Spry Menu-overlapping submenu items

Hello,
I am new to Dreamweaver. I created a horizontal spry menu and one of my items has a submenu which contains two items. When I look at the page in live view or preview it in a browser, the two submenu items overlap. How do I fix this? I have tried playng around with the margin values for "ul menubarHorizontal ul ul" but I do not see any changes. Please help me! Thank you so much!

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By giving the submenu (the ul inside the ul.MenuBarHorizontal) a left:0;, you are pulling it in from left-field, where it had been at -1000em and also dropping it to nearly below (95%) the top menu.
You're not tricking the javascript. The javascript will still be working. But the visible submenus will just already be visible instead of hiding and being brought onstage by the javascript. If it's any consolation, the javascript could care less...
If you are working with templates, you can give each submenu ul an id, give the body an editable attribute (so you can change the body id for each page) and set up something in the CSS that controls, for instance:
<body id="contactuspage">
<ul class="MenuBarHorizontal>
     <li>...
          <ul id="contactus">
and in the CSS:
#contactuspage ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul#contactus,
#aboutuspage ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul#aboutus
     {left: 0;
       top: 95%;
So all you have to do is make sure you have set the body id (it could be the id of the container for the menubar...not the menubar itself, though) for each page, and the "show submenus" will automatically apply to the submenus that correspond to the page.
Beth
I'm not sure that this works in all browsers. I'm getting patchy results...It appears that you will have to play with the "top:95%;" call...Internet Explorer drops the top of the submenu to 95% down the WINDOW/viewport, and not just to the bottom of the top menu item. If you have a set height on the top menu item, give that as the value for top.
OK. It looks pretty solid, if you take my comment in the previous paragraph to heart.
Have fun with it!
B

Safari debug menu: Security submenu items greyed out

I'm using Safari Version 2.0.3 (417.9.2), and have activated the Debug menu.
Under the Security submenu, all of the options are greyed out. I need to "enable Lax security checks" because I'm having trouble with certificates on a particular website.
If someone knows the equivalent terminal command, it would be much appreciated.
I've tried repairing permissions, deleting the com.apple.safari.plist, and resetting safari. Any other suggestions?

Hi Richard!
I'm not sure about the Security items in the Debug menu...but about the page that refreshes try to delete the cookies associated with that site. I had a similar problem before and I contacted the help for that site and followed that suggestion and it's worked ever since. Maybe it will for you too?
Reg

Spry Menu Bar Submenu not dropping.

Hi,
I,ve got a problem with the Spry Bar Menu Bar....The Submenu is not dropping when I preview the page in a browser. Would be great if somebody could help me out here.
Many thanks in advance.

Hello Wiebke,
to my knowledge that's not a reason. Murray has often answered to ftp problems, last thing I've noticed was: "If the files are being uploaded to the correct location, then they must overwrite the existing files in that location. If you are not seeing those changes in the browser, then you must be looking at a stale page in the browser - dump your local browser cache and try again. So, make sure that the files are being properly uploaded, and that your browser is fully refreshed." and from osgood "Have you tried an alternative ftp upload client other than Dreamweaver?".
The last hint is that what I prefer. In all in these cases I'm not a friend of a detailed troubleshooting. It is one of the reasons that I prefer an external FTP program. The difficulties with which you have to fight encourage me in this opinion, not least because we always search for experts, we don't charge a "jack of all trades".
For this reason, to manage, for example, several websites or to upload my files and sometimes for the opposite way, for a necessary download from my server or to use a "a site-wide synch", I'm using FileZilla. It simply looks easier for me to keep track of all operations precisely and generate or reflect easily the desired tree structure.
Above all, FileZilla has a feature (translation from my German FileZilla) called "compare file list". Here it's possible to use file size or modification time as a criterion. There is also the possibility to "hide identical files", so that only these files which you want to redact remain visible.
And even if it means you have to install a new program, I am convinced that there is an advantage. Here is the link to get it and where you can read informations about how it works:
http://filezilla-project.org/ and
http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Tutorial#Using_the_site_manager
Mac: Mac OS X
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
Of course, you also need all the access data to reach your server.
Good luck
Hans-Günter

Problem with spry menu bar position:fixed?

Hello technical heros,
I'm having trouble with my website's spry menu bar... here is the site.
As you can see, when you scroll down, the spry menu overlaps the header fixed block, which the rest of the content smoothly scrolls under. How do I tell the spry object to do the same?
I also want the sidebar 2 (menu bar) to be a fixed block like my header and footer. I know how to do this, but when I change the css, it throws my spry menu over to the left of the page, ontop of my sidebar 1.
Help, please!!

Hi,
Have a look here: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_positioning.asp
I hope this helps.
Ben

Can Spry Menu subs display upwardly?

I would like to know if it is possible for a horizontal spry
menu's sub items to load upwardly instead of the normal dropdown
method? The client would like their menu at the bottom of the page
instead of the top, so the sub items would need to load in an
upward direction. If someone has managed to achieve this, can you
please assist and if there's no chance of this happening, please
let me know.
Many thanks
Steve

Its intended to be run locally so I dont have a link but here is the html for my index file. As you can see I have set the top row at 200 so it will display all the items in the menu bar when a user hovers over one of the bars. What I am trying to do is eliminate the white space by setting the top frame to around 60 but doing so you wont be able to see the drop down items. Make sense?
<html>
<title> Testing </title>
<frameset rows="200,*">
<frame src = "menu.html"
<frame src = "Homepage.html"
name="showframe">
</frameset>
</html>

