I am trying to have an UL on the right of a SPAN (http://jsfiddle.net/Shg9L/24/).
<div>
<span>Categories</span>
<ul>
<li>Book</li>
<li>Computer</li>
</ul>
</div>
When the window is resized down the LIs should get stacked but not under the SPAN.
The problem is when I resize the window some of the LI items on the right becomes hidden.
I think it is because of "white-space: nowrap" but without it I'm not able to make it work.
Can this be solved?
Display your unordered list as a block and hide the overflow. It will then take up all the available width. The list items will stack neatly in line with the edge of the unordered list when there isn't enough room:
div ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
display: block;
overflow:hidden;
}
The white-space:nowrap on your container <div> isn't needed as far as I can see. You can remove it.
JSFiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/Shg9L/29/
removed a coupple of things and added position:absolute; and inline:display-block to some elements
div {background-color:orange;}
div span {
background-color: #E0E0E0;
margin-right: 8px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
padding: 8px;
}
div ul {
position:absolute;
top:0px;left:100px;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
div ul li {
background-color: #F0F0F0;
margin-right: 8px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
padding: 8px;
display:inline-block;
}
Related
I have following CSS code:
nav li {
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
nav li a {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
nav li :hover {
background-color: var(--main-color);
color: white;
}
Which makes elements in my navbar look like this:
But there's actually 4 items, not 6. I'll add some padding in <li>:
But when I hover over the first item, I have this ugly white space from both sides of it. Margin does exactly the same thing. Let's remove margin/padding and set <li> width manually to 120px:
First two items are now formatted somehow acceptably, but items a and b take visually far too much space than necessary. What I aim for would be something like this (made in image editor):
In other words, I'd like my <li> elements to have their width adjusted to their content with extra padding, while child <a> elements still take up 100% of <li> space. Any ideas?
Edit
I've updated updated the JSFiddle that you've posted.
You need to change your a element to not have display:block (should be inline instead). Also, you don't need to specify width and height of 100%. Just make your padding: 15px for the a, and you'll have equal, well-spaced hover padding.
I adapted your code above and put it into a codepen, see here:
http://codepen.io/himmel/pen/BNJZoL
Here is how I changed your CSS:
nav li {
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
nav li a {
padding-left: 15px; ** add padding to both sides
padding-right: 15px;
display: inline;
}
nav li :hover {
background-color: brown;
color: white;
}
Try using table layout
body {margin:0}
nav ul {
padding:0;
margin:0;
width: 100%;
display: table;
}
nav li {
display: table-cell;
text-align: center;
}
nav li a {
background: #fafafa;
display: block;
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 10px;/*or whatever*/
}
nav li :hover {
background-color: brown;
color: white;
}
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Item</li>
<li>Very long item</li>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
</ul>
</nav>
I have a horizontal menu that is made up of a series of ul's and li's. The submenus look great so I don't need to do anything with those. The primary ul looks great until you hover over the far right li.
When doing that, it looks good in Safari but the hover comes about 2 pixels short of the background on the ul in Firefox and IE and even more in Chrome. I have tried adjusting the padding to make it look good in Firefox and IE but then you still have the same issue in Chrome and in Safari, that far right li breaks down to a new line. Of course, adjusting it to look good in Chrome makes all the other browsers break to a new line. This site is using Wordpress which creates the menu dynamically so I can only change the CSS. Here is the basic idea for the code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#header {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 980px;
}
ul li {
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 21px;
}
#header .main-nav #menu-main-navigation {
background: #169BAC;
width: 100%
}
#header .main-nav > div ul {
width: 100%;
list-style: none;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
#header .main-nav > div ul li ul{
top: 43px;
}
#header .main-nav .menu-div>ul>li {
padding: 5px 14px;
float: left;
border-right: solid 1px #54AEC2;
}
#header .main-nav .menu-div ul li:hover {
background: #2A588D;
}
#header .main-nav .menu-div>ul>li:first-child {
padding-top: 9px;
height: 28px;
}
#header .main-nav .menu-div>ul>li:last-child {
padding: 5px 26px;
border-right: none;
}
#header .main-nav .menu-div>ul>li a{
line-height: 15px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFF;
padding: 0px 13px;
text-align: center;
display: inline-block;
}
</style>
<head>
<body>
<header id="header">
<nav class="main-nav">
<div class="menu-div">
<ul id="menu-main-navigation" class="menu">
<li id="menu-item-275">Home</li>
<li id="menu-item-310">For New<br />Patients</li>
<li id="menu-item-376">Cleanings &<br />Prevention</li>
<li id="menu-item-381">General<br />Dentistry</li>
<li id="menu-item-453">Restore Your<br />Smile</li>
<li id="menu-item-462">Dental Anxiety &<br />Sedation Options</li>
<li id="menu-item-463">Dentistry For<br />Kids</li>
<li id="menu-item-464">Insurance &<br />Payment Options</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
</header>
</body>
You can see the site at http://riverbend.caswellwebcreations.com.
Thank you for any help that you can give me on this.
The width of the li elements is being defined by their padding and the font-size (and padding) of the a elements inside them. The font propertys are not uniform between browsers, some browsers put text bigger or smaller than others. That seems to be the problem.
If you want to stretch the li elements "cross-browser" you should define the width of the li elements via css like this:
#menu-item-275{
width: 64px;
}
#menu-item-310{
width: 77px;
}
#menu-item-376{
width: 96px;
}
#menu-item-381{
width: 82px;
}
#menu-item-453{
width: 104px;
}
#menu-item-462{
width: 131px;
}
#menu-item-463{
width: 105px;
}
#menu-item-464{
width: 132px;
}
If you sum the width of each li item (plus padding and border) you get the width of the menu container: 980px. And the browsers will take that width to render the li's.
