Spry menu, swf conflict
Using Dreamweaver CS4, I have built a spry drop down menu. I
have also placed a slide show/swf on the page.
My problem is that, when I open a page that contains the
slide show and I try to access the drop down menu, the drop down
menu items fall behind the slide show and are inaccessible. I would
like the menu items, when pulled down, to be visible over the
running slide show, so that site users can access the links in the
drop down menu.
Any help in giving display preference to the selected drop
down menu over the swf would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any help.
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> Using Dreamweaver CS4, I have built a spry drop down
menu. I have also
> placed a
> slide show/swf on the page.
>
> My problem is that, when I open a page that contains the
slide show and I
> try
> to access the drop down menu, the drop down menu items
fall behind the
> slide
> show and are inaccessible. I would like the menu items,
when pulled down,
> to be
> visible over the running slide show, so that site users
can access the
> links in
> the drop down menu.
>
> Any help in giving display preference to the selected
drop down menu over
> the
> swf would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help.
>
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<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Careers</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">HVAC Technician</a></li>
<li><a href="#">HVAC/R Installer</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Refrigeration Technician</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Testimonials</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Easily Leave Us a Review</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">On "YAHOO"</a></li>
<li><a href="#">On "YELP"</a></li>
<li><a href="#">On "MERCHANT CIRCLE"</a></li>
<li><a href="#">On "GOOGLE PLACES"</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Repair</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Refrigeration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Rooftop</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Ice Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Air Conditioning </a></li>
<li><a href="#">Boiler</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Furnace</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Heat Pump</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Indoor Air Quality</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Schedule A Service Call</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Sales</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Refrigeration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Rooftop</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Ice Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Air Conditioning</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Boiler</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Furnace </a></li>
<li><a href="#">Heat Pump</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Indoor Air Quality</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Financing</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Schedule a "FREE" Computerized ACCA MJ8 Equipment Replacement Estimate </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Maintenance</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Refrigeration Service Agreements</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Rooftop Service Agreements</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Ice Machine Service Agreements</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Residential Air Conditioning Service Agreements</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Residential Boiler Service Agreements</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Residential Furnace and IAQ Service Agreements</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Heat Pump Service Agreements</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Products</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Commercial Refrigeration</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Beverage Air</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Beacon Smart Controller</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Continental</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Crown Tonka Walk Ins</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Delfield</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Heatcraft Refrigeration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Hoshizaki Refrigeration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">International Cold Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kelvinator</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kolpak</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Larkin Refrigeration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Perlik Bar and Beverage Equipment</a></li>
<li><a href="#">True Refrigeration</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Commercial Rooftop</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Arcoaire</a></li>
<li><a href="#">American Standard</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Commercial Ice Machine</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Hoshizaki Ice Machines</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Manitowoc Ice Machines</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Scotsman Ice Machines</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Air Conditioning</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="html/subzero/arcoaireaircondioning.html">Arcoaire</a></li>
<li><a href="html/subzero/americanstandardairconditioning.html">American Standard</a></li>
<li><a href="html/subzero/mitsubishiairconditioners.html">Mitsubishi</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Boiler </a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Weil McLain Residential</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Weil McLain Commercial</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Furnace </a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Arcoaire</a></li>
<li><a href="#">American Standard</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Mitsubishi</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Heat Pump </a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Arcoaire</a></li>
