I want to have a left-aligned navigation bar across the top of the page, but before (i.e. to the left of) the menu items, I would like a bit of text ("John Doe") that (i) has a substantially larger font size than the menu items but (ii) has the same baseline as the menu items.
From what I understand, the preferred/recommended way to do navigation bars is with floated <li>'s. However, I haven't found a way to use a left floated list and also have the menus align to the same baseline as the text to the left. My current CSS and HTML are:
<html>
<head>
<style>
#navdiv {
overflow:hidden;
border-bottom:solid 1px red;
}
#nav {
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#nav li~li {
float:left;
border:solid 1px blue;
width:100px;
}
#name {
float:left;
border:solid 1px blue;
font-size:40px;
width:250px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='navdiv'>
<ul id='nav'>
<li id='name'>John Doe</li>
<li>Menu 1</li>
<li>Menu 2</li>
<li>Menu 3</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Is there any way to vertically align all left floated <li>'s to the bottom of the container <div>?
I should say: I can easily achieve the intended effect by using a table instead of a floated list (using vertical-align:bottom on the menu <td>'s), but since floated lists seem to be the recommended standard, I'd like to know if it's possible with them. (Though I really don't understand the animus folks seem to have against using tables for layout.)
Don't need to use float, in fact it's better if you don't, you can just set the display type to a table-cell
#navdiv {
overflow:hidden;
border-bottom:solid 1px red;
}
#nav {
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#nav li {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
border:solid 1px blue;
width:100px;
}
#nav li#name {
font-size:40px;
width:250px;
}
also, the extra border style was unnecessary, just change the selectors to #nav li and #nav li#name and you can supersede anything in #nav li with what's in #nav li#name because it has higher priority.
tables are bad mostly because of the way they load, as far as I understand they require the whole table to build before content can load, while using individual elements can load as they please, or something to that affect, i'm sure someone else could explain that part better.
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I am currently using this css sheet to stylize my page but no matter what I do I cannot get the footer to line up with the main content of my webpage. It seems to be an centering issue.
Here is my css:
.footnav
{
padding: 20px 40px 20px 40px;
clear:both;
text-align:center;
color:white;
position:relative;
z-index:100;
}
.footnav li a{
text-decoration:none;
display: inline;
font-weight:bold;
}
.footnav li {
list-style-type: none;
}
Here is the code that previous css it is stylizing, I apologize if it is a lot to read.
<div class="footnav" >
<ul class="nav1">
<li class="header">Main</li>
<li><Home</li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav2">
<li class="header">Aventure</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Map</li>
</ul >
<ul class="nav3">
<li class="header">Survival</li>
<li>Guide</li>
<li>Gear</li>
</ul>
</div>
This is the css for the content area, that I am trying to line my footer with.
.content
{
color:white;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:none;
font-family:sans-serif;
padding:30px;
margin:auto;
margin-top:10px;
width:70%;
position:relative;
z-index:14;
opacity:1;
border-style:solid;
border-width:10px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:5px;
background-color:#000000;
border-color:#FFFFFF;
border-right-color:#999999;
border-left-color:#666666;
border-bottom-color:#333333;
}
I know that it involves trying to take half the width of the body of the webpage, but for my page I used percentages instead of pixels. I am not sure how to handle that. Thanks in advance and once again, I apologize for the lengthy question but the only way to properly assist me, would be to have the full picture. If there is any more material needed just ask.
Wrap the footer content in <center> tags </center>. They automatically align any child content with the center of the page.
try to add display: inline-block; to .footnav ul. The ul blocks would otherwise have 100% width - this way they can be next to each other, and be centerded together. inline-block limits the width, therefore you also should add a width setting to this rule. So it is:
.footnav ul {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
}
(The actual width depends on the content of your li elements in those nav lists)
jsfiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/Sapphireblue/781rrymp/39/ & code at bottom
I have four nav elements, each text in LIs side-by-side via float:left, in a UL, in a DIV, in a NAV, in a DIV whose width is a percentage of its parent element(s). (I am using a responsive grid layout and these LIs are populated by a WordPress menu, so there may well be a more efficient way to achieve this with less overhead, but that efficiency is not part of the spec for this project.)
What I want to do is to keep the left edge of the left-most LI at the left edge of all its parents; the right edge of the right-most LI at the right edge of all its parents; and have the other two LIs evenly spaced between the outer two. So kind of like a fully justified line of text.
