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transcend2005
09-03-2008, 10:50 AM
I've been bashing my head with this problem for several days now and i've tried lots and lots of methods with no good result. now, i'm out of ideas.



I want to use the superfish/suckerfish menu from :
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#sample1

The problem is that i want to show the second ul submenu (the one that extends from the first) ~50px to the left over the first ul menu.

see the problem in the attached image.

it works fine in firefox, but in internet explorer 6 & 7 the second ul submenu is shown below the first one. i thought its a problem with z-index or something but i can't get it to work.

here is the html code :


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>A very basic Superfish menu example</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/superfish.css" media="screen">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/hoverIntent.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/superfish.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

// initialise plugins
jQuery(function(){
jQuery('ul.sf-menu').superfish();
});

</script>
<style type="text/css" media="screen" id="test">
.test {margin-left:-50px;margin-top:10px;position:absolute;z-index:9999;}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<ul class="sf-menu">
<li class="current">
<a href="#a">menu item ↓</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#aa">menu item that is quite long</a>
</li>
<li class="current">
<a href="#ab">menu item →</a>
<ul class="test">
<li class="current"><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#aba">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#abb">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#abc">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#abd">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item ↓</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">short</a></li>
<li><a href="#">short</a></li>
<li><a href="#">short</a></li>
<li><a href="#">short</a></li>
<li><a href="#">short</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item →</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
<li><a href="#">menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item</a>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>


here is the css code :



/*** ESSENTIAL STYLES ***/
.sf-menu, .sf-menu * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
.sf-menu {
line-height: 1.0;
}
.sf-menu ul {
position: absolute;
top: -999em;
width: 10em; /* left offset of submenus need to match (see below) */
}
.sf-menu ul li {
width: 100%;
}
.sf-menu li:hover {
visibility: inherit; /* fixes IE7 'sticky bug' */
}
.sf-menu li {
float: left;
position: relative;
}
.sf-menu a {
display: block;
position: relative;
}
.sf-menu li:hover ul,
.sf-menu li.sfHover ul {
left: 0;
top: 2.5em; /* match top ul list item height */
z-index: -1;
}
.current:hover sf-menu li {
position:absolute;z-index:-5;
}
ul.sf-menu li:hover li ul,
ul.sf-menu li.sfHover li ul {
top: -999em;
}
ul.sf-menu li li:hover ul,
ul.sf-menu li li.sfHover ul {
left: 10em; /* match ul width */
top: 0;
position:absolute;z-index:999;
}
ul.sf-menu li li:hover li ul,
ul.sf-menu li li.sfHover li ul {
top: -999em;
}
ul.sf-menu li li li:hover ul,
ul.sf-menu li li li.sfHover ul {
left: 10em; /* match ul width */
top: 0;
}

/*** DEMO SKIN ***/
.sf-menu {
float: left;
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
.sf-menu a {
border-left: 1px solid #fff;
border-top: 1px solid #CFDEFF;
padding: .75em 1em;
text-decoration:none;
}
.sf-menu a, .sf-menu a:visited { /* visited pseudo selector so IE6 applies text colour*/
color: #13a;
}
.sf-menu li {
background: #BDD2FF;
}
.sf-menu li li {
background: #AABDE6;
}
.sf-menu li li li {
background: #9AAEDB;
}
.sf-menu li:hover, .sf-menu li.sfHover,
.sf-menu a:focus, .sf-menu a:hover, .sf-menu a:active {
background: #CFDEFF;
outline: 0;
}

/*** arrows **/
.sf-menu a.sf-with-ul {
padding-right: 2.25em;
min-width: 1px; /* trigger IE7 hasLayout so spans position accurately */
position:relative;z-index:-1;
}
.test a {position:relative;z-index:555;}
.sf-sub-indicator {
position: absolute;
display: block;
right: .75em;
top: 1.05em; /* IE6 only */
width: 10px;
height: 10px;
text-indent: -999em;
overflow: hidden;
background: url('../images/arrows-ffffff.png') no-repeat -10px -100px; /* 8-bit indexed alpha png. IE6 gets solid image only */
}
a > .sf-sub-indicator { /* give all except IE6 the correct values */
top: .8em;
background-position: 0 -100px; /* use translucent arrow for modern browsers*/
}
/* apply hovers to modern browsers */
a:focus > .sf-sub-indicator,
a:hover > .sf-sub-indicator,
a:active > .sf-sub-indicator,
li:hover > a > .sf-sub-indicator,
li.sfHover > a > .sf-sub-indicator {
background-position: -10px -100px; /* arrow hovers for modern browsers*/
}

/* point right for anchors in subs */
.sf-menu ul .sf-sub-indicator { background-position: -10px 0; }
.sf-menu ul a > .sf-sub-indicator { background-position: 0 0; }
/* apply hovers to modern browsers */
.sf-menu ul a:focus > .sf-sub-indicator,
.sf-menu ul a:hover > .sf-sub-indicator,
.sf-menu ul a:active > .sf-sub-indicator,
.sf-menu ul li:hover > a > .sf-sub-indicator,
.sf-menu ul li.sfHover > a > .sf-sub-indicator {
background-position: -10px 0; /* arrow hovers for modern browsers*/
}

/*** shadows for all but IE6 ***/
.sf-shadow ul {
background: url('../images/shadow.png') no-repeat bottom right;
padding: 0 8px 9px 0;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 17px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 17px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 17px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 17px;
}
.sf-shadow ul.sf-shadow-off {
background: transparent;
}



i'm not adding the javascript because i believe that the problem is from css ...

can anyone help me ?