<li><a href="#">American Standard</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Mitsubishi</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Indoor Air Quality</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Aprilaire Humidifiers</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Honeywell Electronic Air Cleaners</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Honeywell Thermostats</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Job Photos</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Refrigeration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Rooftop</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Commercial Ice Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Air Conditioning</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Boiler</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Furnace</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Heat Pump</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Indoor Air Quality</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Cool Savings</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Monthly Specials</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Manufacturers Rebates</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Utility Rebates</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Website Coupons</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Customer Referral Program</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Social</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">"LIKE" Us on Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="#">"FOLLOW" Us on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Facebook Disclaimer</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItem" href="#">Contact Us</a> </li>
</ul>
<p><br />
</p>
<div class="sidebar1"><img src="Images/home.jpg" alt="Home Page Photo" width="105" height="240" /></div></div>
<div class="content">
<h1>Instructions</h1>
<p>Be aware that the CSS for these layouts is heavily commented. If you do most of your work in Design view, have a peek at the code to get tips on working with the CSS for the fixed layouts. You can remove these comments before you launch your site. To learn more about the techniques used in these CSS Layouts, read this article at Adobe's Developer Center - <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/adc_css_layouts">http://www.adobe.com/go/adc_css_layouts</a>.</p>
<h1>Clearing Method</h1>
<p>Because all the columns are floated, this layout uses a clear:both declaration in the .footer rule. This clearing technique forces the .container to understand where the columns end in order to show any borders or background colors you place on the .container. If your design requires you to remove the .footer from the .container, you'll need to use a different clearing method. The most reliable will be to add a <br class="clearfloat" /> or <div class="clearfloat"></div> after your final floated column (but before the .container closes). This will have the same clearing effect.</p>
<h3>Logo Replacement</h3>
<p>An image placeholder was used in this layout in the .header where you'll likely want to place a logo. It is recommended that you remove the placeholder and replace it with your own linked logo. </p>
<p> Be aware that if you use the Property inspector to navigate to your logo image using the SRC field (instead of removing and replacing the placeholder), you should remove the inline background and display properties. These inline styles are only used to make the logo placeholder show up in browsers for demonstration purposes. </p>
<p>To remove the inline styles, make sure your CSS Styles panel is set to Current. Select the image, and in the Properties pane of the CSS Styles panel, right click and delete the display and background properties. (Of course, you can always go directly into the code and delete the inline styles from the image or placeholder there.)</p>
<h4>Backgrounds</h4>
<p>By nature, the background color on any div will only show for the length of the content. This means if you're using a background color or border to create the look of a side column, it won't extend all the way to the footer but will stop when the content ends. If the .content div will always contain more content, you can place a border on the .content div to divide it from the column.</p>
<!-- end .content --></div>
<div class="footer">
<table width="960" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th width="102" scope="col"> </th>
<th width="101" scope="col"> </th>
<th width="106" scope="col"> </th>
<th width="120" scope="col"> </th>
<th width="172" scope="col"> </th>
<th width="120" scope="col"> </th>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><img src="Images/van.jpg" alt="Sub Zero Refrigeration Heating and Air Conditioning Service Van" width="243" height="109" align="left" /></td>
<td colspan="6"><img src="Images/footer_right.jpg" width="717" height="109" alt="Footer" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="footer2">
<div class="footer">
<table width="960" height="62" border="1" align="center" cellspacing="8">
<tr valign="middle">
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</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="footer3" id="footer3">
<div class="footer">
<table width="960" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");
</script>
</body>
</html>I seem to have fixed it by putting <div class="clearfloat"></div> after the navigation bar?
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I have used the horizontal Spry Menu Bar for the navigation for my website. I used a tiered system because I needed two levels of drop downs for the menu. When we loaded the site to the web yesterday it worked fine on Mozilla but there was a glitch on IE. Instead of dropping down in a stacking order, the submenus would be lined up horizontally along the screen in a long line. I'm not sure if I need to edit the .css file for the spry menu bar, or the .js file. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Note: I've attached the javascript code AND the css code for reference.I was just struggling with this, too. I think I have it fixed -- it's looking good in IE7 and IE8 (my standalone of IE6 has conflicts and refuses to open this morning).
You need to update the CSS. Give this a try.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
clear:left;
float: none;
background-color: transparent;
color: #878189;
Take a look -- the menus should be displaying vertically in a list in IE, but you'll see the background color isn't extending to fill the entire list box.
So add the background-color property with the correct color to the ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul entry.
