The title probably doesn't actually describe the issue properly. I want to create a menu for my website that is a vertical menu on the left side, and when you hover over an option with sub-options those sub-options pop out to the side (doesn't really matter at the moment). The issue I'm having is that when they pop out they push down all the other options, and I get this navigation bar that doesn't look good at all. If someone could help me fix this so I don't shove everything else out of the way even though they aren't overlapping, that would be appreciated.
The HTML I use.
<ul id="nav">
<li>Work</li>
<li>Imaging
<ul>
<li>Photoshop
<ul>
<li>Link</li>
<li>Link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Illustrator</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Home</li>
The CSS I use.
ul {
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
a {
display:block;
width:60px;
}
#nav ul {
display: none;
}
#nav li:hover > ul {
display: block;
position: relative;
float: left;
}
Thanks in advance if someone can help me with this.
that is because your document is having all the elements in a line and will always show them one after the other!
So my advice for you would be to just use
position: absolute;
This way you can align the elements over the document without interefering the current document style and element alignment!
For more: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position
I would position the ul inside your li absolute.
position:absolute;
When you do this the element will hover above the li-parent. When you try a little with positive and negative margin you will be able to put the hover element next to it parent.
It will be something like this:
#nav li:hover > ul {
display: block;
position: absolute;
float: left;
margin-left:60px;
}
Related
My website has a scaling problem on the chrome browser in android on mobile. This does not happen in Firefox on mobile or in any desktop browser. When the navbar is selected and drops down, it scales the webpage. Note that the page is scaled differently depending on which dropdown has been selected. It seems as though the navbar has invisible content that is breaking frame when the dropdown behavior is engaged.
I have stitched together 4 screenshots of the issue.
Help with either a fix or a workaround would be much appreciated.
#NavigationBarList{
list-style-type:none;
padding:0;
}
li{
font-size:130%;
}
nav a{
display:block;
}
/* This customizes the presentation of the list elements (menu items) in the navbar. */
nav li{
display:block;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:200%;
color:#7F1717;
background-color:#9E939E;
width:25%;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;
z-index:11;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 1px #000000;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 1px #000000;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 1px #000000;
}
nav ul{
width:100%;
}
/* Hide the sub menu items. */
nav ul ul {
display:none;
}
nav ul ul ul {
display:none
}
/* When hovered over, the CSS menu will drop down. */
nav li:hover > ul {
text-align:center;
font-size:40%;
display:block;
}
/* Don't underline links in the list elements (menu items). */
ul a {
text-decoration:none;
color:#7F1717;
}
/* Change the background color of hovered list elements. This was both active and hover... */
nav li:hover{
background-color:#625C62;
}
/* This customizes the ul elements in the sub-menu. */
nav ul ul{
position:absolute;
padding:0;
width:100%
}
nav ul ul ul{
position: absolute;
width:400%;
left:100%;
top:0;
}
#totheleft{
left:-100%;
}
nav ul ul ul li{
text-align:center;
font-size:250%;
}
/* I think this refers to the dropdown navbar location and properties. */
nav ul ul li {
position:relative;
}
<nav>
<ul id="NavigationBarList">
<li style="float:left;">Events
<ul>
<li>Tournaments</li>
<li>Kid's Hour</li>
<li>Local Calendar</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="float:left;">Programs
<ul>
<li>Summer Camps</li>
<li>In Schools
<ul>
<li>After School</li>
<li>Registration</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Local Instructors</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="float:left;">Content
<ul>
<li>Posts</li>
<li>Games
</ul>
</li>
</li>
<li style="float:left;">Connect
<ul>
<li>Contact Us</li>
<li>Resources
<ul id="totheleft">
<li>Chess</li>
<li>Go</li>
<li>Xiangqi</li>
<li>Shogi</li>
<li>Backgammon</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>About Us</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
Add this to the head section of all your pages.
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=0">
From the google developers site
Without a viewport, mobile devices will render the page at a typical desktop screen width, scaled to fit the screen.
So when you visit the webpage on mobile, the view is actually zoomed out to fit all your content. When you touch your navbar, the browser also tries to zoom in. Setting user-scalable=0 prevents this from happening.
The downside is your users will no longer be able to scale the zoom on the website on mobile, but the only alternative would be to rewrite your website to use a fluid layout.
Your <ul>s that contain the dropdown items have width=100%. This means the width will be 100% of the first relatively positioned parent (which in this case is the <body>). This is causing an overflow on the x axis.
You could make the <ul>s 25% width and the <li>s inside 100%, instead of what you have now where the <li>s are 25%.
