I've tried googling and searching here, but can't understand what's happening.
I want menu list items to be % based, I could give them % width, but then they all would be same width. I want it look nicer and have borders within distance relative to text width if that makes sense. So I decided to use table cells and % padding. It all looked nice until I started clicking links. Then width of each list item starts changing. No idea why it's happening and how to solve this. hope you can help.
* {
margin:0;padding:0;
}
#nav {
display: table;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
background-color: #FF9;
}
#nav ul {
display: table-row;
}
#nav ul li{
display:table-cell;
margin:0;
padding:1em 3%;
border-color:#000;
border-style:solid;
border-width:0 1px 0 0;
}
#nav ul li:last-child{
border: none;
}
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li><li>About</li><li>Products</li><li>FAQ</li><li>Support</li><li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
ok turns out simply removing padding stops that glitch from happening. And as previous commentator suggested using em works great. Not sure why I decided to use %. But nevertheless, it's odd that glitch happens after a click.
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I've been scratching my head with this one for a while. I need to make a ul li menu reduce width responsively. At the moment the last li wraps to another line as the screen width is reduced. Whilst I've managed to do it on one of my menus, the same type of css won't work on this as the li contents are not equally sized. I did find a fiddle from a previous SO question, but trying that method it completely breaks the styling of the dropdown for "Shop By Products"
I'm trying to achieve something like this as the viewport is reduced.
http://jsfiddle.net/au9muz43/
where the css is very simple as
.horizontal-style {
display: table;
width: 100%
}
.horizontal-style li {
display: table-cell;
}
.horizontal-style a {
display: block;
border: 1px solid red;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 5px;
background: #999
}
I've set up a fiddle with a large chunk of my css and html here: https://jsfiddle.net/1Le63xk0/1/
Even adding
display:table-cell;
to my css line
.mega-menu li{float:left;text-align:center;position:relative;margin-right:15px;border:none;}
breaks the dropdown layout for the Products
So a quick combining of the two fiddles, I noticed that some of the styles conflicted. I removed your display:block calls on the li / a, and made them display:table-cell; (which is the reason why it will shrink, instead of drop to a new line.
Brought all your css over, this was just a case of fixing certain divs that were still styled as block/inline-block and converting them to table formats.
The main issues were found in these lines:
.mega-menu li a{color:#fff;outline:0;padding:12px 35px 0px 0px;text-decoration:none;display:block;font-weight:normal;text-transform:uppercase;}
.mega-menu li:hover a{color:#007dc5;position:relative;z-index:11;padding:4px 11px 3px 11px;}
Where you had a large amount of padding that was pushing each div.
Here is the JSFiddle.
Edit: Updated just to bring more of his css over.
Edit 2: Still getting downvoted, there literally is no other way to explain it other than, double checking OPs display properties. OP hasn't responded explaining something is wrong with the fiddle, so as far as I can see, it has everything he asked for: A shrinking nav, with his dropdowns working the same.
First: there is a ; missing on width:100%. Secondly it can be solved by changing display to block and inline-block. The table display is for tables and (probably) not intended to be used in this case.
.horizontal-style {
display: block;
width: 100%;
}
.horizontal-style li {
display: inline-block;
float:left;
}
.horizontal-style a {
display: block;
border: 1px solid red;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 5px;
background: #999
}
div {
background: #ccc
}
<div style="width: 100%;">
<ul class="horizontal-style">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Shop By Products</li>
<li>Shop By Brand</li>
<li>Why Choose Us</li>
<li>Support</li>
<li>Offers</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
</ul>
</div>
Take a better look in this JSFiddle. StackOverflow snippet does not support resizing.
I've looked at and tried a few of the existing solutions on the site (for example CSS Problem to make 2 divs float side by side and CSS layout - Aligning two divs side by side) but none of them work for me.
I'm a bit of a newb to CSS but I'm trying to align the title and menu on my WordPress site http://photography.stuartbrown.name/ in a similar way to http://www.kantryla.net/. Whenever I float:right on the menu area however the menu disappears below the image and a float:left on the menu it pushes the image way out to the right.
I know that in order to achieve what I want I will need to reduce the size of the site title and reduce the width of the menu (perhaps by reducing the gaps between the items in the list?), but I'd really appreciate some advice on how to achieve the title and menu layout of kantryla.
You may notice that I edited the PHP of the theme to include a DIV
<div class="stuart_menu">
that surrounds both the title and menu thinking that this wold make the enclosed items easier to control. Nt sure if that's right or not but I can easily remove if necessary.
Thanks for any help!
Place these styles in your CSS
#logo {
float: left;
margin: 0 0 25px;
position: relative;
width: 20%;
}
#logo h1 {
color: #555555;
display: inline-block;
font-family: "Terminal Dosis",Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif;
font-size: 25px;
font-weight: 200;
margin-bottom: 0.2em;
}
#menu {
float: left;
width: 80%;
}
.stuart_menu {
overflow:auto;
}
I guess thats it.
