Spry menu SSI

I can not get the menu to show when SSI is in a table. It shows in Dreanweaver only.

menu2.html link
http://spartumc.com/menu2.html
web page link
http://spartaumc.com/index11.html
Help, before I jump in the river! (27 degrees)

The easiest way to check if your server supports SSI is to copy what is below and paste it into a document.
<HTML>
<TITLE>Test File</TITLE>
 
</HTML>
Save it as an HTML file and upload it to your server. Then use your browser to look at it. You should see the current day name (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... you get the idea). If you see the day name, you're good to go.
If not, try saving the file with the extension .shtml. See the "s" I stuck in there? That "s" acts as a parsing command alerting the server that there's something on the page it has to play with.
Many servers are configured to parse all pages thus you probably won't need to set the page to .shtml, but you might.
If both attempts fail, you can try contacting your server people to see if they'll configure the server for you, but they probably won't or they would have already.
I hope this helps.
Ben

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

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

OK Nancy, so I moved the code as you suggested, and it has gone back to showing the nav menu formatted BUT still with a gap at the top.
Here is the new code for the page. BTW it only has 463 lines
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<meta name="Generator" content="DreamweaverCS5.5"/>
<title>Dominic Natoli 1996 to 1998 Schedule</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Mario Lanza, Mario Lanza Story, Joshua, Handel, St. John Passion, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ismaele, Nabucco, Don Josè, Carmen, Australian Pops Orchestra, Beethoven, 9th Symphony, Sydney Opera House, Tamino, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Concert Hall, Ernesto, Don Pasquale, Donizetti, Nemorino, L'Elisir d'amore, Dorset Opera, Messiah, Handel, Adelaide Symphony, Queen Elizabeth Hall, English National Opera, Don Josè, Strike up the Band, Gershwin, Rusalka, Chandos, South Australian State Opera, Opera Queensland, Australian Pops Orchestra, Melbourne Concert Hall, Ernesto, Don Pasquale, Donizetti, Nemorino, L'Elisir d'amore, Dorset Opera, Messiah, Handel, Adelaide Symphony, Queen Elizabeth Hall, English National Opera, Don Josè, Strike up the Band, Gershwin, Rusalka, Chandos, South Australian State Opera, Opera Queensland, Australian Pops Orchestra"/>
<meta name="description" content="Dominic Natoli Schedule 1996 - 1998"/>
<meta name="author" content="Alex Weston"/>
<meta name="copyright" content="© All rights reserved"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb"/>
<style type="text/css">

<style type="text/css">
body {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
a:link {color: #6f0070;}
a:visited {color: #009c9c;}
a:hover {color: #6f0070;}
a:active {color: #6f0070;}
</style>
<link href="../Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMEffects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryWidget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryMenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarKeyNavigationPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 0;
clear: both;
}#MenuBar_2 {
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          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 {
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          width: 80px;
.MenuBar_2FixedLeft {
          float: left;
          width: 800px;
.MenuBar_2FixedCentered {
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          width: 800px;
          margin-left: auto;
          margin-right: auto;
.MenuBar_2FixedCentered br {
          clear:both;
          display:block;
.MenuBar_2FixedCentered .SubMenu br {
          display:none;
.MenuBar_2Fullwidth {
          float: left;
          width: 800px;
          display: block;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemContainer {
          padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
          margin: 0;           /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
                                        For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
                                        or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
                                        Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItem {
          padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px;
          background-color:#0036CC;
          border-width:1px;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
          border-style: none solid none solid;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemFirst {
          border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemLast {
          border-style: none solid none none;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
          text-align:center;
          line-height:1.4em;
          color:#ffffff;
          background-color:#0036cc;
          padding: 0px 30px 6px 3px;
          width: 40px;
          width:38px;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
          width:44px; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItem {
          font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
          font-weight: normal;
          font-size: 12px;
          font-style: normal;
          background-color:#9999CC;
          padding:0px 22px 0px 10px;
          border-width:1px;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
          /* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
          border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
          border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
          padding-top: 6px;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
          border-style: solid solid solid solid;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
          padding-bottom: 6px;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
          text-align:left;
          line-height:1em;
          background-color:#9999CC;
          color:#ffffff;
          padding: 6px 10px 6px 5px;
          width: 30px;
          width:auto;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemHover {
          background-color: #9999CC;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
          background-color: #9999CC; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
          color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
          background-color: #9999cc;
          color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
          background-color: #0036cc;
          border-color: #FFFFFF;
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
          background-color: #0036cc;
          color: #FFFFFF;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar_2 .SubMenuVisible {
          background-color: #9999CC;
          min-width:auto; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
          border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
          border-width:0px;
          border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar_2.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
          top: 100%;          /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
          left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
                                                  and your personal taste.
                                                  0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
                                                  on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
                                                  menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer MenuItem padding-left will align
                                                  the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
          z-index:10;
#MenuBar_2.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
          top: 0px;
          left:100%;
          min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar_2 .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
          background-color: #9999CC;
          min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
          top: 0px;          /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
                                        that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
                                        vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
          left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
                                        negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
                                        to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
          background-color: #0036CC; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
          color: #FFFFFF;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
          background-color: #0036cc; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
          color: #FFFFFF;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar_2 .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
          margin-left: -15px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
          /* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
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<span class="Normal-P3"><br /><span class="Normal-P3"><span class="Normal-C6">His first engagement was in Cork, Ireland for Opera South as <a name="josedebut"></a></span><span class="Normal-C7"><a href="donjose.shtml" style="color:#000000;">Don Josè</a></span><span class="Normal-C10"> </span><span class="Normal-C6">in their production
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    ludicrously short rehearsal period, the last minute replacement of the conductor
    resulting in a dress rehearsal which began at 8:30 and finished at 2:30 the next
    morning which happened to be the day of the opening night which was followed by performances
    on each of the consecutive three evenings. A true baptism of fire for a new role!
    It has become an oft repeated role for Dominic; to date he has been involved in 5
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Spry menu showing up incorrectly IE6

Hi there,
My spry menu horizontal bar is showing up incorrectly in
IE6....
The buttons are meant to be maroon during hover, but they're
all the default blue, sometimes when you hover over them they turn
pink, sometimes blue, sometimes completely gray, the colors are all
messed up...
But it's fine in other browsers..... Please advice, thanks
cgbub

Even if it would be included as SSI your markup will still be wrong.
if your SSI is in the body, that means you will have a extra tittle tag and meta tag in the body of your page. Same would count for script and <link> tags.
If the SSI was in the head. Than your whole menu bar markup would also be in the <head> which isn't valid either.
Also, you menu is on the right side because:
ul.MenuBarVertical ul {
cursor:default;
font-size:100%;
left:100em;
list-style-type:none;
margin:-5% 0 0 101%;
overflow:visible;
padding:0;
position:absolute;
top:0;
width:169px;
z-index:1020;
You say it needs to be there due to the 100em left
For the underlines, in the ul.MenuBarVertical a css selector add the following property;
text-decoration:none;

Spry Menu Bar in Javascript

Hi all ,
Is it possible to place a Spry Menu bar in a Javascript? If
so can any one please tell me of a tutorial or URL with an example.
I have a web site (Which was produced solely in Frontpage)
and has several pages with the same menu on them, so if I need to
change any thing on the menu I have to change it on every page.
If I could call the menu in via a javscript then obviously I
would only need to ever alter the one script.
Be gentle with a beginner....lol
Thanks in advance.

