Spry Menu Bar wraps to second line on a few monitors

Hello-
I am stuck on a spry horizontal menu bar and have discussed with a few local dreamweaver users and we can't figure this out. I'm using CS4 to create an internal site for my company (sorry, I can't send you link). I tested the site on firefox and explorer on my computer and everything works beautifully. When going through the soft launch one computer out of the six computers who reviewed the site had an issue with my navigation bar. I used the horizontal spry menu bar to create a navigation with six options. The problem computer wrapped the last two to a second line which makes everything weird on pages within the site.
Screen captures are below. Three images show the main page where the navigation wraps on top of the side column and right column. The second image shows the menu bar wrapping behind the left column on additional site pages which is happening on all additional site pages.
The code for the spry menu assets should be below the images. If you need additional information, if I didn't provide everything, I'll send it. I'm very new to this and pretty much self-taught. I have taken an online class through ed2go.com, I've asked a ton of questions from other designers using Dreamweaver, and I've watched MANY tutorials online. ANY help you can give would be MUCH appreciated. THANK YOU!!
MAIN PAGE/HOME PAGE
ADDITIONAL SITE PAGES
@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: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
background-color: #D6D6D6;
background-image: url(/Images/Autry_Background.jpg);
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 8em;
float: left;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
background-image: url(/Images/Autry_Background.jpg);
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.2em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
background-color: #005BAE;
/* 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: #CCC;
color: #000;
text-decoration: blink;
/* 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: #CCC;
color: #333;
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;

Hi, Mel,
I see that you are using default widths for the list items in the menus. If you reduce the width of the list items, you should be able to settle on a width that works better than 8em and 8.2em.
Here are the bits that will need editing:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 8em; /* make this width smaller */
float: left;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em; /* make this width smaller */
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
background-image: url(/Images/Autry_Background.jpg);
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.2em; /* make this width smaller */
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    <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
    <!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
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    <ul>
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    <br />
    May 4th 2013 @<img src="502.jpg" width="5%" height="5%"><br />
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             <li><a href="#">Shirts--Coming Soon!</a></li>
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           </ul>
         </li>
         <li><a href="#"><center>Bio</center></a></li>
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        <br />
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
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        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </p>
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        <p><img src="BLTS2.jpg" alt="BLTS" width="411" height="297" align="left" /><img src="BLTS font.jpg" width="340" /> is a Post-Rock band from San Antonio. They were born in early 2012 from the collective desire to make beautiful, thought provoking, and at times, chaotic music. Much like fellow Texan bands like Explosions in the Sky and This Will Destroy You, they are entirely instrumental, and known for creating progressively intricate waves of ambiance that grow with intensity and an unabashed wash of emotion. Attuned to their affinity for dynamics, seeing them live takes the listener from deafening walls of orchestrated sound, to melodies so subtle that one finds themselves acutely aware of their own breathing. <br />
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    <br />
        <h4>Bright Like The Sun Consists of:</h4>
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        Chris Etheredge - Guitar/Keys <br />
        Christian Miranda - Bass <br />
        Steven Barrera - Drums    </p>
        <p><br />
        </p>
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        <br />
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      </div>
      <div class="footer">
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    Beth

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    * Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
    * giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
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    * all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
    * problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
    * Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
    * syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
    * it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
    * So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule.  We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
    * mistakenly override, making sure the  misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
    * We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
    * the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
    * css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
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    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
    color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector  */{
    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
    color: #000000;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu  /* IE6 selector  */{
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    <ul id="MenuBar">
      <li> <a href="#">Home</a> </li>
      <li> <a href="#">Entertainment</a>
      <ul>
        <li> <a href="#">TV Listings</a> </li>
        <li> <a href="#">Music</a>
          <ul>
            <li> <a href="#">Hits</a> </li>
            <li> <a href="#">Ragga</a>
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                <li> <a href="#">Reggaeton</a> </li>
                <li> <a href="#">Dancehall</a> </li>
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            </li>
            <li> <a href="#">Country</a> </li>
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          <ul>
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            <li> <a href="#">NY Beat</a> </li>
            <li> <a href="#">London Scene</a> </li>
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        </li>
        <li> <a href="#">The Web</a> </li>
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      <li> <a href="#">Politics</a> </li>
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          <li> <a href="#">Football</a> </li>
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          widgetID: "MenuBar",
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          mainMenuHideDelay: 200,
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    MenuBarFixedCentered -  - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
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    display:none;
    .MenuBarLeftShrink {
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    width: auto;
    .MenuBarRightShrink {
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    width: auto;
    .MenuBarFixedLeft {
    float: left;
    width: 960px;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered {
    float: none;
    width: 960px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered br {
    clear:both;
    display:block;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
    display:none;
    .MenuBarFullwidth {
    float: left;
    width: 100%;
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    #MenuBar  .MenuItemContainer {
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    margin: 0; /* Zero out margin  on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
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    or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
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    #MenuBar  .MenuItem {
    padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
    background-color:transparent;
    border-width:2px;
    border-color: #cddce7 #5c6a72 #5c6a72 #cddce7;
    border-style: solid solid solid solid;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemFirst {
    border-style: solid solid solid solid;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
    border-style: solid solid solid solid;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
    text-align:center;
    line-height:1.4em;
    color:#333333;
    background-color:transparent;
    padding: 6px 15px 6px 25px;
    width: 138px;
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    #MenuBar .SubMenu  .MenuItem {
    font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-style: normal;
    background-color:#677e8c;
    padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
    border-width:1px;
    border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
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    border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
    border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
    padding-top: 6px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
    border-style: solid solid solid solid;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
    padding-bottom: 6px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
    text-align:left;
    line-height:1em;
    background-color:transparent;
    color:#ffffff;
    padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
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    border-color: #697278 #b8c4ca #b8c4ca #697278;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
    color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
    background-color: transparent;
    color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
    background-color: #b0c9d9;
    border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
    background-color: transparent;
    color: #000000;
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    #MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
    background-color: transparent;
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    border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
    border-width:0px;
    border-style: none none none none;
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    top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
    left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
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    z-index:10;
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    top: 0px;
    left:100%;
    min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
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    #MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
    background-color: transparent;
    min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
    top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
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    vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
    left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
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    to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
    /* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
    /* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
    * Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
    * giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
    * Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
    * all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
    * problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
    * Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
    * syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
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    * the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
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    color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector  */{
