        position: center;
        /*text-align: left;*/
        cursor: pointer;
        width: 99px;
        float: left;
    /* My note --Submenu font size adjust-- */
    /* 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
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