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CSS/Javascript menu. Want to get elements left of parent.

I hae a web site that I am designing a menu system for. I am utalising a CSS/Javascript/HTML menu that I have used on many occasions.

The menu is horizontal and uses nested unordered lists to drive it.

Included is a complete test page (work in progress and strictly a test set!)

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<style type="text/css">

.menumain {
	background-color: #156ab9;
	float: left;
	width: 984px;
	margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
}
ul.menu {list-style:none; margin:0; padding:0;
}
ul.menu * {margin:0; padding:0}
ul.menu a {display:block; color:#fff; text-decoration:none}
ul.menu li {position:relative; float:left;}
ul.menu ul {clear:both; position:absolute; top:35px;  left:0px; background:#156ab9;display:none; opacity:0; list-style:none; width:540px;}
ul.menu ul li {position:relative; width:280px; margin:20px 10px 20px 10px;}
ul.menu ul li a {display:block; padding:5px 7px 5px 10px; background-color: #eeeeee;color: #FFFFFF;}
ul.menu ul li a:hover {background-color: #125ca0;}
ul.menu .menulink {padding:10px 5px 10px 10px; font-weight:bold; font-size: 14px;}
ul.menu .menulink:hover, ul.menu .menuhover {background-color: #125ca0;color: #FFFFFF;}


</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
var menu=function(){
	var t=5,z=50,s=10,a;
	function dd(n){this.n=n; this.h=[]; this.c=[]}
	dd.prototype.init=function(p,c){
		a=c; var w=document.getElementById(p), s=w.getElementsByTagName('ul'), l=s.length, i=0;
		for(i;i<l;i++){
			var h=s[i].parentNode; this.h[i]=h; this.c[i]=s[i];
			h.onmouseover=new Function(this.n+'.st('+i+',true)');
			h.onmouseout=new Function(this.n+'.st('+i+')');
		}
	}
	dd.prototype.st=function(x,f){
		var c=this.c[x], h=this.h[x], p=h.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
		clearInterval(c.t); c.style.overflow='hidden';
		if(f){
			p.className+=' '+a;
			if(!c.mh){c.style.display='block'; c.style.height=''; c.mh=c.offsetHeight; c.style.height=0}
			if(c.mh==c.offsetHeight){c.style.overflow='visible'}
			else{c.style.zIndex=z; z++; c.t=setInterval(function(){sl(c,1)},t)}
		}else{p.className=p.className.replace(a,''); c.t=setInterval(function(){sl(c,-1)},t)}
	}
	function sl(c,f){
		var h=c.offsetHeight;
		if((h<=0&&f!=1)||(h>=c.mh&&f==1)){
			if(f==1){c.style.filter=''; c.style.opacity=1; c.style.overflow='visible'}
			clearInterval(c.t); return
		}
		var d=(f==1)?Math.ceil((c.mh-h)/s):Math.ceil(h/s), o=h/c.mh;
		c.style.opacity=o; c.style.filter='alpha(opacity='+(o*100)+')';
		c.style.height=h+(d*f)+'px'
	}
	return{dd:dd}
}();		</script>

</head>
	<div class="menumain">
		<ul class="menu" id="menu">
			<li><a href="#" class="menulink">Home</a>
				<ul>
					<li><a href="#" class="topline">Commercial Waste</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Contract Waste</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li><a href="#" class="menulink">Profile</a>
				<ul>
					<li><a href="#" class="topline">Commercial Waste</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Contract Waste</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li><a href="#" class="menulink">Tournaments</a>
				<ul>
					<div style="width: 100px;height:100px;float:left;background-color: #ff0000;margin: 20px 10px 10px 10px;">here we go again</div>
					<div style="width: 100px;height:100px;float:right;background-color: #ff0000;margin: 20px 10px 10px 10px;">here we go again</div>
					<li><a href="#" class="topline">Commercial Waste</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Contract Waste</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li><a href="#" class="menulink">Tuition</a>
				<ul>
					<div style="width: 100px;height:100px;float:left;background-color: #ff0000;margin: 20px 10px 10px 10px;">here we go again</div>
					<div style="width: 100px;height:100px;float:right;background-color: #ff0000;margin: 20px 10px 10px 10px;">here we go again</div>
					<li><a href="#" class="topline">Commercial Waste</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Contract Waste</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li><a href="#" class="menulink">Sponsors</a></li>
			<li><a href="#" class="menulink">Contact</a></li>
		</ul>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			var menu=new menu.dd("menu");
			menu.init("menu","menuhover");
		</script>
	</div>

<Div style="float:left; width:500px;height:1000px;background-color: #125ca0;"

<body>
</body>
</html>

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What I would like to achieve is to have the 'popup' menus appear left justified to the 'mainmenu' <div> rather than relative to their immediate <li> parent.

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