    background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
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    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu  /* IE6 selector  */{
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    /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
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    <!--
    <oa:widgets>
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    </oa:widgets>
    -->
    </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="wrapper">
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      <div id="nav">
        <ul id="MenuBar">
          <li> <a href="#">Home</a></li>
          <li> <a href="#">Entertainment</a>
            <ul>
              <li> <a href="#">TV Listings</a></li>
              <li> <a href="#">Music</a>
                <ul>
                  <li> <a href="#">Hits</a></li>
                  <li> <a href="#">Ragga</a>
                    <ul>
                      <li> <a href="#">Roots</a></li>
                      <li> <a href="#">Reggaeton</a></li>
                      <li> <a href="#">Dancehall</a></li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>
                  <li> <a href="#">Country</a></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
              <li> <a href="#">The Dirt</a>
                <ul>
                  <li> <a href="#">Hollywood</a></li>
                  <li> <a href="#">NY Beat</a></li>
                  <li> <a href="#">London Scene</a></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
              <li> <a href="#">The Web</a></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li> <a href="#">Politics</a></li>
          <li> <a href="#">Sports</a>
            <ul>
              <li> <a href="#">Football</a></li>
              <li> <a href="#">Baseball</a></li>
              <li> <a href="#">Basketball</a></li>
              <li> <a href="#">Racing</a>
                <ul>
                  <li> <a href="#">F1</a></li>
                  <li> <a href="#">Indy Car</a></li>
                  <li> <a href="#">Stock Car</a></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
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          </li>
        </ul>
        <script type="text/javascript">
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          widgetID: "MenuBar",
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      insertMenuBarBreak: true,
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          mainMenuHideDelay: 200,
          subMenuShowDelay: 200,
          subMenuHideDelay: 200
    // EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544
        </script>
      </div>
      <div id="sidebar">
        <h3>Check This Out</h3>
        <p>Consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt quis nostrud exercitation. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
        <p>Sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt ullamco laboris nisi. Duis aute irure dolor mollit anim id est laborum. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut enim ad minim veniam, in reprehenderit in voluptate.</p>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, duis aute irure dolor cupidatat non proident. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt. </p>
      </div>
      <div id="maincontent">
        <h2>There&#8217;s More to San Francisco than Cafe Townsend</h2>
        <p>Sure, Cafe Townsend's cool, and Chef Ipsum provides a great range of international cuisine. But San Francisco is the city where you can weave dreams of your own. Come, explore!</p>
        <h3>Scott&#8217;s For a Night to Remember</h3>
        <p>It's certainly one you're unlikely to forget&#8212;or should that be Fegette? Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. <img src="images/adobeduo.jpg" alt="Scott and Duane" width="400" height="233" class="floatright" />In reprehenderit in voluptate quis nostrud exercitation ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Eu fugiat nulla pariatur.</p>
        <p>Velit esse cillum dolore mollit anim id est laborum. Ut enim <a href="#">ad minim veniam</a>, ullamco laboris nisi in reprehenderit in voluptate. Excepteur sint occaecat duis aute irure dolor consectetur adipisicing elit. Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>
        <p>Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut enim ad minim veniam, duis aute irure dolor. Ullamco laboris nisi in reprehenderit in voluptate excepteur sint occaecat. Cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Consectetur adipisicing elit, <a href="#">ullamco laboris nisi</a> in reprehenderit in voluptate.</p>
        <p>Eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Ut enim ad minim veniam, sunt in culpa. Ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
        <p>Eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore. Ullamco laboris nisi cupidatat non proident, ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Sunt in culpa ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    Please upload your file to a server and give us a link. It is extremely difficult to work with pasted-in code...much more useful to see it in working order.
    Beth

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        In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
       with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets onthe same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
        there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
    #MenuBar  {
        background-color:transparent;
       font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on onMenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
                                                    MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
                                                    at a given level all use same definition for ems.
                                                    Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
                                                    so use caution in using relative sizes other than
                                                    100% on submenu fonts. */
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 17px;
        font-style: normal;
        padding:0;
    /* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
    widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
    in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
    .MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
        display:none;
    .MenuBarLeftShrink {
        float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarRightShrink {
        float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarFixedLeft {
        float: left;
        width: 80em;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered {
        float: none;
        width: 80em;
        margin-left:auto;
        margin-right:auto;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered br {
        clear:both;
        display:block;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
        display:none;
    .MenuBarFullwidth {
        float: left;
        width: 100%;
    /* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemContainer {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        margin: 0;     /* Zero out margin  on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                    For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                    or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                    Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem {
        padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
        background-color:#000088;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment-Dark.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-x;       
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:center;
        line-height:1.4em;
        color:#ffffff;
        background-color:transparent;
        padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
        width: 10em;
        width:auto;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
    /* First level submenu items */
    #MenuBar .SubMenu  .MenuItem {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 15px;
        font-style: normal;
        background-color:#000088;
        padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
        border-width:0px;
        border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
        /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
        border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none;
        padding: 0px;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-top: 0px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-bottom: 10px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:left;
        line-height:1em;   
        background-color:transparent;
        color:#ffffff;
        padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
        width: 240px;
    /* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
        background-color: #2E35A3;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment%20Light2.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-x;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
        background-color:#2E35A3;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #ffffff;
    /* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
    #MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
       min-width:0%;  /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than theparent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
        top: 100%;    /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
        left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
                        and your personal taste.
                       0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of theMenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
                        on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
                        menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
                        the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
        z-index:10;
    #MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
        top: 0px;   
        left:100%;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
    /* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
    #MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
        top: 0px;    /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
                    that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
                    vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
        left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
                    negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
                    to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
    /* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
    /* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
    * Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element forselection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu"(MenuItemWithSubMenu),
    * giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
    * Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in aselector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6ignores
    * all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets thespecificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs assignificant. To get around this
    * problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
    * Since there are a lotof these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes formodern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
    * syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
    * it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
    * So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule.  We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
    * mistakenly override, making sure the  misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
    * We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
    * the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
    * css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
    * If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these,as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.jsscript.
    * The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser isInternet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditionalcomments for these rules.
