Need help with margins or padding (I’m unsure what’s causing the problem)

[jigordon]

UPDATE:  Well, looks like if I add a little ul css formatting to my style.css file, I can get rid of the extra padding.  Now if I can only move the menu down a bit.  ” title=”Smiley” />

Anyways, thanks to other folks in the forums… just reading your post(s) helped!

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I hope someone can help me… I’m such a CSS newbie that after 3 hours of working on this and a dozen CSS handbooks, I simply can’t figure it out.

Anyways, I’ve got everything installed and it looks like it works:  http://www.licensinghandbook.com

But I can’t understand why the drop-down menus are pushed right (I’ve kept the borders on so that you can see what’s happening).

The only CSS besides the plugin that affects this division is:

#topnavmenu { width: 600px; float: right; text-align: left;}

And here’s the CSS for the plugin:

#suckerfishnav {
    font-size:12px;
    font-family:verdana,sans-serif;
    font-variant: small-caps;
    width:100%;
    }
#suckerfishnav, #suckerfishnav ul {
    float:left;
    list-style:none;
    line-height:24px;
    padding:4;
    border:0px solid #aaa;
    margin:0;
    width:100%;
    }
#suckerfishnav a {
    display:block;
    color:#fff;
    text-decoration:none;
    padding:0px 10px;
    }
#suckerfishnav li {
    float:left;
    padding:0;
    }
#suckerfishnav ul {
    position:absolute;
    left:-999em;
    height:auto;
    width:151px;
    font-weight:normal;
    margin:0;
    line-height:1;
    border:0;
    border-top:1px solid #666666;
    }
#suckerfishnav li li {
    width:149px;
    border-bottom:1px solid #666666;
    border-left:1px solid #666666;
    border-right:1px solid #666666;
    font-family:verdana,sans-serif;
    font-variant:normal;
    }
#suckerfishnav li li a {
    padding:4px 10px;
    width:130px;
    font-size:12px;
    color:#fff;
    }
#suckerfishnav li ul ul {
    margin:-21px 0 0 150px;
    }
#suckerfishnav li li:hover {
    background:#630055;
    }
#suckerfishnav li ul li:hover a, #suckerfishnav li ul li li:hover a, #suckerfishnav li ul li li li:hover a, #suckerfishnav li ul li li li:hover a {
    color:#fff;
    }
#suckerfishnav li:hover a, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover a {
    color:#fff;
    }
#suckerfishnav li:hover li a, #suckerfishnav li li:hover li a, #suckerfishnav li li li:hover li a, #suckerfishnav li li li li:hover li a {
    color:#fff;
    }
#suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul, #suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul ul, #suckerfishnav li:hover ul ul ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul ul ul ul {
    left:-999em;
    }
#suckerfishnav li:hover ul, #suckerfishnav li li:hover ul, #suckerfishnav li li li:hover ul, #suckerfishnav li li li li:hover ul, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover ul, #suckerfishnav li li.sfhover ul, #suckerfishnav li li li.sfhover ul, #suckerfishnav li li li li.sfhover ul {
    left:auto;
    background:#1C1C1C;
    }
#suckerfishnav li:hover, #suckerfishnav li.sfhover {
        background:#630055;
    }

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help!!!

~Jeff

[imported_Ryan]

Hi,
Your menu is pushed right because you have set float:right in your surrounding DIV tag.

To move the menu down, you could try applying a top margin to your containing DIV tag.
[code:mtdxy7wh]#topnavmenu {margin-top:50px}[/code:mtdxy7wh]

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