http://testing.ipalaces.org/ looks different in IE9 where the 2nd LI in sub-navigation makes the top border. It seems the width it's at now works for every major browser but IE9. If I set it to exactly 3px less, it works good in IE9.
Is this a known bug? can I get around this without doing a conditional IE9 CSS call?
The problem is that without an explicit width, #sub-navigation li.selected renders a few pixels wider in IE 9 because of font rendering, interrupting the next floated element. Forcing a width will fix it.
Also, Verdana in bold renders relatively wide so you should consider dropping it from the font-stack.
#sub-navigation li { font:700 16px/1 geneva, sans-serif; }
#sub-navigation li.selected { width:105px; }
How about text-overflow?
+css:
#sub-navigation li span {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
Try this, anyway I don't have IE (Mac rulz) but in my workplace we usually optimize sites for IE too. I'll check it tomorrow if this is not going to work.
Can I ask, why do you have all the dropdowns featured as a nested list inside the last <li> in the navigation?
If it was me, I'd have each dropdown inside it's own list, as a sub-item fo the parent link.
This way, you can inherit the horizontal boundaries of the drop-down item for the parent-item, and it should be more straightforward to match widths.
Also, the code will read more logically, and expand more easily in future.
You should set a fixed width to all your li's for the submenu depending on the number you want. right now the first list element should be set to width: 107px.
to test it, just add style="width:107px" to <li class="selected">
Good luck :)
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The issue is quite simple really. Here is my CSS:
.fixed-body {
position: absolute;
}
And my HTML:
<div class="fixed-body">
<ul class="breadcrumb">
<li class="active">Name with spaces<span class="divider">/</span></li>
<li>Home<span class="divider">/</span></li>
<li>Library</li>
</ul>
</div>
Everything looks all right in all browsers apart from Internet Explorer 8. This is how it renders the Breadcrumb:
You can see it for yourself in this jsfiddle. This is just the resulting frame because jsfiddle doesn't render on IE8 properly. The whole fiddle is at this address (it's the same address without the "show" part in the URL).
There are two reasons why it doesn't render properly:
The CSS directive position: absolute in .fixed-body
Spaces in the first section of the breadcrum Name with spaces
If the first section doesn't contain spaces or the position of the parent node isn't set to absolute then Internet Explorer 8 renders the breadcrumb properly.
I tried to wrap the breadcrumb in another div and reset its position to static but it doesn't help. Is there any specific limitation of Internet Explorer 8 that shows in that way? And most interestingly, is there any way of fixing or working around this problem?
EDIT (copied from my response):
Just found by accident the proper fix. Overriding inline-block with inline for li in the breadcrumb gives the desired effect without any side issues (AFAIK):
.breadcrumb > li {
display: inline;
}
See also the new version of my fiddle, or open just the show frame in IE8.
This is because of "breadcrumb" width...
Check this in IE8: http://fiddle.jshell.net/azm53/12/show
I have changed breadcrumb width to 400px and it's ok.
<div class="fixed-body">
<ul class="breadcrumb">
<li class="active">Name with spaces<span class="divider">/</span>
</li>
<li>Home<span class="divider">/</span>
</li>
<li>Library
</li>
</ul>
</div>
And CSS
.fixed-body {
position: absolute;
}
.breadcrumb {
width: 400px;
}
Actually, setting the display to inline-block gives a similar result as the answer gave by ITChristian:
.breadcrumb {
display: inline-block;
}
However, both solutions have some problems. In case of setting width to a fixed value the site ceases to be responsive (the breadcrumb will not size with the window). When setting display to inline-block the gray background shrinks to only cover the links, leaving a white strip to the right. If after setting display to inline-block the width is set to 100% then it overflows the right border (since the width is to take 100% of the parent's element). Maybe the simplest solution would be to just get rid of the spaces?
EDIT:
Just found by accident the proper fix. Overriding inline-block with inline for li in the breadcrumb gives the desired effect without any side issues (AFAIK):
.breadcrumb > li {
display: inline;
}
See also the new version of my fiddle, or open just the show frame in IE8.
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;
}
This question already has answers here:
How to remove the space between inline/inline-block elements?
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Closed 7 years ago.
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 have created a dropdown menu using CSS and JavaScript and I'm having an issue making the sub-menus appear correctly on IE7. When you hover on an anchor tag the background changes to blue. The problem is that in IE7 the background only changes for the length of the text rather than filling the width of the ul. So, if you have one item that has a long name, the rest display incorrectly as shown by the picture below.
You can see the problem on jsfiddle here. Just make sure you open it in IE7 or use IE9 in compatibility mode.
I have tried a bunch of things like setting the width to 100% and the display to block but haven't been able to get it to work. Has anyone solved this problem?
Thanks
Well, let's see what do you have:
<li>Content</li>
so you can see that the problem is that the hover is being applied to the <a> and because it's not wide enough it does not work correctly.
Why don't you hover the <li> instead then?
changing from
#mainmenu li a:hover { background: #008de2; }
to
#mainmenu li:hover { background: #008de2; }
P.S. I'm using IE9, so I can't test it properly :-/
Try setting display:block on those anchor tags.
You may find your solution here (jsfiddle).
I made a few changes to #mainmenu li ul li, as well as adding #mainmenu li ul li:hover { background: #008de2;}. Seems fine on my IE7, IE9 (don't have IE8 to test), Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome :)
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.