Hey Charlie, Thanks for that.
Unfortunately that makes no difference to the width of the top level items for me - only the drop down sub items. So it doesn't appear to be that In combination, commenting out this line does not have any affect on the top level width either: $('ul.sf-menu > li > a span').remove(); Any other ideas? > autoarrows: true > this appends the link with a span with an arrow image to show links with subs > and is adding addiitonal width, set to false