.navigation{
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 13px;
background: #000000; /*background of menu bar (default state)*/
/* background-image:url(images/bgrnd.navigation-880x1.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;*/
width:auto;
border-right: 1px solid #b2b2b2;
border-left: 1px solid #b2b2b2;
padding-left:30px;
}

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

/*Top level list items*/
.navigation ul li{
font-family: Arial,sans-serif; /* otherwise Tahoma bold is shown (not so nice) */
position: relative;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-top:0px; /* overrule general li margin-top:3px; */
}

/*Top level menu link items style*/
.navigation ul li a{
display: block;
background: #000000; /*background of menu items (default state)*/
color: white;
padding: 4px 13px 4px 13px;
color: #2d2b2b;
text-decoration: none;
}

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

.navigation ul li a:link, .navigation ul li a:visited{
color: white;
}

.navigation ul li a:hover{
background: #393939; /*background of menu items during onmouseover (hover state)*/
color: white;
text-decoration:none;
}
	
/*1st sub level menu*/
.navigation ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
opacity: 0.9;
border-top:5px solid #000000;
border-bottom:5px solid #000000;
}

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

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

/* Sub level menu links style */
.navigation ul li ul li a{
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 13px;
width: 150px; /*width of sub menus*/
padding: 4px 13px 4px 13px;
margin: 0;
border-top-width: 0;
/*border-bottom: 1px solid gray;*/
}

.navigation ul li ul li a:hover{
background: #393939;
}


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

.downarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 9px;
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: silver;
}

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