I'm having issues with creating a drop-down menu with HTML&CSS. I got the HTML part down (I think).
<div id="Nav">
<ul>
<li class="Navigation">Item 1</li>
<li class="Navigation">Item 2</li>
<li class="Navigation">Item 3</li>
<li class="Navigation">
<a class="Nav_Text">Item 4</a>
<ul class="sub-menu">
<li class="Sub_Navigation"><a href"" class="Sub_Nav_Text">Sub Item1</a></li>
<li class="Sub_Navigation"><a href"" class="Sub_Nav_Text">Sub Item2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Here is what I have for the CSS
.submenu
{
display: none;
}
#Nav ul li:hover > ul
{
display: block;
position: absolute;
/*The rest of the code is just for looks and doesn't effect the position*/
}
The issue that I'm having is that the drop-down menu is not showing up underneath Item 4, but instead at the far left of the screen. Can anyone help me with positioning the drop-down menu underneath Item 4? And not by setting a margin. I tried that, and when the screen resized, the drop-down menu was off alignment.
Thank you ahead of time.
try give class="sub-menu" position:relative
.sub-menu{
position:relative;
}
Not sure it will work :)
Haven't tryed it.
when you're using
position: absolute;
on child elements in the sublist you have to set the parent li's to
position: relative;
#Nav > ul > li{
position: relative;
}
Related
I'm having an issue where my dropdown is always on the left. I need to have it so it's directly under each menu item.
I tried playing around with the positioning because the absolute of the subitems is why it's going on the left all the time. But putting position: relative on subitem breaks the menu completely on hover.
Demo of issue: https://jsfiddle.net/dsngpsxb/2/
Code below:
HTML:
<nav class="main-navigation">
<ul>
<li class="item">item
<ul class="subitem">
<li>subitem</li>
<li>subitem</li>
<li>subitem</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="item">item
<ul class="subitem">
<li>subitem</li>
<li>subitem</li>
<li>subitem</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="item">item</li>
<li class="item">item</li>
<li class="item">item</li>
<li class="item">item</li>
<li class="item">item</li>
</ul>
</nav>
SCSS/SASS:
.main-navigation {
width: 100%;
position: relative;
ul {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 18px;
.item {
display: inline;
padding-right: 43px;
font-size: 13px;
text-transform: uppercase;
&:hover ul {
display: block;
}
}
}
}
.subitem {
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
li {
line-height: 30px;
font-size: 14px;
}
}
Please note that I did indeed do research here and found several questions on SO that explain my problem and I tried all accepted answers but none work.
I have included each example with a corresponding JSfiddle example below:
Dropdown menu appearing not below parent
adding position: relative to my subitem completely breaks menu: https://jsfiddle.net/mtp2cg7c/2/
CSS: make dropdown submenu appear below parent <ul> <li>
block display, relative positioning and a left float on my <li> with absolute positioning, 100% top and left: 0 on my <ul> "smashes" all the items togther: https://jsfiddle.net/9s9Lmr1h/4/
CSS dropdown menu element moving to left?
In the fiddle attached I noted that the global container as a property of clear: both; - I tried that in conjunction with floats and positioning. All sub items still float to the left: https://jsfiddle.net/3x3krdsd/1/
Is my <nav> tag to blame? I can't find anything that suggests this tag alters behavior of these rules: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/nav
Add a position: relative; to your .item and left: 0; to your .subitem.
This will make the sub-item position itself relative to the parent item, which should give you the result you want: https://jsfiddle.net/58sb3rL4/
I'm building a css dropdown menu and have been unable to get the submenus to appear below their respective parent li elements. I've tried a bunch of the solutions suggested in response to similar questions but have been unable to get them to work.
Here's a sample of the menu I'm building:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Menu Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="menustyle.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="menudiv">
<ul class="menu">
<li class="menuitem">Aluminum</li>
<ul class="submenu">
<li class="subitem">Round</li>
<li class="subitem">Sheet</li>
<li class="subitem">Plate</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="menuitem">Copper</li>
<ul class="submenu">
<li class="subitem">Round</li>
<li class="subitem">Sheet</li>
</ul>
<li class="menuitem">Steel</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here's the css:
#menudiv {
text-align:center;
}
ul.menu {
list-style-type:none;
}
li.menuitem {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
}
ul.submenu {
display:none;
position:absolute;
}
.menuitem:hover+ul.submenu {
display:block;
}
I can move the submenus around by adding things like right:50px; to ul.submenu, but that moves all the submenus to the same location.
What am I missing here? Thanks!!
Here's a Fiddle.
