I am trying to create a navigation bar on my website for a project. I get the bar just fine, but I can't get it to center on the page. I have tried a variety of different methods. Can someone help me out? I'm using an external style sheet. Here is the code for my main page:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tylerschevy.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Tyler Chevrolet</h1>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Show Room</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
<li>About Us</li>
<li>Official Site</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Here is my style sheet:
h1 {text-align:center}
ul{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
overflow:hidden;
}
li{
display: inline-block;
float:left;
}
a:link,a:visited{
display:block;
width:120px;
font-weight:bold;
color:black;
background-color:#FFFF33;
text-align:center;
padding:4px;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;
}
a:hover,a:active{
background-color:#0033FF;
color:white;
}
jsfiddle
Add class="nav" to your <ul>, and then in your stylesheet create a new class:
.nav {
display: table; margin: 0 auto;
}
jsFiddle
Center ul
body {
text-align:center;
}
ul {
margin:0 auto;
display: inline-block;
}
I recommend to put your ul in one wrapper (so you don't touch the body) like this
<div class="wrapper">
<ul>...</ul>
</div>
css
.wrapper{
text-align:center;
}
ul {
margin:0 auto;
display: inline-block;
}
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I made a menu and used width: 100% to make sure it comes across the entire page but there were white spaces on the right and left side (looks more like width:95%?) So I then tried using position:absolute top:0 left:0 which solved the problem and made the menu look like width 100%,
Unfortunately, this operation caused my h2 header element to disappear and I cannot find a way to properly place it now?
JSBin code of my html and css code
#mainMenu {
font-family:Arial, Times, sans-serif;
list-style-type:none;
padding:0;
}
#mainMenu a {
text-decoration:none;
margin:5px;
padding:2px;
color:SeaGreen;
font-weight:bold;
}
#mainMenu a:hover {
color:Teal;
}
#menu {
text-align:center;
width:100%;
height:50px;
background-color:paleGoldenRod;
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:0;
}
li {
display:inline;
}
footer {
background-color:SlateGray;
height:150px;
width:100%;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Miko</title>
<link href="#" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="menu">
<ul id="mainMenu">
<li>HOME</li>
<li>ABOUT</li>
<li>CONTACT ME</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2>About The Page</h2>
<p>To Be Added</p>
<footer>
<p>Web Design</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
How come position:absolute makes my h2 disappear?
To avoid the default margins in general, you can add margin: 0; to html and body.
To place your absolutely positioned menu behind the h2element, you can apply z-index: -1, which moves it behind its parent element.
In my snippet below I also changed the text-centering to right alignment and added a padding-right on the ul. You can play around with those values so they fit your needs.
html, body {
margin: 0;
}
#mainMenu {
font-family:Arial, Times, sans-serif;
list-style-type:none;
padding-right: 30px;
}
#mainMenu a {
text-decoration:none;
margin:5px;
padding:2px;
color:SeaGreen;
font-weight:bold;
}
#mainMenu a:hover {
color:Teal;
}
#menu {
text-align:right;
width:100%;
height:50px;
background-color:paleGoldenRod;
position: absolute;
z-index: -1;
}
li {
display:inline;
}
footer {
background-color:SlateGray;
height:150px;
width:100%;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Miko</title>
<link href="#" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="menu">
<ul id="mainMenu">
<li>HOME</li>
<li>ABOUT</li>
<li>CONTACT ME</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2>About The Page</h2>
<p>To Be Added</p>
<footer>
<p>Web Design</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
Add padding-top: 50px (the menu height) to body.
body {
padding-top: 50px;
}
#mainMenu {
font-family:Arial, Times, sans-serif;
list-style-type:none;
padding:0;
}
#mainMenu a {
text-decoration:none;
margin:5px;
padding:2px;
color:SeaGreen;
font-weight:bold;
}
#mainMenu a:hover {
color:Teal;
}
#menu {
text-align:center;
width:100%;
height:50px;
background-color:paleGoldenRod;
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:0;
}
li {
display:inline;
}
footer {
background-color:SlateGray;
height:150px;
width:100%;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Miko</title>
<link href="#" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="menu">
<ul id="mainMenu">
<li>HOME</li>
<li>ABOUT</li>
<li>CONTACT ME</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2>About The Page</h2>
<p>To Be Added</p>
<footer>
<p>Web Design</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
JSBin
Position in css is tricky thing, everyone uses absolute positioning for placement of element.but before using it. you need to know about what the position is all about. when we use position:absolute then element act like it is floating on top of all element.while using absolute positioning element goes out from html normal flow.
you have used position absolute for both menu links and footer, So these elemment are floating on top of other elements.enter code here
use position absolute and fixed when you want to stick element to specific position.
