Any idea why when I apply display: inline-block to an list element, the list-style-image stops appearing?
The most important style property for a list item is that its display defaults to list-item. That setting is the reason why the element gets displayed with the respective list-style. Setting display to inline-block removes the only thing about your list item that makes it a list item.
If you want a list element to use inline-block but still show bullets, you can use the ::before pseudo element and the content property:
li {
display: inline-block;
}
li::before {
content: '\25cf\a0';
}
( \25cf is the Unicode filled circle symbol and \a0 is a non-breaking space ).
You can use float:left; on your li element and add a min-width and min-height
.footer ul li{
float: left;
list-style-image: url(../images/arrow.png);
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
box-sizing: border-box;
min-height: 38px;
min-width: 300px;
}
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I have one of my <a> links set to inline-block and there is some space added to the bottom of the containing div. I am not sure how to get rid of this and was wondering if someone could help.
Here is a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/RQ69r/1/
Thanks in advance.
You can fix that adding the following style to the inline-block element:
vertical-align: middle;
Demo
Why dont you change it to display: block; ?
Check the updated fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/RQ69r/3/
When you want more <a> elements next to each other (horizontal), you could use list-items and / or float:left;
This is the default behavior of inline-block elements. Set the parent div font-size: 0px;
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/RQ69r/7/
.row_20 {
width: 20%;
font-size: 0px;
}
And set the correct font-size of the child element
.header .logo {
font-size: 13px; <-- set font size
height: 45px;
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
background: blue;
}
I want my li elements that form a horizontal menu to be distributed evenly across the width of my ul element. I normally float my li elements to the left and add some margin. But how do I put the proper spacing so they extend from the left of my ul element to the right edge?
Here's an example jsfiddle of a menu not distributed across the ul.
The spacing has to be the same between each li. But the li elements may be different lengths.
Yet another approach. This is something I use when trying to span a menu evenly across the page. It is nice if you have a dynamic menu that will change depending on certain conditions (like an admin page that only shows up if you are logged in as an admin).
CSS:
nav div ul {
display: table;
width: 100%;
list-style: none;
}
nav div ul li {
display: table-cell;
text-align: center;
}
nav div ul li a {
display: block;
}
I was kinda lazy, and just copied this from my current project, so you will have to adapt it to fit your code, but it is my preferred method of creating a horizontal menu
EDIT: You can make it look like it spans better by adding this:
CSS:
nav div ul li:first-child {
text-align: left;
}
nav div ul li:last-child {
text-align: right;
}
again, untested, just typed.
You'll need to set the width of the li elements to force them to fill the space:
ul {
width: 100%;
}
li {
float: left;
width: 33%;
}
(Fiddle demo)
If you add more items to the list, you'll need to adjust the percentage width - eg with four items, the width will be 25%.
I have two answers for you.
If you want to stick with the float model:
Your ul element needs to have the overflow property set (without this property, your ul (or any element containing floated elements) is not given a height (this is expected behavior, mind you: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html) and will therefore default to a height of 0 - the effect of this will be that if you set different background colors for your ul/li and body, the background of your ul will not seem to display).
ul {
text-align: center;
width: 300px;
overflow: auto;
}
Your li elements need to have widths set, otherwise - as floated elements - their width will be set to whatever they contain. I've used pixels, below, but you can use a percentage value too.
li {
float: left;
margin: 5px 0 5px 0;
width: 100px;
text-align: center;
}
Use the display:inline-block property for your li elements (if support for old browsers isn't a priority). IE 7 does not support this, so it's not useful if you need wide cross-browser support, but it creates the effect you want - though make sure you then delete any spaces between your </li> and <li> tags, otherwise they will be counted in the overall width and will show up as spaces between the elements.
One advantage that this method has is that you don't have to know or set the width of the container ul if you use percentage widths on your contained li elements, you still get the centering for free with the text-align property you already have. This makes your layout very responsive.
Here's markup and CSS that works the way I think you are requesting:
Markup:
<ul>
<li>banana</li><li>orange</li><li>apple</li>
</ul>
CSS:
li {
display:inline-block;
margin:5px 0 5px 0;
width:33.33%;
}
ul {
text-align: center;
}
If you'd rather keep the markup on multiple lines, then you'll have to fiddle with the left and right margins of your li elements in the CSS.
If you add li elements, you'll have to change the percentage width to match (for example, with four li elements in your markup, you'd need to change your CSS to have a width of 25% for each one).
