IE8 and Spry vertical menu bar

The spry menu bar has disappeared in IE8, still works fine in Firefox, and did in IE7: http://jimgreenrealty.com/Test.html
What needs to be done to get it working again? Thanks,

Thanks, I have the download, but I'm not sure how to install it. Can
you give a hint? It may be obvious but I don't dabble in Spry very often.
Thanks,
/Steve <mailto:[email protected]>B <mailto:[email protected]>/

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Question on spry vertical menu bar backgrounds

I have a spry vertical menu bar. The menu branches off to 3 or 4 levels in some cases. When you mouse over the menu structure the menu path that you have selected turns a different color. I acheived this by giving
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
a different text color and also a different background color using CSS. The thing I want to acheive now is to somehow make listings within my menu structure that are clickable links a slightly different color. This is to signal that a menu selection that is currently being hovered over is indeed clickable (and linked to another page). For example, most of my clickable menu listings are at the end of a menu branches. That is to say the menu listing at the 1st and 2nd level are not clickable (linked to another page) but the listing that falls at the end of the menu branch is clickable.
How can I make the menu listings that link to other pages a different color then the other menu listings that do not link anywhere but are instead just the preceding struture to get you to the end of the menu structure?
Currently menu listings which merely branches off and do not link to a clickable page have a reference of "#" as shown below.
<li><a href="#">Menu_1</a>
This "#" was put there by Dreamweaver so I just followed the pattern. Clickable menu listings reference another HTML page as you would expect.

Nancy,
Thanks for the reply (it helped me know how to approach it). It looks like editing
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
will give me the behavior I was looking for. I don't know if that is what I want to do now that I look at it though. Using different colored backgrounds when hovering over links seems to contrast too much (even though some are clickable and others are not). Perhaps I didn't have the right color choice.
Instead I thought about emphasizing links that are clickable (with some type of visual variation) as opposed to making the hovering background color path to those clickable links different. I experimented with placing a 1 inch border around links in the menu that can be clicked but I am not sure if I like it or not.
I am using a background color of #7D120C for the hover. Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
http://www.indiana.edu/~iutreas/index.html
Thanks,
JTB

Spry Vertical Menu Bar Styling Issues

Hello all,
I'm having CSS issues with a spry vertical menu bar. The Menu
is fairly basic but, it has some odd sizing requirements specified
by it's designer. The designer would like the sub menu items to all
have different widths that correspond to the actual content within
them. Here is sample.
http://staging.rm306.com/cycle/
The menu seen at the page above was not build with Spry. It
was build with another tool and has considerable problems with
consistent browser display.
Can anyone give me a short list of styles and where they
should be applied that might help me achieve this reletively simple
effect?
I've tried to use Spy menu bars in my projects in the past
but, there was always some sticking point. I'd like this time to be
the winner if possible.
Thanks for your time and patience in advance,
Kevin

The sample page I posted came after searching for an easy
"how to do it". The closest I found to a tutorial was this:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spryte_menu.html
The author designs and implements a spry menu with Fire Works
graphics. The last section describes how to modify the existing CSS
for multiple levels. Yet I found the sample page easier to follow.
I hope this helps though.

Spry Vertical Menu Bar: Drop left? Arrows?

2 Questions:
1. I am trying to figure out how to make a spry vertical menu drop to the left instead of the right? Any ideas?
2. It appears that my arrows are the same color as my background, therefor they are not showing up until the hover color changes. Can I change the colors of the arrows.
Thanks for the help!

Hi,
to have the subitems displayed to the left, go to this rule
ul.MenuBarVertical ul {} from SpryMenuBarVertical.css file and
change this line: margin: -5% 0 0 95%; TO margin: 0% 0 0 -95%;
Diana

Spry Vertical Menu Bar not working in IE8

I've upgraded to 1.6.1, but it still doesn't work in IE8 unless in compatibility mode. http://jimgreenrealty.com/Test.html
Works fine in other browsers and other Spry elements appear to work normally in IE8. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Steve B.

