Spry vertical menubar ie6 issue

Question

I am having some trouble implementing a simple vertical menu
in ie6. Works great in everything, but on ie6 the lower nav button
jumps up to the upper nav button any time the page is refreshed. It
fixes itself as soon as you hover over either.
staging.hypercd.com/mandarintuscany
here's the css:
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights
reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning,
z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box
with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
cursor: default;
overflow: visible;
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 140px;
ul.MenuBarVertical li#club{
margin-bottom: 4px;
ul.MenuBarVertical li.submenu{
width: 200px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right
(95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially
off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
margin: 0 0 0 102%;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 200px;
left: -1000em;
top: 0;
background:url(../images/nav_bg.png) repeat;
*html ul.MenuBarVertical ul{
background: repeat;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='images/nav_bg.png',
sizingMethod='scale');
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation
MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: 0;
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
width: 8.2em;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text
decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
color: #ffffff;
margin-left: 3px;
text-decoration: none;
ul.MenuBarVertical li.submenu a{
margin-left: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 20px;
color:#CCCCCC;
ul.MenuBarVertical li.submenu a.selected{
color: #ffffff;
ul.MenuBarVertical li.submenu a:hover{
color: #ffffff;
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.MenuBarVertical 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.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
f/loat: left;
clear: both;
any ideas/suggestions?

Answer 1

Hi mmannello,
I'm not sure if you've modified the page since you posted
this, but I'm not seeing any jumping when I load your current page
in IE6 ... what I do see is that you have 2 vertical menubars with
one menu item in each. Is that on purpose?
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