SPRY Vertical Menu Problem (IE Hack?)

I'm having a problem with the Spry vertical menu bar. The one
I created works fine in Firefox and in Safari, but not in Internet
Explorer. In IE the sub-menu containers open AT THE TOP of the menu
bar, and not next to the selected menu item. I'm not sure how to
fix it. Any help is appreciated.
You can see the problem here (view in IE and roll over any of
the menu items in the middle or lower part of the menu bar):
http://southerncharmgifts.net/thesouthernsportsman/html/ssarchery.html

I downloaded the Spry update but it didn't fix the problem.
It changed my menu box to white, when it should have remained
black. Hopefully I can fix it. But still the same problem with IE.
This is really bad! Any way to reverse the update?
quote:
Originally posted by:
SnakEyez02
First your Spry is out of date. Please click on the following
link below to get the Spry Updater. It will be inside the package
as an Extension. Then next time you start up DW click on Sites and
then you will see an option at the bottom to update Spry in your
site.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html
Looking at your page it appears to validate except for one
thing. All images need alt tags assigned to them.
See if updating the Spry helps.
Also there is a Spry forum that Adobe does check in case
there are bugs. The link to the forum is on that page and I will
also link it below:
http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_spry_pr1_forum
With regards to Pitmaster you can check the above links but
depending on the issue it could be something else. So if you need
further assistance post a link to your page.

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We implemented the spry vertical menu for showing the
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It works in mozilla but in IE present this problem:
- The response time is slow when you change from one category
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See in
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Thanks,
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I tried in Firefox 3 and IE7 and they both seemed fairly slow
for any action to take place. But IE7 did seem pretty slugish.
It seems that you're already determined what the issue is,
you have waaaaaay too many menu items. Seems to me that that number
of items don't belong in a menu. There are even menus that are too
long to appear entirely on the page, so they can't be easily
accessed without accidentally hiding the menus again, which I did
several times. IN particular:
Cartuchos > Technologica
If you cannot change to a different format to show all of the
items, then perhaps you can split up the menu so that you don't
have too many at one time. I checked the code of your page and it
seems that you've got a lot of other scripting going on there
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you're trying to do with that menu. If you can try to recreate the
page with only the menu items on it (and not pulled in dynamically
on the fly), and then add back to your page a bit a time, you might
be able to find out what is really causing the delays.

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Hey Guys,
I am have been trying to figure this thing out for hours. I
am new to coding. I made a vertical menu with one sub menu in
products. It works fin on my mac computer when running it on
firefox and safari, but when I run it on on a pc in Internet
Explorer it does not work. Can you please help me, I have a
deadline I am trying to meet.
here is the link:
http://www.fcsenterprises.com/test/cabinetman/index.html

Hi,
I'll give exactly the changes you have to do to have the menu
working on both browsers:
On the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css file make the following
changes:
- on this rule: ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE ,
delete background: #FFF; property. (This seems to have an influence
here)
- on this ul.MenuBarHorizontal li rule add a fixed height,
height: 30px for example;
- on this ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe rule add the line:
filter: alpha(opacity=0.1); (This is a known bug that is fixed for
Spry 1.6)
Diana

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</style><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/javascript.php"></script></head>
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Gramps

Spry vertical menu button shows background color instead of image in preview

Hello All, I'm a newbie (to the forum and Dreamweaver) so my apologies if my question is not in good form. I've searched for this issue but cannot seem to find the exact problem I have.
I've created a website (my first) and used the spry menu bar. It works well using the default blue and grey colors for button and hover. However, I decided I want to spruce it up a little and change the buttons to use a background image (rainbow pattern) instead of background color. I internet researched this for some time and watched all the youtube videos people have posted for this process and editing the spry vertical menu bar CSS. Using the .a and hover lines from the CSS, I was able to add my background .jpg image file. In the design view, the button look exactly how I want them to. However, when I attempt to preview in IE, Chrome, or FF, the buttons still have the default colors and no image. I've gone back and deleted the default blue and grey, but then the preview just shows dark grey and white for the buttoms. is there something that I am overlooking that would cause the background color to show instead of the image I have attached to the buttons. I can't figure out why it looks right in DW but not in preview.
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Point taken :-)
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border: 1px solid #CCC;
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ok... no sooner than I hit submit... figured it out...
If anyone comes across this, it seems just add width:0,
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/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form
controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
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position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
width:0px;
height:0px;
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by it's designer. The designer would like the sub menu items to all
have different widths that correspond to the actual content within
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http://staging.rm306.com/cycle/
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The sample page I posted came after searching for an easy
"how to do it". The closest I found to a tutorial was this:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spryte_menu.html
The author designs and implements a spry menu with Fire Works
graphics. The last section describes how to modify the existing CSS
for multiple levels. Yet I found the sample page easier to follow.
I hope this helps though.

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URL to your site please

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Nancy,
Thanks for the reply (it helped me know how to approach it). It looks like editing
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
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Hi,
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Hi,
A little history... I am new to DW (CS3) and am trying to
teach myself. I have built a couple sites prior so I know just
enough to be dangerous... :)
I have a site I am developing with a frameset layout. "fixed
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B

B_Nemo wrote:
> A little history... I am new to DW (CS3) and am trying
to teach myself. I
> have built a couple sites prior so I know just enough to
be dangerous... :)
Obviously not enough to know that each frame in a frameset is
a separate
window. You cannot make the content of one frame display over
the
content of another. It's one of the many disadvantages of
frames.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
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Prototype
link using spry, css, ajax sprites and other magic.

>>
Regrettably, the silence from the forum has been deafening.
I'm not sure if folks are just wary of SPRY and AJAX issues right
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>>
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I've made a pretty simple web page, put a spry horizontal menu on it and it works and displays just like it's supposed to in FF but IE and Chrome both seem to have a problem with it. Currently there are no links attached to it but that's not my problem - getting it to display correctly is. Possibly this issuehas already been addressed but I couldn't find it in the forum. Webpage can be viewed here
I've put (what I believe to be) the relevant css on the Main Content section of the page. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I am so glad that you started again, this is the best way to learn, trial and error.
To fix your woes to date, have a look at the following
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To add images to your menu items have a look at the following http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/MenuBarSample.html, you will find it at the bottom of the page.
I did not realise that SolidWorks still existed, started using it in the mid 1990's, excellent product, easy to use and promotes fast product development. I lost track of it when I went for retirement 10 years ago.
Gramps.

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http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=6d78452432a4c4d7&hl=en

Vertical Menu Problem

I am trying to get the sub-menu to simply flyout just ABOVE the parent menu, instead of the default in which is appears just below.
I played around with the margin settings to no avail, but I took the setting "top: 0;" and changed it to "bottom: 100%;" and viola! that did it in all browsers but IE. (IE7 and IE8) In explorer, the sub-menu still appears below the parent.
I tried many different settings but to no avail - can someone please help with this?
I can provide my code/example if needed but alls I did to test this is just open a blank html page, insert vertical menu - then changed the settings mentioned.....thats it.
Thank you!

The position of Spry Menu Bar submenus is controlled by the CSS margin property on submenu ul tags.
Locate the ul.MenuBarVertical ul rule.
Change the margin: -5% 0 0 95%; default values to the desired values.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Spry/SDG/help.html?content=WS895F3A6D-6D73-42ef-B568-3D04A BD2F171.html
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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