MenuBar submenu display

when i go on a root menu element of a menubar, automatically i display a submenu element, if it exists.
May I make a condition to decide to see the submenu or no.
thanks

First docs:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/MenuBar.html
Default component is
mx.controls.treeClasses.DefaultDataDescriptor
so you can see in sorce realization.
It should reazile interface http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/menuClasses/IMenuDataDescriptor.html

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****START OF HTML CODE****
<td valign="middle" height="25px" align="center"
bgcolor="#9ACABE">
<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"
align="center">
<tr valign="middle" align="center">
<td align="center" valign="middle">

<ul id="menubar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
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<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
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<li><a href="itServices.html">Information
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<li><a
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<li><a href="accountServices.html">Customer
Support</a></li>
<li><a href="softwareEngineering.html">Software
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<li><a href="immunization.html">Immunization
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href="affiliates.html">Affiliates</a></li>
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<li><a href="news.html">NEWS &
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href="contact.html">CONTACTS</a></li>
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{imgDown:"", imgRight:""});
</script>
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Here's a copy of the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css file I have:
quote:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release
1.5 */
/* 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;
/* 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: 8em;
float: left;
/* 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
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text
decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #EEE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
/* 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: #33C;*/
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: #33C;*/
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: 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;
/* 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;
If I can get this last issue working I'd be all set with the
website. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate
it. Thanks.

All you have to do is remove the text-align:center that you
added to this rule:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
width: 103px;
text-align:center;
font-size:11px; border:none;
In the Menu Bar Styling Examples, we don't change the
text-alignment of the li, we change the alignment of the link
elements which are the actual menu items.
--== Kin ==--

How to I get menubar to display submenus? I have tried many things

I have cut and pasted old menubars that worked. I have downloaded Sry again and uploaded hundred menubar changes, but not much happens and I never get the submenus.
I am redesigning a webpage at www.vienergy.org (The Virgin island Energy Office)
My sample of the new design that I can't get to work can be reached by clicking on the BuIlding page at that site.
my email is [email protected]
I have spent many hours on this and would appreciate any help. I am sure it is something dumb that a nonprofessional like me does not see.

Don, I found a few errors, but was not able to reconstruct the menu to the point of getting it to work. There is some other CSS overriding your SpryMenuBarHorizontal2.css file.
But, that said, I did try out some changes:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
/* 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: square;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
/*    float: none;                    I don't think you want to unfloat your menubar (this style cascades to all elements of the menu)
    height: auto;
    list-style-position: inside;*/
/* 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: 122px;
    float: left;
/* 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; /* this had been changed to 8.2px, which is mighty narrow for a ul */
    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: -5px 0 0 95px;
/* 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;
    background-color: #39617B;
    color: #000000;
    font: bold;
    border: thin solid #0000FF;
    padding-top: 0.4em;
    padding-right: 0.75em;
    padding-bottom: 0.4em;
    padding-left: 0.75em;
/* 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: #666666;
    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: #33C;
    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: 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;
/* 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;
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I recommend that you start a new page from scratch (maybe in a new site), link carefully, and insert the Spry Menu Bar and its various auxiliary files, save, see if it works with no changes to it, and slowly and carefully change the css file.
It will be much easier than trying to 'unbend the rusty nails' in order to use them again.
Beth

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Have a look here for auto widths http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/AutoWidthHorizontalMenuBarSample.h tml.
The only change I would make to the above is to add !important to the following
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Gramps

Horizontal menu submenu display issue in IE9

I inserted a Spry horizontal menu into a page in Dreamweaver CS5 then edited it to display the way I need it to look. It looks great in FF, Safari, Chrome and Opera. In IE9 the drop down submenu items have too much (vertical) space between them. This is probably because I added a positioning element of "top: 20px" to make the menu center (vertically) correctly over the background image. I have tried any number of alternatives and this version of the CSS is just perfect except in IE. I have searched for days for similar issues but haven't found anything to help.
The page is http://myparlour.net/DashboardDDS /collections.html
The site CSS is http://myparlour.net/DashboardDDS/dashboard_dds.css
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Try
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
ul.MenuBarHorizontal {
     font-size: 90%;
     width: 800px;
     margin: auto;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li {
     width: 20%;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a {
     text-align: center;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a {
     text-align: left;
</style>
</head>
<body>
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<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="production.html">Production</a>
    <ul>
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      <li><a href="production_ytd.html">Year to Date</a></li>
      <li><a href="production_history.html">History</a></li>
      <li><a href="production_monthly_goal.html">Monthly Goal</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="collections.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Collections</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="collections_mtd.html">Month to Date</a></li>
      <li><a href="collections_current.html">Current by Source</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="new_patients.html">New Patients</a>              </li>
<li><a href="office_receivables.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Office Receivables</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="office_receivables_patient.html">Patient Receivables</a></li>
      <li><a href="office_receivables_insurance.html">Insurance Receivables</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">      Dashboard Demo</a></li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Gramps

