.ddsmoothmenu{
	/*background of menu bar (default state)*/
	font: 14px Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif;
	width: 100%;
	font-variant: small-caps;
	background-image: url('../images/purple-gradient-50.gif');
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	background-position: center;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul{
z-index:100;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}

/*Top level list items*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li{
position: relative;
display: inline;
float: left;
}

/*Top level menu link items style*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li a{
	display: block;
/*background of menu items (default state)*/color: white;
	padding: 6px 15px 6px 15px;
	color: #2d2b2b;
	text-decoration: none;
}

* html .ddsmoothmenu ul li a{ /*IE6 hack to get sub menu links to behave correctly*/
display: inline-block;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li a:link, .ddsmoothmenu ul li a:visited{
	background-position: center;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	background-image: url('../images/purple-gradient-50.gif');
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.ddsmoothmenu ul li a.selected {
	/*CSS class that's dynamically added to the currently active menu items' LI A element*/
	background-position: center;
	background: #FFF !important;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	background-image: url('../images/purple-gradient-invert-50.gif') !important;
	background-repeat: repeat-x !important;
	font-weight: bolder;
}
.ddsmoothmenu ul li a:hover{
	/*background of menu items during onmouseover (hover state)*/
	color: #FFFFFF;
	padding-top: 6px;
	padding-bottom: 6px;
	background-image: url('../images/purple-gradient-hover-30.gif');
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	background-position: center;
	font-weight: bolder;
}
	
/* sub menus */
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: -3000px;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
}

/*Sub level menu list items (alters style from Top level List Items)*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li{
display: list-item;
float: none;
}

/*All subsequent sub menu levels vertical offset after 1st level sub menu */
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li ul{
top: 0;
}

/* Sub level menu links style */
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li a{
	font: normal 14px Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif;
	width: 160px; /*width of sub menus*/;
	padding: 6px 8px 6px 8px;
	margin: 0;
	border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
	border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;
}

/* Holly Hack for IE \*/
* html .ddsmoothmenu{height: 1%;} /*Holly Hack for IE7 and below*/


/* ######### CSS classes applied to down and right arrow images  ######### */

.downarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 12px;
right: 7px;
}

.rightarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 6px;
right: 5px;
}

/* ######### CSS for shadow added to sub menus  ######### */

.ddshadow{ 
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
background-color: #ccc; /* generally should be just a little lighter than the box-shadow color for CSS3 capable browsers */
}

.toplevelshadow{
margin: 5px 0 0 5px; /* in NON CSS3 capable browsers gives the offset of the shadow */
opacity: 0.8; /* shadow opacity mostly for NON CSS3 capable browsers. Doesn't work in IE */
}

.ddcss3support .ddshadow.toplevelshadow {
margin: 0; /* in CSS3 capable browsers overrides offset from NON CSS3 capable browsers, allowing the box-shadow values in the next selector to govern that */
/* opacity: 1; */ /* optionally uncomment this to remove partial opacity for browsers supporting a box-shadow property which has its own slight gradient opacity */
}

.ddcss3support .ddshadow {
background-color: transparent;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #aaa; /* box-shadow color generally should be a little darker than that for the NON CSS3 capable browsers background-color */
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #aaa;
-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #aaa;
}