Adding onmouseout delay to CSS Menu Writer menus

I have begun implementing a CSS Menu that was created in CSS Menu Writer. It has 3 levels, since it needs to to represent all of our departments and cover all the bases. The problem is that when you mouse off the menu, it immediately disappears. When you're trying to get to a "level 3" menu, it really is pretty difficult not to "trip" off of the menu. So I'm wondering: does anyone know some fairly simple Javascript to add to this that would provide a few millisecond delay before the menu disappears?
(By the way, I know HTML and CSS but have done very little Javascript programming, other than copying a line here and there. And another detail: I'm pretty sure we're on our own here; I don't think there's any way for me to pay someone to do this for us.)
Thanks for any advice anyone has

Jack

No, there is no javascript to create the delay. this issue arises if there is a gap between the menu levels, the gap is usually created by a top or bottom margin setting.


Send a link where I can investigate the problem to find the cause.

There is no gap between the menu levels. The site is functional as it is; it's just not as easy to use as I would like, since if you accidentally mouse 1 pixel too far, you're off the menu and it disappears. I've seen other sites where if you mouse off of the menu item briefly, it doesn't immediately disappear; I'm wondering if we can implement something similar here.
The site I'm working on is this:
ww2.hendersoncountync.org/

Jack

no, CSS Menu writer does not the option of implementing a delay. this is not a supported feature of the tool.

Thanks for the information.

you're welcome.

Jason, your reply to the question of a delay in menu writer was back in Oct 10, is this still the case for the current version.

I would like to introduce a delay because you have to be very quick with the mouse pointer for the menu to work every time.

If the extension can't do this is there another way to introduce a delay through dreamweaver or extra coding?

There is no way to easily add a delay, since it uses pure CSS and not javascript for the mouseover effects. If you are finding the menus are disappearing that can often be fixed by using padding instead of margins. Do you have a url I can look at with the menu causing you problems? I might be able to offer suggestions on how to improve it.

Hi Ray

The site is not live yet so cant give you a url. The menus all work fine on a local testing server and dont disappear at all, just wanted to add a small delay to improve usability.

You say "there is no way to easily add a delay", I'm curious what other options can be used.

You could look into jquery or mootools effects and see if you could implement a delay using javascript.