Spry horizontal menu alignment problem

There is an issue I am dealing with that is causing problems.
I am trying to avoid having the borders double up in thickness, anywhere within the menu.
I have achieved this by using the left and bottom border everywhere I can and then adding class or id tags where appropriate and adding my own top and right borders.
Works fine everywhere except at the top of the dropdown section of the submenus where it connects with the main horizontal menu.
I would like that top box of the submenu to align perfectly with the main horizontal menu bar so that there is a clean single pixel line.
A clean contiuous line around all menu objects.
When I add a top border on that top box of the submenu, I can adjust the placement a little but it always seems to either over ride the main horizontal menu, which causes me to either lose the border or double up on it.
if I have a border completely around both the horizontal menu and the submenu, then when I align them so that the borders sit on top of each other, I get an artifact at the corners of the lines that appear as a gap. It is NOT clean.
I can edit the position of the submenu in the CSS code below, I have done this with the margin-top statement. I have adjusted that between 0 and -1, and will inlcude images of the problem. Hopefully this will work.
I want a very clean continous line around the menu boxes that does NOT leave gaps, does NOT double up in thickness or leave any strange looking artifacts anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
margin-top: 0px;
    margin-left: 0px;

Posting screenshots only demonstrates the problem. For anyone to troubleshoot it for you, they need to see the actual menu. Upload the problem page to a public website, and post the URL here. Then someone can have a look at it for you.

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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: #FEF3E4;
     padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
     color: #FFF;
     text-decoration: none;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
     color: #FF0;
/* 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: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
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-color: #FEF3E4;
/* 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-color: #0F9;
/* 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-color: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
/* 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-color: #F99;
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;
          f\loat: left;
          background: #FFF;

Complete page and css code below (scroll down)
All you should be concerned with at this moment to get the background image to appear in the top level anchor is the css style below:
/* 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-color: #000;
background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
I've added the background-postion because presumably you want it to appear flush left. This overides the out-of-the-box setting which positions it 95% far left.
Here is the code and css:
<!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>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Unbenanntes Dokument</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<head>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<style>
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: center;
     cursor: pointer;
     width: 100px;
     float: left;
     height: 10px;
/* 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: 100px;
     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: 100px;
     height: 30px;
/* 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: #FEF3E4;
     padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
     color: #FFF;
     text-decoration: none;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
     color: #FF0;
/* 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: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
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-color: #000;
background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
/* 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-color: #0F9;
/* 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-color: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
/* 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-color: #F99;
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);
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">Raum für den Inhalt von id "container"
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Element 1</a> </li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Element 3</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarHorizontal">heija</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="#">soso</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Element 4</a></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

Spry Horizontal Menu straddles header

Problem: Spry Horizontal Menu straddles header
I created a new page using
"1 column elastic, centered, header and footer"
I add a Spry Horizontal Menu within the "header" div.
The menu does not display entirely within the grey header
area.
The menu straddles half in the header and half below the
header.
I believe this is because of the float i.e.
"ul.MenuBarHorizontal li" has "float: left;".
How do I make the menu stay entirely within the grey header
content area?
Thanks ahead of time.
<div id="header">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="#">Home</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">People</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
.oneColElsCtrHdr #header {
background: #DDDDDD;
padding: 10px;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: auto;
float: left;

Hi,
The original CSS has been very carefully composed so that it will work in all browsers. If you make any changes to the original and you do not know what you are doing, you are asking for problems.
When I look at your first set of rules and I see the following marked in red and a rules marked in green that are left out, then I know you will have a problem:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
    background-image: url(myImage.jpg); // rename the image to your own
    background-repeat: repeat;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    float: none;
    position: absolute;
    margin: auto;
Keep in mind that the original stylesheet has no browser issues. Any changes that you make are for your account and have basically nothing to do with Spry.
My suggestion to you is, make a copy of the modified stylesheet for reference, then put back the original stylesheet. Consequently, make a new stylesheet called myStyles.css or similar, and put your changed rules in the newly created stylesheet eg.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
     background-image: url(myImage.jpg);
     background-repeat: repeat;
Then attach this stylesheet to your document after the original stylesheet.
If you cannot get the required result, merely play around with the rules within myStyles.css.
I hope this helps.
Ben

Spry Horizontal Menu query

I am redesigning my current website:
redesign
and trying to implement an Spry Horizontal Menu but would like to
make the sub-menu orient horizontally below the main menu rather
than orient down vertically?
Sample: http:www.carreonphotography.com/index3.html
I have attached the code and any thoughts would be
appreciated greatly folks.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Ed Carreon

