Designing Mega Drop Down Menu- Unsure of HTML construction

**etidd** · Jun 6, 2011 23:40

Hello everyone,

I want to make a horizontal mega drop down menu. On the first tab, "health", I have skin care and weight loss pages, which I want to have 'weight loss' and 'skin care' bolded out as sub-sections inside the drop down. Weight loss has two sub-sections, 'fitness' and 'dieting'. I would like them to appear as headings to sub-sections. I'll illustrate this the best I can the way I want the 'health' tab to look.

Health
---------Weight Loss
-------------------------------Fitness
Page #1, Page #2
-------------------------------Dieting
Page #1, Page #2
---------Skin Care
------------------Page #1, Page #2

The health tab contains the deepest nesting. I have attempted to start my drop down menu with Sitepoint's Mega Drop Down Menu Tutorial and Sohtanaka's (Where I got The CSS and modeled my HTML after). Neither tutorial had as deep of nesting mine does. So that's where I'm confused.

I need to know how to properly nest the Fitness and dieting sections so that they appear to be a category of its own.

Here's what I've attempted:

HTML:

Code:

 <!-- begin Personal navigation menu -->
<div class="pWrapper">
<ul id="pMenu">
	<li style="width:10%;"><a href="http://www.atlantareviewgroup.com/health.php" class="health">health</a>
    		<div class="pSub">
            <ul>
        		<h2>weight loss</h2>
               		  <h3>fitness</h3>
                       		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
                    <h3>dieting</h3>
                       		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
   
            	<h2>skin care</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
        	</ul>
			</div>
    </li>    
	<li style="width:14%;"><a href="http://www.atlantareviewgroup.com/insurance.php" class="insurance">insurance</a>
    		<div class="pSub">
        	<ul>
            	<h2>property insurance</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
            	<h2>auto insurance</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
            	<h2>health insurance</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
            	<h2>annuities</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
       	   </ul>
           </div>
   	   </li>

	<li style="width:11.3%;"><a href="http://www.atlantareviewgroup.com/general.php" class="general">general</a>
    		<div class="pSub">
            <ul>
        		<h2>electronics</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
            	<h2>style &amp; fashion</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
            	<h2>food/dining</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
            	<h2>cars/auto</h2>
               		  <li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
       		</ul>
            </div>
   	    </li>

	<li style="width:10%;"><a href="http://www.atlantareviewgroup.com/dating.php" class="dating">dating</a>
    		<div class="pSub">
            <ul>
        		<li><a href="#">RealMatureSingles</a></li>
            	<li><a href="#">SeniorPeopleMeet</a></li>
        	</ul>
            </div>
    	</li>
	
	<li style="width:13.8%;"><a href="http://www.atlantareviewgroup.com/education.php" class="education">education</a>
    		<div class="pSub">
            <ul>
        		<li><a href="#">under construction</a></li>
        	</ul>
            </div>
    	</li>                    	
</ul>
	<!-- end Personal navigation menu-->

The CSS from Sohtanaka website:

Code:

/********************/
/*PERSONAL NAV MENU**/
/********************/
ul#pMenu li .pSub {
	position: absolute; /*--Important--*/
	top: 44px; left: 0;
	z-index: 99999;
	background: #344c00 url(sub_bg.png) repeat-x; /*--Background gradient--*/
	padding: 20px 20px 20px;
	float: left;
	/*--Bottom right rounded corner--*/
	-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 5px;
	-khtml-border-radius-bottomright: 5px;
	-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
	/*--Bottom left rounded corner--*/
	-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px;
	-khtml-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px;
	-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
	display: none; /*--Hidden for those with js turned off--*/
}
ul#pMenu li .row { /*--If needed to break out into rows--*/
	clear: both;
	float: left;
	width: 100%;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
ul#pMenu li .pSub ul{
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0; padding: 0;
	width: 150px;
	float: left;
}
ul#pMenu .pSub ul li {
	width: 100%; /*--Override parent list item--*/
	color: #fff;
}
ul#pMenu .pSub ul li h2 { /*--Sub nav heading style--*/
	padding: 0;  margin: 0;
	font-size: 1.3em;
	font-weight: normal;
}
ul#pMenu .pSub ul li h2 a { /*--Sub nav heading link style--*/
	padding: 5px 0;
	background-image: none;
	color: #e8e000;
}
ul#pMenu .pSub ul li a {
	float: none;
	text-indent: 0; /*--Override text-indent from parent list item--*/
	height: auto; /*--Override height from parent list item--*/
	background: url(navlist_arrow.png) no-repeat 5px 12px;
	padding: 7px 5px 7px 15px;
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #fff;
}
ul#pMenu .pSub ul li a:hover {
	color: #ddd;
	background-position: 5px 12px ;/*--Override background position--*/
}
/******************/
/*End Personal Nav*/
/*****************/