Hi Greg,
Ta for listing the steps you took, and thus providing the clue, which was in the fact that the menus only stayed open when hovering over the text; so, if I may be so bold, EURIKA - I have it.
It should have ocurred to me earlier - IE7 is very fussy about having to have heights/widths stated in exact units (not %, not 'auto') There was nothing defined in the CSS to tell IE7 that there was actually a menu item there - apart from the text (which it saw because it was defined in the CSS) - as there was no width and height for the Level-1 menu items. They were effectively invisible to IE7.
In your final pages, check which stylesheet is being referred to, (in the test2.php page it is 'cssmw1' - see the line : <ul class="level-0" id="cssmw1"> )
and either change the menu.css for that page's menu (CSSMenuWriter/cssmw1/menu.css) Line 107-ish onwards:
ul#cssmw1 ul.level-1 > li > a, ul#cssmw1 ul.level-1 > li > a:link {
background-color: #f0b478;
background-image: url("../cssmw1_images/topNavDropdown.jpg");
background-repeat:repeat-y; /* Add this line */
border-bottom: solid 1px #f0b478;
border-right-style: solid; /* Remove this line */
color: #644b32;
display: block;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: .7em;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
text-decoration: none;
width: auto; /* Change this to width:150px; */
height: 15px; /* Add this line */
outline-style: none;
}or change the appropriate IE conditional statement in the head tags to include IE7 (currently all lte IE6) :
<!--[if lte IE 7]>and change the menu.css for that page's menu (CSSMenuWriter/cssmw1/menu_ie.css) Line 107-ish onwards (same as before) :
<style type="text/css" media="all">
@import url("CSSMenuWriter/cssmw1/menu_ie.css");
</style>
<![endif]-->
Line 107
ul#cssmw1 ul.level-1 > li > a, ul#cssmw1 ul.level-1 > li > a:link {
background-color: #f0b478;
background-image: url("../cssmw1_images/topNavDropdown.jpg");
background-repeat:repeat-y; /* Add this line */
border-bottom: solid 1px #f0b478;
border-right-style: solid; /* Remove this line */
color: #644b32;
display: block;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: .7em;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
text-decoration: none;
width: auto; /* Change this to width:150px; */
height: 15px; /* Add this line */
outline-style: none;
}That will sort it.
