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Hover Menu Issue: IE 7 moves items to the right (CSS)

Hey everybody,

I am a student and while creating a website for my economics club, I encountered a problem that is beyond my head. I usually create the CSS part by somewhat trial-and-error and now Internet Explorer 7 is my only last problem.

I know there have been similar issues before on here, but I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me where my mistake is.

I based my hover menu on this example: http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/examples/cssmenu.html

Internet Explorer 7 displays the pop-up menus a couple of pixels to far to the right, hence they are not clickable when you move the mouse to the right. I am also aware that IE6 doesn't display everthing correctly but as long as it works I don't care.

If anyone could tell me what to change in order to make it work in IE7 (without braking the functionality in Firefox, Safari, IE6...), I would be very glad.
Because this is really important to me, I am also willing to give away a lot of points.

In the Code Section, there are two parts: one is the HTML-Website-code, the other part is the contend of a file called "csshover.htc" in order to make things happen on IE6.

Please excuse my English, I am German.

HTML/CSS Source Code (only necessary parts):
 
<html>
<head>
	<style type="text/css">
 
	body {
		behavior:url("../htc/csshover.htc");}
	
		div#PageBox {
			padding: 20px 0px 0px 30px;
			width:auto;
			margin:12px;}
 
		ul#MenuLeft {
			border: 1px solid black;
			width: 105px;
			margin:0;
			padding:0 0 0 2px;}
 
		ul#MenuLeft li {
			display:block;
			font-size:14px;
			list-style: none;
			padding:0;
			margin: 0;}
 
		#MenuLeft li{
			position:relative;
			z-index:9;}
 
		li.MenuLeftFlip ul {
			width:140px;
			background-color:#ffffff;
			padding: 2px;
			border: 1px solid black;
			position:absolute;
			left:60px; /* might be related to IE6*/
			top:0px;}
 
		li.MenuLeftFlip>ul {
			left:105px;} /* might be related to IE7 */
 
		li.MenuLeftFlip:hover {
			z-index:10;}		
 
		ul#MenuLeft ul { 
			display:none;}
 
		#MenuLeft li:hover ul ul { 
			display:none;}	
 
		#MenuLeft li:hover ul { 
			display:block;}	
 
		#MenuLeft li:hover li:hover ul { 
			display:block;}	
 
		ul#MenuLeft a {
			padding:3px; 
			display:block;
			text-decoration: none;}
 
		ul#MenuLeft a:link {
			text-decoration: none;}
 
		ul#MenuLeft a:visited {
			text-decoration: none;}			
 
		ul#MenuLeft a:hover {
			text-decoration:none;
			background-color: red;}			
 
		ul#MenuLeft a:active {
			text-decoration: none;
			background-color:#F8C400;}
	
	</style>
</head>
 
<body>
 
<div id="PageBox">
 
<ul id="MenuLeft">
    <li><a href="#">Item A</a></li>
    <li class="MenuLeftFlip">
    <a href="#">Item B</a>
        <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem A</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem B</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem C</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem D</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem E</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li class="MenuLeftFlip">
    <a href="#">Item C</a>
        <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem A</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem B</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem C</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem D</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem E</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li class="MenuLeftFlip">
    <a href="#">Item D</a>
        <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem A</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem B</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem C</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem D</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Subitem E</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">Item E</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
 
</body>
</html>
 
 
 
***********************************************************************
File "csshover.htc", stored in the same directory:
 
<attach event="ondocumentready" handler="parseStylesheets" />
<script>
/**
 *	Whatever:hover - V1.42.060206 - hover & active
 *	------------------------------------------------------------
 *	(c) 2005 - Peter Nederlof
 *	Peterned - http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/
 *	License  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/
 *
 *	Whatever:hover is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *	modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *	License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 *	version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *	Whatever:hover is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 *	Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *	Credits and thanks to:
 *	Arnoud Berendsen, Martin Reurings, Robert Hanson
 *
 *	howto: body { behavior:url("csshover.htc"); }
 *	------------------------------------------------------------
 */
 