I haven't gone through your code line by line, but those two changes fixed it for me. Let me know if it works. -
Spry menu bar does not appear over flash elements in I.E. 8
Hi, My spry menu bar does not appear over any flash elements in I.E. 8. Every other browser it workd fine. Can anyone please help? Thanks
A link to one of the pages is http://www.innervisionfilms.tv/pages/showreel.html
My spry code is
@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;
font-family: Verdana;
color: #000033;
font-weight: bold;
/* 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: 130px;
float: left;
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.2em;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li a
width: 10.2em;
background-color: #4E81B4;
left: auto;
background-image: none;
/* 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-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
border-top-color: #FFFFFF;
border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;
border-left-color: #FFFFFF;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #EEE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #000033;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 11px;
background-image: url(../pagelayout/menubg.jpg);
font-weight: bold;
border: 1px solid #003366;
/* 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: #003366;
color: #FFFFFF;
/* 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: #003366;
color: #FFFFFF;
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(../pagelayout/menubg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
/* 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(../homepagelayout/greenbarbg.jpg);
background-position: 95% 50%;
background-repeat: 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: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;I still can't find a solution. Changing the parameter wmode:transparent works for .swf files but .flv files do not have the option to add this parameter. If you add it in the script manually it doesn't do anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I cn't find any solution online.
Thanks,
Adam -
Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (1.0) - Handling of widget generated CSS, placement and rendering problems in CSS
Hello:
I wanted to repost my question to re-frame the issue based on what I have learned thus far.
I am working on a website that has been developed using the Spry Menu Bar Framework UI (2.0) I.0, that has some peculiar rendering problems that affect IE 6 in particular. The CSS is reprinted below.
In particular, when I post the widget generated CSS in the head as it is orginally situated by the framework, the menu bar works fine. However, it seemed to me that I should be able to reduce page weight (an important consideration considering my target population) by placing it in the general style sheet governing the entire site.
When I place the styles at the beginning of the style sheet the menu doesn't render at all in any of the browsers (IE 6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape, etc.) as it conflicts with the general rules governing links that appear later in the style sheet. When I place the styles specific to the Menu bar at the end of the style sheet, then the menu bar renders properly in all browsers except IE 6.
The odd thing is that the only way to ensure that the menu bar works in IE 6 is to keep the menu related styles in the head of each page. This raises problems related to page weight (not an insurmountable consideration if no other solution can be found) but still an issue. Likewise I need to support IE 6, again given the target audience/population. The issue obviously has something to do with specificity, but I am not certain that is the only consideration at work here. I have not tried the !important selector in regard to the menu, as IE 6 seems to only partially support this.
Thanks in advance for any advice or insight that can be provided. Thanks in particular to Martin for his contributions to my earlier question related to this issue.
Steve Webster.
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or rightpointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, allsubmenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top levelmenu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets onthe same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on onMenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than theparent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of theMenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element forselection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu"(MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in aselector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets thespecificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs assignificant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lotof these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes formodern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these,as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.jsscript.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser isInternet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditionalcomments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style>
The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below: (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bugthat is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8. For Moreinformation see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align:center; /* This allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
color: #000000;
list-style-image: none;
background-color: #FCFCFC;
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
color:#000066;
a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: underline;
a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #1B8DCD;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #F30A0A;
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #151A96;
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection %20_960.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
#header {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elementsin the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #headerinstead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
width:960px;
height:332px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960 .png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#header h1 {
margin-right: 0px; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
display:none;
#header img {
display: none;
#Main_nav_contents {
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0px;
height: 39px;
width: 950px;
padding-top: 275px;
padding-left: 39px;
z-index: 3;
#MenuBarVertical {
margin-bottom: 50px;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-bottom:200px;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
.mainContent_left {
margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the columndown the right side of the page - no matter how much content thesidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can removethis margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the#sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
width: 600px;
float: left;
.sidebar_right {
float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:10px;
