title: Navigation submenu pushes body downward
body: <p>I am aware to use the absoulte position to the submenu tag; however when I do it solves the problem but only the last entry of the submenu displays. The others seem to have been swallowed up. Please help! My code is shown below:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>    * {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
      }
      body {
        background-color: #575768;
      }
      #topBar {
        background-color: #C9A26B;
        width: 100%;
        height: 70px;
        color: white;
        font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
      }
      .fixedwidth {
        width: 1500px;
        margin: 0 auto;
      }
      #logodiv {
        padding-top: 5px;
        float: left;
        border-right: #FFFFFF 1px solid;
        padding-right: 30px;
      }
      #signindiv {
        font-weight: bold;
        float: left;
        font-size: 1em;
        width: 90px;
        border-right: #FFFFFF 1px solid;
        padding: 25px 0 27px 20px;
      }
      #topmenudiv {
        padding-top: 20px;
      }
      /* Rules for Nav Menu ___________________________________ */
      #mainmenu,
      .submenu {
        list-style-type: none;
      }
      #mainmenu li {
        width: 185px;
        text-align: center;
        position: relative;
        float: left;
        margin-right: 4px;
      }
      #mainmenu ul li {} #mainmenu a {
        text-decoration: none;
        display: block;
        width: 185px;
        height: 40px;
        background-color: #5E5D5B;
        border: 1px solid #CCC;
        border-radius: 5px;
        color: #EE9A24;
      }
      #mainmenu .submenu a {
        margin-top: 2px;
      }
      #mainmenu li:hover &gt; a {
        background-color: #CFC;
      }
      #mainmenu li:hover a:hover {
        background-color: #FFD8A4;
      }
      #mainmenu .submenu {
        display: none;
      }
      #mainmenu li:hover .submenu {
        display: block;
      }
      #meat {
        clear: both;
        padding-top: 20px;
      }
      footer {
        text-align: center;
        margin: 0 auto;
      }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;ST-LLC About Us&lt;/title&gt;
  
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
    &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;div id="container"&gt;
  
      &lt;div id="topBar"&gt;
  
        &lt;div class="fixedwidth"&gt;
  
          &lt;div id="logodiv"&gt;
  
            &lt;img src="images/LLClogo.jpg" width="170px" /&gt;
  
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;div id="signindiv"&gt;Sign In
  
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;div id="topmenudiv"&gt;
  
            &lt;ul id="mainmenu"&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;About Us &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Services &lt;/a&gt;
                &lt;ul class="submenu"&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Project Management&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Digital Content&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;/ul&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Projects &lt;/a&gt;
                &lt;ul class="submenu"&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Active Projects&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Closed Projects&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;/ul&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; ST-LLC Publications &lt;/a&gt;
                &lt;ul class="submenu"&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Recent Publications&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Past Publications&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;/ul&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Request for Proposals (RFP) &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt; Contacts &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;/ul&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;div id="meat"&gt;
  
  
  
            &lt;p&gt;On June 6, 2004 the ASME Board of Governors (BOG) authorized&lt;/p&gt;</code></pre>
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