Question
I am trying to put every li at the bottom of the ul, making the bottom of every element (not the text, the actual block element of the ui, whether that's the image or the whole li of text) touching. This should be a simple problem with vertical-align:bottom and display:table-cell being the fix, but for some reason I haven't been able to get it to work. What is the best way to accomplish this?
Its likely there's a question that already answered this, but I've spent a lot of time searching. If there's one that applies, please just point me to it.
Example
Fiddle With It:
http://jsfiddle.net/rxg9m/
HTML
<head runat="server">
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="StyleSheet.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home
</li>
<li>Product
</li>
<li><img src="logo.png" alt="Javid Logo"/>
</li>
<li>Contact
</li>
<li>Info
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS
* {
font-family:Calibri;
}
#outer {
text-align:center;
}
#inner {
display:inline-block;
}
nav ul {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
bottom:0;
list-style:none;
}
nav li {
float:left;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:bottom;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
nav li a {
padding:16px 8px 16px 8px;
margin:0px;
width:120px;
display:block;
background-color:lightblue;
text-decoration:none;
text-emphasis:none;
color:black;
border:0px none black;
border-bottom:1px solid black;
}
nav li a.left {
text-align:left;
}
nav li a.right {
text-align:right;
}
#logo {
padding:0px;
width:auto;
height:auto;
line-height:0px;
border:0px none black;
}
Fiddle Here: http://jsfiddle.net/SinisterSystems/rxg9m/2/
nav li a {
padding:32px 8px 0px 8px;
You are setting a padding on the bottom. You should counteract that and double your padding on top and set your padding-bottom to 0.
Because you had padding applied, it WAS on the bottom technically. The only problem is it also expanded all the way to the top.
Edit: http://jsfiddle.net/SinisterSystems/rxg9m/4/
Aligning WITHIN the ul is very tricky, and your best bet would be to just align the ul inside of a wrapper of sorts. That way, you can use position:relative; on the wrapper and absolutely position your ul to the bottom. And yeah, style from there.
Basic Example:
<div class="wrapper">
<ul>
<li>Hello</li>
<li>Hello</li>
<li>Hello</li>
<li>Hello</li>
</ul>
</div>
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.wrapper {
height:200px;
background:#CCC;
position:relative;
}
ul {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
}
ul li {
list-style:none;
float:left;
display:inline-block;
min-width:25%;
text-align:center;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/rxg9m/1/
Your issue was with this
nav li a {
padding:16px 8px 16px 8px;
change it to
nav li a {
padding:16px 8px 0px 8px;
also, if you want the height to be the same, you can just do 32px instead of 16px for the first padding value, like Nicholas did in his answer.
Simply remove the float:left from nav li. Everything else is in order.
Fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/mXTG6/
Related
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´m trying to put a border-bottom to my ul li a menu element that appears when menu item is clicked.
I already have this effect working, but my border-bottom appears a bit down and its like behind my nav menu.
Can someone give me a little help understanding what is happening?
My Html:
<nav id="menu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contacts</li>
</ul>
</nav>
My CSS:
#menu
{
width:960px;
height:auto;
margin:0 auto 0 auto;
background:green;
}
#menu ul
{
list-style-type:none;
}
#menu ul li
{
height:46px;
line-height:46px;
font-family:'arial';
font-weight:300;
display:inline-block;
position:relative;
}
#menu ul li a
{
text-decoration:none;
color:#ccc;
display:block;
margin-right:5px;
height:46px;
line-height:46px;
padding:0 5px 0 5px;
font-size:20px;
}
// this boder is behind the menu!
#menu ul li.active a
{
color:#fff;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
}
My jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/mibb/Y4HKF/
It's because you set the display:block for your a, so the border will be around the box (which has height set to 46px). Looks like you explicitly set padding-bottom to 0 and then it still should work (the bottom border should be close to the link text?) but not really, because you also set the line-height to be equal to the height (both are 46px), so the text is centered vertically and give a space between the baseline and the border-bottom.
To solve this problem, simply remove the line display: block; in your css for the a tag. You don't need that at all, removing will solve your problem:
#menu ul li a {
text-decoration:none;
color:#ccc;
margin-right:5px;
height:46px;
line-height:46px;
padding:0 5px 0 5px;
font-size:20px;
}
Just add the box-sizing:
#menu ul li.active a {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
you set the border to an anchor. an anchor will just take the space of whatever element its in/around,
so setting border to an anchor is like setting it to the <li> itself.
you should wrap your text in the anchor with a span, that takes the space of the text and set the border to the span.
here is an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/TheBanana/Y4HKF/5/
I'm not sure your JSFiddle represents your problem accurately, but I'll suggest a solution based on that anyway.
Your JSFiddle example doesn't show a border on "li.active a" at all (if you remove the green background on the ul element, you'll see that there is no border present.) The reason, at least in the JSFiddle example, is that the comment "// this boder is behind the menu!" was not recognized as a CSS comment, thus preventing the code following it from working. I actually could swear I've seen this work fine in some environments, but it definitely wasn't working in this case.
