I am making a website's top navigation. There is a margin bug with the menu.
I have defined margin / padding : 0 for list items as well as display: inline-block.
See the demo: http://tinkerbin.com/495Qb956
Basically I want to remove that left/right margin from the list items, and know why this margin is there.
By default display:inline-block take margin from left. Write like this:
.top-right ul {
background:black;
height:43px;
font-size:0;
}
.top-right ul li {
display:inline-block;
border:1px solid red;
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-size:13px;
}
Check this http://tinkerbin.com/YWeV7osy
That room you're seeing are spaces between the blocks. If you remove all white-space between the </li> and <li> you'll see the space disappear. Basically an inline-block will behave like a word in a sentence, and any white-space between two of those blocks will be folded into 1 space char.
One solution is to use floats to make the blocks stick together:
li { float: left; }
You might need to clear the elements that come after such floating elements.
Related
JS Fiddle here
I am attempting to align child elements evenly between left and right. I tried using margin-left and right: auto but nothing happened.
Here is a screen shot of the navigation in question. I have added a border of 1 px around each element so you can see:
I'd like the nav line items to be centred in comparisson to their parent. So in the image the line items would move to the right a bit to be centred between the parent rectangle, which is an unordered list.
Here is my approximation of the relevant html:
<nav>
<div id="main-nav">
<ul id="menu-main">
<li>cats</li>
<li>dogs</li>
<li>sheep</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
Currently relevant (I think) CSS is:
#main-navigation {
display: inline;
float: left;}
#main-navigation div {
display: block;}
#menu-main {
position: relative;
float: left;}
#menu-main li {
float: left;
}
Put another way, I'd like to centre floated child elements against the parent. If I zoom in and out with my browser I can see that the nav adjusts and change size with some line items moving between top and bottom row in order to fit.
But is there a way to ensure that, whatever the current size of the nav, the child line items will be centred?
Here's another picture, where I have manually added a margin left to #menu-main.
Now it looks more centred on my screen right now. But is there a way to auto centre it?
See this : http://jsfiddle.net/rahjrLny/1/
You don't need to float your li elements, simply set them to display:inline . Then you can add text-align: centre to your ul element, and all should be good.
(You'll need to remove some margins that have appeared in the fiddle due to the changes)
This would be my solution: JSFiddle
There's some redundant CSS (for example, no need to specify #main-navigation div {display: block;} if you don't have any div elements inside the #main-navigation).
I've gone with display:inline-block as opposed to display:inline (plus added some colour borders for visual clarity). Please bear in mind I'm working with the code you supplied in the question rather than building the code from the screenshots.
nav {display:inline-block; width:100%;}
#main-nav {
float:left;
width:100%;
}
ul#menu-main {
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
float:left;
}
#menu-main li {
list-style: none;
padding: 0.5em;
display:inline-block;
}
EDIT: I answered this question before I observed there was a fiddle supplied, and worked instead from the code supplied in the question. This may not be the right answer for OP but I'm going to leave it alone for now as I believe it gives a valid example of how one could approach the task of centering a nav list.
I am styling a simple menu and I'm having an unbelievably hard time figuring out how to put padding in list items so that they look the same.
I have an unordered list, where list items may contain an anchor, if that is the case I want the whole body of the visible element to be clickable ( in other words the anchor should occupy 100% width and height of the list item ), however if there is no anchor the list item should still be the same height/width as the other list items.
HTML
<ul>
<li>Index</li>
<li><a href=''>Home</a></li>
<li>FAQ</li>
</ul>
CSS
ul { padding:0; margin:0; width: 200px; background: lightgray; }
li { padding: 20px; border: solid black; }
li a { display: block; }
DEMO
If I put the padding on a then items without a child dont have padding, if I put it on both then items with a child become fatter, and in the case I show in the fiddle there is an area of the list item that is not clickable. How can I fix this?
If I put the padding on a then items without a child dont have padding, if I put it on both then items with a child become fatter
Well, then send them on a diet – by reversing the “fattening” effect of the padding on the links by a negative margin of the same amount:
li a { display:block; margin:-20px; padding:20px; background:red; }
http://jsfiddle.net/rph4bg0j/11/
(Red background only added so the effect shows up directly.)
I've a header div and a menu ul below it. I'd like to accomplish 2 things:
1) the ul should have the same width as the div (outer vertical borders exactly same x position
2) I'd like to keep the spacing between li elements roughly equal
With some trial and error on the li's margins and padding I roughly achieved the first point in Google Chrome (please see this jsfiddle) but in Firefox the li's don't fit in the ul so they don't stay on a single line. Also, the last li tends to 'spill over' to a second line when zooming in/out.
I tried it with margin:5px auto and padding:5px auto on the li elements but here auto seems to mean zero.
Is this really difficult/impossible or am I overlooking something obvious?
I also tried width:fit-contents but that didn't help either.
I edited a whole lot in your CSS, check the updated fiddle.
