What I want to do is break up the inline-block <li>s. The code is generated and I have no access to it before it is written to the page. Because the <li> elements have no white space between them, they are not split and won't justify across the page.
I don't mind if the solution is CSS or Javascript based.
I have tried various things in CSS 'content:' and 'after:'.
Please see this fiddle for a demo of the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/2L56N/5/
Edit: The result should like the top example. However, the generated code is like in the bottom example (no space between the tags, causing the inline-block to become one). Drag the width over so only 2 images show to see the justify effect I am looking for.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, you can simply add margins to the li elements like so:
ul li {
display: inline-block;
margin:5px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/B7cL9/
You can use display:flex; with justify-content:space-between; to simulate your text-align:justify when white space are missing in between your inline boxes this will only work for younger browsers
:
ul {
display:flex;
justify-content:space-between;
text-align: justify;/* your code */
}
ul li {
display: inline-block;/* your code */
}
DEMO
Related
Is there any reason to use float:left instead of float:none in a list that I want to just have displayed normally? I ask because when I do float:left, the entire left nudges up a bit too much:
If I do float:none, it looks fine:
I'm curious if there is any other gotcha in using it though.
EDIT: Sorry, I've included an example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/remkrupe/
Note: if I change ul to be display:inline instead of inline-block, it also behaves the way I want (but this interferes with something else in my code). But the example above you'll see the elements in the "what_i_want" class all lined up next to each other, while the other ones "jump up" (while still lined up with respect to each other).
you can leave ul elements as display:block you just need to pay attention to resetting padding and margin property
.want
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
display:block
}
.want>ul, .want li{
margin:0; margin:0;
}
.want ul li{
float:left;
}
fiddle (in the fiddle check for want class)
Is there a way to print target page numbers with hyperlinks which linked to various places within the same document?
<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<ul>
<li>Introduction</li>
</ul>
...
<section id="introduction"> <!-- Appears, for example, on page 3 when printed -->
<h1>Introduction</h1>
...
</section>
So that the output is like:
Table of Contents (page 0)
Introduction.........................3
...
Introduction (page 3)
I only need this to work with the Google Chrome browser when printing to PDF (on OS X).
Is there some CSS or JavaScript trickery which would allow me to achieve this?
It looks like this is part of a new working draft of the CSS specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css-gcpm-3-20140513/#cross-references
I doubt that there is any browser support yet...
I have no idea if this will work in a PDF or not, but to answer the question of how this can be done in CSS:
You can generate the numbers using counter-increment on a pseudo element in css:
note that I changed your <ul> to an <ol> as this is an ordered list, whether you use the list-style or not.
ol {
counter-reset: list-counter;
}
li:after {
counter-increment: list-counter;
content: counter(list-counter);
float: right;
}
Making the little dotted line in between the text and the number takes a little more work, but you can achieve that by adding in some extra span elements and using css display: table; and display: table-cell; to lay them out properly:
<ol>
<li><span>Test</span><span class="line"></span></li>
<li><span>Test2</span><span class="line"></span></li>
<li><span>Test3</span><span class="line"></span></li>
</ol>
li {
display: table;
}
li span, li:after {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
li span.line {
border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
width: 100%;
}
Setting the width to 100% on the span.line element, while not setting any width at all forces it to fill all of the remaining space (this is due to table-cell display elements not being allowed to break to new lines, and preventing overflow of content)
See full demo
It's not the cleanest approach to have to add the extra span elements, but it is a bit of a tricky task. Perhaps someone else will be able to take the time to think of a more efficient way to accomplish it? You could always just put an underline under the entire <li>, and skip the extra markup, at the cost of being a little less cool.
I have a css menu i'm working on. I'm trying to get the menu items inline, however, it they always display vertically instead. I've tried putting display:inline-block on all of the elements and it still doesn't want to go inline. Any suggestions? Code here: http://jsfiddle.net/3aShL/
<li>s are block-level items, so just because the <a> is, still means with every <li> you will get a new line.
http://jsfiddle.net/3aShL/1/
display: inline;
On the .nav-collapse_ .nav > li will fix it.
Just add this to css
li
{
display:inline;
}
display:inline; - By default, li elements are block elements. Here, we remove the line breaks before and after each list item, to display them on one line
Demo fiddle
This question already has answers here:
How to remove the space between inline/inline-block elements?
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How to you get rid of the white space between list items? I am trying to make it so that the images are right next to each other. Even though I have set the styling to margins: 0;, they are still separated.
CSS
ul.frames{
margin: 20px;
width: 410px;
height: 320px;
background-color: grey;
float: left;
list-style-type: none;
}
ul.frames li {
display:inline;
margin: 0;
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}
ul.frames li img {
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}
HTML
<li>
<img id="myImg" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
<li>
<img id="myImg2" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
<li>
<img id="myImg3" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
<li>
<img id="myImg4" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
Updated Sept. 1st, 2014
In modern browsers, flex-box is the preferred method of doing this. It's as simple as:
ul {
display: flex;
}
See a JSFiddle here.
For legacy browser support refer to the other options below, which are still just fine, albeit slightly more complex.
Though each of the other answers gives at least one good solution, none seem to provide all of the possibilities. And that's what I'll try to do here.
Firstly, to answer your implicit question of why there's spacing, it's there because you've set your LIs to display as inline elements.
inline is the default display value for text and images in all of the browsers that I know of. Inline elements are rendered with spacing between them whenever there's whitespace in your code. This is a good thing when it comes to text: these words that I've typed are spaced apart because of the space I've included in the code. And there's also space between each line. It's this very behavior of inline elements is what makes text on the web readable at all.
