It's because of the child's (or sub-item's parent) box. They probably thought on give it some margin to make it safer and easier to select, meaning you can go a little out of the item's box and the menu won't disappear, so the issue you describe is caused by their top margin.
Hope that helps. Jay Rabe wrote: > This is certainly a nice-looking solution, however I'm curious about one > thing. If I put my cursor tip in a top-level box, it drops down the sub-menu > just fine, but the highlighting in the top-level box is only "on" if the tip > of the cursor is somewhere above (ie vertically) the midline of the box. > Clearly not a functional issue, but just curious. > > J > >> This works: >> >> http://sperling.com/examples/menuh/ >> >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/