The menu is kinda messed up, I can't make any sense out of it with all the (unneeded) elements, classes.
But basicly you're on the right way, you'll need to redruce the size of both main elements (logo and menu) so it fits inside the parent div.
For instance, like this:
HTML
<div class="stuart_menu">
<div class="logo">logo</div>
<ul class="nav">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Photos</li>
<li>Delicious</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>Google+</li>
<li>FOAF Description</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS:
.stuart_menu {
width: 600px;
}
.logo {
width: 150px;
background: red;
float: left;
}
.nav {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0;
border-top: 1px solid gray;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
float: left;
}
.nav li {
display: inline-block;
}
Also check this demo.
You can choose if you want to align the menu next to the logo (using float: left) or align it to the right side of the parent (changing the float to right).
Any kind of solution you can try could lead to modify the look & feel of your site.
Maybe you can try to achieve this by reducing the width of the elements and make it float on left.
BTW, this would mess up the entire design of the site, because the "menu" section is inserted into the main container element. So I'd rather separate the two section.
what I'd do is:
#logo{ width:60%;float:left;}
nav {width:35%;float:left;}
to reduce the gap between the nav li elements you can reduce the padding and to make it more recognizable, add a border-right
#menu ul li{margin:22px 15px; border-right:1px solid #ccc;}
Hope this works
Just changing the #logo to include float: left; should put the menu up with the logo. It will be to the right of it. Its just a matter of then down sizing both the logo and menu to fit within the container. Also the other answer should also work.
I've a header div and a menu ul below it. I'd like to accomplish 2 things:
1) the ul should have the same width as the div (outer vertical borders exactly same x position
2) I'd like to keep the spacing between li elements roughly equal
With some trial and error on the li's margins and padding I roughly achieved the first point in Google Chrome (please see this jsfiddle) but in Firefox the li's don't fit in the ul so they don't stay on a single line. Also, the last li tends to 'spill over' to a second line when zooming in/out.
I tried it with margin:5px auto and padding:5px auto on the li elements but here auto seems to mean zero.
Is this really difficult/impossible or am I overlooking something obvious?
I also tried width:fit-contents but that didn't help either.
I edited a whole lot in your CSS, check the updated fiddle.
Basicly, this is what I've done:
HTML:
<ul>
<li>link</li>
<li>link</li>
<li>link</li>
</ul>
CSS:
ul {
width: 960px;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
}
ul li {
display: table-cell;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
}
The ul is displayed as a table, with the li's as table-cells, making it as width as the header. Within the li i display the anchors as a block, making them fill the whole li. Hope it suits you.
P.s. make sure you remove the class cf from the ul when you use this.
I think some fellow frustrates may find this useful:
.main-menu ul li ul li{
white-space: nowrap;
}
Like this
ul#mmenu li
{
padding:7px;
}
DEMO
You'll need to adjust the padding in ul#mmenu I changed the padding to padding:7px 23px; and it stays in a single line,but there will be a blank space at the right end of the last menu.
You can give absolute position to li items and position them (first have left:0, second: left:100px or so... last have right:0 and so on). That way they will always be at the same place when you zoom.
For those wanting to avoid CSS table and table-cell, which by the way, I have no probelm with you can use text-align:justify on the UL with a couple of tweaks.
Basic HTML:
<ul id='mmenu'>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah</a></li>
</ul>
Note we've lost the clearfix because: a) We're not going to use floats and b)it breaks this solution.
CSS:
ul#mmenu{
width:100%;
margin:15px 0 10px 0;
overflow:hidden;
text-align:justify; /*Added this*/
}
ul#mmenu li{
letter-spacing:.05em;
color:#0a93cd;
/*Now inline blocks instead of blocks floated left*/
display:inline-block;
font:24px arial;
padding:7px 26px;
background:#fff;
border-left:2px solid #0a93cd;
border:2px solid #0a93cd;
border-radius:13px;
text-align:center;
}
/*Now for the hacky part....
...justify does not, by design, justify the last row of text
therfore we need to add an additional, invisible line*/
ul#mmenu:after {
content: "";
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
}
I have also removed the :first-child style in the Updated Fiddle
OK so this is actually a little complicated.
I have a navigation list where the list items are set to inline-block. The number of items is the list is dynamic so may vary.
My aim is to have the list items span the whole width of the container. (e.g. if there were 4 list items each one would take up 25% of the container width [ignoring margin/padding etc])
There is the added complication that browsers seem to add a 4px margin to inline-block elements where there is whitespace between them (linebreak/space etc).
I have made a fiddle as a starting point which has 2 examples: the first is just the list items in inline-block mode which the 2nd justifies them accross the width.
Neither achieves what I want which is for the whole width to be taken up by the elements without them breaking onto another line.
http://jsfiddle.net/4K4cU/2/
edit: slightly separate but why in my 2nd example is there a space beneath the lis, dispite the fact I have set line-height and font-size to 0?