If you deselect compatibility mode on IE8 the menu bar disappears (on
all our computers anyway). Works fine in all other versions of IE and
all other browsers. Updated to Spry 1.6.1 and still no avail.
Here it is w/o the emulating statement: http://jimgreenrealty.com/Test.html
The other pages on the site still have it.
Thanks for looking at it.
*/ <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>/*
Message was edited by: RRR Trail
Not sure how this forum works, I responded by email and it posts my email address. I don't seem to be able to edit to remove it. Please remove the email address. Thanks,

Spry vertical menu bar positioning issue in IE

I have been trying to fix a problem with my spry menu bar and have been looking for answers at several spry forums. I have modified my vertical spry menu to open submenus above and to the right of the main menu. It works in Opera, Firefox and Safari and opens below in IE. I tried changing the positioning from absolute to relative and that made it position itself below in all browsers. So, by deductive reasoning there seems to be something going on with IE when it reads the absolute positioning, is there a fix for this? You can see my website at raydlett.com the menubar is called STUDIO.
Here is my vertical menubar CSS:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: 6.75em;
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 6.75em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
    margin: 0 0 0 95%;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 9.2em;
    left: -1000em;
    bottom:-1%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: 0;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
    width: 9.2em;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
    border: 0px solid #fff;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
    border: 0px solid #fff;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #fff;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    color: #666;
    text-decoration: none;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a white background and orange text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
    background-color: #fff;
    color: #FF4C00;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a white background and orange text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    background-color: #fff;
    color: #FF4C00;
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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
        display: inline;
        f\loat: left;
        background: #FFF;
Here are the associated global.css components:
body {
    font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
    font-size: 76%;
    padding: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
    margin: 0;
    background: #fff;
    color: #666;
    text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
    line-height: 1em;
#container {
    width: 880px;
    text-align: left;/* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
    margin-right: auto;/* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    position: relative;
    font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
#header {
    font-size: 1em;
    padding-left: 17px;
    height: 26px;
    position: relative;
ul {
    padding:0;
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 10px; /* used for both menubar 1 and 2 */
    margin-left: 20px;/* used for both menubar 1 and 2 */
li {
    margin:0;
    padding:0 0 0 5px;/* used for both menubar 1 and 2 */
I have also attached the index.html file that uses the modified "STUDIO" Spry MenuBar2
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
ribit10

That makes sense, tooltips are tooltips, and appear at the tip of the mouse...But those "submenu triggers" can be simply styled links (as they are in a spry menu)...don't need to be swaps or images or image maps.
What about a using show/hide behavior? Click the STUDIO and the menu pops up adjacent in an apDiv. Click a link. Or click the x to close the apDiv.
You know this is just an exercise to run through all the Javascript and Spry that is in Dreamweaver, eh?
By the way, just providing a link to your page is quite all you need to do. You don't need to attach your files or show pictures of them...by providing a link, I can save a web page in its entirety and open it in Dreamweaver.
Beth

Spry vertical menu bar size issue

hello world,
i've got a beautiful layout with a lefthand menu section that i would love to behave with pop-out menus.
the entire design was crafted lovingly in fireworks and then exported as html with images, then opened in dreamweaver - looks great!
remove the image that was in the slice where the menu will go, check.
place cursor and select insert>spry>menu bar, select orientation, check.
remove extraneous menu items in the properties inspector, check.
and then, the problem...the box where "Item 1" (which will become my first button) is too big and shifts the entire table out of shape.
i've edited the box sizes in the following CSS items:
ul.MenuBarVertical
ul.MenuBarVertical li
ul.MenuBarVertical a
sometimes i can get it close to it being in-shape with no shifting if i make the menu box smaller than the image that will go in it, looks great in DW but it is then shifted down by a considerable amount when previewing in browers. any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

hi hans
i can't upload at the moment, don't have the password to the site at the moment.
for now the best i can do is post the CSS, and let you know that the size of the image i'd like to place in the parent spry menu is 168w x 32h (in px)
i hope this isn't too much text....here goes:
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: 150px;
    height: 25px;
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 150px;
    height: 25px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially 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%;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 8.2em;
    left: -1000em;
    top: 0;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: 0;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
    width: 8.2em;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
    border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
    border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #EEE;
    color: #333;
    text-decoration: none;
    height: 25px;
    width: 150px;
    padding-top: 0.5em;
    padding-right: 0.75em;
    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
    padding-left: 0.75em;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
    background-color: #33C;
    color: #FFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    background-color: #33C;
    color: #FFF;
ul.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;

Spry Vertical Menu Bar OK in Safari?