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu  /* IE6 selector  */{
        margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
    /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
    /* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
    </style>
    The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below:  (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited,  a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
    @charset "utf-8";
    body  {
        font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
       min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bugthat is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8.  For Moreinformation see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
        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 allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
        color: #000000;
        list-style-image: none;
        background-color: #FCFCFC;
    h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
    color:#000066;
    a:link {
        color: #151A96;
        text-decoration: underline;
    a:visited {
        text-decoration: underline;
        color: #1B8DCD;
    a:hover {
        text-decoration: none;
        color: #F30A0A;
    a:active {
        text-decoration: underline;
        color: #151A96;
    #container {
        width: 960px;   
        margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
        text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
        background-image:
        url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection %20_960.png);
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
    #header {
           padding: 0;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elementsin the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #headerinstead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
            width:960px;
            height:332px;
            background-image:
            url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960 .png);
            background-repeat:no-repeat;
    #header h1 {
        margin-right: 0px; /* 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 */
        display:none;
    #header img {
        display: none;
    #Main_nav_contents {
        padding: 0;
        margin-top: 0px;
        height: 39px;
        width: 950px;       
        padding-top: 275px; 
        padding-left: 39px;
        z-index: 3; 
    #MenuBarVertical {
        margin-bottom: 50px;
        padding-top: 50px;
        padding-bottom:200px;
        padding-left: 15px;
        padding-right: 15px;
    .mainContent_left {
       margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the columndown the right side of the page - no matter how much content thesidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can removethis margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the#sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
        padding-left:30px;
        padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
        width: 600px;
        float: left;
    .sidebar_right {
        float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
        width: 270px; /* 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 */
        margin-top: 30px;
        margin-left:0;
        margin-right:10px;
        font-size:90%;
    .mainContent_right {
        margin-left: 10px;
        padding-left:30px;
        padding-right:20px;
        width: 600px;
        float: right;
    .sidebar_left {
        float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
        width: 270px; /* 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 */
        margin-top: 30px;
        margin-left:30px;
        margin-right:0;
        overflow: hidden;
        font-size:90%;
    .main_content_centered {
        width: 650px;
        margin-left: 155px;
    .main_content_centered_header {
        margin-left: 75px;
    .sidebar_textbox {
        margin: 0px;   
        width: 260px;
        padding: 2px;
    .sidebar_textbox_header {
        width:255px;
        height:58px;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Por trait%20Textbox%20Header.png);
    .sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
         width: 255px;   
        padding-top: 12px;   
        padding-bottom: 10px;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Por trait%20Textbox%20Middle.png);
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
    .sidebar_textbox_content {
       /* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks inbrowser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within thebackground of the text box */
        width: 230px;
        padding-left: 20px;
        padding-right: 40px;
    .sidebar_textbox_footer {
        width:255px;
        height:64px;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Port rait%20Textbox%20Footer.png);
    #issues_menu a:link {
        color: #151A96;
        text-decoration: none;
        font-weight:bold;
    #issues_menu a:visited {
        color: #151A96;
        font-weight:bold;
        text-decoration: none;
    #issues_menu a:hover {   
        color: #F30A0A;
        font-weight:bold;
        font-style: oblique;
        text-decoration: none;
    #issues_menu a:active {
        color: #151A96;
        font-weight:bold;
        text-decoration: none;
    #archives {
        padding-top: 15px;
        padding-right: 15px;
        padding-bottom: 20px;
        padding-left: 0px;
    .landscape_textbox {
        width: 500px;
        margin-right: 0px;
        margin-left: 30px;
        padding-top:35px;
        padding-bottom: 25px;
        font-style: normal;
        font-weight: normal;
    .landscape_textbox_hdr {
        width:500px;
        height:38px;
        margin:auto;
        padding:0;
        background-image:
    url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%2 0Header.png);
    .landscape_textbox_middle {
        width:auto;
        margin:auto;
        padding-top: 12px;
        padding-bottom: 12px;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/lan dscapte%20Textbox%20Middle.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-y;
    .landscape_textbox_content {
        width:450px;
        padding:25px;
    .landscape_textbox_ftr {
        width:500px;
        height:44px;
        margin:auto;
        padding:0;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Lan dscape%20Textbox%20Footer.png);
    #footer {
        padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
        width: 960px;
        height: 222px;
        background-image:
        url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_ 960.png);
        background-repeat:no-repeat;
    #footer p {
       margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footerwill avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
        padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
        text-align:center;
        margin-left: 50px;
        margin-right: 50px;
        padding: 10px;
        font-size: small;
    #footer h5 {
    text-align:center;
    .fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
        float: right;
        margin-left: 8px;
    .fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
        float: left;
        margin-right: 8px;
    .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;
    .dropcap {
        display: block;
        float: left;
        line-height: 80%;
        font-size: 250%;
        font-weight: bolder;
        color: #000066;   
        padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
    .red_arrows {
        list-style-position: outside;
        list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);    
    .blue_bullets {
        list-style-position: outside;
        list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Fu ll.png);   
    .attention {
        color: #F30A0A;
        font-size:x-large;
        font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight:900;
    .attention_small {
        color: #F30A0A;
        font-size:large;
        font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight:900;
    .table {
        table-layout:fixed;
    .blue {
        color: #00F;
    #container .mainContent_left p .blue {
        color: #0303A0;

    Hi Nancy:
    The specific code that I am referring to is the CSS code governing the styling of the spry menu widget that only works in IE 6 if, and only if, it remains in the head of the web page.  If removed and placed in a stylesheet, the IE plugins fail to compensate for the IE 6 "gap" bug.  As I said, it doesn't make sense to me that, assuming specificity is addressed, that these can not be included in an external style sheet.  I am looking for a) an explanation why they must remain embedded in the web page; and 2) any means by which I might be able to export them.
    I will reproduce the specific css style (code) below:  it should also be visable through reveal source --
    Thanks again, Steve Webster.
    The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows:  (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
    <style type="text/css">
    /*  -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles --  */
    /* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
    /* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
       these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or rightpointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
         These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
       .MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, allsubmenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
        .MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
       You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top levelmenu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
        They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
            MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
            MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
            MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned. 
            MenuBarFixedCentered -  - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
                            and centered in its parent container.
            MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
        In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
       with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets onthe same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
        there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
    #MenuBar  {
        background-color:transparent;
       font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on onMenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
                                                    MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
                                                    at a given level all use same definition for ems.
                                                    Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
                                                    so use caution in using relative sizes other than
                                                    100% on submenu fonts. */
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 17px;
        font-style: normal;
        padding:0;
    /* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
    widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
    in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
    .MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
        display:none;
    .MenuBarLeftShrink {
        float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarRightShrink {
        float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarFixedLeft {
        float: left;
        width: 80em;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered {
        float: none;
        width: 80em;
        margin-left:auto;
        margin-right:auto;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered br {
        clear:both;
        display:block;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
        display:none;
    .MenuBarFullwidth {
        float: left;
        width: 100%;
    /* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemContainer {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        margin: 0;     /* Zero out margin  on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                    For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                    or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                    Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem {
        padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
        background-color:#000088;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment-Dark.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-x;       
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:center;
        line-height:1.4em;
        color:#ffffff;
        background-color:transparent;
        padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
        width: 10em;
        width:auto;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
    /* First level submenu items */
    #MenuBar .SubMenu  .MenuItem {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 15px;
        font-style: normal;
        background-color:#000088;
        padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
        border-width:0px;
        border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
        /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
        border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none;
        padding: 0px;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-top: 0px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-bottom: 10px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:left;
        line-height:1em;   
        background-color:transparent;
        color:#ffffff;
        padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
        width: 240px;
    /* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
        background-color: #2E35A3;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment%20Light2.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-x;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
        background-color:#2E35A3;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #ffffff;
    /* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
    #MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
       min-width:0%;  /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than theparent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
        top: 100%;    /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
        left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
                        and your personal taste.
