Spry menu changes - How to:

First. I'm not a developer or programmer. I'm a hacker (dabble unknowingly by trial and errororor).
I looked deeply for how to change font characteristics and found nothing helpful except comments that it can't be done or BEWARE! Horse puckey! Don't believe that all you can change is font, background and color.
I needed to change the font size and width of the bars in my Spry menu. This is how I did it and the details are for others to trial and error it themselves.
I created a page with a Spry menu (horizontal for me) and populated it to three levels. The first time you use Spry it will copy the necessary files into your directory and create a .css file you can see in that directory. You can open up the Spry menu and see the .css parameters, which isn't helpful at all. You can, also, open up the .css file as a window pane, which is what you need.
Next, open up your browser and use it to open the file you are using for test purposes (the .html, not the .css file). Now you can get an idea of what your file will look like in a browser on the Internet. Change back to the Dreamweaver window. Make sure you have the "SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" (or vertical).
Go to the menu . . . Windows > CSS Style and make sure the CSS Styles tab with ALL selected is showing. If the tab only shows the tree view, drag from the bottom slider bar upward to show both the tree view and the Properties view. Now you're ready.
Do this one step at a time ready to undo any changes you don't like.
Set the window pane to the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css page. Go down the list of Rules in the CSS Panel until you find one that you think might change what you want.
Make the SINGLE change.
Save the change.
Change to the browser and click on Refresh. The changes will show up. Make sure you test each level.
Go back to the Dreamweaver .css pane and either change it back or try the next one.
You will find you can add properties not noted in other discussion or instructions.
I wanted to change both font size and button width. I found that in the Rules I made these changes that worked just fine.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal - I changed the font size from 100% to 60% and got a smaller font universally in the menu.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li - I changed the width from 8.2 ems to 16 ems and had wider menu bars universally.
Experiment, try it, be adventurous! Just do it carefully and be ready to undo unwanted changes.

Other than additional specific changes, this was NOT a question for further discussion. It was simply a solution for others to find.

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Spry menu hover: How to get rid of white box with "false"?

Hi--
I'm encountering an IE issue with a Spry vertical menu bar. When the user hovers over the submenu, white frames appear behind the submenu with the word "false" in them. Of course this doesn't happen in Safari or Firefox.
I was able to fix other similar problems with the menu by following tips posted on another forum. Namely, in the CSS, I disabled an IE hack that caused a white background to appear (menu background has to be transparent on this site). And in the JS, I disabled the following: this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
Here's the URL: http://www.qic-ec.org
Below are the css (1) and js (2).
Any help would be DEEPLY appreciated.
Thank you
Jackie
CSS:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 6.2em;
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 6.2em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 6.2em;
left: -1000em;
top: 0;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 0;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
width: 3em;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
border: 0px solid #CCC;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
border: 0px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a transparent block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #502977;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #A88FC7;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a transparent background and light purple text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
color: #A88FC7;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a transparent background and light purple text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    color: #A88FC7;
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li a
border: 0px;
color: #006600;
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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
/* ul.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
        background: #fff;
JS:
/* 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.
SpryMenuBar.js
This file handles the JavaScript for Spry Menu Bar. You should have no need
to edit this file. Some highlights of the MenuBar object is that timers are
used to keep submenus from showing up until the user has hovered over the parent
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 = {};
// Constructor for Menu Bar
// element should be an ID of an unordered list (<ul> tag)
// preloadImage1 and preloadImage2 are images for the rollover state of a menu
Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
this.init(element, opts);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
this.element = this.getElement(element);
// represents the current (sub)menu we are operating on
this.currMenu = null;
var isie = (typeof document.all != 'undefined' && typeof window.opera == 'undefined' && navigator.vendor != 'KDE');
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;
// load hover images now
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)
var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
this.removeClassName(this.element, "MenuBarActive");
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
return (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget)));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
if(this.currMenu)
this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
this.currMenu = null;
if(menu)
this.addClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible");
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && typeof window.opera == 'undefined' && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, "MenuBarHorizontal") || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
if(typeof document.uniqueID != "undefined")
this.createIframeLayer(menu);
this.addClassName(this.element, "MenuBarActive");
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
if(menu)
this.removeClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible");
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && typeof window.opera == 'undefined' && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
menu.style.top = '';
menu.style.left = '';
// this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element, isie)
var opentime, closetime;
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = false;
if(menu)
this.addClassName(link, "MenuBarItemSubmenu");
hasSubMenu = true;
if(!isie)
// define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
// if a node is within another node
listitem.contains = function(testNode)
// this refers to the list item
if(testNode == null)
return false;
if(testNode == this)
return true;
else
return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
// need to save this for scope further down
var self = this;
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e)
if(self.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
clearTimeout(closetime);
if(self.currMenu == listitem)
self.currMenu = null;
// show menu highlighting
self.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? "MenuBarItemSubmenuHover" : "MenuBarItemHover");
if(menu && !self.hasClassName(menu, "MenuBarSubmenuVisible"))
opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, 250);
}, false);
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e)
if(self.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
if(!listitem.contains(related))
clearTimeout(opentime);
self.currMenu = listitem;
// remove menu highlighting
self.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? "MenuBarItemSubmenuHover" : "MenuBarItemHover");
if(menu)
closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, 600);
}, false);