#mainMenu {
font-family:Arial, Times, sans-serif;
list-style-type:none;
padding:0;
}
#mainMenu a {
text-decoration:none;
margin:5px;
padding:2px;
color:SeaGreen;
font-weight:bold;
}
#mainMenu a:hover {
color:Teal;
}
#menu {
text-align:center;
width:100%;
height:50px;
background-color:paleGoldenRod;
}
li {
display:inline;
}
footer {
background-color:SlateGray;
height:150px;
width:100%;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
if you still want to use position absolute for menu, so you need to use proper margin for h2 tag.so that h2 tag will not be hidden beside menu links.
I was attempting to vertical align some text in a li element, but the only way I could do it was applying display:table-cell; and vertical-align:middle; to the li element.
When I do this, it causes the entire navbar to lose its horizontal center. I have done very much Googling and have not found a solution.
HTML:
<div class="h_logo"><img src="http://dummyimage.com/800x200/000/fff.jpg"></div>
<div class="h_nav">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Web Hosting</li>
<li>Web Design</li>
<li>Consulting</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
CSS:
/** All code is written in chronological form as with the HTML code.
* h. = header.element
* b. = body.element
* sl./sr. = sidebarleft or right.element
**/
.h_logo{
background-repeat:no-repeat;
width:800px;
height:200px;
margin:auto;
position:static;
}
.h_nav{
position:inherit;
margin-top:10px;
}
.h_nav li{
list-style-type:none;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
width:150px;
height:35px;
background-color:black;
}
.h_nav a{
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:20px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
JSFiddle
You could add this to your CSS:
nav ul {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
}
How do I get the navigation bar to appear next to the logo instead of breaking to the next line under it?
I've tried several changes but it keeps going onto the next line. I'm trying to avoid using floats because I was told they are not good to use. I want it to look like the navigation bar on this website in this end:
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
I would like to understand how it is being done on that website.
I am just very confused as to how the process is to work.
CSS:
#header
{
background-image:url('menubg.png');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}
#logo
{
display:inline-block;
}
#menu ul
{
display:inline-block;
list-style-type:none;
padding: 0px;
margin:0px;
}
#menu li
{
display:inline-block;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
#menu a:link,a:visited
{
display:inline-block;
text-transform:lowercase;
width:auto;
font-weight:bold;
padding-left:47.5px;
padding-right:47.5px;
padding-top:9px;
padding-bottom:9px;
text-decoration:none;
color:#57fafc;
text-align:center;
background-color:#62d2d3;
}
#menu a:hover,a:active
{
background-color:#7ce5e6;
}
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mainstyle.css">
<title>Blah</title></head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<div id="logo"><img src="logo.png" /></div>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li><li>Contact</li><li>About</li><li>Products</li><li>Design-a-Tee</li><li>Reviews/Testimonials</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
add this css
#logo {
float:left;
}
#menu {
float:right;
}
#header {
clear: both;
overflow: auto;
}
So I've got some simple code here:
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Home</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS-
ul
{
list-style-type:none;
width:700px;
height:44px;
padding:0;
}
li
{
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:80px;
height:auto;
}
a
{
height:40px;
text-decoration:none;
border:2px solid black;
background:blue;
}
-#nav
{
width:786px;
height:66px;
border:2px solid black;
background:#C4BD97;
margin:5px;
}
This code should force my a tags to align themselves horizontally and give them a definite height/width. They align perfectly, but their height and width WILL NOT change no matter what I do. Never ran into this problem before, is my HTML broken? Thanks.
display: inline elements do not respect height. Change them to display: inline-block (or perhaps block) or use line-height to alter the height.