font-size:90%;
.mainContent_right {
margin-left: 10px;
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px;
width: 600px;
float: right;
.sidebar_left {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:30px;
margin-right:0;
overflow: hidden;
font-size:90%;
.main_content_centered {
width: 650px;
margin-left: 155px;
.main_content_centered_header {
margin-left: 75px;
.sidebar_textbox {
margin: 0px;
width: 260px;
padding: 2px;
.sidebar_textbox_header {
width:255px;
height:58px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Por trait%20Textbox%20Header.png);
.sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
width: 255px;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Por trait%20Textbox%20Middle.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
.sidebar_textbox_content {
/* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks inbrowser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within thebackground of the text box */
width: 230px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 40px;
.sidebar_textbox_footer {
width:255px;
height:64px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Port rait%20Textbox%20Footer.png);
#issues_menu a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight:bold;
#issues_menu a:visited {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:hover {
color: #F30A0A;
font-weight:bold;
font-style: oblique;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:active {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#archives {
padding-top: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 0px;
.landscape_textbox {
width: 500px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 30px;
padding-top:35px;
padding-bottom: 25px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
.landscape_textbox_hdr {
width:500px;
height:38px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%2 0Header.png);
.landscape_textbox_middle {
width:auto;
margin:auto;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/lan dscapte%20Textbox%20Middle.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
.landscape_textbox_content {
width:450px;
padding:25px;
.landscape_textbox_ftr {
width:500px;
height:44px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Lan dscape%20Textbox%20Footer.png);
#footer {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
width: 960px;
height: 222px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_ 960.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#footer p {
margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footerwill avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
text-align:center;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 10px;
font-size: small;
#footer h5 {
text-align:center;
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
.dropcap {
display: block;
float: left;
line-height: 80%;
font-size: 250%;
font-weight: bolder;
color: #000066;
padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
.red_arrows {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);
.blue_bullets {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Fu ll.png);
.attention {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:x-large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.attention_small {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.table {
table-layout:fixed;
.blue {
color: #00F;
#container .mainContent_left p .blue {
color: #0303A0;Hi Nancy:
The specific code that I am referring to is the CSS code governing the styling of the spry menu widget that only works in IE 6 if, and only if, it remains in the head of the web page. If removed and placed in a stylesheet, the IE plugins fail to compensate for the IE 6 "gap" bug. As I said, it doesn't make sense to me that, assuming specificity is addressed, that these can not be included in an external style sheet. I am looking for a) an explanation why they must remain embedded in the web page; and 2) any means by which I might be able to export them.
I will reproduce the specific css style (code) below: it should also be visable through reveal source --
Thanks again, Steve Webster.
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or rightpointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, allsubmenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top levelmenu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets onthe same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on onMenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Nav igation%20Bar%20Segment%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than theparent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of theMenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element forselection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu"(MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in aselector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets thespecificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs assignificant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lotof these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes formodern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these,as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.jsscript.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser isInternet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditionalcomments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style> -
Problem with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (1.0) re - CSS
Hello:
I am having some difficulty with a Spry Menu Bar (horizontal) 2.0 (1.0) that I have created. Initially I thought the problem was with regard to rendering issues on IE 6.0, however the problem seems to be more general than that and I have come to believe that it has to do with the CSS created by the Widget Browser and modified once imported into the webpage. Hence I have elected to post my issue here rather than on the spry page.
I have relied on the tutorial provided by David Powers (Bayside.css) and in addition other documentation regarding the Spry menu bar UI. The problem appeared to be one of IE 6 rendering the page with a gap that is created when the drop down menus appear, thus pushing down any divs that appear below the page.
However, through a painstaking process of trial and error my problem now seems to be that when I export the CSS generated by the widget browser to an external style sheet (the general style sheet governing the whole site), it conflicts with other CSS styles regarding links etc. The end result is that all the padding, background colours, background images, and text colours are lost. So long as the CSS remains within the head this doesn't happen.
My thinking is that this must have to do with issues of specificity, inheritence, etc.
The site can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.aclco.org/testing/index.html. In its current form all CSS related to the menu bar is found in the head of each page. (see CSS below).
My question is can I establish a separate style sheet for the horizontal menu bar and have those styles applied specifically (and only) to the menu bar. My only other alternative is to work through the remainder of the general style sheet and work through any issues of specificity/inheritance -- which may be the "best" practice, but it risks causing other "cascading" [sic] problems elsewhere.