Do you have any suggestions for how to adjust the JS so that the menu functions properly in IE? As I said, I upgraded to Spry 1.6.1 and uploaded the new CSS and JS and the problem is still there. The CSS is the same as in the previous version. The new JS is:
// SpryMenuBar.js - version 0.12 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1
var Spry; if (!Spry) Spry = {}; if (!Spry.Widget) Spry.Widget = {};
Spry.BrowserSniff = function()
var b = navigator.appName.toString();
var up = navigator.platform.toString();
var ua = navigator.userAgent.toString();
this.mozilla = this.ie = this.opera = this.safari = false;
var re_opera = /Opera.([0-9\.]*)/i;
var re_msie = /MSIE.([0-9\.]*)/i;
var re_gecko = /gecko/i;
var re_safari = /(applewebkit|safari)\/([\d\.]*)/i;
var r = false;
if ( (r = ua.match(re_opera))) {
this.opera = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
} else if ( (r = ua.match(re_msie))) {
this.ie = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
} else if ( (r = ua.match(re_safari))) {
this.safari = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[2]);
} else if (ua.match(re_gecko)) {
var re_gecko_version = /rv:\s*([0-9\.]+)/i;
r = ua.match(re_gecko_version);
this.mozilla = true;
this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
this.windows = this.mac = this.linux = false;
this.Platform = ua.match(/windows/i) ? "windows" :
(ua.match(/linux/i) ? "linux" :
(ua.match(/mac/i) ? "mac" :
ua.match(/unix/i)? "unix" : "unknown"));
this[this.Platform] = true;
this.v = this.version;
if (this.safari && this.mac && this.mozilla) {
this.mozilla = false;
Spry.is = new Spry.BrowserSniff();
// Constructor for Menu Bar
// element should be an ID of an unordered list (<ul> tag)
// preloadImage1 and preloadImage2 are images for the rollover state of a menu
Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
this.init(element, opts);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
this.element = this.getElement(element);
// represents the current (sub)menu we are operating on
this.currMenu = null;
this.showDelay = 250;
this.hideDelay = 600;
if(typeof document.getElementById == 'undefined' || (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == 'undefined') || (Spry.is.ie && typeof document.uniqueID == 'undefined'))
// bail on older unsupported browsers
return;
// Fix IE6 CSS images flicker
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try {
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
} catch(err) {}
this.upKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP;
this.downKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN;
this.leftKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT;
this.rightKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT;
this.escKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC;
this.hoverClass = 'MenuBarItemHover';
this.subHoverClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenuHover';
this.subVisibleClass ='MenuBarSubmenuVisible';
this.hasSubClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenu';
this.activeClass = 'MenuBarActive';
this.isieClass = 'MenuBarItemIE';
this.verticalClass = 'MenuBarVertical';
this.horizontalClass = 'MenuBarHorizontal';
this.enableKeyboardNavigation = true;
this.hasFocus = false;
// load hover images now
if(opts)
for(var k in opts)
if (typeof this[k] == 'undefined')
var rollover = new Image;
rollover.src = opts[k];
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions(this, opts);
// safari doesn't support tabindex
if (Spry.is.safari)
this.enableKeyboardNavigation = false;
if(this.element)
this.currMenu = this.element;
var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName('li');
for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++)
if (i > 0 && this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
items[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].tabIndex='-1';
this.initialize(items[i], element);
if(Spry.is.ie)
this.addClassName(items[i], this.isieClass);
items[i].style.position = "static";
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
var self = this;
this.addEventListener(document, 'keydown', function(e){self.keyDown(e); }, false);
if(Spry.is.ie)
if(this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass))
this.element.style.position = "relative";
var linkitems = this.element.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i=0; i<linkitems.length; i++)
linkitems[i].style.position = "relative";
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC = 27;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP = 38;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN = 40;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT = 37;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT = 39;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
return document.getElementById(ele);
return ele;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hasClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || !ele.className || ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1)
return false;
return true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || this.hasClassName(ele, className))
return;
ele.className += (ele.className ? " " : "") + className;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeClassName = function(ele, className)
if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
return;
ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
// addEventListener for Menu Bar
// attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
try
if (element.addEventListener)
element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
else if (element.attachEvent)
element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
catch (e) {}
// createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
layer.tabIndex = '-1';
layer.src = 'javascript:""';
layer.frameBorder = '0';
layer.scrolling = 'no';
menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
// removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer = function(menu)
var layers = ((menu == this.element) ? menu : menu.parentNode).getElementsByTagName('iframe');
while(layers.length > 0)
layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
// clearMenus for Menu Bar
// root is the top level unordered list (<ul> tag)
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
this.removeClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
return Spry.is.safari && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
if(this.currMenu)
this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
this.currMenu = null;
if(menu)
this.addClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, this.horizontalClass) || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
this.createIframeLayer(menu);
this.addClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
if(menu)
this.removeClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
menu.style.top = '';
menu.style.left = '';
if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element)
var opentime, closetime;
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
if(menu)
this.addClassName(link, this.hasSubClass);
if(!Spry.is.ie)
// define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
// if a node is within another node
listitem.contains = function(testNode)
