I'm currently working on a CSS Dropdown menu and I've run into the following issues:
Each successive sub menu overlaps its parent menu by an increasing amount.
Attempting to fix item 1 by setting the left attribute (each submenu already has position:absolute) does not work and throws off the position of the menu wildly.
Whenever a submenu is shown, the right padding is automatically increased causing a gap between the menu and the bottom border of the menu items.
In the CSS I use display: table-* (the star being any of the table-related display values) in order to make vertical centering of text easier and to more easily keep the selected menu item at the top of the list (see display: table-header).
I would really like to know both solutions and causes for the above issues.
For reference, I've created a fully functional JsFiddle.
I made a fiddle here http://jsfiddle.net/xUWdj/
Changes made:
Got rid of all the table displays, the only reason you were using it was for vertical alignment, you can utilize line-height on the <a>'s instead.
All submenu <ul>'s now are positioned based off it's parent by left: 100%; & top: 0;
You should now be able to style/position the rest of the menu to how you want it.
Edit:
Here's a version that allows you to continue using the table-group-header http://jsfiddle.net/HSh5n/2/
Changed li a { display: block; line-height: 30px; }
Added margins to move the ul's to -42px 0 0 130px
I guess the biggest thing with tables is that since they're inline elements, you can't assign position: relative to table-cells, so that's why you couldn't use the left or top properties. I haven't browser tested this, but I'd always double check if you go this route.
If you add right border to your li a{...} you can get an idea about what's causing the overlaps.
li a {
display: table-cell;
border-bottom: solid 1px #cccccc;
border-right: solid 1px #cccccc;
text-decoration: none;
color: rgba(89,87,87,0.9);
height: 30px;
padding: 5px;
vertical-align: middle;
cursor: pointer;
}
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My plain old CSS menus are appearing behind jQuery UI stuff like tabs! Even though the z-index of the containing divs are correct. Is there a way to resolve this?
/* dropdown menu container */
#navigation-1 li ul.navigation-2 {
margin:0;
padding: 5px;
display:none;
position:absolute;
top:71px;
left:-71px;
border-radius: 4px;
border: 3px solid #ea453c;
background:white;
width: 730px;
box-shadow: 0 1px 6px #999;
z-index: 999;
}
Yes. try to explore or experiments the position in the css like : relative, fixed, absolute etc.
Note: your not able to use z-index if your div/element doesnt have a position like relative, fixed, absolute etc. :D
I used Firebug to explore the CSS more carefully and found the the ui-menu class already has position set to absolute. I then added this rule:
.ui-menu{
z-index: 10;
}
You may have to experiment with the exact value depending on circumstances but that value brought my menu items safely above the tabs. You could add a more specific selector for the menu's parent container if you only want to apply this to a specific menu.
I need to create a dialog box using custom images created by a designer. For purposes of this discussion, this the correct answer for my application. The dialog box must be able to withstand changes in width and height. This is easy to do with a table, but I want to maintain a table-less design, so I figured that I could do this using 3 rows of DIV's. For example, float an image to the left, float an image to the right, and put a DIV in between then with the image set to the background so that text can be entered over it.
Here is demo of my failed attempt to do this: (just one row shown)
http://www.seaburydesign.com/rounded/demo.html
As you can see, this almost working. But the DIV in the middle is only the size of the content inside of it, even though I have set the height and width. I need to keep the width flexible.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Remove the following line:
display:inline;
Besides being useless in this case (the inline behavior is already working because of the floats) "inline" property doesn't allow you to set the element's width or height. For a clearer understanding, read w3c's article.
If you make the rounded corners of your images white instead of transparent, you can apply the background-image to the header-tag instead of the middle div. This will create the impression that the middle div has the same height as both images.
Update
If possible (depending on what browsers you need to support), you could do rounded corners with CSS3's border-radius property, instead of using images. That would be something like:
header {
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-top-right-radius: 10px;
}
You could also try this border-radius CSS-generator to find the properties that suit you best.