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

MenuBar - Submenu Indicator

I've gone over the Spry sample menubar code carefully and I
just don't see how this all works. In the samples, whenever a menu
has a submenu there is a black indicator present. On mouse over,
the black indicator changes to white. In my code, I get the white
indicator on mouse over; but, the black indicator is not present at
any time. I don't find this too surprising because I don't have a
black indicator image present anywhere nor do I have such an image
referenced anywhere. As far as I can see, the sample Spry code
doesn't have a black indicator image or any such reference either,
yet the Spry sample code works and mine doesn't. Could someone
please explain this to me (i.e., what I have to do to get the black
submenu indicator to appear)? I would really appreciate it. BTW, my
setup can be seen at
http://www.simpson-rich.com/main.
Thanks for any help.
... doug

First docs:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/MenuBar.html
Default component is
mx.controls.treeClasses.DefaultDataDescriptor
so you can see in sorce realization.
It should reazile interface http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/menuClasses/IMenuDataDescriptor.html

MenuBar -submenu color

Hi I've some problem with setting style of menubar.
I've two question:
I can change the color of menubar, but may I change the background color of submenu ?( I see them still white).
May I change the orientation of submenu? (for example from vertical to horizzontal and vice versa).
Thank you
Marco

Here is how to change the menubar item background color ..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="left"
        backgroundColor="white"
>
    <mx:Style>
    .menuBarStyle
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                <menuitem label="SubMenuItem A-1" enabled="false"/>
                <menuitem label="SubMenuItem A-2"/>
            </menuitem>
            <menuitem label="MenuItem B"/>
            <menuitem label="MenuItem C"/>
            <menuitem label="MenuItem D">
                <menuitem label="SubMenuItem D-1"
                    type="radio" groupName="one"/>
                <menuitem label="SubMenuItem D-2"
                    type="radio" groupName="one"
                    selected="true"/>
                <menuitem label="SubMenuItem D-3"
                    type="radio" groupName="one"/>
            </menuitem>
        </mx:XMLList>
    </mx:MenuBar>
</mx:Application>
I'm not sure about #2.
hope this helps,
Babo,

Spry submenu displays in top left corner of page in IE

I am new and hope someone can help solve the problem with the Spry dropdown submenu. It's displaying in the top left corner of the page in IE instead of under the menu items, but is fine in Firefox. I have attached an image of the problem and web address.
http://americanhomesandgardens.com
Thanks

The markup is all wrong. Have a look at the first few lines of the widget markup and compare that to what you have.
<ul id="ipe" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="index.html">Magazine Cover </a></li>
<li><a href="History.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Company Information</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="History.html">Company History</a></li>
      <li><a href="Privacy Policy.html">Privacy Policy</a></li>
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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

MenuBar submenu shows up way right in IE

Please Please help. I am using the horizontal menu barwith 2
submenu levels.
I have searched the forum and can't find the fix that works.
I loaded the 1.5 .js file, but it didn't fix it.
You can see the site at
adshapiro.com/test
The CSS is located in the Spry folder....
I am still looking for the fix on the forum but if you know
how to fix this let me know

Got my to work - found this in the samples
add this to your styles
<style type="text/css">