First of all, the following markup structure :
<li class="menuitem">Aluminum</li>
<ul class="submenu">
<li class="subitem">Round</li>
<li class="subitem">Sheet</li>
<li class="subitem">Plate</li>
</ul>
is incorrect. It should be :
<li class="menuitem">Aluminum
<ul class="submenu">
<li class="subitem">Round</li>
<li class="subitem">Sheet</li>
<li class="subitem">Plate</li>
</ul>
</li>
Secondly, you could use a CSS reset for ul,li elements. For the sake of simplicity I've used :
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Now, coming to your question. the following classes needs to be changed :
.menuitem:hover+ul.submenu {
display:block;
}
to
.menuitem:hover > ul.submenu {
display:block;
}
and
ul.submenu {
display:none;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
right:50px;
}
to
ul.submenu {
display:none;
position:absolute;
}
You can then modify the following class (so that the child ul elements "fits-in" to the parent li):
li.menuitem {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
}
to
li.menuitem {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
padding: 5px 10px;
margin: 0 10px;
}
In summary, I guess this is what you are looking for :
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#menudiv {
text-align:center;
}
ul.menu {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type:none;
}
li.menuitem {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
padding: 5px 10px;
margin: 0 10px;
}
ul.submenu {
display:none;
position:absolute;
}
.menuitem:hover > ul.submenu {
display:block;
}
<body>
<div id="menudiv">
<ul class="menu">
<li class="menuitem">Aluminum
<ul class="submenu">
<li class="subitem">Round</li>
<li class="subitem">Sheet</li>
<li class="subitem">Plate</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="menuitem">Copper
<ul class="submenu">
<li class="subitem">Round 2</li>
<li class="subitem">Sheet 2</li>
</ul>
<li class="menuitem">Steel</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
Hope this helps!!!
Try placing the <ul class="submenu"> inside the <li class="menuitem">. Then set the <li> to position:relative; and set the <ul> to position:absolute;left:0;. This will position the <ul> relative to its parent element, the <li>.
Here's a codepen example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/WQdMjX
Your markup is incorrect for nesting a sub-list.
You're doing this:
<ul>
<li>text</li><!-- incorrect, don't close li here -->
<ul>
<li>sub</li>
</ul>
</li><!-- correct, though li is already closed -->
<li>text</li><!-- incorrect, don't close li here -->
<ul>
<li>sub</li>
</ul>
<!-- needs closing li here -->
<li>text</li>
</ul>
Instead do this:
<ul>
<li>text
<ul>
<li>sub</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Then update your CSS selector from .menuitem:hover + ul.submenu to .menuitem:hover > ul.submenu as you're no longer selecting a sibling element (+) but a child element (>).
You'll need to fine tune the positioning of your sub-menus from here but this should get you where you need to be.
Remember, when you are developing menus you need to make sure the link content is inside anchor tags, including the links at the top level navigation that launch the subnav. That way these links are natively focusable. You want to be able to reach these menu elements with a keyboard only since many with arthritis, Parkinson's disease, etc. may be unable to use a mouse (and you won't want to use tabindex to mimic this behaviour since screen-readers will look for anchor tags.)
There was a similar StackOverflow question yesterday: Absolutely positioned child's top edge pinned to the bottom edge of its parent that has unknown height?
You can also Bootstrap Dropdown CSS in a normal case too.
The following is a screen capture of the issue that i'm faced with. The drop down menu is supposed to appear under the second menu item in the top menu.
The HTML is,
<nav class="nav">
<ul>
<li class="menu-item">Hi Alexander!</li>
<li class="menu-item"><a>My Account</a>
<div class="my-sub-menu">
<ul class="sub-list">
<li class="list-item"><a>History</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Personal Details</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Preferences</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Bonuses</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Wishlist</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Newsletter</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Invite Friends</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>FAQ</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Sign out</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li class="menu-item"><a>Contact Us</a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a>Chat</a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a>Chat</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
The CSS is as follows,
.nav {
margin-top: 2px;
position: relative;
float: right;
}
.nav > ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.menu-item{
list-style: none;
float: left;
}
.menu-item .my-sub-menu {
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.menu-item:hover .my-sub-menu {
visibility: visible;
}
.list-item {
list-style: none;
}
I need the sub menu to appear under the second item in the top menu. This is only in firefox and IE but chrome renders it perfectly. I cant figure out what the issue is. Is there at least e fix that i could use for these two browsers? or another alternative to get around this issue.
Tahnk you in advance.