I'm revising the menu and using Spry in order to make the
menu friendlier to all generations of Safari. Has anyone had issues
with the Spry menu bar in Safari?
Thanks for any help.

I am told by Safari users (no mention of which Safari
release) that the site as it stands (using Xara rather than Spry)
does not allow hover to work correctly. The submenus appear until
the Safari user hovers over them, at which point they disappear. My
mockup page menu seems to work fine with Safari for Windows Beta,
but I just want to make sure that Mac users can get into the page.
Thanks.

Artifacts between Logo and Vertical Menu Bar

See http://www.ottawapatentagency.com
Artifact #1: a light grey dot at the joint between the logo and the vertical menu bar, on the right hand side.
Artifact #2: on mouse over 'Home' - the top menu item of the vertical menu bar - there appears a light-colored, 1-pixel separation between the logo and the vertical menu bar.
The logo is a standard gif and the vertical menu bar is a standard spry menu bar, I am puzzled.
Anyone has a solution?

You could try adding the following code above your closing </head> tag:

Also, it looks like you need to add closing brackets to the following two lines:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"

Spry vertical menu button shows background color instead of image in preview

Hello All, I'm a newbie (to the forum and Dreamweaver) so my apologies if my question is not in good form. I've searched for this issue but cannot seem to find the exact problem I have.
I've created a website (my first) and used the spry menu bar. It works well using the default blue and grey colors for button and hover. However, I decided I want to spruce it up a little and change the buttons to use a background image (rainbow pattern) instead of background color. I internet researched this for some time and watched all the youtube videos people have posted for this process and editing the spry vertical menu bar CSS. Using the .a and hover lines from the CSS, I was able to add my background .jpg image file. In the design view, the button look exactly how I want them to. However, when I attempt to preview in IE, Chrome, or FF, the buttons still have the default colors and no image. I've gone back and deleted the default blue and grey, but then the preview just shows dark grey and white for the buttoms. is there something that I am overlooking that would cause the background color to show instead of the image I have attached to the buttons. I can't figure out why it looks right in DW but not in preview.
BTW, I'm editing a template file and all the pages are updated with the new image buttons, but none of the pages show correctly in preview.
Thanks

Point taken :-)
This is my spry vertical css code. No sub-menus.
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
background-image: url(/Images/Rainbow_Button.jpg);
background-color: ;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
background-color: #666666;
color: #333333;
background-image: url(/Images/Rainbow_Button_Hover.jpg);
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
background-color: #0000FF;
color: #FFF;

Spry widget menu bar as a library item - problems

I created a spry vertical menu bar and made it a library item. The original works great, however when I insert the library item into its own div tag on another page, the submenus will not pop out, either in DW or the browser view. The div tag is the correct size and I made the z index high enough. Here is the code of the page that works properly:
<!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>DM Consulting Dry Dock Training</title>
<link href="css styles/drydock2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><img src="images/header_title_white.png" width="645" height="116" alt="header" /></div>
<div id="logo"><img src="images/drydock_logo_blktxt.png" width="154" height="119" alt="logo" /></div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <div id="content">
      <p><span class="bolder1">D</span><span class="bolder1">M Consulting </span><span class="lineheight">provides Dry Dock Training, Dry Dock Conferences,<br />
        Dry Dock Software and Dry Dock Consulting      for:</span></p>
      <ul>
        <li class="lineheight"> Dock Masters</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Docking Officers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Dry Dock Crews</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Engineers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Naval Architects </li>
        <li class="lineheight"> Port Engineers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Program/Project Managers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Marine Surveyors</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Owners' Representatives</li>
        <li class="lineheight">On-site Representatives</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Consultants</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Others Involved or Interested in
          the <br />
          Dry Docking of Ships and Vessels</li>
      </ul>
      <div id="testimonials">"The course was excellent, straight forward and comprehensive. Instruction was great, expected <br />
        "death-by-power point" but was pleasantly surprised.
        I am better acquainted w/dry dock basics after the
        course and can trust the accuracy of the training
        based on the extensive experience of the instructors. Thank you!
        Very informative, very thorough."
          - David, Australia<br />
      </div>
      <div id="movie">
        <object width="560" height="340">
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLGUZEkbAwA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" />
          <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
          <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
          <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLGUZEkbAwA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed>
        </object>
      </div>
      <div id="moreTestimonials">»»» click here for more testimonials «««</div>
      <div id="footer">© COPYRIGHT 2010 DM CONSULTING</div>
    </div>
    <div id="navbar">
      
