Google style drop down - Content bigger than parent - html

This is my full code: https://jsfiddle.net/dv6gxtoh/2/
I want the dropdown box to expand and be the full width of it's content (so it doesn't have to drop things down a line) but I also don't want it to stretch the main dropdown button to the same width.
The best example I can give is something a bit like this:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/w3ym8.png
This is the CSS I am using:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.click-nav ul {
position:relative;
display: inline-block;
}
.click-nav ul li {
position: relative;
list-style:none;
cursor:pointer;
display:inline-block;
}
.click-nav ul li ul {
position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
}
.click-nav ul .clicker {
position:relative;
color:black;
}
.click-nav ul .clicker:hover, .click-nav ul .active {
background:#196F9A;
}
.click-nav ul li a {
display:block;
padding:8px 10px;
background:#FFF;
color:#333;
text-decoration:none;
}
.click-nav ul li a:hover {
background:#F2F2F2;
}
/* Fallbacks */
.click-nav .no-js ul {
display:none;
}
.click-nav .no-js:hover ul {
display:block;
}
The closest I could get it to remove position:relative; from .click-nav ul which does the trick, except the dropdown menu doesn't sit under the button which opened it.
Any help would be appreciated.

Seems to me white-space : nowrap is what you need, i.e
.click-nav ul li a {
display:block;
padding:8px 10px;
background:#FFF;
color:#333;
text-decoration:none;
white-space: nowrap;
}
forked fiddle -> http://jsfiddle.net/j5ckepbm/

Check the shared fiddle..
you need to make few changes to your css, like adding and width/min-width to your dropdown.
white-space:nowrap
Click to see the fiddle, commented lines are mine changes

You may need to add one more class with a fixed width to get it done.
.click-nav ul li ul li {
width: 150px;
}
Here is a fiddle

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Text not aligning to the center in the li ul

In the following code, through which I am trying to understand drop down menu. If you see the output, you can notice that the li texts FIRST SECOND AND FOURTH are not equally horizontally aligned with equal spaces between each other.For instance there is more horizontal space on the right side of FOURTH. Whats the best possible way to align the text in the middle (horizontally) without manually giving values of margin, padding etc. Like there should be a way using text-align:center or margin:auto auto that can align the text in the center automatically irrespective of the length of the text or font size.
ul{
width:350px;
height:50px;
padding-left:0;
margin:0;
background:#CCCCCC;
}
ul > li{
list-style: none;
display: inline;
font-size: 24px;
float: left;
width: 106.66px;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
}
ul > li > ul{
margin:10px 0px;
padding-left:0;
width:80px;
height:40px;
visibility: hidden;
}
ul > li > ul > li{
display:block;
list-style-type:none;
padding-left:10px;
}
ul > li:hover ul{
visibility:visible;
}
<body>
<ul>
<li>First</li>
<li>
Second
<ul>
<li>Third</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fourth</li>
</ul>
</body>
It because of your hidden ul. Don't use vissibility:hidden like that, it will make the ur hidden, right but it still take up space so it make your second li bigger than it normal should be - inspect element and you will see it - and it look like fourth li look in wrong place.
To prevent this, you can use display:none with position:absolute like my demo below; display:none make your third ul "disappear", make the ul look right, and with position:absolute, it prevent the fourth li run around (try delete the attribute position:absolute and you can see.
ul{
width:350px;
height:50px;
padding-left:0;
margin:0;
background:#CCCCCC;
}
ul > li{
list-style:none;
display:inline;
padding:10px 20px;
font-size:24px;
float:left;
position: relative;
}
ul > li > ul{
margin:10px 0px;
padding-left:0;
width:80px;
height:40px;
display:none;
position:absolute;
}
ul > li > ul > li{
display:block;
list-style-type:none;
padding-left:10px;
}
ul > li:hover ul{
display:block
}
Demo