// this refers to the list item
if(testNode == null)
return false;
if(testNode == this)
return true;
else
return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
// need to save this for scope further down
var self = this;
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e){self.mouseOver(listitem, e);}, false);
this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e){if (self.enableKeyboardNavigation) self.clearSelection(); self.mouseOut(listitem, e);}, false);
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
this.addEventListener(link, 'blur', function(e){self.onBlur(listitem);}, false);
this.addEventListener(link, 'focus', function(e){self.keyFocus(listitem, e);}, false);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.hasFocus = true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
this.clearSelection(listitem);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
//search any intersection with the current open element
if (!this.lastOpen)
return;
if (el)
el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
// check children
var item = this.lastOpen;
while (item != this.element)
var tmp = el;
while (tmp != this.element)
if (tmp == item)
return;
try{
tmp = tmp.parentNode;
}catch(err){break;}
item = item.parentNode;
var item = this.lastOpen;
while (item != this.element)
this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
item = item.parentNode;
this.lastOpen = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
if (!this.hasFocus)
return;
if (!this.lastOpen)
this.hasFocus = false;
return;
var e = e|| event;
var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
var link = this.lastOpen;
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
if (!opts[3])
opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
var found = 0;
switch (e.keyCode){
case this.upKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
break;
case this.downKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
break;
case this.leftKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
break;
case this.rightKeyCode:
found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
break;
case this.escKeyCode:
case 9:
this.clearSelection();
this.hasFocus = false;
default: return;
switch (found)
case 0: return;
case 1:
//subopts
this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
break;
case 2:
//parent
this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
break;
case 3:
case 4:
// left - right
this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
break;
var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.lastOpen = link;
opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
        //stop further event handling by the browser
return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
this.clearSelection(listitem);
if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
if (listitem.closetime)
clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
if(this.currMenu == listitem)
this.currMenu = null;
// move the focus too
if (this.hasFocus)
link.focus();
// show menu highlighting
this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
this.lastOpen = link;
if(menu && !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
var self = this;
listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
// ignore bubbled text events
return;
var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
if(!listitem.contains(related))
if (listitem.opentime)
clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
this.currMenu = listitem;
// remove menu highlighting
this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
if(menu)
var self = this;
listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
if (this.hasFocus)
link.blur();
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
var child = element[sibling];
while (child && child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
child = child[sibling];
return child;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
var found = 0;
var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
var ref = rect(els[found]);
var hideSubmenu = false;
//make the subelement visible to compute the position
if (els[1] && !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
hideSubmenu = true;
var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
for (var i = 1; i < els.length; i++){
//when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
if(prop=='y' && isVert && (i==1 || i==2))
continue;
//when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
if(prop=='x' && !isVert && !hasParent && (i==1 || i==2))
continue;
if (els[i])
var tmp = rect(els[i]);
if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) < (dir * ref[prop]))
ref = tmp;
found = i;
// hide back the submenu
if (els[1] && hideSubmenu){
this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
els[1].style.visibility = '';
return found;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
return str;
var oStringList = str.split('-');
var isFirstEntry = true;
var camelizedString = '';
for(var i=0; i < oStringList.length; i++)
if(oStringList[i].length>0)
if(isFirstEntry)
camelizedString = oStringList[i];
isFirstEntry = false;
else
var s = oStringList[i];
camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
return camelizedString;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
var value;
try
if (element.style)
value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
if (!value)
if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
else if (element.currentStyle)
value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
catch (e) {}
return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
if (isNaN(a))
return 0;
return a;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
doc = doc || document;
if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
el = doc.getElementById(el);
if (!el) {
return false;
if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
//element must be visible to have a box
return false;
var ret = {x:0, y:0};
var parent = null;
var box;
if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
} else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
ret.x = box.x;
ret.y = box.y;
} else { // safari/opera
ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
ret.y = el.offsetTop;
parent = el.offsetParent;
if (parent != el) {
while (parent) {
ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
parent = parent.offsetParent;
// opera & (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari && Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
if (el.parentNode)
parent = el.parentNode;
else
parent = null;
if (parent.nodeName){
var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
while (parent && cas != 'BODY' && cas != 'HTML') {
cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
if (parent.parentNode)
parent = parent.parentNode;
else
parent = null;
return ret;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
if (ev.stopPropagation)
ev.stopPropagation();
else
ev.cancelBubble = true;
if (ev.preventDefault)
ev.preventDefault();
else
ev.returnValue = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
if (!optionsObj)
return;
for (var optionName in optionsObj)
if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
continue;
obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];

