Hi, I'm new to this group, but not so new to CSS. I'm having a problem with some dynamic menus and need help. I searched the archives and the closed thing I came to the problem I have was the thread "More SOS Problems." But I'm getting ahead of myself. :)
Basically, I have a vertical menu with fly-out style submenus. The design calls for the hovered menu item to change to a white background with a yellow border. Simple enough. Then I found that the hovering caused unpleasant shifting as the button (list elements) changed from having no border to having a border. Ok, easy enough to fix. I simply added a border the same color as the menu background. Now I noticed that, while the menus themselves appear over the content like they should, they seem to overlap each other. That is, a sub menu will sit over it's own parent menu, but the parent menu's neighbors sit over the sub menu. The menus themselves have enough distance that the text doesn't overlap (but it probably would if font-sizes were increase). However, the aforementioned borders do show up and it is quite distracting. I tried removing the position:relative style for the li elements in the menu and that solved the problem beautifully. Unfortunately, the sub menus no longer know where to go. I was using position:absolute for the sub menus along with position:relative for the parent menus. With no position:relative for the parent menu, the sub menus all end up at the top of the menu. With no position:aboslute (or using position:relative) on the sub menus, the sub menus appear within the parent menu's space and blows everything out. Here is a link that shows where I'm at: http://spppa.littleberrystudio.com I've looked at this problem too long. How do I have properly positioned sub menus without neighboring parent menus peaking through and avoid "jumping" from the borders? Also, so far I've only checked in FF/Win and IE6/Win. If anyone happens to catch any weirdness in other browsers, I'd be happy to know about it. And if anyone has any suggestions for doing something better, I'd also be very happy to hear them. Thank you! -Patricia Kruep ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/