Spry Menu shift in IE
I've created a horizontal menubar with the Spry features. In
FireFox, the submenu bars drop
into the correct place and function properly. Pull up the
page in IE 7
and the submenus appear off to the right of where I want them
to be. Here's a link to the page
http://www.mlrecovery.org/testindex.html
The dropdown menu is under Locations.
I did follow this instruction but it did not help.
We have a fix for the IE shift issue. It will be fixed for
Spry 1.5, but in the meantime we have put the js file with the fix
on Labs:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBar.js
Replace your current JS with this new file and it should fix
it.
Did you ever get this fixed. I have the same error. See
www.adshapiro.com/tset. In ie the submenu is way off the page to
the right.
If you fixed this please let me know.
Thanks.
TJ
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@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
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width: auto;
float: right;
vertical-align: middle;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
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cursor: default;
width: 8em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
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/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
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/* 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
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top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 0px;
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text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: middle;
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background-color: #33C;
color: #FFF;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
background-color: #c30100;
color: #ffffff;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
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background-position: 95% 50%;
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background-position: 95% 50%;
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background-repeat: no-repeat;
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background-color: c30100;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
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BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: right;
background: #FFF;
Here's my other page CSS code:
.navigation {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
text-decoration:none;
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
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font-weight: normal;
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padding-left: 200px;
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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vertical-align: top;
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padding-top: 25px;
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font-style: italic;
font-weight: normal;
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line-height: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
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text-decoration: none;
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vertical-align: top;
padding-right: 10px;
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font-size: 12px;
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line-height: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
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text-decoration: underline;
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line-height: 24px;
font-weight: bold;
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text-decoration: none;
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The latest version of the Adobe Spry Framework is 1.6.1, this is the same version that ships with Dreamweaver CS4. If you use Dreamweaver CS3 (uses Spry 1.4), its wise to upgrade your files to the latest version. This can easily be done using the Spry Updater that can be found here.
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position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
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f\loat: right;
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Thanks.
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Here's the css I'm using for the menu:
@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
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 12px;
list-style-image: none;
text-decoration: none;
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ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
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margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
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cursor: pointer;
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float: left;
list-style-image: none;
text-decoration: none;
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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 #FFFFFF;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal a, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:visited
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #992E2E;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-right: 2em;
padding-bottom: 0.2em;
padding-left: 0.5em;
text-decoration: none;
/* Stephen added this id selector so a clicked main tab would remain a white block*/
#clicked
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a white background and black text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have an orange background and black text. Stephen added the ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover#clicked so the hover highlight color would appear when you mouse over a clicked state main menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus,
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover#clicked
background-color: #FFCC66;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;I guess the real question is: is there any reason IE7 would add a 1px white line at the top of the main menu and each submenu?
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Divs are shifting after inserting spry menu bar
I have tried so much that it has driven me crazy. Initailly I created this site by APdivs and it came out perfect and worked great, except it was not fluid and looked bad on bigger browser and screen size. I decided to change it to fluid way. Now I am in bad shape as soon as I put a horizontal spry menu bar. it shifts the columns to the left and leaves a blank space next to the column 3. I am out of idea, how to fix it. As soon as I take the menu bar out, it works perfect. and columns are stretched to the end on both sides.
Here is the link of test page
www.hpbsurgery.net
This is what I have tried-nothing worked
put menu bar in container
put menu bar in header div
Put mebu bar in a horizontal div inside header div.
changed the size and dimension of menu bar
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am running out of time.
Thanks much all....Thanks very much for your help. I just wanted to mention one thing which I discovered this am by accident out of frustration. Originally, I was trying to control the size of the 3 columns with external CSS and it was messing up after inserting menu bar. I wrote directly in the code this am to exactly define the size besides in my CSS. AND............it fixed the problem and stretched the columns to the end on both side and sizes were appropriate, I am still not sure why did it happen.
I am not a professional and trying to build my own site as I have interest in web design, but this is first time with DW.
I really appreciate your help and suggestion about the code.
Thanks a lot,
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:46:19 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Divs are shifting after inserting spry menu bar
Re: Divs are shifting after inserting spry menu bar
created by Nancy O. in Dreamweaver General - View the full discussion
You appear confused about how to use CSS classes and IDs. Classes (.className) can be used multiple times in layouts as for re-usable styles. IDs (#IDName) can be used only one time per page -- as for layout regions or when JavaScript is needed to act upon it. Try copying and pasting this code into a new blank page. Hopefully it will make more sense than what you have now.
<!NEW LAYOUT>
body
#header
#horizontalmenu {
min-height: 43px;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0px;
#leftbar {
background-color: aqua;
float:left;
width: 18%; /*combined width and padding = 22%*/
padding:2%;
#middlebar {
background-color: white;
float:left;
width: 52%; /*combined width and padding = 56%*/
padding:2%;
#rightbar {
background-color: green;
color:white;
float:right;
width: 18%; /*combined width and padding = 22%*/
padding:2%;
#credential
#footer {
background-color: maroon;
width: 100%;
color:white;
padding:2%;
#header
[Item 2 | #]
[Item 3 | #]
[Item 3.1 | #]
[Item 3.1.1 | #]
[Item 3.1.2 | #]
[Item 3.2 | #]
[Item 3.3 | #]
[Item 4 | #]
<!END #HEADER>
#leftbar
#middlebar
#rightbar
#credential
#footer
Nancy O.
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Spry menu IE Problems, shifting submenu to the right
ok haveing trubble with the menu shifting to the right of the drop down, it works in all other but IE... any ideas ?
code:
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
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font-size: 105%;
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width: auto;
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margin-bottom: 0px;
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height: auto;
float: left;
border-bottom-style: none;
font-weight: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-style: normal;
color: #000;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0%;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0%;
text-align: center;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
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list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: auto;
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 0;
visibility: inherit;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 110%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 12em;
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;
-khtml-opacity: 0.9;
background-color: #666;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 11em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
width: 12em;
margin-left: 12em;
/* 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;
background-color: #666;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1.5px solid #fff;
font-size: 12px;
padding-top: 0px;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: auto;
background-color: opacity
:0.4;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 100%;
padding-top: 0em;
padding-right: 2em;
padding-bottom: 0em;
padding-left: 0em;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
color: #F69;
background-color: transparent;
/* 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: transparent;
color: #FF6699;
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background-color: #FFF;
filter:alpha(opacity=0);
/* [disabled]-moz-opacity:0.; */
-khtml-opacity: 0.;
opacity: 0.;There are so many (unnecessary) changes made to the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css that I have given up.
Please have a look here http://www.dwcourse.com/dreamweaver/ten-commandments-spry-menubars.php#one and start again.
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Spry Menu Bar Horizontal Problem in Internet Explorer
I'm having a problem with a spry menu bar. It works fine in Firefox and Google Chrome, but in Internet Explorer the submenus shift to the right.