Any advice or suggestions or directed reading (that would point to a solution) that could be offered would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Webster
The CSS governing the horizontal menu bar is as follows: (currently the following CSS is embedded in the head of the web page)
<style type="text/css">
/* -- Begins Spry Menu Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal menu bar Custom styles -- */
/* BeginOAWidget_Instance_2141544: #MenuBar */
/* Settable values for skinning a Basic menu via presets. If presets are not sufficient, most skinning should be done in
these rules, with the exception of the images used for down or right pointing arrows, which are in the file SpryMenuBasic.css
These assume the following widget classes for menu layout (set in a preset)
.MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical - 2nd level subs and beyond are pull-right.
.MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
You can also pass in extra classnames to set your desired top level menu bar layout. Normally, these are set by using a preset.
They only apply to horizontal menu bars:
MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
In general, all rules specified in this file are prefixed by #MenuBar so they only apply to instances of the widget inserted along
with the rules. This permits use of multiple MenuBarBasic widgets on the same page with different layouts. Because of IE6 limitations,
there are a few rules where this was not possible. Those rules are so noted in comments.
#MenuBar {
background-color:transparent;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
/* Caution: because ID+class selectors do not work properly in IE6, but we want to restrict these rules to just this
widget instance, we have used string-concatenated classnames for our selectors for the layout type of the menubar
in this section. These have very low specificity, so be careful not to accidentally override them. */
.MenuBar br { /* using just a class so it has same specificity as the ".MenuBarFixedCentered br" rule bleow */
display:none;
.MenuBarLeftShrink {
float: left; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarRightShrink {
float: right; /* shrink to content, as well as float the MenuBar */
width: auto;
.MenuBarFixedLeft {
float: left;
width: 80em;
.MenuBarFixedCentered {
float: none;
width: 80em;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
.MenuBarFixedCentered br {
clear:both;
display:block;
.MenuBarFixedCentered .SubMenu br {
display:none;
.MenuBarFullwidth {
float: left;
width: 100%;
/* Top level menubar items - these actually apply to all items, and get overridden for 1st or successive level submenus */
#MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0; /* Zero out margin on the item containers. The MenuItem is the active hover area.
For most items, we have to do top or bottom padding or borders only on the MenuItem
or a child so we keep the entire submenu tiled with items.
Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
#MenuBar .MenuItem {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 4px;
background-color:#000088;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent-Dark.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
padding: 0px 18px 0px 5px;
width: 10em;
width:auto;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#000088;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:0px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid none solid;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none;
padding: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 0px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 10px;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:transparent;
color:#ffffff;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 240px;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #2E35A3;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Navigation%20Bar%20Segm ent%20Light2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
#MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color:#2E35A3;
#MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
#MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0%; /* This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-style: none none none none;
#MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
#MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
#MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: transparent;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
* Some of the rules above use multiple class names on an element for selection, such as "hover" (MenuItemHover) and "has a subMenu" (MenuItemWithSubMenu),
* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
* all but the final classname (here, '.baz'), and sets the specificity accordingly, counting just one of those classs as significant. To get around this
* problem, we use the plugin in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js to generate compound classnames for IE6, such as 'MenuItemWithSubMenuHover'.
* Since there are a lot of these needed, the plugin does not generate the extra classes for modern browsers, and we use the CSS2 style mutltiple class
* syntax for that. Since IE6 both applies rules where
* it should not, and gets the specificity wrong too, we have to order rules carefully, so the rule misapplied in IE6 can be overridden.
* So, we put the multiple class rule first. IE6 will mistakenly apply this rule. We follow this with the single-class rule that it would
* mistakenly override, making sure the misinterpreted IE6 specificity is the same as the single-class selector, so the latter wins.
* We then create a copy of the multiple class rule, adding a '.SpryIsIE6' class as context, and making sure the specificity for
* the selector is high enough to beat the single-class rule in the "both classes match" case. We place the IE6 rule at the end of the
* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
* If you decide you do not need IE6 support, you can get rid of these, as well as the inclusion of the SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js script.
* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: transparent; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #ffffff;
.SpryIsIE6 #MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
/* EndOAWidget_Instance_2141544 */
/* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */
</style>
The CSS governing the site generally is reproduced below: (my belief is that it is the a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active styles that may be in conflict).