The flash clip is always in fron of my drop down spry menu. How can i bring my spry menu to the front?

Hi, Can someone pls help. I could get my dropdown spry menu to be shown as current when it pop outs, it goes behind my flash clip. How can i bring the spry menu to the front?

well this is the embedded code:
<object width="400" height="301">
          <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
          <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
          <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
          <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=***&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" />
          <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9959732&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" width="400" height="301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed>
        </object>
So I think that's ok? For the rest, all I changed in the spry menu is that I multiplied the z-index twice (menu and submenus) by 10. But that can't be the problem...

Spry menu-change links to carry through all 16 pages?

I am sure this is easy to do. I just don't know where to begin.
I have a 16 page website "northeastohioweddingexperts.com. The side menu is the same on all 16 pages. Its a spry menu. What is the easies way to change the links so it changes through all 16 pages? I have been doing it the hard way by make a change to the spry menu, and opening each HTML page and pasting the change in that area. I am sure this can be all changed simply in CSS. So if there is one document that can be altered, or on CSS file that can be changed THIS would be helpful.
Please point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Tony

HTML = content. CSS = styles. I'm sorry to say that changes to your CSS file won't have any global effect on the links in your HTML code.
If you had built your site around a DW Template or Server-Side Includes, making site wide changes to menus would be much easier. See links below for details:
Dreamweaver Templates -
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/dreamweaver_template.asp#1
Server-Side Includes
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
If you don't want to start over, use Find & Replace (Ctrl+F) to change hyperlink code in your local site.
Nancy O.
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Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
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Spry Menu - Changing width of menu blocks to fill 100% of sidebar

I have set up Spry menu, see here. http://www.singlesonly.co.uk and then personalised it. All was easy until i attempted to make the menu bar fit the entire width of the side bar, or width of sidebar less the margin. Having spent considerable time reading instructions I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this and can't seem to find an article or specific set of instructions that deals directly with this requirement. The instructions i read don't seem to do what you would expect them to do. All help appreciated. Amber

Hi Eager Bob,
Thanks for the pointers (and your time), all of which i have tried, i see my question was not clear and i'm sure im missing something obvious, so i'll re-phrase.
Basically I can not move the the entire menu at all. I can do just about everything else, such as make it wider/smaller/ etc but not set the initial position. can you point me to a tutorial or Dreamweaver instructions as i can't seem to find what i need to read up on.
Example of current problem, sort of sorted but only be a visual work around.
http://www.singlesonly.co.uk/spry_tests.html
My problem is simply the intial positioning of the entire menu, i want it as close to the left of my web page as possible. To be exact... within my left #sidebar1, i want to center the spry menu, to align with the other content on that menu and then make the spry menu as wide as is possible, to fill as much of that sidebar1 as possible, perhaps even all of it. Unfortunately i can't see in the spry instructions how to move a spry menu further left (or further right) on the page. This is possibly about my lack of indepth CSS skills (which i am working on), although i did expect Spry to have an easy way to set the initial position. Again i am sure i am missing something obvious! Like the part of my brain which deals with CSS positioning.
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #d3d4e2;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
#container {
width: 902px;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 2px solid #8d8e9e;
text-align: left;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: url(pics/mainbody3.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
#headertop {
background-image: url(pics/doubletop.gif);
background-color: #A4A5B7;
#header {
background: #A4A5B7;
padding: 0 20px 0 10px;
#header h1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0;
#sidebar1 {
float: left;
width: 148px;
background: #A4A5B7;
padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;
background-image: url(pics/side.gif);
text-align: center;
#mainContent {
margin: 0 0 0 178px;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
#footer {
padding: 0 10px 0 20px;
background:#d0d1e5;
border: 0px solid #95959D;
padding: 10px;
#footer p {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0;
.fltrt {
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft {
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat {
clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;

Spry Menu Template question

I am fairly new to Dreamweaver and am self taught so I am
trying to learn the best way to do things. I have created a
horizontal Spry menu on one of my pages in DWCS3. I then copied and
pasted that code on each page I wanted the Spry menu. How can I now
go back and make the menu a template so that any changes I make
will be reflected on every page that has the menu - instead of
having to change each page every time I change the menu.

