whats wrong with this css for my dropdown menu?

I've got this in my tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php to do a drop down menu. I am having two problems.

1. The dropdown menu won't work until you click on a top category, then it starts to work when you hover.

2. The position of the drop down is not good at all - its supposed to drop down, mine drops to the right of the category.

I have browsed several times on here to try and work it out, and visited several code tutorial sites and I am still stumped.

Do you have a URL for us?

yep i do, its a work in progress but i'll put it on here. the links are deliberately white.

I've managed to sort out the #2 issue of dropdown placement by putting in

#navCatTabsDropdown * li ul
{
float:left;
visibility:hidden;
text-align:left;
position:absolute;
top:15px;
left:0em;
padding: 0em 0.5em 0em 0.5em;
line-height:15pt;
z-index: 100;
}

I would like it to drop a little lower to the bottom of the bar, but when I do that - it dissappears again before you can scroll the mouse onto it.

Still got issue #1 though - hover wont work until you have clicked on a main category.

Please view the problem at miracle baby.co.nz/ estore /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=21_59

ps another thing with the z-index, when the menu drops down over the "sort by items starting with" box, the menu dissappears behind that where it overlaps.

okay i really thought i had this almost sorted, but navigating using the cattabs menu i have noticed a major bug with breadcrumbs.

It doesn't show where you are in order to category list - its showing link history instead!?:censored::censored:

1kell:

okay i really thought i had this almost sorted, but navigating using the cattabs menu i have noticed a major bug with breadcrumbs.

It doesn't show where you are in order to category list - its showing link history instead!?:censored::censored:

kell, There's too many changes to post here, so I'm pm'ing you. And your breadcrumb seems to be keeping up with every change correctly. Maybe you just need to clear your browser's cache?

maybe, thanks I pm'd you back, thanks for helping out I have taken it this far but am pretty stuck.

Not a problem, kell. That's what we're here for.

the breadcrumb is still acting funny.

You choose something in Cat A to look at, then choose something in Cat C to look at, and the breadcrumb trail will show

"Home-Cat A- Cat C Product"

when it should be
Home-Cat C - Cat C Product."

maybe something in the breadcrumb needs to be changed to work with the Cat Tabs dropdown?

I see what you mean about the breadcrumbs. Don't know what the problem is with that. Nothing SHOULDN'T need to be changed for it to work correctly.