Just my two cents, but changing your html structure could solve a lot of problems, including this one.
Imho, each one of you *_set_navigation ul should be children of your #primary navigation items, e.g: <li id="home" href="#" alt="Home" title="Home">home</a> <ul id="home_set_navigation" class="hide"> <li><a id="home_latest" href="latest" alt="Latest news" title="Latest news">our latest</a></li> <li><a id="home_reviews" href="music_reviews" alt="Music reviews" title="Music reviews">reviews</a></li> <li><a id="home_listen" href="listen" alt="Listen now!" title="Listen now!">listen live!</a></li> <li><a id="home_competitions" href="competition" alt="Competitions" title="Competitions">competitions</a></li> <li><a id="home_get_involved" href="get_involved" alt="Get involved" title="Get involved">get involved</a></li> <li><a id="home_calendar" href="calendar" alt="Calendar" title="Calendar">calendar</a></li> </ul> </li> That way hovering over the secondary navigation for this item wont 'mouseout' the primary <li>. That will take some adaptation on the CSS but I think that's worth it. That way as well, clients that do not support css/javascript can still have a menu that has some meaning, instead of two separate menus. Regards, Renaud Drousies On 5 sep, 14:47, ldexterldesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think you can all see what i'm trying to do > here:http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~scs4ll/index.html > > i've coded up the 'home' and 'schedule' buttons as best i can (using > the hover event). it would be nice if the secondary nav stayed up long > enough for me to navigate it though. > > any help would be much much appreciated. even a kick in the right > direction. > > cheers, > lewis