So I'm developing a web page, and I'm making it now responsive. I managed to get everything responsive except the main menu nav.
It's a ul element and it has li inside with text. Here are some pictures about the problem
Full webpage:
On mobile:
I just want to adjust the text or the ul element to fit without making another line.
Here's the css ul element:
.main-menu ul {
display: table !important;
background-color: #98B709;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
}
And the li element:
.main-menu ul li {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
position: relative;
list-style: none;
}
I tried a lot of things but nothing works...
Thanks and hope you guys can help me!
I found a very useful Stackoverflow post that should answer your question:
Responsive Font Size
And I experienced that changing font size and other problematic parts from px to em generally helps to make is more responsive too.
Try to use different font size e.g
vw Relative to 1% of the width of the viewport
vh Relative to 1% of the height of the viewport
Here is a variation that does not use display:table, which I always avoid.
The important bit you can play with is the 'width' of the 'li' element. If you really want to squash them all on one line, you can make this a very small %.
If you do use the second line, the 'text-align:center' in the 'ul' element will keep everything centered, instead of floating left as you have it now.
I use this code block all the time; it's a common problem.
#main{
width:100%;
}
#main ul {
display: block;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#main li {
width:10%;
list-style: none;
display: inline-block;
padding: 0;
margin: 8px;
}
Related
This is something that should be pretty simple, but I've been struggling with this for quite a while now. I want an unordered list to remain centered inside a div. The unordered list's display is set to inline, and I want to keep a consistent distance between items in the ul.
In my code below you will notice I have '.menu2' set to display:none. For larger windows I have 2 unordered lists structured vertically, sitting side by side. For the smaller windows which I'm working with now I want to hide one of those ul's and the remaining ul I want to be displayed inline. The only problem I'm having is keeping that ul centered with the page.
Couple of things to note:
-I'm trying to keep the ul on just one line
-This is just supposed to be for tablet sized windows so because of space the ul needs to take up the whole width of the page.
-When I preview this in a browser and resize the window, I've noticed that it seems like the ul remains a set distance from the left side of my window while as the window size changes the gap on the right side of the ul changes. To try and fix this I have tried giving a % position on the right side, but that didn't make any difference.
.menu li {
list-style-type: none;
width: auto;
font-family: source-sans-pro;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 200;
float: left;
clear: both;
color: rgba(248,248,248,1.00);
padding-top: 1%;
font-size: 100%;
}
.menu {
width: 20%;
margin-top: 12%;
position: relative;
left: 1%;
float: left;
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 482px) {
.menu2 {
display: none;
}
.menu {
width: 100%;
margin-top: 60px;
}
.menu li {
display: inline;
clear:none;
padding-left: 3%;
padding-right: 3%;
font-size: 80%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/nickatnite_9/8UDC9/embedded/result/
Not exactly how it looks in my page but hopefully it will give you an idea.
It is not working because you have float: left at .menu li
Remove it and add:
display: inline-block;
I am using this template on my website: http://www.css3templates.co.uk/templates/CSS3_gallery_grey/index.html
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/uPw85/
What I need help with:
1) Center the menu on the page, as you can see on the link it's left aligned.
2) Still keep the text in the drop down menus aligned to the left (just as in the link above).
I've searched this page and on Google a lot before asking for help and none of the results have worked for me. I've tried just about every tip I've found but the menu still won't be centered for me, the only thing that happens is that the text in the drop down menu is centered but I want to keep it to the left.
I've tried with multiple variations of these in different places (nav, menu, li, ul) in the CSS but with no luck:
display: inline-block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;,
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
width: auto;
EDIT 2/10, 1 PM EST: I appreciate you guys trying to help but so far none of the answers you've given has helped.
Try this:
ul.sf-menu {
text-align: center;
}
ul.sf-menu li {
display: inline-block;
}
ul.sf-menu li a {
display: block;
}
ul.sf-menu ul {
text-align: left;
}
EDIT:
I've edited the JSfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/uPw85/3/
EDIT 2:
Remove float: left in ul#nav, or just remove the id="nav" in the ul-tag in the html
In order to center the menu you need to set the width of the child div to be smaller than a set width of a parent. Additionally need to remove the float of the menu as floating an element effectively takes it out of the parent div.
Try setting the following:
ul.sf-menu {
float: none;
width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Works when inspecting element. Another alternative would be to try the following code.
ul.sf-menu {
float: none;
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Just add:
ul#nav {
float:left;
padding-left: 80px;
}
I have spent like 4 hours and still cannot fix it, I have 2 divs, one floated left and one right, in left div I have text and in right I have a <*ul>, when I use text-align:center; based on media query for the left template it works perfectly, but I also want the <*ul> to be centered when the browser width is reduced. Please take a look here and let me know what I am doing wrong and where exactly ? http://goo.gl/OJ5OHt THANKS A LOT to anyone who helps me get out of this..
The problem is not so much the UL but the children LI, that are floated left.
You have two options:
A)
Set a fixed width to UL and center via margin auto:
.social-icons ul {
margin: 5px auto;
width: 220px;
}
B) Remove the float from the children LI, set them to inline and set their children A to inline-block (and then UL text-align would work):
.social-icons ul {
text-align: center;
}
.social-icons ul li {
display: inline;
float: none;
}
.social-icons ul li a {
display: inline-block;
}
The only ways I can see to do this is to add the following to your ul style under your media query:
margin: 0 auto;
width: 217px;
It needs to be a fixed width.
