I'm aware that <span> tag is an inline element while <li> is a block element. However, we have a tooltip that uses a <span> tag and we'd like to make the text inside that tooltip into a list. However, putting <ul><li> inside span doesn't work in all browsers (and it's invalid).
This is the HTML code:
<a class='tooltip'>Text<span>Text that we want to become a list</span></a>
Is there a possible work around?
Although I would not worry to much about invalid code in this instance, given that you know about it, if the ul li is breaking in some of the code, you could do the following, which is also probably invalid:
<a class='tooltip'>Text<span>List item 1<br />
List item 2<br />
List item 3</span></a>
I think the technical answer you could be looking for is that the tooltip text should go inside the title attribute of the anchor tag itself.
Text
It's still not "beautiful" but semantically it's closer to what you're looking for. Plus you can use javascript to pluck that title value from the anchor tag to do something prettier with.
Just use a class:
<ul class='melikenachos'>
</ul>
Try this. Chances are if you want to put a block element inside an inline element, you really want them both to be block elements:
<a class='tooltip' style="display: block;">Text
<div>
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
</ul>
</div>
</a>
Or for all your tooltips:
a.tooltip{
display: block;
}
Related
I'm completely new to HTML and CSS, so please bear with me.
I want to change the color of an individual list item in an ordered list, but I don't want the list number to change style. I also need to do this within the one html-document -- no separate CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title> Test-page </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> An html-file </h1>
<ol>
<li> Item 1 </li>
<li style="color:blue"> Item 2 </li>
<li> Item 3 </li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
The only thing I can think of to solve this using inline styling, is:
<ol>
<li> Item 1 </li>
<li><p style="color:blue"> Item 2 </li>
<li> Item 3 </li>
</ol>
But the list items will appear to be separate paragraphs.
I don't want to use the font-tag, and I want to use HTML5. I want it to be as short as possible, in one file, therefore inline styling.
Any CSS rule that you set on a li element also applies to the list item marker (bullet, number). This is inconvenient, and CSS still lacks any way to style the list marker separately.
So your approach of using something like <li><p style="color:blue"> Item 2 </li> is the workaround you need to use, but when selecting the added inner element, you need to consider the consequences. A p element has default top and bottom margin, so using it, you would need to remove them here:
<li><p style="color:blue; margin:0"> Item 2 </li>
A simpler way is to use div instead of p, since div is a semantically emply block-level container element, which causes no change in default rendering except that its content starts on a fresh line and the content after it starts on a fresh line, which happens here anyway due to the list markup. So:
<li><div style="color:blue"> Item 2</div></li>
Instead of div, you can use span, if there is only inline (phrase-level) content. But div is more flexible, as it allows elements like inner lists, tables, etc.
LIke this
demo
css
ol li span{
color:blue;
}
Try using the span tag in place of p. And don't forget to close the tags properly:
<ol>
<li><span style="color:blue">Item 2</span></li>
</ol>
All the best.
<li><span style="color:blue">Item</span>2</li>
I have this menu:
<div id="menu-home">
<ul>
<li> a </li>
</ul>
</div>
When I am on the test.php page that corresponds to test menu, I need it's li to have a different style..
I tried
#menu-home ul li:active
but it didn't work..
Thanks
There is no :active state for <li>
Instead you can do it with PHP.
<div id="menu-home">
<ul>
<li <?php if (page is current page) echo ' class="active"';?>> a </li>
</ul>
</div>
And in the CSS, you can give this:
#menu-home ul li.active {}
The <li> element does not have an active state, since it is just meant to be a (stateless) bullet point. The selector :active can only be used on a link; an example can be found here.
However, :active will only highlight the link as it is clicked. After that, it performs whatever action and/or navigation it is set to do and then the link will be visited. From there on you can't tell it apart from the other already visited pages that you are not currently viewing and it does not become "unvisited" again, even if you navigate to another page. So this does not do what you intend.
Instead, I would create a class .active in your CSS where you can define all your custom styling. Then, the PHP that generates your pages needs to take care of setting the class correctly on the selected menu item, ie.: attach class="active" it either to the <li> or the <a> whenever the menu is build.
(yeah, just see Praveen's answer for the code ^^)
example;
<ul>
<li>
<div class="img1"><img src="img.jpg" /></div>
<div class="cs1">Text text</div>
<div class="cs2">text text</div>
<div class="button">Next</div>
</li>
</ul>
like above code block div in li. I heard it is wrong usage. Is it true?
Both elements are block elements so nesting them is fine. Checkout the permitted content allowed in <li> in the Mozilla Documentation.
