My webpage I'm building has a right aligned unordered list nav menu, and I want the bullets to align with one another to the left of the menu. I was able to accomplish this in Chrome and IE by putting the list inside its own DIV; the bullets are displayed outside the div,so I can control their distance from the list by changing the DIV width. In Firefox, however, the bullets are displayed inside the DIV, and I do not appear to have a way to control them.
See the difference here:
http://s106.photobucket.com/user/El_Ornitorrinco/media/fftrouble.png.html
What's with the discrepancy? Is there a simple solution, or do I need a completely different approach? Thanks for your time.
Ricky
Used to this Code
Define you a tag display:block; and text-align:right; as like this
<ul>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Cheese</li>
<li>Vegetables</li>
<li>Fruit</li>
</ul>
Css
ul li, ul{
list-style:square;
}
ul{
width:400px;
}
li a{display:block;text-align:right;}
Live Demo
Is this what you are looking for?
<ul>
<li>Milk></li>
<li>Eggs></li>
<li>Cheese></li>
<li>Vegetables></li>
<li>Fruit></li>
</ul>
CSS goes here
ul
{
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
text-align: right;
}
li
{
background-image: url(arrow.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 100% .4em;
padding-right: .6em;
}
If not then please create fiddle for it.
Related
Is it possible to create a horisontally styled menu (like on image below) without using absolute positioning or JS?
Trying to create a menu. It uses standard unordered list to display.
Here is what I'm trying to achieve:
(Green list is a submenu of "How are you". It has a line break because it is limited by width.)
And currently what I have is this:
This is the pen: http://codepen.io/olegovk/pen/NNREMY
And the code:
HTML
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Hello</li>
<li>How are you
<ul>
<li>Allright!</li>
<li>And you?</li>
<li>Fine</li>
<li>La-la-la</li>
<li>Bla-bla-bla</li>
<li>Cheerio!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Good bye</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div class="clear"></div>
<p>Some paragraph to make sure it's below the menu.</p>
CSS
.clear {
clear: both;
}
p {
background-color: lightgrey;
}
li {
float: left;
list-style: none;
display: list-item;
margin: 0 0.5em;
}
li li {
margin: 0 1em;
}
li li a {
color: green;
}
nav ul ul{
max-width: 300px;
}
I know it's possible with absolutely positioning child lists or with JS. But absolute positioning of child lists takes them out of doc flow. As a result they overlap with content below them. Also I can't use JS.
for li li use this css style .
li li {
margin: 0 1em;
position:relative;
left:-110px;
}
and give a id to good bye li and then write it css
e.g
<li><a href="#" id='someId'>Good bye</a></li>
li #someId{
position:relative;
left:-150px;
}
Seems that it's impossible.
Here is another similar question: Position: absolute and parent height?
With regards to the menu, to achieve the desired result, the only solution is to have top level menu and sub-menu in different lists. That way no need to position sub-menu (second level list) absolutely.
Did a lot of research on all the separate components. However, I don't understand how the components work together. Several placement issues have plagued me on different occasions. I would like to understand why it behaves like it does.
Designing a site with a fixed header, containing some buttons. I want the buttons to be placed on a colored row (NAV). That's why I made a child of NAV. However I can't seem to place the buttons over the bar.
Html
<body>
<nav class="row">
<ul class="menu">
<li id="link1">Link 1</li>
<li id="link2">Link 2</li>
<li id="link3">Link 3</li>
<li id="link4">Link 4</li>
<li id="link5">Link 5</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div class="row main">
#RenderBody()
</div>
CSS
nav, div, li {
-moz-box-sizing: content-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
box-sizing: content-box;
border: 1px dashed black;
}
.row {
width: 100%;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
nav {
position: fixed;
top: 80px;
height: 40px;
z-index: 100;
background-color: Green;
border-bottom: solid greenyellow 2px;
}
.menu li {
display: block;
background-color: darkgreen;
float: left;
height: 40px;
width: 60px;
}
.menu a {
color: white;
}
Result
It can be fixed by several things, like button margin or placing the buttons relative with a negative Top offset. However, these solutions feel 'dirty', like it's not the right way to do it. Why are the LI's not on top of NAV?
because your broswer applies by default some margin to the ul tag
try adding
ul {
margin: 0;
}
you could avoid these issues by using a css reset (Eric Meyer is the authority here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/) or Necolas' Normalize.css: http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
the first one zeroes all the values of all elements - you have to rebuild the style of some elements like lists.
The second one normalizes the values of elements to fix browsers inconsistencies
When you use the "float" property on some elements (here the "LI"), the parent (here the "menu") ignore his floating children to calculate his height.
