Trying to recreate the Google landing page using flexbox - html

I'm trying to recreate the nav bar at the top of the google landing page using flexbox, but I'm pretty confused as to how it works. I can't seem to get some of the content to the right of my nav bar, and the other content to the left. My #items are my ul of content for the nav bar, and .left and .right are the respective content that I want to move around, currently, everything is just squished together on the left.
Here is my HTML:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Google Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- CODE HERE-->
<nav class="navbar">
<ul id="items">
<li class="left">About</li>
<li class="left">Store</li>
<li class="right">Gmail</li>
<li class="right">Images</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</body>
</html>
And here is my CSS:
body {
background-color: white;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#items {
list-style-type: none;
display: flex;
}
.left {
justify-self: flex-start;
}
.right {
justify-self: flex-end;
}

A better way to do this is instead of putting all of your items in one list put them in two separate lists and then style them individually like this:HTML:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>About</li>
<li>Store</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Gmail</li>
<li>Images</li>
<button class="sign-in">Sign In</button>
</ul>
</nav>
CSS:
nav {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
nav ul {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
display: flex;
margin-left: 25px;
margin-right: 25px;
}
nav ul {
margin-top: 15px;
}
nav a,
i {
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
padding: 0.5em;
color: #000;
opacity: 0.75;
margin-left: 5px;
}
nav a {
font-size: 13px;
}
.sign-in {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 13px;
border: 1px solid #4285f4;
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #4387fd, #4683ea);
color: white;
cursor: pointer;
border-radius: 2px;
width: 70px;
margin-left: 10px;
}

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How to align part of the navigation content to the right?

My navigation bar's code is as follows:
index.html
<header id="header" class="flex">
<h2 id="site-name">RandomSite</h2>
<!-- NAVIGATION -->
<nav id="header-nav">
<h3 class="hidden">RandomSite's hidden navigation</h3>
<ul class="nav-list">
<li>Home</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
styles.css
/* NAVIGATION */
header {
border: 2px dashed black;
display: flex;
padding: 10px;
}
header h2 {
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: 700;
margin: 16px 0px;
}
.nav-list {
list-style-type: none;
display: flex;
float: right;
}
li {
list-style: none;
display: inline;
padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
}
This is what my navbar looks like. I want the unordered list contents to be aligned to the right. How do I do that?
Navigation bar screenshot
You need to add justify-content: space-between to the class .header.Also, to remove the default underline of the <a> tag you must use text-decoration:none, and for hidden the element with class .hidden use display:none.
/* NAVIGATION */
header {
border: 2px dashed black;
display: flex;
justify-content:space-between;
padding: 10px;
}
header h2 {
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: 700;
margin: 16px 0px;
}
.nav-list {
list-style-type: none;
display: flex;
float: right;
}
.hidden{
display:none;
/* visibility:hidden; */
}
li {
list-style: none;
display: inline;
padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
}
#site-name a {
text-decoration:none;
color: black;
}
.nav-list a {
text-decoration:none;
color: black;
}
*{font-family:sans-serif}
<!doctype html>
<html lang="fr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Titre de la page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<script src="script.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<header id="header" class="flex">
<h2 id="site-name">RandomSite</h2>
<!-- NAVIGATION -->
<nav id="header-nav">
<h3 class="hidden">RandomSite's hidden navigation</h3>
<ul class="nav-list">
<li>Home</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
</body>
</html>
I removed all the unnecessary code that you had before. I added a bit of padding to your a tags so that it will look nicer. To make your nav items move to the right, just add space-between and it will fix your problem.
* {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
header {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
border: 2px dashed black;
padding: 10px;
}
header h2 {
font-size: 18px;
margin: 16px 0px;
}
header a {
text-decoration: none;
}
li > a {
color: #484b4f;
padding: 0.5rem;
}
header > h2 > a {
color: black;
}
.nav-list {
list-style-type: none;
}
li {
display: inline;
}
<header>
<h2 className="header-site-name">
RandomSite
</h2>
<nav>
<ul class="nav-list">
<li>Home</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>

