I'm working on the navigation for this website and am having trouble with the dropdown nav.
Basically, I have overflow: hidden applied to the container that holds the navigation items so that the rollover effect works properly (the bottom of the nav item is 'masked' off); you'll see what I mean if you roll over the nav on the website.
For Products there is a dropdown nav. As the site in built in Business Catalyst (CMS), I don't have control over how the navigation items are nested, but I can obviously style them / target them with JQuery.
Is there a way to make the dropdown container within div#navigation ignore the overflow: hidden rule I have applied? I have tried setting position to absolute and playing with the z-index, but no luck.
Any suggestions to achieve the same result are also welcome.
Solution:
Remove position:relative; rule from box with overflow:hidden; and set it to one of her parent boxes. Then absolute boxes in the box with overflow:hidden; will ignore this rule.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/88fYK/5/
overflow: hidden can't be overridden by descendent elements - they will always be clipped by the element with overflow: hidden.
Setting the element's position:fixed will remove the element and its children from the normal document flow allowing it to be unclipped. But you'll have to manually reposition it relative to the browser window. Not a great solution but it is a work-around.
if your container is set to "overflow: hidden;" and your dropdown menu is under this container, you just need to set "position: absolute;"
.container {
overflow: hidden;
}
.your_dropdown_menu {
position: absolute;
}
try to put position:fixed on dropdown content.
.dropdown-content{
position:fixed
}
For those of you who didnt find the solution to you problem in the answers already given, you can try and do what i did, wich is to give your "nav-bar" a different "ID" than the rest of the "containers"..........wich after 2h46min of trying everything.....i said why not and it worked, you never know it might be as simple as that
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I'm working on a page for a class, just to display things (you can see them sorted by chapter in the body) but I originally had a list on the left that I used initially that just listed them all, and I wanted to keep it.
Problem is, once I started adding more CSS - I don't know where exactly - the area on the left just became completely unclickable. You can't highlight the text, you can't click any of it - nothing. I have absolutely no idea whatsoever what is causing this.
link to the site here
here is a pastebin link showing everything I have.
thank you, i really appreciate any help.
The .content div overlaps entire body area, because of "position: absolute;"
Add z-index: 9999; to #menu in your CSS and it should be clickable.
Other way is to use "position: relative; float: left;" to both .content and #menu, but you have to be carefull with their widths. Their sum of widths (including padding and margin and border) should be less or equal to the container width. In your case it should be body tag (actually a don't see body tag in your html).
That's because your .content div is using position: absolute; so it's taken out of the page flow and overlapping your sidebar because it has no width set (block elements span the full width of your viewport unless you give it a fixed width) ... just add a negative z-index value to your .content div and it should work fine.
More on z-index
Newbie question here. I have a navigation bar with padding in all of my li's, and I want to be able to target the ahref when you click in the padding. Would this be done with onclick/javascript for each li? or is there a simple CSS method?
Also I have a search bar, that I want to focus by clicking on it's padding as well. I assume this would require a similar method.
First, you must set display:inline-block as a property for your links. Then, remove the padding from your list-item and apply it to the links.
Your CSS should reflect the following:
li a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 10px;
}
Here's a fiddle for a working example.
maybe you could specify:
li.someclass a {
display: inline-block; //or display:block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
(remember to specify width/height of parent container aswell)
not sure if i got you right though
Set the padding to the anchor instead of to the li.
See http://jsfiddle.net/FBsKH/ and compare.
About the search bar, can you post some code?
If I add padding to a <input type="text" /> and I click it on it's padding, it gets focus (tested on Firefox and Chrome). See it here: http://jsfiddle.net/fnsRu/
Edit:
Ah, now I understand what you want with the search bar.
The problem is that AFAIK with CSS you can't set focus to an element.
Then, you can:
Remove paddings: http://jsfiddle.net/fnsRu/3/
Use JavaScript: http://jsfiddle.net/fnsRu/4/
I have a dropdown css menu that gets gets hidden behind the main page content when viewed in IE7. I've tried changing z-index values but have had no luck. I've also tried suggestions in other topics from this site but none have worked.
the page can be found here: www.melbournedodgeball.com.au/dodgeball2012/about
any help would be greatly appreciated
The CSS spec's paragraph on Z-index says that new stacking context is only created for positioned content with a z-index other than auto.
You have the li inside #nav with a position:relative, an apparently IE interprets this as a new stacking context.
Try this:
#nav li {
display: block;
position: relative;
z-index: 1; // force IE to recognize stack at this point
}
You need to add
position:relative;
To your <ul>
Z-Index is specified relative to all other elements in the same stacking context. You can have a Z-Index of 100 but it wont make a bit of difference if the elements belong to completely different stacking contexts.
I have test this code, It will work sure
Please set this css for IE7 only
#menu {position:relative; z-index:100;}
I have a web page with a CSS dropdown navigation menu. My issue is that when I hover over the top of the menu to make the dropdowns appear, everything else in the page moves to make space for the dropdown instead of the dropdown moving over everything else. My navigation links are in a div element with the id "header" and my CSS for that element looks like this:
#header {
width: 100%;
z-index: 100;
position: relative;
}
None of the elements in the page that are moving are inside the header and non of them have a z-index specified. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
You need to add position: absolute to the submenus that appear when you hover over a menu button.
See here for a tutorial: http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/
Also relevant: http://css-tricks.com/791-absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/
Change position to absolute and make the position of the parent container relative.
Or, in the opposite direction, create another container within #header and stuff everything inside it.
The key point is that the inner element needs to be absolutely positioned, but in relation to its parent. Therefore position parent relatively.
I have created a CSS dropdown menu, but when it drops down, it is being overlapped by the content, and renders useless.
How do i fix this?
Code
QUESTION SOLVED...THANKS...
Try changing the z-index of the drop down menu
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_pos_z-index.asp
Set your z-index of your nav higher than your content and the problem will go away. For z-index to work properly in all browsers the element with the z-index on it much also have a position:relative or position:absolute.
Update
ul.dropdown { position: relative; border-radius:10px; z-index:9999}
#content{position:relative; z-index:100} /* #content should be whatever your content div is */