Spry horizontal menubar

Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to change the dimensions of the
main menu bar (without affecting the submenus) of the spry widget.
I read the documentation but i just couldn't get it to work Can
anyone please point that out.
Is there an easy way of figuring out how to customize the
menu bar widget?
Thanks

This is part of code that i think i need to modify and that
is generated by dreamweaver when i added the spry widget. I am
trying to make the main menu bar slimmer. Right now it's too fat.
Any idea what property i need to modify?
I tried to change the box properties but I couldn't get it to
work
here is the link
http://test.karim.pcriot.com/gallery/index.html
Thanks a lot

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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Welcome to Lawson Design</title><meta name="Jeff Lawson, glendale, california, websites, brand identity, brand image, corporate identity, logos, branding, trademarks, style guides, posters, graphic design, graphic designers, brochures, marketing collateral, sales brochures, annual reports, company brochures, direct mail promotions, packaging, signage, graphic standards, marketing, commercial artists, Jeffrey Dale Lawson, consultant, fine artists, giclee editions, fine art, " content="" />
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// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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// CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
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    items[i].style.position = "static";
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
   var self = this;
   this.addEventListener(document, 'keydown', function(e){self.keyDown(e); }, false);
if(Spry.is.ie)
   if(this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass))
    this.element.style.position = "relative";
   var linkitems = this.element.getElementsByTagName('a');
   for(var i=0; i<linkitems.length; i++)
    linkitems[i].style.position = "relative";
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC = 27;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP = 38;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN = 40;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT = 37;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT = 39;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
return document.getElementById(ele);
return ele;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hasClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || !ele.className || ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1)
return false;
return true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || this.hasClassName(ele, className))
return;
ele.className += (ele.className ? " " : "") + className;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
return;
ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
// addEventListener for Menu Bar
// attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
try
if (element.addEventListener)
   element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
else if (element.attachEvent)
   element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
catch (e) {}
// createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
layer.tabIndex = '-1';
layer.src = 'javascript:""';
layer.frameBorder = '0';
layer.scrolling = 'no';
menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
// removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer = function(menu)
var layers = ((menu == this.element) ? menu : menu.parentNode).getElementsByTagName('iframe');
while(layers.length > 0)
layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
// clearMenus for Menu Bar
// root is the top level unordered list (<ul> tag)
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
this.removeClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
return Spry.is.safari && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
if(this.currMenu)
this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
this.currMenu = null;
if(menu)
this.addClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
   if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, this.horizontalClass) || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
    menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
   this.createIframeLayer(menu);
this.addClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
if(menu)
this.removeClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
   menu.style.top = '';
   menu.style.left = '';
if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
   this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element)
var opentime, closetime;
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
if(menu)
this.addClassName(link, this.hasSubClass);
if(!Spry.is.ie)
// define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
// if a node is within another node
listitem.contains = function(testNode)
   // this refers to the list item
   if(testNode == null)
    return false;
   if(testNode == this)
    return true;
   else
    return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
// need to save this for scope further down
var self = this;
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e){self.mouseOver(listitem, e);}, false);
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e){if (self.enableKeyboardNavigation) self.clearSelection(); self.mouseOut(listitem, e);}, false);
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
this.addEventListener(link, 'blur', function(e){self.onBlur(listitem);}, false);
this.addEventListener(link, 'focus', function(e){self.keyFocus(listitem, e);}, false);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.hasFocus = true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
this.clearSelection(listitem);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
//search any intersection with the current open element
if (!this.lastOpen)
return;
if (el)
el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
// check children
var item = this.lastOpen;
while (item != this.element)
   var tmp = el;
   while (tmp != this.element)
    if (tmp == item)
     return;
    try{
     tmp = tmp.parentNode;
    }catch(err){break;}
   item = item.parentNode;
var item = this.lastOpen;
while (item != this.element)
this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
item = item.parentNode;
this.lastOpen = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
if (!this.hasFocus)
return;
if (!this.lastOpen)
this.hasFocus = false;
return;
var e = e|| event;
