How do I properly use display:block on this menu? - html

Question

Code:
<div class="menu">
<ul class="top_thing">
<li class="one_one">Services</li>
<ul class="the_one">
<li class="second">Language 1</li>
<li class="second">Language 2</li>
<li class="second">Language 3</li>
<li class="second">Language 4</li>
<li class="second">Language 5</li>
</ul>
<li class="one_one">About Us</li>
<li class="one_one">Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
For CSS: I am using display:none on .the_one. Now once the services tab is hovered I want to then display .the_one. How can I do this? I tried doing:
li.the_one:hover {
display:block;
}
But that doesn't work either.

Answer 1

Your HTML is not valid. <ul> must have only <li> as children (and that includes other <ul>. Once you fix that, add these rules:
.the_one {
display: none;
}
.one_one:hover .the_one {
display: block;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/xvEvj/

Answer 2

You need to target the the inner list in your css to make it appear.
Change your css as below:
li.the_one:hover ul.the_one
{
display:block
}
the "li.the_one:hover" states that this will occur when the li with the class "the_one" is hovered over, then it applies a display:block to the ul with the class "the_one" inside the list item with the class "the_one".
Hope this helps.
Cheers.

Answer 3

Your HTML is not valid.
<div class="menu">
<ul class="top_thing">
<li class="one_one">Services
<ul class="the_one">
<li class="second">Language 1</li>
<li class="second">Language 2</li>
<li class="second">Language 3</li>
<li class="second">Language 4</li>
<li class="second">Language 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="one_one">About Us</li>
<li class="one_one">Contact</li>
</ul>
The second unordered list should rest within a list item of the first unordered list.