I'm having a problem controlling the upper left menu border on my test page here: http://www.thedailysearch.com/testsearch.html i want to delete the borders and add some padding between the top parent links. I don't know what's going on...I've looked at the css and can't find anywhere that specifies borders and yet they are there...Can anyone advise? Thank you. here is the css: /*============================================================================== GRC multi-level script-free pure-CSS menuing system stylesheet. This code is hereby placed into the public domain by its author Steve Gibson. It may be freely used for any purpose whatsoever. Computed Geometries: with a default 12px font, 1.0em == 12px and 1px == 0.08333em. Thus, our 98px wide Freeware and Research buttons are 8.166666em wide. ============================================================================== Dave Brondsema deleted stuff to make this minimal version He also change the colors of background, text, and borders to be more recognizable, so that others may find and change for their sites more easily. The "skinny" class appears to be necessary on the first 'ul' that flies out within a dropdown you may want CSS resets here e.g. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/ */ /*========================= TOP OF THE MENU CASCADE =========================*/ .menu { position:relative; /* establish a menu-relative positioning context */ float:left; /* play nicely with others */ margin:0; padding:0px; border:0; height:18px; /* the menu's overall height */ width:100%; /* we always want our menu to fill the available space */ background:#b2bdc4; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; /* this (and also below) sets the menu's font size */ } .menu img { vertical-align: top; /* prevent images from being pushed down by text */ } .menu ul { padding:0; margin:0; border:0; list-style-type:none; /* we don't want to view the list as a list */ line-height:1.5em; /* globally set the menu's item spacing. note */ } /* this must be 1.0 or 1.5 or 2.0 for Mozilla */ .menu li { float:left; /* this creates the side-by-side array of top-level buttons */ position:relative; /* create local positioning contexts for each button */ margin:0; } .menu ul li table { margin:-1px 0; /* IE5 needs -1px top and bottom table margins */ m/argin:0; /* re-zero the table margins for everyone but IE5 */ border-collapse:collapse; /* IE5 needs this for the sub-menus to work */ font-size:12px; /* this sets the base font size for our entire menu */ } .drop { display:block; padding:0px 0.33em; /* this sets the l/r margins for our menu item */ margin:0; text-align:right; /* this right alignment goes with the float:left below */ cursor:pointer; /* IE tries to switch back to an I-beam, don't let it */ cursor:hand; /* IE5 only knows about "hand", so set it both ways */ } .drop span { /* this simultaneously left and right aligns the text and */ float:left; /* the >> in the drop-down menus which link to sub-menus */ } /*======================== TOP LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/ .menu ul li ul { display:none; /* initially hide the entire list hierarchy */ padding:0; /* this is our box border width */ } .menu ul li a, .menu ul li a:visited { /* unselected top-level menu items */ display:inline; float:left; text-decoration:none; height:18px; } .menu ul li:hover a, .menu ul li a:hover { /* selected top-level menu items */ border-top:0px solid #000; /* these 2 lines create the push-in illusion */ height:16px; } /*======================== 2ND LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/ .menu ul li:hover ul, .menu ul li a:hover ul { /* 2nd level drop-down box */ display:block; position:absolute; margin:0; top:17px; /* place us just up underneath the top-level */ left:-1px; /* left-align our drop-down to the previous button border */ height:auto; /* the drop-down height will be determiend by line count */ width:13.5em; color:white; /* this sets the unselected-text color */ background:black; /* this sets our menu's effective "border" color */ } .menu ul li:hover ul.leftbutton, .menu ul li a:hover ul.leftbutton {/* our first dropdown should not be skewed */ left:0px; } .menu ul li:hover ul.skinny, .menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny { /* 2nd level skinny drop-down box */ width:8.08333em; /* with a 12px default font, this is 97px width (97/12) */ } .menu ul li:hover ul li a, .menu ul li a:hover ul li a { /* 2nd level unselected items */ border:0; margin:0; padding:0; height:auto; color:white; /* this sets the unselected drop-down text color */ background:black; /* this sets the drop-down menu background color */ width:13.5em; } .menu ul li:hover ul li:hover a, .menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover { /* 2nd level selected item */ color:lime; background:black; } .menu ul li:hover ul.skinny li a, .menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny li a, .menu ul li:hover ul.skinny li a:hover, .menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny li a:hover { /* 2nd level un+selected items */ width:8.08333em; } /*======================== 3RD LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/ .menu ul li:hover ul li ul, .menu ul li a:hover ul li a ul { /* hide inactive 3rd-level menus */ visibility:hidden; } .menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul, .menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover ul { /* 3rd level drop-down box */ visibility:visible; position:absolute; margin-top:-1px; /* bring the top edge of the 3rd level menu up one */ top:0; left:8.08333em; width:14em; } .menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul li a, .menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover ul li a { /* 3rd level unselected items */ width:14em; background:black; color:fuchsia; /*white*/ } .menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul li a:hover, .menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover ul li a:hover { /* level3 selected items */ width:14em; background:black; color:white; } HTML:
Just a wild guess, there is a reference to an image and it would appear the path to the source is incorrect, default for an image that has no source is a 'border'.