Element level offsets (are they possible?)

[Maestro]

Look at this image

[ By the way, the content was borrowed as filler only, this is not Joe's Filters ]

Anyway, I am having a little problem, and was hoping someone might have a solution.

See the cursor (upword pointing hand) in the upper left quadrent of the screenshot? I have it pointing to the problem.

Using Milonic, the top level menu has
Home|Departments|Library|Search|My City
and Library is selected.

Under that is the section with text=Draw from an extensive library.. Of type=header.
This is the submenu's first element.
I am using an onbgimage and offbgimage that is partially transparent to make the rest of the sub elements seem to be only about 200 px wide.

But notice where the cursor is pointing now, there's a 1px white border to the left of the remaining sub elements - this is caused by the content behind the submenu; that is, that section contains text and images over a white background.
THE MENU IS deliberately positioned to take advantage of the white background, which creates the illusion of a white border on the left side and top of the remaining submenu items.
This is what I want.

My problem is (and what I don't want), this little trick also creates the illusion that the type=header section is offset by 1px to the right
- of course it's not, but it does look that way.

What I need, and cannot seem to accomplish, is to apply a -1px offset to the header element, without affecting the remainder of the menu.

Can this be done?
I already tried placing left=offset=-1 inside the element declaration using various permutations of adding and escaping enclosing quote variants around the offset=-1 part; like left=\"offset=-1\", left='offset=-1' - none of these work.

Thanks,
-Tim

[John]

You can't escape those items in the _data file. Proper format is left="offset=-1"; (or whatever).

Now - got a URL?

[Ruth]

If I understand correctly, I cannot picture any way you could do that. The menu you have dropping down is so wide, in that menu is the header, and the other aI strings. You can't shift the header so it goes outside the menu box, it's part of it. From looking at your pic, it seems that the color behind the header is black and that's causing the problem since it has the white background stopping right at the bottom of the header. Have you tried setting up a class and applying it to the menu so that the menu has only a left side 1px white border? You should then be able to also put a separate border around the header item. I think.

Ruth

[Maestro]

Thanks Ruth, I will give that a try.
It's always the simple solutions which elude.

[Maestro]

You can't escape those items in the _data file. Proper format is left="offset=-1"; (or whatever).

Now - got a URL?

I didn't think I could use the quotes inside an aI without escaping them.
Here's the URL..
The URL which is ever changing and under development

Thanks,
-Tim

[John]

Those statements are not inside the aI (menu items); they're in the menu definitions.

[Maestro]

I later figured it out, that is.. what you just said.
I'll try Ruth's suggestion as soon as I can get to it.

But thanks.
-Tim