> If I create the whole page as a template, then are all
of the subsequent
> pages
> that use the menu also templates
You need to read DW's F1 Help about how to make templates and
spawn child
pages. If you make the page a template, you would need to
also specify
editable regions (regions in which content can be edited on
the child
pages).
If you use includes, you would need to create a text-only
page in DW, into
which you paste the content for the menu *ONLY*. Save this
file as whatever
filename you like. In any page that you want to use the menu
you would need
to a) have the required Spry javascript already in the head
of the page, and
b) use INSERT | Server-Side Include, to browse to and select
the menu
include file.
It's a bit tricky. Make sure you get the hang of this using
test pages
first, with simple content.
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> which method do you think would be more efficient and
easier to maintain.
> We
> use php on our server. Can you explain exactly how to
use the include. I
> am
> assuming I make the menu a separate page then do I save
it as a javascript
> file. I am a novice.
> If I create the whole page as a template, then are all
of the subsequent
> pages
> that use the menu also templates
>

Spry Menu bar looks OK in Live View, not browser

I'm trying to insert a Spry menu bar in an existing site to replace one previously built with an F-source product. There is a Flash movie above the menu bar. It looks fine in Live View, but when I look at it in a browser, it expands to about ten times its height with only the last menu item visible (out of nine). It also displaces the Flash movie to the left and up. Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix it? Thanks for any help you can provide!
Live View:
Browser View:

Thanks for your help. I tried to add the code above the menu bar (you didn't specify whether to add before the body tag) but it didn't help in either location.
I've uploaded the page in question to the site. You can access the page via http://www.acsi-cybersa.com/index2.html
If you back up to the "www.acsi-cybersa.com" URL, you will see a working homepage with an f-source menu that is acting a bit squirrely, and which I am trying to replace with the Spry menu. The URL above "index2.html" is the working replacement for the home page.
If you can figure out what's happening with the Spry menu and how to fix it, I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks, Dan

How do I change the alignment of a Spry Menu in Dreamweaver

I know CSS but I can't figure out how to change the entire alignment of a Spry menu to either center in a table or even right align. I have tried both changing the div alignment and the td alignment and neither one works. Any ideas?

See here http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/ and go down to the menu.
Gramps

How do you make a Spry menu view on all pages but only have to change it one place?

How do you make a Spry menu view on all pages but only have to change it one place? Someone told me maybe I could create a Library item. Any help will be appreciated.

If your pages all have the same basic design, using a DW Template would be a way to do it...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7abea.h tml

How Do I Create an Editable Spry Menu as part of a Template?

I am having considerable trouble trying to work out an issue and hope you can help. I have been working on a webpage that I would like to be a template for a fundraiser we are doing. I used a horizontal spry menu and a vertical spry menu. I have two youtube videos that I would like embedded on the page, but I would like the flexibility to change them for different pages. I am trying to make my horizontal and vertical spry menus editable since I am going to be making pages for all items in the menus. I can't seem to set this up correctly. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? I have been able to set up editable regions according to my template file, however, when I open the template, I am unable to edit the spry menus or edit the youtube videos. Setting up editable regions also seems to change the look of my page.
Here is what I would like all the pages to look like: http://www.ymimusic.com/shoppers_guide.html
But this is how it looks presently when I try to make a page from the template I created following the instructions from the course: http://www.ymimusic.com/test.html
Since I cannot get the template to work the way I would like, I have not created any links yet. I can send you the template and html page if this will help. Thank you for your help in advance./p>

Murray,
I am just opening your responses now. I will try to clarify again. "There's the rub. This is not a wise choice. A completely different menu in each page will not only confuse your visitors, it will drive you insane. I strongly suggest you not do this." You were referring to "What throws us off the track is your wish to be able to have a different menubar in each page. In that case the menubar will need to be in an editable region."
What I am simply trying to do is this: If I create a menu that has the following links: About Us, Products, and Contact Us on one page, I want my customers to see the SAME menu on the About Us page, the Products page and the Contact Us page. I am NOT creating different menus on each page. I am trying to automate the format by creating a template that will show these links on each page without me redoing it every page.
When I attempted this, and created a page from the template, I could not get into the menu to assign links to different pages. Using the above example, If I created my About Us page as the template for the site, then created the Products page from the template, I need the ability to assign the links on the Products page to the About Us and Contact Us pages. The page created from the template does not allow me to do this. I cannot get in to assign the links in the Properties section of Dreamweaver. I even attempted to do the following action in the .dwt file I created:
Modify > Templates > Make Attribute Editable
I did this to make the links editable after creating the template. This obviously didn't work.
To summarize: I do NOT want to make different menus on each page. I simply want to create the two menus you see (one horizontal and one vertical) that will be part of the template. I am trying figure out when I assign the links and How. I will go back and read your notes as well as read the help section (F1) as you requested, however that is why I contacted you; I did not understand what I was doing wrong. I have been working with a course series in Lynda.com that has explained much of what to do up to my problem spot, I simply need to understand the concept.
Thank you for your assistance.