var csshoverReg = /(^|\s)(([^a]([^ ]+)?)|(a([^#.][^ ]+)+)):(hover|active)/i,
currentSheet, doc = window.document, hoverEvents = [], activators = {
	onhover:{on:'onmouseover', off:'onmouseout'},
	onactive:{on:'onmousedown', off:'onmouseup'}
}
 
function parseStylesheets() {
	if(!/MSIE (5|6)/.test(navigator.userAgent)) return;
	window.attachEvent('onunload', unhookHoverEvents);
	var sheets = doc.styleSheets, l = sheets.length;
	for(var i=0; i<l; i++) 
		parseStylesheet(sheets[i]);
}
	function parseStylesheet(sheet) {
		if(sheet.imports) {
			try {
				var imports = sheet.imports, l = imports.length;
				for(var i=0; i<l; i++) parseStylesheet(sheet.imports[i]);
			} catch(securityException){}
		}
 
		try {
			var rules = (currentSheet = sheet).rules, l = rules.length;
			for(var j=0; j<l; j++) parseCSSRule(rules[j]);
		} catch(securityException){}
	}
 
	function parseCSSRule(rule) {
		var select = rule.selectorText, style = rule.style.cssText;
		if(!csshoverReg.test(select) || !style) return;
 
		var pseudo = select.replace(/[^:]+:([a-z-]+).*/i, 'on$1');
		var newSelect = select.replace(/(\.([a-z0-9_-]+):[a-z]+)|(:[a-z]+)/gi, '.$2' + pseudo);
		var className = (/\.([a-z0-9_-]*on(hover|active))/i).exec(newSelect)[1];
		var affected = select.replace(/:(hover|active).*$/, '');
		var elements = getElementsBySelect(affected);
		if(elements.length == 0) return;
 
		currentSheet.addRule(newSelect, style);
		for(var i=0; i<elements.length; i++)
			new HoverElement(elements[i], className, activators[pseudo]);
	}
 
function HoverElement(node, className, events) {
	if(!node.hovers) node.hovers = {};
	if(node.hovers[className]) return;
	node.hovers[className] = true;
	hookHoverEvent(node, events.on, function() { node.className += ' ' + className; });
	hookHoverEvent(node, events.off, function() { node.className = node.className.replace(new RegExp('\\s+'+className, 'g'),''); });
}
	function hookHoverEvent(node, type, handler) {
		node.attachEvent(type, handler);
		hoverEvents[hoverEvents.length] = { 
			node:node, type:type, handler:handler 
		};
	}
 
	function unhookHoverEvents() {
		for(var e,i=0; i<hoverEvents.length; i++) {
			e = hoverEvents[i]; 
			e.node.detachEvent(e.type, e.handler);
		}
	}
 
function getElementsBySelect(rule) {
	var parts, nodes = [doc];
	parts = rule.split(' ');
	for(var i=0; i<parts.length; i++) {
		nodes = getSelectedNodes(parts[i], nodes);
	}	return nodes;
}
	function getSelectedNodes(select, elements) {
		var result, node, nodes = [];
		var identify = (/\#([a-z0-9_-]+)/i).exec(select);
		if(identify) {
			var element = doc.getElementById(identify[1]);
			return element? [element]:nodes;
		}
		
		var classname = (/\.([a-z0-9_-]+)/i).exec(select);
		var tagName = select.replace(/(\.|\#|\:)[a-z0-9_-]+/i, '');
		var classReg = classname? new RegExp('\\b' + classname[1] + '\\b'):false;
		for(var i=0; i<elements.length; i++) {
			result = tagName? elements[i].all.tags(tagName):elements[i].all; 
			for(var j=0; j<result.length; j++) {
				node = result[j];
				if(classReg && !classReg.test(node.className)) continue;
				nodes[nodes.length] = node;
			}
		}	
		
		return nodes;
	}
</script>

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Klemi

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Incredible.

I struggled with this for 3 months now... I am so glad that you answered.

You just gained yourself 500 points!

Thank you and goodbye!