var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
var link = this.lastOpen;
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
if (!opts[3])
opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
var found = 0;
switch (e.keyCode){
case this.upKeyCode:
   found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
   break;
case this.downKeyCode:
   found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
   break;
case this.leftKeyCode:
   found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
   break;
case this.rightKeyCode:
   found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
   break;
case this.escKeyCode:
case 9:
   this.clearSelection();
   this.hasFocus = false;
default: return;
switch (found)
case 0: return;
case 1:
   //subopts
   this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
   break;
case 2:
   //parent
   this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
   break;
case 3:
case 4:
   // left - right
   this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
   break;
var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.lastOpen = link;
opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
        //stop further event handling by the browser
return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
this.clearSelection(listitem);
if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
if (listitem.closetime)
clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
if(this.currMenu == listitem)
this.currMenu = null;
// move the focus too
if (this.hasFocus)
link.focus();
// show menu highlighting
this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.lastOpen = link;
if(menu && !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
var self = this;
listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
if(!listitem.contains(related))
if (listitem.opentime)
   clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
this.currMenu = listitem;
// remove menu highlighting
this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
if(menu)
   var self = this;
   listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
if (this.hasFocus)
   link.blur();
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
var child = element[sibling];
while (child && child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
child = child[sibling];
return child;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
var found = 0;
var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
var ref = rect(els[found]);
var hideSubmenu = false;
//make the subelement visible to compute the position
if (els[1] && !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
hideSubmenu = true;
var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
for (var i = 1; i < els.length; i++){
//when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
if(prop=='y' && isVert && (i==1 || i==2))
   continue;
//when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
if(prop=='x' && !isVert && !hasParent && (i==1 || i==2))
   continue;
if (els[i])
   var tmp = rect(els[i]);
   if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) < (dir * ref[prop]))
    ref = tmp;
    found = i;
// hide back the submenu
if (els[1] && hideSubmenu){
this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
els[1].style.visibility = '';
return found;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
return str;
var oStringList = str.split('-');
var isFirstEntry = true;
var camelizedString = '';
for(var i=0; i < oStringList.length; i++)
if(oStringList[i].length>0)
   if(isFirstEntry)
    camelizedString = oStringList[i];
    isFirstEntry = false;
   else
    var s = oStringList[i];
    camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
return camelizedString;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
var value;
try
if (element.style)
   value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
if (!value)
   if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
    var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
    value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
   else if (element.currentStyle)
     value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
catch (e) {}
return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
if (isNaN(a))
return 0;
return a;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
doc = doc || document;
if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
el = doc.getElementById(el);
if (!el) {
return false;
if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
//element must be visible to have a box
return false;
var ret = {x:0, y:0};
var parent = null;
var box;
if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
} else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
ret.x = box.x;
ret.y = box.y;
} else { // safari/opera
ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
ret.y = el.offsetTop;
parent = el.offsetParent;
if (parent != el) {
   while (parent) {
    ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
    ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
    parent = parent.offsetParent;
// opera & (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari && Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
   ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
if (el.parentNode)
   parent = el.parentNode;
else
parent = null;
if (parent.nodeName){
var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
while (parent && cas != 'BODY' && cas != 'HTML') {
   cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
   ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
   ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
   if (parent.parentNode)
    parent = parent.parentNode;
   else
    parent = null;
return ret;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
if (ev.stopPropagation)
ev.stopPropagation();
else
ev.cancelBubble = true;
if (ev.preventDefault)
ev.preventDefault();
else
ev.returnValue = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
if (!optionsObj)
return;
for (var optionName in optionsObj)
if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
   continue;
obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];

I have not seen your error in either my IE or my chrome. I do note that you are using a "strict" Document Type Declaration.
You might try a transitional DTD, which should be more forgiving than the strict:
<!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">
Other than that, I don't see anything particular (because I don't see the error, either) that would cause the menu to drop vertically instead of horizontally.
Beth

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.

