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Spry Vertical Menu Appearance in IE6

Hello. I am using the Dreamweaver spry asset tool to build a vertical menu system. On the one menu item that opens to a submenu...IE6 shows what looks like a second container or iframe behind the submenu (please see attached image). This shadow or frame or container does not show in IE7. I have adjusted the spry css every way I can think of with no results. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

sprymenu.jpg

iPromoExpert

I'm willing to bet you'd have to use a CSS hack to target IE6 to change the offset of the shadow container

cindyredo

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there are two such 'hacks' in the stylesheet generated by dreamweaver....see code below....the hacks are at the bottom of the page. should these work for this problem?

@charset "UTF-8";
 
/* SpryMenuBarVertical.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
 
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
 
/*******************************************************************************
 
 LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
 
 *******************************************************************************/
 
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
{
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 100%;
	cursor: default;
	width: 8.5em;
	margin: 0px;
	border-top-width: 0px;
	border-right-width: 0px;
	border-bottom-width: 0px;
	border-left-width: 0px;
	border-top-style: none;
	border-right-style: none;
	border-bottom-style: none;
	border-left-style: none;
}
/* 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 same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 100%;
	position: relative;
	text-align: left;
	cursor: pointer;
	width: 8em;
}
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
{
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 100%;
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 1020;
	cursor: default;
	width: 8.5em;
	left: -1000em;
	top: 0;
	margin-top: -5%;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 92%;
}
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
	left: 10px;
	bottom: 10px;
}
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent SUB MENU CONTAINER */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
{
	width: 15em;
	float: none;
	padding-left: 3px;
	border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
 
/*******************************************************************************
 
 DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
 
 *******************************************************************************/
 
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
{
	border-top-width: 0px;
	border-right-width: 0px;
	border-bottom-width: 0px;
	border-left-width: 0px;
	border-top-style: none;
	border-right-style: none;
	border-bottom-style: none;
	border-left-style: none;
}
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides  -- CHANGED 1px to 0px*/
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
{
	border: 0px solid #CCC;
}
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
{
	cursor: pointer;
	background-color: #DADADA;
	padding: 0.2em;
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
	display: block;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
}
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
{
	background-color: #DADADA;
	color: #BA4C00;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
	background-color: #DADADA;
	color: #BA4C00;
}
 
/*******************************************************************************
 
 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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
{
	/*background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);*/
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 100% 55%;
}
 
/* 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.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
{
	/*background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);*/
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 100% 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.MenuBarVertical iframe
{
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 1010;
}
/* 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.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
	{
	f\loat: left;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	display: inline;
	}
}

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scrathcyboy

don't wish to sound negative, but I have tried to help 5 or more people with Spry and IE6, and none of them got it working. It seems spry doesn't work with IE6 in many cases. You might have to use separate code for IE6 compliance, based on browser type and version detect.

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