Html menu bar website - html

Question

Hey I want to make a website with a frontpage just like this one: http://foreword.io/ .
I need help with the horizontal list to get it just like the one on foreword.io.
I want the yellow area to be stretched all the way to the sides. When I hover over a link it only marks the upper part of the square, so I want it to mark the whole square for each link.
Please help and thanks in advance.
Here is my code:
body {
font-family: Times New Roman;
}
.h1 {
position: absolute;
height: 200px;
top: 90px;
width: 1585px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 350%;
font-family: Times New Roman, Georgia;
}
u {
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 5px solid black;
}
.fakta {
position: absolute;
height: 190px;
top: 340px;
width: 700px;
left: 500px;
font-size: 50px;
}
ul {
position: absolute;
height: 100px;
top: 600px;
left: 100px;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: yellow;
}
li {
float: left;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: black;
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 20px;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: white;
}
<div class="h1">
<h1>
<u>DatabaseNavn</u>
</h1>
</div>
<div class="fakta">
<p>Database med ansatte <br> og avdelinger</p>
</div>
<ul>
<li>Side1</li>
<li>Side2</li>
<li>Side3</li>
<li>Side4</li>
<li>Side5</li>
</ul>

Answer 1

You can do this just adding the Height option to "li a" section in the css as below:
li a {
display: block;
color: black;
height: 100px;
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size:20px;
}
it will set the height of the square so the whole yellow part will change to white.
in the case of the yellow bar size and item positions:
set the width of the ul to 100% so it will use the whole available space on the browser also remove the "left" and finally add 'position:relative', 'left:20%' and 'width:10%; to the li section.
li {
position: relative;
left: 20%;
width: 10%;
float: left;
}
SOURCE: My head :-P

Answer 2

Use display: inline-block; instead of display: block; and you will get an horizontal list.

Answer 3

Weave: http://kodeweave.sourceforge.net/editor/#2b1da7103aeec07f8b53045481c63c77
For something so simple you're using position absolute in places where it's not needed which could be replaced with margin. Thus your code is fairly WET (especially with me being on a tablet right now) So I made a simple mockup that's DRY and can work for RWD as well if you utilize media-queries.
I removed a lot of the unnecessary positioning. By setting the ul tag to text-align center I was able to center the anchors by telling the li tag to be displayed as an inline-block. Then I filled the width using width: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0;
How this snippet helps.
body {
font-family: Times New Roman;
}
.h1 {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
font-size: 350%;
font-family: Times New Roman, Georgia;
}
u {
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 5px solid black;
}
.fakta {
width: 100%;
font-size: 50px;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: yellow;
text-align: center;
}
li {
display: inline-block;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: black;
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 20px;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: white;
}
<div class="h1">
<h1>
<u>DatabaseNavn</u>
</h1>
</div>
<div class="fakta">
<p>Database med ansatte og avdelinger</p>
</div>
<ul>
<li>Side1</li>
<li>Side2</li>
<li>Side3</li>
<li>Side4</li>
<li>Side5</li>
</ul>