I'm lost... I tried the other answers given in the questions with no results.
Here, my CCS:
ul.nav { padding-top: 5px; font-family: 'OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT', Georgia, serif; float: left; }
ul.nav li { margin-left: 7px; }
ul.nav a { font-size: 17px; color: #918f8f; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px #fff; padding: 15px 6px 18px; }
ul.nav a:hover { color: #000000; text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px #fff; }
How can i center my navigation bar?
You can give your UL a fixed width and center like this:
ul.nav {
width: 200px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
If this navigation isn't supposed to be a sidebar, then remove the float: left;
Try this
body{ text-align:center;}
{And rest of your code...}
and it will be in center.
Remove float:left;
add a width.
add margin:0 auto;
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css
ul.nav {
padding-top: 5px;
font-family: 'OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT', Georgia, serif;
width: 300px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Remove the float first of all - it will throw your list over to the left of the screen. Then, you have two options:
Give the List a fixed width, then use margin:0 auto.
ul.nav {
width: 40em;
margin: 0 auto;
}
This if fine if you will always have a set amount of links in your nav bar. Not so useful if this changes frequently, or even dynamically. I would prefer the following solution, although an additional bit of markup is required
Use a wrapping element, styled display:table
The HTML:
<nav class="my-class" role="navigation">
<ul>
...
</ul>
</nav>
Then your CSS:
.my-class {
display: table; /*centers its contents*/
width: 100%; /*make sure it doesn't collapse*/
margin: 0 auto;
}
ul {
whatever /*just don't use text align!*/
}
Now it doesnt matter how much you put in that list, it will always center for you.
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Is there a way to hide the separator in the first element on each line?
I have a responsive horizontal menu that adds extra lines when the window becomes smaller.
To make matters worse, the end user can add and remove items from this menu, or just change the order of the menu items.
Using first-child is not an option, because that only works for the first line. When the screen becomes too small the following lines will have the separator on their first li element.
#block-views-solutions-block{
box-sizing: border-box;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-weight: bold;
width: 92%;
max-width: $maxWidth;
margin: 20px auto 0 auto;
padding: 15px 0 0 0;
background-color: $colorBlue;
.content{
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
ul{
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 40px;
text-align: center;
}
li{
display: inline-block;
padding: 0 !important;
&:before {
position: relative;
top: 0.125em;
display: inline-block;
width: 1px;
height: 1em;
border-left: solid 2px #fff;
content: " ";
}
&:first-child{
&:before{ border-left: none; }
}
}
a{
display: inline-block;
padding: 0 10px;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
&:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
}
h2{
color: #fff;
font-size: smaller;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
}
Looks fine here:
Does not work for the 2nd or following lines:
Looks horrible on very small screens:
I've been trying out solutions on here and other websites, but none seem to do the trick.
I found a solution to this issue, with a couple of caveats:
The solution requires that the list be left- or right-aligned, and won't work with a centered list.
The solution requires that the ul element's overflow be hidden, which could pose a problem if you're also hoping to have dropdown menus.
The solution itself is very simple:
Use ::before or ::after to add the separator, depending on whether your nav is left- or right-aligned.
Position the separator relative to its initial position such that it sits outside its list item.
Use padding on the opposite side of the list item to create the space for its adjacent list item's separator.
Set overflow: hidden; on the ul element so that any separators which fall outside the container are hidden.
Here it is in action:
ul {
font-size: 0;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
}
li {
font-size: 16px;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: gray;
position: relative;
padding-right: 2rem;
}
li::before {
content: "|";
position: relative;
left: -1rem;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
}
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Another Item</li>
<li>This Is Nice</li>
<li>Another</li>
<li>And Another</li>
<li>And Yet Another</li>
</ul>
I'm brand new to this coding stuff so please go easy on me ;)
I'm trying to make the top nav on this website stretch to fit the width of what I understand to be the "container" of the website which is 900px wide. I can't for the life of me remove what appears to be padding or margins to the left and right of the nav. See code below.
Site screenshot here: http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9479/237c.png
Right now I'm just cleverly making adjustments to padding to make the nav somewhat centered on the page, but ultimately it would look much better if it met up with the edge of the containter like everything else.
Thx for any help.
