I'm in the process of making my own blog, I haven't got a domain yet so it's not live(I've been building the site from a folder with different directories as the pages). I've been working on the blog and I was looking for a simple navigation menu. I found one on the internet. I'm trying to center the navigation bar and I've tried many solutions that worked for other peoples websites but it isn't working for mine. This is the code (I've tweaked it to my own colors and nav titles)
<ul id="list-nav">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Books</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
And this is the CSS:
ul.list-nav {
list-style:none;
width:525px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
ul#list-nav li {
display:inline;
}
ul#list-nav li a {
text-decoration:none;
padding:5px 0;
width:150px;
background:#383838;
color:#eee;
float:left;
border-left:1px solid #fff;
}
ul#list-nav li a:hover {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
background:#cccccc;
color:#000;
}
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Your first CSS selector is looking for a ul with a class of list-nav, not an id of list-nav. Change your first CSS rule to:
ul#list-nav {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
width: 525px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
And your navigation bar is magically centered. Please see this jsFiddle for a working demonstration > http://jsfiddle.net/TLaN5/. Obviously you'll need to amend the width of the parent ul in order to accomodate the correct width of the elements within, but you should get the idea.
I would wrap the entire page inside <div class="wrap">. You have declared margin twice in the code, so I would remove the first occurrence and leave it like:
ul#list-nav {
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
width: 725px; //NOTE I have increased the width value.
margin: 0 auto;
}
Also, find
ul {
display: inline;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;}
[around line 20] and remove display: inline; rule. This should fix your issues. Check the live example here.
You can give a define size to the ul and center its content (remove the display-inline, indeed)
ul {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
Then display the child li elements as inline blocks :
ul li {
display: inline-block;
}
The inline-block property won't work in ie7, so check your browser targets first...
Another way is to just use the good ol'
ul li {
float: left;
}
ul:after {
display: block;
content: "";
clear: both;
}
But the li won't be centered within the ul and you'll have to use javascript if you absolutely want to do this dynamically (without assigning a fixed with to each li).
Related
I am having some problems with my CSS external style sheet. I am trying to make a unordered list into navigation bar. I am attempting to do this by adding multiple styles to my navbar div but none of the changes are having any effect on the page when they are inside the navbar div.
#navbar{
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
li {
display: inline;
}
}
Thanks in advance
You can't nest them like that, try this:
The space between tags/identifiers means the right option is inside the left.
#navbar ul{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#navbar ul li {
display: inline;
}
The syntax you're currently using is only valid if you're using the Sass/SCSS preprocessor. While Sass is super-awesome, you'd probably be better off using vanilla CSS for now to build a solid CSS foundation. But whenever you want to get some exposure to Sass, check out their docs here: http://sass-lang.com/guide.
In the meantime, this should work for you:
#navbar ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#navbar li {
display: inline;
}
How do a create menus with pure css that are evenly spaced and the li elements take the entire ul space?
I followed this solution to create the menus that are evenly spaced out: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17951253/757955
I want the li elements to take up all the area of the ul element. I have a separator image I want to put between the menu items. Also I want people to be able to click anywhere in the menu item and be taken to that page.
Here is the js fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/prusikknot/btp6Lkos/
Notice how the red and green boxes don't touch. I want the red and green boxes to touch between each other at the midway point between the menus.
There will be a variable number of menus and the menu names will vary in length. I'm targeting IE8+ and the latest version of the other major browsers but the old IE part may get dropped.
Here is the html:
<nav id="idMainNav">
<ul>
<li>ASDF</li>
<li>QWER</li>
<li>ZXCVB</li>
<li>UIOP</li>
<li>HJKL</li>
<li>VBNM</li>
<li>TYUI</li>
</ul>
</nav>
Here is the css:
#idMainNav{
width: 900px;
}
#idMainNav ul {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: justify;
line-height: 0;
background-color: #e9e8e8;
}
#idMainNav ul:after {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
list-style: none outside none;
}
#idMainNav li {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
line-height: 100%;
text-align: center;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: bolder;
cursor: pointer;
}
#idMainNav li:first-child {
padding-left: 10px;
}
#idMainNav li:last-child {
padding-right: 10px;
}
li {
background: green;
}
li:nth-child(odd) {
background: red;
}
#idMainNav a {
color: #000000;
height: 59px;
line-height: 59px;
text-decoration: none;
}
The thing about display:inline-block; is that it behaves like text and creates white space between elements. To counteract this, make the inline-block parent element have a font-size:0; (in this case the ul) and then reset the li to a font-size value not relative to the parent (since it's now 0).
