Sounds like a CSS issue – probably with margins or positioning If you have even a 1px margin or “blank” space between the sub-menu links, the dropdown will disappear. Looking at your site, there does seem to be quite a gap between your sub-menu links.
You might also want to sort out some of your CSS errors.
Hi esmi, thanks for your response.
Since a space could be horizontal or vertical, I wasn’t sure which you meant, so I experimented.
First I eliminated “margin-right: 1px” from
#access li:hover > a,
#access ul ul :hover > a
and from
#access ul li.current_page_item > a,
#access ul li.current_page_parent > a,
#access ul li.current-menu-ancestor > a,
#access ul li.current-menu-item > a,
#access ul li.current-menu-parent > a
Checked with friend–menus still disappearing!
Then I changed “margin: 4px 0 1px 0;” to “margin: 0;” on
#access a
and THEN the drop-down menus started disappearing for ME! (As well as looking awfully cramped up.)
So I restored “margin: 4px 0 1px 0” to #access a:. In other words, I’m back to last friend-tested and still-problematic configuration.
All my CSS errors, as linked above, are the “web-kit-size-adjust” stuff I inherited from Twenty ten–which (along with radius, box-shadow, etc) the W3C folks are pleased to insist do not exist.
Could I get you to clarify, please, esmi: did you mean that the space to the right and/or left of the links might cause trouble, or did you mean that the top and/or bottom margins of the links might cause trouble?
It’s almost certainly the top & bottom margins that are the problem. As the mouse moves out of one element and into the margin area, the focus is lost – hence the dropdown menu disappears. Try removing the top & bottom margins and compensating with additional top & bottom padding.
Thanks for the clarification, esmi. I’m still working on this as I can’t get the problem to happen with ANY browser on my computer….
I also have a problem with WP 3.01 running twenty-ten with no modifications to the theme. I have not “hacked” any of the code.
The site is http://twogatherbeads.com/
The MENU for LEARN HOW has a drop down menu consisting of 3 items. If I roll over LEARN HOW, the drop down shows but disappears when scrolling down to access the drop down.
This occurs on Firefox 3.6.12 running on MAC OSX 10.4.11. There is not a problem on Safari 4.1.2. I see a small horizontal gap between the main menu element ( LEARN HOW) and the drop down when viewing in Firfox. I do not see the gap in Safari.
Need help in resolving this problem!
thanks in advance for the help!
-dan
What I *THINK* I learned, by the time I fixed my issue, would pertain to you ONLY if you have edited your style.css file.
What I created, by editing the css, was a combined menu-and-dropdowns styling that was partly pixel-based and partly em-based. (I tend to prefer em-sizing of fonts.) I THINK what was happening was that the em-sizing was not calculated to the same pixel size in all browsers. Browsers of course round, and I believe my problems resulted from a rounding error. For example, a size (line-height, say) in ems might calculate to 20.52 pixels–and the drop-downs work when/if a browser rounds to 21, but the menu would lose focus when/if a browser rounds to 20. (It might also involve different-ly sized versions of the same font on visitors’ computers. I know Palatino was huge, one of the biggest fonts per point size, in the mid-90s, then reappeared in a rather weenie size–I think this may not be terribly uncommon.)
IF you’ve edited your style.css, I’d suggest you go in and check that EVERYTHING having to do with the navigation bar and dropdowns is specified in pixels–no ems, no percentages, points, words (“smaller”), etc.
If you have NOT edited your style.css file, it would seem to be a problem for the Twenty Ten task force…. perhaps they will enter in a moment, stage left?
Good luck to you, dan!
Thank you! No editing has taken place so……
I do hope someone comes in from stage right! =)
I am curious, though, what you see when checking the link.
http://twogatherbeads.com/
thanks in advance for your help!
dan
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