I found this really simple way to make responsive menu on w3schools (article) but I have been struggling for a few days trying to center it horizontally.
html
<ul class="topnav">
<li>Home</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>About</li>
<li class="icon">
☰
</li>
</ul>
CSS
/* Remove margins and padding from the list, and add a black background color */
ul.topnav {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #333;
}
/* Float the list items side by side */
ul.topnav li {float: left;}
/* Style the links inside the list items */
ul.topnav li a {
display: inline-block;
color: #f2f2f2;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
transition: 0.3s;
font-size: 17px;
}
/* Change background color of links on hover */
ul.topnav li a:hover {background-color: #111;}
/* Hide the list item that contains the link that should open and close the topnav on small screens */
ul.topnav li.icon {display: none;}
I made a fiddle from you linked code: https://jsfiddle.net/gqm7zdf9/
A solid option is to add a wrapper around your UL so that you can move the background-color there. Then you position it inside its wrapper.
HTML
<div class="nav-wrapper">
<ul class="topnav">
...
</ul>
</div>
additional CSS
div.nav-wrapper {
background-color: #333;
}
div.nav-wrapper ul.topnav {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
}
If you're able (depending on the browsers you need to support) to use display:flex, there's an even way more simple option. You just need to add some CSS:
ul.topnav {
/* ... */
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/gqm7zdf9/1/
I think you'll be able to continue with your media-queries from there...
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I have a media query to make my navbar buttons vertical on small screens, but when this happens there is blank space to the left of each button and I don't know why, as there is no left margin in my code. Thanks in advance to anyone who can get rid of this.
CSS:
/* Navbar */
#navbar {
background-color: #599;
list-style-type: none;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0px;
width: auto;
text-align: centre;
font-family: 'corbel','arial';
text-align: center;
}
#nav_li {
float: left;
display: inline;
text-align: center;
}
#nav_a {
text-decoration: none;
margin: 10px;
display: inline-block;
color: white;
}
/* Media queries for smaller screens*/
#media screen and (max-width : 350px){
/* reduce padding */
header nav a{padding:.7em .7em; }
[role=main]{padding:1.5em 1.5em;}
/* make navbar vertical */
#nav_li{text-align: center;
border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;}
#nav_li, #navbar_a{width: 100%;}
HTML:
<ul id='navbar'>
<li id='nav_li'><a id='nav_a' href='index.html'>Home</a></li>
<li id='nav_li'><a id='nav_a' href='gallery.html'>Gallery</a></li>
<li id='nav_li'><a id='nav_a' href='testimonials.html'>Testimonials</a></li>
<li id='nav_li'><a id='nav_a' href='contact.html'>Contact </a></li>
</ul>
By Default UL Element Take some padding from left. You need to add below css to resolve this:
#navbar {
padding: 0px;
}
I'd like to ask you for a little help. Well, I have to create a very simple navigation but I got a problem because I can't rewrite this code to make nav works without checkbox, it's very important - it shouldn't based on checkbox.
Ok, so first of all here is version based on checkboxes: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/dPaeZE
As you can see when user clicks TEST1 or TEST2 it expands list.
I want to make something similar to that but without checkboxes as I mentioned before, so here is my second codepen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/azXGEQ
I tried this code:
.menu {
display: none;
}
/* show menu */
.nav-header:focus + .menu{
display: block;
}
But it doesn't work, when I click on TEST1 or TEST2 ul doesn't show. Something here is wrong but I don't know what exactly. :P
Ok, so that's all hope you could check it and help me a bit.
Not a CSS soludtion but a simply jQuery toggle works fine:
Codepen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/yyZjdE
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('.nav-header').click(function(){
jQuery(this).siblings('ul.menu').toggle();
});
});
Basically, a span cannot receive focus.
The optimal solution is to use an element that can receive focus like an anchor link or, for preference an actual button.
For ease, I have use an link here but a button would be preferable because Links are not buttons
/* basic style */
body {
margin-top: 30px;
}
a {
color: #EF9000;
text-decoration: none;
}
.container {
width: 230px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
/* nav */
.nav,
.menu {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
text-align: center;
text-transform: uppercase;
list-style: none;
}
.menu li {
list-style: none;
display: list-item;
padding: 2px 0;
}
.menu li a {
display: block;
padding: 2px 0;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
.menu li a:hover {
background-color: #EF9000;
color: #F1F1F1;
}
/*
* Hide/show nav
*/
.nav-header {
cursor: pointer;
}
.menu {
display: none;
}
/* show menu */
.nav-header:focus + .menu {
display: block;
}
<div class="container">
<h1>Collpase menu NO checkbox</h1>
<ul class="nav">
<li>
Test 1
<ul class="menu">
<li>Something
</li>
<li>Another element
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<!--./test1-->
<li>
Test 2
<ul class="menu">
<li>Element
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<!--./test2-->
</ul>
</div>
<!--/.container-->
Stack Overflow Link to preferred answer.