/* Navigation
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#topnav {
clear: both;
margin: 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
#topnav ul {
list-style: none;
float: left;
text-align: center;
}
#topnav ul li {
list-style: none;
float: left;
background: url(nav-sep.png) right 0px no-repeat;
padding: 15px 0px 12px 0px;
display: inline block;
}
#topnav ul > li:last-child,
#topnav ul > span:last-child li {
background: none;
padding-right: 0;
}
#topnav a {
float: left;
display: block;
color: #545454;
font-family: Blair, sans-serif;
font-weight: 500;
padding: 6px 0 6px;
border: 0;
border-top: 3px solid transparent;
outline: 0;
margin: 0 16.6px;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: .75em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
#topnav ul > li:last-child a,
#topnav ul > span:last-child li a {
margin-right: 0;
}
#topnav li#active a,
#topnav a:hover {
color: #666666;
border: 0;
border-top: 3px solid #8cc640;
}
Try with
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
See also:
Cross browser method to fit a child div to its parent's width
Hope this helped. Cheers.
I would say to add a main container div that will enclose all your existing html, and then define a css for it with margin-left/right as auto :
<head>
.......
<style>
#mainContainer {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<html>
<body>
<div id="mainContainer">
............................
............................
............................
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hi if you are new on this you need to know that for default all element tags like ul, p or body has for default some values on properties like margin and padding. What you need is first work on reset those values in CSS to avoid issues and make more easier your cutomization. In your case the ul has some properties:
ul {
display: block;
list-style-type: disc;
margin-before: 1em;
margin-after: 1em;
margin-start: 0;
margin-end: 0;
padding-start: 40px;
}
You can use this simple global reset with * as the global selector :
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
Or search for some complex resets like this one.
Then with values on 0 you can customize in a better way your elements:
#topnav ul {
list-style: none;
float: left;
text-align: center;
width:100%;
}
I use a border-bottom on my navigation div, which is 100% wide. When I resize my browser window, the border-bottom suddenly gets cut off to te size that I just resized my browser to.
Does anyone know a solution to this?
my css:
#nav {
clear: both;
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
border-bottom: 3px #ff6600 solid;
}
#nav ul {
margin: 0 0 0 670px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
#nav ul li {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type: none;
}
#nav ul li a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 20px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 3.5px;
}
My html:
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Portfolio</li>
<li>Hobby's</li>
<li>Links</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
By assigning a margin left value of 670px, you are effectively setting a width to your page.
Thus, if the page resizes to something smaller than that (or that plus the text in the list items), it will appear that things get cut off because they extend beyond the frame of the window.
In order to have it be completely dynamic on width based on the window size, you'd need to have absolutely no hard-coded set values. You could try using a % for the margin, or you could use an alternate css style based on the width of the window.
I've found the answer!
By looking at other posts, someone said that the 100% width only applies to the 'viewport' of the screen. So thats why the div gets cut off.
To solve this you have to add a min-width in pixels to the body in css.
So in my case I changed it to:
body {
min-width: 1439px;
}
i think this way is better
change
#nav ul {
margin: 0 0 0 670px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
to
#nav ul {
float: right; // instead of margin: 0 0 0 670px;
margin: 0; //reset ul default properties
padding: 0; //reset ul default properties
}
also change this
#nav ul li a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 20px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 3.5px;
}
to
#nav ul li a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0 20px; // padding only for left and right, just use line-height instead of padding-top and padding-bottom
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 3.5px;
line-height: 40px; // same value as navigation height (#nav) , no need to use padding for top and bottom
}
I am implementing a very simple css menu. However, if I select a menu title in the menu bar (and thus open the menu associated with it) the width of the title extends to the width of the menu, which is not desired (i.e. the width of the title should not change). Check out the JSFiddle, or have a look at the markup:
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>you
<ul>
<li>register...</li>
<li>login...</li>
<li>forgot password...</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>.</li>
<li>qan</li>
<li>.</li>
<li style="width: 20px"><a class="site">be</a>
<ul>
<li>be</li>
<li>do</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
and the css definitions:
#menu {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 0px 5px;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 18px;
color: darkgrey;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 20px;
background-color: black;
z-index: 3;
/*opacity: 0;*/
white-space: nowrap;
}
#menu ul {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
list-style-image: none;
}
#menu>ul>li {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
padding: 2px 1px 0px 1px;
width: auto;
/*width: 10px;*/
}
#menu a { color: inherit; text-decoration: none;}
#menu>ul>li>a:hover { background-color: grey;}
#menu>ul ul {
display: none;
background-color: lightgrey;
padding: 2px 5px;
line-height: 14px;
min-width: 100px;
}
#menu>ul ul>li {
color: black;
padding: 2px 8px 2px 5px;
margin: 0px -3px;
}
#menu>ul ul>li:hover { color: lightgrey; background-color: grey;}
#menu>ul>li:hover ul { display: block;}
Since the menus are generated dynamically and contents meant to change on the fly and the font used is proportional, I cannot just set the widths of a title to a constant value which suppresses the resize. The width of the title should be determinded solely by the width of the text.
