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ChrisF79
10-22-2006, 11:23 AM
Greetings,

I found a menu online and have pasted the CSS below. It is very thin, about 24px tall. I want to make the entire menu about 32px tall. Small change, but I can't do it! I tried just replacing all the 24px references in the CSS to 32 but then the buttons are bigger than the actual UL background. I emailed the author of the code and he doesn't write back. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Here's the CSS Code......



/* Root = Horizontal, Secondary = Vertical */
ul#navmenu {
margin:0 -15px 25px 0;
border: 0 none;
padding-left: 15px;
width: 100%; /*For KHTML*/
background-color:#c64a08;
list-style: none;
height: 24px;
}

ul#navmenu li {
margin: 0;
border: 0 none;
padding: 0;
float: left; /*For Gecko*/
display: inline;
list-style: none;
position: relative;
height: 24px;
}

ul#navmenu ul {
margin: 0;
border: 0 none;
padding: 0;
width: 160px;
list-style: none;
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 24px;
left: 0;
}

ul#navmenu ul li {
float: none; /*For Gecko*/
display: block !important;
display: inline; /*For IE*/
}

/* Root Menu */
ul#navmenu a {
border: 1px solid #FFF;
border-right-color: #CCC;
border-bottom-color: #CCC;
padding: 0 6px;
float: none !important; /*For Opera*/
float: left; /*For IE*/
display: block;
background: #EEE;
color: #666;
font: bold 10px/22px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
height: auto !important;
height: 1%; /*For IE*/
}

/* Root Menu Hover Persistence */
ul#navmenu a:hover,
ul#navmenu li:hover a,
ul#navmenu li.iehover a {
background: #CCC;
color: #FFF;
}

/* 2nd Menu */
ul#navmenu li:hover li a,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li a {
float: none;
background: #EEE;
color: #666;
}

/* 2nd Menu Hover Persistence */
ul#navmenu li:hover li a:hover,
ul#navmenu li:hover li:hover a,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li a:hover,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li.iehover a {
background: #CCC;
color: #FFF;
}

/* 3rd Menu */
ul#navmenu li:hover li:hover li a,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li.iehover li a {
background: #EEE;
color: #666;
}

/* 3rd Menu Hover Persistence */
ul#navmenu li:hover li:hover li a:hover,
ul#navmenu li:hover li:hover li:hover a,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li.iehover li a:hover,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li.iehover li.iehover a {
background: #CCC;
color: #FFF;
}

/* 4th Menu */
ul#navmenu li:hover li:hover li:hover li a,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li.iehover li.iehover li a {
background: #EEE;
color: #666;
}

/* 4th Menu Hover */
ul#navmenu li:hover li:hover li:hover li a:hover,
ul#navmenu li.iehover li.iehover li.iehover li a:hover {
background: #CCC;
color: #FFF;
}

ul#navmenu ul ul,
ul#navmenu ul ul ul {
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 160px;
}

/* Do Not Move - Must Come Before display:block for Gecko */
ul#navmenu li:hover ul ul,
ul#navmenu li:hover ul ul ul,
ul#navmenu li.iehover ul ul,
ul#navmenu li.iehover ul ul ul {
display: none;
}

ul#navmenu li:hover ul,
ul#navmenu ul li:hover ul,
ul#navmenu ul ul li:hover ul,
ul#navmenu li.iehover ul,
ul#navmenu ul li.iehover ul,
ul#navmenu ul ul li.iehover ul {
display: block;
}

redihot.com
10-23-2006, 05:48 AM
To fix it place <a href="thelinkyouwant"> link </a> around each link within the <li></li> seemed to fix it in dreamweaver.

ChrisF79
10-25-2006, 12:36 PM
But that's still 24px tall links. Where do I change that?

drhowarddrfine
10-25-2006, 08:02 PM
Do you have it online to look at?