@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
min-height: 0; /* This is necessary to overcome the "haslayout" bug that is found in Windows 7 in conjuction with IE8. For More information see: URL -- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/haslayout.html */
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align:center; /* This allows for the centering of the container and overcomes a bug inherent in IE 5 */
color: #000000;
list-style-image: none;
background-color: #FCFCFC;
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
color:#000066;
a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: underline;
a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #1B8DCD;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #F30A0A;
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #151A96;
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Midsection%20_960.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
#header {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
width:960px;
height:332px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Header_960.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#header h1 {
margin-right: 0px; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
display:none;
#header img {
display: none;
#Main_nav_contents {
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0px;
height: 39px;
width: 950px;
padding-top: 275px;
padding-left: 39px;
z-index: 3;
#MenuBarVertical {
margin-bottom: 50px;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-bottom:200px;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
.mainContent_left {
margin: 0;/* the right margin on this div element creates the column down the right side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
width: 600px;
float: left;
.sidebar_right {
float: right; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:10px;
font-size:90%;
.mainContent_right {
margin-left: 10px;
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:20px;
width: 600px;
float: right;
.sidebar_left {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 270px; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left:30px;
margin-right:0;
overflow: hidden;
font-size:90%;
.main_content_centered {
width: 650px;
margin-left: 155px;
.main_content_centered_header {
margin-left: 75px;
.sidebar_textbox {
margin: 0px;
width: 260px;
padding: 2px;
.sidebar_textbox_header {
width:255px;
height:58px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20He ader.png);
.sidebar_textbox_background_middle {
width: 255px;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Mi ddle.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
.sidebar_textbox_content {
/* The width and padding are set as follows to accomodate quirks in browser rendering and to ensure that text is contained within the background of the text box */
width: 230px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 40px;
.sidebar_textbox_footer {
width:255px;
height:64px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Portrait%20Textbox%20Foo ter.png);
#issues_menu a:link {
color: #151A96;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight:bold;
#issues_menu a:visited {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:hover {
color: #F30A0A;
font-weight:bold;
font-style: oblique;
text-decoration: none;
#issues_menu a:active {
color: #151A96;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
#archives {
padding-top: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 0px;
.landscape_textbox {
width: 500px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 30px;
padding-top:35px;
padding-bottom: 25px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
.landscape_textbox_hdr {
width:500px;
height:38px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20Header.png);
.landscape_textbox_middle {
width:auto;
margin:auto;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/landscapte%20Textbox%20 Middle.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
.landscape_textbox_content {
width:450px;
padding:25px;
.landscape_textbox_ftr {
width:500px;
height:44px;
margin:auto;
padding:0;
background-image:url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Landscape%20Textbox%20F ooter.png);
#footer {
padding: 0; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
width: 960px;
height: 222px;
background-image:
url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Website%20Footer%20_960.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
#footer p {
margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding:0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
text-align:center;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 10px;
font-size: small;
#footer h5 {
text-align:center;
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
.dropcap {
display: block;
float: left;
line-height: 80%;
font-size: 250%;
font-weight: bolder;
color: #000066;
padding: .03em .1em 0 0;
.red_arrows {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Arrow%20Large.png);
.blue_bullets {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-image: url(../ACLCO%20Graphics%20-%20Web%20site%20Parts/Bullet%20Medium%20Full.png);
.attention {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:x-large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.attention_small {
color: #F30A0A;
font-size:large;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight:900;
.table {
table-layout:fixed;
.blue {
color: #00F;
#container .mainContent_left p .blue {
color: #0303A0;Hello Martin:
Thanks for your input. However I am not certain we have resolved this issue adequately, or understand the principles governing the css as regards this spry menu framework 2.0 (1.0).
For example, the menu only works in IE 6.0 if the css remains in the head. I agree with your original post that it shouldn't make any difference whether the css is posted in the head or in a separate style sheet (so long as specificity issues are addressed). Both should work -- and yet it doesn't.
If the CSS is placed in the separate style sheet governing the total site, it doesn't work for 6.0. If placed at the top of the style sheet, conflicts of specificity prevent the menu from rendering properly in any of the browsers causing the rules for general links to govern the menu. This has been verified using a cross browser testing. If the styles are placed at the bottom of the style sheet to help them take precedence, they work in all the browsers except for IE 6.
