I'm trying to build a menu in css using flexbox.
I have already made it responsive so it shrinks from horizontal menu to dropdown menu.
But I struggle separating first menu link from others and putting on the left while the rest are on the right.
As shown in picture I want to put first li the home icon on the left and the rest li items on the right.
Any suggestions?
menu example
From your image, I think this is a very simple example of what you want.
ul {
display: flex;
align-items: flex-end;
flex-direction: column;
}
li:first-child {
align-self: flex-start;
position: absolute; /* used only to preserve row alignment */
}
<ul>
<li>home</li>
<li>whatever 1</li>
<li>whatever 2</li>
<li>whatever 3</li>
</ul>
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Problem with aligning text in nav bar
Hi there
i have a problem with aligning my text in a navigation bar. I need the last text to move to the right of the bar so it stays with my search bar, and the other to stay on the left
But Im having issues getting this done, any help maybe?
You can use flex for this and just apply "margin-left: auto" to the last list item. Note that I got the basic layout (nav to the left and search to the right with flex (using flex-grow and flex-shrink repsectively).
The inside the nav - applying the flex styling to layout the list items and then on the :last-child using margin-left to force it to the right away from teh other list items.
UPDATE - following comments from OP - have amended it to have a second nav-list to the right of the search input. Much easier to split the list than trying to get the layout using float etc.
header {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
nav {
flex-grow: 1
}
.nav-list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.nav-list li {
padding: 4px 16px;
}
.search-wrapper {
flex-shrink: 0;
padding: 0 16px;
)
<header>
<nav>
<ul class="nav-list">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div class="search-wrapper">
<input type ="search" placeholder="search" />
</div>
<ul class="nav-list nav-list-right">
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</header>
Zurb Foundation's top-bar is extremely useful. It works great as a main navigation for a site/app, and collapses to a mobile-friendly format on smaller devices.
Its one major shortcoming is the ability to make the top-bar full-width with evenly spaced nav items. Is there a way to make the top-bar full-width and the nav items evenly spaced?
Example
If the top-bar has 6 nav items (width varying length titles) and we're using the default width of 1000px for .rows (with 15px gutters) the 6 nav items should evenly space themselves across the 970px top-bar. The first and last nav items should be left and right justified respectively.
As the screen size reduces the nav items should shrink in width to maintain their even spacing until the $topbar-breakpoint causes the top-bar to collapse to the mobile format.
Requirements
The solution should be CSS-based.
The solution should match Foundation 5's compatibility chart. Namely this means it needs to support IE9+.
Beneath the $topbar-breakpoint the top-bar should work as normal.
Here's a jsFiddle with the Foundation 5 resources already loaded.
Here is another solution. It is based on flexbox which hasn't been supported by browser for very long and it is still only a candidate recommendation: CSS Flexible Box Layout Module
jsFiddle
If you provide a good fallback, like the original Foundation CSS it can be used.
Update
You could also use this jQuery solution as a fallback as I haven't found any polyfills for flexbox: http://jsfiddle.net/borglinm/x6jvS/14/
.top-bar-section > ul {
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-flex-direction: row;
-moz-flex-direction: row;
flex-direction: row;
}
.top-bar-section > ul > li {
float: none;
-webkit-flex: 1;
-moz-flex: 1;
flex: 1;
}
.top-bar-section > ul > li > a {
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
}
Here's a solution that might need a bit of tweaking
JSFiddle Here
Sticking to the CSS-only requirements, the only feasible way I can think of is using CSS tables. We create nested table, table-rows and table-cells. The table-cells, by default, will try to maintain equal spacing between itself and other table-cells.
The table-row needs to span the entire topbar minus any Foundation topbar title-areas. To do this, we use an overflow: hidden trick to make the .top-bar-section span the remaining width of the topbar. Finally, we wrap our topbar with a div that has display: table and spans its parent.
Here's the relevant CSS
.top-bar-section {
overflow: hidden;
}
.center-topbar {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
.center-topbar .full-width {
display: table-row;
}
.center-topbar .full-width li {
display: table-cell;
float: none;
text-align: center;
}
What we are left is with a topbar whose elements are centered and have widths that vary depending on its contents. The $topbar-breakpoint works as normal as well.
Improvements?
Works on Chrome + Safari well on my end (OS X). For Firefox, the dropdown arrow is not displaying due to the removal of the left float. Just wanted to post this to get the conversation going. Anyone have any improvements?