How do I make Vertical Spry Menu appear in IE

The URL in question is:
http://www.ambppct.org/index_menu.php
I have inserted a Vertcal Spry Menu on this page. It functions perfectly in Safari, Firefox and IE 8. However it does not appear in previous versions of IE.
Below is the css file:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.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, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
margin: 0em;
padding: 0em;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 12px;
cursor: default;
width: 12em;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
color: #C03;
font-style: normal;
z-index: auto;
background-color: #CC9999;
/* 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;
width: 12em;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 12em;
background-color: #CC9999;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 12em;
left: -1000em;
top: 0;
margin-top: -5%;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 0;
width: 12em;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
width: 12em;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
border: 1px solid #D6D6D6;
width: 12em;
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
border: 1px solid #D6D6D6;
width: 12em;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #CC9999;
color: #C03;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
border: thin solid #D6D6D6;
overflow: hidden;
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.75em;
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
padding-left: 0.75em;
width: auto;
position: relative;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
background-color: #CC6666;
color: #FFF;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
background-color: #C66;
color: #FFF;
width: auto;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: auto;
/* 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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: auto;
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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: none;

You will have to update your spry code (do not know how (possibly in editing the css), but it is causing the problem).
If you have CS3 or 4, you can use the spry updater extension from -
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/
Delete your old spry files then apply the spry updater by selecting, Site - Spry Updater - then select the options req'd.
Check your page works, modify the spry css as required, checking the site in the browsers after every change.
PZ

How do I remove the gap above my Spry Menu bar?

Hi Folks,
I have an extensive web site which I built over many years and using different programs but have now jettisoned all of thse and work exclusively with Dreamweaver to maintain and improve it myself. To date I have always had to edit each item on each page separately then upload everything to keep my now vast website updated.
I read that if I made an SSi file for my navigation menu then I do not need to edit it on each separate page of my site so long as I load the pages of my site as .shtml files and insert a Server-Side Includes line in the code of my web pages. All great in theory BUT for some reason which is confounding me there is a gap appearing at the top of the page which is not there on the pages which are not .shtml and have my sprymenu embedded in the code.
Rather than attach long code here, it might be easier to see the problem on my live pages. So please go to any page of www.dominicnatoli.com to see how the site looks with the spry menu in each page and then go to say www.dominicnatoli.com/2011.shtml to see one of the newly loaded pages which displays the menu from the file www.dominicnatoli.com/includes/navmenu.shtml. interestingly enough if I open the navmenu.shtml alone it displays at the top of the page but whenever I open it as embedded code on my .shtml content pages it does not display at the top of the page.
I have not completely uploaded all the .shtml files of the site as I have encountered this issue and if I cannot resolve it I will ababndon this course of action and search for another solution so if you click on some of the menu items and it takes you to a dead end that is not in and of itself the problem as not all the .shtml files have been loaded to the server yet.
I have trawled through the css and code to the best of my "limited" ability and am frustrated as I cannot find my error. There ar epossibly hundreds of errors in the pages as this site has been created using many different programs over decades and one of my reason for trying to do this new menu management is part of my overhaul stragtegy which has stumbled already at the first step. LOL I know we say if it ain't broke don't fix it, but I need to sort out a better way of editin the navigation menu universally rather than having to write code into each menu on each page in order for the nav bar to be consistent wite wide.
I would really be grateful if one of you gurus can tell me where I am going wrong so I can replicate the solution for the remained of my pages. I am not sure if the problem is in teh navmenu.shtml page and its associated css or in the other shtml page with its much larger css. Thanks for any help you can give me to sort his out.
I am working on Dreamweaver CC and CS6 ( the latter has an Insert Server Side Includes extension which does not work in CC so I tend to use CC for the main updates and CS6 for the SSI stuff.)
Please let me know if you need any other information or stuff from me. Thanks a lot and
All the best
Dominic

OK Nancy, so I moved the code as you suggested, and it has gone back to showing the nav menu formatted BUT still with a gap at the top.
Here is the new code for the page. BTW it only has 463 lines
<!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"/>
<meta name="Generator" content="DreamweaverCS5.5"/>
<title>Dominic Natoli 1996 to 1998 Schedule</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Mario Lanza, Mario Lanza Story, Joshua, Handel, St. John Passion, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ismaele, Nabucco, Don Josè, Carmen, Australian Pops Orchestra, Beethoven, 9th Symphony, Sydney Opera House, Tamino, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Concert Hall, Ernesto, Don Pasquale, Donizetti, Nemorino, L'Elisir d'amore, Dorset Opera, Messiah, Handel, Adelaide Symphony, Queen Elizabeth Hall, English National Opera, Don Josè, Strike up the Band, Gershwin, Rusalka, Chandos, South Australian State Opera, Opera Queensland, Australian Pops Orchestra, Melbourne Concert Hall, Ernesto, Don Pasquale, Donizetti, Nemorino, L'Elisir d'amore, Dorset Opera, Messiah, Handel, Adelaide Symphony, Queen Elizabeth Hall, English National Opera, Don Josè, Strike up the Band, Gershwin, Rusalka, Chandos, South Australian State Opera, Opera Queensland, Australian Pops Orchestra"/>
<meta name="description" content="Dominic Natoli Schedule 1996 - 1998"/>
<meta name="author" content="Alex Weston"/>
<meta name="copyright" content="© All rights reserved"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb"/>
<style type="text/css">