The website I am building needs to support IE 6 for a variety of reasons, and because it is catering to the non-profit community and to low income persons, I am mindful of even small differences in page weight.
So for me, at least, the issue remains baffling.
I appreciate your input, but also would appreciate the input from others, and especially Adobe Community Professionals and employees. The spry framework in this regard is not well documented. I am not certain if this is exclusively a CSS problem, if it might also be complicated by the architecture of the spry framework, or if indeed other variables are at play.
I would be my hope that in resolving the problem, other users of the this particular spry framework might also benefit.
Thanks,
Steve. -
Spry Menu+Flash Content: Visibility Problem in IE
Hi, I created a web page with Dreamweaver CS3, and I put a
Spry Menu just over a Flash Banner. I set the wmode to transparent
and it works fine on all browser except for IE. It still doesn't
display the submenus which are hidden by the .swf file.
I read some articles but none explaining how to fix this
problem. Anybody knows how to solve it? Thanks for any help!
The code is here in case I made some mistakes:
<div id="FlashContent">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','wid th','700','height','160','title','Flash
Banner','src','images/flash/flash_banner','quality','high','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','wmod e','transparent','movie','images/flash/flash_banner'
); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"
width="700" height="160" title="Flash Banner">
<param name="movie" value="images/flash/flash_banner.swf"
/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<embed src="images/flash/flash_banner.swf" width="700"
height="160" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent"></embed>
</object>
</noscript></div>add this to the
@media screen, projection section of the css.
ul.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE a and give it a fixed
height. That should fix it. -
Need Help with DW 5.5 spry menu bars.
I was given an unopened/registered Creative Suite 5.5 a couple days ago so I installed it and got to work on a website for my upcoming business. I got the home page finished, and so i saved it as a template to use for the remaining pages. But as soon as I click "save" my horizontal Spry Menu Bar becomes vertical at the top of my page. If i click on the Spryhorizontalmenu.css a message appears at the top of the screen that says something along the lines of "spryhorizontalmenu.css is not stored on local disk Get" but it will not let me access the link for help and I have been stumped for days. This is my first webpage and any help for this newbee would be very much appreciated.if you have questions please ask!!!
If horizontal is turning vertical, I have a feeling what is happening is that when you publish it, it's not connected to any style sheet -- or you have the style sheets in the wrong order.
Remember, with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) the last stylesheet trumps the earlier one. That's perfectly OK if there are no conflicts, but there may be some that can cause problems.
Thus, you'd be looking for:
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="navigation.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
If navigation.css is first, styles.css may be rewriting your styles for your spry navigation.
Now, I'm going to throw you a curve. Spry has been discontinued and it "going away." I recommend you learn how to make your own navigation and Spry is usually used for drop-down navigation. You can do that in straight HTML and CSS.
Take a look at my last reply in this forum discussion for a bunch of pretty cool "do it yourself" navigation tutorials. -
Help with Spry Menu Bar 2.0 (vers. 1.0) - Placement of customized styles files
Hello:
I would like to congratulate the authors of the new Spry Menu Bar Framework 2.0 (vers. 1.0) -- it has truly been an advance and over the previous generation, and is much more user friendly for those without extensive knowledge of the spry framework. I have also appreciated the tutorial created by David Powers that is found on the Adobe labs site, and find that it has been very helpful.
However, I do have one general question that I would seek some clarification before completing the task of deploying the widget in its final form. I have gone beyond the tutorial insofar as I have customized the styling to allow me to use background images for the menus and submenus in both static and hover states. I have also gone directly (with add of the tutorial) to work on my own site rather than recreating the bayside tutorial. I know have my styles embedding into a template page (.dwt).
My question is whether those styles embedded in the head of the template page should be transferred to a separate styles page and attached (or possibly included in the styles page that handles the CSS for the layout aspects of my site), or whether it should overwrite the styles included in the basic styles skin for the widget. The latter seems the most likely answer, as many of the classes are for the same names as those in my template page, but have different (and conflicting settings). However I wanted to make certain of this before proceeding.
