Using a fixed background image

I am just getting started with Muse, and am trying to duplicate a site that I'm building in Dreamweaver. My site has a stationary background that stays fixed as I scroll the page down or up. Is there a way to do this with Muse?*

Hi Jerry,
Welcome to the world of Muse! I am very much an amateur, still learning Muse and never used another program, so I hope this is what you are actually looking for...
It depends... if you use the image as a browser fill, make sure that you uncheck the scroll box at the bottom of the fill options. If you are placing the image directly onto the page, then just pin it - select the image, go to the pin option to the left of the x-y-w-h- coordinate settings on the control panel, and click on one of the dots.
Hope this helps....
Kate

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New bug in IE11 -- scrolling position:fixed + background-image elements jitters badly.

visit the following page in IE10 and IE11, and use your mouse wheel to scroll the page:
http://www.oussamaharb.com/
In IE <= 10, Safari, Chrome, and FireFox, the header section of that page stays put when scrolling. However, only in IE11, when you scroll the page the the header jumps around and jitters. Essentially IE11 will do this on any div with a fixed
background image.
Note the jitter does not happen if you grab the scrollbar with the cursor and move it up and down (which people rarely do). Some sort of bug when using mouse wheel has been introduced in IE11.

You are too late to see. He removed
background-attachment:fixed with IE11. His link originally showed the stuttering. It looked too unsatisfactory.
You can still see his handsome design with FireFox where it continues to work well. (And also good with Chrome, Opera, Safari too). See how the picture on top stays fixed when you scroll the page? Not with IE anymore. With IE
that great effect is removed, sacrificed to cure the ugly wart. The picture now just scrolls upward with the page to avoid the IE11 bug. Too bad.
Since your first reply here 7 months ago. Have you any special MVP insider-info yet how to make this great CSS3 port-hole feature scroll smoothly with IE11? Or possibly, you have encouraging news that it will become corrected in IE12? Your
name is IECustomizer MVP. It sounds like you will know.
Here are more stutter examples for you to examine. You may click the background to toggle several different ways to see the affliction during scroll. Please post back and tell your observation that you can see this stutter.
https://googledrive.com/host/0B8BLd2qPPV7XOGl1Sjk3c29uVlU
Possibly somebody still hasn't yet noticed in bryanangler's example ("OP"), IE11 needs to be maximized (or large) to observe the problem. At least,
somebody has not acknowledged. Bryanangler's page is Responsive Web Design (RWD). The menu on top is present when space permits. That's when the
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How can I get a fixed background image in my iWeb? The kind where it stays put and the text scrolls.

Can anyone help with this please?

Fix background image within div

Hello
I've done a lot of research about this, and tons os answers have come up, still, none solved my problem so far.
I'm trying to make the background image within a div to be fixed when i scroll vertically.
Have a template made, in which the only editable div is the rightdiv. (in red, to be easier)
Here's my code
CSS
body {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-position: center center;
background-image: url(../Images/bgdr.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
#wrapper {
height: 875px;
width: 1000px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
#header {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
clear: none;
float: none;
height: 214px;
width: 1000px;
background-image: none;
position: relative;
padding-top: 10px;
#leftDiv {
clear: none;
float: left;
height: 500px;
width: 245px;
position: relative;
text-decoration: none;
#rightDiv {
clear: none;
float: right;
height: 484px;
width: 755px;
position: relative;
overflow: auto;
#footer {
height: 100px;
width: 1000px;
clear: both;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 20px;
And here is my HTML

<div id="rightDiv" style="background-image: url(Images/informacao.png)">
</div>

Well, thing is that on Internet Explorer 9, the background image will repeat vertically when i scroll vertically. On Chrome it will stay fixed on scroll (and that is what i want).
I tried adding style="background-attachment:fixed" , but that will make the image align fix itself relatively to the whole page, not the div only. Also, it repeats itself 4 times to oocupy the screen. I can solve that by "no-repeat", but it still is fixed to the browser page, not the div.
I've been trying to fix this for days.. Help would be much appreciated.
Funny thing is that this only happens in IE9.. Chrome works perfectly.