CSS only menu hover issue in Safari iOS 8.4.1

I've got a safari-specific problem with a hover effect probably related to the synthetic click vulnerability fix in iOS 8.4.1. When the user tries to click on a link there is no response.
The menu is a simple CSS-only menu. I have created a demo here: https://jsfiddle.net/baad95e3/
#menu :hover ul {
right:auto;
left:0;
}
#menu :hover ul ul {
left:-9999px;
width:160px;
padding-left:5px;
background:none;
}
#menu li ul :hover ul {
left: 170px;
right:auto;
}
#menu li ul li ul li a {
text-align:left;
color:#000;
}
#menu li ul li ul li a:hover {
color:#000;
}
What would be a good workaround without losing the hover effect.
Hacky but can work, did for me in some cases:
* { z-index: 0; }

Sub menu wont show when menu item hovered over (css html)

I have a simple navigation with a sub-menu on one of my main navigation items. When the user hovers over this i would like the sub-menu item to show and when you go onto the sub-menu li items the main menu link to still have the background colour 'hovered' state still active. Thing is i cant even get the sub-menu item to show!
I have tried the usual display:none and when :hovered { display:block}; but it's ignoring it.
What am u missing? Must be something so simple but cannot see in the css styling.
Here is a link to an example of how it is setup: http://jsfiddle.net/ULSsa/
here is the demo link http://jsfiddle.net/ULSsa/6/ with corrected css
*{
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
body {
font:normal 12px/18px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000;
padding:20px;
background-color:#F2F2F2;
}
ul, li, ol {
list-style-type:none;
}
ul#nav-1 {
width:60%;
height:46px;
border:1px solid red;
}
ul#nav-1 li {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
*float:left;
margin-top:16px;
margin-left:-4px;
}
ul#nav-1 li a {
padding:22px 13px;
font-size:14px;
}
ul#nav-1 li:hover a,
ul#nav-1 li a:hover {
cursor:pointer;
background-color:#000;
}
ul#nav-1 li ul#sub-menu {
display:none;
position:absolute;
width:200px;
list-style:none;
left:0;
top:19px;
}
ul#nav-1 li:hover ul#sub-menu {
display:block !important;
}
ul#nav-1 ul#sub-menu li {
float: none;
margin: 0;
}
ul#nav-1 ul#sub-menu li a {
border-bottom:1px solid #dbddd4;
background-color:#f2f2f2;
width:200px;
text-align:left;
display: block;
padding:0;
padding-left:18px;
padding-top:13px;
padding-bottom:13px;
float:left;
margin:0;
}
ul#nav-1 ul#sub-menu li:hover a {
background-color:#3a3a3a;
color:#FFF;
}
Pretty easy. The submenu ul#sub-menu is not a child of the anchor element, but of the list element. You must either put the submenu inside the anchor element or check for the hover on the list element as following:
ul#nav-1 li:hover > ul#sub-menu { instead of ul#nav-1 li a:hover > ul#sub-menu {
http://jsfiddle.net/ULSsa/2/
You are using wrong selector here, it should be
ul#nav-1 li a:hover + ul#sub-menu { /* Note the + sign instead of > */
display:block !important;
}
Demo
Explanation: You are using > which will select direct child elements of a which in your case are none, so you need to use + adjacent selector to trigger the adjacent element
Just change your ul#nav-1 li a:hover > ul#sub-menu to ul#nav-1 li:hover > ul#sub-menu because the submenu it is a child of li and not of an anchor (a).
See the example by clicking here.
If you do not know, the CSS > selector means the specifically child of the element.
Updated
To maintain the link state, just do this:
ul#nav-1 li:hover a {
background-color: black;
}
See the example by clicking here.

Fill UL Space with 2nd to last Li?