Hi,
The original CSS has been very carefully composed so that it will work in all browsers. If you make any changes to the original and you do not know what you are doing, you are asking for problems.
When I look at your first set of rules and I see the following marked in red and a rules marked in green that are left out, then I know you will have a problem:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
    background-image: url(myImage.jpg); // rename the image to your own
    background-repeat: repeat;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    float: none;
    position: absolute;
    margin: auto;
Keep in mind that the original stylesheet has no browser issues. Any changes that you make are for your account and have basically nothing to do with Spry.
My suggestion to you is, make a copy of the modified stylesheet for reference, then put back the original stylesheet. Consequently, make a new stylesheet called myStyles.css or similar, and put your changed rules in the newly created stylesheet eg.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
     background-image: url(myImage.jpg);
     background-repeat: repeat;
Then attach this stylesheet to your document after the original stylesheet.
If you cannot get the required result, merely play around with the rules within myStyles.css.
I hope this helps.
Ben

Spry Horizontal Menu List Items crash IE6 browser

****Update*****
Apparently, it was width:100%; set on each hover over
background color for the list items in our default stylesheet that
was causing IE6 to crash.
Menus are in working order in all browsers now!
We have integrated the Spry Horizontal Menu with a website,
and added custom styling to SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css. The menu
works in Mozilla, Safari, and IE7. However, in IE6, after hovering
over the navigation, the drop down menu appears, but, as soon as
you move your mouse into the drop down to select an item from the
list, IE6 crashes. Every time. Various Computers.
We have tried reverting to the original
SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css file, however, the same problem occurs.
We haven't made any changes to the original js file
(SpryMenuBar.js).
Has anyone ever experienced this issue?
Here is our customized CSS:
@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
img#nfl {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/nfl.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:40px;
margin:7px auto auto 25px;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/nfl.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
img#mlb {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/mlb.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:43px;
margin:7px 20px auto auto;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/mlb.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
img#milb {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/milb.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:112px;
margin:7px auto auto auto;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/milb.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
_margin:7px auto auto -10px;
img#ctown {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/ctown.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:114px;
margin:7px auto auto 50px;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/ctown.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
_margin:7px auto auto 40px;
img#nba {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/nba.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:43px;
margin:7px auto auto 100px;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/nba.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
_margin:7px auto auto 70px;
img#nhl {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/nhl.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:41px;
margin:7px auto auto 90px;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/nhl.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
_margin:margin:7px auto auto 100px;
img#ncaa {
background-image:url(/Images/slices/ncaa.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:14px;
width:52px;
margin:7px auto auto 70px;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true,
sizingMethod=scale src="/Images/slices/ncaa.png");
_background-repeat:no-repeat;
_background-image:none;
_margin:7px auto auto 60px;
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with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
list-style-type: none;
cursor: default;
width:950px;
height:32px;
background-image:url(/Images/slices/primaryNavSlice.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
vertical-align:middle;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
/* 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: 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: 0px;
padding: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
/*width: 8.2em;*/
width:auto;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em; /* without this all menus are visible without
hover */
/* 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; /* without this menus don't show up */
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
/*width: 8.2em;*/
width:auto;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text
decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.15em 0.15em;
text-decoration: none;
ul#teamsMenu table#teams {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000;
font-size:11px;
width:500px;
background-color:#fff!important;
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;
li.ncaa_list #teams.ncaa_table {
position:absolute;
left:-590px;
top:7px;
To center the tables in the screen
li.nfl_list #teams.nfl_table {
position:absolute;
top:7px;
li.mlb_list #teams.mlb_table {
position:absolute;
top:7px;
li.milb_list #teams.milb_table {
position:absolute;
left:-80px;
top:7px;
li.ctown_list #teams.ctown_table {
position:absolute;
top:7px;
li.nba_list #teams.nba_table {
position:absolute;
left:-200px;
top:7px;
li.nhl_list #teams.nhl_table {
position:absolute;
left:-190px;
top:7px;
li.ncaa_list #teams.ncaa_table {
position:absolute;
left:-590px;
top:7px;
}

I am having the same problems in IE7. I'm using the latest
version of everything (Spry 1.6.1 and javascript file version 0.12)
and at first I was having the problem on my drop down menus
appearing horizontal with all the correct styles but when I changed
the rule ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul to position: relative; the drop
downs appear vertical now but I have no beige border around the
whole ul anymore and I'm getting white space inbetween list items.
http://www.wusf.usf.edu/Header_Nav_Footer_newStyleSheet.cfm
so if anyone has any advice I'd much appreciate it. Also i'm
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