</style>
Worked for me

Change the colour of my submenu in spry-UI-1.7

hello,
as the title says, how do i change the background colour of my submenu (the one that collapses) and the hover action background.
i created it with the widget browser, but found out this colour doesnt work so well.
in my spry-UI-1.7>css>Menu>basic i have two .css files
SpryMenuBasic.css
this is the css:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBasic.css - version 0.5 - Spry Pre-Release 1.7 */
/* Copyright (c) 2010. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* This is the css for a basic Spry 2 MenuBar.
* The first section is basic layout, and should in general not need to be modified.
* The final section of this file specifies images to use for arrows for the menu. These
* are either down or right-pointing as required by horizonatal or vertical layouts. You
* can either replace the referenced images with your own, or you can modify these rules to
* point to your won images.
* These rules are supplemented by those specified in the OAM file for inclusion in the html document,
* or alternatively, the file SpryMenuBarBasicSkin.css which is included with this widget. */
/* Resets for ul and li in menus */
.MenuBar .MenuBarView, .MenuBar .SubMenuView {
display:block;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
/*** Layout Rules for Basic Menu ***/
/* Top Level MenuBar
* Because we float the MenuItemContainers in the MenuBar, we have to make sure the menubar wrapper expands to hold them all.
* The simplest way is to float the widget wrapper
.MenuBar { /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
float:left;
width:100%;
.MenuBarVertical {
float:left; /* Used to make menubar shirink to fit contents */
width:auto;
/* SubMenus */
.MenuBar .SubMenu {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:-10000px; /* By default, all non-visible submenus are hidden by moving way to the west */
padding:0;
/* First level of submenus - pulls down from horizontal menubar, right from vertical */
.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible{ /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
top:100%;
left:0px;
.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top:0px;
left:100%;
/* All submenus below level 1. All pullout to the right */
.MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenuVisible {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:100%;
/* MenuItems, MenuItemLabels, and MenuItemContainers */
.MenuBar .MenuItem {
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
.MenuBar .MenuItemLabel {
display:block;
.MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
position:relative;
white-space:nowrap;
float:left; /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:0;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemContainer {
float:none;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemContainer {
float:none;
/* Layout Rules needed by IE6 - excluded from other browsers */
.SpryIsIE6 .SubMenu .SubMenu {
width:100px;
height:1%;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .SubMenuVisible .SubMenuVisible {
width:auto;
/* End Layout section */
* Arrows - This section specifies arrow images for a submenu dropdowns in Basic SpryMenu.
.MenuBar .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:none;
/* For all arrows used here, we depend upon the image to push itself away from right edge, or the user can add right padding to the MenuItem */
.MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDown.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDown.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
/* IE6 rules for Arrows */
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDown.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBarVertical .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
and i got "SpryMenuBasicSkin.css"
with this css:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBasicSkin.css - version 0.5 - Spry Pre-Release 1.7 */
/* Copyright (c) 2010. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* This is the skinning css for a basic Spry 2 MenuBar.
* You can use this CSS as a starting point for skinning an instance of the SpryMenuBar widget */
/* The rules in this file assume the following widget classes for menu layout:
MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical. 2nd level subs
and beyond are pull-right.
MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
These should be set as the 'WidgetClass' in the widget constructor. If the menu is to be vertical, pass both names,
space-delimited. For example: WidgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarVertical".
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
eg: WidgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarLeftShrink"
.MenuBar {
background-color:#cccccc;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
.MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
.MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 0px 24px 0px 0px;
background-color:#cccccc;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #ffffff #cccccc #ffffff;
border-style: none solid none solid;
.MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
.MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none solid none none;
.MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#333333;
padding: 6px 15px 6px 39px;
width: 6em;
width:auto;
background: #cccccc;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#ffffff;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 6px;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 6px;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:#ffffff;
color:#333333;
padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
width: 7em;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
.MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #999999;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
.MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #999999; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #000000;
.MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #999999;
color: #000000;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #cccccc;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #cccccc;
color: #333333;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #ffffff;
min-width:0%; This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
.MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
.MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
.MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #ffffff;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #999999; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #000000;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #cccccc; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #333333;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
what is the rule i nedd to change? i think the background colour of the submenu is lightgray #CCCCCC right now, and the hover one is a darker colour.
thanks!

I am sorry to have to point out to you that you have changed SpryMenuBasicSkin.css so much that it is impossible to render any assistance.
To start with, the menubar has an ID of MenuBar, yet in the CSS I only see this referenced as a CLASS as in
.MenuBar {
background-color:#cccccc;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
I would suggest to start again.
Once you have done that, supply a link to your site and we will assist you further.
Gramps

MenuBar submenu display

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