.ddsmoothmenu {
	float: right;
	width: auto;
	line-height: normal;
	background-color: #ffffff;
	height: 30px;
	font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 10px 10px 0; /* have to redo this padding further up to fix issue */
	list-style: none;
	z-index: 100;
}

li.top_parent {
	float: left;
	background-image: url("images/menubutton_left.gif");
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left top;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0 2px 0 9px;
}

li.top_parent:hover, li.top_parent:hover a {
	background-position: 0% -30px;
}

li.top_parent:hover a {
	background-position: 100% -30px;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul ul {
	padding: 0;
}

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

/*Top level menu link items style*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li a {
	background: #ffffff; /*background of menu items (default state)*/
	color: #ffffff;
	text-decoration: none;
	float: left;
	display: block;
	background-image: url("images/menubutton_right.gif");
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: right top;
	padding-top: 7px;
	padding-right: 25px;
	padding-bottom: 9px;
	padding-left: 16px;
	vertical-align: center;
}

* 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: #000000;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li a:link, .ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li a:visited {
color: #000040;
}

/*1st sub level menu*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul a {
	float: none;
}

/*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: normal 11px Verdana;
width: 160px; /*width of sub menus*/
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
border-top-width: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
background-image: none;
background-color: white;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li a:hover{
background-image: none;
background-color: #99AACC;
}

/* ######### 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: silver;
}

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