Balloony2 wrote:
> If I could call the menu in via a javscript then
obviously I would only need
> to ever alter the one script.
That's a recipe for disaster. Your menu would never be found
by search
engines, nor would anyone be able to access your site if
JavaScript were
disabled in the browser.
The way to approach this issue is to use a server-side
include (SSI).
Ask your hosting company if it supports SSI or a server-side
language
such as ASP or PHP. Using SSI normally involves changing the
filename
extension to .shtml. You would also need to change the
filename
extension with a server-side language.
The advantage of doing this on the server is that every user
sees the
same output, regardless of whether JavaScript is enabled.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
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What is best way to update Spry menu Bar linkages throughout site?

I am new to Dreamweaver CS3 and Spry DataSets; however, I easily created multi-level linkages using the Spry Menu Bar tool. Is there a way that I can cause any linkage change(s) to be proliferated throughout the pages of my web site. This menu bar is the main navigational bar in my site. Currently, I am finding myself going to each page to update the linkages and I know that is the wrong way to accomplish this. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. degraylady

Arnout,
Thank you so much for your reply. It would have taken me a long time to figure this out for myself. I found an article on SSI with detailed instructions at http://http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Dreamweaver-CS3-Libraries-and-Server-Side -Includes-Tutorial/28247 so I appreciate your answer so much.

Spry menu data accesable from single location?

I am trying to create a horizontal spry menu bar that all the information and links reside in a central location. So that when I make a change to the menu, It is reflected on every page throughout the entire web site. At the moment, when I make a change to the menu, it only changed for the specific page I am working on. Do anyone have any Ideas?

Nancy is right, you just want to insert the code that is exclusive to your menu. So you have something like this (I am leaving out a lot of code for the purpose of keeping it simple):
<html>
<head>
<title>Server-side Include</title>
<style type="text/css"> li { color: red; } </style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>San Diego</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>San Francisco</li>
</ul>
<body>
</html>
... the only code you would include in your include file is this:
<ul>
<li>San Diego</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>San Francisco</li>
</ul>
I don't think this was very clear in the help page I referred you to. But another mistake you made was to save the include file as an html file instead of an include file with an ssi extension. Again, using the example, I would save the include file as:
testmenu.ssi
If you save your file as an htm file, when the server looks for the include file it won't find it.
Each page that has the include file needs to have a .shtm or shtml extension in order for the server to know to parse the page for an SSI, respond to the SSI command. So, if I were going to insert the include file in a page named "happiness," I would name the page happiness.shtml, not happiness.html.
Now all you need to do is to replace the menu code:
<body>
<ul>
<li>San Diego</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>San Francisco</li>
</ul>
<body>
... with the code to call the include:
<body>

</body>
Dreamweaver has a very easy way to insert the include file. You can either select the menu code and type it in manually, or you can select the code, click the Insert on the menu bar, choose Server-Side Include, navigate to your file and insert it.

DreamWeaver Spry Menu Help

OK! So im pretty good with Adobe DreamWeaver and have no problem creating or editing a Spry Menu. My issue is how to Edit a Spry Menu so that i can add or remove topics across multiple pages, without having to individualy edit each page.
I am looking to have a website of over 500 Pages and i want one Spry Menu bar that can be edited once, but changes the drop down options for all 500+ pages that. I will frequently want to update the Spry Menu.
If anyone here has any idea how i do that, please let me know, i have been searching google all day, with no luck.
Thanks

You would use a SSI file (Server Side Include)
The idea is that you create one file (containing all the spry menu coding) and then via the server side include the spry menu coding is inserted into all of the pages that you apply it to.
When you come to update the menu you just change the one file and upload that to your server instead of 500 pages.
Google 'server side include'

Spry menu bar woes (add submenu levels and edit width)

So i need some spry menu bar help. Apparently as a graphic designer i'm also expected to webdesign, and while i can solve most problems with a good googling, i seem to be at my wit's end fo this one. So the site i'm doing has a header ith a horizontal spry pop-up menubar (in Dreamweaver CS4). But some problems arise: when i manually add another submenu level, they don't show up in chrome or FF, they do werk perfectly in IE6. I just add the following code to the codepage:
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">audio equipment</a>             <ul>               <li><a href="#">Digital Matrix Systems</a></li>               <ul>               <li><a href="#">R2 Digital Audio Matrix</a></li>               </ul>               <li><a href="#">pre-amplifiers & mixers</a></li>               <ul>               <li><a href="#">PMX124</a></li>               </ul>
the PMX never pops open in FF an chrome.. Should i be adding anything else to another part of the code? i'd like my submenu text to have a slight indent? How ever, when i add the indent to ul.menubarhorizontal ul , it elongates the submeny boxes in IE6, while looking normal (width) in chrome and FF. WHat part of the CSS style should i change to just have the text scoot over a bit without it really affecting the box layout? ALso, if anyone could tell me how to add a wee bit of spacing above the text (and beneath), i'd be eternally gratefull. Also, how do i change the with of the submenus? seing as my main buttons are images, but the names i ned to put in my submenus are turning out to be pretty long...
HTML code for the menu:
<tr>     <td><ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">       <li><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Products','','images/knoppenrollover_01.jpg',1)"><img src="images/knoppenbalk_01.jpg" name="Products" width="169" height="41" border="0" id="Products" /></a>         <ul>           <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">audio equipment</a>             <ul>               <li><a href="#">Digital Matrix Systems</a></li>               <ul>               <li><a href="#">R2 Digital Audio Matrix</a></li>               </ul>               <li><a href="#">pre-amplifiers & mixers</a></li>               <ul>               <li><a href="#">PMX124</a></li>               </ul>               <li><a href="#">music Sources</a></li>               <li><a href="#">amplifiers</a></li>               <li><a href="#">paging</a></li>               <li><a href="#">speakers</a></li>               <li><a href="#">microphones</a></li>             </ul>           </li>           <li><a href="#">racks and stands</a></li>           <li><a href="#">cables</a></li>         </ul>       </li>       <li><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Company','','images/knoppenrollover_02.jpg',1)"><img src="images/knoppenbalk_02.jpg" name="Company" width="165" height="41" border="0" id="Company" /></a>         <ul>           <li><a href="#">Who are we?</a></li>           <li><a href="#">history</a></li>   <li><a href="#">contact us</a></li>   <li><a href="#">philosophy</a></li>   <li><a href="#">careers</a></li>         </ul>       </li>       <li><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('news','','images/knoppenrollover_03.jpg',1)"><img src="images/knoppenbalk_03.jpg" name="news" width="166" height="41" border="0" id="news" /></a></li>       <li><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('projects','','images/knoppenrollover_04.jpg',1)"><img src="images/knoppenbalk_04.jpg" name="projects" width="166" height="41" border="0" id="projects" /></a></li>       <li><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Downloads','','images/knoppenrollover_05.jpg',1)"><img src="images/knoppenbalk_05.jpg" name="Downloads" width="165" height="41" border="0" id="Downloads" /></a>         <ul>           <li><a href="#">catalogs</a>            </li>           <li><a href="#">manuals</a></li>           <li><a href="#">software</a></li>           <li><a href="#">documents</a></li>           <li><a href="#">pricelists</a></li> </ul>       </li>       <li><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Contact','','images/knoppenrollover_06.jpg',1)"><img src="images/knoppenbalk_06.jpg" name="Contact" width="169" height="41" border="0" id="Contact" /></a></li>     </ul></td>
sprymenuhorizontal.css:
@charset "UTF-8"; /* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */ /* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */ /*******************************************************************************   LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order   *******************************************************************************/ /* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal {      margin: 0;      padding: 0;      list-style-type: none;      font-size: 14px;      cursor: default;      width: 1010px;      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } /* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: [url]http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html[/url] */ ul.MenuBarActive {      z-index: 1000; } /* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal li {      margin: 0;      padding: 0;      list-style-type: none;      font-size: 100%;      position: relative;      text-align: left;      cursor: pointer;      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 {      list-style-type: none;      font-size: 100%;      z-index: 1020;      cursor: default;      width: 166px;      position: absolute;      left: -1000em;      background-color: #6C6C6C;      height: 0px;      margin-top: 0px;      margin-right: 0em;      margin-bottom: 10px;      margin-left: 0em;      text-align: right;      text-indent: 0em;      padding-top: 0px;      padding-right: 0em;      padding-bottom: 0px;      padding-left: 0px;      border-top-width: 1px;      border-right-width: 1px;      border-bottom-width: 1px;      border-left-width: 1px;      border-top-style: solid;      border-right-style: solid;      border-bottom-style: solid;      border-left-style: solid;      border-top-color: #666;      border-right-color: #666;      border-bottom-color: #666;      border-left-color: #666; } /* 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;      height: 0px; } /* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {      width: 166px; } /* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul {      position: absolute;      height: 41px;      margin-top: 0%;      margin-right: 0%;      margin-bottom: 0px;      margin-left: 162px;      float: right; } /* 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 #666;      background-color: #6C6C6C;      height: 0px;      padding-left: 0em; } /* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a {      display: block;      cursor: pointer;      background-color: #6C6C6C;      padding: 0em;      color: #FC0;      text-decoration: none;      font-size: 14px;      margin-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 {      background-color: #FC0;      color: #FFF; } /* 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: #FC0;      color: #FFF; } /*******************************************************************************   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: 98% 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: 98% 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: 98% 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: 98% 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;      } }[/SPOILER] any help would be greatly appreciated, as i've been fidgiting with this thing for 2 days now, to no satisfying effect...