The css display: inline in your container div's voids any setting for width. Use display: block; float: left; margin: 0 XXpx; for your div (with XX being the width of the images on the sides).
Edit:
Concretely this would be:
div#yourdiv {
background-image: url("images/module_header_bg.jpg");
color: white;
display: block;
float: left;
font-weight: bold;
height: 42px;
width: auto;
}
and both img tags
img {
float: left;
}
This creates a dynamic sized box for your content, or you set width of the div to a specific value like width: 300px instead of width: auto.
(I'm looking at this site in IE 8.) As you can see the content floats center knocking the sidebar below it. It works perfectly in Chrome. I can't think why the float:left; command isn't working in IE.
#content {
margin: 5px 0 5px 5px;
font: 1.2em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width:65%;
float:left;
}
Thanks for your help.
Tara
If you add overflow: hidden to your ul#list-nav then that will prevent the floating navigation messing up the rest of the document.
As for why the navigation is displaying strangely, it's because you're specifying your widths and layout badly. What you should be using is this:
ul#list-nav {
overflow: hidden;
}
ul#list-nav li {
width: 16.66%;
float: left;
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul#list-nav li a{
display: block;
margin-left: 1px;text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 0;
background: #754C78;
color: #EEE;
text-align: center;
}
That way, the width of each element is exactly 16.66%, rather than 16.62% + 1px
what i currently see in IE8 is:
the problem is that menu links are too wide in IE. You've set the width to 16.62% to each anchor in the menu and that's too wide for IE. Since the width of your content is fixed I suggest you set fixed width in pixels (132px) for these links so they fit on one line and look consistent across browsers, also removing li style setting margin: 0.5em 2em to fix positioning problem in IE.
After my fix I see this:
To me it looks like theres nothing really wrong with the content.
In ie6-ie9 the menu seems to be failing in some way.
and also the menu goes in two rows which pushes everything down. I'm not sure if that is all due to the s letter or not at this point..
Note that the extra letter s seems to be somewhere between #menu and #content .containers.
Edit2: the problem is clearly the menu a width which is too much and the menu goes into two rows.
The way menu is often done is that the ulor outer div holds the color and then the menu li are either centered within that or just plain floated to the left. this way you get the full height feel without the tourbles of the menu braking like this ( though if you do it without ignoring the width.. it is possible with too many menu items and so on. )
add clear:both; on menu container.
note: is broken in Firefox to
I am trying to implement a menu into an area.
http://www.gardensandhomesdirect.co.uk/newhomepage
You will see the end of the menu div slightly off the page to the right, however this needs to be inside the HOMEMENU section (the long black bar with no content)
It seems to be overflowing into other areas, despite using a clear:both div.
Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it a z-index issue or something more simple?
You have a width: 930px; somewhere.
Remove it.
#topmenu {
list-style: none;
**width: 930px;**
height: 20px;
background: #014464;
border: 1px solid #002232;
}
When I inspect the element (menu-bar) is see there are some space (like) characters outputted.
I am using the AJAX autocomplete add-on to the <asp:textbox> control. I have everything working with a <div> around the <ajaxToolkit:AutoCompleteExtender>.
I set the following CSS class:
.autocomplete_CompletionListElement
{
margin: 0px;
background-color: White;
cursor: default;
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
height:180px;
text-align: left;
border: 1px solid #777;
z-index:10000;
}
Right now, when the list contains a reasonable amount of items, a vertical scrollbar appears (which is correct) and I can scroll through the drop down which is set to a height of 180px in the CSS (as seen above).
However, when there are only 1 or 2 items in the drop down, the height remains fixed at 180px with the 2 items and blank white space below. What I would ideally want is that the AJAX drop down would shrink to fit the height of its contents. If the contents are more than 180px, then the scrollbar should appear (as it is doing now).
Remove height:180px and change the CSS to use something like:
max-height:180px;
That should work (but I think only from IE7+) the other browsers should support it ok.