li text not using whole width - css

i have a ul, with three li inside it. the first li text is "opptakskrav" and the last li element is "ja". Anyone know why the text on my second li doesnt use the whole width and why it starts a new line halfway?
<ul class="admission infoUl">
<li class="head">Opptakskrav</li>
<li>Kravet for opptak til bachelorgraden er normalt generell studiekompetanse.</li>
<li> ja</li>
</ul>
this is the only css:
.infoUl {
padding-left:35px;
}
.infoUl li.head {
font-weight:bold;
}

It looks like there is a width set on the ul or li. Maybe a style is being inherited from a different stylesheet. Is there another set of styles that is making the text sans-serif with a grey background?

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make <li> change color on hover

I have implemented an off-canvas menu. I want to make the whole <li> change color on hover but only the text are changing color. How can i do so?
PLease check the full code here:
https://jsfiddle.net/nia24/u7gLwx49/
There's no class menu in the fiddle, so:
<ul id="toggle" class="menu">
And be aware of space between li and :hover:
.menu li:hover{
background: #00ff99;
}
Now, it works: https://jsfiddle.net/u7gLwx49/1/
You can use like this:
.menu li:hover a {
color: #FFFFF;
}
Text will change color when hover is on li element

css :hover effect on current and all elements above

Is there any way to style this list using pure css so all elements above my cursor will be highlighted ?
<ul>
<li>first</li>
<ul>
<li>first.first</li>
<ul>
<li>first.first.first</li>
<li>second.second.second</li>
<li>third.third.third</li>
</ul>
<li>second.second</li>
<li>third.third</li>
</ul>
<li>second</li>
<li>third</li>
</ul>
I want to style this list this way: When I hover cursor over "second" everything will be highlighted expect third. When i go over third.third everything will be highlighted expect second and third etc...
I was able to achieve something very similar as described here
css :hover effect on current and previous elements
however I want something slightly different
Thanks
We can't go back, but we can go forward with ~, so we can highlight everything and turn off highlight for everything after current element.
ul li:hover {
background: red;
}
ul li:hover ~ li,
ul li:hover ~ li li {
background: none;
}
JSFiddle

display <li> line wise CSS

I have multiple li-a tags with varying size of text inside it. How can I display this line wise. As of now all the li -a tags are squeezing in one line and I want it in seperate lines. Should be able to handle single line and multiple line of text..
<ul>
<li><a>AAAA </a></li>
<li><a>BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB </a></li>
<li><a>CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC</a></li>
<li><a>DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD</a></li>
</ul>
Display should be:
AAAA
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
As of now it is:
AAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
BBBBCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
CSS
ul li a{
line-height: 45px;
border: 1px solid #ff0000;
margin-left:10px
}
li is block element it has to work by default. But somewhere you have changed to line that why it didnt work, so reset adding block as given below
Add display:block to li element
ul li{
display:block;
}

Thoughts about CSS hierarchy

Whats the difference of use CSS like this:
.mainHeader nav ul li {.....
compared with just this:
.mainHeader li {.....
It works fine with just the latter alternative. Since I don't have any other nav or ul in the mainHeader, I guess it's ok to just use the latter one?
What if you have HTML like this?
<div class="mainHeader">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Menu item</li>
<li>Menu item
<ul><li>With submenu</li></ul>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
Now, if you wanted to only style a "Menu item" and submenu items separately, the only way to do so specifically is with the following selectors:
.mainHeader nav>ul>li { /* menu item */ }
.mainHeader li>ul>li { /* submenu item */ }
Using the > combinator is important here, to ensure you are styling the right element. .mainHeader li alone will not do.
As long as you will never include any other matching elements, it's okay (where okay means "it will work"). A good approach is to add a class to your ul and select it that way:
ul.my-menu li {
/* CSS styles */
}
And - by the way - I guess mainHeader is not the tag name. If it is an identifier, you must use #mainHeader and .mainHeader if it is a class. (You changed it)
<div id="mainHeader">
<ul><li>facebook</li><li>twiiter</li></ul>
<div id="nav">
<ul><li>Home</li><li>About</li><li>Information</li><li>Contact</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
So #mainHeader li{....} will do all li in div
and #mainHeader nav ul li {....} will overwrite for the nav bar
Adding a class to each ul or adding > will make the code stronger when it is edited in future like suggested above.
The difference is only one thing, you can list any type of element next to .mainHeader for example, #mainHeader a p code div nav span ul li. This will give all of these elements with an ID of mainHeader the CSS you place in the { } for that element.
I'll give you an example.
HTML:
<div class="mainHeader">This text is black because "mainHeader".</div>
<a class="mainHeader" href="#">This text is black because "mainHeader".</a>
<p class="mainHeader">This text is black because "mainHeader".</p>
<nav class="mainHeader">This text is black because "mainHeader".</nav>
<span class="mainHeader">This text is black because "mainHeader".</span>
CSS:
.mainHeader div a p nav span {
color: #000;
}
Update(1): Please understand that doing this is recommended if you are going to give multiple elements the same aspect for a specific thing. An example of this usage, say you want div a p to have the same color, you would achieve this by div a p { color: #000; /* color your wanted */ }

Changing font color of <a> contained within <li>, but on hover over <li>

I have a <li> that contains an <a href>
<li>Page</li>
I'd like to change the background color and text color of each <li> item as it's hovered over. I found that the background color is best changed by targetting the li:hover and not the a:hover because the a:hover changes the background of only a small portion of the line (the part that has the <a> text).
li:hover { background-color:green; }
What I'd also like to do is change the font color (that's the <a>). When I do it the first way below, it has no effect on the <a> text color. And when I do it the second way below, I'd have to hover specifically on the <a> for the font color to change, not just anywhere in the <li> bullet line.
li:hover { background-color:green; color:red; } //first way
a:hover { color:red; } //second way
Is there a way with css to change the font color of the contained <a href> when the <li> is hovered over? again, this is what the html markup looks like:
<li>Page</li>
li:hover a { color: red }
:hover documentation.
IE5/6 only support :hover on links, so make sure you're not testing on those browsers.
The way that works on IE6 is to still target the link, but make the link fill the whole of the space inside the <li>:
li a { display: block; }
li a:hover { background-color: green; }

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