And here's the code:
@charset "UTF-8";/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 *//* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. *//******************************************************************************* LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order *******************************************************************************//* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */ul.MenuBarHorizontal{ margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; cursor: default; width: 54em; border-top-width: thick; border-right-width: thick; border-bottom-width: thick; border-left-width: thick; border-top-color: #00F; border-right-color: #099; border-bottom-color: #093; border-left-color: #0F9; top: auto;}/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */ul.MenuBarActive{ z-index: 1000;}/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */ul.MenuBarHorizontal li{ margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; position: relative; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 18em; float: left; color: #F00; background-color: #0000FF;}/* 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: 18em; 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: 18em;}/* 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: #000; padding: 0.5em 0.75em; color: #C96; text-decoration: none; border: black;}/* 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: #900; color: #009; text-align: center;}/* 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: #900; color: #FFF; text-decoration: underline;}/***************************************************************************** ** 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%; text-align: center; font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace; font-weight: bold; color: #FF0; border: 3px solid #039;}/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu{ background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%;}/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover{ background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%;}/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover{ background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%;}/******************************************************************************* BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert *******************************************************************************//* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe{ position: fixed; z-index: 1010; filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);}/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */@media screen, projection{ ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE { display: inline; f\loat: left; }}
WHAT DO I DO? HELP ME, THANKS.
Ummmmmmm HELLOO.
SOMEONE HELP ME.
....boy you guys are reallllly helpingOhhhh noooo now it looks like this.
I don't know what to do!!!!
Here, let me give you the css code and the html code.
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#apDiv1 {
position:absolute;
width:160px;
height:126px;
z-index:1;
left: 205px;
top: 424px;
margin: 0 auto;
-->
</style>
<style type="text/css">
#apDiv3 {
position:absolute;
width:254px;
height:206px;
z-index:2;
left: 123px;
top: 1529px;
#apDiv4 {
position:absolute;
width:250px;
height:194px;
z-index:3;
left: 381px;
top: 1528px;
#apDiv5 {
position:absolute;
width:256px;
height:200px;
z-index:4;
left: 636px;
top: 1529px;
#apDiv6 {
position:absolute;
width:349px;
height:205px;
z-index:5;
left: 889px;
top: 1530px;
</style>
<style type="text/css">
#apDiv7 {
position:absolute;
width:887px;
height:204px;
z-index:6;
left: 324px;
top: 905px;
#apDiv8 {
position:absolute;
width:1295px;
height:74px;
z-index:1;
left: 212px;
top: 668px;
</style>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
</script>
<style type="text/css">
#apDiv2 {
position:absolute;
width:209px;
height:197px;
z-index:2;
top: 1220px;
left: 171px;
#apDiv9 {
position:absolute;
width:331px;
height:97px;
z-index:3;
left: 385px;
top: 1218px;
#apDiv10 {
position:absolute;
width:292px;
height:199px;
z-index:4;
left: 724px;
top: 1218px;
#apDiv11 {
position:absolute;
width:200px;
height:115px;
z-index:1;
body {
background-color: #000;
background-image: url();
text-align: center;
color: #F00;
.none {
font-size: 80px;
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-weight: bold;
#apDiv12 {
position:absolute;
width:991px;
height:60px;
z-index:5;
left: 198px;
top: 192px;
#apDiv13 {
position:absolute;
width:200px;
height:115px;
z-index:1;
left: 588px;
top: 322px;
</style>
<body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/WebConfroll.png','images/youthfootballroll.png','images/ statefbsweatshirt.png')">
<p align="center" class="none"><img src="images/footballtitle.png" width="941" height="183"></p>
<ul id="MenuBar2" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">[Placeholder]</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">[Placeholder]</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Videos</a>
<ul>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">2008 Videos</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="videos/2009 videos/Glenbard part one/partone.html">Glenbard South Game</a></li>
<li><a href="#">             &# 160;         [Placeholder]</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">2009 Videos</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">2010 Videos</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
<li><a href="#">[Placeholder]</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><span class="cent"><img src="images/bulldoghelmit.png" width="150" height="99" /></span></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p class="cent"> </p>
<div align="center">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li> <a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Football Season 2008</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/2008%20Defense%20Stats.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/2008%20Offense%20Stats.pdf">Offense and Records</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/BHS%20All%20Time%20Stats.pdf">AllTime Data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football2009/Western%20Sun%202009.pdf">Western Sun Final Standings</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Football Season 2009</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/2009%20Banquet%20Record%20and%20Stats.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/2009%20Banquet%20Record%20and%20Stats.pdf">Record Book and Offense</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202010/All-Time%20Data%202009.pdf">Alltime Data</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Football Season 2010</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2011%20Checklist.pdf">2010-2011 Offseason Checklist</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20Defense%20Stats%20Final.pdf">Defense Stats</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20Stats%20Packet.pdf">Record Book and Offense</a></li>
<li><a href="http://page.bps101.net/web/t1350/Football%202011/2010%20ALL%20TIME.pdf">Alltime Data</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><img src="images/Batavia Youth football.png" alt="" width="869" height="200" /></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image4','','images/WebConfroll.png',1)"></a></p>
<div align="center">
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.athletics2000.com/upstate8/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image7','','images/WebConfroll.png',1)"><img src="images/WebConf.png" name="Image7" width="206" height="194" border="0" id="Image7" /></a><a href="http://www.bataviayouthfootball.org/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image6','','images/statefbsweatshirt.png',1)"><img src="images/statefbsweatshirt.jpg" name="Image6" width="375" height="199" border="0" id="Image6" /></a><a href="http://www.bataviayouthfootball.org/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image8','','images/youthfootballroll.png',1)"><img src="images/youth football.png" name="Image8" width="329" height="197" border="0" id="Image8" /></a></div>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image5','','images/youthfootballroll.png',1)"></a></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><img src="images/Logos.png" width="1167" height="199" /></p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar2 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar2", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: auto 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 54em;
border-top: thick solid #00F;
border-left: thick solid #00F;
border-right: thick solid #00F;
border-bottom: thick solid #00F;
height: 2.2em;
/* 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 a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
width: 18em;
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: 18em;
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: 18em;
/* 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: #000;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #C96;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: center;
height: 1.2em;
/* 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: #900;
color: #009;
/* 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: #900;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: underline;
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%;
color: #FF0;
font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;
DON'T GIVE UP ON ME. PLEASE. -
Hello!
I'm using a horizontal spry menu bar with horizontal sub menu
and have almost gotten the navigation exactly how I need it. I'm
stuck, however, and don't know how to fix the following:
1. I have absolute positioning set for my sub menu so that
the items appear under the left-most main menu item instead of
their parent item. When I change screen sizes, the sub menu stays
put (as it should) and everything else moves with the re-size. I
can't figure out where the sub menu positioning is originally set
to change it or how to get it to appear where it currently is
without using absolute positioning.
2. I would like to center the contents of the sub menu and I
think I've tried text-align:center everywhere possible but to no
avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
3. Is there any way that the menu can recongnize the page
that it's on and display the appropriate link high-lighted. For
example, when you open the home page the active/focus state for the
"Home" button shows (for this menu it would be a different color
background image) and it's corresponding sub menu would be
displayed automatically. Would a script do it? Is there anything
like this available?