                       0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of theMenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
                        on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
                        menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
                        the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
        z-index:10;
    #MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
        top: 0px;   
        left:100%;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
    /* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
    #MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
        top: 0px;    /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
                    that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
                    vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
        left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
                    negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
                    to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
    /* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
    /* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
    * Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element forselection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu"(MenuItemWithSubMenu),
    * giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
    * Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in aselector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6ignores
    * all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets thespecificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs assignificant. To get around this
    * problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
    * Since there are a lotof these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes formodern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
    * syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
    * it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
    * So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule.  We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
    * mistakenly override, making sure the  misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
    * We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
    * the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
    * css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
    * If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these,as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.jsscript.
    * The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser isInternet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditionalcomments for these rules.
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu  /* IE6 selector  */{
        margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
    /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
    /* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
    </style>

  • Problem with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (1.0) re - CSS

    Hello:
    I am having some difficulty with a Spry Menu Bar (horizontal) 2.0 (1.0)  that I have created.  Initially I thought the problem was with regard to rendering issues on IE 6.0, however the problem seems to be more general than that and I have come to believe that it has to do with the CSS created by the Widget Browser and modified once imported into the webpage.  Hence I have elected to post my issue here rather than on the spry page.
    I have relied on the tutorial provided by David Powers (Bayside.css) and in addition other documentation regarding the Spry menu bar UI.  The problem appeared to be one of IE 6 rendering the page with a gap that is created when the drop down menus appear, thus pushing down any divs that appear below the page.
    However, through a painstaking process of trial and error my problem now seems to be that when I export the CSS generated by the widget browser to an external style sheet (the general style sheet governing the whole site), it conflicts with other CSS styles regarding links etc.  The end result is that all the padding, background colours, background images, and text colours are lost.  So long as the CSS remains within the head this doesn't happen.
    My thinking is that this must have to do with issues of specificity, inheritence, etc.
    The site can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.aclco.org/testing/index.html.  In its current form all CSS related to the menu bar is found in the head of each page.  (see CSS below).
    My question is can I establish a separate style sheet for the horizontal menu bar and have those styles applied specifically (and only) to the menu bar.  My only other alternative is to work through the remainder of the general style sheet and work through any issues of specificity/inheritance -- which may be the "best" practice, but it risks causing other "cascading" [sic] problems elsewhere.
    Any advice or suggestions or directed reading (that would point to a solution) that could be offered would be greatly appreciated.
    Steve Webster
    The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows:  (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
    <style type="text/css">
    /*  -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles --  */
    /* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
    /* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
        these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
         These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
        .MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
        .MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
        You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
        They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
            MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
            MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
            MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned. 
            MenuBarFixedCentered -  - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
                            and centered in its parent container.
            MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
        In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
        with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
        there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
    #MenuBar  {
        background-color:transparent;
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
                                                    MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
                                                    at a given level all use same definition for ems.
                                                    Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
                                                    so use caution in using relative sizes other than
                                                    100% on submenu fonts. */
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 17px;
        font-style: normal;
        padding:0;
    /* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
    widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
    in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
    .MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
        display:none;
    .MenuBarLeftShrink {
        float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarRightShrink {
        float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarFixedLeft {
        float: left;
        width: 80em;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered {
        float: none;
        width: 80em;
        margin-left:auto;
        margin-right:auto;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered br {
        clear:both;
        display:block;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
        display:none;
    .MenuBarFullwidth {
        float: left;
        width: 100%;
    /* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemContainer {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        margin: 0;     /* Zero out margin  on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                    For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                    or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                    Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem {
        padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
        background-color:#000088;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent-Dark.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-x;       
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:center;
        line-height:1.4em;
        color:#ffffff;
        background-color:transparent;
        padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
        width: 10em;
        width:auto;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
    /* First level submenu items */
    #MenuBar .SubMenu  .MenuItem {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 15px;
        font-style: normal;
        background-color:#000088;
        padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
        border-width:0px;
        border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
        /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
        border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none;
        padding: 0px;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-top: 0px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-bottom: 10px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:left;
        line-height:1em;   
        background-color:transparent;
        color:#ffffff;
        padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
        width: 240px;
    /* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
        background-color: #2E35A3;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent%20Light2.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-x;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #ffffff;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
        background-color:#2E35A3;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #ffffff;
    /* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
    #MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
        min-width:0%;  /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
        top: 100%;    /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
        left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
                        and your personal taste.
                        0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
                        on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
                        menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
                        the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
        z-index:10;
    #MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
        top: 0px;   
        left:100%;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
    /* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
    #MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
        top: 0px;    /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
                    that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
