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Hello fellow coders! I am trying to use tutorials to understand how to make dropdown menus with CSS3. So far so good, except for one little snag. Let me begin by showing you my HTML: <nav id='tabmenu'> <ul> <li><h2><a href='about.php' class='inactive'tabindex='4'>About</a></h2></li> <li><h2><a href='flash.php' class='inactive'tabindex='4'>Flash</a></h2></li> <li><h2><a href='writing.php' class='inactive'tabindex='4'>Writing</a></h2> <ul> <li> <a href='#' class='inactive' id='tech' onclick='toggleWritingType(this)' tabindex='10'>Technical</a> <a href='#' class='inactive' id='jour' onclick='toggleWritingType(this)'' tabindex='9'>Journalism</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li><h2><a href='design.php' class='inactive'tabindex='4'>Design</a></h2></li> <li><h2><a href='webs.php' class='active' tabindex='4'>Webs</a></h2> <ul> <li><a href='#' class='active' id='cobra' onclick='toggleSShots(this)' tabindex='9'>Cobra Cabana</a></li> <li><a href='#' class='inactive' id='hughes' onclick='toggleSShots(this)' tabindex='10'>Hughes, PhD</a></li> <li><a href='#' class='inactive' id='rasche' onclick='toggleSShots(this)' tabindex='11'>Rasche</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </nav> So, as you can see I have two submenus, and potentially one more if I can get this working. The tuts I found online created an absolute position for one submenu, which does not apply well to the second menu since they should not be in the exact same location. I think I now have a good understanding about how to use CSS3 to make submenus appear and reappear, but I'm not so clear on the placement. Is there a way to write one rule that applies to any submenu to appear beneath (relative to) it's parent <ul>? Here is my CSS for the nav: #tabmenu { width: 985px; margin: 0 auto 10px; height: 40px; border-bottom: 1px #fff solid; } #tabmenu a{ background-color: #000; color: #fff; width:150px; height:40px; line-height: 40px; float: right; text-align:center; text-decoration: none; } #tabmenu a.inactive:hover { color: #999; opacity: 0.7; filter: alpha(opacity=70); -khtml-opacity: 0.7; -moz-opacity: 1; } #tabmenu a.active, #tabmenu ul a.active { background-color: #fff; color:#000; } #tabmenu ul ul { display: none; } #tabmenu li:hover > ul { //This is the major area of concern, I believe. display: block; top: 40px; position: relative; height: 120px; width: 150px; } I made a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/cTcVT/ Thanks!

I am creating my first responsive website. My site has a wrapper that has the following css: #wrapper { width: 100%; max-width: 1230px; margin: 0 auto; background: #e0dfdf; } and I would like to have this element have a padding of 15px but when i apply that style the width of the element increases by 15px when i want it to stay at for example the max-width of 1230px. Any suggestions?