Styling li tags with float:left is a standard way to create horizontal navigation bars. But whenever I do this, the entire navigation bar list gets separated from the containing div.
Removing float:left would fix the problem, but let's assume I want to do it this way.
HTML
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="temp.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h2>Demo: Navigation Bar</h2>
<ul id="navbar">
<li>
News
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
#header {
margin: 10px;
width: 8in;
background-color: green;
margin-left: auto; /* setting margin to auto centers block element */
margin-right: auto; /* width must not be 100% */
}
#header ul { /* ul */
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0px;
}
#header li {
display:block;
float:left;
background-color: silver;
margin: 0;
}
Any insight is much appreciated!
Edit:
Solution is to add empty div after the list, or style the containing div with overflow:hidden.
After looking for an explanation why this happens, I found a great link explaining everything!
http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/
The trick is, working with float's - use clearfixes. In your case, add the following, before header closing tag </div>:
<div style="clear: both"></div>
That will make header strech, considering floating elements inside it.
Add a div after the ul with style clear:left; - I would go into more detail, but I'm on my iPad and about to go to bed.
Instead of anything in the li css code, put #header li{display: inline;} (and your color and other preferences)
Related
I am beginner to UI World, trying to style and arrange html components in one of my example, but I could not see the style applied for all the children of HTML header component. Here is what I have tried Demo in JsFiddle
.page_header_style {
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.title_style {
text-align:center;
}
ul {
list-style: none;
}
li {
display: block;
}
.user_style {
float: right;
margin-top: 0px;
}
<header class="page_header_style">
<div>
<div class="title_style">Main Title</div>
<div>
<ul class="user_style">
<li>Welcome Srk</li>
<li>Logout</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</header>
I would like to see the second div i.e., Welcome message & a list in the same line of the title, keeping the title at the center.
In order to make the "title" text in the center viewport wise, you can make the "user info" as position:absolute, so it will be out of the normal content flow. See the demo below.
.page_header_style {
border: 1px solid blue;
padding: 20px 0;
position: relative;
}
.title_style {
text-align:center;
}
.user_style {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
right: 10px;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
<header class="page_header_style">
<div>
<div class="title_style">Main Title</div>
<div>
<ul class="user_style">
<li>Welcome Srk</li>
<li>Logout</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</header>
JSFiddle Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/wt5f81qz/
You should apply float: left to the .title_style, and put a clearing element (clear:both) on the bottom of inner content of .page_header_style
Here: http://jsfiddle.net/r1af39at/
Kosturko answer regarding clearfixes
You can alternatively use the clearfix solutions with is better than adding clear:both to an element, because in some case you'd need extra markup to apply clear:both.
The both clearfixes are applied to the immediate parent containing the floating elements.
Clearfix 1: is just to apply overflow:hidden; this works but can cause styling issues if say you wanted something to flow outside the parent using position absolute for example.
The better clearfix is to use the micro clearfix, best applied using a CSS preprocessor.
Good luck
By default, div elements have the display: block; attribute. Without other css styling, browsers will render them below the last block element. Try using the display: inline-block; as this will treat each div as an inline element, but treat its contents as the contents of a block element.
For example, the following css will display the main title and both list elements on the same line.
li{
display: inline-block;
}
div {
display: inline-block;
}
See w3schools's page on the display property for more on this.
Did a lot of research on all the separate components. However, I don't understand how the components work together. Several placement issues have plagued me on different occasions. I would like to understand why it behaves like it does.
Designing a site with a fixed header, containing some buttons. I want the buttons to be placed on a colored row (NAV). That's why I made a child of NAV. However I can't seem to place the buttons over the bar.
Html
<body>
<nav class="row">
<ul class="menu">
<li id="link1">Link 1</li>
<li id="link2">Link 2</li>
<li id="link3">Link 3</li>
<li id="link4">Link 4</li>
<li id="link5">Link 5</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div class="row main">
#RenderBody()
</div>
CSS
nav, div, li {
-moz-box-sizing: content-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
box-sizing: content-box;
border: 1px dashed black;
}
.row {
width: 100%;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
nav {
position: fixed;
top: 80px;
height: 40px;
z-index: 100;
background-color: Green;
border-bottom: solid greenyellow 2px;
}
.menu li {
display: block;
background-color: darkgreen;
float: left;
height: 40px;
width: 60px;
}
.menu a {
color: white;
}
Result
It can be fixed by several things, like button margin or placing the buttons relative with a negative Top offset. However, these solutions feel 'dirty', like it's not the right way to do it. Why are the LI's not on top of NAV?
because your broswer applies by default some margin to the ul tag
try adding
ul {
margin: 0;
}
you could avoid these issues by using a css reset (Eric Meyer is the authority here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/) or Necolas' Normalize.css: http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
the first one zeroes all the values of all elements - you have to rebuild the style of some elements like lists.
The second one normalizes the values of elements to fix browsers inconsistencies
When you use the "float" property on some elements (here the "LI"), the parent (here the "menu") ignore his floating children to calculate his height.
So you have to specify a valid height to your menu, or probably better, use "overflow:auto" on it to remember him his children.
