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    Default Just can't "stretch" the menu out horizontally?

    1) Script Title: Inverted Shift Down Menu

    2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/cs...ift-down-menu/

    3) Describe problem: Using same, which was quite easy to do install wise and modify wise. But problem is, that for some reason, I can NOT get it to 'stretch' out to fill a complete area. I think that might be because there is a setting to indicate how far to space the margins on the far left hand edge here [margin-left: 40px; /*margin between first menu item and left browser edge*/]. But I cant either create same for the margin-right nor 'stretch' it anyother way to get it to fill a certain horizontal width.

    Anyone know how I might do that? It's supposed to fill an area that is 832 px, but always shows about 10 px on the far right hand side tween the edge of the rollover button and the container wall...

    ???

    Jim

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    So...has no one used this script?

    ?

    Jim

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    Default Help Here lads?

    Does no one know how to 'stretch' this menu?

    If someone does please just let me know what to use as I still can't get it to look right...

    sigh...

    :-(

    Jim

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    By stretched out, do you mean the horizontal strip that runs across the top of the menu bar, or the links themselves? Also, does your page contain a valid doctype at the top, such as:

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML>
    Please post a link to the page on your site that contains the problematic script so we can check it out.
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    Sure...here's the testing page -- http://www.midainternationalinc.com/testRPM/rpm.html

    You will note that I've got the menu positioned below the blue bar and all I want to happen is that when you rollover or click on the far right hand nav button entitled FAQ, that the blue portion goes ALL the way to the far right hand vertical bar too -- just like it does for the first button entitled Who We Are...

    Can not adjust the CSS to do that either...is it just me?

    Jim

    PS yes, valid doctype too [<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">] is what is used...

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    Hmm right now your "FAQ" link actually appears on a second line for me, since there isn't enough room on the first line. Is that intentional? See screenshot.
    Last edited by ddadmin; 10-16-2009 at 07:34 PM.
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    Not at all, on my own monitor it fits...with that whitespace to the right hand side of the blue button you see on the rollover...

    IS there a way to get this to be 'horizontally' modifiable?
    (dunno if that's good English?) so that I can use those terms across the width of that
    blue bar just above same?

    ?

    Jim

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    Hello....

    could someone pls look at this for me?

    I've NO idea on why I simply can't stretch out the width of this nav menu???

    ???

    Jim

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    I believe I understand what you're asking, though there isn't an easy way to do this with this particular menu, at least not that I'm aware of. Each of the menu items is floated left in CSS to achieve its look, which makes them lose their "elasticity", so to speak.
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    Hmm....okay, but is there not a way to use CSS to <center> that menu - and in that way I can perhaps stretch it out using padding etc to fill that horizontal space?

    While it must be apparent that my CSS skillSet is negligable, it seems that CSS is lacking here?

    ???

    Jim

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