.ddsmoothmenu{
font: bold 12px Verdana;
/*background: #414141; /*background of menu bar (default state)*/
width: 945px;
position: absolute;
}

.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;
width:299px;
margin:0 8px;
background: #eaeded;
}
.ddsmoothmenu ul li:hover{
	background: #ffffff;
	color: #000000;
}
/*Top level menu link items style*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li a{
display: block;
/*background: #414141; /*background of menu items (default state)*/
padding: 5px 0;
/*border-right: 1px solid #778;*/
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 18px;
color: #000;
padding-left: 35px;
font-weight: normal;
}

* html .ddsmoothmenu ul li a{ /*IE6 hack to get sub menu links to behave correctly*/
display: inline-block;
color: #0A5ED6;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li span a{
color: #0A5ED6;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
background: url(arrow.png) left 8px no-repeat;
padding-left: 20px;
margin-left: 15px; 
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li span a:hover{
color: #0A5ED6;
text-decoration: underline;
}

	
/* sub menus */
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: -3000px;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
border-radius:0 0 8px 8px;
background:#FFFFFF;
padding-bottom:8px;
}

/*Sub level menu list items (alters style from Top level List Items)*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li{
display: list-item;
float: none;
margin:0;
background:#FFFFFF;
}
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li:last{
	border-radius:0 0 8px 8px;

}

/*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{
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
padding-left: 35px;
border-top-width: 0;
color: #0A5ED6;
/*border-bottom: 1px solid gray;*/
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
/*border-bottom: 1px solid gray;*/
}

/* 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;*/
}