Bob,
Thank you for the suggestion of encasing the menu into a containing
DIV which I could use for the absolute positioning. That works
perfectly, and the menu is situated exactly where I want it. Or at least
it does in Firefox, which is where I'll get it to work before I worry
about other browsers.
Also, thanks for pointing out the absence of closing </li> tags. It
has now been corrected, and validates as XHTML.
The much improved page is here:
http://www.theloop.jp/test.html
So now I am left with the switching of the text from English to
Japanese on moving the mouse over.
I have looked on the web for text swapping or text switching CSS
techniques, but those terms seem to refer to different effects than the
one I am after, and I'm not sure how else to describe it.
I tried making the English text shrink to zero pixels, but not only
is it still visible as a small black line, like any other effect I do to
try and make the English text invisible, it also applies to the
Japanese. I would have thought the descendant span would over-ride the
parent span, but it's not so.
Is this actually possible with CSS?
--
Dave Gutteridge
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