                    vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
        left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
                    negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
                    to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
    /* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
    /* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
    * Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
    * giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
    * Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
    * all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
    * problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
    * Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
    * syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
    * it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
    * So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule.  We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
    * mistakenly override, making sure the  misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
    * We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
    * the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
    * css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
    * If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
    * The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by  the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #ffffff;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu  /* IE6 selector  */{
        margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
    /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
    /* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
    </style>
    The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below:  (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited,  a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
    @charset "utf-8";
    body  {
        font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bug that is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8.  For More information see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
        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 allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
        color: #000000;
        list-style-image: none;
        background-color: #FCFCFC;
    h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
    color:#000066;
    a:link {
        color: #151A96;
        text-decoration: underline;
    a:visited {
        text-decoration: underline;
        color: #1B8DCD;
    a:hover {
        text-decoration: none;
        color: #F30A0A;
    a:active {
        text-decoration: underline;
        color: #151A96;
    #container {
        width: 960px;   
        margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
        text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
        background-image:
        url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection%20_960.png);
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
    #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. */
            width:960px;
            height:332px;
            background-image:
            url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960.png);
            background-repeat:no-repeat;
    #header h1 {
        margin-right: 0px; /* 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 */
        display:none;
    #header img {
        display: none;
    #Main_nav_contents {
        padding: 0;
        margin-top: 0px;
        height: 39px;
        width: 950px;       
        padding-top: 275px; 
        padding-left: 39px;
        z-index: 3; 
    #MenuBarVertical {
        margin-bottom: 50px;
        padding-top: 50px;
        padding-bottom:200px;
        padding-left: 15px;
        padding-right: 15px;
    .mainContent_left {
        margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the column down the right 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-left:30px;
        padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
        width: 600px;
        float: left;
    .sidebar_right {
        float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
        width: 270px; /* 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 */
        margin-top: 30px;
        margin-left:0;
        margin-right:10px;
        font-size:90%;
    .mainContent_right {
        margin-left: 10px;
        padding-left:30px;
        padding-right:20px;
        width: 600px;
        float: right;
    .sidebar_left {
        float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
        width: 270px; /* 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 */
        margin-top: 30px;
        margin-left:30px;
        margin-right:0;
        overflow: hidden;
        font-size:90%;
    .main_content_centered {
        width: 650px;
        margin-left: 155px;
    .main_content_centered_header {
        margin-left: 75px;
    .sidebar_textbox {
        margin: 0px;   
        width: 260px;
        padding: 2px;
    .sidebar_textbox_header {
        width:255px;
        height:58px;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20He ader.png);
    .sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
         width: 255px;   
        padding-top: 12px;   
        padding-bottom: 10px;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Mi ddle.png);
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
    .sidebar_textbox_content {
        /* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks in browser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within the background of the text box */
        width: 230px;
        padding-left: 20px;
        padding-right: 40px;
    .sidebar_textbox_footer {
        width:255px;
        height:64px;
    background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Foo ter.png);
    #issues_menu a:link {
        color: #151A96;
        text-decoration: none;
        font-weight:bold;
    #issues_menu a:visited {
        color: #151A96;
        font-weight:bold;
        text-decoration: none;
    #issues_menu a:hover {   
        color: #F30A0A;
        font-weight:bold;
        font-style: oblique;
        text-decoration: none;
    #issues_menu a:active {
        color: #151A96;
        font-weight:bold;
        text-decoration: none;
    #archives {
        padding-top: 15px;
        padding-right: 15px;
        padding-bottom: 20px;
        padding-left: 0px;
    .landscape_textbox {
        width: 500px;
        margin-right: 0px;
        margin-left: 30px;
        padding-top:35px;
        padding-bottom: 25px;
        font-style: normal;
        font-weight: normal;
    .landscape_textbox_hdr {
        width:500px;
        height:38px;
        margin:auto;
        padding:0;
        background-image:
    url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20Header.png);
    .landscape_textbox_middle {
        width:auto;
        margin:auto;
        padding-top: 12px;
        padding-bottom: 12px;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/landscapte%20Textbox%20 Middle.png);
        background-repeat:repeat-y;
    .landscape_textbox_content {
        width:450px;
        padding:25px;
    .landscape_textbox_ftr {
        width:500px;
        height:44px;
        margin:auto;
        padding:0;
        background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20F ooter.png);
    #footer {
        padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
        width: 960px;
        height: 222px;
        background-image:
        url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_960.png);
        background-repeat:no-repeat;
    #footer p {
        margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
        padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
        text-align:center;
        margin-left: 50px;
        margin-right: 50px;
        padding: 10px;
        font-size: small;
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    text-align:center;
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        float: right;
        margin-left: 8px;
    .fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
        float: left;
        margin-right: 8px;
    .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;
    .dropcap {
        display: block;
        float: left;
        line-height: 80%;
        font-size: 250%;
        font-weight: bolder;
        color: #000066;   
        padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
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        list-style-position: outside;
        list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);   
    .blue_bullets {
        list-style-position: outside;
        list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Full.png);   
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        color: #F30A0A;
        font-size:x-large;
        font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight:900;
    .attention_small {
        color: #F30A0A;
        font-size:large;
        font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight:900;
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    Thanks for your input.  However I am not certain we have resolved this issue adequately, or understand the principles governing the css as regards this spry menu framework 2.0 (1.0).
    For example, the menu only works in IE 6.0 if the css remains in the head.  I agree with your original post that it shouldn't make any difference whether the css is posted in the head or in a separate style sheet (so long as specificity issues are addressed).  Both should work -- and yet it doesn't.
    If the CSS is placed in the separate style sheet governing the total site, it doesn't work for 6.0.  If placed at the top of the style sheet, conflicts of specificity prevent the menu from rendering properly in any of the browsers causing the rules for general links to govern the menu.   This has been verified using a cross browser testing.  If the styles are placed at the bottom of the style sheet to help them take precedence, they work in all the browsers except for IE 6.
    The website I am building needs to support IE 6 for a variety of reasons, and because it is catering to the non-profit community and to low income persons, I am mindful of even small differences in page weight.
    So for me, at least, the issue remains baffling.
    I appreciate your input, but also would appreciate the input from others, and especially Adobe Community Professionals and employees.  The spry framework in this regard is not well documented.  I am not certain if this is exclusively a CSS problem, if it might also be complicated by the architecture of the spry framework, or if indeed other variables are at play.
    I would be my hope that in resolving the problem, other users of the this particular spry framework might also benefit.
    Thanks,
    Steve.

  • Trouble with Spry Menu Bar Not Opening on Hover

    I have two Spry Menu Bars on this one page. They were both working fine. Now the menu bar on the top right is not opening on rollover. I have uploaded the Spry .JS and .CSSfiles to the server.Could it be that I added 2 to the names of the CSS styles, but not all of them? I just tested them all with 2 after the style name, and it didn't fix it.
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    Suggestions?