      <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
        <li><a href="#index.html" title="DM Consulting home page">HOME</a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">TRAINING</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#outline.html" title="Outline of our Training Course">General Information & Outline</a></li>
            <li><a href="#train_sched.html" title="Locations & dates of our Training Courses">Training Course Schedule</a></li>
            <li><a href="#drawings.html" title="Dry dock course drawings">Course Drawings</a></li>
            <li><a href="#testimonials.html" title="Read what our clients have to say">Testimonials</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#conference.html" title="Dry Dock Conference information">CONFERENCE</a></li>
        <li><a href="#software.html" title="Shop our software">DOCKMASTER SOFTWARE</a></li>
        <li><a href="#consulting.html" title="Dry Dock Consulting">CONSULTING</a></li>
        <li><a href="#clients.html" title="List of current and past clients">CLIENTS</a></li>
        <li><a href="#about.html" title="Learn about our company">ABOUT</a></li>
        <li><a href="#contact.html" title="Contact us">CONTACT US</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
Here is the code for the page that DOESN'T work:
<!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>Training Course Schedule</title>
<link href="../css styles/drydock2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><img src="../images/header_title_white.png" width="645" height="116" alt="header" /></div>
<div id="logo"><img src="../images/drydock_logo_blktxt.png" width="154" height="119" alt="logo" /></div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <div id="content">
      <h2><span class="bolder1">Training Course Schedule</span><span class="bolder1"></span></h2>
      <p><br />
      Class sizes are limited so please register early. Early registration and payment provides the best value.<br />
<br />
      </p>
<p class="underline"><strong>4-7 October 2010 •   Honolulu, HI, USA </strong></p>
      <div id="schedulephoto"><img src="../images/conference-rm_train_s.jpg" width="250" height="123" alt="image" /></div>
      <p>The training will be held in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA. <br />
        <a href="Registration_Hawaii.html">Registration form</a><br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p class="underline"><strong>15-18 November 2010   •   Virginia Beach VA, USA</strong></p>
      <p>The training will be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. <br />
        <a href="Registration_Virginia.html">Registration form</a><br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p class="underline"><strong>11-14 May 2011 •   London, United Kingdom</strong></p>
        The training is held in conjunction with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). Registration and payment will be made directly to RINA. <br />
        Visit RINA's <a href="http://www.RINA.org.uk" target="_blank">website</a> and go to "Events" or call +44 (0) 20 7201 2401.<br />
<br />
      </p>
      <p><strong>Your Location</strong></p>
      <p>Training tailored to your organization's needs, including training at your facilities, <br />
        is also available.    </p>
    </div>
    <div id="nav3">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
      <li><a href="#index.html" title="DM Consulting home page">HOME</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">TRAINING</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#outline.html" title="Outline of our Training Course">General Information & Outline</a></li>
          <li><a href="#train_sched.html" title="Locations & dates of our Training Courses">Training Course Schedule</a></li>
          <li><a href="#drawings.html" title="Dry dock course drawings">Course Drawings</a></li>
          <li><a href="#testimonials.html" title="Read what our clients have to say">Testimonials</a></li>
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I understand about having the script and link element that connect my page to the dependent files in the SpryAssets folder in the header and the JavaScript function cal at the bottom on each page. I don't know what else to do - HELP!