The following is the page code and accompanying css. I have
not altered the js file. I apologize for not being able to provide
a link, but may be able to do so this evening.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Stephi
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>ContraCostaTest</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="Style/style.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<style>
#container{width:800px; margin:0 auto 0 auto;}
#content{width:714px; background-color:white;margin:22px 0 0
0;color:#CCCCCC; font-size:10px}
#navbar{padding:0 0 32px 0; *margin:0 0 -32px 0; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="navbar">
<ul id="MainMenu" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
href="#">Home<br /> </a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">About Us <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Contact Us <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> ATM Locator <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> News <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Links <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Join <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Employment</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Loans
&Rates</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Consumer Loans <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> VISA <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Mortgage Loans <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Auto Buying
Center</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
href="#">Checking & Savings</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Regular Savings <span> |
</span></a> </li>
<li><a href="#"> Checking <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> IRA <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Share Certificates <span>
| </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Club Accounts <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Rates</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Electronic Services</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">@ccessOnline <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> BillPay <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Direct Deposit &
Payroll Deduction <span> | </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Automatic Bill Payments
<span> | </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> ATM or MasterMoney <span>
| </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Access
Line</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Locations<br />
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Forms
& Applications</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Auto
Buying Center</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is
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test. This is a test.
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MainMenu",
{imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif",
imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
@charset "UTF-8";
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
padding: 0; /*NOTE: removing this item causes menu bar to
shift right in FF. wierd...*/
list-style-type: none;
font-size: .7em;
cursor: default;
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 9.1em;
float: left;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
position: absolute;
left: 112px;
*left: 101px;
border:#CC0033 1px solid;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 112px;
*left: 101px;
z-index: 1030;
/*NOTE: submenu set at higher z-index than for
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul above at 1020 to display*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-image:url(../Images/BGup_03.gif);
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
height:30px;
padding-top:2px;
text-align:center;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
color: #FFF;
background-image:url(../Images/BGover_03.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe{
position: absolute;
left: 112px;
*left: 101px;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul{
background-color:#999999;
width:714px; /*NOTE:setting a width keeps submenu
horizontal*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li{
width:auto;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a{
background-color:#999999;
height:20px;
background-image:none;
margin-left:5px;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a span{
color:black;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
ul li a:focus{
color:white;
height:20px;
background-image:none;
TextHello!
I'm using a horizontal spry menu bar with horizontal sub menu
and have almost gotten the navigation exactly how I need it. I'm
stuck, however, and don't know how to fix the following:
1. I have absolute positioning set for my sub menu so that
the items appear under the left-most main menu item instead of
their parent item. When I change screen sizes, the sub menu stays
put (as it should) and everything else moves with the re-size. I
can't figure out where the sub menu positioning is originally set
to change it or how to get it to appear where it currently is
without using absolute positioning.
2. I would like to center the contents of the sub menu and I
think I've tried text-align:center everywhere possible but to no
avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
3. Is there any way that the menu can recongnize the page
that it's on and display the appropriate link high-lighted. For
example, when you open the home page the active/focus state for the
"Home" button shows (for this menu it would be a different color
background image) and it's corresponding sub menu would be
displayed automatically. Would a script do it? Is there anything
like this available?
The following is the page code and accompanying css. I have
not altered the js file. I apologize for not being able to provide
a link, but may be able to do so this evening.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Stephi
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>ContraCostaTest</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="Style/style.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<style>
#container{width:800px; margin:0 auto 0 auto;}
#content{width:714px; background-color:white;margin:22px 0 0
0;color:#CCCCCC; font-size:10px}
#navbar{padding:0 0 32px 0; *margin:0 0 -32px 0; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="navbar">
<ul id="MainMenu" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
href="#">Home<br /> </a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">About Us <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Contact Us <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> ATM Locator <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> News <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Links <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Join <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Employment</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Loans
&Rates</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Consumer Loans <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> VISA <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Mortgage Loans <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Auto Buying
Center</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
href="#">Checking & Savings</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Regular Savings <span> |
</span></a> </li>
<li><a href="#"> Checking <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> IRA <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Share Certificates <span>
| </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Club Accounts <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Rates</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Electronic Services</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">@ccessOnline <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> BillPay <span> |
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Direct Deposit &
Payroll Deduction <span> | </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Automatic Bill Payments
<span> | </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> ATM or MasterMoney <span>
| </span></a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Access
Line</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Locations<br />
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Forms
& Applications</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Auto
Buying Center</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">This is a test. This is a test. This
is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is
a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a
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test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a
test. This is a test.
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MainMenu",
{imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif",
imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
@charset "UTF-8";
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
padding: 0; /*NOTE: removing this item causes menu bar to
shift right in FF. wierd...*/
list-style-type: none;
font-size: .7em;
cursor: default;
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 9.1em;
float: left;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
position: absolute;
left: 112px;
*left: 101px;
border:#CC0033 1px solid;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 112px;
*left: 101px;
z-index: 1030;
/*NOTE: submenu set at higher z-index than for
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul above at 1020 to display*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-image:url(../Images/BGup_03.gif);
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
height:30px;
padding-top:2px;
text-align:center;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
color: #FFF;
background-image:url(../Images/BGover_03.gif);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe{
position: absolute;
left: 112px;
*left: 101px;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul{
background-color:#999999;
width:714px; /*NOTE:setting a width keeps submenu
horizontal*/
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li{
width:auto;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a{
background-color:#999999;
height:20px;
background-image:none;
margin-left:5px;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a span{
color:black;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
ul li a:focus{
color:white;
height:20px;
background-image:none;
Text -
Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) -- IE 6 Rendering Snag
Hi:
Once again I need to call on the aid of others with more detailed knowledge of the spry frameworks, particularly the Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (vers. 1.0) developed by Adobe labs.
I have posted the site to http://www.aclco.org/testing/index.html. You will see that it works beautifully, thanks to the help of many contributors, except in IE 6.0, where, when the sub menus become visible and drop down, it causes all page elements (divs) to be pushed down to create the necessary room to accommodate the drop down. The natural overlap of the sub-menu over pre-existing content doesn't seem to overlay properly.
It does this on all pages, and not just those which present flash sideshows. And as I say it is peculiar to IE 6.
I have followed the tutorial provided by David Powers in deploying the widget and have not altered the spry skin css or the basic css. Any changes (affecting padding, etc. and adding of background images where created using the widget browser and supplemented in the css added to the template page. The "add-on" css was then added to the general style sheet governing the whole site layout.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem, if there are any work arounds or hacks that anyone is aware of, or any other suggestions that might help.
I haven't been able to preview this on a free standing PC using IE6, but was able to reproduce the problem on 2 cross browser testing services employing a "live mode". I renders properly until the sub-menus are called upon to become visible, and then the problem manifests.
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Steve Webster
Attach.
Please note: Attached are the relevant excerpts from the customized style sheet as amended from the spry widget browser:
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segme nt-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segme nt%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:2E35A3;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */I have systematically reviewed the tutorial of David Powers on the Spry Menu bar 2.0, and recreated the process in a methodical process - making one change at a time, and then checking each step on a cross browser testing server, and have found, quite to my amazement that what seems to be causing the problem of the "gap" in IE 6 is by removing the customized styles from the head of the individual pages, and placing them in CSS stylesheet that governs the entire site.
