Let’s start with the example this time. Check that out! Not only is the menu extremely pretty, including embedded images and backgrounds, it’s ALL CSS. It’s explained here in the latest ALA.

The premise is just some cleverly arranged elements positioned absolutely, then a :hover element to change the display: from none to block. The problem with IE is that it only recognizes :hover elements for anchors. For example, a:hover {color: gray;}. To get it to work in IE, some javascript is used to automatically parse through the list items and give them appropriate onmouseover actions that will do in effect the same thing. The drawback to this of course is that visitors who are running IE who have disabled javascript will not see your fancy work.