CSS drop down menu problem

[John444]

Hey everyone, I have made a pure CSS drop down menu for school. I wrote everything by hand. My website works great in Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome but when a bring it to school to be marked, the drop down menu does not work with Internet Explorer. This is because IE does not support the hover tags. Is there any script or alternative things that I can put in the CSS or HTML document to make it work the same in IE as Safari or Firefox?
So I need a script that will make the hover tag work in IE, or any alternative tags I can use so that browser like IE will read my CSS menu right.

Here is the CSS file:

#wrapper {
	width:940px;
 	margin-left:auto;
	margin-right:auto;
}

@charset "utf-8";

#navMenu {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;

}

#navMenu ul {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	line-height:30px;
}

#navMenu li {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	list-style:none;
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	background:#999;
}
#navMenu ul li a {
	text-align:center;
	font-family:"arial", cursive;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:30px;
	width:150px;
	display:block;
	color:#FFF;
	border: 1px solid #000;
	text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #000;
}

#navMenu ul ul {
	position:absolute;
	visibility:hidden;
	top:32px;
	
}

#navMenu ul li:hover ul {
	visibility:visible;

}

/***********************************************/

#navMenu li:hover {
	background:#09F;

}

#navMenu ul li:hover ul li a:hover {
	background:#CCC;
	color:#000;

}

#navMenu a:hover {
	color:#000;
}

.clearFloat {
	clear:both;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;

}

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jsm4182]

Internet Explorer 6 is dying. Some companies, including the one I work for, have already dropped support. Things like this are part of the many reasons it needs to die for the web to move forward.

For times you absolutely need ie6 support, use whatever hover to get the hover pseudo class to work right in ie6.

 

[scottgroovez]

Even MS want IE6 to die...

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

 

[Dunmail]

My stock reply for questions like this is to visit http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/ lots to go at there