I find this quite inexplicable. When the customized CSS rules governing the menu bar are situated in a separate stylesheet, the page renders well enough for any of the "modern" browsers, but won't render in IE 6. All that I get is a horizontal menu with drop downs, but none of the styling (specifically background colours, background images, etc.) that are called for in the stylesheet and that otherwise appear when rendered by other browsers.
I realize that this sounds strange, but I was wondering if anyone had experienced this phenomenon, or could offer any explanation.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Webster -
Spry Menu Bar won't work correctly.
This is an image of what the overall menu bar layout should be like-all of the links and sublinks.
I have a few problems that I am having all relating to the spry menu bar.
I ran my code through w3c validation service but it came up with alot of errors which when corrected didn't make sense or work either.
I made this menu bar in a widget called spry menu bar 2.0. I then edited it to place in the correct names and it doesn't work correctly and the w3c validation code seems to have 43 errors with the spry bar. I am been over it a dozen times and I can't seem to figure it out. Here is the code.
Also, have I made the links correctly?
I would appreciate any help you could offer! thank you
Dreamweaver cs 5.5
<!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" />
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<style type="text/css">
#container {
width: 1000px;
#header {
width: 1000px;
</style>
<link href="../Stylesheet_Unicorn_main_layout_template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<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">
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:#000000;
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", cursive; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 18px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
background-color:#000000;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #ffffff #cccccc #ffffff;
border-style: none solid none solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none solid none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ff00ff;
background-color:#000000;
padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000000;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:#000033;
color:#ff00ff;
padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
width: 7em;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #999999;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #999999; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ff0000;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #999999;
color: #ff0000;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #cccccc;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #cccccc;
color: #ff0000;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #000000;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #000000;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #999999; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ff0000;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #cccccc; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ff0000;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
</style>
<script type="text/xml">
<!--
<oa:widgets>
<oa:widget wid="2141544" binding="#MenuBar" />
</oa:widgets>
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="header_editable" -->
<div id="header">Unicorn Writers Conference</div>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<div id="menubar_left">
<ul id="MenuBar">
<li> <a href= "../Pages/home.html">Home</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Events</a>
<li> <a href="#">Mission Statement</a>
<li> <a href="#">Resources</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Advanced networking</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Query Review</a>
<li> <a href="#">Ms Review Sessions</a>
<li> <a href="#">1-1 Sessions</a>
<li> <a href="#">Workshops</a>
<li> <a href="#">Genre Chart</a>
<li> <a href="#">Writers Links</a>
</ul></li>
<li> <a href="#">Key Presenters</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Speakers</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="../Pages/2013_speakers_page.html">Speakers 2013</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Speakers 2012</a>
</ul>
<li> <a href="#">Editors</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Editors 2013</a></li>
<li> <a href="../Pages/2012_editors.html">Editors 2012</a>
</ul>
<li> <a href="#">Literary Agents</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="../Pages/2013_L_agents.html">Literary Agents 2013</a></li>
<li> <a href="../Pages/2012_editors.html">Literary Agents 2012</a>
</ul>
</ul>
<li> <a href="#">Information</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">St. Clements</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Directions</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Hotels</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Menu</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Unicorn Photo Gallery</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Day Schedule</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">FAQ</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Staff</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
<li> <a href="#">Registration</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Acclaim</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Spotlights</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Testamonials</a>
<li> <a href="#">Sponsorship</a>
</ul>
<li> <a href="#">Classifieds</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">View</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Place</a></li>
</ul>
<li> <li> <a href="#">Merchandise</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
// BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar
var MenuBar = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar2("#MenuBar", {
widgetID: "MenuBar",
widgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarVertical MenuBarMenuBarVerticalLeftShrink",
insertMenuBarBreak: true,
mainMenuShowDelay: 100,
mainMenuHideDelay: 200,
subMenuShowDelay: 200,
subMenuHideDelay: 200
// EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544
</script>
</div>
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="main_content_editable" -->
<div id="main_content">Content for New Div Tag Goes Here</div>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable --></div>
<div id="footer">Content for id "footer" Goes Here</div>
</body>
</html>These Spry support files are all 404 Not found on server.
<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>
Nancy O. -
Spry menu bar places vertically, not horizontally?
I followed the tutorial on using the widget browser to download Spry Menu Bar 2.0 and after configuring for a horizontal bar placed the bar in the tutorial index.html. The placement results in a vertical menu bar. What am I doing wrong?
SPRY CODE
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Spry Menu Bar - Basic : tcm.menu</title>
<link type='text/css' href='Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
<script type='text/javascript' src='Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMEffects.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryWidget.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryMenu.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarKeyNavigationPlugin.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js'></script>
<style type="text/css">
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:#b0c9d9;
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 18px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
border-color: #cddce7 #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 960px;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 960px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
background-color:transparent;
border-width:2px;
border-color: #cddce7 #5c6a72 #5c6a72 #cddce7;
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#333333;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 6px 15px 6px 25px;
width: 138px;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#677e8c;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
width: 171px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #677e8c;
border-color: #697278 #b8c4ca #b8c4ca #697278;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #b0c9d9;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #000000;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #000000;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="MenuBar">
<li> <a href="#">Home</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Entertainment</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">TV Listings</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Music</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Hits</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Ragga</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Roots</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Reggaeton</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Dancehall</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">Country</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">The Dirt</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Hollywood</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">NY Beat</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">London Scene</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">The Web</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">Politics</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Sports</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Football</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Baseball</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Basketball</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Racing</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">F1</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Indy Car</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Stock Car</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar2("#MenuBar", {
widgetID: "MenuBar",
widgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarLeftShrink",
insertMenuBarBreak: true,
mainMenuShowDelay: 100,
mainMenuHideDelay: 200,
subMenuShowDelay: 200,
subMenuHideDelay: 200
</script>
</body>
</html>
INDEX.HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Bayside Pulse</title>
<link href="styles/bayside.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<link href="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic. css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMEffects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryWidget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryMenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/Spr yMenuBarKeyNavigationPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/John Bachelor/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/Temp/Assets/eam5844.tmp/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/Spr yMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css">
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:#b0c9d9;
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 18px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
border-color: #cddce7 #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 960px;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 960px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
background-color:transparent;
border-width:2px;
border-color: #cddce7 #5c6a72 #5c6a72 #cddce7;
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#333333;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 6px 15px 6px 25px;
width: 138px;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#677e8c;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
width: 171px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #677e8c;
border-color: #697278 #b8c4ca #b8c4ca #697278;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #b0c9d9;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #000000;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #000000;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
</style>
<script type="text/xml">
<!--
<oa:widgets>
<oa:widget wid="2141544" binding="#MenuBar" />
</oa:widgets>
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><img src="images/bayside_pulse.jpg" width="960" height="150" alt="Bayside Pulse" /></div>
<div id="nav">
<ul id="MenuBar">
