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copied!<p>With a bit modified HTML and javascript the following menu works well (tested with IE7-10, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari):</p> <p>HTML</p> <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><div id="menu-container" class="full-width"> <div class="full-width-bg"></div>  <ul class="main-menu normal-width"> ... etc ... </ul> </div> </code></pre> <p>CSS</p> <pre class="lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.full-width { width: 100%; background: orange; border:1px solid green; position:relative; z-index:1; height:3em; font-size:21px; } .full-width-bg { width:100%; background: red; height:50%; position:absolute; left:0; top:0; z-index:2; } .normal-width { width: 1024px; margin: 0 auto; z-index:3; position:relative; } .full-width, .full-width-bg { min-width: 1024px; } ul.main-menu li { float:left; padding:0; margin:0; height:100%; position:static; text-align:center; } ul.main-menu, ul.main-menu ul { list-style-type:none; height: 1.5em; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; } ul.main-menu a { text-decoration:none; display:inline-block; *display:inline; zoom:1; /* IE7 fix */ width:100%; padding:0; max-height: 1.5em; } ul.main-menu > li { background-color:red; } ul.main-menu > li > ul > li { background-color:orange; } ul.main-menu > li > ul > li:hover { background-color:yellow; } ul.main-menu > li > ul > li:hover > a { color:red; } ul.main-menu > li > ul { position:absolute; top:100%; left:0px; width:100%; } .main-menu > li.selected, ul.main-menu > li:hover > a { background-color:#d00; color:white; } ul.main-menu > li > ul { display:none; z-index:4; } ul.main-menu > li:hover > ul { display:block; z-index:5; } </code></pre> <p>jQuery</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>$(function () { var items = $('.main-menu>li'); var maxitems = 5; //items.length; var current = items[0]; $('.main-menu li').css('width', (100 / maxitems | 0) + '%'); items.mouseenter(function(e) { $(current).removeClass('selected').children('ul').hide(); current = this; $(current).addClass('selected').children('ul').show(); }); items.children('ul').show().end().eq(0).trigger('mouseenter'); }); </code></pre> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/X7T94/12/show" rel="nofollow">JSFiddle</a>: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/X7T94/12/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/X7T94/12/</a> - this main menu reserves place for 5 menu links (see javascript)</p>

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