This question already has answers here:
How do I justify a horizontal list?
(10 answers)
Closed 7 years ago.
I have used the code from this question to create a horizontal menu where each item is evenly spaced.
Here is my version:
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="first">
Home
</li>
<li>
About us
</li>
<li>
What we cover
</li>
<li>
Monitoring agencies
</li>
<li>
Publishers
</li>
<li>
News
</li>
<li>
Contact us
</li>
<span></span>
</ul>
</div>
And the CSS:
#navigation {
text-align: justify;
}
#navigation ul span {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 0;
}
#navigation ul {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}
#navigation ul li {
display: inline
}
#navigation ul li a {
display: inline;
border-right: solid 1px #ccc;
}
#navigation ul li.last a {
border-right: none;
}
Is there a way to make the vertical lines move to the right such that they are halfway between the end of the a tags and the end of the li tags?
Here is a fiddle.
I've added an answer here.
Hack Using Extra Elements for the Spacer Motif
Fiddle reference: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/bF6ey/
Consider the following HTML:
<div id="navigation">
<ul class="navigation">
<li class="first">
Home
</li>
<li class="spacer-motif">|</li>
<li>
About us
</li>
<li class="spacer-motif">|</li>
...
<li class="spacer-motif">|</li>
<li>
Contact us
</li>
</ul>
</div>
I added an extra list item between the links: <li class="spacer-motif">|</li> (yes, I cringe also...).
The CSS is as follows:
#navigation {
padding: 0 20px; /* add spacing at left/right edges of list */
}
#navigation ul {
display: table;
width: 100%;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#navigation ul li {
display: table-cell;
text-align: center;
width: 1%; /* force cell to shrink-to-fit text */
outline: 1px dashed blue;
}
#navigation ul li.spacer-motif {
width: 10%; /* force spacers to take up a lot of space */
outline: none;
}
#navigation ul li a {
white-space: pre;
}
The layout is based on using table display types.
For ul, use display: table and set the width to 100%. Remember to zero out margin and padding values.
For li, use display: table-cell and text-align: center.
The trick is to force the table cells to shrink-to-fit the text labels by
setting width: 1%, and then, for the li.spacer-motif, set width: 10% to force
the spacers to expand (evenly) to fill up the line.
To keep the text links from wrapping into 2 or 3 lines, set white-space: pre in the <a> elements (the links).
Cleaning Up The Semantics
The problem here is that the link texts vary in width and this makes it impossible to simply use table-cell's with a right or left border and centered text. The extra spacing will vary among the links and the left/right border will not be evenly spaced between the link texts.
The way around this is to add extra elements. I used a pipe (|) but I suppose you could add a pseudo-element with a 1px border and center it and so on.
However, if the elements are a problem, they could be inserted using jQuery or JavaScript.
IE 7 Support - Hack for CSS
If you need IE7 support, you need to adjust the CSS according to the following:
CSS: table and table-cell replacement for IE7
here take a look at this fiddle HERE
I made some small adjustments. I changed display:inline; to float:left; and centerd the text.
The space is coming from the 5px padding i gave to the
ul li a
I would use display: table on ul and display: table-cell on li for this.
and even padding on both sides for the a tag
Depending on the spacing your after, something like this should work:
#navigation ul li a {
padding-right: 10px;
}
Change the 'px' value to your needs.
You can try something like this:
#navigation ul li a {
display: inline;
margin-right: -14px;
padding-right: 14px;
border-right: solid 1px #ccc;
}
But it might not be cross-browser.
http://jsfiddle.net/gjFYf/2/
I found that padding-right: 30px; in #navigation ul li a worked nicely.
I've got this working by inserting extra list elements into the list and then setting the width of these elements to a single pixel. I've also set their background color and removed the border on the hyperlinks.
New styles...
#navigation ul li.line {
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
zoom: 1;
width: 1px;
background-color: #ccc;
height: 24px;
position: relative;
top: 5px;
}
#navigation ul li a {
display: inline;
line-height: 36px;
height: 36px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 18px;
color: #14328C;
font-weight: bold;
}
New Html snippet...
<li>
Publishers
<li class="line" />
</li>
It doesn't work in IE7 though. The text align seems to ignore the extra li unless it contains content.
Its also now semantically incorrect.
Fiddle.