since the layout of the pasted text got all weird, here i'm trying it again.
sprymenubarhorizontal.css:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 14px;
cursor: default;
width: 1010px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
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
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 166px;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
background-color: #6C6C6C;
height: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0em;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0em;
text-align: right;
text-indent: 0em;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0em;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-color: #666;
border-right-color: #666;
border-bottom-color: #666;
border-left-color: #666;
/* 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;
height: 0px;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 166px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
height: 41px;
margin-top: 0%;
margin-right: 0%;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 162px;
float: right;
/* 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 #666;
background-color: #6C6C6C;
height: 0px;
padding-left: 0em;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #6C6C6C;
padding: 0em;
color: #FC0;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 14px;
margin-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
background-color: #FC0;
color: #FFF;
/* 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: #FC0;
color: #FFF;
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: 98% 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: 98% 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: 98% 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: 98% 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;

How can I add more than one same spry menu (eg. collapsible menu) with in different styles (font size, color, background, etc) on current page?

How can I add more than one same spry menu (eg. collapsible menu) with in different styles (font size, color, background, etc) on current page?

Hi Nancy,
This screenshot was only for imagination. A part of the code (not all) is below. In the code there are some background images but they are not seem in live mode.
<!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></title>
<link href="css/my_site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryTabbedPanels.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryCollapsiblePanel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryTabbedPanels.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryCollapsiblePanel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style>
#CollapsiblePanel1 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel1 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel1 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-image: url(images/international.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Gray2-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelContent {
    background-color: blue;
#CollapsiblePanel3 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel3 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel3 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Gray2-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel4 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel4 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel4 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Gray2-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel5 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel5 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel5 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Gray2-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
</style>

Spry menu bar doesn't appear correctly in IE

Hi guys..
I created a spry menu bar in DW CS4. It looks fine in Firefox but in IE 8, the background image of the navigation bar appears white after allowing activecontrol to run. I didn't include any image for ul.MenuBarHorizontal a because I wanted to use the background image for the div containing the navigation bar.(Hope I didn't confuse you there).. I tried using the search box but couldn't find any solution to my problem. Here are my screen shots.
This is in firefox.
This is in IE 8 before allowing activex.
This is in IE 8 after allowing activex. (Part of the navigation bar is white)
Here's the code.Hope you can help me asap. Thanks!
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
/* 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: 9em;
    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: 9em;
    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: 9em;
/* 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;
    background-image: url(../images/single.jpg);
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding-top: 1.05em;
    padding-right: 0.75em;
    padding-bottom: 1.05em;
    padding-left: 0.75em;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: bold;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
    color: #FFF;
    background-image: url(../images/single.jpg);
/* 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
    color: #FFF;
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-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-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(../images/single.jpg);
    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-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;

/* 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 hope this helps.
Ben

Spry Menu Bar css not compatible with IE7? or compatibility View on IE8?

Well i've made my website
. Swimmerbuddy.com
Problem:I used the spry menu bar on a div tag. I've got it working fine on several browser and so on.. but hmm. i noticed that IE7 and only on compatibility view of IE8 it does not work...
It seems like the drop down menus get cover by the main content underneath it..
I started of with dwt i made my self.This is the DWT and the css that controll the dwt and the spry menu bar.
PLZ HELP ME.. THANKS
THIS IS THE DWT THAT THE PAGE RUNS ON
<!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>Untitled Document</title>

<link href="../CSS/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />


<style type="text/css">
a:link {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
</style>
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
a:visited {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
    <div id="networkicons"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/profile.php?id=100001554936595" target="_blank"><img src="../_images/facebook.png" alt="facebook.com" width="45" height="45" border="0" title="facebook.com"/></a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/swimmerbuddy" TARGET="_blank"> <img src="../_images/myspace.png" alt="myspace.com" width="44" height="45" border="0" title="myspace.com"/></a><a href="http://twitter.com/swimmerbuddy" TARGET="_blank"> <img src="../_images/twitter.png" alt="twitter.com" width="43" height="45" border="0" title="twitter.com"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/swimmerbuddy1" TARGET="_blank"> <img src="../_images/youtube.png" alt="youtube.com" width="44" height="45" border="0" title="youtube.com"/></a></div>
    <div id="buyNow1">
      <p><a href="../order_now.html"><img src="../buynowbutton.png" alt="bt1" width="130" height="25" border="0" longdesc="Order Your Swimmer Buddy Today!!" /></a></p>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="mainNav">
    <ul id="mainNavcontent" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
      <li><a href="../index.htm">Home</a>        </li>
      <li><a href="../swimmer.html">Swimmer Buddy</a></li>
      <li><a href="../order_now.html">Order Now</a>        </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Gallery</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="../photo_gallery.html">Photos</a></li>
          <li><a href="../video_gallery.html">Videos</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Zinger Products</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http://www.winkyscoop.com/">Winky Scoop</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.1800succeed.com/">Hypmovation</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.1800succeed.org/">1800SUCCEED</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.zingerproducts.com">Zinger Store</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="../about.html">About Us</a></li>
      <li><a href="../contact.html">Contact Us</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

<div id="pageInfo">
    <div id="info_page">
      <p class="regionID">Region ID</p>
      <hr class="breaklinePageInfo" />
      <p class="breadcrum">> <a href="../index.htm">Breadcrum </a></p>
    </div>
    <div id="mainContent">
      <div id="content">
        <p>Main Content Goes her</p>
      </div>
    </div>
</div>


   <div id="buyNow2"><a href="../order_now.html"><img src="../buynowbutton.png" width="130" height="25" /></a></div>
   
