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Hi I have a dropdown button that when you hover it, it drops down some links to pages. I want those links to be the same size as the width of the button.

The button size is 100% width of the content, so it varies. How do I make the size of the drop down items the same size as the button with CSS?

    <style type="text/css">
      #button {  /* Box in the button */
        display: block;
        width: 190px;
      }

      #button a {
        text-decoration: none;  /* Remove the underline from the links. */
      }
ul
{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
overflow:hidden;
}
li{
float:left;
list-style-type: none;
}
      #button ul {
        list-style-type: none;  /* Remove the bullets from the list */
      }

      #button .top {
display:block;
width:100%;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFFFFF;
background-color:#98bf21;
text-align:center;
padding:4px;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;  /* The button background */
      }

      #button ul li.item {
        display: none;  /* By default, do not display the items (which contains the links) */
      }  

      #button ul:hover .item {  /* When the user hovers over the button (or any of the links) */
        display: block;

        border: 1px solid black;
        background-color: #6CC417;
      }
a:link,a:visited
{
display:block;
width:120px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFFFFF;
background-color:#98bf21;
text-align:center;
padding:4px;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;
}
a:hover,a:active
{
background-color:#7A991A;


}
.container
{
text-align:center;
}

.center_div
{
border:1px solid gray;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:90%;
background-color:#d0f0f6;
text-align:left;
padding:8px;
}

    </style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<p><img src="Screen%20shot%202010-07-11%20at%204.07.59%20PM.png" width="211" height="86" alt="idc"> 

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<li>
    <div id="button">
      <ul>
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      </ul>
    </div>
</li>
<li>
    <div id="button">
      <ul>
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      </ul>
    </div>
</li>
</ul></p>
<div class="container">
<div class="center_div">
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</div>
</div>
</body>
A: 

Do you want to do it via Javascript e.g. jQuery, or natively in CSS?

Antwan W. A-Dubb
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SuperString
Seems to me like you'd have to use a CSS expression. This article http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/more-css-tricks.shtml has an example of one. Check number 3.#container{min-width: 600px;width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 600? "600px": "auto" );}
Antwan W. A-Dubb
A: 
  1. You have multiple button ids. Use classes for multiple elements.
  2. Shouldn't you just need #button a { display:block; }? It's hard to tell when you don't have a visual.
meder
A: 

Three things:

  1. #button ul:hover .item needs width set to 100%.

      #button ul:hover .item {any of the links) */
        display: block;
        width:100%;
        border: 1px solid black;
        background-color: #6CC417;
      }
    

    .

  2. All links are set to 120px!

    a:link,a:visited {
      display:block;
      width:120px;
      ...
    

    Delete the width:120px;

  3. As meder said, Do not use an id, use a class. And the code has the same id multiple times -- which is illegal.

    So: <div id="button"> becomes: <div class="DropDwnMenuBtn">.

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