Once again let me thank those responding to this query in advance for the helpful tips I have received along the way, and that will likely follow this post.
I could post the css and the html with this querry, but I hope I have explained the question well enough that a general response will be all that I need.
Thanks again for the help.
Steve WebsterThanks for your helpful response.
I had already tried the various options (overwriting basic styles, skins, etc) and quickly learned to back track as they were definitely not the answer to the question I posed. I then included them in the customized style sheet for the entire site and clearly de-marked them as styles governing the spry menu widget 2.0 (1.0) with the warning that future developers working on the site should use care in amending them, and warning that they be remain included in the general styles file.
I was going to indicate in response to my own query that this seemed to be the best practice, but your response confirmed what I had learned.
Thanks once again for your helpful advice and intervention.
Steve Webster. -
Spry Menu Issues - Not functioning correctly in Microsoft IE
Hi there,
I am fairly new to web design and dreamweaver.
I have constructed a simple page that I am happy with complete with Spry Menu which again I am happy with. However this spry menu works perfectly in firefox but for some reason on IE my spry menu does not function correctly and goes all over my page!
CORRECT VERTICAL MENU - FIREFOX -
INCORRECT MENU FUNCTION! - IE -
See my CSS Code below for the spry menu in questions - if this helps -
@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: inherit;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: 1000px;
height: 47px;
/* 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: medium;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 318px;
float: left;
height: auto;
background-color: #000000;
border: 2px solid #FFF;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif;
/* 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: auto;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif;
/* 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: 318px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin-top: -5%;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
top: 0px;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #bcbdb9;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: 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: #000;
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: #000;
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%;
/* 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: inherit;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;
** I am also using Windows 8 and Dreamweaver CS6 If this helps.**
Any help with this would be fantastic as I need this to be resolved before the end of the week.
Any further information required please message me to find out.
Thanks,
JamieTHE CONFLICT IS BETWEEN YOUR DOCUMENT CSS AND THE SPRY CSS.
It is because the <li> and <a> TAGS have been styled and therefore OVERRIDDEN THE SPRY CSS.
Use CLASS TAGS e.g. <li class="anyclass"> and <a class="anyclass">
and STOP USING THE <a> TAGS.
N.b. you may need to unstyle any <a> or other TAGS that conflict with the SPRY CSS. (However it's best to start over knowing that styling basic tags may affect the SPRY CSS). -
Hi, Can someone pls help. I could get my dropdown spry menu to be shown as current when it pop outs, it goes behind my flash clip. How can i bring the spry menu to the front?
well this is the embedded code:
<object width="400" height="301">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=***&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" />
<embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9959732&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" width="400" height="301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed>
</object>
So I think that's ok? For the rest, all I changed in the spry menu is that I multiplied the z-index twice (menu and submenus) by 10. But that can't be the problem... -
Is this possible with Spry menu and Dreamweaver cs4?
I just starting to learn DreamWeaver cs4 and Spry, I am building a website that has a flash banner, menu bar(which is using the Spry Menu Bar, and a area for content. I have set up the content area with a DIV tag content_column. Now, I would like to have the link from the menu bar, populate the "content_column" with a external web page. I know that I can use the _parent, _blank, etc. setting for the target which just opens that link into a new browser page or replaces my current page, but I would like that link to open in the "content_column" part of my web site. The reason why I want this to happen, is so that the whole page, including the banner doesnt have to load ever single time the user click on a differnt menu option. These external pages will have different elements in them suchs as text, images, and .swf files.
Thanks in advance,
GreggGregg,WELCOME!!! To the Dreamweaver Spry Forum! I see it is your first post...
Instead of using frames (of any kind) to show "other" web pages within your present page, try out the Spry Tabbed Panels widget.
I think it will do what you want. I've used it quite a bit, in various incarnations, and it is quite satisfactory in not redrawing the page every time you strike a tab.
Here's a link to some Spry simulations: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_simulations.html
And some more info on Widgets: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS48A27B01-5D59-409c-99B2-CB838B2985FCa .html
Beth
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