<div id="footer">
<div id="footertext">
        <p class="footertextclass">Copyright © 2010 SwimmerBuddy.com. All rights reserved. SwimmerBuddy.com is part of <a href="http://www.zingerproducts.com" class="footertextclass">Zinger Products</a>. Designated Trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. This page was last modified Setember 28,2010. Swimmer Buddy - Pattent Pending 2010</p>
      </div>
    <div id="footerlinks">
        <p classs="footerlinkspacing"> <span class="footerlinkspacing"><a href="../Disclaimer.html">Disclaimer</a><a href="../terms.html"> Term of Service </a><a href="../contact.html">Contact Us</a></span>
</div>
      </div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("mainNavcontent", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
THIS IS THE MAIN.CSS
@charset "utf-8";
#networkicons {
height: 50px;
width: 200px;
margin-top: 160px;
margin-left: 15px;
position: absolute;
#wrapper {
width: 933px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
text-align: left;
position: relative;
#mainNav {
text-align: center;
position: relative;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
width: 934px;
padding-bottom: 15px;
clear: both;
overflow: visible;
#navwrapper {
width: 935px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
#mainContent {
width: 910px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-top: 20px;
#content {
width: 910px;
position: relative;
#wrapper #footer #footerlinks p .footerlinkspacing a {
margin-right: 20px;
#footer {
width: 930px;
background-color: #fff;
position: relative;
margin-top: 5px;
text-align: center;
color: #000;
padding-bottom: 10px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
#header {
width: 930px;
height: 209px;
background-image: url(../_images/header.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
#buyNow1 {
height: 25px;
width: 140px;
float: right;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #666;
padding: 5px;
position: absolute;
top: 160px;
right: 150px;
.buyNow1 {
color: #666;
#wrapper #pageInfo #info_page .breadcrum {
color: #003;
#wrapper #pageInfo #info_page .breadcrum a {
color: #003;
html, body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
#buyNow2 {
height: 25px;
width: 130px;
float: right;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px;
position: relative;
#wrapper #buyNow2 a img {
position: absolute;
top: -30px;
right: 50px;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
#pageInfo {
width: 930px;
background-image: url(../_images/pageinfobackground.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color:#FFF;
text-align: left;
padding-bottom: 15px;
margin-top: 18px;
position: relative;
overflow: visible;
visibility: visible;
#wrapper #mainNav #mainNavcontent {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
width: 930px;
.regionID {
font-size: 2em;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFC;
margin-top: 1em;
margin-bottom: 0em;
text-align: left;
margin-left: 5px;
.breaklinePageInfo {
margin-top: 0.5em;
color: #FAFEAB;
.breadcrum {
color: #003;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline;
margin-top: -0.2em;
margin-left: 15px;
#breadcrum {
font-weight: bold;
color: #003;
#footertext {
width: 910px;
font-size: 0.6em;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
#footerlinks {
width: 930px;
font-size: 0.7em;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
color: #000;
position: relative;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
.footertextclass {
color: #000;
.footerlinkspacing {
margin-top: -0.5em;
color: black;
height: 10px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-variant: normal;
letter-spacing: normal;
p {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
body {
text-align: center;
margin-top: 5px;
background-color: #073e78;
background-image: url(../_images/background.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-attachment: scroll;
font-size: 100%;
THIS IS THE dropdown menu.css
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 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: 0px;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: static;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 132.8px;
float: left;
overflow: visible;
visibility: visible;
/* 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: 132.8px;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.2em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: #333;
color: #FFF;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #FFF;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
background-image: url(../_images/bar-top.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
color: #003;
background-image: url(../_images/bar-Bottom.png);
/* 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
color: #003;
background-image: url(../_images/bar-Bottom.png);
background-position: bottom;
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(../_images/bar-topsub.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right top;
/* 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(../_images/bar-topsubhover.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right bottom;
/* 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(SpryMenuBarDownHover.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;

Thanks a lot for that tip. It does improve it by a whole lot.. i c what my mistake was.. however, something is still off
.. The Drop down menu is not behaving well...
As you may c by the picture, the drop down menu now moves to the right. and is not because of the object to its left, i've modified that. Zinger Products Drop Down Menu also does the same.

