I'm using wordpress to host a website for work, and I was finally able to change the name of the site to an image.. But now it looks all weird because the navigation links are still aligned to the left. I'm trying to center them on the page, but I can't find the code to change. The navi links on the blue line are categories, and when I cntrl-F to find categories, only 2 lines show up, & they are just for hiding all the links.
I was wondering if there was a piece of code I should be looking for or if this info is included in the stylesheet & not editable.
Thanks for any help! Also, here's the tester website for ref: http://phitlab.host22.com/wordpress/
Edit: Found the html/ css code that needs editing
<div id="cat-nav" class="clear">
<ul class="nav sf-js-enabled">
<li class="cat-item cat-item-3">
<a title="View all posts filed under Home" href="http://phitlab.host22.com/
wordpress/?cat=3">Home</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-4">
<a title="View all posts filed under People" href="http://phitlab.host22.com/
wordpress/?cat=4">People</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-5">
<a title="View all posts filed under Publications" href="http://phitlab.host22.com/
wordpress/?cat=5">Publications</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-7">
<a title="View all posts filed under Research" href="http://phitlab.host22.com/wordpress/?cat=7">Research</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-6">
<a title="View all posts filed under zContact" href="http://phitlab.host22.com/wordpress /?cat=6">zContact</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
I would look at the HTML source code to check to see if the elements have any classes or ids. If they don't then I would check their parents for classes and ids as well.
Then search the css code for the these classes and ids to find its source code.
Both of these tasks will be easier if you use a browser extension or feature. I like firebug for firefox or ctrl-shift-i in chrome. They can tell you how the styles are decided for each element and what line of the css file to find it.
If what you want to do is center them it probably would be easiest to give the container element that holds your navigation links a fixed width using px or % then set
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
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I am working on a bespoke WordPress build and for some reason, I just cannot get some anchor links to work. It's driving me potty and I just don't know what the problem is.
I have discovered, static anchor links are working fine (the back to top button works). However, I am using Advanced Custom Fields to generate ID's for the anchor tags. The IDs are generating correctly, but won't work as anchor tags.
Anyone have any ideas? The bit I am referring to is the service boxes near the bottom of the page. The idea being you click on these and that they will take you to the services page, and down to the relevant section.
The markup I am using is:
<ul class="cf">
<li>
<div>
<a href="/services/#dimensional-surveys">
<div class="filter"></div>
<img width="500" height="600" src="pexels-photo-175771-500x600.jpeg" class="attachment-feature size-feature" alt="" />
<h3>3D Dimensional Surveys</h3>
</a>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="service-list cf">
<li id="#dimensional-surveys">
<div class="feature" style="background-image:url(pexels-photo-175771.jpeg);">
</div>
</li>
</ul>
Just remove the # from id and it will work.
<ul>
<li id="example"></li>
</ul>
I have looked at your page
The point where an ancor should jump to should have no #
You do: <li id="#dimensional-surveys">
But do just <li id="dimensional-surveys">
Fix that first and test again.
You don't want the '#' on the anchor: <li id="#example"></li> should be <li id="example"></li>
It is such that I have a menu where there is a border in the page you're into, just currently the whole time on the index page, but if I click onto the news as it should be less.
I have tried so many ways but none of them works, think a little that you can do it with something GET?
This means that it must move to find the page you are on, and view page not in the menu so it should not be there.
there are border in Home, how can I do so that, for example, I go into the info then border under the info and not the front, what should I do there?
<div class="pi-header-block pi-pull-right">
<ul class="pi-simple-menu pi-has-hover-border pi-full-height pi-hidden-sm">
<li class="pi-has-dropdown active"><span>Forside</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Info</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Nyhed</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Team</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Kontakt</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Opret bruger</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
Ses image HER
Here you can see how my menu appears when I click on the info.
The answer is as simple as this: see the pi-has-dropdown active part. If you don't want it, just remove it. If you want it in other pages, add it to each page, for example in Info, like this:
<div class="pi-header-block pi-pull-right">
<ul class="pi-simple-menu pi-has-hover-border pi-full-height pi-hidden-sm">
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Forside</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown active"><span>Info</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Nyhed</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Team</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Kontakt</span></li>
<li class="pi-has-dropdown"><span>Opret bruger</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
. You usually do this with the help of a CMS or some JS/Jquery coding, but you could totally hard code it on each page if you want. This way, you need to copy this snippet of code on each page, only changing the active class keeping in mind in which page are you. As simple as that
In the middle of my page I have this <div> which includes a list. When I view the page source I see all the code there, but the only thing actually rendered for the user to see in the browser is the "Brand" h4 heading. (note that this is actually generated dynamically, and this is example output)
Also I have checked in several different browsers on several different machines so I don't think thats the issue
Is there something obvious I'm missing here why my list is not displaying?