<li> <a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Entertainment</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">TV Listings</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Music</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Hits</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Ragga</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Roots</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Reggaeton</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Dancehall</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">Country</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">The Dirt</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Hollywood</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">NY Beat</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">London Scene</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">The Web</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> <a href="#">Politics</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Sports</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Football</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Baseball</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Basketball</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Racing</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">F1</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Indy Car</a></li>
<li> <a href="#">Stock Car</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
// BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar
var MenuBar = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar2("#MenuBar", {
widgetID: "MenuBar",
widgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarLeftShrink",
insertMenuBarBreak: true,
mainMenuShowDelay: 100,
mainMenuHideDelay: 200,
subMenuShowDelay: 200,
subMenuHideDelay: 200
// EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544
</script>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<h3>Check This Out</h3>
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<p>Sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt ullamco laboris nisi. Duis aute irure dolor mollit anim id est laborum. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut enim ad minim veniam, in reprehenderit in voluptate.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, duis aute irure dolor cupidatat non proident. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt. </p>
</div>
<div id="maincontent">
<h2>There’s More to San Francisco than Cafe Townsend</h2>
<p>Sure, Cafe Townsend's cool, and Chef Ipsum provides a great range of international cuisine. But San Francisco is the city where you can weave dreams of your own. Come, explore!</p>
<h3>Scott’s For a Night to Remember</h3>
<p>It's certainly one you're unlikely to forget—or should that be Fegette? Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. <img src="images/adobeduo.jpg" alt="Scott and Duane" width="400" height="233" class="floatright" />In reprehenderit in voluptate quis nostrud exercitation ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Eu fugiat nulla pariatur.</p>
<p>Velit esse cillum dolore mollit anim id est laborum. Ut enim <a href="#">ad minim veniam</a>, ullamco laboris nisi in reprehenderit in voluptate. Excepteur sint occaecat duis aute irure dolor consectetur adipisicing elit. Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>
<p>Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut enim ad minim veniam, duis aute irure dolor. Ullamco laboris nisi in reprehenderit in voluptate excepteur sint occaecat. Cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Consectetur adipisicing elit, <a href="#">ullamco laboris nisi</a> in reprehenderit in voluptate.</p>
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</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>Please upload your file to a server and give us a link. It is extremely difficult to work with pasted-in code...much more useful to see it in working order.
Beth -
Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (1.0) - Handling of widget generated CSS, placement and rendering problems in CSS
Hello:
I wanted to repost my question to re-frame the issue based on what I have learned thus far.
I am working on a website that has been developed using the Spry Menu Bar Framework UI (2.0) I.0, that has some peculiar rendering problems that affect IE 6 in particular. The CSS is reprinted below.
In particular, when I post the widget generated CSS in the head as it is orginally situated by the framework, the menu bar works fine. However, it seemed to me that I should be able to reduce page weight (an important consideration considering my target population) by placing it in the general style sheet governing the entire site.
When I place the styles at the beginning of the style sheet the menu doesn't render at all in any of the browsers (IE 6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape, etc.) as it conflicts with the general rules governing links that appear later in the style sheet. When I place the styles specific to the Menu bar at the end of the style sheet, then the menu bar renders properly in all browsers except IE 6.
The odd thing is that the only way to ensure that the menu bar works in IE 6 is to keep the menu related styles in the head of each page. This raises problems related to page weight (not an insurmountable consideration if no other solution can be found) but still an issue. Likewise I need to support IE 6, again given the target audience/population. The issue obviously has something to do with specificity, but I am not certain that is the only consideration at work here. I have not tried the !important selector in regard to the menu, as IE 6 seems to only partially support this.
Thanks in advance for any advice or insight that can be provided. Thanks in particular to Martin for his contributions to my earlier question related to this issue.
Steve Webster.
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or rightpointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, allsubmenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top levelmenu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets onthe same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on onMenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than theparent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of theMenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element forselection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu"(MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in aselector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets thespecificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs assignificant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lotof these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes formodern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these,as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.jsscript.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser isInternet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditionalcomments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style>
The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below: (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bugthat is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8. For Moreinformation see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align:center; /* This allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
color: #000000;
list-style-image: none;
background-color: #FCFCFC;
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
color:#000066;
a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: underline;
a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #1B8DCD;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #F30A0A;
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #151A96;
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection %20_960.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
#header {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elementsin the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #headerinstead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
width:960px;
height:332px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960 .png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#header h1 {
margin-right: 0px; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
display:none;
#header img {
display: none;
#Main_nav_contents {
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0px;
height: 39px;
width: 950px;
padding-top: 275px;
padding-left: 39px;
z-index: 3;
#MenuBarVertical {
margin-bottom: 50px;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-bottom:200px;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
.mainContent_left {
margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the columndown the right side of the page - no matter how much content thesidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can removethis margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the#sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
width: 600px;
float: left;
.sidebar_right {
float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:10px;
font-size:90%;
.mainContent_right {
margin-left: 10px;
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px;
width: 600px;
float: right;
.sidebar_left {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:30px;
margin-right:0;
overflow: hidden;
font-size:90%;
.main_content_centered {
width: 650px;
margin-left: 155px;
.main_content_centered_header {
margin-left: 75px;
.sidebar_textbox {
margin: 0px;
width: 260px;
padding: 2px;
.sidebar_textbox_header {
width:255px;
height:58px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Por trait%20Textbox%20Header.png);
.sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
width: 255px;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Por trait%20Textbox%20Middle.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
.sidebar_textbox_content {
/* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks inbrowser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within thebackground of the text box */
width: 230px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 40px;
.sidebar_textbox_footer {
width:255px;
height:64px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Port rait%20Textbox%20Footer.png);
#issues_menu a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight:bold;
#issues_menu a:visited {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:hover {
color: #F30A0A;
font-weight:bold;
font-style: oblique;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:active {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#archives {
padding-top: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 0px;
.landscape_textbox {
width: 500px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 30px;
padding-top:35px;
padding-bottom: 25px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
.landscape_textbox_hdr {
width:500px;
height:38px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%2 0Header.png);
.landscape_textbox_middle {
width:auto;
margin:auto;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/lan dscapte%20Textbox%20Middle.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
.landscape_textbox_content {
width:450px;
padding:25px;
.landscape_textbox_ftr {
width:500px;
height:44px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Lan dscape%20Textbox%20Footer.png);
#footer {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
width: 960px;
height: 222px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_ 960.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#footer p {
margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footerwill avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
text-align:center;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 10px;
font-size: small;
#footer h5 {
text-align:center;
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
.dropcap {
display: block;
float: left;
line-height: 80%;
font-size: 250%;
font-weight: bolder;
color: #000066;
padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
.red_arrows {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);
.blue_bullets {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Fu ll.png);
.attention {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:x-large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.attention_small {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.table {
table-layout:fixed;
.blue {
color: #00F;
#container .mainContent_left p .blue {
color: #0303A0;Hi Nancy:
The specific code that I am referring to is the CSS code governing the styling of the spry menu widget that only works in IE 6 if, and only if, it remains in the head of the web page. If removed and placed in a stylesheet, the IE plugins fail to compensate for the IE 6 "gap" bug. As I said, it doesn't make sense to me that, assuming specificity is addressed, that these can not be included in an external style sheet. I am looking for a) an explanation why they must remain embedded in the web page; and 2) any means by which I might be able to export them.
