Hi everyone,

I'm having some issues with drop down navigation working in IE (I've tried IE8 and 9)

Here is the site I'm working on: http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/about.html

I am using a variation of the Suckerfish drop down found here: http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

This code includes 12 lines of javascript to work in IE. While the menu works and functions, the drop down background color is ignored, defaulting to white and making it hard to read since it blends in with the rest of the page.

Thank you in advance for your help! I'm pasting my code below:

HTML:



[<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/about.html">About</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/about/news.html">News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/about/contact.html">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/about/listserv.html">Listserv</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/modules.html">Modules</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/modules/prop-dev.html">Proposal Development</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/modules/inst-proposal.html">Institute Proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/modules/award.html">Award</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/modules/subcontracts.html">Subcontract</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/modules/person.html">Person</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/training.html">Training</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/training/basics.html">Basics Training</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/training/adhoc.html">Ad hoc Training</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/training/subawards.html">Subawards</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/training/wow.html">Warehouse on the Web</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/resources.html">Resources</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/install.html">Coeus Installation Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/basics-manual.html">Coeus Basics Manual</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/adhoc-manual.html">Coeus Ad hoc Manual</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/subawards-manual.html">Coeus Subawards Manual</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li><a href="http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/ORAA/coeus/bus-admin/FAQs.html">FAQs</a>

</li>

</ul>


Javascript:


<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
sfHover = function() {
var sfEls = document.getElementById("nav").getElementsByTagName("li");
for (var i=0; i<sfEls.length; i++) {
sfEls[i].onmouseover=function() {
this.className+=" sfhover";
}
sfEls[i].onmouseout=function() {
this.className=this.className.replace(new RegExp(" sfhover\\b"), "");
}
}
}
if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", sfHover);

// ]]>
</script>


and CSS:


#nav ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
background: #e0e0dc;
float: left;
line-height: 25px;
}


#nav a {
display: block;
padding: 0px;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
width: 12em;
border: 1px solid #ffffff;
border-top: none;
border-left: none;
text-decoration: none;

}

#nav li a:hover{
background: #cc0000;
color: #ffffff;

}
#nav li {
float: left;
width: 12em;
padding: 0;
text-align: left;
}


#nav li ul {
position: absolute;
width: 12em;
left: -999em;
}

#nav li:hover ul {
left: auto;
}

#nav li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul {
left: auto;
}

#nav li.sfhover ul { background: #ffffff;}

#nav {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
background: #c2c1ba;
float: left;
width: 962px;
height: 25px;
line-height: 25px;
z-index: 1000;

}

Good morning EHunter,
Instead of putting that background on the ul, does it work better if you put in on the anchor?
Try it like this -
#nav ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
/*background: #e0e0dc;*/
float: left;
line-height: 25px;
}
#nav ul li a {background: #e0e0dc;}

Wow-Thank you, Excavator!
Problem fixed!:)