AG,
Thank you for your response. I reviewed the commandments and do not beleve that I have broken any of them. You will see that I added a few items for the submenu styling as I wanted to customize the width of the submenus from one mnu bar item to the other for asthetic/style reasons I have attached the Spry code and html that corresponds to the menubar. I read another thread that suggested it could be because the div i have the Spry embedded in has "relative" positioning defined. However if that is the case I have no idea how to keep the menubar where I want it which is positioned between 2 other divs.
Spry CSS:
/********************************************************************* **********
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
{
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 18px;
cursor: default;
width: 41em;
font-family: "Myriad Pro", Arial, Helvetica;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 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.MenuBarHorizontal
ul li{
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: auto white-space
: nowrap;
float: left;
width: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
}
/* 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: 14px;
z-index:1020;
cursor: default;
width: 19em;
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
{
float: none;
width: 19em;
}
/* 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 a.MenuBarItemHover ,ul.MenuBarHorizontal
a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible{
left: auto;
top: 0;
}
/********************************************************************* **********
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
********************************************************************* **********/
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
{
border: 0px;
}
/* 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;
text-align: center;
}
/* 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:;
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:;
color: #45a200;
}
/********************************************************************* **********
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 ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu3
{
background-image:;
background-color: #0526ea;
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:;
background-color: #0526ea;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: 18em;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu1
{
background-image:;
background-color: #0526ea;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: 7em;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu2
{
background-image:;
background-color: #0526ea;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: 5em
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu3
{
background-image:;
background-color: #0526ea;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: 11em
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu4
{
background-image:;
background-color: #0526ea;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: 12em
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu5
{
background-image:;
background-color: #0526ea;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
width: 9em
}
/* 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;
/* [disabled]background-position: 95% 50%; */
color: #FFF;
background-color:;
}
/* 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:;
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: relative;
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;
}
}
HTML:
#titlebar {
background-image: url(../Images/title-bar.png);
height: 120px;
width: 1000px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
}
body {
background-image: url();
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
#menubar {
font-size: 14px;
text-align: left;
height: 40px;
width: 1000px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
background-color: #0526ea;
}
#container {
font-family: "Myriad Pro", Arial, Helvetica;
font-size: small;
height: 600px;
width: 1000px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
background-image: none;
background-color: #FFF;
}
#footer {
font-family: "Myriad Pro", Arial, Helvetica;
font-size: x-small;
background-image: none;
height: 10px;
width: 1000px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
color: #0627ef;
}
#bottomnav {
font-family: "Myriad Pro", Arial, Helvetica;
text-align: center;
height: 15px;
width: 1000px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
font-size: small;
color: #0627ef;
}
</style>
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<style type="text/css">
a:link {
color: #0627ef;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="titlebar"></div>
<div id="menubar">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
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</ul>
</li>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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