I’m building a site where that top divide is necessary between the dropdown and parent menu item, but in IE (as in you’re broken demo example) the dropdown glitches and hides when the cursor navigates that empty (padded) space.

I see that you’re fixed example has not only fixed the appearance order but also fixed that padding-top glitch, and I’m wondering if you could comment as to what property has fixed that IE problem with the padding. Of course, my menu works fine in all other browsers, but IE seems to not treat the padding as hover-able space.

Any comment would be appreciated!