I am making one simple horizontal menu with CSS and simple unordered list. The HTML of the menu is following:
<div id="navigation">
<div id="nav-holder">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Clients</li>
<li>Portfolio</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
And CSS is as follows:
#navigation
{
display: table;
height: 35px;
width: 100%;
#position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
background: Black;
}
#nav-holder
{
#position: absolute;
#top: 50%;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#navigation ul
{
#position: relative;
#top: -50%;
}
#navigation ul li
{
float: left;
}
#navigation ul li a
{
padding: 5px 10px;
margin-left: 2px;
background-color: Red;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana;
color: White;
}
I want the menu to have a 2px margin around all of the link elements.
The problem I am facing is that while it renders itself fine in IE with all of the rights margins but both Chrome and Firefox (both are latest) are having the following issues:
The problem does not seem to be related to only this particular implementation but Ive seen it rise up from veertically centering the links with line heights and so on too.
I would like to find a way to have all of the margins to look the same or some way to avoid this problem all-together.
Basically, I got this thing sorted out. I set the same line-height and height attribute to all of the following: ul, li, nav holder. I did it because when it was not done, all of these were rendered differently from browser to browser.
In addition, I removed the positionings, vertical alignings, hav-holder div entirely and then some.
try
display: inline-block;
for your #nav-holder
I am doing an horizontal dropdown menu. It looks like this :
[menu1][menu2][menu3][menu4]
But when I resize (less wide) my browser, the menu appears like :
[menu1][menu2]
[menu3][menu4]
I want it to remain in line all the time!
EDIT: my CSS file
/* General */
#cssdropdown, #cssdropdown ul {
list-style: none;
position: relative;
visibility: visible;
z-index: 1;
overflow: hidden;
}
#cssdropdown, #cssdropdown * { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
/* Head links */
#cssdropdown li.headlink {
width: 11.911em;
float: left;
margin-left: -1px;
border: 1px black solid;
background-color: #e9e9e9;
text-align: center;
}
#cssdropdown li.headlink a { display: block; padding: 10px; }
/* Child lists and links */
#cssdropdown li.headlink ul { display: none; border-top: 1px black solid; text-align: center; }
#cssdropdown li.headlink:hover ul { display: block; }
#cssdropdown li.headlink ul li a { padding: 5px; height: 17px;}
#cssdropdown li.headlink ul li a:hover { background-color: #FF9; }
/* Pretty styling */
body {
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.7em;
position: static;
}
#cssdropdown a { color: black; font-weight: bold; font-size:10px } #cssdropdown ul li a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
#cssdropdown li.headlink { background-color: #FFF50A; }
#cssdropdown li.headlink ul { background-position: bottom; padding-bottom: 10px; }
/*headermenu*/
#headerMenu {
position: relative;
float: left;
color: #DDD;
z-index: 1;
height: 34px;
right: 10px;
width: auto;
}
<div align="left" class="thrColElsHdr" id="headerMenu">
<ul id="cssdropdown" name="cssdropdown">
<li class="headlink"> Ecole
<ul>
<li>Histoire</li>
<li>Philosophie</li>
<li>Méthode</li>
<li>Equipe</li>
<li>Qualité</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Emplois</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="headlink"> Cours
<ul>
<li>Individuel</li>
<li>Semi-privé</li>
<li>Mini-groupe</li>
<li>Intensif</li>
<li>Entreprises</li>
<li>A distance</li>
<li>Par téléphone</li>
<li>Coaching</li>
<li>Soutien scolaire</li>
<li>Diplômes officiels</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="headlink"> Inscription
<ul>
<li>Auto-évaluation</li>
<li>Conditions</li>
<li>Tarifs</li>
<li>Formulaires</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="headlink"> Contact
<ul>
<li>Ecole</li>
<li>Lien externe</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div><br/>
You should set min-width on the element containing the menu.
you want to use the css
white-space:nowrap;
this should be applied to the parent of your menus
if you provide some of the actual html, I can be more specific
for example
<div class='menuContainer'>
<span>menu1</span>
<span>menu2</span>
<span>menu3</span>
<span>menu4</span>
</div>
and css like
.menuContainer {
white-space:nowrap;
}
see http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_white-space.asp
Edit in response to op question modifications
I assume #cssdropdown is the id your container around all the menus. please let me know the html for this if it's not correct.
Anyways, in this case, you should add to your css
#cssdropdown {
white-space:nowrap;
}
One other note, I see the width of your mens is set to 11.911em. When I see that I can only assume that you set it to be exactly the right width for whatever font you have. keep in mind your users may have slightly different fonts and suddenly your pixel perfect sizing is meaningless. design with a little more flexibility in mind.
Sounds like your width property isn't being set in either the HTML or the CSS.
Can you provide some sample code?