I will reproduce the specific css style (code) below: it should also be visable through reveal source --
Thanks again, Steve Webster.
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or rightpointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, allsubmenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top levelmenu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets onthe same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on onMenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than theparent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of theMenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element forselection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu"(MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in aselector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets thespecificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs assignificant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lotof these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes formodern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these,as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.jsscript.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser isInternet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditionalcomments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style> -
Problem with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (1.0) re - CSS
Hello:
I am having some difficulty with a Spry Menu Bar (horizontal) 2.0 (1.0) that I have created. Initially I thought the problem was with regard to rendering issues on IE 6.0, however the problem seems to be more general than that and I have come to believe that it has to do with the CSS created by the Widget Browser and modified once imported into the webpage. Hence I have elected to post my issue here rather than on the spry page.
I have relied on the tutorial provided by David Powers (Bayside.css) and in addition other documentation regarding the Spry menu bar UI. The problem appeared to be one of IE 6 rendering the page with a gap that is created when the drop down menus appear, thus pushing down any divs that appear below the page.
However, through a painstaking process of trial and error my problem now seems to be that when I export the CSS generated by the widget browser to an external style sheet (the general style sheet governing the whole site), it conflicts with other CSS styles regarding links etc. The end result is that all the padding, background colours, background images, and text colours are lost. So long as the CSS remains within the head this doesn't happen.
My thinking is that this must have to do with issues of specificity, inheritence, etc.
The site can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.aclco.org/testing/index.html. In its current form all CSS related to the menu bar is found in the head of each page. (see CSS below).
My question is can I establish a separate style sheet for the horizontal menu bar and have those styles applied specifically (and only) to the menu bar. My only other alternative is to work through the remainder of the general style sheet and work through any issues of specificity/inheritance -- which may be the "best" practice, but it risks causing other "cascading" [sic] problems elsewhere.
Any advice or suggestions or directed reading (that would point to a solution) that could be offered would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Webster
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style>
The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below: (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bug that is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8. For More information see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align:center; /* This allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
color: #000000;
list-style-image: none;
background-color: #FCFCFC;
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
color:#000066;
a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: underline;
a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #1B8DCD;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #F30A0A;
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #151A96;
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection%20_960.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
#header {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
width:960px;
height:332px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#header h1 {
margin-right: 0px; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
display:none;
#header img {
display: none;
#Main_nav_contents {
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0px;
height: 39px;
width: 950px;
padding-top: 275px;
padding-left: 39px;
z-index: 3;
#MenuBarVertical {
margin-bottom: 50px;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-bottom:200px;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
.mainContent_left {
margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the column down the right side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
width: 600px;
float: left;
.sidebar_right {
float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:10px;
font-size:90%;
.mainContent_right {
margin-left: 10px;
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px;
width: 600px;
float: right;
.sidebar_left {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:30px;
margin-right:0;
overflow: hidden;
font-size:90%;
.main_content_centered {
width: 650px;
margin-left: 155px;
.main_content_centered_header {
margin-left: 75px;
.sidebar_textbox {
margin: 0px;
width: 260px;
padding: 2px;
.sidebar_textbox_header {
width:255px;
height:58px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20He ader.png);
.sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
width: 255px;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Mi ddle.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
.sidebar_textbox_content {
/* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks in browser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within the background of the text box */
width: 230px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 40px;
.sidebar_textbox_footer {
width:255px;
height:64px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Foo ter.png);
#issues_menu a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight:bold;
#issues_menu a:visited {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:hover {
color: #F30A0A;
font-weight:bold;
font-style: oblique;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:active {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#archives {
padding-top: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 0px;
.landscape_textbox {
width: 500px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 30px;
padding-top:35px;
padding-bottom: 25px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
.landscape_textbox_hdr {
width:500px;
height:38px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20Header.png);
.landscape_textbox_middle {
width:auto;
margin:auto;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/landscapte%20Textbox%20 Middle.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
.landscape_textbox_content {
width:450px;
padding:25px;
.landscape_textbox_ftr {
width:500px;
height:44px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20F ooter.png);
#footer {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
width: 960px;
height: 222px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_960.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#footer p {
margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
text-align:center;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 10px;
font-size: small;
#footer h5 {
text-align:center;
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
.dropcap {
display: block;
float: left;
line-height: 80%;
font-size: 250%;
font-weight: bolder;
color: #000066;
padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
.red_arrows {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);
.blue_bullets {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Full.png);
.attention {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:x-large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.attention_small {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.table {
table-layout:fixed;
.blue {
color: #00F;
#container .mainContent_left p .blue {
color: #0303A0;Hello Martin:
Thanks for your input. However I am not certain we have resolved this issue adequately, or understand the principles governing the css as regards this spry menu framework 2.0 (1.0).
For example, the menu only works in IE 6.0 if the css remains in the head. I agree with your original post that it shouldn't make any difference whether the css is posted in the head or in a separate style sheet (so long as specificity issues are addressed). Both should work -- and yet it doesn't.
If the CSS is placed in the separate style sheet governing the total site, it doesn't work for 6.0. If placed at the top of the style sheet, conflicts of specificity prevent the menu from rendering properly in any of the browsers causing the rules for general links to govern the menu. This has been verified using a cross browser testing. If the styles are placed at the bottom of the style sheet to help them take precedence, they work in all the browsers except for IE 6.
The website I am building needs to support IE 6 for a variety of reasons, and because it is catering to the non-profit community and to low income persons, I am mindful of even small differences in page weight.
So for me, at least, the issue remains baffling.
I appreciate your input, but also would appreciate the input from others, and especially Adobe Community Professionals and employees. The spry framework in this regard is not well documented. I am not certain if this is exclusively a CSS problem, if it might also be complicated by the architecture of the spry framework, or if indeed other variables are at play.
I would be my hope that in resolving the problem, other users of the this particular spry framework might also benefit.
Thanks,
Steve. -
Spry Menu issues in Internet Explorer
I have created a Spry menu for my website and although the menu appears to look fine in Firefox and Safari, the formatting changes in Internet Explorer(IE).
1.sub menu bar is not dropping down below the main menu bar it is appearing at the top of the screen.
2.When you hover over the sub menu bar items the font should be white however in IE it is appearing as an aqua color.
3.The menu bar is not straight across the page, at the beginning and end there are chunks of the menu bar that appear white.
Are there any fixes for these issues that would help to make the menu look consistent across all browsers. The website page is
www.applmgt.net/LMNtestpage/html, below is the code. Any help would be appreciated as soon as possible.