If you add position:relative to .menu-item it will make the absolute positioning work from the list item itself. The only draw back is if you are using a percentage based width on your drop down it will take the width of the parent li as 100% so a pixel width may have to be specified.
try doing
.sub-list{
padding:0px !important;
}
and if by second menu u want it to come under contact us
then change the position of the div
<div class="my-sub-menu">
<ul class="sub-list">
<li class="list-item"><a>History</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Personal Details</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Preferences</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Bonuses</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Wishlist</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Newsletter</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Invite Friends</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>FAQ</a></li>
<li class="list-item"><a>Sign out</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
into the next li element ie cntact us
kind of a fiddle
fiddle ex
I am simply trying to get there to be a li:hover function that turns background of one list item black on hover. Please see my jsFiddle at here
<div id="sidebar">
<ul class="nav">
<li id="home">home</li>
<li id="about">about</li>
<li id="blog">blog</li>
<li id="contact">contact</li>
</ul>
Give a
position:relative;
z-index:999;
to the .nav element
Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/ATX9f/1/
#sidebar .nav li:hover {
background: black;
}
Your :before and :after are covering the lis that's why you can't hover them. your hover code is correct.
fixed using z-index here
I am not really into all those coding terms, so I am having some difficulties to find answer to my problem. Usually I am just copy paste existing code and try to make some adjustments to what I want. Anyway I am working on a navigation menu on a one-page website. So till now that works. However, I want to have a sub-menu. I tried some things, but I cannot really get what I want. What I want is when I click on a menu item, the sub-menu opens and activate the first sub-menu item.
I found an example: http://inthe7heaven.com/fb-john-doe/dark/
The photo section. I tried to replicate that, but I think the sub-menu is connected to the filtering function of the photogallery.
Can anybody give me some guidance in this?
HTML
<nav class="on_caption">
<ul class="pagination">
<li class="home current">Home</li>
<li class="">About EJ</li>
<li class="">Services</li>
<li class="photos">
Photos
<div id="filter" class="category_filter_list">
<span class="active_link" id="all">All</span>
<span id="cookies">Cookies</span>
<span id="bread">Bread</span>
<span id="baking">Baking</span>
</div>
</li>
<li class="">Classes</li>
<!--<li class="">Testimonials</li>-->
<li class="">Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
CSS
nav {
position: absolute;
z-index: 999;
right: 0;
top: 0;
width: 158px;
height: 600px;
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
behavior: url(js/PIE.htc);
}
nav.on_caption {
background: rgba(20,11,19,.6);
-pie-background: rgba(20,11,19,.6);
}
nav.on_caption a {
color: #d0ced0;
}
nav.off_caption {
background: rgba(20,11,19,.08);
-pie-background: rgba(20,11,19,.08);
}
nav.off_caption a {
color: #524b51;
}
nav a {
font-size: 1.143em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
nav > a {
padding-left: 24px;
}
ul.pagination {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-bottom: 8px;
list-style:none;
}
ul.pagination li {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
clear: both;
padding: 8px 10px 0px 24px;
list-style: none;
}
ul.pagination li:first-child {
padding-top: 25px;
}
nav > a:hover,
nav ul.pagination li a:hover,
nav ul.pagination li.current a {
color: #90705B;
}
So I got this code based on the website I provided above. I want the same effect as in the photo section only then for a normal menu item that is not connected to a filter. That is, when the menu item is clicked, the menu gets extended with the sub-menu and the page goes to the first item in the sub-menu. In addition, the sub-menu item gets active.
I managed to get the sub-menu expand and collapse in jsfiddle using a tree-menu. I tested it in jsfiddle and there it works. However, it doesn't work in my website. The menu doesn't expand. The website I am using it in is a single page website. So the menu items are pointing to a section on the page. So, I guess that my href="sub-1" is not working because it's pointing at the 3rd section of the page.
Is there a simple work-around for this? I don't need any fancy jquery effects, it just needs to open.
Furthermore, when the parent item is clicked, the sub-menu needs to expand and needs to activate the first sub-item. How can I do this?
HTML
<nav class="on_caption">
<ul class="pagination">
<li class="home current">Home</li>
<li class="">About EJ</li>
<li class="">Services
<ul id="sub-1">
<li class="">Test</li>
<li class="">Test</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="">Photos</li>
<li class="">Classes</li>
<li class="">Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
CSS
.pagination > li ul {
display: none;
}
.pagination > li ul:target {
display: block;
}
Made some progress.
HTML
<nav class="on_caption">
<ul class="pagination">
<li class="home current">Home</li>
<li class="">About EJ</li>
<li class="">Services
<ul id="sub-1">
<li class="">Test</li>
<li class="">Test</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="">Photos</li>
<li class="">Classes</li>
<li class="">Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
CSS
.pagination > li ul {
display: none;
}
jQuery
jQuery(
function($)
{
$('.pagination a').click(function(){$(this).next('ul').toggle();});
}
);
This works now. When I click the menu item, the sub-menu gets expended. However, how do I let the sub-menu collapse again when another menu item is clicked? And how do I let the page automatically go to the first sub-menu item by default when the menu item is clicked?