OK, despite many decent answers and my inital thinking that js/jquery was the only way to go there is in fact a good css-only solution: using table cells. Original suggestion by #Pumbaa80
.list {
margin:0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
width:100%;
}
.list>li {
display: table-cell;
border:1px green solid;
padding:5px;
text-align: center;
}
.container {
border: 1px #777 solid;
}
<div class="container">
<ul class="list">
<li>text</li>
<li>text</li>
<li>some longer text</li>
<li>text</li>
</ul>
</div>
This is superior to other solutions as:
css-only
no 4px margin problem as with inline-block
no clearfix need for floated elements
maintains equally distributed width independent of li content
concise css
Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/rQhfC/
It's now 2016 and I wanted to update this question with an answer using flexbox. Consult with CanIUse for browser-compatiblity.
/* Important styles */
ul {
display: flex;
}
li {
flex: 1 1 100%;
text-align: center;
}
/* Optional demo styles */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul {
margin-top: 2em;
justify-content: space-around;
list-style: none;
font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
}
li {
padding: 1em 0;
align-items: center;
background-color: cornflowerblue;
color: #fff;
}
li:nth-child(even) {
background-color: #9980FA;
}
<ul>
<li>text</li>
<li>text</li>
<li>text</li>
<li>text</li>
</ul>
Pre-edit fiddle (now inlined in above snippet)
Here is one way of modifying your original concept.
The CSS is:
.list {
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style-type:0;
overflow: hidden;
height: 42px;
}
.list li {
display: inline-block;
line-height: 40px;
padding: 0 5px;
border:1px green solid;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
}
On your parent container, .list, set a height to enclose the child elements.
In this case, I chose 40px and added 2px to account for the border.
Also, set overflow: hidden on .list to hide the 2nd line generated by the pseudo-element.
On the li elements, set line-height: 40px which will center the text vertically.
Since the height is fixed, the second line gets hidden and you can style your parent with a border and so on without extra white space breaking the design.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/WaRZT/
Not Foolproof...
In some cases, you may have more links than can fit on a single line. In that case, the items could force a second row to form and because of overflow hidden, you would not see them.
Evenly Spaced Border Boxes
If you want the border boxes to be evenly distributed, you need to set a width to the li elements.
If the content comes from a CMS, and you have some control over the coding, you can dynamically generate a class name to set the correct width using predefined CSS rules, for example:
.row-of-4 .list li { width: 24%; }
.row-of-5 .list li { width: 19%; }
.row-of-6 .list li { width: 16%; }
See: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/WaRZT/3/
There are multiple fixes to this. The one I prefer is simply to remove the whitespace between the elements, simply because the font-size trick involves non-semantic CSS. And its a lot easier haha. Code because answer requires it:
<ul class="list">
<li>
text
</li><li>
text
</li><li>
text
</li><li>
text
</li>
</ul>
Updated jsFiddle, where the first list has items set to width:25%; and fits in the window on one line. If this isn't what you were going for, I must have misunderstood.
EDIT: for unknown number of list items
There is some CSS3 stuff for this, but to be cross-browser compatible back to IE8, you want a JS solution. Something like this should work:
var listItems = document.querySelectorAll('li');
listItems.style.width = listItems.parentNode.style.width / listItems.length;
SECOND EDIT: for jQuery instead of JS
Winging it, but:
var $listitems = $('.list').children();
$listitems.width($listitems.parent().width()/$listitems.length);
you can use the display:inline-block with li element,and use the text-align:justify with ul element. If you are interested ,please click here.
It is probably easy to implement, but hard to name it. I am struggling to display this layout:
<ul class='menu'>
<li>
<a>item1</a>
<ul class='submenu'> ... </ul>
<li>
<li><a>item2</a></li>
</ul>
in 2 horizontal lines: first line is ul.menu and second line is ul.submenu
Css:
ul.menu
{
position: relative;
height: 20px;
}
ul.menu li {
display: inline;
}
ul.submenu {
top: 20px;
left: 0px;
position: absolute;
}
Is there a way to do it without position:absolute, so that menu container is in the flow of the document (there is no gap is submenu isn't present)?
I've set up a jsFiddle for this.
If I understand the problem correctly, you want a two-line menu, the submenu of which is still in the document flow, so the page will adjust when there is no submenu.
The catch is this: Without position: absolute, the parent <li> elements will expand to contain the submenu <ul> elements. This will leave your top-level menu items will odd spacing, depending on the width of your submenu elements.
If this isn't a problem, then the above jsFiddle should solve the issue. If it is a problem, then there is a little more work to do (and I don't have a solution quite yet).
Check my answer here, I think it's similar to what you want.
EDIT: sorry, missed the css only idea, here's what I would do:
.submenu{ display:none;}
li:hover .submenu{ display: block;}
Use the following updated CSS. It will work perfectly.
ul.menu {
height: 20px;
}
ul.menu li {
display: inline;
float:left;
}
ul.submenu {
display:block;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}