http://jsfiddle.net/vByVD/9/
This what i have. The menu looks right is horisontal in most browsers. But in IE7 and lower ofcourse it is something else, it is vertical there.
I found out this is because they dont support table, table-cell.
I tried some hacks as you can see in the first lines in the CSS, but it does not quite work, this do only show 3 li horisontal and then it makes new line and show the other li's.
I want it to appear as the other new browsers, so its one line horisontal.
How can i make this work?
There are two ways to accomplish this. The first:
#header-nav{
overflow: hidden;
zoom: 1; /* IE6 and below work around */
}
#header-nav li{
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#header-nav li a{
display: block; /* if you want height and width */
}
The second:
#header-nav li{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: inline;
}
Personally I use the first of the two as it provides a bit more control for styling a block for color, width, height, margin, padding, etc. Plus, when you do a:hover the entire box is a link; not just the text. My recommendation is to not use tables. The results are unpredictable as you have seen. Not to mention, now its easier to add sub-menu's, using JQuery or CSS.
Related
I'm trying to come up with a solution for this problem.
I have a control where the background is an image.
The text that I would like on the form is included in the bg image, however for the purpose of accessibilty, I'd like to include it in an H3 tag.
The problem I have encountered with the solutions I have is that the space is still allocated and I need it to be supressed. It also needs to be Google friendly too.
Here's 2 solutions I have:
text-indent:-999px;
text-indent:100%;
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
Any ideas?
The normal way to hide elements is to use one of the following:
visibility:hidden; which hides the element but still takes up space.
display:none; which hides the element and does not take up space.
I believe the second is what you want in this instance.
Well, first of all
display: none;
But, if you want, there might be other solutions for styling your heading tag
/* on its container */
overflow: hidden;
/* on h3 tag */
float: left;
margin-left: -100%;
or
font-size: 0;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
You may also need to set/reset few other properties, to clear any other space around your heading, like
margin, padding, white-space, text-indent, border, etc.
You can give font-size:0; to your h3 tag HEADING will be in your code with your background.
And this will help you in SEO also..
DEMO
HTML
<div id="wrap">
<h3>heading</h3>
</div>
CSS
#wrap {
height: 230px;
width:660px;
background:url("http://www.eldercarefunding.org/Portals/18/Skins/s_eldercare_green/images/header.bgL.png") no-repeat 0 0;
}
#wrap h3 {
font-size:0;
}
(I'm looking at this site in IE 8.) As you can see the content floats center knocking the sidebar below it. It works perfectly in Chrome. I can't think why the float:left; command isn't working in IE.
#content {
margin: 5px 0 5px 5px;
font: 1.2em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width:65%;
float:left;
}
Thanks for your help.
Tara
If you add overflow: hidden to your ul#list-nav then that will prevent the floating navigation messing up the rest of the document.
As for why the navigation is displaying strangely, it's because you're specifying your widths and layout badly. What you should be using is this:
ul#list-nav {
overflow: hidden;
}
ul#list-nav li {
width: 16.66%;
float: left;
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul#list-nav li a{
display: block;
margin-left: 1px;text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 0;
background: #754C78;
color: #EEE;
text-align: center;
}
That way, the width of each element is exactly 16.66%, rather than 16.62% + 1px
what i currently see in IE8 is:
the problem is that menu links are too wide in IE. You've set the width to 16.62% to each anchor in the menu and that's too wide for IE. Since the width of your content is fixed I suggest you set fixed width in pixels (132px) for these links so they fit on one line and look consistent across browsers, also removing li style setting margin: 0.5em 2em to fix positioning problem in IE.
After my fix I see this:
To me it looks like theres nothing really wrong with the content.
In ie6-ie9 the menu seems to be failing in some way.
and also the menu goes in two rows which pushes everything down. I'm not sure if that is all due to the s letter or not at this point..
Note that the extra letter s seems to be somewhere between #menu and #content .containers.
Edit2: the problem is clearly the menu a width which is too much and the menu goes into two rows.
The way menu is often done is that the ulor outer div holds the color and then the menu li are either centered within that or just plain floated to the left. this way you get the full height feel without the tourbles of the menu braking like this ( though if you do it without ignoring the width.. it is possible with too many menu items and so on. )
add clear:both; on menu container.
note: is broken in Firefox to
I have a template that uses an unordered list to create the menu. See here
When I translate the website using Google translate the menu breaks if the translations are too long, causing the floated list items to drop down. Translating it into French seem to cause the problem.
See here
Is there a way I can force the text to wrap if it is too long for the menu?
I don't mind if I have to change the unordered list to something else, but I would prefer not to use a table.
use word-wrap property of css
word-wrap: break-word;
The short version: we're going to use display: table-cell.
The long version is.. long:
On .access, remove the padding rule.
On .sf-menu, remove float: left and add display: table.
