FireFox seems to put any words in list items with more than one word on separate lines, like this:
http://a.flatsi.es/projects/7temwk/images/j7tjrt
But in everything else it is how I want it, like this.
http://a.flatsi.es/projects/7temwk/images/9766kh
A point in the right direction would be super.
HTML
<div class="singlenav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Information</li>
<li>Study Skills</li>
<li>Discuss</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
.quicklinks{
width: 100%;
font: bold 20px 'Helvetica',sans-serif;
color: #333;
text-align: left;
margin: 70px 0 0 0;
display:inline-block;
}
.quicklinks li{
white-space: nowrap;
}
.quicklinks li a{
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 10px;
margin: -10px;
}
Since we don't have a HTML test to go off I'm going to try drawing upon 'psychic powers'. Try this:
li { white-space: nowrap; }
Edit: Works against test case on Fx 15
Maybe you can try adding a height setting that will manually force it to no go over a certain height.
eg:
height: 100px;
I think the negative margin in li a means that inside of a wants to be bigger than its box and therefore wraps the word if wrappable. I've never seen a negative margin equal on parallel sides, but if that actually shrinks an element I'm probably wrong.
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built a simple no-dropdown horizontal nav for a new site design and its all working fine like normal except that between 2 buttons is a phantom white space that doesn't appear in dragonfly's metrics, or in the code, but is visible on the screen when the li's hover rule applies. and it does not appear between each li, just between 2 specific lis. i have attached images below showing what i mean:
no problem, everything looks as it should:
on the right side of the hovered li is a px of whitespace that shouldnt be there:
.navi {
display: inline-block;
height: 50px;
max-height: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
list-style: none;
float: right;
}
.navi li {
float: left;
}
.navi li a {
padding: 16px;
border-left: 1px solid #8bd854;
font-size: 16px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 50px;
color: #8c8c8c;
transition: all 0.5s ease;
}
.navi li a:hover {
background-color: rgba(13, 137, 0, 0.61);
text-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.57);
color: #fff;
}
<ul class="navi">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Lawn Care</li>
<li>Tree & Shrub Removal</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
any idea where this may be coming from? It's not a huge deal if not Solvable but it is an annoyance.
Thanks in advance
An easy way to fix this is by using the font-size:
.navi {
font-size: 0;
}
.navi li {
font-size: 1rem;
}
This sets the font size of the list to zero and the font size of the list element to the size of the root element (you may use any other unit – except em – if you want to).
I'm not entirely sure what is causing this. Maybe it's webkit or some nuance of CSS, but at least in this one particular case, you can add display:block to .navi li a and change padding: 16px to padding: 0 16px on that same rule. Unfortunately I can't figure out why this works but my best guess is that whitespace is causing the issue.
I was able to reproduce the issue in Chrome by setting the zoom to 110%. Perhaps, you could set the zoom of all the navigation elements and their children to be zoom: 1.0;.
It is probably just whitespace. try
<ul class="navi"
><li>Home</li
><li>About</li
...
></ul>
I'm trying to have a vertical navigation list on a site but my text isn't centered within the div. Multiple posts on here have suggested to make the list display:table and the items display:table-cell
this solves the problem but I have to change the display from block, which forces each list item to be a new line ( what I want ).
How can I solve this while keeping everything nice, centered, and on a new line?
should note: It may be firefox but I'm even using a css reset. The issue acts the same with or without the reset. puu .sh /kcrhs/bb728e4711 .png
#nav {
background-color: #801918;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
Font-weight: bold;
font-size: 25px;
color: white;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#nav ul li {
transition: .5s;
padding-bottom: 45px;
margin: auto;
text-align: center;
}
#nav ul li:hover {
color: yellow;
}
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Resume</li>
</ul>
</div>
All I had to do was adjust my padding so that it was even between padding-top and padding-bottom.
Sorry, I'm really new to HTML5 and CSS3 and my searches haven't turned up anything to what I'm sure is a really basic thing. What I'm trying to do is create a row of clickable images / links for my website. Much like how stack overflow has there questions, tags users links above.
So far my css looks like the following:
a#header {
display:block;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px 15px 0px 15px;
border: none;
background: url('img url') no-repeat bottom;
width: 50px;
height: 100px;
}
But this isn't doing what I'm after. It's only placing the image in the centre of the screen. Could someone please help me? Also, is there a best practise for doing something like this?
The margin:0 auto is what is putting it in the center of the screen. You will probably want to drop this, or put it on the container element rather than the individual boxes.
What you probably want for putting several boxes in a line is either float:left or display:inline-block. Either of these will work; they work differently, and there are things you need to know about both of them in order to get the layout working the way you want it, but I'll leave those extra details for you to do further research on.
It's worth noting that none of the code you quoted is specific to HTML5 or CSS3 -- it's all basic HTML/CSS syntax that has been around for a long time.