I hope this works!
UPDATE
Just found another (and more easy) solution!: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14361778/3762078
#header .main-nav .menu-div>ul>li:last-child {
padding: 5px 20px;
border-right: none;
float: none; /* ADD THIS */
overflow: hidden; /* AND THIS */
}
'float: none'. Forces last li element to be as wide as it can (the
default block element's behavior).
'overflow: hidden'. Prevents the last li element to stretch to ul's full width.
Although this doesn't prevent the width changes to all li elements on every browser, hence making the last li's width be thinner or wider (and sometimes expanding that li's height), is a nice solution.
I'm trying to make a banner on my webpage, the part on the top that is 700px wide and 80px high.
Code looks like:
<div class="container-narrow" style="heigth: 80px;">
<img src="#" width="52" height="52" alt="my logo" />
<ul>
<li>About</li>
<li>Projects</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
Css:
.container-narrow
{
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 700px;
background: yellow;
}
ul
{
float: right;
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
a
{
float: right;
width: 6em;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
}
a:hover {color: #ccc; text-decoration: none;}
li {display: inline;}
What I want is the image and the horizontal menu to be vertically aligned in the center of the 80px. the logo to the left and the menu to the right.
I've tried to set the height and then padd/margin my way to get the job done but it feels rubbish...
Problem:
ul has a width:100%; if you give it a black border you will see that its occupying the width of the page, means it has no space to reside on the left of the logo inside the yellow header.
Removing this width will give the following result: http://jsfiddle.net/YBVe6/
Now since the header has a fixed max width, which is 700px, there's many ways to center the logo and the menu.
Fastest way I can think of is the following:
Give ul a display: inline-block;, (remove float: right;) then give the header a text-align: center;, here's the result : http://jsfiddle.net/YBVe6/1/
And if you want the menu to be displayed in the upper part, just add vertical-align: top;.
To start of, it's a good practice if you have an external CSS, don't put additional CSS in your HTML blocks:
<div class="container-narrow">
and put the height style in your css sheet, as you have a class setup for your div there anyway.
Second, making typo's is a pain if you want your CSS to work properly, so instead of heigth you should use height, will make you div actually 80px high.
Third of all: margins are there the position elements. Use them!
.container-narrow
{
height: 80px;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 700px;
background: yellow;
}
img
{
margin-top:14px;
}
ul
{
float: right;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
margin-top:25px;
}
a
{
width: 6em;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
}
a:hover {color: #ccc; text-decoration: none;}
li {display: inline;}
Edit
This is mostly applicable for vertical alignment. If you want to auto-center horizontally, you can make use of the margin:auto concept. This is possible because a page can't extend beyond the browser width (browser height can extend as you have scrolling available as default behavior).
Before I explain...
This is the HTML part:
<div class="HeadingTabs">
<ul>
<li>Google</li>
</ul>
<div class="TitleTab">This is some very very long title. This is some very very long title. This is a very long title.</div>
</div>
This is the CSS part:
.HeadingTabs {
display: block;
padding: 8px 8px 8px 2px;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
background: transparent;
}
.HeadingTabs ul {
display: inline;
margin: 0 0 0 10px;
float: right;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 8px;
}
.HeadingTabs li {
display: inline;
margin: 0;
}
.TitleTab {
margin: 0;
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 10px;
line-height: 2.6;
white-space: nowrap;
/* I haven't included the styling info like
borders and background to avoid unnecessary
distractions in code. */
}
Now... as you can see, the ul element is floating right and is absolutely positioned to the bottom-right of the parent div. This is what I meant, when I said 'an absolutely positioned, floating element.'
Dispite the giving it a margin, I am unable to prevent the title (<div class="TitleTab"> element) from protruding into it. The image below should make it clear.
What am I missing?
Points of note:
I cannot modify the HTML. My only go is CSS.
I want the title to wrap around the ul element. So, I can't use width.
I am using position: absolute; because I want the ul element to stay at the bottom of the div right above the content div (just cut-off in the image).
PS: I am not very proficient with CSS.
The absolute:position function is designed to be protruded into.
you should try floating the elements instead without the absolute:position
.HeadingTabs ul {
margin:10px;
float: right;
}
.TitleTab {
float:left;
margin: 0;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 10px;
line-height: 2.6;
white-space: nowrap; // you need to remove no wrap, so it wraps instead of cuts off
}
I have a nested unordered list which has main content on the left, and I would like to add options which are floated right, such that they are aligned on the right regardless of the level of indentation.
<ul>
<li> Item 1 <span class='options'> link </span> </li>
<li> Item 2 <span class='options'> link </span>
<ul>
<li>Item 3 <span class='options'> link </span> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
I have the following css:
ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
li {
padding-left: 15px;
width: 400px;
}
.options {
float: right;
width: 50px;
}
When this is used however the options span is aligned to the right, but 1 line below the expected line.
How can I get the options span to line up with the list item?
TIA,
Adam
Instead of floating, you may want to try absolute positioning.
ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
li {
padding-left: 15px;
width: 400px;
position: relative;
}
.options {
width: 50px;
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
}
Using this CSS:
ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
li {
padding-left: 15px;
width:400px;
}
.options {
float: right;
width: 50px;
}
li li { width:385px}
This unfortunately requires your to define a width minus the padding. depending on your flexibility this will work. Tested in Chrome 3.0.
If modifying the HTML code is OK, you could enclose "Item 1" in a first span and:
float it to left (still floating .options to the right)
use display: inline-block on both span and text-align: right on .options, instead of floats (no compatible with Fx2 though, and only working in IE6/7 because span is an inline elements by default. Would not work with div)