Also, you don't really need to set justify to anything here, you just need to explicitly state the width of all the lis. In my test, setting the li to width:13.95%; worked nicely but it depends on the number of lis.
I want to add some kind of thick line underneath my currently active<li> items. Problem is, I can't set it up properly. I want the line underneath to inherit the width of its respective <li> or at least to be centered ...
Here's my fiddle
Much appreciated
If you want an absolutely positioned element to inherit the width of it's parent, you need to position that parent relatively. More info here. For your situation, you need to :
Add position:relative; to .nav li
Add width :100%; left:0; and remove margin-left: -6em; on nav li.current a:after, nav li a:hover:after
FIDDLE
You seem to be adding the :after content in two places which seems excessive.
Since you only want in on active 1i you can strip down your code as follows:
CSS
nav ul {
list-style: none;
margin-top: 1.25em;
}
nav ul li {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
nav li a {
color: black;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 1em 1.25em;
width: auto;
}
nav li.current a, nav li a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
nav li.current:after {
background-color:black;
content: "";
height: 1em;
position: absolute;
left:0;
top: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
JSFiddle Demo
As I need to display menu list items as horizontal in IE7 but it is displayed vertically.
Menu list items:
This is the image where menu list items are displayed vertically.
If I use the float:left property then also it will not be displayed horizonatlly. What to do for this problem?
CSS is as follows:
.swMain ul.anchor {
display: inline-block;
list-style: none;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 3px;
float:left;
}
.swMain ul.anchor li{
position:relative;
margin: 0;
padding: -10px;
padding-top:0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
clear:both;
display:inline;
float:left;
}
.swMain ul.anchor li a {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0px;
text-decoration: none;
outline-style:none;
}
The problem is, that IE7 does not support inline-block. Luckily there is an easy fix for that:
.swMain ul.anchor {
*display: inline;
zoom: 1;
}
The * infront of the display propertie makes sure, that it's understood only by IE7 and ignored by every other browser.
I have an image in a list item I need floated. Everything looks fine in FF/6+. Webkit and IE, however, show the list icon on top of the image. When I try floating the list item itself, the icon simply vanishes. Is there a CSS way around this issue? I tried wrapping the content in a span, and still no solution. I've removed some of the text in order to lighten the code here.
<ul class="leftList">
<ul>
<li>Pillow menu to customize your night's sleep</li>
<li>Complimentary bathroom amenities</li>
<li><span class="special_needs_list_item"><a rel="tooltip nofollow" title="Tooltip - Lorem ipsum"><img src="http://teamsite-prod.rccl.com:8030/DOT/img/global/special_needs.png" alt=""></a> Some srooms in this category are wheelchair-accessible.</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
#ccStateroomFeatures ul {
float: left;
width: 320px;
margin-left: 15px;
font-size: 12px;
}
#ccStateroomFeatures ul li {
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
#ccStateroomFeatures .leftList {
width: 490px;
float: left;
}
#ccStateroomFeatures .leftList ul,
#ccStateroomFeatures .rightList ul {
float: none;
margin-left: 15px;
width: auto;
}
#ccStateroomFeatures .leftList ul .special_needs_list_item {
margin:0 0 20px -15px;
padding-left:15px;
}
#ccStateroomFeatures .leftList ul .special_needs_list_item img {
float:left;
margin:3px 5px 0 15px;
overflow:hidden;
width:13px;
}
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you trying to have the image supplied be used instead of the list icon?
If so, you'll want to use list-style-type:none to deal with that. Then play around with the margins to get it to line up like you want.