title: Drop down menu cuts off or appears behind div
body: <p>I have a drop down menu which is appearing behind my image transition gallery div. Below is the image of what it looks like and the HTML and CSS for it.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/brHoi.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div id="top_bar"&gt;
  &lt;div id="top_inner"&gt;
  &lt;div id="logo"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.edosbornephotography.com"&gt;&lt;img src="images/logo.gif" alt="Ed Osborne" width="225" height="115" class="logo"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="nav"&gt;
  &lt;ul class = "menu" &gt;
              &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Home &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href = "#" &gt; Packages &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href = "#" &gt; Weddings &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href = "#" id="left" &gt; Lifestyle &lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;ul class = "submenu" &gt;
              &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Families &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#"&gt; Newborn/Child &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Portraits &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
  
          &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Blog &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href = "#" id="left"&gt; Abous Us &lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;ul class = "submenu" &gt;
          &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Ed Osborne &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Testimonials &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; FAQs &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
  
          &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Contact Us &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href = "#" &gt; Links &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div id="main"&gt;  
  
  &lt;div id="smart-gallery"&gt;
      &lt;a href="images/cubagallery-img-1.jpg"&gt;
          &lt;img src="images/cubagallery-img-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
  
      &lt;a href="images/cubagallery-img-15.jpg"&gt;
          &lt;img src="images/cubagallery-img-15.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
  
      &lt;a href="images/cubagallery-img-3.jpg"&gt;
          &lt;img src="images/cubagallery-img-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
  
      &lt;a href="images/cubagallery-img-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;img src="images/cubagallery-img-4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>CSS:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.min-gallery
  {
  width: 927px;
  height: 615px;
  border: solid 1px black;
  background-color: Black;
  background: url(../images/bg.jpg);
  margin: auto;
  margin-left: 232px;
  }
  
  .min-gallery .preview
  {
  width: 852px;
  height: 493px;
  margin-top: 36px;
  margin-left: 36px;
  margin-right: 36px;
  position: relative;
  border: solid 2px black;
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: White;
  }
  
  .min-gallery .preview img
  {
  /* width: 795px;             height: 525px;*/
  position: absolute;
  }
  
  .min-gallery .bottom
  {
  width: 100%;
  height: 98px;
  color: Gray;
  font-family: Arial;
  font-size: 1em;
  font-weight: bold;
  overflow: hidden;
  }
  
  #top_bar {
  width: 100%;
  height: 145px;
  background: #000000;
  padding-bottom: 20px;
  }
  
  #top_inner {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 1000px;
  height: 144px;
  }
  
  .nav {
  margin: 0 auto;
  position: relative;
  padding-top: 100px;
  }
  
  ul.menu {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  float: left;
  background: #222;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  background: url(../images/topnav_bg.gif) repeat-x;
  }
  ul.menu li {
  float: left;
  margin: 0;  
  position: relative; 
  }
  ul.menu li a{
  padding: 10px 18px;
  color: #fff;
  display: block;
  text-decoration: none;
  float: left;
  }
  
  ul.menu li a#left{
  padding: 10px 5px;
  color: #fff;
  display: block;
  text-decoration: none;
  float: left;
  }
  
  ul.menu li a:hover {
  background: url(../images/topnav_hover.gif) no-repeat center top;
  }
  
  ul.menu li span { 
  width: 11px;
  height: 35px;
  float: left;
  background: url(../images/subnav_btn.gif) no-repeat center top;
  }
  
  ul.menu li span.subhover {
  background-position: center bottom; cursor: pointer;
  }
  
  ul.menu li ul.submenu {
  list-style: none;
  position: absolute; 
  left: 0; top: 35px;
  background: #333;
  margin: 0; padding: 0;
  display: none;
  float: left;
  width: 170px;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 5px;
  -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
  -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #111;
  }
  
  ul.menu li ul.submenu li{
  margin: 0; padding: 0;
  border-top: 1px solid #252525; 
  border-bottom: 1px solid #444; 
  clear: both;
  width: 170px;
  }
  
  html ul.menu li ul.submenu li a {
  float: left;
  width: 122px;
  padding-left: 30px;
  text-align: left;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I remove position:absolute from .min-gallery .preview img, the drop down menu appears on top which is how I want it but the images do stop changing and just stick on one image.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone got a quick fix? Sorry about the pasting of all the code but I dont know how else I can express my point to you guys</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>