Here's a solution using some built in foundation classes...basically I added 4 classes to your fiddle.
http://jsfiddle.net/x6jvS/7/
<div class="row">
<div class="small-12 columns">
<nav class="top-bar contain-to-grid" data-topbar>
<ul class="title-area">
<li class="name">
<h1></h1>
</li>
<li class="toggle-topbar menu-icon">Menu</li>
</ul>
<section class="top-bar-section">
<!-- Right Nav Section -->
<ul class="full-width web button-group large-block-grid-6">
<li>Link 1</li>
<li class="has-dropdown">
Long Link 2
<ul class="dropdown">
<li>First link in dropdown</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Link 3</li>
<li>Link 4</li>
<li>Even Longer Link 5</li>
<li>Link 6</li>
</ul>
</section>
</nav>
</div>
</div>
added class "contain-to-grid" to the nav element
added classes "web button-group large-block-grid-6" to the "section.top-bar-section > ul" (first ul in that section)
and blammo...seems to work fairly well cross-browser
Preface: Experienced coder, VERY new to CSS.
I've designed a website that uses a wrapper and has a horizontal banner that I want to fill with links on the top (Like retail sites that have their categories listed along the top).
I've placed all the links in a toplink class, and I have set position:relative;. My goal was to position them using top: and left:, and then space them out by setting all of their padding-left's to a certain degree. It seems when I do that, however, the last 2 links always jumps off the wrapper and moves to the left of the whole wrapper.
Any better ideas on how to implement this? I don't need solutions necessarily, just some ideas on how to move in a better path.
Assuming some simple markup like this:
<ul id="nav">
<li>link 1</li>
<li>link 2</li>
<li>link 3</li>
<li>link 4</li>
<li>link 5</li>
</ul>
1) To space out links use text-align:justify with a pseudo element after it with 100% width
FIDDLE
(Resize browser window and also see what happens when you add/remove a list item from the markup)
CSS
#nav {
text-align: justify;
min-width: 500px;
}
#nav:after {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
#nav li {
display: inline-block;
}
2) If you're looking for the links to expand/contract - you should use css tables for this
FIDDLE
(Resize browser window and also see what happens when you add/remove a list item from the markup)
CSS
#nav {
display:table;
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
#nav li {
display: table-cell;
height: 25px;
background: beige;
border: 1px solid brown;
text-align: center;
}
Try getting rid of the position:relative and the top:0; left:0; stuff and use float:left on the anchors instead.
You don't position: relative or float: left to align them horizontally.
Anchors are inline elements so they'll align horizontally anyway. However, you could add some padding to visually separate them.
the following is my menu structure:
<ul>
<li> menu 1</li>
<li> menu 2<br/> description</li>
<li> menu 3</li>
<li> menu 4</li>
</ul>
as you noticed the second menu have a height different than other siblings cause of it's content
so take alook at the css
ul{
display:flex;
flex-direction:row;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
}
ul>li{
background-color:blue;
border:2px solid red;
}
this will display ul as a menu with items side by side in the center of the containing parent "ul" but unfortunately with different height
so how i can make children have the 100% of their parent using flexbox without adding custom height in pixel?
Put an align-self: stretch on the ul>li.
Check out the sample : http://cssdeck.com/labs/full/nttaiab7/
I have a menu which has sub-menus and I have defined it as such:
<nav class='top'>
<li>Lanky</li>
<li>
Links
<nav class='sub'>
<li>dead beef</li>
<li>cafe feed</li>
</nav>
</li>
<li>Locks</li>
<li>Linger</li>
</nav>
I style it in such a way that the sub nav appears beside it's parent when on hover.
Problem is, I cannot click on those links. When I hover over the parent, the sub menu shows to the right and the Locks link displays beside the sub-menu (this is expexted). But once I mouseOut - say to try and click on dead beef, they disappear and the Lock link jumps back to its original position.
How do I make the sub menu persist to allow the mouse slide over to it?
To make your code compliant and accessible, you need to use the <ul> tags.
I suggest wrapping your <li> within the <ul> tags to fix your navigation errors - where you can also apply your class to the ul tag and there is no need for an additional div.
<ul class='top'>
<li>Lanky</li>
<li> Links
<li>
<ul class='sub'>
<li>dead beef</li>
<li>cafe feed</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Locks</li>
<li>Linger</li>
</ul>
Fixed this by addressing the list elements that had nav containers nested within. Many thanks to thirtydot for pointing me to jsFiddle - an amazing tool!
Here is the CSS...
nav { text-align: left; }
nav li { display: inline; text-align: center; }
nav a { display: inline-block; }
nav li { width: 95px; }
nav li nav { display: none; }
nav li:hover nav { display: inline; }