Question: My spry menu bar is not displaying correctly in Dreamweaver

Hello,
I am new to Dreamweaver CS5, so coding isn't my area of expertise. My problem with my spry menu bar is that it does not display the tabs on the menu bar correctly. When I try to apply new changes to the CSS of the horizontal menu bar, half of the tabs will change and the other half will not. Also, I am unable to drag and move the menu bar itself around, a function that I was once able to do before. At times, only one tab of the menu bar will display itself, without any of the other tabs as well.
I have a hunch that my problems stem from some coding errors in the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css, and possibly in the SpryMenuBar.js. On the CSS Styles panel, my SpryMenuBarHorizontal.CSS list reads as follows:
I also have a hunch that something about this line-up is also incorrect, but I don't exactly know what the problem is.
Here is what my coding for my SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css looks like right now:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
    text-align: center;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
    z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 8em;
    float: left;
    left: 10;
    top: 10;
    height: 10;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 8.2em;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
    width: 8.2em;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    position: absolute;
    margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
    top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    border: 1px solid #CCC;
    text-align: left;
/* 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: #FFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-family: Futura;
    float: none;
/* 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: #C00;
    color: #FFF;
/* 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: #C00;
    color: #FFF;
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;
/* 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: block;
    f\loat: left;
    background: #FFF;
And here is what my SpryMenuBar.js coding looks like right now too:
SpryMenuBar.js
This file handles the JavaScript for Spry Menu Bar. You should have no need
to edit this file. Some highlights of the MenuBar object is that timers are
used to keep submenus from showing up until the user has hovered over the parent
menu item for some time, as well as a timer for when they leave a submenu to keep
showing that submenu until the timer fires.
(function() { // BeginSpryComponent
if (typeof Spry == "undefined") window.Spry = {}; if (!Spry.Widget) Spry.Widget = {};
Spry.BrowserSniff = function()
    var b = navigator.appName.toString();
    var up = navigator.platform.toString();
    var ua = navigator.userAgent.toString();
    this.mozilla = this.ie = this.opera = this.safari = false;
    var re_opera = /Opera.([0-9\.]*)/i;
    var re_msie = /MSIE.([0-9\.]*)/i;
    var re_gecko = /gecko/i;
    var re_safari = /(applewebkit|safari)\/([\d\.]*)/i;
    var r = false;
    if ( (r = ua.match(re_opera))) {
        this.opera = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
    } else if ( (r = ua.match(re_msie))) {
        this.ie = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
    } else if ( (r = ua.match(re_safari))) {
        this.safari = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[2]);
    } else if (ua.match(re_gecko)) {
        var re_gecko_version = /rv:\s*([0-9\.]+)/i;
        r = ua.match(re_gecko_version);
        this.mozilla = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
    this.windows = this.mac = this.linux = false;
    this.Platform = ua.match(/windows/i) ? "windows" :
                    (ua.match(/linux/i) ? "linux" :
                    (ua.match(/mac/i) ? "mac" :
                    ua.match(/unix/i)? "unix" : "unknown"));
    this[this.Platform] = true;
    this.v = this.version;
    if (this.safari && this.mac && this.mozilla) {
        this.mozilla = false;
Spry.is = new Spry.BrowserSniff();
// Constructor for Menu Bar
// element should be an ID of an unordered list (<ul> tag)
// preloadImage1 and preloadImage2 are images for the rollover state of a menu
Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
    this.init(element, opts);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
    this.element = this.getElement(element);
    // represents the current (sub)menu we are operating on
    this.currMenu = null;
    this.showDelay = 250;
    this.hideDelay = 600;
    if(typeof document.getElementById == 'undefined' || (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == 'undefined') || (Spry.is.ie && typeof document.uniqueID == 'undefined'))
        // bail on older unsupported browsers
        return;
    // Fix IE6 CSS images flicker
    if (Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7){
        try {
            document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
        } catch(err) {}
    this.upKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP;
    this.downKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN;
    this.leftKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT;
    this.rightKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT;
    this.escKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC;
    this.hoverClass = 'MenuBarItemHover';
    this.subHoverClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenuHover';
    this.subVisibleClass ='MenuBarSubmenuVisible';
    this.hasSubClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenu';
    this.activeClass = 'MenuBarActive';
    this.isieClass = 'MenuBarItemIE';
    this.verticalClass = 'MenuBarVertical';
    this.horizontalClass = 'MenuBarHorizontal';
    this.enableKeyboardNavigation = true;
    this.hasFocus = false;
    // load hover images now
    if(opts)
        for(var k in opts)
            if (typeof this[k] == 'undefined')
                var rollover = new Image;
                rollover.src = opts[k];
        Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions(this, opts);
    // safari doesn't support tabindex
    if (Spry.is.safari)
        this.enableKeyboardNavigation = false;
    if(this.element)
        this.currMenu = this.element;
        var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName('li');
        for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++)
            if (i > 0 && this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
                items[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].tabIndex='-1';
            this.initialize(items[i], element);
            if(Spry.is.ie)
                this.addClassName(items[i], this.isieClass);
                items[i].style.position = "static";
        if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
            var self = this;
            this.addEventListener(document, 'keydown', function(e){self.keyDown(e); }, false);
        if(Spry.is.ie)
            if(this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass))
                this.element.style.position = "relative";
            var linkitems = this.element.getElementsByTagName('a');
            for(var i=0; i<linkitems.length; i++)
                linkitems[i].style.position = "relative";
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC = 27;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP = 38;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN = 40;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT = 37;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT = 39;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
    if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
        return document.getElementById(ele);
    return ele;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hasClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || !ele.className || ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1)
        return false;
    return true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || this.hasClassName(ele, className))
        return;
    ele.className += (ele.className ? " " : "") + className;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
        return;
    ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
// addEventListener for Menu Bar
// attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
    try
        if (element.addEventListener)
            element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
        else if (element.attachEvent)
            element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
    catch (e) {}
// createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
    var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
    layer.tabIndex = '-1';
    layer.src = 'javascript:""';
    layer.frameBorder = '0';
    layer.scrolling = 'no';
    menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
    layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
    layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
    layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
    layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
// removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer = function(menu)
    var layers = ((menu == this.element) ? menu : menu.parentNode).getElementsByTagName('iframe');
    while(layers.length > 0)
        layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
// clearMenus for Menu Bar
// root is the top level unordered list (<ul> tag)
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
    var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
        this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
    this.removeClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
    return Spry.is.safari && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
    if(this.currMenu)
        this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
        this.currMenu = null;
    if(menu)
        this.addClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
        if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
            if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, this.horizontalClass) || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
                menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
        if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
            this.createIframeLayer(menu);
    this.addClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
    if(menu)
        this.removeClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
        if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
            menu.style.top = '';
            menu.style.left = '';
        if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
            this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element)
    var opentime, closetime;
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    if(menu)
        this.addClassName(link, this.hasSubClass);
    if(!Spry.is.ie)
        // define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
        // if a node is within another node
        listitem.contains = function(testNode)
            // this refers to the list item
            if(testNode == null)
                return false;
            if(testNode == this)
                return true;
            else
                return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
    // need to save this for scope further down
    var self = this;
    this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e){self.mouseOver(listitem, e);}, false);
    this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e){if (self.enableKeyboardNavigation) self.clearSelection(); self.mouseOut(listitem, e);}, false);
    if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
        this.addEventListener(link, 'blur', function(e){self.onBlur(listitem);}, false);
        this.addEventListener(link, 'focus', function(e){self.keyFocus(listitem, e);}, false);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
    this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.hasFocus = true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
    this.clearSelection(listitem);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
    //search any intersection with the current open element
    if (!this.lastOpen)
        return;
    if (el)
        el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        // check children
        var item = this.lastOpen;
        while (item != this.element)
            var tmp = el;
            while (tmp != this.element)
                if (tmp == item)
                    return;
                try{
                    tmp = tmp.parentNode;
                }catch(err){break;}
            item = item.parentNode;
    var item = this.lastOpen;
    while (item != this.element)
        this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
        var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
        this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
        item = item.parentNode;
    this.lastOpen = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
    if (!this.hasFocus)
        return;
    if (!this.lastOpen)
        this.hasFocus = false;
        return;
    var e = e|| event;
    var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
    var link = this.lastOpen;
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
    if (!opts[3])
        opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
    var found = 0;
    switch (e.keyCode){
        case this.upKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
            break;
        case this.downKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
            break;
        case this.leftKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
            break;
        case this.rightKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
            break;
        case this.escKeyCode:
        case 9:
            this.clearSelection();
            this.hasFocus = false;
        default: return;
    switch (found)
        case 0: return;
        case 1:
            //subopts
            this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
            break;
        case 2:
            //parent
            this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
            break;
        case 3:
        case 4:
            // left - right
            this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
            break;
    var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
        opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
    this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.lastOpen = link;
    opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
        //stop further event handling by the browser
    return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
        this.clearSelection(listitem);
    if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
        // ignore bubbled text events
        return;
    if (listitem.closetime)
        clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
    if(this.currMenu == listitem)
        this.currMenu = null;
    // move the focus too
    if (this.hasFocus)
        link.focus();
    // show menu highlighting
    this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.lastOpen = link;
    if(menu && !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
        var self = this;
        listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
        // ignore bubbled text events
        return;
    var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
    if(!listitem.contains(related))
        if (listitem.opentime)
            clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
        this.currMenu = listitem;
        // remove menu highlighting
        this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        if(menu)
            var self = this;
            listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
        if (this.hasFocus)
            link.blur();
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
    var child = element[sibling];
    while (child && child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
        child = child[sibling];
    return child;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
    var found = 0;
    var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
    var ref = rect(els[found]);
    var hideSubmenu = false;
    //make the subelement visible to compute the position
    if (els[1] && !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
        els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
        this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
        hideSubmenu = true;
    var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
    var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
    for (var i = 1; i < els.length; i++){
        //when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
        if(prop=='y' && isVert && (i==1 || i==2))
            continue;
        //when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
        if(prop=='x' && !isVert && !hasParent && (i==1 || i==2))
            continue;
        if (els[i])
            var tmp = rect(els[i]);
            if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) < (dir * ref[prop]))
                ref = tmp;
                found = i;
    // hide back the submenu
    if (els[1] && hideSubmenu){
        this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
        els[1].style.visibility = '';
    return found;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
    if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
        return str;
    var oStringList = str.split('-');
    var isFirstEntry = true;
    var camelizedString = '';
    for(var i=0; i < oStringList.length; i++)
        if(oStringList[i].length>0)
            if(isFirstEntry)
                camelizedString = oStringList[i];
                isFirstEntry = false;
            else
                var s = oStringList[i];
                camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
    return camelizedString;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
    var value;
    try
        if (element.style)
            value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
        if (!value)
            if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
                var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
                value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
            else if (element.currentStyle)
                    value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
    catch (e) {}
    return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
    var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
    if (isNaN(a))
        return 0;
    return a;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
    doc = doc || document;
    if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
        el = doc.getElementById(el);
    if (!el) {
        return false;
    if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
        //element must be visible to have a box
        return false;
    var ret = {x:0, y:0};
    var parent = null;
    var box;
    if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
        box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
        var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
        var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
        ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
        ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
    } else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
        box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
        ret.x = box.x;
        ret.y = box.y;
    } else { // safari/opera
        ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
        ret.y = el.offsetTop;
        parent = el.offsetParent;
        if (parent != el) {
            while (parent) {
                ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
                ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
                parent = parent.offsetParent;
        // opera & (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
        if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari && Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
            ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
    if (el.parentNode)
            parent = el.parentNode;
    else
        parent = null;
    if (parent.nodeName){
        var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
        while (parent && cas != 'BODY' && cas != 'HTML') {
            cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
            ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
            ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
            if (parent.parentNode)
                parent = parent.parentNode;
            else
                parent = null;
    return ret;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
    if (ev.stopPropagation)
        ev.stopPropagation();
    else
        ev.cancelBubble = true;
    if (ev.preventDefault)
        ev.preventDefault();
    else
        ev.returnValue = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
    if (!optionsObj)
        return;
    for (var optionName in optionsObj)
        if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
            continue;
        obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
})(); // EndSpryComponent
If anyone could possibly steer me on the right direction with this, I'd be very grateful! I've been struggling with this for about a month now and I feel like I may have only made the situation worse.
I'm not sure if I have to keep making a new spry assets folder in my website or not or if I have to drag and drop the spry assets into the root folder. I have restarted my website over at least a dozen times by now. I have tried changing folders, dragging and dropping various spry assets folders everywhere and I have also uninstalled and reinstalled my copy of Dreamweaver CS5 in the hopes of getting my spry horizontal menu bar to act normal. I am completely new at Dreamweaver and I really, really need some help with this.
Thanks!