According to the W3C validator it is perfectly fine to use divisions.
you can also check your html whether it is valid or not in w3cvalidator
Hope this validator helps.
The best place to check it if you are in doubt is HTML DTD. It's a bit cryptic if you look at it first time, but it's a good source.
Let's look at your example:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-UL
DTD stands that in UL (or OL) you can have only LI's (one or more)
<!ELEMENT UL - - (LI)+ -- unordered list -->
Then if you take a look on LI element:
<!ELEMENT LI - O (%flow;)* -- list item -->
it can take any element from the 'flow' shortcut (zero or more as the '*' stands for). You can click on the %flow link to learn what are those elements.
There is many other things you could learn from it, i.e. what kind of attributes given element can have etc.
No, it is often used by developers as easier CSS friendly dropdowns among many other uses you can probably think of.
The HTML syntax (any version) allows a div element inside an li element, as one can easily check from the specifications, or using a validator.
In any other sense than purely syntactic, the “wrong usage” issue is here really with the use of a bulleted list (ul element) with a single item in it. There is nothing formally wrong with it; it just does not seem to make any sense.
No it's not wrong use but it depends on what you want.
If you want a drop down menu every div must be inside a <li>
like the example shown below.
Eg:
<ul>
<li><div class="img1"><img src="img.jpg" /></div>
<li><div class="cs1">Text text</div> </li>
<li><div class="cs2">text text</div> </li>
</ul>
Here's the jQueryTools demo page on how to use their tooltips: http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/tooltip/any-html.html
Basically, if you want to have a tooltip that contains HTML, you have to put that HTML in a div and place it directly after the trigger element like so:
<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" id="link1">
<div class="tooltip">
<img src="img/SOicon.png">stack<span style="font-weight:bold">overflow</span>
</div>
But my trigger element isn't <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" id="link1">. It's an <li>, and my guess is that I can't put anything other than an <li> in the parent <ul>. In other words, I can't place the after the trigger element like I'm supposed to.
I've come up with a way to fix this (scrapping the unordered list with floated <li>s and switching over to floated divs) but figured I should probably consult the experts (you guys, of course!) before I got started on fixing the problem.
How would you guys fix this?
It's no problem to use another element outside your structure as tooltip target !
<ul id="mylist">
<li title="List Point 1">List Point 1</li>
<li title="List Point 2">List Point 2</li>
<li title="List Point 3">List Point 3</li>
</ul>
<!-- many other HTML ELements -->
<div id="mylist_tooltip"></div>
At the end put in your jQuery's ready() :
jQuery("#mylist li").tooltip({
// target div
tip: '#mylist_tooltip'
});
Read more in the docu ;-)
I'm using SIFR 3.0 in combination with suckerfish popup menus. I only want to SIFR the top level li's and not apply the effect to the nested ones. I'm also using WordPress, so restructuring the menu, like wrapping the parent in a <div> or other object is too hard (I'm still figuring out the basics of WordPress).
Is there a way to turn SIFR
ON for ul#menu li
but OFF for ul#menu li li ?
Other things I've tried that haven't worked is applying a class or id to the parent <li class="top-level"> or <li id="top-level">--that didn't stop the SIFR, it still grabbed the children.
Thanks so much for the help.
I'm going to assume your HTML structure is like this:
<ul id="menu">
<li>
My link
<ul>
<li>My submenu item</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
When you replace ul#menu li, you will replace the entire content of the <li> element. Unfortunately this also includes the submenu. The solution is to replace just the link, but note that you can't directly replace <a> elements.
Therefore:
<ul id="menu">
<li>
<span>My link</span>
<ul>
<li>My submenu item</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
And replace ul#menu > li span.
Finally there is the question whether the Suckerfish menus actually work if the events have to come through sIFR. I suspect it won't, meaning you're probably better off not using sIFR here.
This can be done with the CSS child selector:
ul#menu > li
this will only select li elements that are direct children of ul#menu. This should work in all standards complient browsers, and IE7+.
For IE6 there are a few hacks you can do to fake it, although I prefer to use jQuery to make up for selectors it doesn't support:
$('ul#menu > li').css({ ... });
which you can place in conditional comments.
If you download the uncompressed sifr source, and also have jQuery or are good with javascript you can probably put a conditional in at around line 491 of the sifr code along the lines of
if ($(node).parent().parent().parent().attr('id', 'menu')) {continue;}
I'm not great at jQuery, and I'm also not sure what kind of object the nodes that sifr runs through are, but in theory something like the above should make waht you want possible.