Al Sparber wrote:

>From: "Tod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>My goal is to have a dynamically generated three level vertical 
>>dropdown with the top menu items being variable length and each 
>>separated by the same amount of space. I'd also like it to be as 
>>browser agnostic as possible.
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>>I am following the dropdown guide at
>>http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns. Everything works fine 
>>but
>>I found something a little quirky that is throwing me.
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>>The <li> tag width is a constant of 10em.  I decided that since I 
>>can't always guarantee the text size of my list items I would try 
>>and design things to be as flexible as possible. To accomplish this 
>>I tried setting my width to auto. That works nicely with variable 
>>length text but when I hover over a menu item the dropdown menu 
>>appears horizontal instead of vertical.
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>>I'm new at this so I think there might be a good approach that I'm 
>>not aware of. Any guidance would be appreciated.
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>Hi Tod,
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>While this links go to a help topic for our menu system, the technique 
>used would most likely work for any cascading list menu with 
>horizontal root items:
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>http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm/user_guide/styling/menu_widths/hz_root_varwidth.htm
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>Al Sparber
>PVII
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YES!!  That worked, thank you for the advice.

Tod
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