Urgent Help: Drop Down Menu Placement

Hello,

I have a code for a mouse over drop down menu. Problem is it drops down 1 pixel under the text, I'd like it to be about 5 pixels under the text, where would I change this at in the coding? I got the coding from http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm

<style type="text/css">

#dropmenudiv{
border-left:1px solid white; border-right:1px solid white; border-top:1px solid white; border-bottom:0px solid white; position:absolute;
line-height:18px;
}

#dropmenudiv a{
width: 100%;
display: block;
text-indent: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid e8e8e8;
padding: 1px 0;
text-decoration: none;
}

#dropmenudiv a:hover{
background-color: ededed;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">


var menu1=new Array()
menu1[0]='<a href="http://www.domain.com"><font face="arial\" size="1">•</font> <font face="Tahoma" style="font-size: 8.5pt">Web Design</a>'
menu1[1]='<a href="http://www.domain.com"><font face="arial\" size="1">•</font> <font face="Tahoma" style="font-size: 8.5pt">Logo Design</a>'
menu1[2]='<a href="http://www.domain.com"><font face="arial\" size="1">•</font> <font face="Tahoma" style="font-size: 8.5pt">Programming</a>'
menu1[3]='<a href="http://www.domain.com"><font face="arial\" size="1">•</font> <font face="Tahoma" style="font-size: 8.5pt">Other</a>'


var menu2=new Array()
menu2[0]='<a href="http://cnn.com">CNN</a>'
menu2[1]='<a href="http://msnbc.com">MSNBC</a>'
menu2[2]='<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk">BBC News</a>'
		
var menuwidth='165px'
var menubgcolor='white'
var disappeardelay=250
var hidemenu_onclick="yes"



var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ie4||ns6)
document.write('<div id="dropmenudiv" style="visibility:hidden;width:'+menuwidth+';background-color:'+menubgcolor+'" onMouseover="clearhidemenu()" onMouseout="dynamichide(event)"></div>')

function getposOffset(what, offsettype){
var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop;
var parentEl=what.offsetParent;
while (parentEl!=null){
totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop;
parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent;
}
return totaloffset;
}


function showhide(obj, e, visible, hidden, menuwidth){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.style.top=-500
if (menuwidth!=""){
dropmenuobj.widthobj=dropmenuobj.style
dropmenuobj.widthobj.width=menuwidth
}
if (e.type=="click" && obj.visibility==hidden || e.type=="mouseover")
obj.visibility=visible
else if (e.type=="click")
obj.visibility=hidden
}

function iecompattest(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function clearbrowseredge(obj, whichedge){
var edgeoffset=0
if (whichedge=="rightedge"){
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollLeft+iecompattest().clientWidth-15 : window.pageXOffset+window.innerWidth-15
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetWidth
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.x < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure)
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure-obj.offsetWidth
}
else{
var topedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop : window.pageYOffset
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop+iecompattest().clientHeight-15 : window.pageYOffset+window.innerHeight-18
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetHeight
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.y < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure){ //move up?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure+obj.offsetHeight
if ((dropmenuobj.y-topedge)<dropmenuobj.contentmeasure) //up no good either?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.y+obj.offsetHeight-topedge
}
}
return edgeoffset
}

function populatemenu(what){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.innerHTML=what.join("")
}


function dropdownmenu(obj, e, menucontents, menuwidth){
if (window.event) event.cancelBubble=true
else if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation()
clearhidemenu()
dropmenuobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("dropmenudiv") : dropmenudiv
populatemenu(menucontents)

if (ie4||ns6){
showhide(dropmenuobj.style, e, "visible", "hidden", menuwidth)
dropmenuobj.x=getposOffset(obj, "left")
dropmenuobj.y=getposOffset(obj, "top")
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+obj.offsetHeight+"px"
}

return clickreturnvalue()
}

function clickreturnvalue(){
if (ie4||ns6) return false
else return true
}

function contains_ns6(a, b) {
while (b.parentNode)
if ((b = b.parentNode) == a)
return true;
return false;
}

function dynamichide(e){
if (ie4&&!dropmenuobj.contains(e.toElement))
delayhidemenu()
else if (ns6&&e.currentTarget!= e.relatedTarget&& !contains_ns6(e.currentTarget, e.relatedTarget))
delayhidemenu()
}

function hidemenu(e){
if (typeof dropmenuobj!="undefined"){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.visibility="hidden"
}
}

function delayhidemenu(){
if (ie4||ns6)
delayhide=setTimeout("hidemenu()",disappeardelay)
}

function clearhidemenu(){
if (typeof delayhide!="undefined")
clearTimeout(delayhide)
}

if (hidemenu_onclick=="yes")
document.onclick=hidemenu

</script>

HTML:

Thanks!
Scott

 

Try changing the padding in the css to 5px You could also try padding-top: 5px;

 

Doesn't work, just makes the menu cells 5px in padding.

 

I no longer need help on this, thanks. What I simply did was change offsetHeight+"px" to offsetHeight+7+"px"

Thanks!
Scott

 

Glad you got it fixed. Sorry I wasn't any help

 

Why dont you try Menu Builder?