DevilUrd wrote:
Didn't work. sorry, but i don't think i understood ur reply quite well..
Here's what i used:

<div id="rightDiv" background: url('Images/informacao.png') no repeat fixed;>
<tr>
<td>textextextextextextextextext</td>
</tr>

Could u pls be a little more detailed?
sorry, but i'm still very unexperienced at this..
That is not a valid way to write css into your page and will not work. You appear to be trying to use the background shorthand css property within the html tag itself. If you want to use an inline style, it would need to be within the style html attribute...
<div id="rightDiv" style="background:url(Images/informacao.png") no-repeat fixed top left;">
But it would be better to place it in your css instead...
#rightDiv {
clear: none;
background:url(Images/informacao.png") no-repeat fixed top left;
float: right;
height: 484px;
width: 755px;
position: relative;
overflow: auto;

Fixed background image not wanted

Hi all,
I am having a problem that has me stumped. I have a background image applied to a div and even though I haven't specified anywhere in the css for this image to be fixed position, it will not scroll with the rest of the text. I have tried to apply background-attachment css of scroll etc, but nothing is changing.
Here is the page in question - http://www.sheffieldstudent.co.uk/test/studentstrology_may2011.html
CSS is here: http://www.sheffieldstudent.co.uk/test/_css/student.css
Any ideas? Thanks.
PS: Sorry for the slow DL speed but I haven't compressed the images yet.

As for the text resize layout problem, I see what you mean. I don't know any other ways of accomplishing the same design without using background images for the navigation. Would there be a better way?
Sure - each text block would need to be in its own container, each with its own background image. That way, when the block expands vertically, the text doesn't overlap other background images. Your background images would have to be designed to allow this vertical expansion, however, which could be tricky or impossible depending on the complexity of the image.

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HI,
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Hi
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images for each of the menu item types to include the side and down
menu indicators, is there anyway to use a generic background image
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Don't use reserved words in JS
var event = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("events.xml", "catalog/event", {sortOnLoad: "date", sortOrderOnLoad: "descending"});
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I'm creating an accordion in Dreamweaver cs3 which has seven
panels. I would like to use a different background image for each
panel. I have only managed to use a single image, that ends up on
all the panels. Any ideas on this?

It worked!!! a BIG hug to U..
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I haven't done this, but I would think it would be pretty
easy by copying
the .AccordionPanelTab style code and pasting it over and
over and then
changing the class names to .AccordionPanelTab1,
.AccordionPanelTab2, etc.
Of course, you would also change the div references in your
pages.
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>
> I'm creating an accordion in Dreamweaver cs3 which has
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> would
> like to use a different background image for each panel.
I have only
> managed to
> use a single image, that ends up on all the panels. Any
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>
> .AccordionPanelTab {
> height: 30px;
> background-image:
>
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> er_purple/images/7.jpg);
> background-repeat: repeat-x;
> background-color: #122541;
> border-top: solid 0px #1C3B5A;
> border-bottom: solid 0px #1C3B5A;
> margin: 0px;
> padding: 0px;
> cursor: pointer;
> -moz-user-select: none;
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Problems to add a background-image to the widget Spry MenuBar!

With DreamweaverCS4 version 10.0 Build 4117, (italian language) I have tried to add a Spry MenuBar to the one website page.
But the problem is that I haven't understood where add my property "background-image": url(../immagini/Menu_Button_01.gif).
In the Application Page of Dreamweaver I have this screenshot:
But in the Preview Window of InternetExplorer 7 I have this strange behavior:
The "Menu_Button_01.gif" are a rounded square button made with PhotoshopCS4 and have a transparent background.
In the IE7 MenuBar doesn't appears as expected, without the transparent background!
1) How can I do to show my "Menu_Button_01.gif" image as transparent background in the MenuBar?
2) What is the correct CSS Style Rule to apply the "background-image" property?
(Example: "ul.MenuBarHorizontal li"? Or "ul.MenuBarHorizontal a"? )
3) Should I also apply the property: "background-color:transparent"? Where? What is the specific CSS Style Rule?
I have uploaded my little local WebSite to Rapidshare (100KB):
http://rapidshare.com/files/370735082/Test_Spry.zip.html
Please download it to inspect my problem.
Please response me!
Horsepower0171.

