Question

I am working with http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/index.php

The Entertainment link has a drop down menu, and I am trying to make it so that the drop down hovers still keep the Entertainment parent link to be in its hover state. (Does that make sense?) Also, this will be a double drop down in the near future.

My CSS :

#nav ul li:hover ul#sub li a {
display:block;
background:#e6e6e6;
color:#CC0066;
padding:5px 15px 0px 25px;
height:25px;
width:290px;
text-align: left;
border-bottom: 1px solid #f2f2f2;
border-right: none;
margin: 0 0;

}

HTML :

<div id="nav-box">
    <div id="main-nav">
        <div id="nav">
            <ul>
                <li id="company"><a title="Company" href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/company.php"></a></li>
                <li id="entertainment"><a title="Entertainment" href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/entertainment.php"></a>
                    <ul id="sub">
                    <li id="dance"> <a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/guitarist-original-music.asp">Dance</a></li>
                        <ul id="subDance">
                            <li id="smiths"> <a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/guitarist-original-music.asp">Smiths</a></li>
                        </ul>
                    <li id="classicRock"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/guitarist-shows-covers.asp">Classic Rock | Top 40 | Rock</a></li>
                    <li id="country"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/commercial-tv-film-jingles.asp">Country</a></li>
                    <li id="rockabilly"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/composer.asp">Rockabilly | Reggae | Bluegrass | Other</a></li>
                    <li id="karaoke"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/composer.asp">Karaoke | Live Band Karaoke | All Requests</a></li>
                    <li id="solos"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/composer.asp">Solo's | Duo's | Trio's</a></li>
                    <li id="productionShows"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/composer.asp">Production Shows</a></li>
                    <li id="dj"><a href="http://www.jasontanzer.com/composer.asp">DJ's</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li id="video"><a href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/video.php"></a>
                </li>
                <li id="studio"><a href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/studio.php"></a>
                </li>
                <li id="liveAudio"><a href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/live-audio.php"></a>
                </li>
                <li id="eventPlanning"><a href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/event-planning.php"></a>
                </li>
                <li id="contact"><a href="http://www.glustik.com/dustreeproductions/contact.php"></a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div> <!-- end Nav -->
    </div> <!-- end Main Nav -->
</div> <!-- end Nav Box -->

#nav ul li:hover ul#sub li a:hover {
background:#CCC;
color:#CC0066;
}

Answer 1

I am trying to make it so that the drop down hovers still keep the
Entertainment parent link to be in its hover state.

Change the selector here:

#nav #entertainment a:hover {
    background-position:0 -20px;
}

into this:

#nav #entertainment:hover > a

That means: whenever the element with an id of entertainment (that’s inside an element with the id of nav) is hovered over, select any a elements that are direct children.

You’ll have to make the “same change” for each of your other buttons.

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It’s not optimal to use #nav #entertainment .. – it’s an “overly qualified selector” (two ids).

#entertainment .. is sufficient.

See: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html#UseEfficientCSSSelectors

It doesn’t make any practical difference – but, it is a best practise that you should try to adhere to.