Question

I am working on a project where we’re scraping a site and pulling in the content, as a result I don’t have control over the structure of the divs or lis.

The problem I’m running into is that on the menu the drop downs aren’t left-aligning with the parent menu item. I’m looking for some css/jquery that will help solve this issue, here’s a link to the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9gQCH/3/

CSS & HTML

    #item1, #item2 {        
       background-color:#efefef;           
       display:inline;
       font-size:14px;
       margin-right:3px; 
       padding:5px; 
    }

    .Submenu {
        display: none;
        padding: 4px; 
        margin-top:18px;
        background-repeat:no-repeat;
    }  

    .Menu li:hover .Submenu{
        background-color:orange;
        display:inline;
        color: black;
        padding: 3px 5px;
        position:absolute;
    }



    <div class="Menu">
    <li id="item2">
        High level Item 1
        <div class="Submenu">
            <div>
                   Nested Item 1         
            </div> 
            <div>
                   Nested Item 2       
            </div>         
        </div>
    </li>  

    <li id="item2">
        High level Item 2
        <div class="Submenu">
            <div>
                   Nested Item 3         
            </div> 
            <div>
                   Nested Item 4       
            </div>         
        </div>
    </li> 
    </div> 

Answer 1

You don’t need jQuery for this. Simply add this to your CSS:

.Menu li { position: relative; }

Update (Add left: 0; to your .Submenu class):

.Menu li:hover .Submenu{
    background-color:orange;
    display:inline;
    color: black;
    padding: 3px 5px;
    position:absolute;

    left:0; // <------
}

(You can also add a top property if you find it necessary)

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/kboucher/gbhtC/