Shop Stages & CSS - html

I am working on my online shop, and I want to add stages, like in the picture below:
My problem is getting one of the stages to be highlighted, depending on the page it should be shown on. I had a standard div and ul in my HTML:
<div id='stages'>
<ul>
<li class='selected'>Cart</li>
<li>Your Details</li>
<li>Summary</li>
<li>Payment</li>
<li>Complete</li>
</ul>
</div>
And my CSS (so far):
div#stages {
position: relative;
display: block;
height: 40px;
text-align: center;
}
#stages > ul > li:first-child {
border-top-left-radius: 3px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
}
#stages > ul > li {
text-align: center;
width: 110px;
height: 40px;
line-height: 40px;
display: inline-block;
background: #DDD url(/img/bin/bg-steps.png) no-repeat top right;
margin: -3px;
text-indent: -15px;
}
#stages > ul > li.selected {
background: #306bb4 url(/img/bin/bg-steps.png) no-repeat bottom right;
}
#stages > ul > li:last-child {
background: #DDD!important;
padding-right: 0;
border-top-right-radius: 3px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
}
Originally using the image 'bg-steps.png':
Which looks nice. However to get an item selected is proving to be too hard, because it needs a different image at the begining of the LI and at the end. Can anyone help/simplify this for me? See here for a JSFiddle.
EDIT: This is my aim:

Try this one: jsFiddle
Here I added some pseudo classes :before and :after
In here you do not need your pictures in the background and it is made in PURE css and html

With CSS3, you don't need to use images.
It can be achieve using a pure CSS solution with pseudo classes :before and :after.
You can use it to generate triangles before and after each li element.
You can find a full working example in this JSFiddle.
I have used a similar trick in one of my project, and it's well supported in FF, Chrome and IE10. For other browsers, you need to check yourself because I don't test them.

Related

Cant Center my li within my ul In sidebar

i'm pretty new to css and html and trying to make a site to work on improving and learning. I've been searching and cant figure out how to fix my menu in the sidebar, to me it looks like the li's in the ul are floating to the right for some reason, heres my code:
also Jsfiddle Link:
https://jsfiddle.net/h2bpxcxe/
#side-bar #recents {
width: auto;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
}
#recents h3 {
text-align: center;
padding-top: 4px;
}
#recents ul {
margin-top: -10px;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
}
#recents ul li {
padding: 2% 0px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
background: grey;
Thanks if somone can help! :)
UL-elements have a padding-left by default.
You need to reset this padding which will center your li-elements in your sidebar.
#recents ul {
margin-top: -10px;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
padding-left:0px; //Adding this will center your LI's
}
FIDDLE
a tip for when dealing with issues like this. Look at the element in your browsers developer tools. Padding and Margin will always be shown clearly there.
I feel there is also an issue with the positioning of the sidebar's list/ul element.
If you apply:
#recents ul {
position:absolute;
}
to your CSS, it will preclude the list element from overflowing the parent, which is the case with your current code. Here's a jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/46t4f5zs/
just do like this
<div id="recents">
<ul><h3>Recent Posts</h3>
<li>Recent One
</li>
<li>Recent Two
</li>
<li>Recent Three
</li>
<li>Recent Four
</li>
</ul>
</div>

Better way to achieve sprite image for list

I'm not happy with my code which uses a sprite image to show different images for each item in a list. The code can be seen here:
http://jsfiddle.net/spadez/JBuE6/45/
Before it was possible to click anywhere along the width of the column and it would select the list item because I used display: block.
However, because my sprite requires:
width: 0px;
It means I have to click on the actual list text in order to select it. Removing the width: 0px from the class .nav li achieves the affect I want. Can anyone show me how to do this, with some clean efficient code.
I'd take advantadge of CSS pseudo-elements, like ::before. You can do it in this way:
http://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/JBuE6/53/
HTML:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>
User
</li>
...
CSS:
nav a {
color: gray;
display: block;
line-height: 26x;
width: 100%;
}
nav li a::before {
display: inline-block;
content: "";
background:url('http://www.otlayi.com/web_images/content/free-doc-type-sprite-icons.jpg');
height: 20px;
width: 20px;
}
#user::before {
background-position: -10px -6px;
}
OLD ANSWER [alternative]:
I would change the padding left and the sprite to the <a>, so that you can click them also.
.nav li {
}
.nav li a {
color: gray;
display: block;
line-height: 26x;
padding-left: 30px;
background:url('http://www.otlayi.com/web_images/content/free-doc-type-sprite-icons.jpg');
height: 20px;
width: 0px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/JBuE6/50/
You should be putting your images on the links, not the list. Use display:block and padding-left: to provide enough room. In general, put all non-positional styling on the A-tag, not the LI.
Other than that, you are doing it the right way.

How to correctly display image in a <li> element?