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    Link to the uploaded files: http://www.sproulcreative.com/filetest/panin_website/
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    D
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    <!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" />
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    <title>Press Reviews of Paninos Italian Restaurant Food in three Colorado Locations</title>
    <!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
    <link href="../styles_paninositalianrestaurant.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar_topnav.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal_topnav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" --><!-- TemplateEndEditable --><!-- TemplateParam name="LinksSidebar" type="boolean" value="true" -->
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="wrapper">
    <a href="#skiptomaincontent">
         <img src="../images/spacer.gif" alt="Skip to main page content" name="spacer" width="1"
    height="1" class="invisible" id="spacer">   </a><!--ANCHOR FOR SCREEN READERS-->
    <!--START TOP NAV DIV-->
    <div id="topnav">
    <!--START TWITTER/FACEBOOK MENU BAR -->
    <script type="text/javascript">
    <!--
    var MenuBar2 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("twittermenu", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
    //-->
    </script>
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          <li><a href="../paninos_local_italian_restaurant_fort_collins_colorado_springs_minnesota.html">H ome</a></li>
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          <li><a href="../history_of_paninos_local_italian_restaurant_coloradosprings_fortcollins_minnesot a.html">History</a></li>
          <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu2" href="#">Twitter</a>
                      <ul>
                            <li><a href="http://twitter.com/Paninosfc">Follow Fort Collins, CO, Paninos</a></li>
                            <li><a href="http://twitter.com/paninosmn">Follow Minnesota Paninos</a></li>
                      </ul>
          </li>
          <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu2">Facebook</a>
                <ul>
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                </ul>
                </li>
    </ul>
    <!--END TWITTER/FACEBOOK MENU BAR-->
    </div>
    <!--ENDS TOP NAV DIV-->
    <div id="pagebg">
    <div id="centralpageborder"><!--FOR BORDER TRIM & BG color-->
    <!--START OF HEADERBOX-->
    <div id="headerbox">
          <div align="left">
                <img src="../images/web_logo_paninos_final.png" alt="Paninos Italian Restaurant Logo (black text with a tomato for the letter O), Your family's Italian restaurant for over 35 years, locally owned and operated." width="215" height="118" class="paddingbottom" />
    <!--START OF MAIN FOUR NAVIGATION -->
    <ul id="MainFourNav" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
          <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"><img src="../images/img_mainnav_locations_contact.png" alt="Paninos Italian Restaurant Locations and Contact Information: Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Minnesota" name="locationscontactbutton" width="167" height="24" border="0" id="locationscontactbutton" /></a>                 <ul>
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                         <li><a href="../contact_info_italian_restaurant_colorado_springs_downtown_colorado_paninos.html" >Colorado Springs Downtown: Tejon St. by Colorado College</a></li>
    <li><a href="../contact_info_italian_restaurant_colorado_springs_8th_street_colorado_paninos.htm l">Colorado Springs: South Eighth St.</a></li>
                      <li><a href="http://paninos.com/minnesota/">Minnesota website</a></li>
                      </ul></li>
          <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"><img src="../images/img_main4nav_download_menus.png" alt="Download Italian Restaurant Menus in PDF format for restaurants in Fort Collins, Colorado; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Minnesota" name="menudownloadbutton" width="142" height="24" border="0" id="menudownloadbutton" /></a>
                <ul>
                      <li><a href="#"><em>Please pick your favorite Paninos:</em></a></li>
                      <li><a href="../online_menus_local_italian_food/Paninos_Menu_ColoradoSprings_Downtown.pdf">Color ado Springs Downtown: Tejon St. by Colorado College</a></li>
    <li><a href="../online_menus_local_italian_food/Paninos_Menu_ColoradoSprings_Eighth_Street.pdf"> Colorado Springs: South Eighth St.</a></li>
                      <li><a href="../online_menus_local_italian_food/Paninos_Menu_Fort_Collins_Colorado.pdf">Fort Collins, Colorado, by CSU</a></li>
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                </ul>
          </li>
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          <li><a href="../pizza_coupons_and_special_deals_italian_food.html"><img src="../images/img_main4nav_specials.png" alt="Pizza Coupons and Specials" name="pizzacouponsandspecials" width="71" height="24" border="0" id="pizzacouponsandspecials" /></a> </li>
    </ul>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    <!--
    var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MainFourNav", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
    //-->
    </script>           
                <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="HeaderPhotos" -->
                <p class="headerphotos"><img src="../images/imgheader_lasagna_beef_hot_cheesey_coloradosprings_fortcollins_italian_res taurant.png" width="263" height="133" /><img src="../images/imgheader_spinach_salad_with_chicken.png" width="263" height="133" /><img src="../images/imgheader_big-t-pizza2.png" width="263" height="133" /></p>
                <!-- TemplateEndEditable --></div>
    </div><!--ENDS HEADERBOX DIV-->
    <div id="bodybox"><!--BOX AROUND MAIN PAGE TEXT, FOR WHOLE PAGE BELOW HEADER AREA-->
    <div id="pagetitle"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="MainPageHeader" --><img src="../images/img_title_press_reviews_italian_restaurant.png" width="307" height="38" /><!-- TemplateEndEditable --></div><!--ENDS PAGE TITLE-->
    <div id="innerbdybox"><!--WRAPS ALL MAIN CONTENT BELOW BODYBOX TITLE, all 3 columns -->
    <div id="content"><!--WRAPS MAINTEXT AND PHOTO SIDEBAR COLUMNS-->
    <div id="maintext"><!--MAINTEXT OR BODY CONTENT OF P-->
    <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="BodyTextSection" -->
    <a name="skiptomaincontent" id="skiptomaincontent"></a><!--ANCHOR FOR SCREENREADERS-->
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          <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> </div>
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          <div id="photosidebar">
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    </div><!--ENDS #CONTENT DIV THAT ENCLOSES 2 COLUMNS- MAINTEXT AND PHOTOSIDEBAR-->
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    </div><!--ENDS INNERBODYBOX DIV THAT WRAPS ALL 3 COLUMNS BELOW THE HEADER -->
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    @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
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal2
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        font-size: 100%;
        cursor: default;
        width: auto;
        /*margin-top: -10px; */
        margin-right: 0;
        margin-bottom: 0;
        margin-left: 0px;
        padding-top: 0;
        padding-bottom: 0;
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    ul.MenuBarActive
        z-index: 1000;
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 li
        list-style-type: none;
        font-size: 95%;
        position: relative;
        text-align: left;
        cursor: pointer;
        float: left;
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
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        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        font-size: 100%;
        z-index: 1020;
        cursor: default;
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        position: absolute;
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul ul
        position: absolute;
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        top: 0;
    DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 a
        display: block;
        cursor: pointer;
        padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
        color: #F3E8CC;
        text-decoration: none;
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        color: #FFF;
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        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: 100% 50%;
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        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: 100% 50%;
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal2 ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
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        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: 100% 50%;
    BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
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    JAVASCRIPT FILE FOR MENU BAR HORIZONTAL:
    /* SpryMenuBar.js - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
    // Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated.
    // All rights reserved.
    // Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    // modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
    //   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
    //     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
    //   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
    //     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
    //     and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    //   * Neither the name of Adobe Systems Incorporated nor the names of its
    //     contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
    //     software without specific prior written permission.
    // THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
    // AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
    // IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
    // ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
    // LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
    // CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
    // SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
    // INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
    // CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
    // ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
    // POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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    menu item for some time, as well as a timer for when they leave a submenu to keep
    showing that submenu until the timer fires.