Centered Logo as well as Nav items in second line

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<base target="_top">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/1.0.0/css/materialize.min.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<style>
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 1fr 15fr .5fr;
}
footer {
text-align: center;
font-size: 0.85em;
color: white;
background-color: black;
box-shadow: 0px 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
}
nav {
position: sticky;
top: 0;
}
nav ul li:hover {
background-color: grey;
}
.brand-logo {
height: 100%;
}
.brand-logo img {
height: 100%;
}
#label {
font-size: 2rem;
font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
// text-align: center;
}
.inst {
font-size: 1.1rem;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
}
.nav-wrapper {
height: 100%;
background-color: black;
text-align: center;
}
::selection {
border: black;
color: #000;
}
ul.dropdown-content.select-dropdown li span {
color: #000;
}
#cartIcon {
position: relative;
text-align : center;
left: 10px;
}
#cartIconNav {
position: relative;
margin-right: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<nav>
<div class="nav-wrapper">
<a href="" class="brand-logo"><img id="logo"
src="https://i.imgur.com/KNOffUU.png"></a>
</div>
<div class="nav-wrapper">
<i class="material-icons">menu</i>
<ul class="center hide-on-med-and-down">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Estimator</li>
<li>About</li>
<li id="cart"></li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
<ul class="sidenav" id="items">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Estimator</li>
<li>About</li>
<li id="navCart"></li>
</ul>
</header>
I'm trying to have my logo centered and the other line also have my menu centered.When trying to center the logo it goes more to the left and my menu items only aligns to the right or left.
ul class="center hide-on-med-and-down"
The line above only seems to align the menu to the right or left even if
center is typed.
Any suggestion on how I can achieve this and where am I going wrong in trying to solve this
Edit: new styles are done mainly using display: flex;
Check my commented jsfiddle
Main things I changed
.nav-wrapper {display: flex; flex-direction: column;}
/* Align the inner items with flex
specify that we want them flowing in a single column */
/* Justify content has lots of options for positioning children */
nav ul {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
nav ul li {
/* Make the li float left, positions them horizontally rather than vertically */
float: left;
color: white;
width: 100%;
/* Give a max-width to make the nav buttons smaller */
max-width: 5rem;
padding: 0.8rem 0;
}

How can I make the dropdown menu appear only if I hover over Search Engine?

So I was creating the beginning of my hopefully, useful website. I started making the header and the menu part. In the search engine part, my intention is to create a dropdown menu with some options when I hover over Search Engine, until that it should disappear. I commented out in the CSS code display: none so that you can see how the dropdown looks like. I tried the pseudo-class .dropdown: hover but it didn't work. How can I make the dropdown menu only appear when I hover over the search Engine?
The linked image as the example of how it looks like, not how it should
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta charset='UTF-8'/>
<title>SerFin</title>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cinzel&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
.title {
font-family: 'Cinzel', cursive;
}
</style>
<link href='test.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<nav>
<ul class="menu">
<li><a href='#'>Customer Service</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Submission</a></li>
<li class="dropdown">Search Engine ▾<li>
</ul>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>Universities</li>
<li>Jobs</li>
<li>Courses</li>
<li>Internships</li>
<li>Services</li>
</ul>
<ul class="setup">
<li><a href='#'>Login</a></li>
<li>Sign up</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<img class="logo" src="Logo.jpg"></img>
</header>
</body>
</html>
CSS
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 1.8em;
}
header {
background-color:#5D6063;
}
nav {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-around;
background-color: #54575A;
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
}
li {
list-style: none;
display: inline;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
a {
color: #D3D3D3;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #54A5C4;
}
.menu {
color: #EEEEEE;
padding: 5px;
}
.setup {
color: #EEEEEE;
padding: 5px;
}
.title {
color: white;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
padding: 150px;
}
img {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 100px;
}
/*
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All of this is the heading, from now on everything has to do with the dropdown menu
*/
.dropdown {
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
}
.dropdown-menu {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
background: #54575A;
border-radius: 1px;
padding-top: 60px;
position: absolute;
top: -25px;
left: 490px;
z-index: 1;
}
.dropdown-menu li {
list-style: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #FFF;
padding: 0 40px 10px 20px;
margin: 10px;
}
.dropdown-menu li:last-of-type {
border-bottom: none;
}
.dropdown > span {
z-index: 2;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
}
/*.dropdown-menu {
display: none;
}*/
You can use plain javascript or jquery in this.
This is how to do it using jquery.
$('.dropdown').hover( function(){ $('.dropdown-menu').show(); });
If you are using Javascript, you can use the following attachment, onmouseover inside the html element. Such as:
<img onmouseover="yourfunction()" src="path">
or you can do the following in the javascript file:
object = document.getElementByID("element") (or any other reference to element)
object.addEventListener("mouseover", myScript);
I had assistance from: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onmouseover.asp
Hopefully this was helpful.