I haven't been able to get my site posted up yet. Here is a link to it anyway:andrearosales.com
I will be working on connecting my files up to my server. At the moment, here are some screen shots of some messages that I am getting when I am saving my file.
I'm not sure what to make of these messages. I tried to put a new spry horizontal menu bar on my main page, and when it appeared, it displayed as a spry vertical menu bar.
Here is a picture of what it looks like:
I"m going to refer to the links that were suggested to me though. I'm not sure if pictures of the code will help to solve my problem. I'm going to try again to connect my files to my server though.

Spry Menu Bar Colors and Pictures in Dreamweaver

I'm having some trouble changing the color of the spry menu
bars that I created in Dreamweaver. Whenever I preview them in a
browser they show up as grey with black text. What I want them to
show up as is blue with white text before the mouse goes over them
and highlights them. When the mouse goes over them I want them to
still be blue with white text and also my drop down menu options as
well.
What would be the fastest and easiest way to do this and if
there is what css code is required for me to change? I'm unfamiliar
with how css code works.
I'm also having some problems with copying and pasting
pictures and editing them too. what software can i download that is
free that i can use to edit my pictures.
I have the trial version mind you and I'm trying to get this
finished as fast as I can.

> What would be the fastest and easiest way to do this and
if there is what
> css
> code is required for me to change?
Bring up your page and adjust the CSS in the
SpryMenuHorizontal.css or
SpryMenuVertical.css page that is attached. All the color
values are in
there.
>I'm unfamiliar with how css code works.
You need to change this. Without a thorough working knowledge
of HTML and
CSS (at the very least), you will never have great success in
either
Dreamweaver or web design. I first learned web design using
Notepad, typing
every single tag, and I am soo grateful now that I had that
solid coding
experience .. without it, this program would be very hard to
master.
> I'm also having some problems with copying and pasting
pictures and
> editing
> them too. what software can i download that is free that
i can use to edit
> my
> pictures.
Free? I'm not sure any more .. you can use either the 30 day
trial of
Fireworks or Photoshop (Fireworks would probably be easier to
pick up) but
if you're going to do a lot of this, you need to get some
good tools and
learn them well.
Nancy Gill
Adobe Community Expert
Author: Dreamweaver 8 e-book for the DMX Zone
Co-Author: Dreamweaver MX: Instant Troubleshooter (August,
2003)
Technical Editor: Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual,
DMX 2004: The Complete Reference, DMX 2004: A Beginner's
Guide
Mastering Macromedia Contribute
Technical Reviewer: Dynamic Dreamweaver MX/DMX: Advanced PHP
Web Development

I lost the blue tab on my spry menu.