Spry horizontal menu problem in IE and Chrome

First I'd like to express my frustration with spry. I spend way too much time trying to "band-aid" spry to work in different browers. I'll admit that I'm new to the web game but I seem to spend a large percentage of my time simply trying different "fixes" to something that I don't think should be this much of a problem. Regardless ...
I've made a pretty simple web page, put a spry horizontal menu on it and it works and displays just like it's supposed to in FF but IE and Chrome both seem to have a problem with it. Currently there are no links attached to it but that's not my problem - getting it to display correctly is. Possibly this issuehas already been addressed but I couldn't find it in the forum. Webpage can be viewed here
I've put (what I believe to be) the relevant css on the Main Content section of the page. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I am so glad that you started again, this is the best way to learn, trial and error.
To fix your woes to date, have a look at the following
.thrColFixHdr #header {padding:0;} /*remove the padding from the menubar container*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal{width:auto;margin:0;} /*remove the fixed width and auto margin*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li{width:16.6667%;} /*spread the 6 items over the full width 6*16.6667% = 100%*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a{text-align:left;} /*Set the the alignment back to left for any menu item links that are in a sub menu*/
To add images to your menu items have a look at the following http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/MenuBarSample.html, you will find it at the bottom of the page.
I did not realise that SolidWorks still existed, started using it in the mid 1990's, excellent product, easy to use and promotes fast product development. I lost track of it when I went for retirement 10 years ago.
Gramps.

Background images with spry "horizontal menu"

hi again
I am trying to work with the spry: "horizontal menu"
I want to put some background images into the menu bar not into the submenu
and that is the problem: the background images appears overall
what can I do ?
<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" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">Raum für den Inhalt von id "container"
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a 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>
and css
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: #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 Submenus Won't Appear - Help

