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CSS - Javascript drop down menu - need padding on text

Hi,
I have a drop down menu as below which works OK but i need to add some padding around the text, I have tried adding padding:5px which works OK on the text but it also ads 5 px to the size of the menu boxes which is want.

Thanks advance for your help.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>

<title>Dropdown Sample</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />

<script type="text/javascript">

// Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Ilya S. Lyubinskiy. All rights reserved.
// Technical support: http://www.php-development.ru/
//
// YOU MAY NOT
// (1) Remove or modify this copyright notice.
// (2) Re-distribute this code or any part of it.
// Instead, you may link to the homepage of this code:
// http://www.php-development.ru/javascripts/dropdown.php
//
// YOU MAY
// (1) Use this code on your website.
// (2) Use this code as part of another product.
//
// NO WARRANTY
// This code is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
// You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of this code is at your own risk.

// ***** Popup Control *********************************************************

// ***** at_show_aux *****

function at_show_aux(parent, child)
{
var p = document.getElementById(parent);
var c = document.getElementById(child );

var top = (c["at_position"] == "y") ? p.offsetHeight+2 : 0;
var left = (c["at_position"] == "x") ? p.offsetWidth +2 : 0;

for (; p; p = p.offsetParent)
{
top += p.offsetTop;
left += p.offsetLeft;
}

c.style.position = "absolute";
c.style.top = top +'px';
c.style.left = left+'px';
c.style.visibility = "visible";
}

// ***** at_show *****

function at_show()
{
var p = document.getElementById(this["at_parent"]);
var c = document.getElementById(this["at_child" ]);

at_show_aux(p.id, c.id);
clearTimeout(c["at_timeout"]);
}

// ***** at_hide *****

function at_hide()
{
var p = document.getElementById(this["at_parent"]);
var c = document.getElementById(this["at_child" ]);

c["at_timeout"] = setTimeout("document.getElementById('"+c.id+"').style.visibility = 'hidden'", 333);
}

// ***** at_click *****

function at_click()
{
var p = document.getElementById(this["at_parent"]);
var c = document.getElementById(this["at_child" ]);

if (c.style.visibility != "visible") at_show_aux(p.id, c.id); else c.style.visibility = "hidden";
return false;
}

// ***** at_attach *****

// PARAMETERS:
// parent - id of the parent html element
// child - id of the child html element that should be droped down
// showtype - "click" = drop down child html element on mouse click
// "hover" = drop down child html element on mouse over
// position - "x" = display the child html element to the right
// "y" = display the child html element below
// cursor - omit to use default cursor or specify CSS cursor name

function at_attach(parent, child, showtype, position, cursor)
{
var p = document.getElementById(parent);
var c = document.getElementById(child);

p["at_parent"] = p.id;
c["at_parent"] = p.id;
p["at_child"] = c.id;
c["at_child"] = c.id;
p["at_position"] = position;
c["at_position"] = position;

c.style.position = "absolute";
c.style.visibility = "hidden";

if (cursor != undefined) p.style.cursor = cursor;

switch (showtype)
{
case "click":
p.onclick = at_click;
p.onmouseout = at_hide;
c.onmouseover = at_show;
c.onmouseout = at_hide;
break;
case "hover":
p.onmouseover = at_show;
p.onmouseout = at_hide;
c.onmouseover = at_show;
c.onmouseout = at_hide;
break;
}
}

</script>

<style type="text/css">

a.main_menu, a.main_menu:visited, div.main_menu
{
      font: bold 12px/14px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
      display: block;
      height: 35px;
      color: #fff;
      background-color: #003399;
      width: 106px;
      padding-top: 0px;
      padding-left: 0px;
      margin: 1px;
      border-bottom: none;
}

a.sub_menu, a.sub_menu:visited, div.sub_menu
{
      color: #FFFFFF;
      text-decoration: none;
      display: block;
      margin-left: 0px;
      margin-top: 1px;
      padding: 0px;
      height: 35px;
      width: 106px;
      background-color: #FDB813;
      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 12px;
      font-weight: bold;
      border-bottom: none;
}
a.sub_menu:hover
{
      color: #000000;
      text-decoration: none;
      display: block;
      margin-left: 0px;
      margin-top: 1px;
      padding: 0px;
      height: 35px;
      width: 106px;
      background-color: #FDB813;
      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 12px;
      font-weight: bold;
      border-bottom: none;
}

</style>

</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<table width="750" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><div id="menu_parent1" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child1">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 3');">Item 3</a>
</div>
      </td>
<td><div id="menu_parent2" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child2">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
</div>
      </td>
<td><div id="menu_parent3" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child3">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 3');">Item 3</a>
</div>
      </td>
<td><div id="menu_parent4" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child4">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 3');">Item 3</a>
</div>
      </td>
<td><div id="menu_parent5" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child5">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 3');">Item 3</a>
</div>
      </td>
<td><div id="menu_parent6" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child6">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 3');">Item 3</a>
</div>
      </td>
<td><div id="menu_parent7" class="main_menu">Main Menu</div>
<div id="menu_child7">
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 1');">Item 1</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 2');">Item 2</a>
<a class="sub_menu" href="javascript:alert('Item 3');">Item 3</a>
</div>
      </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
at_attach("menu_parent1", "menu_child1", "hover", "y", "pointer");
at_attach("menu_parent2", "menu_child2", "hover", "y", "pointer");
at_attach("menu_parent3", "menu_child3", "hover", "y", "pointer");
at_attach("menu_parent4", "menu_child4", "hover", "y", "pointer");
at_attach("menu_parent5", "menu_child5", "hover", "y", "pointer");
at_attach("menu_parent6", "menu_child6", "hover", "y", "pointer");
at_attach("menu_parent7", "menu_child7", "hover", "y", "pointer");
</script>

</body>
</html>

stevengmoreau

An easy fix for this is to change your 3 css classes
For each of them add the following properties:

text-align:center;
line-height:35px;

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Thanks..