thanks guys, i'll try implementing both of your ideas and get back to this thread once i have some resolve.
for anyone that checked my url above - the files have been overwritten since i received these two responses, so i don't expect anyone to make much sense of what's there now. big up, lewis On Sep 5, 8:11 pm, Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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