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Javascript Slashdot style menu with Safari issues

Hi Experts,

I have downloaded and installed the Slashdot style menu from Dynamic Drive. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/slashdot.htm

The script is functioning in Firefox, IE AND Safari when it is either in a plain test template page or on the DD site.
Here is the URL to the working 'test' page on my server:
http://www.randomlychallenged.com/SiteMapTEST2.php

However when I come to embed the script in the page I intend to use it in I lose functionality in Safari. Both FF and IE seem unaffected.
I have tried both Transitional and Strict XHTML 1.0 but it doesn't seem to work with either.

Here is the target page:
http://www.randomlychallenged.com/SiteMap.php

I am not very familiar with Javascript and so there may just be a syntax error that I have failed to spot.

Thank you for your expert advise.

Michel Plungjan

I get a syntax error here:

Too many commas

onload= "MM_preloadImages('images/LogoutBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/NewsHubBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/ProSearchBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/MyProfileBtnDOWN.gif',,,
'images/InfoBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/ChronicleHubBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/FreestyleChallComBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/ChronicleSearchBtnDOWN.gif',,
'images/ChallengeHubBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/MailHubBtnDOWN.gif',
'images/TrophyCabBtnDOWN.gif')"

Michel Plungjan

And on the second page, your menu is in a table... So most likely it is a CSS problem

RowdyBurns

ASKER

I will amend the commas now to see if that works.
Here is the CSS the page references. Can you see anything obviously wrong with this?

div.sdmenu {
	width: 570px;
	font-family: Helvetica;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	background: url(bottom.gif) no-repeat  right bottom;
	color: #ffffff;
}
div.sdmenu div {
	background: url(title.gif) repeat-x;
	overflow: hidden;
}
div.sdmenu div:first-child {
	background: url(toptitle.gif) no-repeat;
}
div.sdmenu div.collapsed {
	height: 25px;
}
div.sdmenu div span {
	display: block;
	padding: 5px 35px;
	font-style:italic;
	color: #027AC6;
	background: url(expanded.gif) no-repeat 10px center;
	cursor: default;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
}
div.sdmenu div.collapsed span {
	background-image: url(collapsed.gif);
}
div.sdmenu div a {
	padding: 5px 10px;
	background: #ffffff;
	display: block;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
	color: #666666;
}
div.sdmenu div a.current {
	background : #027AC6;
}
div.sdmenu div a:hover {
	background : #027AC6 url(linkarrow.gif) no-repeat right top;
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration: none;
}

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RowdyBurns

ASKER

I tried to remove the errors that you highlighted above but when I did so FF stopped working as well!!?
I have also tried to remove the nested table that contains the menu. This did not effect the functionality in either browser.

Any more suggestions?

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Michel Plungjan

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RowdyBurns

ASKER

Do you think I should re-post this as a CSS question?

RowdyBurns

ASKER

Sorry I posted that before I got your response. I'll try your suggestion now....