OR
Change your ul to:
text-align: center;
And your li and a items to:
display: inline-block;
Either way should work.
Here's my struggle. So I've been wondering how I could make the navbar-links fill out 100% of the nav. So that they have an equal amount of spacing and the font-size will decrease if more links were added - this way it will always fill out 100%.
As it is now, I cannot seem to achieve this. I've only got a set padding, but I've tried doing stuff like:
display: block;
float: left;
width: 100%;
but it's giving me all kind of effects that doesn't work at all :S
Anyone able to help me out on this?
Codepen example
Remove width from #main-navigation and add with to #main-navigation li with a value equal to the 100/the_numberof_elements_in_the list. Your css should be:
#main-navigation {
height: 54px;
overflow: hidden;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
#main-navigation ul {
height: 54px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#main-navigation li {
font-size: 1.0em;
text-transform: uppercase;
list-style: none;
float: left;
width: 20%;
}
This way you'll have your nav occupying all the available width, but your font-size will not automatically resize. You'll should change it also in function of the number of elements (similar the way you have to do to the li's width). If your are generating this list dynamically at server side, you could do the same with the css and then calculate the right values for these two attributes. If your are using ajax to populate the list, you could do change the attributes with javascript.
A way of doing this is using display: table on the parent and display:table-cell on the children. I believe it won't work on some versions of IE (of course). Here's an exaple
You can use the nav tag instead and treat it as table. Treat the <ul> tag as table-row and <li> tag as table-cell. Ex:
nav{
display: table;
text-align: center;
width: 100%
}
nav ul{
display: table-row;
}
nav ul li {
display: table-cell;
}
This will stretch the contents of <li> 100%
I learnt it from the following link: http://www.darkstardesign.com/darkstar-blog/2012/11/27/stretching-horizontal-navigation-menus-to-the-full-width-of-a-layout/
I want my li elements that form a horizontal menu to be distributed evenly across the width of my ul element. I normally float my li elements to the left and add some margin. But how do I put the proper spacing so they extend from the left of my ul element to the right edge?
Here's an example jsfiddle of a menu not distributed across the ul.
The spacing has to be the same between each li. But the li elements may be different lengths.
Yet another approach. This is something I use when trying to span a menu evenly across the page. It is nice if you have a dynamic menu that will change depending on certain conditions (like an admin page that only shows up if you are logged in as an admin).
CSS:
nav div ul {
display: table;
width: 100%;
list-style: none;
}
nav div ul li {
display: table-cell;
text-align: center;
}
nav div ul li a {
display: block;
}
I was kinda lazy, and just copied this from my current project, so you will have to adapt it to fit your code, but it is my preferred method of creating a horizontal menu
EDIT: You can make it look like it spans better by adding this:
CSS:
nav div ul li:first-child {
text-align: left;
}
nav div ul li:last-child {
text-align: right;
}
again, untested, just typed.
You'll need to set the width of the li elements to force them to fill the space:
ul {
width: 100%;
}
li {
float: left;
width: 33%;
}
(Fiddle demo)
If you add more items to the list, you'll need to adjust the percentage width - eg with four items, the width will be 25%.
I have two answers for you.
If you want to stick with the float model:
Your ul element needs to have the overflow property set (without this property, your ul (or any element containing floated elements) is not given a height (this is expected behavior, mind you: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html) and will therefore default to a height of 0 - the effect of this will be that if you set different background colors for your ul/li and body, the background of your ul will not seem to display).
ul {
text-align: center;
width: 300px;
overflow: auto;
}
Your li elements need to have widths set, otherwise - as floated elements - their width will be set to whatever they contain. I've used pixels, below, but you can use a percentage value too.
li {
float: left;
margin: 5px 0 5px 0;
width: 100px;
text-align: center;
}
Use the display:inline-block property for your li elements (if support for old browsers isn't a priority). IE 7 does not support this, so it's not useful if you need wide cross-browser support, but it creates the effect you want - though make sure you then delete any spaces between your </li> and <li> tags, otherwise they will be counted in the overall width and will show up as spaces between the elements.
One advantage that this method has is that you don't have to know or set the width of the container ul if you use percentage widths on your contained li elements, you still get the centering for free with the text-align property you already have. This makes your layout very responsive.
Here's markup and CSS that works the way I think you are requesting:
Markup:
<ul>
<li>banana</li><li>orange</li><li>apple</li>
</ul>
CSS:
li {
display:inline-block;
margin:5px 0 5px 0;
width:33.33%;
}
ul {
text-align: center;
}
If you'd rather keep the markup on multiple lines, then you'll have to fiddle with the left and right margins of your li elements in the CSS.
If you add li elements, you'll have to change the percentage width to match (for example, with four li elements in your markup, you'd need to change your CSS to have a width of 25% for each one).
Html:
<ul>
<li>1</li>
<li>2 <br>4</li>
<li>3</li>
</ul>
Css:
ul {
list-style: none;
font-size: 0;
text-align: justify;
}
ul:after {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
li {
font-size: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}
codepen
I don't get your question clearly so I assumed that you might want this:
li {
border:solid 1px red;
clear:both;
display:block;
float: left;
margin: 5px;
width:100%;
}
ul {
text-align: center;
width:300px;
}