But sometimes we want non-text elements to be inline to take advantage of other properties of this display style. And this typically includes a desire for our elements to fit snugly together, quite unlike text. And that seems to be your problem here.
Without further ado, here are all the ways I know of to get rid of the spacing:
Keeping them inline
(Not recommended) Apply negative margin to the LIs to move them over.
li { margin: -4px; }
Note that you'll need to 'guess' the size of a space. This isn't recommended because, as Arthur excellently points out in the comments below, users can change the Zoom of their browser, which would more than likely mess up the rendering of your code. Further, this code requires too much guesswork and calculation. There are better solutions that work under all conditions.
Get rid of the whitespace
<li>One</li><li>Two</li>
Use comments to make the whitespace a comment JSFiddle
<li>One</li><!--
--><li>Two</li>
Skip the closing tag (HTML4 valid / HTML5 Valid) JSFiddle
<li>One
<li>Two
Put the whitespace in the tag itself (Note: Early Internet Explorers will not like this)
<li>One</li
><li>Two</li
>
Take advantage of the fact that the spacing between the elements is calculated as a percentage of the font size of the parent. Consequently, setting the parent's font size to 0 results in no space. Just remember to set a non-zero font-size on the li so that the text itself has a nonzero font size. View on JSFiddle.
Floating them
Float them instead. You'll probably want to clearfix the parent if you do this.
li { float: left; display: block; }
Incredible but no one here has provided the proper solution for this problem.
Just do this:
ul.frames {
font-size: 0;
}
ul.frames li {
font-size: 14px; font-size:1.4rem;
display: inline;
}
Keep in mind that we won't always have access to modify the markup. And trying to remove the spaces from the <li>s with JavaScript would be totally unnecessary when the solution is simply two font-size properties.
Also, floating the <li>s introduces another potential problem: You wouldn't be able center and right align the list items.
If you try to do float:right; on the <li>s then their order will be swapped, meaning: the first item in the list would be last, the second item is the one before the last, and so on.
Check out this other post here in SO: A Space between Inline-Block List Items
You should just remove all the spaces in the ul tags just like this: http://jsfiddle.net/dFRYL/3/
Since the <li> elements are inline, in you write spaces in or between them you will have spaces displayed.
The reason you get the spaces is because you have spaces between the elements (line break)
<ul>
<li>One</li><li>
Two</li><li>
Three</li>
</ul>
You can use negative margins like this:
margin-right: -4px;
margin-bottom: -4px;
Take a look here.
It also works up and down, I added another one to show that here.
Using display:inline; causes whitespace in your HTML to create whitespace when displaying the HTML.
There are two solutions to this:
1) Change how you make them appear inline, I would recommend using floats on all of the list items, then using a clearfix of sorts.
2) Remove all whitespace between your list items, e.g.
<li><img id="myImg" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li><li><img id="myImg2" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li><li><img id="myImg3" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li><li><img id="myImg4" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li>
Personally I would recommend option 1 (I hate display: inline)
here is my attempt at it. Hope it helps. As Sean Dunwoody mentioned, white space in your html can be a cause of the space, but I've floated the li and made the image to display:block;. Left comment on where I made changes. Hope it helps: http://jsfiddle.net/FJ3nV/
Here my small but main changes:
/*
* Added float left
*/
ul.frames li {
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
float:left;
}
/*
* Moved inline sizing here just to clear up obtrusive html.
* Added display block.
*/
ul.frames li img{width:102px; height:80px; display:block;}
I would change your li elements to inline-block.
One person did not recommend
li { margin: -4px; }
But making a slight change to it will cause it to work even when the font size changes or when the browser zooms in
li{ margin-right: -0.25em; }
That should fix that white space problem completely. However, if you are using a poorly designed font-face that doesn't follow correct letter-height standards then it may cause a problem. However those are harder to find and most of the fonts google hosts don't have that issue.
I'm working on a website for a small law office. In the side-menu, I'm trying to highlight the "current page". I have tried changing the background of the LI, but this doesn't quite do the trick; the list item doesn't spread to the full width of the menu, so it looks bad.
Here's a jsfiddle. I would like the yellow section to highlight like the pink section is highlighted: filling up the full vertical and horizontal space, not just highlighting the text.
Any suggestions on how to do this? I've included the style tag in the html just for example, obviously, and my real solution will be a little different when it's done. But I can't move forward until I figure out how to somehow highlight the entire line.
One little issue: you're mixing em and px units for layout. This makes it a lot harder when trying to make things line up.
I've implemented it using a .selected class that would be applied to the selected elements, and a special case for the elements which are sub-menu items:
.selected
{
display: block;
background-color: #FCFFEE;
width: 15.4em;
margin-left: -0.6em;
padding-left: 0.6em;
}
.subMenuItem.selected
{
display: block;
background-color: #FCFFEE;
width: 13.4em;
margin-left: -2.6em;
padding-left: 2.6em;
}
And a jsFiddle fork of your original with the changes: http://jsfiddle.net/CkKc7/2/.
Good luck.
Remove the padding-left from the ul. Also remove the width.
Add display: block to the <a> tags.
Add the removed padding-left back, but on the <a> tags instead.
http://jsfiddle.net/7fEYx/4/
<li class="menuItem">Contact</li>
Is that what you are trying to achieve?
You should apply your style to the LI parent of the A tag, or make the A tag element block-level. Also, consider using a class instead.