How to position spry submenu items ABOVE main horizontal menu

I am building a site for a new client. (Using DW CS4) I have
inserted a navigation bar using the spry nav widget, which I am
familiar with. However, what I am NOT familiar with is the
positioning of the submenu items. Normally, the default is fine.
However, where the bar is located - the client wants the
submenus to display above the main menu bar.
How do I accomplish this? I understand it will be in the CSS
somewhere, but unsure of as to where (and what) changes.
At the risk of jumbling up the post here, - here is the CSS:
@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
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting
z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug:
http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zi...
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this
container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 132px;
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;
/* 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;
background-color: #7D8BAE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #FFFFF5;
text-decoration: none;
border-right-width: 2.5px;
border-left-width: 2.5px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-color: #536186;
border-right-color: #536186;
border-bottom-color: #536186;
border-left-color: #536186;
/* 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: #DFE2EC;
color: #7D8BAE;
/* 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: #DFE2EC;
color: #7D8BAE;
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-rep
Thanks
Mike

libertymike wrote:
> However, where the bar is located - the client wants the
submenus to display
> above the main menu bar.
>
> How do I accomplish this?
I answered the same question in the Dreamweaver online help
page
"Customize the Menu Bar widget".
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WSEE4C0148-A6F4-4bf5-9DEF-CE06AB026214a .html
Scroll down to the comments section, and look for my answer
to Alve
Henricson's question dated February 8, 2009.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
http://foundationphp.com

Spacing of Spry Menu submenu items, and inserting background images

Hiya, need a bit of help, could someone possibly guide me with this?
I've created a Spry Menu in DW CS5 - so far, so good.. However I'm pretty new to CSS Styles so need pointers at what to change to get the result I need. I've created the spry menu, however the submenu dropdown items are not flush to the ones above, theres a 1px horz gap between each item and while it looks okay, its particularly visible in Firefox and Chrome and would prefer no spacing at all..
The live site is at http://www.ebm.co.uk/2011site/indexnavbar2.html
if you take a look at the drop down menu bar you'll see what i mean - what do I need to do to remove the spacing?
I also want to replace the solid colour with images, where do I specify the images for 1) top menu item 2) submenu item and 3) 'hover' item, and do I need to make any areas transparent?
Any advice would be much appreciated.. thanks!
Chris

This is a good place to start http://www.dwcourse.com/dreamweaver/ten-commandments-spry-menubars.php.
Also this might help http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/CenteringHorizontalMenuBarSample.h tml
Gramps

Spry Menu Bar - Freezing the Menu item in hover when clicking a submenu item

Hi,
I am trying to add a feature to a verticle spry menu bar that freezes the menu item or "parent" (to apear to be hovered) when clicking one of the parents sub-menu items. I want to do this so that users can know how they arrived at the page they're on.
Thanks for your help,
-Shiva

To look at your intention in a different way,
Hover over a submenu item
Parent item is colored/indicated
Submenu item is colored/indicated
Click on the submenu item
New page opens
Parent item "remains" colored/indicated on the new page
There are three or four ways to do this, depending on your site setup, but one basic concept to understand. The emphasis on the Parent menu item is totally independent of whether you got to the new page via the menu or by some other means. The emphasis will always be there, though it will appear to be connected to your clicking on the menu!
Say you have a menu with two Parent menu items, flowers and trees.
On the Flowers menu are submenus: Tulips, Roses, and Gardenias, On all three different Flowers pages (Tulips, Roses, Gardenias), the Flowers parent item will be emphasized.
On the Trees menu are submenus: Oak, Maple, Spruce. On all three different Trees pages (Oak, Maple, Spruce), the Trees parent item will be emphasized.
If you want to go in to each page individually, you can use a general indicator like id="localemphasis". (To emphasize more than one thing on a page, use a class instead of an id)
Using this method, on the Tulips, Roses, and Gardenias pages, put id="localemphasis" on the Flowers parent menu item.
On the Oak, Maple, and Spruce pages, put id="localemphasis" on the Trees parent menu item.
To control the emphasis from the CSS stylesheet, you won't need to go into each page, but you will ID each parent menu item.
Give each 'category' (Flowers, Trees) page a body ID to match the category
Every Flower page wants the Flower parent menu item emphasized, give all three Flower pages a body tag like this: <body id="flowers">
LIkewise, every Tree page wants the Tree parent menu item emphasized, as <body id="trees">
Within the menu itself and on ALL pages, give each parent menu item an id to correspond to its category
<li id="flowers_m">Flowers</li>
<li id="trees_m">Trees</li>
          I have added a "_m" to remind myself that it is the menu item's id. You might need to put the id on the <a> link if you have not used a list for your menu.
In your CSS stylesheet,
   #flowers #flowers_m,
     #trees #trees_m {background-color: red; color: white;}
Please use your own code! White on red might not be your cup of tea...use the same styling as the "hover" styling you mention in your query.
To interpret what we have just done, we have said
     make the background-color red and the text white
for the parent menu item Flowers (id="flowers_m") when you are on a Flowers page (body id="flowers")
and for the parent item Trees (id="trees_m") when you are on a Trees page (body id="trees").
This emphasis is good feedback for your user...remember that for SEO purposes, you will also want to use actual HTML text to reinforce the page environment, that is, h1 titles like FLOWERS and TREES. That will provide more feedback for your user.
Beth

Different widths for Spry Menu Submenu items

On the Customize this widget page for menus, a new style was
suggested for submenu items, to make some of them less wide. This
code below was suggested. How do we attach the new style to the
submenu items? Clicking on each submenu text that's open, and
applying the smaller style doesn't do it.
Here is the code:
ul.MySmallerSubMenu {
width: 4em;
ul.MySmallerSubMenu li
width: 100%;
ul.MySmallerSubMenu li a
width: 100%;
Diana

Lines 96-102 of nl3.css reads
a:active {
    color: #996600;
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    text-decoration: none;
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