Spry Menu Background

I've seen this question posted around various places but
haven't seen a direct answer to it; or maybe I've overlooked it.
How can I make the background for the pop out menus
semi-transparent? (For IE7, Safari, & Firefox2)
Thanks in advance!

You need to set up a special class and apply it to the LI for
the sub
menus...
if you look at this page I put up yesterday, you can see that
I have a
different color for the subs (not opaque, but you do that by
adding the
opacity styles to the class)
http://www.perrelink.com.au/beauty/
Check out the stylesheet and look for the #MenuBar1 .flyout a
and check the html code to see where I applied the class.
Nadia
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> I've seen this question posted around various places but
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> direct
> answer to it; or maybe I've overlooked it.
>
> How can I make the background for the pop out menus
semi-transparent?
> (For
> IE7, Safari, & Firefox2)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

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    text-decoration: none;
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    background: #EEE url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
~~~~~~
These are the three images I want to apply to the top middle and bottom menu items :
Top menu item background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
Middle menu items background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Mid-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
Bottom menu item background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Bot-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
~~~~~~
As I am unable to set the menu items individually, this is how the menu looks like on my website at the moment ...
~~~~~~
So near yet so far ! I'm hapy with the verdana font, the image size and spacing, but the background images I just can't set them right.
I'd really appreciate any help on this as I'm out of ideas.
Thank you.

The easiest way is to use pseudo elements.
To style the first and last menu items ifferently to the rest, merely add :first-child and :last-child respectivly as follows
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
ul.MenuBarVertical li:first-child a {
    background-color: red;
    color: white;
ul.MenuBarVertical li:last-child a {
    background-color: green;
    color: yellow;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
<li><a href="#">Item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 5</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>
In your case, in liue of the background colour, you would have an image.
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Going nuts here.
I'm using the vertical spry menu widget w DW CS3 and trying
to alter the css style sheet, so that I can use a li class for each
of the 14 links on this page, with an upstate and a hover state
only. (the focus, and hover while down will be the same as the
others, to keep it simple and not too distracting)
The page is here that I will be replacing the entire
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http://audibleimagesav.com/blank_doc.html
Has anyone used a background image in place of just using
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I am aware of the attributes that the help docs suggest that
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http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Spry/1.4/help.html?content=WS0BB04E11-1BE3-4a67-BC94-BE7DA 93A0159.html
I have been working on just an experimental page, that is now
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first list item coded:
http://audibleimagesav.com/site%20theme%20ideas/sprymenu_exp.html
The spry css menu widget for that page is here:
http://audibleimagesav.com/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css
So in short, has anyone done a bkgrd image for the main menu
(not submenu) in a spry widget?
Thanks in advance.
Art
Art Hansen
Web Design & Marketing
http://www.innova-techsolutions.com
321.750.3852 - Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA

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