How to spread out the navbar attributes evenly?

Instead of it all being to the left how do i go about spreading it all across evenly or near enough? I have tried reading some blogs and posts on how to solve this solution however i still have not came to a conclusion.
Also how do i put the logo and heading side by side each other?
Thanks in advance, much appreciated.
.header img {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #555;
}
.header h1 {
display: inline;
}
ul {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-around;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #333;
}
li {
display: inline-block;
}
li a {
display: inline-block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
<title>Chollerton Tearooms</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<img src="Logo.png" alt="logo" />
<h1>Chollerton Tearooms</h1>
</div>
<ul>
<li><a class="" href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li>Find out more</li>
<li>Credits</li>
<li>Wireframe</li>
<li>Admin</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
flexbox to the rescue!
As for header - h1 has display:block by default so i've change it to display: inline;
Flexbox is ideal for this. Add display: flex to the parents css and flex: 1 to the li, so they occupy the full width of the viewport. display: block for the a-tag allows the whole space to be clickable, but that's more of a design decision.
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #333;
display: flex;
}
li {
flex: 1;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
<ul>
<li><a class="" href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li>Find out more</li>
<li>Credits</li>
<li>Wireframe</li>
<li>Admin</li>
</ul>

Spacing in Navigation Menu (HTML/CSS)

.body-color {
background: rgb(27,39,57)
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: red;
padding-right: 20px;
}
li {
display: inline-block;
padding-right: 30px;
}
#menu {
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
padding-bottom: 100px;
}
I have tried to padding/margins in both the anchor and li but nothing happens.
How do I add spacing in between each menu option?
My HTML, am I assigning it to the wrong place?:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css">
<title>My Website</title>
</head>
<body class="body-color">
<h1 class="logo"><h1>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Portrait</li>
<li>Product Showcase</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Assuming you aren't targetting edge or IE, display: flex is a better way of doing what you're doing.
#menu {
display:flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
Would result in each list item being evenly spaced. For practicing basic css skills using flex, I would take a look at this website. They have a lot of great tutorials for basic flex usage.
Have you tried this? you don't have to give width but will manage equal width for each element.
ul {
width: 100%;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed; /* the magic dust that ensures equal width */
background: #ccc
}
ul > li {
display: table-cell;
border: 1px dashed red;
text-align: center
}
ul > li > a {
display:block;
padding:50px;
}
Answer Solved. Followed
.body-color {
background: rgb(27,39,57)
}
#menu {
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
padding-bottom: 100px;
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
}
li {
display: inline-block;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: red;
}
<ul id="menu">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Portrait</li>
<li>Product</li>
<li>Showcase</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
.body-color {
background: rgb(27,39,57)
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
transition: .3s;
}
#menu {
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
padding-bottom: 100px;
}
#menu ul li {
display: inline-block;
}
#menu ul li + li {
margin-left: 30px;
}
#menu ul li a {
color: #000;
}
#menu ul li a:hover {
color: #f10;
}
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css">
<title>My Website</title>
</head>
<body class="body-color">
<h1 class="logo"></h1>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Portrait</li>
<li>Product Showcase</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
If it doesn't need to support IE 9 or lower. I recommand flex:
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#menu {
position: relative;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-evenly; /* 'space-around' for just filled space */
width: 100%;
/* list nav normalization */
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
/* Additional Options */
align-items: center;
align-content: center;
/* For clarity in this example, remove this when your done */
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.1);
}
#menu li {
display: inherit;
/* For clarity in this example, remove this when your done */
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.1);
}
#menu a {
padding: 10px;
text-decoration: none;
color: red;
/* For clarity in this example, remove this when your done */
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.1);
}
<nav id="menu">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Portrait</li>
<li>Product Showcase</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</nav>
I think that adding display: inline-block; to the menu item might work.
Check this link, you can add padding to any direction.
https://codepen.io/jackstride/pen/JLpPgZ
li a { padding: 50px;
}