I'm working on a website for a small law office. In the side-menu, I'm trying to highlight the "current page". I have tried changing the background of the LI, but this doesn't quite do the trick; the list item doesn't spread to the full width of the menu, so it looks bad.
Here's a jsfiddle. I would like the yellow section to highlight like the pink section is highlighted: filling up the full vertical and horizontal space, not just highlighting the text.
Any suggestions on how to do this? I've included the style tag in the html just for example, obviously, and my real solution will be a little different when it's done. But I can't move forward until I figure out how to somehow highlight the entire line.
One little issue: you're mixing em and px units for layout. This makes it a lot harder when trying to make things line up.
I've implemented it using a .selected class that would be applied to the selected elements, and a special case for the elements which are sub-menu items:
.selected
{
display: block;
background-color: #FCFFEE;
width: 15.4em;
margin-left: -0.6em;
padding-left: 0.6em;
}
.subMenuItem.selected
{
display: block;
background-color: #FCFFEE;
width: 13.4em;
margin-left: -2.6em;
padding-left: 2.6em;
}
And a jsFiddle fork of your original with the changes: http://jsfiddle.net/CkKc7/2/.
Good luck.
Remove the padding-left from the ul. Also remove the width.
Add display: block to the <a> tags.
Add the removed padding-left back, but on the <a> tags instead.
http://jsfiddle.net/7fEYx/4/
<li class="menuItem">Contact</li>
Is that what you are trying to achieve?
You should apply your style to the LI parent of the A tag, or make the A tag element block-level. Also, consider using a class instead.
Related
I'm creating simple horizontal menu. When I hover item it changes background color, but lefts some strange 3px space on left side of the link, and I cannot identify why it shows up, and how to remove it.
Menu is here: http://pokerzysta.site44.com/ (Linki, Posty, Forum, Dodaj)
Any idea what's wrong with it?
Thats because you're displaying the list in a horizontal manner with display: inline-block;.
What is rendered there are white spaces from your HTML markup (most likely line-breaks after the li-tags).
If you put the li-tags in your html without white-space and line-breaks this won't happen:
<ul id="main-menu" class="horizontal-list fleft">
<li>Linki</li><li>Posty</li><li>Forum</li><li>Dodaj<li>
</ul>
#cimmanon pointed to a great article by Chris Coyier about displaying list navigations horizontally: http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/
There're whitespaces between your LI-Elements. By removing them or using
float: left;
will solute also the problem (but after your UL you should use a clear: both)
your links are inline block, so the HTML whitespace actually uses space ;) A simple trick would be to set the font-size to 0 on the ul and reset the right font size in the li's
in your case:
.horizontal-list {
font-size: 0;
}
.horizontal-list li{
font-size: 17px;
}
Like the title says I can't get the background of the a element to be one solid color. Instead my code make each line the color. I have even tried wrapping the php element in a new div and setting that background color but it does the same thing. Any advice is useful.
Site: http://www.whatsatyourcore.com, bottom widget titles
The html:
<a class="teaser-title-top" title="Social customer service and your marketing strategy" href="http://whatsatyourcore.com/?p=78"> Social customer service and your marketing strategy</a>
CSS:
.teaser-title-top { background: black;}
a.teaser-title-top {
color: #fff;}
The above "code boxes" are an example. The first one is what the background is doing on my titles. The second one is what I want it to be.
if you wrap it in a div and set that divs background-color that should work. The element you are setting the background-color for needs to be a block-level element (a div is) you can set an element to display as a block level element with display: block; else it will just color the background of the inline content.
you are styling the anchor which is only going to stlye what's in it. Try something like:
<div id="title-box">
<div class="teaser-title-top">
Social customer service and your marketing strategy
</div>
</div>
And then style the .teaser-title-top
As with the other answers, you can style a wrapper element. However if you want to style just the anchor text directly, try this...
The issue is the line-height of your text. AS you can see, it is spaced out. If you. The height of the line, compared to the size of the text, is bigger.
As an example, set #bottom a { line-height: 100%; } (which is what teh font-size is set to) and you'll see the gap go away. You'll also see the spacing go away. You can "bring back" the spacing with top/bottom padding, as well as changing the line-height.
