Going to be quite difficult to explain this so I've created a JS-Fiddle so you guys can see what I mean...
If you look under the 'products' tab the second link in the list I've made quite long, the result is that it overflows out the boundaries of the list. How can I make this that if a link is very long, that the width of the containing ul stretches to contain the link?
Again having a look at the JSfiddle will make things more clear in what's happening and what needs to be done.
PS - Need to get it to work without editing the HTML at all!
//Ignore this
Just remove the fixed width of your list:
ul li {
display: block;
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 140px; // <-- Remove this
height: 25px;
}
It will make your default width for your list become auto and you're done.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Kpxpf/5/
Just change the width:140px; to min-width:140px; in ul li
Demo :
http://jsfiddle.net/Kpxpf/6/
You're constraining the width of your <li>s from the style on the top-level menu. This will keep your intended width: 140px; on the top-level menu and allow the sub menu to size based on its content.
jsFiddle
ul#menu li ul li {
width:auto;
}
You are setting a fixed width on the nested lists.
Change the ul li styles to:
#menu > li {
display: block;
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 140px;
height: 25px;
}
This will remove the fixed width from the nested uls allowing them to take as much space as needed.
jsFiddle
Related
I have a problem displaying a portfolio on my site. I would like to display more than 3 in row, like here.
Is there any easy CSS command to change it?
Yes there is.
Simply change the width of the li elements to something smaller or equal to 25%.
.home-section ul li {
float: left;
margin-right: 5.63%;
width: 20%; /*changed this value*/
I made a navigation menu 100% width fixed to the top of the page.
#nav {
height: 50px;
}
I've used line-height to put text in center of the nav before but it's not working when I do this..
#nav ul li a {
line-height: 50px;
}
It is appearing half way off the bottom of the nav
OK, You seem to have missed the fact that browsers have some inbuilt styles for the elements like <ul> etc.
And that margin for the <ul> is pushing the whole menu down.
Try "normalizing" your css by including
ul {
margin: 0px;
}
As shown HERE.
I'm currently really busy working on a simple jQuery slideshow, but I've got the following problem, when I make my slides a fixed width like:
#slider ul {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
position: relative;
}
#slider ul li {
float:left;
height: 100%;
width:200px;
}
It all works fine; but when I want to make my slider full-screen. So Instead of width 200
width:100%;
All the li's get displayed beneath each other instead of next to each other. I hope I provided enough information.
If the width is 100% the li element occupies the full width of its parent container, meaning there's no room for another li element to occupy the same line; the width explicitly forces the next sibling to the next line.
To work around this, one option, given the following mark-up:
<ul>
<li>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/500/500/nightlife/Some%20sample%20text" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/500/500/sports/Some%20sample%20text" />
</li>
</ul>
Is to use:
ul {
white-space: nowrap;
}
li,
img {
width: 100%;
}
li {
display: inline-block;
}
JS Fiddle demo.
Which forces the ul to keep elements in a single 'line', assigns a 100% width to the li and img elements, and displays the li elements as in-line.
I have a div that contains two ul. I'd like to position the first ul on he right and the second ul on the center.
I cannot use absolute positioning since it makes me other problems in nested elements and in mobile view.
This is what I've done:
<div class="w">
<ul class="right"><li>a very very very long text</li></ul>
<ul class="center"><li>center</li></ul>
</div>
.w {
text-align: center;
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
ul {
list-style-type:none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
li {
float: left;
}
.right {
float: right;
}
.center {
display: inline-block;
}
you can see jsfiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/mF7XR/
The problem is that the centered ul is aligned to the middle between the left and the start of the right ul (see the example). Therefore it is not correctly centered. How can I center correct the second ul?
I am not sure whether you are good to go with javascript. Anyway, I did some work on it. Please have a look.
javascript
//Added Id to ul.center as "center"
function resize(){
var width = document.body.offsetWidth;
var center = document.getElementById('center');
center.style.marginLeft = (width/2) - (center.offsetWidth/2);
}
//Call the above function on "resize" and "load" events.
CSS
.center {
display: inline-block;
float:left;
}
Working Bin
Define the Width of centered elements then only you could get what you want. You could also define the margin as follows...
margin: 0 {number greater than right floated element}px 0 {number greater than left floated element here you have only two elements so place here 0}px;
How about position:relative? Then you can position it anywhere without it causing problems in nested elements and mobile view.
http://jsfiddle.net/mF7XR/4/
This solution uses no absolute positioning. Tested on Win/Chrome.
Change the .center to
.center {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
top: -20px; /* move up */
}
and add this rule
.center li {
float: none;
}
jsfiddle
Update
If your content is not known, then you need JS (or jQuery) to set the offset relative position.
Initially I thought about using a different markup, but your restriction on absolute positioning pretty much kills this idea.
jsfiddle
It would be interesting to know why you cannot use absolute position. Maybe the root of your problem lies there.
You can see an attempt at what I'm trying to do here: http://rjlacount.com/clients/GreenTree/
I want the navigation li's to determine padding automatically so they can stretch across the entire width of the inner wrapper. So, if I added another li or took one out, they would still be centered and the padding of each li would just increase/decrease to make up for it.
Right now I'm floating the last navigation li to the right and adding padding to each one to try to get it as close to full-length as possible. So it's almost how I want it to look, but I have a space between the last two items that I'd like to get rid of.
Is this possible? Thanks for any help.
I don't believe this will work in < IE8, but you could always provide a float or display: inline-block fallback to those browsers using a conditional stylesheet.
Example
CSS
ul {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
ul li {
display: table-cell;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
jsFiddle.
jsFiddle with one more li, you'll notice the CSS is constant :P