OK, I have a Spry Horizontal Menu Bar done through DW CS5. The root menu items work just fine. And the arrow graphics indicating there are submenus are shown, however when you hover over the main menu item the submenus do not appear in browser preview. The spry menu bar is located in the header div above a main content div and a sidebar div (two column layout). Interestingly enough if I drop a new menu bar in the main content div with sample submenus it works fine, so the css file must be ok because they both read off the same css file.
My only assumption is there is something in the header code which conflicts with the submenus and is not allowing the submenus to appear. Unfortunately I can't post it only in a test location as I am reworking an existing website and when I post the new css file it will obviously change the existing website.
But here is some of the relevant code. First the HTML for the section in question.
I very much appeciate any advice.
Home
Biography
Blog
Riding
Resources
Provincial
Municipal
Federal
Education
Community
International
Liberal Party
Media
News Releases
Newsletters
Columns
Photo Gallery
Multimedia
RSS Feeds
Contact
Now the CSS for the menu bar:
@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: auto;      padding: 0;      list-style-type: none;      font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;      font-size: medium;      font-weight: bold;      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: 108px;      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 0 0 50%;      padding: 0;      list-style-type: none;      font-size: 80%;      z-index: 1020;      cursor: default;      width: 108px;      float: none;      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: 108px; } /* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul {      position: absolute;      margin: -5% 0 0 95%;      z-index:1030; } /* 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: none;      top: 0;      z-index:1040; } /******************************************************************************* 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: #000;      padding: 5px 5px;      color: #FEFEFE;      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: #323232;      color: #FEFEFE; } /* 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: #323232;      color: #FEFEFE; } /******************************************************************************* 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;      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;      } }
And lastly the Css code for the whole thing...
@charset "utf-8"; body {      font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;      margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */      padding: 0;      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 */      }       .twoColFixLtHdr #container {      width: 760px; /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */      margin: 0 auto auto auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */      border: 2px solid #000;      text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */      }       .twoColFixLtHdr #header {            padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */      border: 0px solid #000;             } .twoColFixLtHdr #header h1 {      margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */      padding: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */       } .twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 {      float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */      width: 200px;      font-size:12px;      color:#FEFEFE;      background: #000;      border-top-width: 1px;      border-right-width: 2px;      border-bottom-width: 2px;      border-left-width: 1px;      border-top-style: solid;      border-right-style: solid;      border-bottom-style: solid;      border-left-style: solid;      border-top-color: #000;      border-right-color: #660000;      border-bottom-color: #000;      border-left-color: #000;      padding-top: 1px;      padding-right: 0px;      padding-bottom: 1px;      padding-left: 1px; } .twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent {      margin: 0 0 0 204px; /* the left margin on this div element creates the column down the left side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */      padding: 0 10px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */      background:#660000;      } .twoColFixLtHdr #videomainContent {      margin: 0 0 0 200px; /* the left margin on this div element creates the column down the left side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */      background: #323232;      padding-left:100px      } .twoColFixLtHdr #singleframe {      background: #323232;      }       .twoColFixLtHdr #footer {      padding: 0 10px 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */      font-size:12px;      color:#FEFEFE;      background:#000;      border: 1px solid #000;            } .twoColFixLtHdr #footer p {      margin: 0 0 0 270px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */      padding: 20px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */ } .clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */      clear:both;     height:0;     font-size: 1px;     line-height: 0px; } br{font-size:10px} a:link {color:#FEFEFE} a:visited {color:#FEFEFE} a:hover {text-decoration:none;} #mainContent a:link {color:#000; text-decoration:none} #mainContent a:visited {color: #000; text-decoration:none} #mainContent a:hover {      text-decoration:underline; } #mainContent a:active {color:#000;text-decoration:none} .red{     color:#4C0000;} .w1{font-size:14px;     color:#FEFEFE;} .w2{font-size:12px; color:#FEFEFE;} .w3{font-size:large; color:#FEFEFE;} .b1{font-size:14px; color: #000; font-weight:bolder} .sidehline{      float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */      width: 200px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */      padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; }       .b{font-size:12px; color:#000000; } .topbtmmargin {      margin-top: 20px;      margin-bottom: 20px; } .SidebarPadding {      padding-top: 0px;      padding-right: 10px;      padding-bottom: 0px;      padding-left: 10px; } .FrontImage {      border: 5px ridge #323232;      float: left;      margin-right: 10px;      margin-bottom: 10px;      margin-top: 0px; } .FrontImageFltRgt {      border: 5px ridge #323232;     float: right;      margin-left: 10px;      margin-bottom: 10px;      margin-top: 20px; } .mapRgt {      float: right;      padding-left: 5px;      padding-bottom: 10px;      border: none;       } .sigRgt {      float: right;      padding-left: 5px;      margin-right: 60px;      padding-bottom: 10px;      margin-top: 10px;       } .textfntrgtcol {      padding-left: 200px;      font-size:12px;      color:#000000; } .textfntlftcol {      padding-right: 210px;      font-size:12px;      color:#000000; } .twoColFixLtHdr #container #mainContent ul li {      list-style-type: none;      list-style-position: outside;      list-style-image: url(images/blackbullet.gif); } .leftpicture {      border: 5px ridge #323232;      position: absolute;      z-index: 20;      height: 140px;      width: 180px;      margin-top: 10px;      margin-right: 10px;      margin-bottom: 10px;      margin-left: 210px;      left: 150px;      top: 326px; } img {      border-style: none; } .grooveimg {      border: groove; } #apDiv1 {      position:absolute;      width:200px;      height:115px;      z-index:1;      left: 0px;      top: 0px;      visibility: visible; } #apDiv2 {      position:absolute;      width:155px;      height:123px;      z-index:2;      left: 5px;      top: 4px;      visibility: visible; } #apDiv3 {      position:absolute;      width:335px;      height:122px;      z-index:3;      left: 173px;      top: 3px;      visibility: visible;      color:#FEFEFE; } #apDiv3 a:link {color:#FEFEFE} #apDiv3 a:visited {color: #FEFEFE} #apDiv3 a:hover {text-decoration:none;} #apDiv3 a:active {color:#FEFEFE} #apDiv4 {      position:absolute;      width:120px;      height:45px;      z-index:4;      left: 390px;      top: 105px;      visibility: visible; } #apDiv5 {      position:relative;      width:200px;      height:115px;      z-index:5; } .menubarWrapper {      background-color: #000;      float: left;      width: 100%; }

Move the constructor for the menu bar up to read as follows
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
Gramps

Spry horizontal menu showing as vertical ul in WordPress theme- help?