See this thread on Stack Overflow: Is it bad practice to comment out single lines of CSS with //?
Besides that, your code seems to work just fine (I assume your JavaScript works, so I added class="active" to one of your li tags.)
In the following code, the black border is showing just below the bottom of the ul. If you want to change where it shows up, you should only have to change the height of the a element.
The HTML:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<nav id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="active">Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contacts</li>
</ul>
</nav>
The CSS:
#menu
{
width:960px;
height:auto;
margin:0 auto 0 auto;
background:green;
}
#menu ul
{
list-style-type:none;
}
#menu ul li
{
height:46px;
line-height:46px;
font-family:'arial';
font-weight:300;
display:inline-block;
position:relative;
}
#menu ul li a
{
text-decoration:none;
color:#ccc;
display:block;
margin-right:5px;
height:46px;
line-height:46px;
padding:0 5px 0 5px;
font-size:20px;
}
/* this boder is behind the menu! */
#menu ul li.active a
{
color:#fff;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
}
The JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/mibb/Y4HKF/
My final goal is to create what you see in image B. Note: the menu bar must be centered on the page. I did create B by setting the vertical-align on the image to middle. However, as a result of doing this my dropdown menu is slightly separated from the main header. Therefore, i cannot select the sub-menu items when i move my mouse cursor down. Any ideas on making this work ? Thanks Jillian
<style>
#nav{
border:1px solid #ccc;
border-width:1px 0;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
}
#nav li{
position:relative;
display:inline;
}
#nav a{
display:inline-block;
padding:10px;
}
#nav ul{
position:absolute;
/*top:100%; Uncommenting this makes the dropdowns work in IE7 but looks a little worse in all other browsers. Your call. */
left:-9999px;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:left;
}
#nav ul li{
display:block;
}
#nav li:hover ul{
left:0;
}
#nav li:hover a{
text-decoration:underline;
background:#f1f1f1;
}
#nav li:hover ul a{
text-decoration:none;
background:none;
}
#nav li:hover ul a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
background:#f1f1f1;
}
#nav ul a{
white-space:nowrap;
display:block;
border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
}
a{
color:#c00;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
}
a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
background:#f1f1f1;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="nav">
<li>Item one</li>
<li>Item two
<ul>
<li>Sub1</li>
<li>Sub2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="double-line">
<img style="vertical-align:middle" src="img/logo_large.png" alt="logo" /></li>
<li>The Fourth</li>
<li>Last</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
You do something like,
#nav ul{
background:url('img/logo_large.png') no-repeat center center;
/* more CSS here */
}
unless you have to use it as a link. Then consider position:absolute; for the image with #nav ul being position:relative;, and use a floating layout for the other links with a z-index to overlap where they should hang over.
You can just offset the submenu up to cover the logo height.
Here is a JSfiddle using the google logo and altering the submenu style by adding this:
#nav ul {
top: 20px;
}
Try to insert in CSS line-height: X px; (for example, parent div height) in each menu title (Item one, Item two, The Fourth, etc.)
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>
Hey,
Is there a way to get browsers to ignore line breaks in the source?
<div id="navbar">
<div id="navbar-container">
<ul>
<li>HOME</li>
<li>TUTORIALS</li>
<li>BLOG</li>
<li>FORUMS</li>
<li>LINKS</li>
<li> </li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
#navbar {
background:#FFF;
width:940px;
margin:auto;
border-radius: 10px 10px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #888;
}
#navbar-container {
margin:auto;
}
#navbar-container ul {
list-style:none;
text-align:center;
display:block;
width:auto;
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
#navbar-container li{
list-style:none;
border-left:3px solid black;
display:inline-block;
font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;
font-size:2em;
padding:0 7px 0 10px;
margin:0;
white-space:nowrap;
}
#navbar-container li:hover{
color:#FFF;
background:#000;
border-left:3px solid black;
display:inline-block;
font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;
font-size:2em;
margin:0;
padding:0 7px 0 10px;
}
It's placing a small space between each LI, I've set it up so then line up horizontally,
i could just remove the line breaks in the source, but id prefer not to.
You can float them (either left or right), or you can comment-out the spaces:
<ul>
<li>...</li><!--
--><li>...</li>
</ul>
Or simply leave the tags open 'til the next line.
<ul>
<li>...</li
><li>...</li
><li>...</li>
</ul>
IE seems to do that as a hold-over from the days when list items did not have closing tags. A common way around that is to put the closing > on the next line, i.e.
<ul>
<li>HOME</li
><li>TUTORIALS</li
><li>BLOG</li
>etc...
All browsers should totally ignore whitespace. Is there a particular browser giving you trouble?
Try:
li { margin: 0; padding: 0 }
I was wondering the same thing and what worked for me was:
li { display: table-cell; }
All breaks are ignored and now my menu buttons are right next to each other.
You can see a live example here on my music site: http://www.yanike.tk
I used a CSS Sprite on my UL LI for my navigation menu (home, media,...).