<div class="filter-group filter-group-brand">
<h4>Brand</h4>
<ul class="nav-brand ">
<li class="collection-container aimpoint active ">
<div class="collection-name">
<a title="Narrow selection to products matching tag aimpoint"
href="/collections/firearm-accessories/aimpoint">
<i class="check-icon"></i> Aimpoint
</a>
</div>
</li>
<li class="collection-container aimshot active ">
<div class="collection-name">
<a title="Narrow selection to products matching tag aimshot"
href="/collections/firearm-accessories/aimshot">
<i class="check-icon"></i> Aimshot
</a>
</div>
</li>
<li class="collection-container barska-optics active ">
<div class="collection-name">
<a title="Narrow selection to products matching tag barska-optics"
href="/collections/firearm-accessories/barska-optics">
<i class="check-icon"></i> Barska Optics
</a>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Without any CSS this works well and <li> elements will appear. Always think about giving your CSS code when you have a display error/problem
You must have an error in your CSS file. Check for display:none or hidden properties, etc on the following classes : collection-name, new-brand, collection-container.
Also you have empty <i> tags, just in case it's an error.
There seems to be conflicting examples in documents relating to the <nav> tag in html5. Most examples I've seen use this:
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>Link</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Link</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Link</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
But I'm wondering if that's only because people are used to using divs. There are examples that I've seen that simply do this
<nav>
<a href='#'>Link</a>
<a href='#'>Link</a>
<a href='#'>Link</a>
</nav>
The second way seems cleaner and more semantic to me. Is there an "official" correct version? Is there a good reason to still use a <ul> inside the nav tag rather than just use anchor elements directly?
Both examples are semantic.
In the first example, the list of anchors is explicitly an unordered list. In the second example, the list of links is just a collection of anchor elements.
If you simply want a one-dimensional collection of links, I recommend sticking with
<nav>
<a href='#'>Link</a>
<a href='#'>Link</a>
<a href='#'>Link</a>
</nav>
however, using ul elements allows for explicit hierarchical menus (such as drop-downs or tree-lists):
<nav>
<ul>
<li>
Link
</li>
<li>
Link
<ul>
<li>
Sub link
</li>
<li>
Sub link
</li>
<li>
Sub link
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Link
</li>
<li>
Link
<ul>
<li>
Sub link
</li>
<li>
Sub link
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
The only real difference might be how search engines might look at the links. When in an unordered list Google might for example understand that all the items in that list are related. In the second example Google might just as well assume none of the links are related. Google can use that information for indexing and display your information more accurately.
They may display the same, but really a lot of markup is about how information should be presented if there was no style attached to the page at all or if a bot is searching your website for relevant information.
You can use either.
A list only tends to be used as a list of links is generally just that, a list. But, it's up to you.
There is no real difference between them. However like Caimen said, search engines use the page markup to group data to better web search results. I'd advise you use the first if the links are quite similar on topic (eg for a blog) and the second if the links aren't so similar (for navigating results from a website search).
I have a weirdest thing, in this peace of code a browser adds tags automatically. I disabled all javascript and css, left only simple HTML and still see tags added. Here is my code:
<div id="menu-contact" class="menuNew">
<ul class="navi-list">
<li class="goto">Go to:</li>
<li id="whats">Welcome!</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Shop</li>
<li><a class="active" href="#menu-contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
and here is what firefox4 sees:
<div id="menu-contact" class="menuNew">
<a> </a>
<ul class="navi-list">
<a>
<li class="goto">Go to:</li>
</a>
<li id="whats">
<a></a>
Welcome!
</li>
<li>
About
</li>
<li>
Shop
</li>
<li>
<a class="active" href="#menu-contact">Contact</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
It basically surrounds each tag by a tag. Again, I removed all js and css references..any idea what's going on?? Funny thing, that I have the same code (with unique IDs) in the same page and it renders normally.. only the last snippet adds tags..
My best guess absent a link to a live example is that there is a stray <a> somewhere above that element, and Firefox is attempting to apply it to all the elements below, and of course not having a very happy time of it. A quick HTML validation will reveal if something like that is going on, since either the <a> is unclosed (invalid) or the <ul> is inside it (also invalid).
If that doesn't explain it (which is entirely possible, since I'm just speculating wildly), consider crafting a live example we can inspect in detail. Certainly what you're describing is not normal Firefox behavior, so any clues we can get to what makes your situation different will help.