Try this hope it works
#bottom .teaser-title-top {
color: white;
}
In your css file
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How to you get rid of the white space between list items? I am trying to make it so that the images are right next to each other. Even though I have set the styling to margins: 0;, they are still separated.
CSS
ul.frames{
margin: 20px;
width: 410px;
height: 320px;
background-color: grey;
float: left;
list-style-type: none;
}
ul.frames li {
display:inline;
margin: 0;
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}
ul.frames li img {
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}
HTML
<li>
<img id="myImg" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
<li>
<img id="myImg2" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
<li>
<img id="myImg3" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
<li>
<img id="myImg4" src="img.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/>
</li>
Updated Sept. 1st, 2014
In modern browsers, flex-box is the preferred method of doing this. It's as simple as:
ul {
display: flex;
}
See a JSFiddle here.
For legacy browser support refer to the other options below, which are still just fine, albeit slightly more complex.
Though each of the other answers gives at least one good solution, none seem to provide all of the possibilities. And that's what I'll try to do here.
Firstly, to answer your implicit question of why there's spacing, it's there because you've set your LIs to display as inline elements.
inline is the default display value for text and images in all of the browsers that I know of. Inline elements are rendered with spacing between them whenever there's whitespace in your code. This is a good thing when it comes to text: these words that I've typed are spaced apart because of the space I've included in the code. And there's also space between each line. It's this very behavior of inline elements is what makes text on the web readable at all.
But sometimes we want non-text elements to be inline to take advantage of other properties of this display style. And this typically includes a desire for our elements to fit snugly together, quite unlike text. And that seems to be your problem here.
Without further ado, here are all the ways I know of to get rid of the spacing:
Keeping them inline
(Not recommended) Apply negative margin to the LIs to move them over.
li { margin: -4px; }
Note that you'll need to 'guess' the size of a space. This isn't recommended because, as Arthur excellently points out in the comments below, users can change the Zoom of their browser, which would more than likely mess up the rendering of your code. Further, this code requires too much guesswork and calculation. There are better solutions that work under all conditions.
Get rid of the whitespace
<li>One</li><li>Two</li>
Use comments to make the whitespace a comment JSFiddle
<li>One</li><!--
--><li>Two</li>
Skip the closing tag (HTML4 valid / HTML5 Valid) JSFiddle
<li>One
<li>Two
Put the whitespace in the tag itself (Note: Early Internet Explorers will not like this)
<li>One</li
><li>Two</li
>
Take advantage of the fact that the spacing between the elements is calculated as a percentage of the font size of the parent. Consequently, setting the parent's font size to 0 results in no space. Just remember to set a non-zero font-size on the li so that the text itself has a nonzero font size. View on JSFiddle.
Floating them
Float them instead. You'll probably want to clearfix the parent if you do this.
li { float: left; display: block; }
Incredible but no one here has provided the proper solution for this problem.
Just do this:
ul.frames {
font-size: 0;
}
ul.frames li {
font-size: 14px; font-size:1.4rem;
display: inline;
}
Keep in mind that we won't always have access to modify the markup. And trying to remove the spaces from the <li>s with JavaScript would be totally unnecessary when the solution is simply two font-size properties.
Also, floating the <li>s introduces another potential problem: You wouldn't be able center and right align the list items.
If you try to do float:right; on the <li>s then their order will be swapped, meaning: the first item in the list would be last, the second item is the one before the last, and so on.
Check out this other post here in SO: A Space between Inline-Block List Items
You should just remove all the spaces in the ul tags just like this: http://jsfiddle.net/dFRYL/3/
Since the <li> elements are inline, in you write spaces in or between them you will have spaces displayed.
The reason you get the spaces is because you have spaces between the elements (line break)
<ul>
<li>One</li><li>
Two</li><li>
Three</li>
</ul>
You can use negative margins like this:
margin-right: -4px;
margin-bottom: -4px;
Take a look here.
It also works up and down, I added another one to show that here.
Using display:inline; causes whitespace in your HTML to create whitespace when displaying the HTML.
There are two solutions to this:
1) Change how you make them appear inline, I would recommend using floats on all of the list items, then using a clearfix of sorts.