I've saved my document and re-opened it, but still can't get the blue spry menu tab to show. Also can't see my submenus in the browser. It shows in my code. Here is my code.
<table width="878" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <td width="878" height="37" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#D1D1D1">
       <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
      <li><a href="#">HOME</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">ABOUT US</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Become A Member</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Photo Gallery</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
      </li>
      <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">NEWS</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Events</a>          </li>
          <li><a href="#">Job Listings</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Hot Deals</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">EVENTS</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">News</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Chamber Calendar</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Community Calendar</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Photo Gallery</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Hot Deals</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">COMMUNITY</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Scott Air Force Base</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">City of O'Fallon</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">O'Fallon Welcome Guide</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">O'Fallon-Shiloh Area Restaurant Guide</a></li>
          <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Shiloh</a>
            <ul>
              <li><a href="#">Village of Shiloh</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Village Services Guide</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Shiloh Community Calendar</a></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li><a href="#">Events & Reception Planning Guide</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Relocation Packet Info</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">The Tourism Burea Illinois South</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">CONTACT US</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Member Login</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Member Directory</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Community Business Info</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">JOIN US</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Member Directory</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Become A Member</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Member Login</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">COMMITTEES</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Board of Directors</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Ambassadors</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Star Investors</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Member Directory</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#">PHOTO GALLERY</a></li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
</table>
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    list-style-type: none;
    cursor: default;
    width: 878px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    display: inline;
    position: relative;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    margin-left: 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 auto;
    padding: 0;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: default;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Biondi;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    font-size: 87%;
    white-space: nowrap;
    line-height: normal;
    width: auto;
    clear: none;
    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: auto;
    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
    text-align: left;
    white-space: nowrap;
    display: block;
    float: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Biondi;
    font-style: normal;
    line-height: normal;
    font-weight: bolder;
    text-transform: none;
    background-color: transparent;
    width: auto;
    position: relative;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    margin-top: -5%;
    margin-right: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 95%;
    position: absolute;
/* 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-top-color: #021844;
    border-right-color: #021844;
    border-bottom-color: #021844;
    border-left-color: #021844;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #021844;
    color: #FFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    border: 1px solid #FFF;
    text-align: left;
    padding-top: 0.5em;
    padding-right: 0.75em;
    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
    padding-left: 0.75em;
    white-space: nowrap;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
    color: #036009;
    background-color: #FFF;
/* 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
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: none;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
    background-color: #021844;
/* 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(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
    background-position: 95% 50%;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
/* 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: none;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
    color: #036009;
    background-color: #FFF;
/* 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;
// SpryMenuBar.js - version 0.13 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1
// Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated.
// All rights reserved.
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
//   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
//     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
//   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
//     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
//     and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
//   * Neither the name of Adobe Systems Incorporated nor the names of its
//     contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
//     software without specific prior written permission.
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
// ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
// LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
// CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
// SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
// INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
// CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
// ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
// POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
SpryMenuBar.js
This file handles the JavaScript for Spry Menu Bar. You should have no need
to edit this file. Some highlights of the MenuBar object is that timers are
used to keep submenus from showing up until the user has hovered over the parent
menu item for some time, as well as a timer for when they leave a submenu to keep
showing that submenu until the timer fires.
(function() { // BeginSpryComponent
if (typeof Spry == "undefined") window.Spry = {}; if (!Spry.Widget) Spry.Widget = {};
Spry.BrowserSniff = function()
    var b = navigator.appName.toString();
    var up = navigator.platform.toString();
    var ua = navigator.userAgent.toString();
    this.mozilla = this.ie = this.opera = this.safari = false;
    var re_opera = /Opera.([0-9\.]*)/i;
    var re_msie = /MSIE.([0-9\.]*)/i;
    var re_gecko = /gecko/i;
    var re_safari = /(applewebkit|safari)\/([\d\.]*)/i;
    var r = false;
    if ( (r = ua.match(re_opera))) {
        this.opera = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
    } else if ( (r = ua.match(re_msie))) {
        this.ie = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
    } else if ( (r = ua.match(re_safari))) {
        this.safari = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[2]);
    } else if (ua.match(re_gecko)) {
        var re_gecko_version = /rv:\s*([0-9\.]+)/i;
        r = ua.match(re_gecko_version);
        this.mozilla = true;
        this.version = parseFloat(r[1]);
    this.windows = this.mac = this.linux = false;
    this.Platform = ua.match(/windows/i) ? "windows" :
                    (ua.match(/linux/i) ? "linux" :
                    (ua.match(/mac/i) ? "mac" :
                    ua.match(/unix/i)? "unix" : "unknown"));
    this[this.Platform] = true;
    this.v = this.version;
    if (this.safari && this.mac && this.mozilla) {
        this.mozilla = false;
Spry.is = new Spry.BrowserSniff();
// Constructor for Menu Bar
// element should be an ID of an unordered list (<ul> tag)
// preloadImage1 and preloadImage2 are images for the rollover state of a menu
Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
    this.init(element, opts);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
    this.element = this.getElement(element);
    // represents the current (sub)menu we are operating on
    this.currMenu = null;
    this.showDelay = 250;
    this.hideDelay = 600;
    if(typeof document.getElementById == 'undefined' || (navigator.vendor == 'Apple Computer, Inc.' && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == 'undefined') || (Spry.is.ie && typeof document.uniqueID == 'undefined'))
        // bail on older unsupported browsers
        return;
    // Fix IE6 CSS images flicker
    if (Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7){
        try {
            document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
        } catch(err) {}
    this.upKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP;
    this.downKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN;
    this.leftKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT;
    this.rightKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT;
    this.escKeyCode = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC;
    this.hoverClass = 'MenuBarItemHover';
    this.subHoverClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenuHover';
    this.subVisibleClass ='MenuBarSubmenuVisible';
    this.hasSubClass = 'MenuBarItemSubmenu';
    this.activeClass = 'MenuBarActive';
    this.isieClass = 'MenuBarItemIE';
    this.verticalClass = 'MenuBarVertical';
    this.horizontalClass = 'MenuBarHorizontal';
    this.enableKeyboardNavigation = true;
    this.hasFocus = false;
    // load hover images now
    if(opts)
        for(var k in opts)
            if (typeof this[k] == 'undefined')
                var rollover = new Image;
                rollover.src = opts[k];
        Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions(this, opts);
    // safari doesn't support tabindex
    if (Spry.is.safari)
        this.enableKeyboardNavigation = false;
    if(this.element)
        this.currMenu = this.element;
        var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName('li');
        for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++)
            if (i > 0 && this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
                items[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].tabIndex='-1';
            this.initialize(items[i], element);
            if(Spry.is.ie)
                this.addClassName(items[i], this.isieClass);
                items[i].style.position = "static";
        if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
            var self = this;
            this.addEventListener(document, 'keydown', function(e){self.keyDown(e); }, false);
        if(Spry.is.ie)
            if(this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass))
                this.element.style.position = "relative";
            var linkitems = this.element.getElementsByTagName('a');
            for(var i=0; i<linkitems.length; i++)
                linkitems[i].style.position = "relative";
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_ESC = 27;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_UP = 38;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_DOWN = 40;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_LEFT = 37;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.KEY_RIGHT = 39;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
    if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
        return document.getElementById(ele);
    return ele;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hasClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || !ele.className || ele.className.search(new RegExp("\\b" + className + "\\b")) == -1)
        return false;
    return true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || this.hasClassName(ele, className))
        return;
    ele.className += (ele.className ? " " : "") + className;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeClassName = function(ele, className)
    if (!ele || !className || !this.hasClassName(ele, className))
        return;
    ele.className = ele.className.replace(new RegExp("\\s*\\b" + className + "\\b", "g"), "");
// addEventListener for Menu Bar
// attach an event to a tag without creating obtrusive HTML code
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.addEventListener = function(element, eventType, handler, capture)
    try
        if (element.addEventListener)
            element.addEventListener(eventType, handler, capture);
        else if (element.attachEvent)
            element.attachEvent('on' + eventType, handler);
    catch (e) {}
// createIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// creates an IFRAME underneath a menu so that it will show above form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.createIframeLayer = function(menu)
    var layer = document.createElement('iframe');
    layer.tabIndex = '-1';
    layer.src = 'javascript:""';
    layer.frameBorder = '0';
    layer.scrolling = 'no';
    menu.parentNode.appendChild(layer);
    layer.style.left = menu.offsetLeft + 'px';
    layer.style.top = menu.offsetTop + 'px';
    layer.style.width = menu.offsetWidth + 'px';
    layer.style.height = menu.offsetHeight + 'px';
// removeIframeLayer for Menu Bar
// removes an IFRAME underneath a menu to reveal any form controls and ActiveX
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.removeIframeLayer = function(menu)
    var layers = ((menu == this.element) ? menu : menu.parentNode).getElementsByTagName('iframe');
    while(layers.length > 0)
        layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
// clearMenus for Menu Bar
// root is the top level unordered list (<ul> tag)
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
    var menus = root.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    for(var i=0; i<menus.length; i++)
        this.hideSubmenu(menus[i]);
    this.removeClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
// identify bubbled up text events in Safari so we can ignore them
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.bubbledTextEvent = function()
    return Spry.is.safari && (event.target == event.relatedTarget.parentNode || (event.eventPhase == 3 && event.target.parentNode == event.relatedTarget));
// showSubmenu for Menu Bar
// set the proper CSS class on this menu to show it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.showSubmenu = function(menu)
    if(this.currMenu)
        this.clearMenus(this.currMenu);
        this.currMenu = null;
    if(menu)
        this.addClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
        if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
            if(!this.hasClassName(this.element, this.horizontalClass) || menu.parentNode.parentNode != this.element)
                menu.style.top = menu.parentNode.offsetTop + 'px';
        if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
            this.createIframeLayer(menu);
    this.addClassName(this.element, this.activeClass);
// hideSubmenu for Menu Bar
// remove the proper CSS class on this menu to hide it
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.hideSubmenu = function(menu)
    if(menu)
        this.removeClassName(menu, this.subVisibleClass);
        if(typeof document.all != 'undefined' && !Spry.is.opera && navigator.vendor != 'KDE')
            menu.style.top = '';
            menu.style.left = '';
        if(Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.version < 7)
            this.removeIframeLayer(menu);
// initialize for Menu Bar
// create event listeners for the Menu Bar widget so we can properly
// show and hide submenus
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.initialize = function(listitem, element)
    var opentime, closetime;
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    if(menu)
        this.addClassName(link, this.hasSubClass);
    if(!Spry.is.ie)
        // define a simple function that comes standard in IE to determine
        // if a node is within another node
        listitem.contains = function(testNode)
            // this refers to the list item
            if(testNode == null)
                return false;
            if(testNode == this)
                return true;
            else
                return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
    // need to save this for scope further down
    var self = this;
    this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseover', function(e){self.mouseOver(listitem, e);}, false);
    this.addEventListener(listitem, 'mouseout', function(e){if (self.enableKeyboardNavigation) self.clearSelection(); self.mouseOut(listitem, e);}, false);
    if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
        this.addEventListener(link, 'blur', function(e){self.onBlur(listitem);}, false);
        this.addEventListener(link, 'focus', function(e){self.keyFocus(listitem, e);}, false);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
    this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.hasFocus = true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
    this.clearSelection(listitem);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
    //search any intersection with the current open element
    if (!this.lastOpen)
        return;
    if (el)
        el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        // check children
        var item = this.lastOpen;
        while (item != this.element)
            var tmp = el;
            while (tmp != this.element)
                if (tmp == item)
                    return;
                try{
                    tmp = tmp.parentNode;
                }catch(err){break;}
            item = item.parentNode;
    var item = this.lastOpen;
    while (item != this.element)
        this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
        var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
        this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
        item = item.parentNode;
    this.lastOpen = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
    if (!this.hasFocus)
        return;
    if (!this.lastOpen)
        this.hasFocus = false;
        return;
    var e = e|| event;
    var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
    var link = this.lastOpen;
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
    if (!opts[3])
        opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
    var found = 0;
    switch (e.keyCode){
        case this.upKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
            break;
        case this.downKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
            break;
        case this.leftKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
            break;
        case this.rightKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
            break;
        case this.escKeyCode:
        case 9:
            this.clearSelection();
            this.hasFocus = false;
        default: return;
    switch (found)
        case 0: return;
        case 1:
            //subopts
            this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
            break;
        case 2:
            //parent
            this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
            break;
        case 3:
        case 4:
            // left - right
            this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
            break;
    var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
        opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
    this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.lastOpen = link;
    opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
        //stop further event handling by the browser
    return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
        this.clearSelection(listitem);
    if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
        // ignore bubbled text events
        return;
    if (listitem.closetime)
        clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
    if(this.currMenu == listitem)
        this.currMenu = null;
    // move the focus too
    if (this.hasFocus)
        link.focus();
    // show menu highlighting
    this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.lastOpen = link;
    if(menu && !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
        var self = this;
        listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
        // ignore bubbled text events
        return;
    var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
    if(!listitem.contains(related))
        if (listitem.opentime)
            clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
        this.currMenu = listitem;
        // remove menu highlighting
        this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        if(menu)
            var self = this;
            listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
        if (this.hasFocus)
            link.blur();
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
    var child = element[sibling];
    while (child && child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
        child = child[sibling];
    return child;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
    var found = 0;
    var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
    var ref = rect(els[found]);
    var hideSubmenu = false;
    //make the subelement visible to compute the position
    if (els[1] && !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
        els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
        this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
        hideSubmenu = true;
    var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
    var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
    for (var i = 1; i < els.length; i++){
        //when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
        if(prop=='y' && isVert && (i==1 || i==2))
            continue;
        //when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
        if(prop=='x' && !isVert && !hasParent && (i==1 || i==2))
            continue;
        if (els[i])
            var tmp = rect(els[i]);
            if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) < (dir * ref[prop]))
                ref = tmp;
                found = i;
    // hide back the submenu
    if (els[1] && hideSubmenu){
        this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
        els[1].style.visibility = '';
    return found;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
    if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
        return str;
    var oStringList = str.split('-');
    var isFirstEntry = true;
    var camelizedString = '';
    for(var i=0; i < oStringList.length; i++)
        if(oStringList[i].length>0)
            if(isFirstEntry)
                camelizedString = oStringList[i];
                isFirstEntry = false;
            else
                var s = oStringList[i];
                camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
    return camelizedString;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
    var value;
    try
        if (element.style)
            value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
        if (!value)
            if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
                var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
                value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
            else if (element.currentStyle)
                    value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
    catch (e) {}
    return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
    var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
    if (isNaN(a))
        return 0;
    return a;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
    doc = doc || document;
    if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
        el = doc.getElementById(el);
    if (!el) {
        return false;
    if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
        //element must be visible to have a box
        return false;
    var ret = {x:0, y:0};
    var parent = null;
    var box;
    if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
        box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
        var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
        var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
        ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
        ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
    } else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
        box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
        ret.x = box.x;
        ret.y = box.y;
    } else { // safari/opera
        ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
        ret.y = el.offsetTop;
        parent = el.offsetParent;
        if (parent != el) {
            while (parent) {
                ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
                ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
                parent = parent.offsetParent;
        // opera & (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
        if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari && Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
            ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
    if (el.parentNode)
            parent = el.parentNode;
    else
        parent = null;
    if (parent.nodeName){
        var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
        while (parent && cas != 'BODY' && cas != 'HTML') {
            cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
            ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
            ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
            if (parent.parentNode)
                parent = parent.parentNode;
            else
                parent = null;
    return ret;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
    if (ev.stopPropagation)
        ev.stopPropagation();
    else
        ev.cancelBubble = true;
    if (ev.preventDefault)
        ev.preventDefault();
    else
        ev.returnValue = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
    if (!optionsObj)
        return;
    for (var optionName in optionsObj)
        if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
            continue;
        obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
})(); // EndSpryComponent

