CSS and Navbar, NEED HELP!

[DCBass]

Hello all,

I'm a beginner at web design and css and have nearly completed a redesign for my office's website. I'm only having one final problem.

As you can see in the picture, I have a Navbar on the page that I created using Fireworks. After importing it into Dreamworks, it worked perfectly. However, once I applied Absolute positioning to the Navbar Div (the navbar is nested within its own DIV tag), the drop down menus are totally separated from the navbar. This does not happen without absolute positioning.

Has anyone encountered this before? Is there a way to have abs positioning without screwing up my navbar?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

-DCBass

 

[pulsewidth947]

Not sure if this link will help you.

Can I just say that I've been doing layouts in CSS recently, and I cannot get much to work cross-platform. I've resorted to going back and doing everything in tables again as its still much more reliable

I had so much hassle from doing drop down horizontal menus in CSS (they just refused to work in IE), I've been told using javascript drop downs help.

Hope some if this info is of use to you

 

[DCBass]

Thanks

Thanks for the info pulse.

The funny thing is is that this affects both Firefox and IE (for windows, haven't tested on mac yet), so I'm thinking that there must be some root problem/solution.

I wish that I could use tables. I was earlier, but this is a government website and I cannot use nested tables unfortunately.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[mac 2005]

Free App

Personally, I've found this app to be very useful.

It's free and uses dhtml. Seems to be very cross-browser and -platform friendly.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ccdhtmlmenu.html

It's an app by Coffee Cup...

edit: Guess I should mention that it runs only on Windows.