ok, so developing a site for one of my friend's church using wordpress and I've run into a snag. I dont normally get all fancy with the nav bar, but I decided to take a swing at it... so here's what I'm doing:
nav bar background is a 1x64 pixel repeat-x. nav bar is actually a UL inline display. I want to have the background of each <li> tag be a static set image butted up next to each other for dynamic awesomeness. the problem: I cant force the background image to its full 100%. it is only as wide as the text is. The image size (made in photoshop) is 167x64 pixels. I cant center the links inside the <nav> tag horizontally and cannot get the <li> background the full size it's supposed to be. I've tried manually setting the height on everything in each level to be 64px as well as using verticle-align:middle; for the positioning I want and it's just really messing with my head #.#
site located at http://parnell.co/hurricane-church-of-god
page source:
<div class="nav-wrapper">
<!-- Nav -->
<nav>
<ul id="menu-nav-bar" class="menu">
<li id="menu-item-18" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-6 current_page_item menu-item-18">Home</li>
<li id="menu-item-19" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-19">Sample Page</li>
<li id="menu-item-17" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17">Blog</li>
</ul> </nav>
<!-- /Nav -->
<br class="clear">
</div>
<!-- /nav-wrapper -->
CSS Source:
/******************************************************
* Navigation *
******************************************************/
div.nav-wrapper {
margin-top:-16px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
border-radius: 15px;
background:url(img/nav-bg.png) repeat-x;
height:64px;
vertical-align:middle;
}
div.nav-wrappter ul,
nav ul li {
float:left;
height:64px;
vertical-align:middle;
}
nav ul#menu-nav-bar li {
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
vertical-align:middle;
background-image:url(img/nav-button.png);
background-size:100%;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:64px;
}
nav ul#menu-nav-bar li a {
text-decoration:none;
height:64px;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Please bear with my sloppiness in code, i've been trying to wrap my head around it all day and have more or less started from scratch on that one part like 8 times. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated
Ok, thanks to #ahillman3, I was able to get my mind straight and figure it out. Great link btw. As well the typo... that was about the biggest issue because nothing would have worked right until that was fixed. Specifying the width for the <li> tag forced the buttons to behave correctly. And as for centering the text, the css attribute display:block; when applied to nav ul#menu-nav-bar li a {} was the key to making the <a> tag (a line object) behave like a div or table (a block object). after that, it was as simple as adding some margin to get the text center in the box.
thanks guys!
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I was wondering if there is a way you can apply a hover effect on parent element with just css.
For example, I have a navigation:
<nav>
<ul>
<li id="firstLiElement" class="main-nav ieraksti">ieraksti!</li>
<ul id="audio_sub_menu">
<li class="mes">mēs 1</li>
<li id="klienti">mēs 2</li>
</ul>
<li class="main-nav" id="audio">paklausies!</li>
<li class="main-nav" id="video">paskaties!</li>
<li class="main-nav" id="kontakti">pasūti!</li>
</ul>
</nav>`
And what I want is to, when hovered on
nav ul ul li
element, it affects the
#firstLiElement
.
I know it can be done with JS, but there has to be also a way to do this with css. I found a lot of solutions when you need to affect the sibling or child, but didn't find anything for this situation.
EDIT:
Sorry, didn't even write what I was looking for... Yes, sub_menus are hidden, but when I hover the main navigation li element, they shove up, and they stay visible also when I hover on them. What I am missing is to change the background color of the main navigation li element when the sub menu is hovered.
I found this for you.
a < img { border: none; }
In this example, it would select a tags but only if they contained an img tag. (Aside: this would be a weird departure from the typical syntax where the actual elements being selected are on the right, this would be on the left).
a img:parent { background: none; }
The key difference being that the :parent syntax would only evaluate a single element, the parentNode available in the DOM for every element. This would be similar to forcing the :has selector to only evaluate children rather than all descendants.
https://css-tricks.com/parent-selectors-in-css/
I believe it can't be done. CSS or Cascade Style Sheet - keyword here is Cascade - executes in a cascade direction and not the other way around.
You can do this (assuming the audio_sub_menu, i.e., is hidden):
nav ul a:hover ul {
visibility: visible;
}
And you'll be targeting a child on its parent hover. So, you can either change your layout and design to use this knowledge, or go with the JS solution :)
edit
to get the same color, style the :hover on the parent as well and change the first </a> in your HTML code
<nav>
<ul>
<a href="#"><li id="firstLiElement" class="main-nav ieraksti">ieraksti!</li>
<ul id="audio_sub_menu">
<li class="mes">mēs 1</li>
<li id="klienti">mēs 2</li>
</ul>
</a>
<li class="main-nav" id="audio">paklausies!</li>
<li class="main-nav" id="video">paskaties!</li>
<li class="main-nav" id="kontakti">pasūti!</li>
</ul>
</nav>
And the CSS
nav ul a:hover {
background-color: your_color;
}
nav ul a:hover ul {
visibility: visible;
background-color: your_color;
}
edit - On the hetasbo's answer
those are suggested css selectors, they don't exist
The navigation bar (can be viewed here) has become misaligned in Google Chrome (latest version) without any change to the coding.