Welcome to the Dreamweaver world!
Well, having your index.html page at the top/root level is important, as that is the default page by which people will enter your site.
Having other pages in folders is fine...I do it all the time in order to keep departments or categories of information sorted.
One characteristic of having pages in folders is that the hierarchy of files in folders (perforce) puts them at different depths in the site.
This is not inherently a bad thing! Just one to remain aware of. When you look at your site files in the Files Panel, you can see a graphical representation of those different levels.
But the nature of a library item is that it is identical in all its instances, which is what makes it useful...change it in the library, and it changes site-wide. The down-side of that identity is that when your files are at different depths in the hierarchy, their links back to, say, home (or any other same file) will change depending on the depth. You can see this if you make a link on a page, then drag the page (in the Files Panel) to a different depth...say, into a folder when it started at root level, or vice versa. Check the link, and you will see that it automatically adapted to the new path.
Library items do not do that; they do not change, so some of your links will be 'wrong' when you refer to pages that have different paths than the ones originally set up in the library item... because of the change in hierarchy.
All this is, of course, reliant on your creation of the site in the first place, as defining the root folder's location on your computer gives Dreamweaver a starting point for handling (juggling?) all the location-information for your site's files.
Beth

SPRY Vertical Menu Problem (IE Hack?)

I'm having a problem with the Spry vertical menu bar. The one
I created works fine in Firefox and in Safari, but not in Internet
Explorer. In IE the sub-menu containers open AT THE TOP of the menu
bar, and not next to the selected menu item. I'm not sure how to
fix it. Any help is appreciated.
You can see the problem here (view in IE and roll over any of
the menu items in the middle or lower part of the menu bar):
http://southerncharmgifts.net/thesouthernsportsman/html/ssarchery.html

I downloaded the Spry update but it didn't fix the problem.
It changed my menu box to white, when it should have remained
black. Hopefully I can fix it. But still the same problem with IE.
This is really bad! Any way to reverse the update?
quote:
Originally posted by:
SnakEyez02
First your Spry is out of date. Please click on the following
link below to get the Spry Updater. It will be inside the package
as an Extension. Then next time you start up DW click on Sites and
then you will see an option at the bottom to update Spry in your
site.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html
Looking at your page it appears to validate except for one
thing. All images need alt tags assigned to them.
See if updating the Spry helps.
Also there is a Spry forum that Adobe does check in case
there are bugs. The link to the forum is on that page and I will
also link it below:
http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_spry_pr1_forum
With regards to Pitmaster you can check the above links but
depending on the issue it could be something else. So if you need
further assistance post a link to your page.

Spry Vertical Menu and sub menus not working correctly

I am designing a website for a client and cannot get the spry vertical menu and submenus to work correctly. The submenus will show on the index.html page, but not on any other pages, or when I preview in browser. Should I make it a library item then add it to the other pages? I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I appreciate your help!

URL to your site please

*Help* Spry Horizontal Menu Bar wont show and cant seem to center it with rest of content

Hey,
I am a newbie to Dreamweaver and was wondering if someone can
help me with the Spry Horizontal Menu Bar....
http://www.djdanmatthews.net
1) After moving mouse over diffrent areas of Spry menu bar
the text seems to disapear or not show up?
2) I can't seem to center content of Spry menu bar with rest
of website?
3) How do I ad a image (where also can I get it) to the Spry
menu bar so it looks more professional &3d?
Thanks so much,
Dan

*Bump

Spry Horizontal Menu Bar not working in IE

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?
I appreciate any help I can get with this as I have tried everything I know.
This is the link to my site: www.digitaldesignsbymargee.com

Hi! I am new to this forum. I inserted a spry horizontal menu bar for my navigation but i cannot able veiw a horizontal menubar in IE though it works fine in google chrome and Mozila. Can anyone look at my code and tell me how I can fix this problem?
w@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: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    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: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 14em;
    float: left;
    border-color: white;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-left-width: 1px;
    border-right-style: none;
    border-right-width: 1px;
/* 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: 14em;
    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: 14em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    position: absolute;
    margin: 0 0 0 99%;
/* 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;
    padding: 0.9em 0.75em;
    color: white;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: white;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
    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
    color: #FFF;
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: 10px 85%;
/* 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
    b/ackground-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 10px 85%;
/* 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
    b/ackground-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;
        float: left;
     /* I have updated and checked the code as mentioned in the forum topic but still it is not working */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:visited { color: white;}
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.

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