Turns out, this is hard. Between the percentage-width div, which means that any margin I specify for the LIs is unsuitable as soon as you resize, and the fact that the text items in the LIs are of different widths so, and etc etc, I can't get the last LI flush right in a way that stays there for any resize (not even setting LI last-child margin-right to 0}.
I've played with various units for my LIs and none is right. I tried media queries for small adjustments to font sizes on the LIs as you resize the browser window and that parent div shrinks, which helps, but unless I set a breakpoint every 5 pixels, this isn't workable as a solution. If I work out margins that are ~close~ to what I want and then just set float:right on the last-child LI, it looks dumb if you resize the window down to where that last LI appears on its own line.
Gotta be a way to do this. And sorry if the question has been asked; I did browse but didn't find anything quite a match.
(Note: I'm not worried about widths so small the LIs wrap onto 2 lines, I just don't want there to be a gap of whitespace to the right of the UL, at any width where the UL can be contained on the one line.)
#myDiv {
width:50%;
margin:0;
border:1px solid red;
overflow:auto;
}
#myDiv ul {
padding:0;
margin:0 0 0 0;
height:auto;
}
#myDiv li {
list-style-type: none;
float:left;
background-color:yellow;
margin-right:20px; /* this value is only good for one
specific viewport width: ugggh */
}
#myDiv li:last-child {
margin-right:0px;
}
<div id="myDiv">
<nav>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item Two</li>
<li>#3</li>
<li>Longer Item Four</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
</div>
If I understand correctly, this sounds like it would be difficult to achieve and unreliable, especially given that the nav text can be edited through a CMS.
In this situation I'd be inclined to handle it a little differently, using display: inline-block on the list items.
#myDiv li {
list-style-type: none;
display: inline-block;
background-color:yellow;
margin: 0 2px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/781rrymp/40/
How about using TABLE instead of UL. The code would be:
<style type="text/css">
#myDiv {
width:50%;
margin:0;
border:1px solid red;
overflow:auto;
}
#myDiv table {
padding:0;
margin:0 0 0 0;
height:auto;
width: 100%;
}
#myDiv td {
width: 25%;
background-color: yellow;
border-right: 20px solid white;
}
#myDiv td:last-child {
border-right: 0px;
}
</style>
<div id="myDiv">
<nav>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Item 1</td>
<td>Item Two</td>
<td>#3</td>
<td>Longer Item Four</td>
</tr>
</table>
</nav>
</div>
I have this site here: http://jamessuske.com/freelance/seasons/
At the bottom you will see social media icons and the issue I am having is when I put my mouse over them, they are not clickable, only when I move my mouse to the left a little bit and I do not understand what I did wrong:
HTML
<ul class="social-media">
<li class="twitter"> </li>
<li class="instagram"> </li>
<li class="facebook"> </li>
</ul>
CSS
ul.social-media{
padding-top:30px;
}
ul.social-media li{
float:left;
padding-left:5px;
list-style:none;
}
ul.social-media li.twitter{
background-image:url(http://jamessuske.com/freelance/seasons/images/social.png);
background-position-x:0px;
width:25px;
height:26px;
}
ul.social-media li.instagram{
background-image:url(http://jamessuske.com/freelance/seasons/images/social.png);
background-position-x:-26px;
width:25px;
height:26px;
}
ul.social-media li.facebook{
background-image:url(http://jamessuske.com/freelance/seasons/images/social.png);
background-position-x:-52px;
width:25px;
height:26px;
}
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
The size of the clickable area depends on the content of the a tag. Your a tag does not have any content.
One solution is to apply your background image directly to the a tag and changing the display attribute to block.
ul.social-media li.twitter a {
background-image:url(http://jamessuske.com/freelance/seasons/images/social.png);
background-position-x:0px;
width:25px;
height:26px;
display: block;
}
Note that we also need to set display to block since the anchor tag is an inline element by default. The width and height attributes only have an effect on block elements.
It's because of the padding-left you have set on the li element
it is probably because your links are so small.
try this :
.social-media a {
display:block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
So they fill entire <li> and stand over sprite.
I have a simple horizontal nav menu that uses highly-styled anchors for buttons. Now, the last button, called "store" has a list of content that becomes visible via this jquery hover effect.
I can't get the "store" button to align with the rest of them. Two days now I'm trying float:left margin 50% whatever, position:incorrect, overflow:I-forget-what, clear:both, plus various cheesy hacks, and I'm at that point of CSS positioning where you start thinking seriously about re-constructing your layout using tables.
