CSS Popup Menu / IE7 specific issue

michaellunsford · February 8, 2007

The popups from the previous post are now working fine in everything including IE7. Problem in IE7, though. When mousing below the second option, the submenu disappears.

Running IE7? check this link:

http://www.mlmurphydesign.com/menu.php

My best guess is the nested <ul> is not being rendered as part of the parent <li> and mousing outside the height of the parent <li> is making the nested <ul> disappear.

the magic part of the CSS that makes it all work:

ul.menu li:hover > ul {
display:block;
}

Something like this should do the trick -- but I can't figure out how to code it:

ul.menu li ul:hover {
ul.menu li ul { /* This might explode all the menus, instead of just one, but you get the idea */
	display:block;
}
}

the whole story (If you're interested in all of it):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<title>Menu -- all by itself</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="elements/menupopper.css?col=" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body style="background:#FFC;"><div style="text-align:center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:auto;"><tr><td style="height:5px;"></td></tr>
<tr><td>
<ul class="menu">
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a>
<ul>
	<li><a href="louisiana.html">Louisiana</a></li>
	<li><a href="house.html">House</a></li>
	<li><a href="dujour.html">Du Jour</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></td><td> </td>
<td><ul class="menu">
<li><a href="plans.html">Plans</a>
<ul>
	<li><a href="1000-2000.html">1000 - 2000</a></li>
	<li><a href="2000-3000.html">2000 - 3000</a></li>
	<li><a href="3000andup.html">3000 - Up</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></td><td> </td>
<td><ul class="menu">
<li><a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a>
<ul>
	<li><a href="exterior.html">Exterior</a></li>
	<li><a href="interior.html">Interior</a></li>
	<li><a href="detail.html">Detail</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></td><td> </td>
<td><ul class="menu">
<li><a href="lagniappe.html">Lagniappe</a>
<ul>
	<li><a href="cottages.html">Cottages</a></li>
	<li><a href="ancillary.html">Ancillary</a></li>
	<li><a href="miscellaneous.html">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></td><td> </td>
<td><ul class="menu">
<li><a href="comingplans.html">Coming Plans</a>
<ul>
	<li><a href="frenchcountry.html">French Country</a></li>
	<li><a href="creole.html">Creole</a></li>
	<li><a href="westindies.html">West Indies</a></li>
	<li><a href="tudor.html">Tudor</a></li>
	<li><a href="colonial.html">Colonial</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></td><td> </td>
</tr></table></div></body></html>

/* CSS Document */
ul li ul {
margin-left:-2px;
margin-top:2px;
}
ul.menu {
width:110px;
height:35px;
font:13px Arial;
position:relative;
}
ul.menu ul {
position:absolute;
display:none;
}
ul.menu li:hover > ul {
display:block;
}
ul.menu li a {
text-decoration:none !important;
color:#775841;
display:block;
}
ul.menu li:hover, ul.menu li:hover > a, ul.menu li > ul a:hover {
color:#FFF !important;
background:#000;
}
ul.menu li {
width:105px;
position:relative;
list-style-type: none;
border: 2px solid #775841;
background:#FFC;
border-width: 1px 2px 1px 2px;
padding-top:4px;
padding-bottom:2px;
text-align:center;
}
ul,li {
padding-left:0;
margin-left:0;
}
ul.menu ul li {
color:#775841;
background:#775841;
}
ul.menu ul li a {
color:#FFF !important;
}

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