Spry SubMenu problem

Hello,
I have created a spry menu for my website and am having problems making the submenu look the way I want it to. The menu item bar needs to stay invisible until it is hovered over...which I have done. However, once I hover over that menu item, I want the whole submenu background to change to the same color as my menu item background in the hovered state. Currently all I can achieve is to have each individual submenu item background changed when hovered over. I need the whole sub menu to have a background color to it. When I try and fix this by adding a property to the submenu, it changes the menu item background, and this I need to stay invisible in its normal state.
Any ideas on what I am missing or what I can do to fix this? Your help is greatly appreciated.
Nate

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          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;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal {
          width:8em;
          margin: auto;
And this is the HTML for the menu bar when insterted into a page:
InstanceBeginEditable name="Header" -->
            <div class="Header">
              <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
                <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 1</a>
                  <ul>
                    <li><a href="#">Item 1.1</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Item 1.2</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Item 1.3</a></li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
                <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3</a>
                  <ul>
                    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3.1</a>
                      <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">Item 3.1.1</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Item 3.1.2</a></li>
                      </ul>
                    </li>
                    <li><a href="#">Item 3.2</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Item 3.3</a></li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
              </ul>
            </div>
            
Thank you for any and all help!
Nick

Ok so I decided to make a nice menu through fireworks.
This confuses me even further, how did you make a SpryMenuBar through FW?
It now works, but the links to the drop down menu are not horizontal in the drop down menu.
So it doesn't work
And this is only when trying to enter it into the template, into a new HTML it works fine..So it does work
Unforuntely I cannot post the website
Well, our worries are over, there is no need to correct the problem, no one will ever see the website.
Yes, I am being facetious.
In all seriousness, you can upload the website to a temporary location. This way we will be able help you.
Have a happy New Year!
Gramps

Spry submenu not loading correctly in IE

Solved: check out this link
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/191/857297
QUESTION:
Hi, I am new to spry and this is my first menu.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why the submenu will
not load correctly in IE.
It is loading at the top of the page instead of under it's
parent tab in the horizontal menu.
It is working great under FF and Safari. *links removed
Any help would be great. I tried an IE statement, but
couldn't get it to work in the css. Probably user error.
I found out if I fiddled with the margin numbers of the
following css code that I could get the submenu to drop to it's
spot in IE, but then it would also drop in FF too. What a pain. My
menu is in a table if that makes any difference.
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
z-index: 1020;
I built a test spry menu from scratch and didn't change any
of the css information and the submenu would still load at the top.
Please, any help would be great. I really would hate to start
another menu from scratch.
Text
question

I had the same problem and finally just gave up on the Spry
menu and went with a license from Milonic.com.

Spry Creating problems in IE 7

I have designed a HTML based webpage in Dreameweaver CS 3 and have included a spry menu in it. The problem i am am facing is that the page is being displayed correctly in FireFox, Chrome etc but the spry is not correctly displayed in IE 7. It gets disaligned and the submenus also get positioned wrongly.
Here the CSS for it and the site can be viewed at www.raza.najam.com.pk -> Click the IEEE link.
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
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: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 9.3em;
float: left;
background-image: url(../Images/down.jpg);
/* 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: 0px;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.5em;
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;
background-color: #C4D2E2;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 8.5em;
background-color: #C4D2E2;
/* 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;
background-color: #C4D2E2;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #EEE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
background-image: url(../Images/down.jpg);
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
background-color: #33C;
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: #33C;
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%;
width: 7.9em;
background-color: #CCD8E6;
/* 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-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
background-color: #CCD8E6;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;

Hi,
Please note the following,
Spry does not create the problems, budding web developers do. Spry in its original package has no cross browser issues.
Update from Spry Version 1.4 to Spry version 1.6.1. You can find the files here.
At the time of this reply, the URL that you gave us uses no Spry at all
As soon as points 2 and 3 have been fixed, please come back here and we will assist you in hunting down the bugs.
Ben

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