[Solved] CSS Menu with a Horizontal Sub Menu

[Oceaneyes524]

Horizontal CSS Menu with a Horizontal Sub Menu

Hello All,
I’ve been working on this site a long time and I think I am only 1 line of code off. I am building a Horizontal CSS drop down menu with a horizontal sub menu. It works correctly in IE 6, 7 & 8, but not in Firefox or Safari. Go figure! In Firefox and Safari the drop downs end up vertical instead of horizontally lining up side by side.

I think I am only missing a "display: inline;" somewhere in my CSS, but I can’t seem to figure out where it goes. I’m new to this.

Here’s my CSS code:

Code:

@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;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
/* 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 {
list-style-type: none;
width: 128px;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/* 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;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
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;
float: left;
}
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {
list-style-type: none;
display: inline;
width: 100%;
}
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul {
position: absolute;
margin: 95% 0 0 -5%;
width: 100%;
}
/* 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{
top: 0;
}

/*******************************************************************************

DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts

*******************************************************************************/

/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
border: 0px solid #CCC;
}
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a{
text-align:center;
cursor: pointer;
display: block;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
li.MenuBarHorizontal-Drop a{
text-align:center;
cursor: pointer;
display: block;
background-color: #007FC4;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}

/* 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: #007FC4;
color: #000000;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
/* — Rollover state — */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible{
background-color: #007FC4;
color: #000000;
}

/*******************************************************************************

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%;
}
/* 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-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%;
}
/* 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.MenuBarItemSubmenuHoverU{
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;
float: left;
background: #FFF;
}
}

Any help would be so great!

Thanks,
-Katie

[Oceaneyes524]

Please let me know if there’s any other info you need. I know my code is messy next to all you pros out there.

If I don’t figure this out soon, I’ll be "living in a van down by the river!"

Thanks,
-Katie

[Oceaneyes524]

So I have updated my CSS to be cleaner. The code is working beautifully in IE…but…still no luck in Safari & Firefox.

I added position: relative; to the ul.MenuBarHorizontal li {
It forced me to clean my code up a bit to get IE working again.

New Code:

Code:

@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 {
cursor: default;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/* 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 */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li {
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
width: 128px;
}
/* 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 {
cursor: default;
float: left;
left: -1000em;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
text-align: left;
width: 800px;
}
/* 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;
float: left;
width: 100%;
}
/* Size of SubMenu container */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li {
list-style-type: none;
width: auto;
}
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul {
position: absolute;
margin: 95% 0 0 -5%;
width: 100%;
}
/* 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 {
top: 0;
}

/*******************************************************************************

DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts

*******************************************************************************/

ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
border: 0px solid #CCC;
}
/* Menu items are a gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a {
cursor: pointer;
display: block;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
text-align:center;
}
/* Styles for the dropdown menu text */
li.MenuBarHorizontal-Drop a {
text-align:center;
cursor: pointer;
display: block;
background-color: #007FC4;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}

/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and black text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus {
background-color: #007FC4;
color: #000000;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and black text */
/* — Rollover state — */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible {
background-color: #007FC4;
color: #000000;
}

/*******************************************************************************

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%;
}
/* 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-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%;
}
/* 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.MenuBarItemSubmenuHoverU {
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;
float: left;
background: #FFF;
}
}

Anyone got any ideas?
-Katie

[TheDoc]

I had a look at this earlier and couldn’t figure it out, though I didn’t spend too much time on it.

Generally, if it’s perfect in IE but wrong in FF and Safari, there are some big coding problems.

[Oceaneyes524]

I’ve removed all the

display: inline;

from the code at this point. Perhaps someone could just tell me where in the code it’s supposed to go, and I can troubleshoot from there.

[FAQPAL]

Here’s a fantastic method of doing this, it was originally made for WordPress, but can be used for anything.

http://www.faqpal.com/toolbar/3838

[Oceaneyes524]

I found a way to do it with CSS but I had to start over with my coding.
I’m going to write up a tutorial at some point.

Thanks,
-Katie

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