Html:
<ul>
<li>1</li>
<li>2 <br>4</li>
<li>3</li>
</ul>
Css:
ul {
list-style: none;
font-size: 0;
text-align: justify;
}
ul:after {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
li {
font-size: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}
codepen
I don't get your question clearly so I assumed that you might want this:
li {
border:solid 1px red;
clear:both;
display:block;
float: left;
margin: 5px;
width:100%;
}
ul {
text-align: center;
width:300px;
}
Is there a best choice out of float: left or display: inline for aligning list items horizontally?
eg: http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/simple-navigation-bar-with-css-and-xhtml/
Personally I dislike float, but that maybe more of an emotional thing rather than logical.
ul { list-style-type: none; overflow: hidden; width:200px; }
ul li { float:left; width: 100px; }
ul li a { display: block; padding: 10px; width:80px; }
ul li a:hover { background: black; }
<ul>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Google</li>
</ul>
This is what I prefer mostly because when you use display:inline you cannot set properties like width, padding (top and bottom), margin etc... which is an handicap for layout purposes.
EDIT 2014
It is also an option to use the display: inline-block property. One think to note is that once you make the list elements inline or inline-block, white-spaces will be taken into consideration. Hence, there will be unwanted spaces between elements.
ul { list-style-type: none; width: 300px; font-size: 0; }
ul li { display: inline-block; *display: inline; zoom: 1; margin-right: 10px; }
/* The *display and zoom is a IE hack, though can't remember
now which one (guess it is IE7) */
ul li a { display: inline-block; padding: 10px; font-size: 13px; }
Check the fiddle here.
If you don't want to use the font-size property (for browser compatibility issues), you can also use html comments to get rid off whitespaces! Though I prefer the method above.
<ul><!--
--><li>Facebook</li><!--
--><li>Google</li><!--
--></ul>
What about
li {
display:inline-block
};
You can then set properties like width, heigth, padding, margin, etc..
I have noticed some rendering bugs when displaying LI's Inline in chrome. My LI border sometimes does not render with the proper horizontal padding.
In general though, I like Inline, it still gives you horizontal margining and padding and you can do a nice text-align: center; on the UL and use the UL for vertical spacing.
I tend to use float purely because an LI is a block element by default and should be treated that way in my opinion but there are clear use cases for both.
It's personal preference.
From a CSS point, Display:Inline = Float:Left(Right).
When it comes to making elements horizontal, like <li>.
The css rule Float is newer than Display.
What is the easiest way to align the text vertically here with CSS ?
<ul>
<li>Hello</li>
<li>Bye Bye</li>
<li>Ciao</li>
</ul>
li {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
text-align: center;
}
If you have just one line of text, you can set the line-height to the same value as the height. This works for any element.
Hacky, but possibly the easiest way:
li {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: center;
}
You will need to add a background image in place of the list item bullet.
If you know you're always going to center a single line you could match height and line-height
li {
...
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
...
}
Try the vertical-align property:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_vertical-align.asp
Putting a line-height and making a gap between text and the border is good. but this is not the best practice. because Line height is not for creating a margin or padding. It is for creating a gap between two text lines(gap between two lines of a paragraph).
So make your task is done, you have to put a margin or a padding. The better option is putting a margin( But this is not a alignment. Just putting a margin to top ). And also, put your text into a "p" tag or "span" tag( whatever a tag, which can use for wrap text ).
HTML code,
<ul>
<li><span>Hello</span></li>
<li><span>Bye Bye</span></li>
<li><span>Ciao</span></li>
</ul>
CSS Code,
ul li span {
margin-top: 5px;
}
If making verticaly align is must, Here is the code.
ul li {
position: relative;
}
ul li span {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
font-size: 12px; /* change this as your need. */
line-height: 12px; /* keep this value same as font-size. */
margin-top: -6px; /* half value from the font-size. */
}
I tried to make a navigation inline list. You can find it here: http://www.luukratief-design.nl/dump/parallax/para.html
For some reason it does not display the width and height of the LI. Here is the snippet. What is wrong with this?
.navcontainer-top li {
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 1em;
text-align: center;
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;<br>
width: 117px;
height: 26px;
}
.navcontainer-top li a {
background: url("../images/nav-button.png") no-repeat;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
width: 117px;
height: 26px;
margin-left: 2px;
margin-right: 2px;
}
.navcontainer-top li a:hover {
background: url("../images/nav-button-hover.png") no-repeat;
color: #dedede;
}
Declare the a element as display: inline-block and drop the width and height from the li element.
Alternatively, apply a float: left to the li element and use display: block on the a element. This is a bit more cross browser compatible, as display: inline-block is not supported in Firefox <= 2 for example.
The first method allows you to have a dynamically centered list if you give the ul element a width of 100% (so that it spans from left to right edge) and then apply text-align: center.
Use line-height to control the text's Y-position inside the element.
Inline items cannot have a width. You have to use display: block or display:inline-block, but the latter is not supported everywhere.
I think the problem is, that you're trying to set width to an inline element which I'm not sure is possible. In general Li is block and this would work.
Using width/height on inline elements is not always a good idea.
You can use display: inline-block instead
Remove the <br> from the .navcontainer-top li styles.
I had a similar issue trying to fix the item size to fit the background image width. This worked (at least with Firefox 35) for me :
.navcontainer-top li
{
display: inline-block;
background: url("../images/nav-button.png") no-repeat;
width: 117px;
height: 26px;
}