I am in the process of making a CSS drop down menu and CSS has just thrown me a curve ball.
Problem:
When I hover over my "Tools" section, the submenu is a few pixels off my main menu.
Problem CSS:
#menubar ul li {
font:bold 12px/18px sans-serif;
display:inline-block;
position:relative;
padding:10px 35px;
/*Change this to 15px 35px;and it will work*/
background:#666;
cursor:pointer;
color:#fff;
-webkit-transition:all 0.2s;
-moz-transition:all 0.2s;
-ms-transition:all 0.2s;
-o-transition:all 0.2s;
transition:all 0.2s;
}
I have broken it for the purpose of this question (And because I do not want to use 15px padding, I want to use 10px)
Here is a FIDDLE so you can see exactly what I am talking about if I did not explain this correctly.
I have tried Margin, Top with negative values, all sorts of other things and cannot get this to stay glued to the main menu.
Please guide me in fixing this...
EDIT
Thank you ALL... This has been solved! :) +1 for all.
Fiddle
In this CSS rule, you have this:
#menubar ul li ul {
top:48px;
}
However, you should have this:
#menubar ul li ul {
top:38px;
}
That should fix it with the existing code you have and not create any new code.
Alternatively, set it to 100% instead, as it will take the % of the ul above it, pushing it always the correct height if you change the ul's design in future.
add top:-10px; to #menubar ul li
EXAMPLE
I think the problem is in following code
#menubar ul li ul {
padding:0;
position:absolute;
top:48px; //Change this value and it will glued to upper menu
......
Just set top to 100% then it doesn't matter how big the parent is and will cope if the user resizes the text:
#menubar ul li ul {
padding:0;
position:absolute;
top:100%;
...
}
http://jsfiddle.net/65ZAv/6/
In to CSS class #menubar ul li ul you define top:48px;.
#menubar ul li ul {
top:48px;
}
try to set top:38px;.
#menubar ul li ul {
top:38px;
}
Related
So, I've tried to implement a two column menu into my wordpress, using this CSS code which I’ve found on the internet:
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu{
display:inline-block;
width:500px !important;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu li{
width:50% !important;
}
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu li a:hover{
color:#FFFFFF;
}
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu li:nth-child(even){
float:right;
border-left:2px;
border-color: #404040;
}
I added .sub-menu-columns as a CSS class for the top-level-menu “Products” at which only!! the two column sub menu should be seen.
I managed to get this to work. Now is the problem, since the menu is bigger in width, that I need to move the sub-menu container to the left. I also managed to solve this issue with this code:
#mainnav ul li ul{
left:-400px;
}
Now is the only thing, that all other Menus with submenus are moved to the left too (as you can see with “Contact/Support”)
My logical approach would be to edit the previous code to:
#mainnav .sub-menu-columns .sub-menu ul li ul{
left:-400px;
}
In addition, adding border-left doesnt bring any border up.
Here is how it looks like:
And this is how it should look like:
My current custom CSS script for the menu (with double colums, moving to the left and the Bootstrap Arrow-up back to the righ which is the ::before):
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu{
display:inline-block;
width:500px !important;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu li{
width:50% !important;
}
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu li a:hover{
color:#FFFFFF;
}
.sub-menu-columns .sub-menu li:nth-child(even){
float:right;
}
#mainnav ul li a{
border-left:2px;
border-color: #404040;
}
#mainnav ul li ul{
left:-400px;
border-left:2px;
border-color: #404040;
}
#mainnav ul li ul::before{
left:450px;
}
However that is not working.
Any ideas maybe? Since I've heard many people use lately jsFiddle for helping out, I'm not sure if I've done it right, but this is what I could provide for you: https://jsfiddle.net/mve1wdfd/
Website: https://xs-sol.com/
Thank you for your help!
Update: I think the main issue is that I'm unable to combine the id=mainnav with other classes and ul's, il's a:hover's and so on.
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; }
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
Have a look at http://www.habitatlandscape.co.uk/
In Firefox and even Internet Explorer (!!!) the pop-up menus appear perfectly, vertically centered in the white strip, and always starting on the far-left-hand-side.
In Chrome, the menus start horizontally under the parent li, and are not centered vertically. I can fix the vertical alignment by targetting webkit with a different position, but I can't fix the horizontal alignment.
Why is Webkit ignoring position:absolute;left:0;?
CSS:
#header #menu
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#header #menu ul
{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
margin-top:28px;
height:24px;
}
#header #menu ul li
{
display:inline;
position:relative;
}
#header #menu ul li a
{
display:block;
float:left;
padding:7px;
padding-bottom:3px;
background:#fff;
margin-right:5px;
text-decoration:none;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
border-top-left-radius: 5px;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;
font-family:'museo', serif;
font-size:12px;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#fff;
font-weight:bold;
padding-left:12px;
padding-right:12px;
background:#01973D;
position:relative;
z-index:2;
}
#header #menu ul li:hover a
{
background:#00BB4A;
}
#header #menu ul li ul
{
clear:both;
display:none;
position:absolute;
top:39px;
width:700px;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#header #menu ul li ul li
{
display:block;
}
#header #menu ul li ul li a
{
background:#fff !important;
color:#000;
font-weight:normal;
padding:7px;
padding-left:11px;
color:#01973D;
padding-top:10px;
margin:0;
float:left;
}
#header #menu ul li ul li a:hover
{
color:#000;
}
#header #menu ul li:hover ul
{
display:block;
}
HTML (CMS-generated):
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="parent"><a class="parent" href="http://www.habitatlandscape.co.uk/about-us/"><span>About Us</span></a>
<ul>
<li><span>Company History</span></li>
<li><span>Meet The Team</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent"><a class="menuactive parent" href="http://www.habitatlandscape.co.uk/portfolio/"><span>Portfolio</span></a>
<ul>
<li><span>View before, during and after photos from recent projects</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent"><a class="parent" href="http://www.habitatlandscape.co.uk/services/"><span>Services</span></a>
<ul>
<li><span>Design</span></li>
<li><span>Patios</span></li>
<li><span>Decking</span></li>
<li><span>Turf</span></li>
<li><span>Ponds</span></li>
<li><span>Driveways</span></li>
<li><span>Fencing</span></li>
<li><span>Electrics</span></li>
<li><span>Structures</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
// etc
</div>
You've created a mess by display:inline-ing your <li> elements but display:block-ing your <a> elements.
In HTML, it's invalid to nest a block-level element in an inline element:
<span><div>FAIL</div></span>
When you do something like this, you're going to have cross-browser problems. The same goes if you use CSS to change the display property:
<div style="diplay:inline"><span style="display:block">STILL A FAIL</span></div>
Which is what you've done:
#header #menu ul li {
display: inline;
/* ... */
}
#header #menu ul li a {
display:block;
/* ... */
}
That behavior is more or less undefined as far as the specs are concerned (since it makes no sense) so the browser reserves the right to do something insane or ridiculous - which is what you're seeing. It works in Firefox only because you're getting lucky and it works in Internet Explorer because Internet Explorer is inherently insane and ridiculous.
If you want those <li> elements to stack horizontally, float:left them instead of inlining them. Then you can display:block your <a> element without issue. Once that's done you'll still have to switch up which elements are position:relative;-ed, and probably add a left:0 somewhere.
Here's an example of your current issue on jsfiddle, and here's an example of my suggested fix on jsfiddle, which involves positioning the #header #menu ul element relatively instead of the #header #menu ul li.
When I gave the #header #menu ul li a display:inline-block; it fixed it. It also changed the result of the hidden ul's top positioning, which should be 24px to match the height if the button anyways, right?
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