Instead of selling my soul to tables, I guess I better just ask someone who is more experienced to please take a look:
http://www.ideagasms.net/ideagasms-with-dropdown-menu.html
When viewing source, you'll notice I added lots of comments next to the main elements so it should be easy to make sense of everything quickly. Thank you. :)
This code should work:
I've added a wrapping div to your menu with a fixed width and centred it on the page. Then added each a tag into an li.
Your jQuery Menu is now broken but it should just be a case of finding the correct elements again now the orders have changed in the dom.
You might also have to create some new styles and add them to the elements again. As I've probably messed a few bits up. I'd suggest adding proper classes and id's so you don't run into styling problems in the future.
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>
<a alt="STORE" class="navmenu faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/ideagasms-products/">STORE</a>
<ul class="file_menu">
<li>File</li>
<li>Edit</li>
<li>View</li>
<li>Insert</li>
<li>Modify</li>
<li>Control</li>
<li>Debug</li>
<li>Window</li>
<li>Help</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a alt="HOME" class="navmenu faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">HOME</a> </li>
<li><a alt="VIDEO" class="navmenu faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">VIDEO</a> </li>
<li><a alt="ABOUT" class="navmenu faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">ABOUT</a></li>
<li><a alt="CONTACT" class="smcf-link navmenu faded">CONTACT</a></li>
<li><a alt="DONATIONS" class="navmenu scroll faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">DONATIONS</a></li>
<li><a alt="MENTORING" class="navmenu faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">MENTORING</a></li>
<li><a alt="BEAUTY" class="navmenu faded" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">BEAUTY</a></li>
<li><a alt="SNIPPETS" class="navmenu scroll faded" style="letter-spacing:1px" href="http://www.ideagasms.net/link">#iG</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
#buttonnav {
float:left;
height: 25px;
width: 100px;
margin-bottom:1cm;
position:relative;
z-index:9;
}
#nav {
margin: auto;
width: 740px;
background: orange;
}
ul {
margin: auto;
}
ul li {
display: inline;
float: left;
}
.menu_class {
border:1px solid #1c1c1c;
}
ul.file_menu {
cursor:pointer;
display:none;
width:260px;
border: 1px solid #1c1c1c;
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
}
.file_menu li {
background-color: #302f2f;
}
.file_menu li a {
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
padding:10px;
display:block;
}
.file_menu li a:hover {
padding:10px;
font-weight:bold;
color: #F00880;
}
</style>
That menu looks atrocious and to be honest, doesn't allow for much flexibility as you noticed.
If I were you I would rebuild it in t way where a proper html structure is used with a (nested) li structure so you could just whip in that extra item and the submenu...
This is the ugly fix
#buttonnav {
display: inline-block;
/* remove the float & widht */
}
.hoverli ul.file-menu {
position:absolute;
}
This is a case where you should probably go back to the basics and re-learn how to make a proper menu. If this is in some content management system then override the classes & templates to make it so you can easily add things...
Stuff I am missing for the sub menu also is position: absolute; (and you probably want the sub-menus parent to be relative).
You need to fix two things to properly present the button and have the sub-menu functioning:
See this working Fiddle Example!
1)
Set the css for the button like:
#buttonnav {
display: inline-block;
height: 25px;
position: relative;
z-index: 9;
}
Note: display:inline-block; gets in and float, margin and width gets out.
2)
Adjust the css for the sub-menu to allow it to appear without breaking the layout:
CSS
.hoverli {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
.hoverli ul {
position:absolute;
}
I have some text links inside a list, then within two divs. I want the hover effects to expand past the list to the outside of the outer div. Is there a way to do it with negative padding? Another way? Possible at all?
Visuals will be easier
How it is now-
Highlight of the padding in the surrounding div-
How I want the a:hover effect to look-
Basically the code looks like this-
.1 { padding: 10px;}
.2 { padding: 5px;}
<div class="1">
<div class="2">
<ul>
<li>
<a>abcde</a>
</li>
<li>
<a>fghij</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Negative margin/padding are invalid and don't work as expect,
but is possible, you have to take out all his
parents margins and add padding to the links to get
the same effect but with all wide anchors:
/* CSS CODE */
.parent { padding:0px; border:1px solid red }
.child { padding:0px; }
.parent h2 { margin:10px; font-size:22px; }
.child ul li a { display:block; padding:10px 15px; }
.child ul li a:hover { background:green; }
you can see an example in: http://jsfiddle.net/3zANs/
Negative padding is invalid (and simply won't work), negative margin on the other hand is valid and it might be useful in your case.
I believe, also invalid are classes that stars with numbers.