On .sf-menu li, remove float: left and add display: table-cell and vertical-align: middle.
On #header and #footer, add position: relative.
On .access, remove height: 32px and margin-top: -32px and add position: absolute and width: 100%.
On #header .access, add bottom: 0.
Move the border-left from sf-menu a to sf-menu li.
Change the selector .sf-menu a.first to .sf-menu .first.
This part isn't great, but to get back that 20px padding on the left (and right), add an extra li at the start: <li class="noHover" style="width: 20px; border-left: 0"> </li>; and at the end: <li class="noHover" style="width: 20px; border-left: 0"> </li>. You might not need the s. You'll need to do the same thing with #footer.
To stop the :hover on the "padding" lis, add something like this:
.sf-menu li.noHover:hover {
background: none !important
}
On #footer, add padding-top: 48px.
That's everything (unless I screwed up somewhere), except for IE6/7 support. If you want that, you're going to have to put a new version up with my fixes applied (can be in a temporary new folder if you like). It's too much work to attempt to fix IE6/7 when I have to apply all those changes first to test it properly.
#Pranay pointed to the right direction but you need to set the width to the lis not the ul! so for example:
ul.sf-menu li {
width: 80px; /* make this the maximum width possible! */
word-wrap: break-word;
}
And insert a clearing div right after the menu ul:
<div class="clear"></div>
Where the clear class is defined as:
.clear {
clear: both;
width: 0;
height: 0;
}
Might be a bit too early in the morning for me but I struggling to figure out what I've done wrong here.
I have a page with 9 boxes and I would like them to be positioned with 3 on one line, 3 on another and 3 on the other.
Have a look here: http://dev.tim-morgan.co.uk/other/Untitled-1.html
Right now you can see, the list bullets are showing and each box looks like it's going down like a staircase since I put in float: left;
Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
You need to:
Move float: left from ul.tabs2 a to ul.tabs2 li.
Add overflow: hidden to .tabs2 to clear the floats.
Add clear: left to every 3n+1 li using :nth-child, try this:
ul.tabs2 li:nth-child(3n+1) {
clear: left
}
If you need to support Internet Explorer 8 and lower (no nth-child support), you can use http://selectivizr.com/, or just add the clear: left rule yourself to each relevant li.
You might want to remove the default styles on your <li>s, they could be interfering with the floating of the <a>s in the <li>s.
I’d suggest:
ul.tabs2 {
list-style: none;
}
ul.tabs2 li {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
For getting three in a row, #thirydot’s answer looks good. If you know how wide you want each box to be, you could set that width on the <a>s, then set a width on the <ul>:
ul.tabs2 {
width: 300px;
}
ul.tabs2 li a {
width: 100px;
}
In your css add this
ul.tabs2 li {display:block;float:left;width:33%;margin:0 0 10px 0;padding:0;}
and also add overflow:hidden and list-style:none to your ul.tabs2 if you don't want bullets.
I am building a menu system presented to the user in multi-column format. The column-count property in CSS3 gets me 90% of the way there, but I'm having difficulties with alignment under Chrome.
The menu is relatively simple:
an unordered list divided into multiple-columns by the column-count property
columns should fill sequentially, so column-fill: auto
menu items are represented as list items
each list item has a a clickable anchor tag, extended fully via display: block
The alignment issue I'm having is most noticeable with a top-border and some background coloring on each list item. In Firefox, the list items are always aligned cleanly across each column, never bleeding into the previous/next column. In Chrome, alignment is a crapshoot, varying with how many list items are present and any padding/margin properties.
I've posted the code for a simple test case here: http://pastebin.com/Ede3JwdG
The problem should be immediately evident: in Chrome, the first list item in the second column bleeds back into the first column. As you remove list items (click on them), you can see that alignment breaks down further.
I've tried tweaking the padding/margin for the list items to no avail: Chrome appears to have a flawed algorithm for how it flows content across a multi-column layout.
The primary reason I haven't ditched column-count altogether (in favor of manual generation/Columnizer/etc.) is that the menu system also involves drag-and-drop functionality across multiple sub-menus, and having the menu data laid out as a cohesive list-based hierarchy makes for clean code.
Is there a way to fix the alignment issue in Chrome or should I just give up on column-count for now?
ADDED:
jsFiddle prototype: http://jsfiddle.net/VXsAU/
JS Bin prototype: http://jsbin.com/ebode5/
You need each item in the column to be displayed as "inline-block". That will solve your problem without needing to use jQuery.
Additionally, each element can be specified to have width: 100% in order to get the them to use the full width of the rows.