<style type="text/css">
body {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
a:link {color: #6f0070;}
a:visited {color: #009c9c;}
a:hover {color: #6f0070;}
a:active {color: #6f0070;}
</style>
<link href="../Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<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="../Spry-UI-1.7/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>
<style type="text/css">
.content {
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 0;
clear: both;
}#MenuBar_2 {
          background-color: #0036Cc;
          font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
          font-weight: normal;
          font-size: 12px;
          font-style: normal;
          padding-top: 0;
          padding-right: 0;
          padding-left: 0;
          padding-bottom: 0;
          border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
          border-width: 0px;
          border-style: none none none none;
          top: 0px;
.MenuBar br {           display:none;
.MenuBar_2LeftShrink {
          float: left;          width: 80px;
.MenuBar_2RightShrink {
          float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
          width: 80px;
.MenuBar_2FixedLeft {
          float: left;
          width: 800px;
.MenuBar_2FixedCentered {
          float: none;
          width: 800px;
          margin-left: auto;
          margin-right: auto;
.MenuBar_2FixedCentered br {
          clear:both;
          display:block;
.MenuBar_2FixedCentered .SubMenu br {
          display:none;
.MenuBar_2Fullwidth {
          float: left;
          width: 800px;
          display: block;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar_2 .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_2 .MenuItem {
          padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px;
          background-color:#0036CC;
          border-width:1px;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
          border-style: none solid none solid;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemFirst {
          border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemLast {
          border-style: none solid none none;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
          text-align:center;
          line-height:1.4em;
          color:#ffffff;
          background-color:#0036cc;
          padding: 0px 30px 6px 3px;
          width: 40px;
          width:38px;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
          width:44px; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItem {
          font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
          font-weight: normal;
          font-size: 12px;
          font-style: normal;
          background-color:#9999CC;
          padding:0px 22px 0px 10px;
          border-width:1px;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
          /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
          border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
          border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
          padding-top: 6px;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
          border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
          padding-bottom: 6px;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
          text-align:left;
          line-height:1em;
          background-color:#9999CC;
          color:#ffffff;
          padding: 6px 10px 6px 5px;
          width: 30px;
          width:auto;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemHover {
          background-color: #9999CC;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
          background-color: #9999CC; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
          color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
          background-color: #9999cc;
          color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
          background-color: #0036cc;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
          background-color: #0036cc;
          color: #FFFFFF;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenuVisible {
          background-color: #9999CC;
          min-width:auto; /* 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_2.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_2.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_2 .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
          background-color: #9999CC;
          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_2 .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
          background-color: #0036CC; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
          color: #FFFFFF;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
          background-color: #0036cc; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
          color: #FFFFFF;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
          margin-left: -15px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
          /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
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<span class="Normal-C6">After two years touring around Germany singing Dominic returned to Australia
    in 1995 to perform as <a name="Lanza"></a>Mario Lanza in </span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="mariolanza.shtml" style="color:#000000;">The Mario Lanza Story</a></span><span class="Normal-C8"> </span><span class="Normal-C6">for a season of 10 shows
    at Mietta’s. It was a great opportunity for Dominic to sing the music of this remarkable
    singer in a tribute which was a marathon consisting of no less than 21 songs and
    duets ranging from Vesti la giubba to Serenade. Audiences and critics alike loved
    the show, so much that he returned to Australia again in 1996 for a further season
    presented in Adelaide, South Australia. </span><br /><span class="Normal-C6">Dominic’s reputation was growing in Australia and <a name="1996"></a>1996 saw him perform in the Melbourne
    Concert Hall with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in <a name="joshua"></a>Handel’s </span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="concertoratorio.shtml#Joshua" style="color:#000000;">Joshua</a></span><span class="Normal-C6">, as well as
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    italian hit tunes from Opera and song entitled </span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="concertoratorio.shtml#Australianpopsorchestra" style="color:#000000;">Viva Italia</a></span><span class="Normal-C6">. In Adelaide he sang Joe
    in <a name="bluemonday"></a>Gershwin’s <a href="concertoratorio.shtml#GershwinBlueMonday" style="color:#000000;">Blue Monday</a> in the Adelaide Town Hall with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
    In Sydney he appeared at the Sydney Concert Hall (Opera House) to sing <a name="ninthsymph"></a>Beethoven’s
    </span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="concertoratorio.shtml#Beethoven9" style="color:#000000;">Ninth Symphony</a></span><span class="Normal-C6"> with the National Philharmonia Orchestra.</span>
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<span class="Normal-C6">Apart from these Australian performances, Dominic also had his usual Tamino in Rostock,
    Ottavio in Hof, and his first <a name="ismaelehersfeld"></a> </span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="germanyears.shtml#Ismaele1" style="color:#000000;">Ismaele</a></span><span class="Normal-C6"> in </span><span class="Normal-C10">Nabucco </span><span class="Normal-C6">in Germany at Bad Hersfeld, as well
    as a couple of Verdi <a name="verdirequiem"></a><a href="firsttenorroles.shtml#verdirequiem1" style="color:#000000;">Requiem</a>’s. In late 1996 Dominic began making inroads into the
    opera world beyond Austria and Germany. </span>
<span class="Normal-P3"><br /><span class="Normal-P3"><span class="Normal-C6">His first engagement was in Cork, Ireland for Opera South as <a name="josedebut"></a></span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="donjose.shtml" style="color:#000000;">Don Josè</a></span><span class="Normal-C10"> </span><span class="Normal-C6">in their production
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    ludicrously short rehearsal period, the last minute replacement of the conductor
    resulting in a dress rehearsal which began at 8:30 and finished at 2:30 the next
    morning which happened to be the day of the opening night which was followed by performances
    on each of the consecutive three evenings. A true baptism of fire for a new role!
    It has become an oft repeated role for Dominic; to date he has been involved in 5
    productions with a total of over 30 performances.</span>
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How do I get banner & Spry Menu Bar to appear on every page?