Ok this is simple thing. I firstly created a usual "Home" Button linking to the Home Page of the website, but the word "Home" looked too obvious. Hence I tried to insert an icon in place of that word, but its not fitting properly. I have tried some things in my css but its messing up the whole (used to create the navigation menu). The screenshot is attached. Please if someone can see whats wrong.
CSS:-
ul#menu
{
padding: 0px;
position: relative;
margin: 0;
}
ul#menu li
{
display: inline;
text-decoration:solid;
}
ul#menu li a
{
color: black;
background-color: #f5b45a;
padding: 10px 20px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 2.8em;
/*CSS3 properties*/
border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
}
HTML:-
<ul id="menu">
<li id="Home_Link"><img src="../../Image_Data/Home_Icon.ico" id="Home_Icon"/></li>
<li>MEN</li>
<li>WOMEN</li>
<li>KIDS</li>
<li>DESIGN!!</li>
With your current styles you will need to play around with the vertical-alignment and margins for the image, something like:
ul#menu li#Home_Link a img {
vertical-align: text-bottom;
margin-bottom: -5px;
}
As a side note, your use of ID's for elements is not recommended - use classes if needed. And reduce the specificity of your style declarations, e.g. .home-link img

CSS rollover navigation

I haven't really ever done a background navigation rollover, I usually just change the colour of the text once it's been rolled over. However I'm try to do this now but can't seem to get it right.
I'm trying to do it all with CSS as I believe there is a way however I do see a lot of others using sprites and image rollovers. Which way is the best? I might end up having a lot of images on my website so I'm trying to stay away from them so I myself, am thinking strictly CSS. There is a way right?
This is my website
CSS
#main-navigation { width: 100%; height: 100px; background: url(../img/NAV-BG.jpg) top center no-repeat; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 90px; /*border: 1px solid #000;*/ }
#main-navigation ul { width: 860px; list-style: none; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;}
#main-navigation li { float: left ;margin-left: 30px; }
#main-navigation li a { display: block; text-decoration: none; color: #000; }
#main-navigation li a:hover { color: #c7bd89; background-color: #900; width: 120%; height: 30px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; margin: 0 auto; margin-top: 20px;}
HTML
<nav id="main-navigation">
<ul id="main-nav-left">
<li class="current">Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Current Season</li>
<li>Past Seasons</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Partners/Sponsors</li>
</ul>
</nav>
But I want it to look like this
What am I missing?
Use this
#main-navigation li a:hover {
color: #c7bd89;
background-color: #900;
width: 120%;
line-height: 30px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-top: 30px;
}
All the problem is that you're defining a height ... You should define a line-height instead and it will work flawlessly ... But I still can find a space for improvement in terms of padding and margin.
see the fiddle for code and demo
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/quR4E/3/
demo: http://jsfiddle.net/quR4E/3/embedded/result/
screen shot:
Try changing your #main-navigation li a to this:
#main-navigation li a {
/*display: block;*/
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
padding: 5px;
}
Using display block was pushing the text outside the box. Adding the padding will give you some spacing around the text.
Sprites are definitely better than using multiple images but in the end they are essentially going to be the same thing. If you can create your images small enough (for bandwidth performance) it won't affect your site that much. Sprites are nice to group images. Using background colors and borders around text is also a very efficient way to go.
Have a look at what I did here: http://torontobanfffilmfest.com/splash
Each of the eight blocks has a single image in two versions, one light and one dark, attached side-by-side. In the top-left corner, for example, is an image, splash_buy_tickets_m.png, that is 582 pixels wide. But the space in which it's displayed is 291 pixels wide. We only see half the full image, and WHICH half depends on :hover.
The CSS that makes the image change on rollover is pretty simple:
#b1:hover, #b2:hover, #b3:hover, #b4:hover, #b5:hover, etc. {
background-position: -291px 0;
}
If each of the buttons in your button bar consists of an "active" and an "inactive" version, then you can just change the image position within the DIV in which it's shown, shifting horizontally or vertically.

Cross-browser padding/margins

I was wondering if you could give me some helpful hints on how to correct this issue? I have a main menu on my site, the code for it is as follows:
li:hover {
background-color: #222222;
padding-top: 8px;
padding-bottom: 9px;
}
And here's a demo of what it actually looks like:
The problem is that when I hover over a menu option (li), the background appears, but it overflows to the outside of the menu's background, and makes it look really dodgy/crap/cheap/yuck!
Note that (obviously) when I change the padding to make it display correctly in these browsers, it appears too small in height in IE! So I'm screwed either way. How can I make little imperfections like this look the same in all browsers?
Update:
HTML (The menu):
<ul class="menu">
<li class="currentPage" href="index.php"><a>Home</a></li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Support</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
<li>My Account</li>
</ul>
The CSS:
.menu {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-right: 5px;
width: 345px;
float: right;
}
li {
font-size: 9pt;
color: whitesmoke;
padding-left: 6px;
padding-right: 8px;
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}
li:hover {
background-color: #222222;
padding-top: 8px;
padding-bottom: 9px;
}
You might prevent problems by not changing the padding based on the hover. Furthermore you should hover on the a
Does this work as expected?
JSFiddle example
Your problems are probably due to your use of display: inline. Try setting explicit height on the ul. Doing this with your example worked for me:
ul {
border-bottom: 2px solid black;
height: 28px;
}
I added the border to be able to see where I was aligning to.
BTW, the proper solution is to not use li:hover, but a:hover, as has been stated.