I am trying to add a css drop down menu to my blog in blogger.
I am using some code that I found for a drop down menu. It works perfect in Firefox and Chrome but not in IE. I am using IE9 but have a meta tag to emulate IE7. In IE, the sub menu items are shifted over to the right instead of appearing directly below the main menu items. (Using my code as an example, the “2010 Interviews,” “2011 Interviews,” etc are not directly under “Radio Interviews” when I hover. They are shifted right.
I have been trying to fix this for 4 days. I’m not great with the coding so even though I have done lots of researh for a solution, I do not understand and can’t get it right. I’m hoping someone can help me or else I’m just going to give up.
I’d like to leave the doctype and meta tag as is.
Here is the html (which I have added to an html/javascript gadget).
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://brunomarstester.blogspot.com/">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Award Shows</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">AMAs</a></li>
<li><a href="#">BET Awards</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Grammys</a></li>
<li><a href="#">MTV VMAs</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Other Award Shows</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Hooligan Band</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Dwayne Dugger II</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Eric Hernandez</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Jamareo Artis</a></li>
<li><a href="#">James King</a></li>
<li><a href="#">John Fossitt</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kameron Whalum</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Phredley Brown</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Radio Interviews</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">2010 Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="#">2011 Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="#">2012 Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="#">2013 Interviews</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">TV/Other Interviews</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">2010 Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="#">2011 Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="#">2012 Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="#">2013 Interviews</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Performances</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Award Shows</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Concerts</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Night Clubs</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Radio Stations</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Special Events</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">TV</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Guest Star</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">International</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Australia</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Brazil</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Canada</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Philippines</a></li>
<li><a href="#">UK</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Other</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
And here is the top portion & head of the code for the template:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<!--BELOW ADDED BY CW-->
<meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'/>
<!--ABOVE ADDED BY CW-->
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:regular,bold' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: TheStyle
Author : http://www.soratemplates.com
Designer: http://www.elegantthemes.com
Date: Sep 2012
License: This free Blogger template is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits both personal and commercial use. However, to satisfy the 'attribution' clause of the license, you are required to keep the footer links intact which provides due credit to its authors. For more specific details about the license, you may visit the URL below:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
----------------------------------------------- */
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body#layout #PageList1{float:none}
body#layout #main-wrapper { float: left; width: 70%; }
body#layout #header-wrapper { margin-bottom:0 }
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background-color: #2C2C2C;
color: #7A7575;
font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 19px;
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font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: -1px;
line-height: 1em;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
a {color: #00B7F3;}
a:hover {}
#container {
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span.date {display:block; position: absolute; top: 40px; right: 0px; padding-right: 8px;}
#content-bottom-bg {
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white-space: nowrap;
}
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font-size: 36px;
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text-transform: uppercase;
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If anyone can help I would appreciate it so much.
Well, after spending 5 days straight on this, not getting it to work, and hours of research, I finally found a great tutorial that explains how to create a css drop down menu and it works correctly for all browsers, including IE 7,8, and 9. So I used that code and modified it to suit my preferences.
Thank you @Kraz for your help.
In case this may be helpful to others (probably only beginners like me) here is the link. There was one small fix to include a z-index so make sure you read through all the comments if your menu drop downs are covered by other elements. I would never ever want anyone to go through what I went through. http://designmodo.com/css3-dropdown-menu/