http://jsfiddle.net/kHkyh/
Try setting the height and/or width on the anchor tags in the li. That is, push out the li using the anchor tags. You can do this in a decently uniform way using padding to make sure the entire area of the anchor is clickable. Also, this approach works back to I believe ie6(not sure about ie5, have not tested it). Following is roughly what I'm talking about:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
body, #menu, #menu li
{
position: relative;
display: block;
padding:0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#menu
{
list-style-type:none;
width:100%;
}
#menu a
{
position:relative;
display:block;
float:left;
width:25%;
padding:10px 0px 10px 0px;
text-align:center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="menu">
<li>One item</li>
<li>Another item</li>
<li>hola</li>
<li>Hi</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
I am having problems overlaping two boxes. Should I use absolute positioning? z-index or what techniques are out there? By the way I want them to overlap is just that I want to make sure it works cross modern browsers. IE8 or +
I cant push the black box to the center why?
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Metropolitan State Hospital Intranet</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Home.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="masthead">
<div id="logo">
Logo here
</div><!--end logo-->
<div id="header">
<div id="horizontalMainMenu">
<ul>
<li>About Us |</li>
<li>Contact Us |</li>
<li>Metro Link |</li>
<li>WaRMSS Login </li>
</ul>
<br style="clear:left;"><!--I used float:left in the css to stack the list items now I need to clear it-->
</div>
</div>
<!--end header-->
</div><!--end masthead-->
<div id="container">
<div id="left_col">
<div id="verticalMainMenu">
<ul>
<li>Air Quality Control</li>
<li>CalATERS</li>
<li>Email Encryption</li>
<li>Employee Guide</li>
<li>Patient Special Function Requests</li>
<li>Request Home Address <br> Confidentiality Form</li>
<li>Travel Store</li>
</ul>
</div><!--verticalMainMenu ends here-->
</div><!--left_col ends here-->
<div id="page_content">
<div id="horizontalBodyMenu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Clinical</li>
<li>Administrative</li>
<li>Service</li>
<li>Search</li>
</ul>
<br style="clear:left">
</div>
</div><!--page_content ends here-->
</div>
<div id="footer">
Footer
</div><!--end footer-->
</body>
</html>
CSS:
/* CSS layout */
*{
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#masthead {
min-width: 600px;
}
#logo {
float: left;
width: 200px;
background-color:yellow;/*I dont know what color this is in the template*/
}
#header {
background-color:yellow;/*I dont know what color this is in the template*/
height:300px;
}
#container {
clear: both;
min-width: 600px;
}
#left_col {
float: left;
width: 200px;
background-color:red; /*I dont know what color this is in the template*/
}
#page_content {
background-color:black;
margin:-50px 0 0 0;
width:95%;
}
#footer {
clear: both;
}
/* CSS common layout ends here*/
/* horizontalMainMenu starts here*/
#horizontalMainMenu{
width:100%;
background-color:transparent;
}
#horizontalMainMenu ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
float:left;
}
#horizontalMainMenu ul li{
display:inline;
}
#horizontalMainMenu ul li a{
float:left;
text-decoration:none;
color:white;
padding:5px 9px;
}
/*horizontalMainMenu ends here*/
/*Body Menu Starts here*/
#horizontalBodyMenu ul{
list-style:none;
}
#horizontalBodyMenu ul li{
display:inline;
}
/* horizontalBodyMenu ends here*/
#horizontalMainMenu ul li a:visited{
color:white;
}
#horizontalMainMenu ul li a:hover,#mainMenu ul li .current{
color:#fff;
background-color:#0b75b2;
}
#verticalMainMenu ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;/*removes the default bulltets*/
}
#verticalMainMenu li{
padding:0 0 0 10px;
background-image:url('');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:.5em;
line-height:200%;
}
#verticalMainMenu li a:hover{
color:#fff;
background-color:#0b75b2;
}
You should do it normally, and then pull "Box 2" upwards with margin-top: -80px.
This will work in "all browsers".
Here's a good article concerning negative margins:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/27/the-definitive-guide-to-using-negative-margins/
You need to position box2 relative to box1. Lookup html relative positioning.
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/