    var Spry;
    if(!Spry)
        Spry = {};
    if(!Spry.Widget)
        Spry.Widget = {};
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    Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
        this.init(element, opts);
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        this.currMenu = null;
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        if(typeof document.getElementById == 'undefined' || (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == 'undefined') || (isie && typeof document.uniqueID == 'undefined'))
            // bail on older unsupported browsers
            return;
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        if(opts)
            for(var k in opts)
                var rollover = new Image;
                rollover.src = opts[k];
        if(this.element)
            this.currMenu = this.element;
            var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName('li');
            for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++)
                this.initialize(items[i], element, isie);
                if(isie)
                    this.addClassName(items[i], "MenuBarItemIE");
                    items[i].style.position = "static";
            if(isie)
                if(this.hasClassName(this.element, "MenuBarVertical"))
                    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.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:false;';
        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.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)
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        if(this.currMenu)
            this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
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                    menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
            if(typeof document.uniqueID != "undefined")
                this.createIframeLayer(menu);
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        if(menu)
            this.removeClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible");
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                menu.style.left = '';
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        var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
        var hasSubMenu = false;
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        height:126px;
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        top: 424px;
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    <style type="text/css">
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    #apDiv4 {
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        width:250px;
        height:194px;
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    #apDiv5 {
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        width:256px;
        height:200px;
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    #apDiv8 {
        position:absolute;
        width:1295px;
        height:74px;
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        top: 668px;
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    <script type="text/javascript">
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        width:209px;
        height:197px;
        z-index:2;
        top: 1220px;
        left: 171px;
    #apDiv9 {
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        width:331px;
        height:97px;
        z-index:3;
        left: 385px;
        top: 1218px;
    #apDiv10 {
        position:absolute;
        width:292px;
        height:199px;
        z-index:4;
        left: 724px;
        top: 1218px;
    #apDiv11 {
        position:absolute;
        width:200px;
        height:115px;
        z-index:1;
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        background-image: url();
        text-align: center;
        color: #F00;
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        font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        font-weight: bold;
    #apDiv12 {
        position:absolute;
        width:991px;
        height:60px;
        z-index:5;
        left: 198px;
        top: 192px;
    #apDiv13 {
        position:absolute;
        width:200px;
        height:115px;
        z-index:1;
        left: 588px;
        top: 322px;
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          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">[Placeholder]</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
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            </li>
            <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">2009 Videos</a>
              <ul>
                <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">2010 Videos</a>
              <ul>
                <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"><span class="cent"><img src="images/bulldoghelmit.png" width="150" height="99" /></span></p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p class="cent"> </p>
    <div align="center">
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            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/2008%20Defense%20Stats.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/2008%20Offense%20Stats.pdf">Offense and Records</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/BHS%20All%20Time%20Stats.pdf">AllTime Data</a></li>
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          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> <a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Football Season 2009</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/2009%20Banquet%20Record%20and%20Stats.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/2009%20Banquet%20Record%20and%20Stats.pdf">Record Book and Offense</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/All-Time%20Data%202009.pdf">Alltime Data</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> <a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Football Season 2010</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2011%20Checklist.pdf">2010-2011 Offseason Checklist</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20Defense%20Stats%20Final.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20Stats%20Packet.pdf">Record Book and Offense</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20ALL%20TIME.pdf">Alltime Data</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
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    <p align="center"> </p>
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    <p align="center"> </p>
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    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"> </p>
    <p align="center"><img src="images/Logos.png" width="1167" height="199" /></p>
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    /* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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        padding: 0;
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        padding: 0;
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        padding: 0;
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        top: 0;
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
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    ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
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        cursor: pointer;
        background-color: #000;
        padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
        color: #C96;
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        text-align: center;
        height: 1.2em;
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        background-position: 95% 50%;
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    BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
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    Message was edited by: Zabeth69

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    I am not sure why that will not upload to the site correctly.
    I am uploading to a godaddy server. Is there a way I should be saving things (links and such) that I might be doing wrong? am I naming my links incorrectly? how do I make them so they will work once uploaded.
    I followed the suggestions that you made and it looks like it is there but for somereason when i preview the page in a browser or live view the background image (parchment) doesn't show up on the screen.and the spry menu bar only comes up as an unordered list.  I am not sure what would be causing this.
    I have attached the code for 2 pages the first is the code of the  template test file you suggested I make and the second is the code for the education connection page (this is a page that was made from the template and the background image is not working-i had this problem before but i thought it was fixed as the website has it fixed when i published it)
    TEST SITE:
    <!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"><!-- InstanceBegin template="file:///C|/Users/james/Documents/DREAMWEAVER SITES/JanKardys.com/Templates/Main_sitepage_template.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
    <title>Jan Kardys' Literary Agency</title>
    <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
    <style type="text/css">
    #header {
        float: left;
        width: 1000px;
    #Menu_bar {
        float: left;
        width: 190px;
    #Page_Content {
        float: right;
        width: 1000px;
        font-family: "MS Serif", "New York", serif;
    #footer {
        float: left;
        width: 1000px;
    #Main_content {
        float: left;
        width: 395px;
        padding-left: 100px;
    #xtra_content {
        float: right;
        width: 395px;
        padding-right: 100px;
        font-family: "MS Serif", "New York", serif;
    #container {
        width:  1000px;
        margin: 0 auto;
        background-image: url(file:///C|/Users/james/Documents/DREAMWEAVER SITES/JanKardys.com/Images/Parchment.gif);
        overflow: hidden;
    #header_title {
        font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        color: #0C3;
        float: left;
    #header_menubar {
        float: right;
    </style>
    <style type="text/css">
    body {
    </style>
    <script src="/js/enhance.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/ui/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js"" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMEffects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/ui/includes/SpryWidget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryMenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarKeyNavigationPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/xml">
    <!--
    <oa:widgets>
      <oa:widget wid="2466548" binding="#OAWidget" />
      <oa:widget wid="2141544" binding="#MenuBar" />
    </oa:widgets>
    -->
    </script>
    <link href="/css/basic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="/Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <style type="text/css">
    /* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
    /* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
        these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
         These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
        .MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
        .MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
        You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
        They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
            MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
            MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
            MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned. 
            MenuBarFixedCentered -  - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
                            and centered in its parent container.
            MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
        In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
        with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
        there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
    #MenuBar  {
        background-color:transparent;   
        font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
                                                    MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
                                                    at a given level all use same definition for ems.
                                                    Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
                                                    so use caution in using relative sizes other than
                                                    100% on submenu fonts. */
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 16px;
        font-style: normal;
        padding:0;   
        border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
        border-width:0px;
        border-style: none none none none;
    /* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
    widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
    in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
    .MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
        display:none;
    .MenuBarLeftShrink {
        float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarRightShrink {
        float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarFixedLeft {
        float: left;
        width: 80em;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered {
        float: none;
        width: 80em;
        margin-left:auto;
        margin-right:auto;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered br {
        clear:both;
        display:block;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
        display:none;
    .MenuBarFullwidth {
        float: left;
        width: 100%;
    /* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemContainer {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        margin: 0;     /* Zero out margin  on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                    For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                    or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                    Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        background-color:transparent;   
        border-width:1px;
        border-color: #cccccc #ffffff #cccccc #ffffff;
        border-style: none solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none solid none none;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:center;
        line-height:1.4em;
        color:#33ff66;
        background-color:transparent;
        padding: 6px 15px 6px 15px;
        width: 10em;
        width:auto;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
    /* First level submenu items */
    #MenuBar .SubMenu  .MenuItem {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 14px;
        font-style: normal;
        background-color:transparent;
        padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
        border-width:1px;
        border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
        /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
        border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: solid solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-top: 6px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: solid solid solid solid;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
        padding-bottom: 6px;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:left;
        line-height:1em;   
        background-color:transparent;
        color:#00ff33;
        padding: 6px 5px 6px 5px;
        width: 7em;
        width:auto;
    /* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
        background-color: transparent;
        border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #000000;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #000000;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
        background-color: transparent;
        border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
    #MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
        background-color: transparent;
        color: #333333;
    /* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
    #MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
        min-width:0%;  /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
        border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
        border-width:0px;
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
        top: 100%;    /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
        left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
                        and your personal taste.