The large white space present between the two rows did not used to exist, nor did the further misalignment of the four far right links.
I am only of aware of this issue in Chrome - it displays correctly in Safari and Firefox.
Code:
A code snippet for the navigation bar in the header.php is below:
<center>
<div class="navholder">
<div class="navigate">
<ul class="navigate">
<li class="navigate">Home</li>
<li class="navigate">Bus Routes</li>
<li class="navigate">Maps & plans</li>
<li class="navigate">News</li>
<li class="navigate">Enthusiasts</li>
<li class="navigate">MyRoute</li>
<li class="navigate">Live updates</li>
<li class="navigate">Tickets</li>
</ul>
</div></div>
<div class="navigateopposite">
<ul class="navigateopposite">
<li class="navigateopposite">Free travel</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">Mobile</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">Operators</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">Using the bus</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">TBR Team</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">Contact</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">Advertising</li>
<li class="navigateopposite">About</li>
</ul>
</div></div>
</center>
CSS:
The related CSS is also here:
/*Navigation bar*/
.navigate ul{float:left;width:1050px;margin-top:1px;text-align:center;}
.navigate ul li{display:inline;}
.navigate ul li a{width:127px;background:url(../images/navbar.gif)center center no-repeat;color: #000;text-decoration:none;float:left;text-align:center;line-height:50px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:top;margin: 0 1px 0 0;}
.navigate ul li a:hover{color: #fff;}
.navigate ul li a:active{color:#FFF;}
.navigateopposite ul{float:left;width:1050px;margin-top:1px;}
.navigateopposite ul li{display:inline;}
.navigateopposite ul li a{width:127px;background:url(../images/navbaropposite.gif)center center no-repeat;color: #000;text-decoration:none;float:left;text-align:center;line-height:50px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:top;margin: 0 1px 0 0;}
.navigateopposite ul li a:hover{color: #fff;}
.navigateopposite ul li a:active{color:#FFF;}
Question:
What would be causing this strange misalignment?
Try adding this to your CSS
li.navigate, li.navigateopposite {
float: left;
margin: 0;
}
I added this through Chrome's developer tools and it seemed to remedy the problem.
This might fix it but seriously... as j08691 and David Thomas pointed out... that's some pretty crazy HTML you've got going on there. With nothing but good intentions, I hope you don't mind if I make a few comments?
You've got multiple <head>s in your document - you can only have one.
You're using <div> purely for layout purposes - if you need to add spaces in the layout you should be using pure CSS... HTML, as the name describes, is for markup only - not style information. By my reckoning you could lose at least half of that markup. As a generalisation, the more markup you have, the more difficulties you're going to get into like stuff apparently breaking randomly.
I can understand not wanting to support IE7 at a push, but all versions of IE?? ("Something not working? You're using Internet Explorer"). I know IE can be pretty hateful but you can't throw the book at 10% of all of your website visitors.
I hope this helps set you in the right direction.
In Firefox, the clickable area of the links in my footer is TINY. The clickable area does not span the entire label - both in terms of width and height. In IE, it's fine. Any ideas?
Here is my footer code:
<div id="footer">
<ul>
<li>RKM Research and Communications, Inc. |</li>
<li>1039 Islington St |</li>
<li>Portsmouth, NH 03801 |</li>
<li>603.433.3982 |</li>
<li>email us</li>
</ul>
<ul class="copyright">
<li>© 2012 RKM Research and Communications, Inc. </li>
<li>Privacy policy </li>
<li>Terms of use</li>
</ul>
and my CSS:
div#footer ul li{
color : #036;
background-color : transparent;
display: inline
}
div#footer ul li a{
color : #115EAC;
text-decoration : none;
display:inline-block;
paddding:10px 20px;
}
.footer ul li a:hover{color:#F6901E;
text-decoration : underline;
}
I've even tried to apply a block style using a class, but it still did not help:
<li class="flink">email us</li>
</ul>
css:
.flink ul li a{
color : #115EAC;
text-decoration : none;
display:block;
paddding:10px 20px;
float:left;
}
Small world, I also live in Portsmouth.
With the code you provided, the clickable area is just as it should be. You can verify this here: http://jsfiddle.net/cCDaL/1/
I've made the background of each a element yellow, so you can see exactly what the clickable area is, and it is indeed what it should be.
I think the answer to your problem is that you have another CSS rule that is making the clickable area tiny, possibly line-height or padding (padding is not clickable in links). You can use the Chrome or Firefox inspectors to see what could be the problem here.
Another edit: In Firefox Aurora 14.0a2, the clickable area is indeed also normal, for me, on your website http://www.rkm-research.com/. Here's a screenshot with the Firefox inspector:
I'm designing Wordpress themes, the only and ever problem I have is dropdown menus.
styling those "ul" and "li" selectors with "display" and... properties.
Even reading tutorials and looking at other websites's CSS (Firebug), I still can't create one!
Is there any particular procedure or good source I can learn it?
Suppose I want to design a one-level dropdown menu.