Basicly, this is what I've done:
HTML:
<ul>
<li>link</li>
<li>link</li>
<li>link</li>
</ul>
CSS:
ul {
width: 960px;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
}
ul li {
display: table-cell;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
}
The ul is displayed as a table, with the li's as table-cells, making it as width as the header. Within the li i display the anchors as a block, making them fill the whole li. Hope it suits you.
P.s. make sure you remove the class cf from the ul when you use this.
I think some fellow frustrates may find this useful:
.main-menu ul li ul li{
white-space: nowrap;
}
Like this
ul#mmenu li
{
padding:7px;
}
DEMO
You'll need to adjust the padding in ul#mmenu I changed the padding to padding:7px 23px; and it stays in a single line,but there will be a blank space at the right end of the last menu.
You can give absolute position to li items and position them (first have left:0, second: left:100px or so... last have right:0 and so on). That way they will always be at the same place when you zoom.
For those wanting to avoid CSS table and table-cell, which by the way, I have no probelm with you can use text-align:justify on the UL with a couple of tweaks.
Basic HTML:
<ul id='mmenu'>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah</a></li>
</ul>
Note we've lost the clearfix because: a) We're not going to use floats and b)it breaks this solution.
CSS:
ul#mmenu{
width:100%;
margin:15px 0 10px 0;
overflow:hidden;
text-align:justify; /*Added this*/
}
ul#mmenu li{
letter-spacing:.05em;
color:#0a93cd;
/*Now inline blocks instead of blocks floated left*/
display:inline-block;
font:24px arial;
padding:7px 26px;
background:#fff;
border-left:2px solid #0a93cd;
border:2px solid #0a93cd;
border-radius:13px;
text-align:center;
}
/*Now for the hacky part....
...justify does not, by design, justify the last row of text
therfore we need to add an additional, invisible line*/
ul#mmenu:after {
content: "";
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
}
I have also removed the :first-child style in the Updated Fiddle
So here is my code:
#headerMenu_outer #headerMenu_inner
{
background-color:#333333;
}
#headerMenu_outer #headerMenu_inner li
{
padding-left:15px;
padding-right:15px;
text-align:center;
font-size:13px;
font-weight:bold;
display:inline;
color:#00FF33;
background-color:#00CCCC;
cursor:pointer;
}
I want headerMenu_inner to be centered inside of headerMenu_outer. Usually, "margin-left: auto" and "margin-right: auto" works. However, headerMenu_inner is occupying the entire width of headerMenu_outer. Is there anyway to make it not do that? I want it to be as wide as the li's need it to be.
Thank you
#headerMenu_inner is most likely a block-level element and therefore will take up as much horizontal space as it can. Assign a width to that element, and then do your margin trick, e.g. margin: 0 auto to center it.
If you want it to be as wide as the LIs, (off the top of my head) set the LI elements to not wrap, then set the "inner" element to be display: inline-block.
I'm trying to create a menu, in which the last menu item (with different class) will stick automatically to the right corner of the menu. I'm attaching a screenshot for this. There are a few menu items on the left and the last item should somehow count the rest of the available space on the right in the menu div, add this space as padding to the right and display a background in whole area ON HOVER (see the screen to understand this please)
Is something like this possible?
Thanks a lot
See if this will work for you: http://jsfiddle.net/neSxe/2
It relies on the fact that non-floated elements get pushed out of the way of floated elements, so by simply not floating it the last element fill up the rest of the space.
HTML
<ul id="menu">
<li>Services</li>
<li>Doctors</li>
<li>Hospitals</li>
<li>Roasted Chicken</li>
<li class="last">Customer Service</li>
</ul>
CSS
#menu {
width: 600px;
}
#menu li {
float: left;
}
#menu li a {
display: block;
padding: 6px 14px 7px;
color: #fefefe;
background-color: #333;
float: left;
}
#menu li a:hover {
background-color: #666;
}
#menu li.last {
float: none;
}
#menu li.last a {
text-align: center;
float: none;
}
Edit
I've made some changes to make it work smoother on IE6, by floating the anchors too.
If anybody else needs this and do not need to support IE6 and below, you can get rid of those two properties.
assuming your html looks like this:
<div id="menu">
<div class="entry">Services</div>
...
<div class="entry last">Support Staff</div>
</div>
I would make the #menu position: relative;, so that you can position the last menu entry absolute inside the #menu div.
Not necessarily putting the menu item last, but if you always wanted that rounded corner at the end then you could apply a background image to the ul itself and position that right top with the curve. The only issue you'd run into with this method is, if you hover over the last menu it will not put a hover right to the right-hand edge.
If you knew how many menu items there were you could achieve this by setting the correct widths for all your menu items?
Have a look at this:
http://jsfiddle.net/ExLdQ/
The trick is to use your lighter green as the background or background-image for the whole list. You can than use the darker green on all li's and add a background-color:transparent to li.last.
Just add float: right; to your css for the last menu item, and use light background for both the list itself and the last menu item.