                        0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
                        on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
                        menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
                        the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
        z-index:10;
    #MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
        top: 0px;   
        left:100%;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
    /* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
    #MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
        background-color: transparent;
        min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
        top: 0px;    /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
                    that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
                    vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
        left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
                    negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
                    to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
    /* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
    /* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
    * Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
    * giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
    * Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
    * all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
    * problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
    * Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
    * syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
    * it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
    * So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule.  We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
    * mistakenly override, making sure the  misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
    * We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
    * the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
    * css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
    * If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
    * The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by  the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #000000;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector  */{
        background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
        color: #333333;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu  /* IE6 selector  */{
        margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
    /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
    </style>
    <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
    <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id= "container">
    <div id="header">
      <div id="header_title"><h1>Jan kardy's Literary Agency</h1></div>
      <div id="header_menubar">
    </li>
        </ul>
        <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="menubar_region" -->
        <ul id="MenuBar">
          <li> <a href="file:///C|/Users/james/Documents/DREAMWEAVER SITES/JanKardys.com/index.html">Home</a></li>
          <li> <a href="file:///C|/Users/james/Documents/DREAMWEAVER SITES/JanKardys.com/about_jankardys.html">About Jan Kardys</a></li>
          <li> <a href="#">Resources</a>
            <ul>
              <li> <a href="/Education_connection.html">Education Connection</a></li>
              <li> <a href="/submission_guidelines.html">Submission Guidelines</a> </li>
              <li> <a href="#">Blogs</a>
                <ul>
                  <li> <a href="http://unicornwritersconferencect.blogspot.com/">Unicorn Writers Conference</a></li>
                  <li> <a href="http://advancenetworkingunicorn.blogspot.com/">Advanced Netwroking Blog</a></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
              <li> <a href="#">First Steps to Publishing</a></li>
              <li> <a href="#">Library &amp; Publishing Events</a></li>
              <li> <a href="#">Art Gallery</a> </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li> <a href="#">Clients</a></li>
          <li> <a href="#">Contact Jan Kardys</a> </li>
        </ul>
        <!-- InstanceEndEditable --><script type="text/javascript">
    // BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar
    var MenuBar = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar2("#MenuBar", {
          widgetID: "MenuBar",
          widgetClass: "MenuBar  MenuBarLeftShrink",
          insertMenuBarBreak: true,
          mainMenuShowDelay: 200,
          mainMenuHideDelay: 200,
          subMenuShowDelay: 200,
          subMenuHideDelay: 200
    // EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544
        </script>
    </li>
          </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div id="Page_Content"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Content_main_editable" -->
      <div id="Main_content">hi</div>
    <!-- InstanceEndEditable --><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Xtra_content_editable" -->
      <div id="xtra_content">
        <h3>News &amp; Events </h3>
        <p> </p>
      </div>
      <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></div>
    <div id="footer"> <h6>Webpage designed by James S. Molina</h6></div>
    </div>
    </body>
    <!-- InstanceEnd --></html>
    EDUCATION CONNECTION CODE:
    <!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"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/Main_sitepage_template.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
    <title>Jan Kardys' Literary Agency</title>
    <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
    <style type="text/css">
    #header {
        float: left;
        width: 1000px;
    #Menu_bar {
        float: left;
        width: 190px;
    #Page_Content {
        float: right;
        width: 1000px;
        font-family: "MS Serif", "New York", serif;
    #footer {
        float: left;
        width: 1000px;
    #Main_content {
        float: left;
        width: 395px;
        padding-left: 100px;
    #xtra_content {
        float: right;
        width: 395px;
        padding-right: 100px;
        font-family: "MS Serif", "New York", serif;
    #container {
        width:  1000px;
        margin: 0 auto;
        background-image: url(/Images/Parchment.gif);
        overflow: hidden;
    #header_title {
        font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        color: #0C3;
        float: left;
    #header_menubar {
        float: right;
    </style>
    <style type="text/css">
    body {
    </style>
    <script src="/js/enhance.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/ui/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js"" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMEffects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/ui/includes/SpryWidget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryMenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarKeyNavigationPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/xml">
    <!--
    <oa:widgets>
      <oa:widget wid="2466548" binding="#OAWidget" />
      <oa:widget wid="2141544" binding="#MenuBar" />
    </oa:widgets>
    -->
    </script>
    <link href="/css/basic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="/Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <style type="text/css">
    /* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
    /* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
        these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
         These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
        .MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
        .MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
        You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
        They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
            MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
            MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
            MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned. 
            MenuBarFixedCentered -  - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
                            and centered in its parent container.
            MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
        In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
        with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
        there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
    #MenuBar  {
        background-color:transparent;   
        font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
                                                    MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
                                                    at a given level all use same definition for ems.
                                                    Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
                                                    so use caution in using relative sizes other than
                                                    100% on submenu fonts. */
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 16px;
        font-style: normal;
        padding:0;   
        border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
        border-width:0px;
        border-style: none none none none;
    /* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
    widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
    in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
    .MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
        display:none;
    .MenuBarLeftShrink {
        float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarRightShrink {
        float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
        width: auto;
    .MenuBarFixedLeft {
        float: left;
        width: 80em;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered {
        float: none;
        width: 80em;
        margin-left:auto;
        margin-right:auto;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered br {
        clear:both;
        display:block;
    .MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
        display:none;
    .MenuBarFullwidth {
        float: left;
        width: 100%;
    /* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemContainer {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        margin: 0;     /* Zero out margin  on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                    For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                    or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                    Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem {
        padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
        background-color:transparent;   
        border-width:1px;
        border-color: #cccccc #ffffff #cccccc #ffffff;
        border-style: none solid none solid;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItemFirst {
        border-style: none none none none;
    #MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
        border-style: none solid none none;
    #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        text-align:center;
        line-height:1.4em;
        color:#33ff66;
        background-color:transparent;
        padding: 6px 15px 6px 15px;
        width: 10em;
        width:auto;
    .SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar  .MenuItem  .MenuItemLabel{
        width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
    /* First level submenu items */
    #MenuBar .SubMenu  .MenuItem {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-weight: normal;
        font-size: 14px;
        font-style: normal;
        background-color:transparent;
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