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/plug...rfish/#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 :
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 :
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 ?