Hi Janine,

Well, I guess the more you suffer and make mistakes, the more you learn. . . I’ve had a fun 4th holiday getting introduced to Spry. On the good side, my site looks lightyears better than before. I can actually look at the code and understand it.

“Please” let me run one question by you regarding the Spry horizontal menu bars. Touchtunes uses a placed image for its menu bar items and a separate hover-state image. The submenus are a solid light-grey box and the hover state is an orange bar. My problem is that any top-row item that has a submenu below it also gets assigned the submenu class. That only allows me (3) states: 1. for the HorizontalItemBar, 2. HorizontalItemBar hover, and 3. Submenu. I can’t do a hover for the submenu if I can’t reassign some of the top-row items as HorizontalItemBars.

All I’m looking for from you is to let me know that it should work and that I’m doing something wrong with the CSS styles. If I’m doing something wrong, I’ll kill myself to eventually figure it out.

Thank you,
Chris B.

Hi Chris,

If you want to have more control over these kinds of menus, consider getting one of the Dreamweaver extensions for creating menus. You’ll find instructions and a link to the site at http://digitalfamily.com/dreamweaver/tutorial-add-extensions.html.

If you search the Adobe Exchange site I referred to in the tutorial, you’ll find more menu-creation tools that may help you with more options.

The other option is to learn to write CSS and JavaScript yourself, but that’s definitely the long road home. . .

All my best,
Janine

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