I have been trying to get this to work for about 2 days now, but i can get nothing. Here is my layout. I have a navbar with some elements, and the last one is floating right. This leaves a lot of space left between the last and the second to last li. How can i make that second to last li fill up the ul? I already tried to treat it as a table, but that did not work. Here is some of my css:
.NavBar > ul {
list-style:inside none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
display: table;
width:100%;
}
.NavBar > ul > li {
list-style:inside none;
display:block;
float:left;
position:relative;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.NavBar > ul > li > a:hover {
background:#111;
}
.NavBar > ul > li:nth-last-child(2) {
list-style:inside none;
display:table-cell;
}
If there is any more code you need, just tell me and i will post it. Thanks.
Here is what i need to happen.
The News li need to grow to fill up space in between it and the login li.
Is there a reason you are floating the last li right instead of left? If you keep the floats left you shouldn't have the spacing problem.
If this doesn't help, I think you're going to need to give more details as to what you want to accomplish.
Okay, I suspect there's more that you haven't yet told us, but take a look at this quick and dirty sample and let me know how close it comes to your goal:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.NavBar > ul {
list-style:inside none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
}
.NavBar > ul > li {
list-style:inside none;
display:block;
float:left;
position:relative;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width: 10%;
background-color: #FFDDDD;
}
.NavBar > ul > li > a:hover {
background:#111;
}
.NavBar > ul > li:last-child {
float: right;
background-color: #DDFFDD;
}
.NavBar > ul > li:nth-last-child(2) {
width: 60%;
background-color: #DDDDFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<nav class='NavBar'>
<ul>
<li>Widgets</>
<li>Boojuns</>
<li>Snarf</>
<li>Xyzzy</>
<li>Plugh</>
</ul>
</nav>
</body>
</html>
The background colors are just to help us see what's happening.

How to make CSS menu stay on top

I've modified some existing CSS code i found to develop a menu. It all works fine except when i hit the drop down menu. if there there is another HTML component on the page, the menu stays behind the component instead of it staying on top (i hope my description makes sense).
Here is the CSS:
#navMenu{
/*font-family: 'Tenor sans', Calibri, Times, Times, serif;*/
margin-left:2px;
/*width: 944px;*/
width:100%;
font-weight:normal;
font-size:15px;
}
#navMenu ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height:30px;
}
#navMenu li {
margin:0;
padding:0;
/*removes the bullet point*/
list-style:none;
float:left;
position:relative;
background-color: #F9F9F9;
}
/*for top level */
#navMenu ul li a{
text-align:center;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:0.8em;
line-height:height;
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
text-decoration:none; /*remove underline*/
margin:-1px;
/*height width for all links*/
height:30px;
width:150px;
display:block;
/*border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;*/
color: #00611C;
}
/* hiding inner ul*/
#navMenu ul ul{
position:absolute;
visibility:hidden;
/*must match height of ul li a*/
top:28px;
}
/*selecting top menu to display the submenu*/
#navMenu ul li:hover ul{
visibility:visible;
}
#navMenu li:hover {
/*background-color: #F9F9F9;*/
background-color: #DBDB70;
border-radius: 5px;
}
#navMenu ul li:hover ul li a:hover{
/* color: E2144A;*/
color:#E2144A;
}
#navMenu ul li a:hover{
/*color: E2144A;*/
color:#E2144A;
}
Would anybody be able to tell me whats missing to enable the drop down menu to stay on top?
thanks.
It would be useful to have the HTML code, not just the CSS, to troubleshoot this. But with just the CSS you posted, look into setting a z-index on the elements that are layered backwards from the way you would like.
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/15/the-z-index-css-property-a-comprehensive-look/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Understanding_z-index?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Understanding_CSS_z-index
use z-index.
#navMenu{
/*font-family: 'Tenor sans', Calibri, Times, Times, serif;*/
margin-left:2px;
/*width: 944px;*/
width:100%;
font-weight:normal;
font-size:15px;
z-index:1;
}
Try giving your menu a z-index: 1; (or higher). You can also lower the z-index of whatever content is covering up your menu.
You need to set the parent that will wrap your menu to be in position: relative, this could be a body or maybe an outer wrapper. Then you can use absolute position to place it always at the top and specify some z-index:
For more information: see this z-index property information in here:
https://bytutorial.com/tutorials/css/css-z-index