Hi,
I am a new user of Dreamweaver CS6 an a relatively new user to website development in general.
I just followed along through Davide Powers "Creating your first website" tutorial series and found it to be very helpful. I made it through all six parts and managed to get the Check Magazine sample website up and running. I now want to use what I learned to creat my own site, and I am stuck already.
The tutorial does a great job of explaining how to setup a Spry Menu Bar to use for navigation. The tutorial, however, only shows how to put this Spry Menu Bar on the main index.html page. For my actual site, I would like my navigation bar (and my banner) to appear on every one of my pages.
Can anyone here tell me where I can find instructions on the best way to do this?
My navigation requirements are very simple. I just want a common banner with navigation buttons to appear at the top of every one of my pages. The Spry Menu Bar that was created in the tutorial would work great for me assuming I can find a relatively simple way to get it (along with my banner) to appear at the top of every one of my pages.
If it is very complicated to get it to appear on every page (or would require a large time investment in learning advanced techniques), then I would consider passing on the Spry Menu Bar and trying to setup my navigation in a simpler (if more old-fashioned) way.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Paul

If a small, 4-5 page site, make a prototype page with all your columns, headers, footers, menus, etc... and go to File > SaveAs index.html, and then File > SaveAs > page1.html, and then File > SaveAs page2.html, etc...
Or you can save your prototype page as a Dreamweaver Template (.dwt file). Add editable regions for stuff that will change from page to page. Everything outside editable regions is common to all site pages. Then use your Template to spawn site pages. File > New > Page from Template, index.html, page1.html, page2.html, etc.... DW Templates are nice site management tool. But before you use them, read all you can about them in F1 Help as they can be a little tricky to master.
Last but not least, look at Server-Side Includes. They're a huge time saving feature. I use them on every site I build.
Server-Side Includes
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
Nancy O.

Is it possible to change the height of Spry Menu Bar items?

I'm new to websites and have been trying to understand the CSS of the Spry menu bar. I've managed to put a horizontal menu bar in place and with the help of some previous discussions in this forum, have changed the colours of the menu items and have even managed to centre the text - Thanks!
However, I really would like to have a smaller menu bar - height wise.
I've tried reducing the default height of the menu bar items by adding a height and by reducing the font size and padding. The results have been varied. In Firefox and in Dreamweaver's 'live view' there is still a thin line showing underneath my horizontal menu which is the background colour of the div my menu sits in. In IE there is a similar 'chunk missing' from the bottom of the items.
Is this something that can be done? I've seen lots of help on how to change the width of the items, but have not found any which suggest that the height can be changed.
Gill

Sure. You just need to be thorough. Keep in mind that in a Spry Menu Bar you are making the link-text in the list-items block elements, so you will want to change the line-height of the a element. Pick style selectors in the css stylesheet that end in a, with or without an additional class (a.classhere), and play with the line-height.
Another attribute you can consider is the difference in height between Cap and lower case and All caps. You can usually get away with a smaller line-height and a smaller font-size with all caps, because there are no descenders on the text to require more line-height. Keep in mind also that when you state a line-height, your text will center vertically in the line-height, as far as I know, so you might even get away without top and bottom padding.
Beth

How to get rid of the line encasing the left hand side of a vertical spry menu?

Hi,
I have created a vertical spry menu bar. It all works but there is a line like this [ encasing the left hand side of the menu. Does anyone know how to get rid of this?
Thanks!

Line 73 in your Spry css calls for a border
ul.MenuBarVertical{
border: 1px solid #ccc;
Either remove the rule or change the #ccc to #fff

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