So remove your
nav {
height:40px;
}
and add in your CSS :
.menu {
overflow:auto;
}
As in this fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/bE3QH/
When using the element ul it sometimes creates whitespace on browsers. By making the margin 0px you are removing the whitespace decreasing the area used by element. hope this helps. The following code can be used...
ul {
margin:0px
}
You can use this instead of your code.
You will get ready made menu control on this website.
You can modify as you want & you will get your menu control available in a moment.
Here's the link.
http://cssmenumaker.com
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/07/16/slide-down-box-menu/
http://cssmenumaker.com/builder/1666948
Please check it out.
These are very useful and it will definitely save your time as well.
I hope this will resolve your issue.
Add this to your CSS:
ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
This clears the default properties for ul elements
You would be better off if you didn't specify a width and a height for the list items, but rather displaying the anchor tags as blocks, and giving those a width and height.
I have a problem with aligment of two li elements inside a div because in the next example
HTML
<div id="menu-container">
<div class="menu-left">
<ul id="menu-principal" class="menu">
<li>Hola</li>
<li>Hola2</li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- More code -->
</div>
The CSS code is in the next link and I use that html structure because that is what is generated by placing a menu in wordpress.
http://jsfiddle.net/Soldier/KhLhR/1/
I have a simple code with two li elements and I want to align horizontally with 50% of width for each but doesn't work.
Edit
Well.. All responses involve float: left, but did not want to use float: left because this causes overflow to ul and I have to use overflow: hidden .. I thought there was another factor that was failing but they all give +1 and accept the answer that answered first.
Thanks
Add:
float: Left;
to the css class of the li elements of the menu (in this rule):
".menu-left ul li {"
After the "width: 50%"
The float property specifies whether or not a box (an element) should float.
See http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_float.asp
This is purely to do with the fact that your width specification is more than you've allowed for the child element in relation to it's parent elements:
.menu-left ul li {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
width: 50%; // should be less than 50%
}
Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/KhLhR/3/
http://jsfiddle.net/Soldier/KhLhR/1/
.menu-left ul li {
display:inline-block;
float:left;
vertical-align: top;
width: 50%;
}
Add a left float to your li elements:
.menu-left ul li {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
I trying to come up with a simple css layout which should look like this:
This is my html code for the header and nav bar:
<div id="header">
<h1>LOGO</h1>
<ul>
<li> Home </li>
<li> Logout </li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Help
<li>Contact Us
<li>Customers
</div>
And I'm already doing some styling on the navigation bar, however I'd like to be able to keep the two links within the header right aligned and the logo image left aligned.
When I try to edit those links in the header, it all gets messed up because I'm confused about how to differentiate between the navigation list items and header list items.
Could someone please help me with the header positioning?
#header ul { float: left; }
or
#header ul { position: absolute; right: 0; }
In the header, you need to float the h1 left, and the ul right, and then add display: inline to your links (to keep them on the same line).
To target the list items in the header, you can simply use a parent selector, like this: #header li.
Here's what you need:
#header {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
overflow: hidden; /* clearfix */
}
#header h1 {
float: left;
}
#header ul {
float: right;
}
#header li {
display: inline;
}
See DEMO.
I want my footer to take height same as the remaining bottom space. Currently I'm using following css for footer:
clear: both;
float: left;
background-color: #1F1102;
color: #E4F2FA;
min-height: 60px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
padding: 0;
padding-top: 10px;
text-align: left;
width: 100%;
min-width: 1000px;
margin: auto;
The result is:
Here as you can see the black has take only minimum height. I want it to take whole remaining space after it [that is marked with question marks]. Which changes do I have to make to get this?
note:- I don't want to give position:fixed to make it stick to bottom.
Well, the short answer is, You Can't!
The longer answer? You can fake it.
Why can't you?
Because a block level element is not able to strech and fill a space in height.
Fake it how?
Use the same background color as the footer for the container (or the same background image), that will cause it to appear like it's always fills up the entire space.
This is now possible with flexbox using a method similar to what is described here https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/sticky-footer/. Do this, except put the flex-grow: 1 in the footer element instead of the content element (in the article it's listed as flex: 1).
You don't really can make a block-element span to the full height available in CSS. Best way is find use some workaround, which looks alike.
For example you may use a background-color (for the body/wrapper) or a centered background-image positioned to the bottom…
This worked like a charm for me (originally from how-to-keep-footer-at-bottom-of-page-with-css):
Put this in your css:
html,
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
}
#wrapper {
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
}
#header {
background:#ededed;
padding:10px;
}
#content {
padding-bottom:100px; /* Height of the footer element */
}
#footer {
background:#ffab62;
width:100%;
height:100px;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
Then in your index/master/_layout/whatever:
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
</div><!-- #header -->
<div id="content">
</div><!-- #content -->
<div id="footer">
</div><!-- #footer -->
</div><!-- #wrapper -->
</body>
I had the same type of problem. What worked for me was to add a few pixels of padding to the footer and it ended up taking up the bottom of the page.
This is what did it for me:
footer{
padding-bottom:10px;
}