I constantly fail to prevent a submenu item from inheriting the color of a top item. I know that similar questions have been asked already but am sorry to not be able to solve my problem using them.
CSS:
.Topmenu a{
color:black;}
.Topmenu.update a{
color:blue;}
.Submenu a{
color:black;}
Now the Menu itself looks like this:
<div id='Mainmenu'><ul>
<li class='Topmenu update'><a href='Link1'>Link1</a><ul>
<li class='Submenu'><a href='Link2'>Link2</a></li>
</ul></li>
Now the submenu Link still is blue. What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Sorry for the confusion, it's a 2D-Menu, the Main Menu(Topmenu items) is horizontal with vertical Topmenu's (Submenu Item).
It is because of specificity. The .Submenu class is overwritten by .Topmenu.update. To avoid this, put .Topmenu.update in front of the .Submenu class.
.Topmenu a {
color: black;
}
.Topmenu.update a {
color: blue;
}
.Topmenu.update .Submenu a {
color: black;
}
<div id='Mainmenu'>
<ul>
<li class='Topmenu update'><a href='Link1'>Link1</a>
<ul>
<li class='Submenu'><a href='Link2'>Link2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
The problem is from your css. it should look like this;
.Topmenu a {
color: black;
}
.Topmenu, .update a {
color: blue;
}
.Submenu a {
color: black;
}
Notice the second block has a comma and space after the first class.
Although your HTML does have an error, it should still not affect the CSS from working right. and yes you have to fix your html it does not look right. so fix from #zowie's correction.
Let me know.
Use > for the first level:
.Topmenu a{
color:black;
}
.Topmenu.update > a{
color:blue;
}
.Submenu a{
color:black;
}
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Firstly, happy new year to you all! :)
Ok let's get to it. I have 5 items in my menu, and i would like to color "+" part of the word to red, choosing 2nd,3rd and 4th item of menu.
This is what menu looks like right now.
This is how the menu should look like, when its done.
I might have given a bad picture, but i think you can see the red "+" on 2nd,3rd and 4th item of menu.
This is what i've tried so far, but i can't seem to figure out the nth-child method.
#menu li:nth-child(2):first-letter a{color:red;}
Also tried this, but it colors every first letter in all 5 elements :S
#menu .nav > li > a:first-letter{color:red;}
Any help will be appreciated!
Thank you all!
I've managed to find the solution. Not sure if it's the best one, but im posting it below, so that any1 in the future can use it too, if no other solution is found
#menu .nav > li:nth-child(2) > a:first-letter
{
color:red;
}
#menu .nav > li:nth-child(3) > a:first-letter
{
color:red;
}
#menu .nav > li:nth-child(4) > a:first-letter
{
color:red;
}
Use the :not() selector to have all but one selected like this:
#menu{
background: rgb(83,83,83);
width: 100vw;
height: 40px;
}
ul{
text-align: center;
line-height: 40px;
vertical-align: central;
}
ul li{
display: inline-block;
color: white;
list-style: none;
margin-left: 25px;
}
a{
color: white;
display: block;
}
#menu ul li:not(:first-child):not(:last-child) a::first-letter{
color: red;
}
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>+option</li>
<li>+option</li>
<li>+option</li>
<li>+option</li>
<li>+option</li>
</ul>
</div>
I know this question already has an accepted answer, but I think there is a semantically better way of doing this. Instead of having the + symbol inside the link's markup, why not add it as a pseudo :before element? Easier to style and not dependent on your markup.
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Domov</li>
<li class="with-symbol">Naravni kamen</li>
<li class="with-symbol">Dekorativni kamen</li>
<li class="with-symbol">Keramika</li>
<li>Kontakt</li>
</ul>
</nav>
And the respective CSS:
.with-symbol:before {
content: '+';
color: red;
}
Then position it with either position: absolute; or negative left margin.
From the docs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%3A%3Afirst-letter): A first line has meaning only in a block-container box, therefore the ::first-letter pseudo-element has an effect only on elements with a display value of block, inline-block, table-cell, list-item or table-caption. In all other cases, ::first-letter has no effect. So you will need to add display: block to your anchor tags.
I would also change the selector to:
ul li a:first-letter {
color:red;
}
as you need to select the first letter of the anchor tag, not the list item.
As a side note, it might be a better solution to use a span as suggested above or pseudo elements to insert the plus character and use a class to determine if it should be displayed or no.
I'm trying to show the current page link in a different color. I've found other answers that will do this, but its still not working. I'm using a class of current_link on the respective links of each page. I also found an answer that said to apply the !important tag to the color rule but that didn't do anything. I'm thinking I have something small wrong or that I'm not aware of. Maybe some kind of ordering rule.
Here's the CSS rules relative to my links. As you can see I have .current_link at the top (I figured this would get rid of any ordering/over riding issues). The relative HTML naming will follow.