2) Remove all whitespace between your list items, e.g.
<li><img id="myImg" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li><li><img id="myImg2" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li><li><img id="myImg3" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li><li><img id="myImg4" src="http://stephboreldesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lorem-ipsum-logo.jpg" width="102.5px" height="80px"/></li>
Personally I would recommend option 1 (I hate display: inline)
here is my attempt at it. Hope it helps. As Sean Dunwoody mentioned, white space in your html can be a cause of the space, but I've floated the li and made the image to display:block;. Left comment on where I made changes. Hope it helps: http://jsfiddle.net/FJ3nV/
Here my small but main changes:
/*
* Added float left
*/
ul.frames li {
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
float:left;
}
/*
* Moved inline sizing here just to clear up obtrusive html.
* Added display block.
*/
ul.frames li img{width:102px; height:80px; display:block;}
I would change your li elements to inline-block.
One person did not recommend
li { margin: -4px; }
But making a slight change to it will cause it to work even when the font size changes or when the browser zooms in
li{ margin-right: -0.25em; }
That should fix that white space problem completely. However, if you are using a poorly designed font-face that doesn't follow correct letter-height standards then it may cause a problem. However those are harder to find and most of the fonts google hosts don't have that issue.
I see lot of times attempts to hide text with CSS, for instance:
<a class="back">back</a>
a.back { text-indent: -9999px; display:block; width: 100px; height: 50px; background: url(/images/back.png); }
I always wonder why not to use:
a.back { color: transparent; display:block; width: 100px; height: 50px; background: url(/images/back.png); }
It seems to me semantically correct, and in addition, when I tried the text-indent approach, it caused a bug in iPad display: The text was displayed 99999px left to the anchor tag and caused a strange unnecessary horizontal scroll.
Is there a common known problem with the second code or it's OK to use?
font-size: 0px; should do the trick.
If you want to make the button smaller than the text, you'll also need to add line-height: 1em; or something similar.
Using the display property allows you to edit the state of an element in C#.
Here are 4 main display elements people use:
p.ex1 {display: none;}
p.ex2 {display: inline;}
p.ex3 {display: block;}
p.ex4 {display: inline-block;}
display:none means that the tag in question will not appear on the page at all (although you can still interact with it through the dom). There will be no space allocated for it between the other tags. visibility:hidden means that unlike display:none, the tag is not visible, but space is allocated for it on the page
But if you want to learn more about them you can go to this site: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_display.asp
w3schools explains a lot of languages in a simple and understandable way.
Don't hide content and depend on a background image at all.
HTML provides a way to include images which have meaning (the <img> element) with text content for situations where the image can't be displayed (the alt attribute). There is no need to fake it with the stylesheet.
<a class="back"><img alt="back" src="/images/back.png"></a>
Icons are content and deserve to be treated as such. All efforts to use text and background images are ultimately hacks with limitations. The <img> element was designed for this use case.
I have already found following question with almost similar content: How to indent list items using CSS when you have floating blocks?
And here is my situation: if a list item gets too long, so that it automatically makes a line break, the text flow continues without the indentation.
Here is what I am expecting:
I can handle this using outside position property, modifying the margin or padding of an li element, if the text height is smaller than the image height. But if the text continues, especially on the bottom border of the image - it looks totally destroyed.
A good code to play with can be found here: http://csscreator.com/node/30984 on the second post.
Any help will be deeply appreciated
The most obvious, and simple solution, is to clear the list so that it's forced down under the floated elements, instead of sharing the same space as floated image, for instance, in this jsfiddle.
img {
float: left;
}
ol {
clear: both;
}
Of course, there will be other problems depending on the situation you're using this in, but otherwise it should solve your problem.
There are two ways to do this, either of which work with the code sample you linked to.
ul, ol {
display: table;
list-style-position: inside;
padding-left: 22px;
}
or
ul, ol {
overflow: hidden;
list-style-position: inside;
padding-left: 22px;
}
There are subtle differences, such as overflow: hidden not allowing you to have something like tooltips pop up without being cut off, but no biggie here.
Not sure if this was all even available in 2010, but it is where I live (the future).