It used to work when I had implemented yuimenus, but that did all kinds of stuff to my CSS, the ramifications of which I found hard to control, so now I cooked up the menu by myself and am quite happy with it, save for the width change, and I haven't figured out which part of yui suppressed that. Any suggestions?
I don't agree with max-width.. this will make the link's width content-independent
use position:absolute; for the submenu: jsFiddle
Set width in li
Your updated example :- http://jsfiddle.net/8U5An/8/
Css:-
#menu ul li {
width: 25px;
}
See some useful example as well , how they handle same case by using width only :-
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/index.jsp?noCookies=false
http://www.puregrips.com/
Please take a look at this laytout which i built with divs:
First of all you can ignore Header section
So Content has to be centered exactly at the center and it has a fixed width which is easy, but Left Column needs to extend from left side until it reaches Content and here is the difficult part, since the gap betwen Left Column and Content can be any length it's hard to know what width to set.
Now i know it would be fairly easy to do this with javascript but i would like to avoid that if possible.
EDIT as requested here is the code:
<div class="left_column"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
.left_column{
width:100px;
height:100px;
float:left;
}
.content{
width:100px;
height:100px;
margin:auto;
position:relative;
}
Take a look at Object-Oriented CSS. In particular, check out their grids page
tried percentages?
overflow: auto;
padding: 10px;
width: 45%;
try float left float right as well as display inline, you could also try width auto but that don't work too well
float:left;
width:auto;
height: auto;
display: inline;
there is also one more trick used in menus
<div id="mail_menu">
<ul>
<li><a href=something</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
css
#mail_menu {
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px; /* LTR */
z-index: 3;
color: #000;
}
#mail_menu ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
#mail_menu li {
display: inline;
float:left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 3px;
}
#mail_menu a {
color: #000;
background: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 1px;
border-color:#CCC;
border-width:1px 0;
padding: 2px;
float:left;
border-width:1px;
border-style:solid;
border-bottom-color:#aaa;
border-right-color:#aaa;
border-top-color:#ddd;
border-left-color:#ddd;
border-radius:3px;
-moz-border-radius:3px;
-webkit-border-radius:3px;
}
#mail_menu a:hover {
color: #0000DD;
text-decoration: none;
background-image: url(/images/lyel.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
css to middle something
.middle {
display: block;
width: 50em;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto
}
and finally some table values for display to mess with
.td {
display: table-cell;
display:inline
}
.wrap{
position: inherit;
}
.tr {
display: table-row;
display:inline
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th {
text-align: left; /* LTR */
padding-right: 1em; /* LTR */
border-bottom: 3px solid #ccc;
}
I would use percentages, but go 1% short of where you should. I've found a lot of times a browser will "round up" a pixel or something, so if you have your percentages totaling 100%, any extra added will push a div below.
For instance, if you wanted two divs, one on the right and one on the left, have one of them have width:49%; and the other width:50%;.
This can be accomplished using this hack, please try this:
div.header { height: 50px; line-height: 50px; background-color: #222; color: #eee; }
div.wrapper { background-color: #b261da;position: relative;z-index: 0; }
div.wrapper div.content { width: 600px;margin: 0 auto; background-color: #6189fe; color: #fefefe; }
div.wrapper div.left-column { background-color: #00fe72; position: relative;width: 550px;float: left;z-index: -1000; }
with this markup:
<div class="header">Header</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="left-column">Left Column</div>
<div class="content">Content</div>
</div>
Note the left-column will be cutted if you resize the screen too much. Either way, I hope it helps.