Hi,

 

Re:Drop down menu not aligning in IE 8 . Mozilla OK

 

I have inserted a horizontal menu bar with one submenu. This works fine in chrome and mozilla but not in IE8.

 

The dropdown submenu has 9 lines.

In IE8 the vertical 9 lines are moved to the right into 3 columns of 3 lines with the outside border overflowing to the right.

 

Please see below my css script. Abit messy but i have just started.

 

Any help would be great.

 

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@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;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
}
/* SET PADDING FOR TOP MENU BAR FROM LEFT. 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;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
}
/* SET WIDTH TO AUTO FOR TOP MENU TEXT ALIGN, THEN PAD WITH HORIZONTAL a . SUBMENU LEFT PADDING DONE FROM NEW "ul.MenuBarHorizontal li ul li a" .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;
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: 17em;




background-color: #;
}
/* SUBMENUS COLOUR (NON HOVER) AND WIDTH - colour for submenu bg and sub menu width. should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
{
position: relative;
width: 10em;
margin-top: 0%;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 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
{
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;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 500;
background-position: right center;
padding-top: 14px;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-bottom: 0em;
padding-left: 0.5em;
height: 25px;
background-image: url(../images/topmenugreybutton.png);
}
/* OK.TOPMENU BG COLOUR(NON SUBMENU OR HOVER STATE), ul.MenuBarHorizontal a = sets TOPMENU COLOUR AND TEXT, PADDING etc */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
{
color: #FFF;
background-color: #F00;
background-image: url(../images/SUBmenuyellow.png);
}
/* TOP MENU HOVER (ALSO SET BELOW UL.),BORDERS, 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
{
color: #333;
background-image: url(../images/SUBmenuyellow.png);
}

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

BG AND TEXT COLOUR FOR MOUSE OVER FOR TOP MENU AND SUBMENU 

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

/* 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-position: right center;
background-image: url(../images/topmenugreybutton.png);
}
/* COLOUR FOR TOP MENU (NON HOVER STATE) CONTAINING A SUBMENU -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-position: 95% 50%;
}
/* OK, TOP MENU HOVER CONTAINING SUB MENU - 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-position: 95% 50%;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-image: url(../images/SUBmenuyellow.png);
}
/* TOP LEVEL HOVER FOR IETMS WITH SUBMENU -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-repeat: repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
background-color: #00F;
}

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

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;
}
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li ul li a {
color: #666;
margin-left: 0px;
border-right-style: none;
background-image: url(../images/LIGHTGREYbutton.png);
height: 10px;
padding-bottom: 6px;
font-size: 11px;
border-bottom-style: none;
}
/* OK, SUBMENU COLOUR ((WITH IMAGE) IN NON HOVER STATE, LINE HEIGHT, PAD TEXT 6PX AT BOTTOM*/

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

Richard.

Edited February 18, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design
Please use the code button or tags to format your code.

Best advice I can possibly give you is: get rid of it. It uses ugly parsing hacks that came off the Ark; it's a much better idea to fully grasp dropdowns yourself. Start here.

 

If you personally write every line of CSS you'll have a much better idea of how they're all interacting and you'll be able to troubleshoot better.

 

Edit: a warning though. The Javascript in that article is a little out of date, and is only meant to target IE6. It'll work just fine without it on IE7+.

Edited February 18, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design

Best advice I can possibly give you is: get rid of it. It uses ugly parsing hacks that came off the Ark; it's a much better idea to fully grasp dropdowns yourself. Start here.

 

If you personally write every line of CSS you'll have a much better idea of how they're all interacting and you'll be able to troubleshoot better.

 

Edit: a warning though. The Javascript in that article is a little out of date, and is only meant to target IE6. It'll work just fine without it on IE7+.

 

Chris,

 

thank you for replying. I agreed about writing CSS myself, it will help me in the long run.

 

Many thanks,

 

richard