Since you didn't provide any markup, I'll use the stackoverflow example you cited:
<div class="nav mainnavs ">
<ul>
<li class="youarehere">Questions</li>
<li>Tags</li>
<li>Users</li>
<li>Badges</li>
<li>Unanswered</li>
</ul>
</div>
While you could use your own divs to do this markup, this is the most semantic and concise way of representing a navigation list.
To style this list the way you want, you only need to apply the following styles:
.nav ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
.nav li {
display: block;
float: left;
}
.nav a {
display: block;
padding: 6px 12px;
/* Any other styles to disable text decoration, etc. */
}
Then just position the .nav container where ever you want on the page.
If you're lazy like me, you can put a few <a> tags in a <header> or <nav>, and use display: inline-block.
http://jsbin.com/ivevey/3/edit
HTML
<header>
<a href></a>
<a href></a>
<a href></a>
<a href></a>
<a href></a>
</header>
CSS
header {
text-align: center;
}
header > a { /* assuming a <header> contains your <a> tags */
display: inline-block; /* make sure every image/link is treated like text, ltr */
width: 15px; /* width/height or padding. either works */
height: 15px;
background-color: red; /* This should work for a 15px x 15px image instead */
}
Just be careful of the space between the links. Those are whitespace characters. I generally use header {font-size: 0;} to clear that up.
Ideally, I'd have a structure where there's a <ul> in a <nav>, since it is a list of navigation links, after all.
Maybe something like this?
http://jsfiddle.net/MRayW/6/
<nav>
<ul>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
<li>c</li>
<li>d</li>
<li>e</li>
<li>f</li>
<li>g</li>
</ul>
</nav>
a[id^='header_'] {
border: none;
background: url('xxx.jpg') no-repeat bottom;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
text-align:center;
color:red;
list-style:none;
float:left;
margin:5px;
}
ul {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
background-color:#EDEDED;
list-style:none;
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red;
height: 60px;
margin: auto;
width: 420px;
}
nav {
margin:0 auto
width:500px;
}
Ok this is simple thing. I firstly created a usual "Home" Button linking to the Home Page of the website, but the word "Home" looked too obvious. Hence I tried to insert an icon in place of that word, but its not fitting properly. I have tried some things in my css but its messing up the whole (used to create the navigation menu). The screenshot is attached. Please if someone can see whats wrong.
CSS:-
ul#menu
{
padding: 0px;
position: relative;
margin: 0;
}
ul#menu li
{
display: inline;
text-decoration:solid;
}
ul#menu li a
{
color: black;
background-color: #f5b45a;
padding: 10px 20px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 2.8em;
/*CSS3 properties*/
border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
}
HTML:-
<ul id="menu">
<li id="Home_Link"><img src="../../Image_Data/Home_Icon.ico" id="Home_Icon"/></li>
<li>MEN</li>
<li>WOMEN</li>
<li>KIDS</li>
<li>DESIGN!!</li>
With your current styles you will need to play around with the vertical-alignment and margins for the image, something like:
ul#menu li#Home_Link a img {
vertical-align: text-bottom;
margin-bottom: -5px;
}
As a side note, your use of ID's for elements is not recommended - use classes if needed. And reduce the specificity of your style declarations, e.g. .home-link img
I'm trying to style a menu, but I keep running into this weird margin that's appearing in both FF4 and IE.
This is the only affecting css:
#header ul
{
display: inline;
}
#header ul li
{
list-style-type: none;
background: #000;
display: inline;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#header ul li a
{
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
text-align: center;
}
And this is the HTML:
<div id="header">
<ul id="toplinks">
<li>Hello</li>
<li>Herp</li>
<li>Derp</li>
</ul>
</div>
As you can see, there's a margin appearing on both sides, and I'd like it so it would have no margin (or maybe 1px would be okay)...
That's no moon...i mean...margin.
What you're seeing is the white space between your elements. Inline-block treats the elements as inline, except they have heights, widths, margins, paddings, etc. What happens is the newline + spacing you've given your html elements for nice indentation is being displayed as a space between the elements.
inline-block is also not cross-browser consistent. I'd suggest using display:block; with floats.
Edit to add suggestion:
If you want nice indents, but want to avoid extra white-space (as in all XML data ever), use what I call the "fishy notation"
Instead of:
<div id="header">
<ul id="toplinks">
<li>Hello</li>
<li>Herp</li>
<li>Derp</li>
</ul>
Use:
<div id="header"
><ul id="toplinks"
><li>Hello</li
><li>Herp</li
><li>Derp</li
></ul
></div>
White space contained by elements is preserved, but white space within elements is not.
Time to whip out that CSS Reset! I first include this, and then start designing. It makes it much easier, as most HTML will look identical cross-browser.
But to fix your problem, I would check if there is a stray border property somewhere. I've had rogue borders before, and they drove me mad. To kill it (for now), try this:
border-style: none;
If we had the complete CSS (don't worry, we don't steal it), I could actually fiddle with it and give you a fully functional answer.
change your CSS to
#header ul
{
display: inline;
}
#header ul li
{
float:left;
background: #000;
margin-left: 1px;;
padding: 0;
}
#header ul li a
{
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
text-align: center;
}