Giving you
/* This customizes the ul elements in the sub-menu. */
nav ul ul{
position:absolute;
padding:0;
width:25%;
}
and
/* I think this refers to the dropdown navbar location and properties. */
nav ul ul li {
position:relative;
width:100%;
}
I went to your site and checked it out real quick... I noticed you are using absolute positioning to position your content in the center of your page. I assume this is what is causing your issue.
I would look up a tutorial on how to create a repeating background image and use that instead of trying to use one image with no repeat. then you can center your content with margin: 0 auto.
I know its not a definite answer but I hope it nudges you in the right direction.
The workaround I came up with was to set overflow-x:hidden on my overlay. I had tried this previously on the body, but on Android overflow-x does not work on the body; it must be set for a container. There is presumably a related reason that this issue only arose on Android. This workaround works perfectly.
I'm trying to create a drop-down menu. I had it working for a minute.
My code is as follows:
<nav id="nav">
<ul>
<li class="subNav">Some Page1
<ul>
<li>Related Page1<li>
<li>Related Page2<li>
</ul>
<li>
</ul>
</nav>
My CSS is as follows:
#nav li.subNav ul{
display: none;
}
#nav li.subNav:hover ul{
display: block;
}
I have three CSS files that relate to this page. One is basically a web-kit for font, and the other two are bowlerplate.css and my custom file customFile.css. The tag <#nav li.subNav:hover ul> show up in customFile.css, and <#nav li.subNav ul> diplays in bout custom and boilerplate when I check computed styles.
There are two things I wish to fix; the submenu lines up horizontally (I need it to go vertical) and the submenu isn't hidden. I had to nest /li tag around the ul, so that took care of one problem (they're now aligned under the parent tag).
I also noticed that the height and width have changed on my parent li. I understand it expanding to accommodate the list items, but the increased height seems a little odd.
Here's my solution to the above problem
#nav li.subNav:hover ul li {
visibility: visible;
width: 171px;
padding: 0;
cursor: pointer;
float: none !important;
display: block !important;
}
ok the code is listed below, and when I adjust the css as follows:
.Nav {
color:red;
float:left;
display:inline;}
It wont display inline? What Am I doing wrong? Im sure this is a stupid question.
<head></head>
<body>
<div class="Nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Sign Up</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
dont use float and dislay inline at the same time just use `
display:inline-block;
and it will work perfectly fine
i would also recommend you to read this article, it's a short article but helps a lot
click this to read the article
atleast it did help me a lot and cleared my concepts of float and display
It will. Your div is the one with the .Nav class so that div will be displayed inline. Try:
.Nav li{
display:inline;
}
Here is a jsfiddle example
.Nav ul li{
color:red;
display:inline;}
You can put display: inline on li elements, all they will be on a unique line.
As you can see here: http://jsfiddle.net/b31krn9b/
CSS:
.Nav {
color:red;
float:left;
}
.Nav li {
display:inline;
}
Another ways to align:
Using float: http://jsfiddle.net/b31krn9b/1/
Or even display: inline-block (this is better because you can use margin-right and left): http://jsfiddle.net/b31krn9b/2/
The div itself is displayed inline, but since it's the only element inside the body, it has no visible effect.
You need to set it on the li elements:
CSS
div.nav ul li {
float: left; /* All li elements inside the div.nav are floated to left... */
display: inline; /* ...and displayed inline – but it does not make sence,
since a floating element cannot be inline. */
}
HTML
<div class="nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
...
I have having problems getting the ul to sit underneth the li on the support button, any help getting this to play nicely would be appreciated.
<li>
Support
<span class="child-menu-arrow"></span>
<ul class="child-menu">
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Other</li>
</ul>
</li>
http://jsfiddle.net/5GpHZ/2/
You can use margins on the child menu to push it in the direction you want. It is absolutely positioned, so it doesn't affect anything else to do this.
http://jsfiddle.net/5GpHZ/5/
#parent-menu>li>ul.support-menu { margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: -10px; }
By putting the adjustment on its own class, it will not affect the other submenus.
Use position:absolute; and then set it where you want it. Notice that I changed your other menu to "child-menu2".
.child-menu{
position:absolute;
top:55px;
right:145px;
}
UPDATED DEMO
I am trying to make a navigation bar with <nav> in HTML5 with a simple text and 3 links. This is pretty basic, but the text of my links gets mixed up and I don't know why.
↪ See my code at JSFiddle
You need to float your LI, not your UL. No need for position:absolute. If you want to move the menu to the right, you can float it as well, or use margin:left. Just be sure to clear your floats after.
See my tutorial: I Love Lists
it was because of the position:absolute and position:relative parts in your css.
Try this :
nav {
width:100%;
height:181px;
display: block;
background: url('http://i.imgur.com/JrTUv.png') top no-repeat;
margin-top:30px;
}
nav ul {
float:right;
list-style:none;
}
nav ul li {
display:inline-block;
}