Code
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Process operators – woodbuffalo.net</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link href="mystylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link href="print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"/>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
a:link {
color: #300;
-->
</style></head>
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<script src="http://code.superstats.com/code/ss/applicationswb/0/30b" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
br = navigator.appName + parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
if (code != ' ' || br == 'Netscape2') {
document.write(code);
} else {
document.write(' <im'+'g src="http://code.superstats.com/b/ss/applicationswb/1'+ '?pageName=' + escape(pageName) + '" alt="" border=0>'); }</script>
<noscript><img src="http://stats.superstats.com/b/ss/applicationswb/1" alt="" border=0></noscript><!-- End Superstats tracking code. -->
<body vlink="#4E2C03">
<table width="760" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><img src="images/buffalobanner2.jpg" width="760" height="142"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="764" border="0" bgcolor="#4E2C03"cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="311" "height="60"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="index.html" class="navbar">www.woodbuffalo.net</a> > <a href="LMNtestStart.html" class="navbar">Labour
Market News</a></font></td>
<td width="136" height="65"><!-- BEGIN: Constant Contact Border Email List Button -->
<div align="center">
<table width="135" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#330000">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center"><div style="float: right; margin-right:3px; margin-top:2px; background-color: #330000;"><a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102570618937&p=oi" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/visitor/email5_trans.gif" alt="Email Newsletter icon, E-mail Newsletter icon, Email List icon, E-mail List icon" border="0" align="center"></a></div>
<a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102570618937&p=oi" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; font-family:Arial; font-size:13px; color:#000000;" target="_blank">Join our FREE Subscriber List</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
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<td width="299" height="65"><form action="http://www.applmgt.net/SearchResults.html" id="cse-search-box">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="011832208051241677611:jmojvtncciq" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="text" name="q" size="31" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script>
</table><ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<table width="780" border="0" >
<tr>
<td><li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="index.html"> Home</a>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"> Employment
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="employINTRO.html">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="aboutWages.html">Wages</a></li>
<li><a href="employOG.html">Oil & Gas</a></li>
<li><a href="employSERV.html">Service/Retail</a></li>
<li><a href="employCONST.html">Construction</a></li>
<li><a href="employGOVED.html">Gov't/Education</a></li>
<li><a href="employFOREST.html">Forestry</a></li>
<li><a href="employTRANS.html">Transportation</a></li>
<li><a href="employHEALTH.html">Health</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"> Training & Education</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="trainINTRO.html">
<script type="text/javascript" src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js"></script>
Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="trainSKILLS.html">General Skills</a></li>
<li><a href="trainSAFE.html">Safety</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"> About Wood Buffalo</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="aboutINTRO.html">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="MediaEvent.html">Coming Events</a></li>
<li><a href="AboutCostIntro" font size"12" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Cost of Living</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="AboutCostHouse.html">Housing</a></li>
<li><a href="AboutCostAcc.html">Other Accommodations</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="aboutStats.html">What's it like in Fort McMurray?</a></li>
<li><a href="aboutBeforeMove.html">Before You Move</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#"> Labour Market News</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="mediaINTRO.html">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="mediaLMN.html">Labour Market News</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Links</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="linksINTRO.html">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="AboutCostIntro" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Cost of Living</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="AboutCostHouse.html">Housing</a></li>
<li><a href="AboutCostAcc.html">Other Accommodations</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="linksEMPLIntro.html">Employer Websites</a></li>
<li><a href="linksRESIntro.html">Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="linksFACTSIntro.html">Fast Facts</a></li>
<li><a href="ContactUS.html">Contact Us</a></li>
<li><a href="privactStatement.html">Privacy Statement</a></li>
<li><a href="disclaimer.html">Disclaimer</a></li>
<li><a href="siteMAP.html">Site Map</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
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<p><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Process operators are expected to be in high demand in the next few years. One study reported that between 2006 and 2020, over 5,000 new plant and facility operators will be needed in the oil sands.</em></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One study reported that between 2006 and 2020, over 5,000 new plant
and facility operators will be needed in the oil sands. As construction
of more and more oil sands projects ends and production begins, there
is a change in the kind
of workers most needed. More maintenance trades are needed and less
construction trades workers are needed. Also, companies now need more
operating and technical employees, such as process operators, power
engineers, and instrumentation technicians.<p>A study recently put out by the Government of Alberta (Report on Phase
2 of the Oil Sands Labour Resource Study) found that from 2006 to 2020,
15,000 new employees would be needed for operations and maintenance
in the oil sands industry. The study says there will be a need for
over 5,000 plant and facility operators between 2006 and 2020. This
includes process operators
(noc 9232) and power engineers (noc 7351).
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Over the next few years, more plants and facilities will open up and the
demand for process operators and power engineers will increase. There is
advancement in this industry and even movement between industries.</font></em></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Opportunities</strong><br>
Recently, there have been over 80 job postings for process operators
and power engineers, so there is great opportunity in Wood Buffalo
for this occupation.
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“Attrition
is one reason (for the increased need) because a lot of the older
guys are going to be coming to the age of retirement within a
very short time and they will have to be replaced,” says
John Cook, associate dean of technology with Keyano College. “The
other reason is expansion of the existing plants and new plants
starting up.”</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hazel White,
recruitment advisor with Syncrude Canada Ltd. says they recently
had a large number of process operator
positions
posted online
because of their practice to promote staff within the company.While
this is an entry-level position, most companies require that
their employees have at least a high school diploma and their fourth
class power engineering ticket. For more information on education,
see Schools
on page 4.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font> </p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Process operators</strong><br>
There are a few different kinds of process operators: refinery/upgrader
process operator, gas plant operator, and oil and gas pipeline operator,
to name a few. The jobs found in Fort McMurray are generally related
to mineral and hydrocarbon processing in the oil sands industry.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When
searching for jobs, be aware that there are a number of different
job titles for process operators. Usually, the title of the job
is based on the process the employee is involved with or by the
unit
in which the employee works. See the list on this page for
other common
job titles found recently on Job Bank.<img src="images/htmlbulletinimages/1008v3.png" width="209" height="365" align="right" class="floatrightnocut"></font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Movement between
industries</strong><br>
There are industries other than oil and gas where process operators
can work, such as pulp mills and chemical plants. They may process
different products, but employers will often consider hiring workers
from these other industries.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“We have been successful in taking people that had previously worked
in a paper mill,” says White with Syncrude. “The processes
are certainly different. They’re dealing with paper, rather
than oil, but we recently hired 18 (previous mill workers) and
it’s
my understanding that all 18 have gotten their fourth class tickets
since coming to Syncrude. We still need people with refinery experience,
but it is possible.” </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Power engineering</strong><br>
Process operators in the Fort McMurray area generally have their
fourth or third class power engineering certificate, which allows
them to
process steam and operate boilers. Other process operators, such
as pulp mill operators, don’t necessarily need this. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In
order to be called a power engineer, a person must be certified
through the Alberta Boilers Safety Association to operate pressure
equipment (www.absa.ca). </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There are
four different levels of power engineer—the lowest
is fourth class, going up to first class. For more information
on the Alberta Boilers Safety Association, contact their Fort
McMurray office
at 780-714-3067.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Field and control
room operators</strong><br>
There are basically two levels of process operators in Fort McMurray:
field operators and control room operators (or board operators). </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“</font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Primarily
when someone is starting out, they’re in the field,” says
Cook. “After a few years they can become a board
operator if they want to do that. They are more experienced
and are
kind of like
the team lead. They tell the field people what needs to
be done and if it needs manual operation, (the field operators)
go out and do it—turning
valves, adjusting an instrument to control temperature,
pressure, flow, or level.”</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Process
operators are responsible for the initial separation processes
or the special treatment
required to ensure that
impurities such
as water and sediments are removed from oil and gas in
the field. Once
separated, the oil or gas is transported by pipeline
to refineries, gas plants or markets.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Some duties
of a process operator are operating equipment to ensure that
the oil meets
specifications before it
goes into
a pipeline.