I am trying to modify a fairly simple WordPress theme to match the look of other (static) pages on my site. I inserted a horizontal Spry menu in the file header.php. In the split code window in DW this has the proper appearance, but in MAMP (or on the remote server) it appears as as a vertical list of underlined links. I am guessing that the menu's appearance is being over-ridden somewhere, but where? Here is header.php; thanks for any help.
<!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" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link type="text/css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/print.css" />
<?php
// ClearType for embedded fonts on IE (http://allcreatives.net/jquery-plugin-ie-font-face-cleartype-fix/)
wp_enqueue_script('jquery', get_option( 'siteurl' ) . '/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js', false, '1.3.2');
wp_enqueue_script('iefontfix', get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/js/IEffembedfix.jQuery.js', false, '0.1');
?>



<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<script src="../../../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../../../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="#">Item number 1</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">Item #2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item #3</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">Item #4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"../../../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../../../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>

Thanks for the prompt help. The site root for Test Blog is at Sites/wordpress and the header.php for the theme is at Sites/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Basic. The scripts call Sites/wordpress/SpryAssets so ../../../ should be correct. When I load Basic/header.php in DW, the menu displays properly in Split view.
As you know, wordpress loads the top-level index.php and that uses the index.php found in the activated theme to format the page. When I load this top-level index.php into DW, it displays the Spry menu correctly (horizontal, hover color change), but when I use option-F12 to load into Safari at localhost/wordpress, it shows the vertical list of links.
The page is at timothybuchanan.org/wp. What I am wondering now is why the same page would display correctly inside DW and not in the browser. What should I check?

Spry Horizontal Menu Bar Shift Error in IE

My horizontal submenus keep shifting to the right in Internet
Explorer. See here:
home test .
I've downloaded and replaced the js with this "fix" (
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBar.js)
but it's still not working. Thanks for any help!

Did you ever get this fixed. I have the same error. See
www.adshapiro.com/tset. In ie the submenu is way off the page to
the right.
If you fixed this please let me know.
Thanks.
TJ

Spry horizontal drop down problem in IE

I would appreciate some help with a project I'm working on. My spry horizontal drop down menu looks best in Apple Safari on a Mac and looks worst in IE 8 on a PC. There are also some problems apparent in Firefox for both PC and Mac.
The problem in IE is that the horizontal bar is not the correct height even though I have set the height in the css:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    color: #FFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-family: "Arial Narrow", Arial, Helvetica;
    font-size: 10pt;
    padding-top: 0.7em;
    padding-bottom: 0em;
    font-weight: normal;
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-image: url(/2011images/gradientnav.jpg);
    height: 30px;
The drop downs are the correct size, just the top menu bar that is not the right size.
The menu bar is the correct height in Firefox and Safari, but in Firefox the menu bar is a few pixels higher than it should be.
Here's the page I'm working on.
http://westernstage.com/2011index.html

This may help http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/sprymenu/customize1.php
Also have a look here http://www.dwcourse.com/dreamweaver/ten-commandments-spry-menubars.php#one
Gramps

