Question

I want to make a small website for myself and so I ask this question as a beginner. I cannot succeed to have the submenu contain another background when hovering the main menu.

HTML:

        <div id="nav">
            <ul class="sub1">
              <li><a href="#"><h2>Home</h2></a></li>
              <li><a href="#"><h2>About</h2></a><!---id="onlink"--->
                <ul class="sub2">
                  <li><a href="#" title="About Us">Us</a></li>
                  <li><a href="#" title="About Our product">Our product</a></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
        </div>

CSS:

#nav{
width:100%;
height: 60px;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}

#nav ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
width: 60%;
margin: auto;

}

#nav ul li{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style: none;
float:left;
position:relative;
background:transparent url(EN/Button_menu_unselected.png);
}

#nav ul li ul li{
background:aqua; /*Test that doesn't work*/
}

#nav ul li a{
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
height:20px;
width:100px;
padding:10px;
display:block;
color:#003300;
}

#nav ul ul{
position:absolute;
visibility:hidden;
}

#nav ul li:hover ul{
visibility:visible;
}

#nav ul li:hover a{
background-image: url(EN/Button_menu_rollover.png);
}

The drop down items get the same format as the button called “Button_menu_rollover”, which gives me a very bad result.

Answer 1

The code:

#nav ul li:hover a{
background-image: url(EN/Button_menu_rollover.png);
}

is applied to all elements and sub-elements.

This fixes it, but this code does not work on IE6:

#nav ul li:hover > a{
background: #fff;
}

Or you may use Javascript for HOVER effect to get exact results.