Some of the equipment could be:<img src="images/htmlbulletinimages/1008v4" width="302" height="201" class="floatrightnocut"></font></p>
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<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">compressors</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">dehydration
units</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">vacuum and atmospheric
distillation columns</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">cokers</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">fractionators</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">pumps</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">compressors</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">steam
turbines</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">heat exchangers</font></li>
</ul> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“A process operator, whether in Fort McMurray, or in a gas plant
in Medicine Hat, basically processes the upstream
oil and gas until it’s
purified enough to go through a pipeline
outside the gates of the plant,” says
Cook. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Co-op education</strong><br>
There are many power engineering programs around northern Alberta
(see below) and some process operating courses. Keyano College
offers co-ops
for both courses and one of the advantages of this program,
besides being in Fort McMurray, is the job placements which
are provided.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“We only take as many students as we can guarantee work placement
spots, and students have to compete for a seat,” says Cook. “We
look at their educational background, their marks and then
there’s
an interview process with Keyano staff and industry people—just
like applying for a job.”</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Salary and benefits</strong><br>
The pay range for this occupation varies greatly depending
on experience and training, but the range is about $20
to $47 per
hour, but averages
about $30 to $40 per hour. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Because these
positions are for ongoing production and maintenance of oil
sands projects,
employees are expected
to move to
Fort McMurray, regardless of whether they are doing shift
work or
not.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Over the
next few years, there will be many more opportunities for people
wanting to get into a career in process
operating
or power engineering.</font></p></td>
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padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 6px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:#666666;
color:#cccccc;
padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
width: 7em;
width:auto;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #333333;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #333333; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #333333;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #666666;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #666666;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color:#333;
min-width:100%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #ffffff;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #333333; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #666666; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
SpryMenuBasic.css
/* SpryMenuBasic.css - version 0.5 - Spry Pre-Release 1.7 */
/* Copyright (c) 2010. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* This is the css for a basic Spry 2 MenuBar.
* The first section is basic layout, and should in general not need to be modified.
* The final section of this file specifies images to use for arrows for the menu. These
* are either down or right-pointing as required by horizonatal or vertical layouts. You
* can either replace the referenced images with your own, or you can modify these rules to
* point to your won images.
* These rules are supplemented by those specified in the OAM file for inclusion in the html document,
* or alternatively, the file SpryMenuBarBasicSkin.css which is included with this widget. */
/* Resets for ul and li in menus */
.MenuBar .MenuBarView, .MenuBar .SubMenuView {
display:block;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
/*** Layout Rules for Basic Menu ***/
/* Top Level MenuBar
* Because we float the MenuItemContainers in the MenuBar, we have to make sure the menubar wrapper expands to hold them all.
* The simplest way is to float the widget wrapper
.MenuBar { /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
float:left;
width:100%;
.MenuBarVertical {
float:left; /* Used to make menubar shirink to fit contents */
width:auto;
/* SubMenus */
.MenuBar .SubMenu {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:-10000px; /* By default, all non-visible submenus are hidden by moving way to the west */
padding:0;
/* First level of submenus - pulls down from horizontal menubar, right from vertical */
.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible{ /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
top:100%;
left:0px;
.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top:0px;
left:100%;
/* All submenus below level 1. All pullout to the right */
.MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenuVisible {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:100%;
/* MenuItems, MenuItemLabels, and MenuItemContainers */
.MenuBar .MenuItem {
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
.MenuBar .MenuItemLabel {
display:block;
.MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
position:relative;
white-space:nowrap;
float:left; /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:0;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemContainer {
float:none;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemContainer {
float:none;
/* Layout Rules needed by IE6 - excluded from other browsers */
.SpryIsIE6 .SubMenu .SubMenu {
width:100px;
height:1%;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .SubMenuVisible .SubMenuVisible {
width:auto;
/* End Layout section */
* Arrows - This section specifies arrow images for a submenu dropdowns in Basic SpryMenu.
.MenuBar .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:none;
/* For all arrows used here, we depend upon the image to push itself away from right edge, or the user can add right padding to the MenuItem */
.MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDownGrey.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDownWhite.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
/* IE6 rules for Arrows */
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDown.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBarVertical .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;I love your subject line
Spry Menu 2.0 issues in IE7.. yes another one!
It is us as designers/developers that need to create websites for all current browsers. No sense in blaming the browsers, although in this case we could blame Spry Menu 2.0.
Problem with that is that Spry Menu 2.0 has been successfully tested in all modern browsers.
This leaves us with just one possibility, the designer/developer has erred somewhere along the line. After having checked the support files (JS and CSS) and looked at the markup, we now go to the constructor and see the following
var MenuBar = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar2("#MenuBar", {
widgetID: "MenuBar",
widgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarLeftShrink",
insertMenuBarBreak: true,
A comma after the last value.
I also am wondering why there are two css pages for the menu bar.??
One is the standard CSS for the menubar and under normal circumstances, should not be touched; the other is for the convenience of the designer/developer so that he/she can tweak the menubar to suit. If you wish, you can combine both. In all cases, keep in mind that the CSS for the standard (basic) menubar should come first, so that the other CSS can override the first.
This needs to be corrected in your document
Gramps -
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
DominicOK 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">
<!--
body {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
a:link {color: #6f0070;}
a:visited {color: #009c9c;}
a:hover {color: #6f0070;}
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.Normal-P
margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align:center; font-weight:400;
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margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align:right; font-weight:400;
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margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align:left; font-weight:400;
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font-family:"Times New Roman", serif; font-size:15.0px;
line-height:1.27em; color:#400040;
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font-family:"Times New Roman", serif; font-size:13.0px;
line-height:1.31em; color:#400040;
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font-family:"Times New Roman", serif; font-weight:700;
font-size:13.0px; line-height:1.31em; color:#800000;
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font-family:"Times New Roman", serif; font-weight:700;
font-size:12.0px; line-height:1.33em;
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font-weight:700; font-size:12.0px; line-height:1.33em;
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font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif; font-weight:700;
font-size:16.0px; line-height:1.19em; color:#ffffff;
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<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.
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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
<a name="stjohnpassion"></a>Bach’s </span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="concertoratorio.shtml#StJohnPassion" style="color:#000000;">St. John Passion</a></span><span class="Normal-C6">, also with the <a name="australianpops"></a>Australian Pops Orchestra in a concert of
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
of Carmen. This was another role debut and a resounding success for him despite a
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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