Spry dropdown menubar works in everything but IE

I'm having a problem with a site I just launched. The site: www.gmiloans.com/commercial
When viewed in IE, the buttons that have a menu overlap with the buttons directly to the left. I've researched left and right but for the life of me, I can't figure out a fix.
Here's my CSS file:
/* 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%;
width: auto;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
/* 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: 9pt;
position: static;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: auto;
float: left;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
background-color: #888;
/* 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: 9pt;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
color: #888;
background-image: url(images/header-template_05.gif);
float: right;
/* 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;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #888;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.2em;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 9pt;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
padding: 2px;
color: #bbb;
background-color: #bbb;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: none;
/* 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;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 0px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #555;
width: auto;
background-color: #bbb;
margin: 3px;
padding-top: 1px;
padding-right: 3px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
padding-left: 3px;
right: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
color: #000;
background-color: #BBB;
/* 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
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #EEE;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 1px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
padding-left: 15px;
width: auto;
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-repeat: no-repeat;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
/* 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-repeat: repeat-x;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
/* 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(../../Documents/GMI%20commercial%20funding/gmi-funding-3_02-hover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
/* 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-repeat: no-repeat;
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;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
overflow: hidden;
/* 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;

Hi,
Firstly, I cannot see what you have done because the online code has not changed.
Secondly, have a look here to see what is wrong with your HTML-code.
Thirdly, have a look at removing your tables and using DIV's instead as per following example
<!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>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><img src="images/gmi-funding-4_01.gif" width="839" height="238" alt="" border="0"></div>
<div id="menu">
      <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
        <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
        <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Multifamily</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="mall">Shopping Mall</a></li>
          <li><a href="anchored">Anchored or Unanchored Center</a></li>
          <li><a href="restaurant">Restaurant</a></li>
          <li><a href="user-occupied">User Occupied</a></li>
          <li><a href="convenience">Gas Station or Convenience Store</a></li>
          <li><a href="franchise">Franchise</a></li>
          <li><a href="mixed-use">Mixed Use</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
        <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Retail</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="production">Production Facility</a></li>
          <li><a href="storage">Storage</a></li>
        </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
      </ul>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <h1> Main Content </h1>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio. Donec et ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce varius urna id quam. Sed neque mi, varius eget, tincidunt nec, suscipit id, libero. In eget purus. Vestibulum ut nisl. Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</p>
    <h2>H2 level heading </h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
    </div>
<div id="footer">
    <p>Footer</p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
If you want differing widths for your menu items then add a CSS rule as follows
<li style = "width: 70px;"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
For obvious reasons, I have not completed your page completely, the above is merely an example.
I hope this helps.
Ben

Spry horizontal menu titles

Ok here is my problem. I am using the spry horizontal menu and am trying to make a list of drop down menus. Rather than having sub menus that have flyout child menus I just want to have a list of menus that have titles.
Basically What I want would be something like this
Header
Title
     Link
     Link
     Link
Title2
     Link
     Link
     Link
rather than:
Header
Title >   Link
            Link
            Link
Title2 > Link
            Link
            Link
However, I can't figure out how to make my titles just be plain titles, rather than links. As it stands, when I hover over my titles, spry can't differentiate them from the actual links that will go to different pages.
I don't really care if they are still links, I can work around that. I guess my question is, is there a way to change the CSS so that some of the submenus look different then others
(ex. titles don't change font or background color but the rest of them highlight in blue)
Hope this makes sense,
Thanks in advance

Something like this?
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
Title
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="MenuBar2" class="MenuBarVertical">
Title 1
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
</ul>
<script>
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
var MenuBar2 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar2", {imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
I hope this helps.
Ben

SPRY Horizontal Submenu Appearing in Top Left in IE

Hi -
I've read through almost every post relating to SPRY
Horizontal Submenu issues in IE - and have done a number of things
- including upgrading to 1.6. However - nothing seems to work and
I'm at wits end. Can someone please help? The page to reference is:
www.bswiftdesign.com/millennium/claimants/index.html
The drop down menu is under "Structured Settlements". I
really appreciate anyones help!

Hi bswiftdesign,
It looks like you are trying to center menu items in the
menubar and submenus. Have you seen these samples?
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/CenteringHorizontalMenuBarSample.h tml
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/AutoWidthHorizontalMenuBarSample.h tml
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