.ddsmoothmenu
{
	font: bold 12px Verdana;
	background:transparent; /*  #414141	background of menu bar (default state)*/
	width:780px; 
	margin:0 auto; 
	padding:0px;
	top:0px;
}

.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;
	color: white;
	padding: 12px 10px;
	color: #2d2b2b;
	text-decoration: none;
	background:transparent url(../images/sub_nav_bg.gif) repeat-x;
	margin-top:1px;
	font: bold 12px Verdana;
}

* 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{color: white;}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li a.selected{ /*CSS class that's dynamically added to the currently active menu items' LI A element*/
background: #414141; 
color: white;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li a:hover{
background: black; /*background of menu items during onmouseover (hover state)*/
color: white;
}
	
/*1st sub level menu*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
}

/*Sub level menu list items (undo 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: bold 12px Verdana;
	width: 275px; /*width of sub menus*/
	padding:10px 10px 10px 10px;
	margin:0px;
	background:#616161;
	border-bottom:solid 1px white;
	position:relative;
}


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

.downarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 16px;
right: 5px;
}

.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: silver;*/
}

.toplevelshadow{ /*shadow opacity. Doesn't work in IE*/
opacity: 0.8;
}