So you have to specify a valid height to your menu, or probably better, use "overflow:auto" on it to remember him his children.
So remove your
nav {
height:40px;
}
and add in your CSS :
.menu {
overflow:auto;
}
As in this fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/bE3QH/
When using the element ul it sometimes creates whitespace on browsers. By making the margin 0px you are removing the whitespace decreasing the area used by element. hope this helps. The following code can be used...
ul {
margin:0px
}
You can use this instead of your code.
You will get ready made menu control on this website.
You can modify as you want & you will get your menu control available in a moment.
Here's the link.
http://cssmenumaker.com
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/07/16/slide-down-box-menu/
http://cssmenumaker.com/builder/1666948
Please check it out.
These are very useful and it will definitely save your time as well.
I hope this will resolve your issue.
Add this to your CSS:
ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
This clears the default properties for ul elements
You would be better off if you didn't specify a width and a height for the list items, but rather displaying the anchor tags as blocks, and giving those a width and height.
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
I'm trying to create a menu, in which the last menu item (with different class) will stick automatically to the right corner of the menu. I'm attaching a screenshot for this. There are a few menu items on the left and the last item should somehow count the rest of the available space on the right in the menu div, add this space as padding to the right and display a background in whole area ON HOVER (see the screen to understand this please)
Is something like this possible?
Thanks a lot
See if this will work for you: http://jsfiddle.net/neSxe/2
It relies on the fact that non-floated elements get pushed out of the way of floated elements, so by simply not floating it the last element fill up the rest of the space.
HTML
<ul id="menu">
<li>Services</li>
<li>Doctors</li>
<li>Hospitals</li>
<li>Roasted Chicken</li>
<li class="last">Customer Service</li>
</ul>
CSS
#menu {
width: 600px;
}
#menu li {
float: left;
}
#menu li a {
display: block;
padding: 6px 14px 7px;
color: #fefefe;
background-color: #333;
float: left;
}
#menu li a:hover {
background-color: #666;
}
#menu li.last {
float: none;
}
#menu li.last a {
text-align: center;
float: none;
}
Edit
I've made some changes to make it work smoother on IE6, by floating the anchors too.
If anybody else needs this and do not need to support IE6 and below, you can get rid of those two properties.
assuming your html looks like this:
<div id="menu">
<div class="entry">Services</div>
...
<div class="entry last">Support Staff</div>
</div>
I would make the #menu position: relative;, so that you can position the last menu entry absolute inside the #menu div.
Not necessarily putting the menu item last, but if you always wanted that rounded corner at the end then you could apply a background image to the ul itself and position that right top with the curve. The only issue you'd run into with this method is, if you hover over the last menu it will not put a hover right to the right-hand edge.
If you knew how many menu items there were you could achieve this by setting the correct widths for all your menu items?
Have a look at this:
http://jsfiddle.net/ExLdQ/
The trick is to use your lighter green as the background or background-image for the whole list. You can than use the darker green on all li's and add a background-color:transparent to li.last.
Just add float: right; to your css for the last menu item, and use light background for both the list itself and the last menu item.
It shows in firefox,but no in IE(in fact mine is IE6)
<style type="text/css">
li { list-style-type:disc; }
</style>
<div style="margin: 2px auto 15px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 480px; text-align: center;">
<ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; list-style-position: outside; overflow: visible;">
<li ><em>test.</em> 111</li>
<li><em>test.</em> 2</li>
</ul>
</div>
Can take a look here:link text
EDIT
All requirements:
1.remain the parent div with width fixed.
2.must make <ul> text-align:left;
3.show the bullets
Try messing with the margin/padding on the ul and give layout to the lis possibly?
ul { margin:0 0 0 10px; padding:0 0 0 10px; }
ul li { zoom:1; }
I forget which one IE cares about but it needs enough space to show them.
The left edge of lists is always at the text, not the bullet points. In other words, the bullet points are outside the list's bounding box, which makes them disappear for some reason in IE.
Add some left-padding to the list (at least 20px should do it).
I think you also want to add a doctype to the page - on your example page the list should be centrally aligned, but it isn't for me (in IE8) because IE is in quirks mode.
because of the CSS width attribute.
I suggest you set the width attribute to the li tag instead of the ul
Edit
list-style-position: outside; can make the same problem happen on Firefox
You will have to find another way to style the list, but if you insist on list-style-position: outside; you can use javascript to set the width attribute in the suitable place.
i know it`s old style but this should work
<li type="disc">... </li>
it might work.. ie has a lot of problem with css.. problems that will be fixed..