.current_link {
color: #00AD26;
}
#main_nav a:link, a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: #00A3E6;
}
#main_nav a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #A8EDFF;
}
#main_nav a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #00B7FF;
}
a:link, a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: #00A3E6;
}
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #00B7FF;
}
Relative HTML from one of the pages.
<ul id="main_nav" class="grid_5 prefix_9">
<li id="home" class="current_link">Portfolio</li>
<li id="about">About</li>
<li id="contact">Contact</li>
</ul>
Your .current_link matches the <li>.
The <a> inside the <li> overrides the color it inherits from its parent element.
You need to apply the color to the <a> itself, either by moving the class or by changing the selector to select <a> elements inside the <li>.
Also, lower rules override earlier ones (if they have the same specificity).
Try this:
.current_link a {
color: #00AD26 !important;
}
You should use:
#main_nav li.current_link a {
color: #00AD26;
}
This will overrule the other selectors and avoids using !important.
<li class="red">
<p>Home</p>
</li>
In the CSS, I'd like the bg color of the li element to change, BUT the color of the text has to change too. The problem is, even after I hover of ther li element, I have to go further and actually touch the text in order for it's color to change.
I'll be amazed if this can work.
First remove <p> tag
li.red > a:hover {
color: red;
}
li:hover {
background-color: blue;
}
li:hover p,
li:hover a {
color: yellow;
}
There are 2 things you should take into account:
<p></p> is a block level element. It is not used inside inline-element, in this case, <li></li>
Simply make your <a></a> tag to be a block level element.
So your code should be like this:
<ul>
<li class="red">
Home
</li>
</ul>
Then you could come up with the CSS like this:
.red a:hover {
padding: 10px 20px;
display: block;
background-color: #9900;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
I am working with a nested menu and have the same class appear on two levels of the tree, but I need to format said differently in the lower level. Any ideas how I can do this? I've searched for some time and tried many different solutions to no avail. Here's my HTML and most recent attempt:
<ul class="topnav">
<li><h3 class="toggle_action"> Meetings</h3>
<ul class="div_toggle">
<li><h3>Home</h3></li>
<li><h3 class="toggle_action"> Attend</h3> // <-- same div as line 2 but needs different formatting
<ul class="div_toggle"> etc...
and attempted CSS fix:
.toggle_action { /// the top-level format for the div with blue text
color:#5376c5;
}
ul.topnav ul li { /// the general <ul> formatting for the secondary level
color: #999;
}
.toggle_action ul ul li { /// my attempt to make the div appear in gray on second level
color:#999;
}
any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Your last CSS style never exists in the HTML; the <h3 class="toggle_action"> has no children.
I think you meant this:
.toggle_action {
color:#5376c5;
}
ul.topnav ul li {
color: #999;
}
ul ul li .toggle_action {
color: #999;
}
I have been trying to create a border-color change hover effect with CSS and something seems to not be working properly. Here is my code:
Markup:
<ul>
<li class="hover">
<img src="img/content/lighter.png" alt="lighter"/>
<p>Discusing Strategy</p>
</li>
<li class="triangle"></li>
<li class="hover">
<img src="img/content/wrench.png" alt="wrench"/>
<p>Beginig <br/> Designs & Development</p>
</li>
<li class="triangle"></li>
<li>
<img src="img/content/car.png" alt="car"/>
<p>Delivering Product</p>
</li>
</ul>
CSS:
div#bpath ul li.triangle {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 95px solid #d0dde5;
border-left: 20px solid #c1c1c1;
border-bottom: 95px solid #d0dde5;
}
div#bpath ul li.hover:hover li.triangle {
border-left-color: #5f9999;
}
What am I doing wrong here? I used the same technique to change the color of the p element and that worked. Why dosen't the border color change work?
Your selector:
div#bpath ul li:hover li.triangle
is trying to match a li element of class 'triangle' within an li. As you don't appear to have a nested list (therefore no li elements within other li elements) this doesn't seem able to work.
If you remove the latter li (li.triangle) to give (all, or one, of) the following:
div#bpath ul li:hover,
#bpath ul:hover li.triangle:hover,
#bpath ul:hover li.triangle,
#bpath ul li.triangle:hover {
border-left-color: #5f9999;
}
this might work. Assuming your posted-HTML is correct.
If you want all triangle li's to be changed use this:
div#bpath ul:hover li.triangle{
border-left-color: #5f9999;
}
If you want just the next triangle element it's more tricky but you can try this:
div#bpath ul li:hover + li.triangle {
clear:both;
}
I think this doesn't work on ie. If you want it to work on IE i would go for jquery.
you should use this way,
div#bpath ul li.triangle:hover {
border-left-color: #5f9999;
}
you can use this fiddle, which changes the triangles color and adapt it to clarify your question. http://jsfiddle.net/j7YSu/1/
(or just accept it as the right answer :))
i had some issues with your code, but maybe this fiddle will help: http://jsfiddle.net/j7YSu/3/