Here is a working example:
$(document).ready(function() {
for( var i = 0; i < 24; i++ ) {
$("ul.newslist").append("<li><a href='#'>Item</a></li>");
}
$("ul.newslist > li").click(function() {
$(this).remove();
})
});
ul.newslist {
columns: 5;
background-color: #ccc;
padding: 16px 0;
list-style: none;
}
ul.newslist > li {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #000;
}
ul.newslist > li > a {
display: block;
padding: 4px;
background-color: #f6b;
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul class="newslist"></ul>
I managed to balance uneven vertically-aligned columns by applying margin-* properties to the elements inside the multicolumn'd container.
.content {
column-width: 15em; /* or could be column-count, however you want to set up multi columns */
}
.content > section {
-webkit-margin-before: 0;
-webkit-margin-after: 0;
}
As for vertical margins leakage. You can replace margin with pseudo-element. Then set its height to desired margin value. You also need to set -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; on the element containing pseudo-element so that it is not moved to another column. Do that only for webkit with the help of css-hack (not recommended) or js-detection (best way). Here is CSS:
.element {
-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid;
}
.element:after {
content: '';
display: block;
height: 20px;
}
I've played around as well, and several sources I've seen online make it seem to be a known issue with webkit. A good breakdown can be found here: http://zomigi.com/blog/deal-breaker-problems-with-css3-multi-columns/
Someday, CSS 3!
Maybe try a jQuery plugin like http://welcome.totheinter.net/columnizer-jquery-plugin/ ?
I was having trouble with vertical alignment on a multi-column list. Turned out that the problem was that I was using bottom padding on my list li's-- I changed the li style to use a bottom margin instead, and the columns aligned to top again.
My desired outcome was wanting to get a large list of links to display across 3 columns. Simply using column-break-inside:avoid; alone didn't work in webkit.
HTML
<div class="links">
<ol>
<li><a>link</a></li> <!-- x 50 -->
</ol>
</div>
css:
.links ol {
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-count: 3;
column-count: 3;
}
.links li {
display: block;
border: 1px solid $background-colour; //to appear invisible
-moz-column-break-inside:avoid;
-webkit-column-break-inside:avoid;
column-break-inside:avoid;
}
.links a {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
Solution (quirk if you will)
I added a 1px border around the list items which seemed to contain the margins of it's children and each column then aligned to the top.
Edit: This only seems to be required if you're using global border-box
html {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
*, *:before, *:after {
box-sizing: inherit;
}
I solved this by removing vertical margins on the child elements, and then increasing the line-height of the children to replicate desired spacing.
I also noticed I could fix this vertical alignment issue by removing the child margins and converting it to grandchild padding.
I'm struggling with this as well, for a reporting system with many many data and titles with padding/margin that I need to flow on several columns for wider screens.
I've worked around my first big deal-breaker, the padding of the initial title element, with the :first-child pseudo-class (this is included in an #media rule for wide screens not shown here) :
The columns definition :
.dimSlider .multicol {
-moz-columns: 4;
-webkit-columns: 4;
columns: 4;
}
Canceling padding on top when in .multicol
.dimSlider .multicol h3 {
padding-top: 0;
}
Cancelling padding and margin for the first element (color: blue; is so that I see if the rule catches) :
.dimSlider .multicol .criteria:first-child h3 {
padding: 0 2%;
margin: 0;
color: blue;
}
So far, this looks way much neater in my Firefox. I'll see if there's some more tinkering to do but currently in Firefox the text looks aligned on the top, what is the most important.
EDIT :
The problem seems quite worse with webkit-based browsers indeed. To solve it entirely, I modified the template in order to have a <div></div>around all the titled sections so I can add padding / margin at the end of the divs and not at the beginning of the titles. Now in webkit browsers it looks fine too.
BTW, using percentages measurements in multicolumns is quite tricky because the percentage seems calculated to the width of the column and not the global width of the parent element. I changed this by adding padding in the parent element of the columns.
But the biggest difficulty is that Firefox doesn't support any column-span or break-inside property, so when I have very few content, it is spread over the columns nonetheless, like one or two lines on each. Again, Smarty on the rescue :
{if $element|#count <= 10}
<div class="nocol">
{/if}
So far it works now for me...
while searching for information about this i came across your question and today I've been inspecting the elements of the list.
I found that the UL element applies a margin only on the first column.
Just apply 0 padding and margin in the css and they will align
margin:0;
padding:0;
hope it helps
I had a two-column ordered list, and the left column was pushed down by default margin - so it did not align with the right column.
This fixed it.
ol > :first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
I saw some solutions about placing -webkit-column-break-inside:avoid;. But that does not seems to work for me. Then I found out I have to place 2 things to get it working.
Place padding on the li, and give the property break-inside: avoid; on the li.
This is my code:
ul {
column-count: 2;
}
li {
font-size: 10px;
line-height: 12px;
padding: 10px 0;
width: fit-content;
min-width: 143px;
border-bottom: 0.5px solid #ccc;
break-inside: avoid;
}
this is solution for multicolumn space problem
ul li { line-height:40px; }