CSS vertical Menu - Menu Item Goes to no-hover state on sub-menu hover

when i go to an submenu item on... the Item from the main menu goes to no-hover state.. i want it to stay in hover state if i am on its sub-menu...

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what i am doing wrong

I haven't tried it out, but it should work, if you define the :hover on the li instead of a (however that won't work in IE6).

So instead of

a:hover { ... }

use

li:hover a { ... }