You don't need to upgrade your software. But if you're struggling with Spry, IMO you should cut your losses and switch to something better for the longrun.
If you have a budget to work with, I highly recommend Project Seven's Pop-Menu Magic 3. It's easy to use in DW CS4, 5, 6 or CC. More importantly, it's bullet proof and works in all devices.
Pop-Menu Magic3 by PVII (commercial DW extension)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm3/index.htm
If you don't have a budget to work with, you can roll your own menus with jQuery plugins. A bit more effort on your part, but they perform better than Spry.
jQuery Superfish
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
jQuery MegaMenu2
DEMO:
http://www.geektantra.com/projects/jquery-megamenu-2/
DOWNLOAD:
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-megamenu/
Nancy O.

Problem with .css for Spry menu

Hi,
I am having a problem with the Spry menu I have created and edited. All looks great in the Design view of Photoshop however under the Live view or opened using a browser the menu reverts to a list of hyperlinks!
I have checked the .css link but when using Firefox CSS editor the CSS file for the menu is simply blank?
Any suggestions would be great!
Thanks,
Ozan

Your SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css needs to be within your SpryAssets folder, which is where it would have been put automatically when you inserted the SpryMenuBar. You can move it back in there using the Files Panel.
Here is what the file structure needs to look like:
SpryAssets
SpryMenuBar.js
SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css
cssstyletemplate.css
index.html (or whatever the name of your page is)
Hierarchally, the top level of your root folder will show folders for SpryAssets and css and the html pages will be on the same level.
The Spry assets themselves will be down a level IN the SpryAssets folder, as the styletemplate.css file will be down a level IN the css folder.
In the head of the document, you will have
     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styletemplate.css" />
     <script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" />
At the end, remove the slash before Spry inside the imgDown and imgRight sections:
     <script type="text/javascript">

</script>
Compare these with your files and file structure and correct any small typos, and they should be correctly linked.
Beth

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