Thanks
Mahdi,
Creating a cross-browser compatible dropdown menu is quite simple as long as you don't over-complicate it and have a decent understanding element types and the positioning model in CSS. There are some standard examples that can make it quite easy for you as well. I will try and provide as simple an answer as possible for you to understand (as my brain overcomplicated it for a LOOOONG time until I did a little research).
Your Top-Level Menu
It is good practice to have all of your menus including submenus be a ul element. There are a couple of reasons for this.
It naturally has most of the style that you need.
A menu is a list of options anyway, so its not a stretch to make it a list.
It helps disabled individuals
It allows for nesting.
The problem with ul elements is they have those nasty bullets. Additionally, the li children don't naturally flow together. They all appear on separate lines. So, we have two options to fix the li. We can float them, but that can get quite awkward. I don't recommend it. Or we can change its type. Well, we're containing another block in it, so an inline-block is kinda perfect for this.
<!-- the HTML for the menu -->
<ul class="menu">
<li class="submenu">link</li>
<li class="submenu">link</li>
<li class="submenu">link</li>
</ul>
/* The CSS for the menu */
ul.menu {
list-style-type:none; /* Gets rid of the bullets. */
}
li.submenu {
display:inline-block; /* Makes the listitems appear on the same row. */
}
** Your Sub-menus**
Now, nested ul elements must be in a list item. Browsers will always interpret it correctly if you place your dropdown ul in a li itself. Now, we don't have to declare anything funny. Just name your new ul the same as your original menu, like so:
<!-- Your new HTML -->
<ul class="menu">
<li class="submenu">link
<ul class="menu">
<li>link
<li>link
<li>link
</ul>
</li>
<li class="submenu">link
<ul class="menu">
<li>link
<li>link
<li>link
</ul>
</li>
<li class="submenu">link
<ul class="menu">
<li>link
<li>link
<li>link
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
/* Your new CSS. Notice nothing has changed. */
ul.menu {
list-style-type:none; /* Gets rid of the bullets. */
}
ul.menu li {
display:inline-block; /* Makes the listitems appear on the same row. */
}
The next step. Getting the drop down to appear.
Now, we have our cross-browser structure, we just need to tweak a couple of things. We need to first make the menu appear and disappear. Since we only want this to happen to a submenu, we get more specific:
/* Add this to your CSS. */
li.submenu ul.menu {
display:none; /* Makes the submenu disappear. */
}
li.submenu:hover ul.menu {
display:block; /* Makes the submenu appear. */
}
Now, if you take a look, your menu appears and disappears appropriately. No styling, just lists for you. Works the same way in all of the browsers... oh wait! IE is making it bigger. Well, that's a simple issue. You see, IE interprets padding differently than the others. Lets make it a non-issue:
/* Add this to your CSS. */
menu * {
padding:0; /* Width problem solved. */
}
Now, one other issue... your submenus are horizontal. The reason is because we told it is should be in our original.
ul.menu li {
display:inline-block; /* Makes the listitems appear on the same row. */
}
We can fix this my being more specific.
/* Add this to your CSS. */
li.submenu ul.menu li {
display:block;
}
Now it is vertical! Test this in any major browser and you will see those are the only components necessary for a cross-browser dropdown menu.
Final HTML for Menu
<ul class="menu">
<li class="submenu">link
<ul class="menu">
<li>link
<li>link
<li>link
</ul>
</li>
<li class="submenu">link
<ul class="menu">
<li>link
<li>link
<li>link
</ul>
</li>
<li class="submenu">link
<ul class="menu">
<li>link
<li>link
<li>link
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Final CSS for Menu
menu * {
padding:0; /* Width problem solved. */
}
ul.menu {
list-style-type:none; /* Gets rid of the bullets. */
}
li.submenu {
display:inline-block; /* Makes the listitems appear on the same row. */
}
li.submenu ul.menu {
display:none; /* Makes the submenu disappear. */
}
li.submenu:hover ul.menu {
display:block; /* Makes the submenu appear. */
}
li.submenu ul.menu li {
display:block;
}
This solution doesn't require funny positioning or width declarations.
Hope this helps!
FuzzicalLogic
One good source for me was http://lwis.net/free-css-drop-down-menu/
You can see the basic structure used.
If you want to just create a simple one-level menu. It's kind of explained above by Fuzzical Logic but you can use the pseudo-class :hover to show and hide the dropdown menu. It's explained in this article in simple terms.
Hope it helps
I'm trying to create a simple image navigation for my site, using CSS to declare the background-image property of a list-item (li). The problem is, when I use text-indent to put the image off-screen, the link is no longer there (off screen as well I presume). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is my XHTML:
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li class="current about">
about
</li>
<li class="contact">
contact
</li>
<li class="networks">
networks
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Here is my CSS:
#nav li {
display: block;
float:left;
background-image: url("images/nav-normal.png");
height:47px;
text-indent: -9999px;
}
I have also set up background-positions for the individual list-items because I'm using image sprites. Thanks in advance!
Apply that style to the #nav li a. Otherwise everything inside the li, including the link, is shifted off screen.