For a starter, you should not put your background style rules in the following. The accompanying descriptions will tell you this.
/* 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: 116px;
    float: left;
    background-image: url(../immagini/Menu_Button_01.gif);
    background-color: transparent;
/* 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: 116px;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
    background-image: url(../immagini/Menu_Button_01.gif);
    background-color: transparent;
Then when you apply style rules to
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    color: #333;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-image: url(../immagini/Menu_Button_01.gif);
    background-color: transparent;
this will be overridden by the following rules. They replace your image with an arrow image.
/* 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%;
There are one of two solutions
If you do not want and arrow, simply set background to none in the above four instances.
If you do want an arrow, include a down arrow image in a second Menu_Button_01.gif image called Menu_Button_01_DownArrow.gif or similar as well as a third one for your right arrow image.
I hope this helps.
Ben

Spry Menu Background image not working in IE

I have created a website using Dreamweaver CS5 and having trouble with my Spry bar in internet explorer. It looks great in chrome, firefox, etc, but in IE there is a white background instead of my background image and the submenus have moved WAY right.. can someone help me!
SpryMenuBarHorizontal.CSS is below:
@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: 800px;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 160px;
float: left;
background-image: url(file:///E|/MAIN_website/images/menu_background.jpg);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li a{
color:#FFF;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li{
background-image: url(../images/menu_background1.jpg);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li a{
color:#000;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li li{
background-image: url(file:///E|/MAIN_website/images/index_06.jpg);
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li li li a{
color:#FFF;
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover,
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible{
color:#33CCFF;
/* 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: 160px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Cambria, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: underline;
/* [disabled]background-image: url(file:///E|/MAIN_website/images/menu_background.jpg); */
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
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-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: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;

Because I can't see your site and code in context, I will make a guess that this style is throwing off your alignment:
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 160px;
float: left;
background-image: url(file:///E|/MAIN_website/images/menu_background.jpg);
Remove the text-align:center; from the above style.
Instead of centering your list element (li), center the link text (a) itself:
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Cambria, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
If you don't want the submenu text to be centered, do this immediately after the previous style:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a {text-align: left;}
The sub-submenus are also set up by default to be jogged a bit to the right. You can adjust this style:
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
that causes sub-submenus to fly out to the right of the submenus to which they attach.
Submenus themselves (not the sub-submenus) should fall directly under the top menu item by default, once you remove the text-align: center; on the li item (above).
Beth

Background images with spry "horizontal menu"

hi again
I am trying to work with the spry: "horizontal menu"
I want to put some background images into the menu bar not into the submenu
and that is the problem: the background images appears overall
what can I do ?
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Unbenanntes Dokument</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">Raum für den Inhalt von id "container"
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="#">Element 1</a> </li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Element 3</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarHorizontal">heija</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="#">soso</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Element 4</a></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
and css
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
     margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
     list-style-type: none;
     font-size: 100%;
     cursor: default;
     width: auto;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
     z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
     margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
     list-style-type: none;
     font-size: 100%;
     position: relative;
     text-align: center;
     cursor: pointer;
     width: 100px;
     float: left;
     height: 10px;
/* 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: 100px;
     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: 100px;
     height: 30px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
     position: absolute;
     margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
     left: auto;
     top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
     border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
     display: block;
     cursor: pointer;
     background-color: #FEF3E4;
     padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
     color: #FFF;
     text-decoration: none;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
     color: #FF0;
/* 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: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
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-color: #FEF3E4;
/* 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-color: #0F9;
/* 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-color: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
/* 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-color: #F99;
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;

Complete page and css code below (scroll down)
All you should be concerned with at this moment to get the background image to appear in the top level anchor is the css style below:
/* 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-color: #000;
background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
I've added the background-postion because presumably you want it to appear flush left. This overides the out-of-the-box setting which positions it 95% far left.
Here is the code and css:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Unbenanntes Dokument</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<head>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<style>
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
     margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
     list-style-type: none;
     font-size: 100%;
     cursor: default;
     width: auto;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
     z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
     margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
     list-style-type: none;
     font-size: 100%;
     position: relative;
     text-align: center;
     cursor: pointer;
     width: 100px;
     float: left;
     height: 10px;
/* 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: 100px;
     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: 100px;
     height: 30px;
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
     position: absolute;
     margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
     left: auto;
     top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
     border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
     display: block;
     cursor: pointer;
     background-color: #FEF3E4;
     padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
     color: #FFF;
     text-decoration: none;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
     color: #FF0;
/* 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: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
     background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
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-color: #000;
background-image: url(../rot.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
     background-color: #0F9;
/* 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-color: #FEF3E4;
     color: #FF0;
/* 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-color: #F99;
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);
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">Raum für den Inhalt von id "container"
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Element 1</a> </li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Element 3</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarHorizontal">heija</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="#">soso</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Element 4</a></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

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