I have a menu:
<div class="headerMenu">
<ul>
<li>Home <span>Home Page<span></li>
<li>About <span>About My Website<span></li>
<li>Contact <span>Get in touch<span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
My current CSS is as follow:
.headerMenu{
width: 100%;
}
.headerMenu ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
float: left;
}
.headerMenu ul li{
display: inline;
}
.headerMenu ul li a{
float: left;
color: white;
padding-top:25px;
padding-left:50px;
font-size:24pt;
}
.headerMenu ul li a:visited{
color: white;
}
.headerMenu ul li a:hover, .menu ul li .current{
color: #fff;
background: url(../../Content/Images/menu-selector.png) repeat-x; /* 25x10 arrow/*
}
And now for the question:
How can i get the content in the span tag to be below the Main text.
When i hover over the anchor, How do i add the hover image as shown in screen shot
The Mockup i created in Photoshop looks like this:
I know this would be easily achievable by making use of images, but my solution requires that menu to be created dynamically.
1) How can i get the content in the span tag to be below the Main text.
You need to use display: block on the span to have it appear on a new line:
.headerMenu ul li a span {
display: block;
}
2) When i hover over the anchor, How do i add the hover image as shown in screen shot
Try to center the arrow to the top. This might work:
.headerMenu ul li a:hover, .menu ul li .current {
color: #fff;
background: url(../../Content/Images/menu-selector.png) no-repeat center top;
display:block;
/* also make sure that you use display block with correct height
so that you can positionate the arrow on the correct place... */
}
Add the following code for problem 1:
.headerMenu ul li a span {
display: block;
}
This sets the <span> to display as a block level element, therefore occupying the full parent container width by default.
For problem 2, there are multiple ways to do this. However, my suggestion would be to add the array to the <li> and use the :hover pseudo class. Note: that this will only work in IE for 7+.
.menu ul li:hover{
background: url(../../Content/Images/menu-selector.png) repeat-x;
}
See it in action - http://jsfiddle.net/kxqx8/1/ (I changed the colors to help display)
Related
My sub menu disappears immediately after I move my mouse pointer to scroll towards the sub menu. Feel like I have screwed my CSS somewhere. I could not figure out after several attempts to make it stay active. I followed few tutorials(have a look at it) where they have called the hover on the ul instead of a(anchor), I tried similar ways but could not achieve what I want. Please point out where I have made the mistake. Here is my fiddle(my code). Sample CSS code for hover is below.
#topnav ul li ul
{
display: none;
position: absolute;
text-align: left;
background:#510000;
top:30px;
}
#topnav ul li:hover ul
{
display: block;
}
Put the padding on your list items instead of your ul or container. That way the dropdown overlaps your hover element and your browser never thinks that you hovered out of the element. See this:
#topnav li {
display:inline-block;
padding:10px 0;
margin-right:30px;
position: relative;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/jeffreyTang/q5cmqLrf/1/
You can also give
#topnav ul li ul {
padding-top:30px
}
instead of:
#topnav ul li ul {
top:30px
}
The problem is with your padding being at the nav level and you trying to make the drop down appear below it. Because you position your dropdown away from the parent li, you're no longer hovering over it when you move your mouse down. To fix, remove the padding from the nav and add it to the li.
remove padding from here:
#topnav{
display:block;
clear:both;
width:500px;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
}
add to here:
#topnav li{
display:inline-block;
padding: 15px 0 15px 5px;
margin-right:30px;
position: relative;
}
remove top from here:
#topnav ul li ul {
display: none;
position: absolute;
text-align: left;
background:#510000;
}
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zj8krh95/7/
Here's a way to do it (it's more of a trick):
http://jsfiddle.net/zj8krh95/5/
#topnav ul li:hover {
padding-bottom: 10px;
margin-bottom: -10px; /* so that the menubar's height stays the same */
}
#topnav ul li:hover ul {
margin-top: -10px; /* so that the menu opens at the right position */
}
Basically, on hover, i extend the menu item's height so that no mouseout is trigger when i move down to the menu.
I have a folder that drops down when you hover over it, however I've placed a 20px margin-top to the drop down so it's not pushed up against the main navigation. I like the spacing however when you move your mouse to go select a sub-item the menu disappears.
How would you adjust the margin of the drop down so that it stays so the user can select an item in it?
> ul {
display: none;
}
&:hover > ul {
display: block;
position:absolute;
text-align: left;
z-index:1000;
background-color:#nav-folder-bg-color;
width:150px;
padding: 10px;
list-style: none;
border-radius:#nav-border-radius;
margin-top:20px;
> li a {
color:black;
font-size: .8em;
text-decoration: none;
}
}
EDIT: Here is the menu I am working on - http://menudemo.squarespace.com/home
Put the margin on the first LI in the sub-menu:
&:hover > ul li:first-child {
margin-top:20px;
}
Needed to add
height:50px;
to .main-navigation ul li
My page is here.
My drop down navigation css is here.
I'm trying to add a transparent png image, image here, to the drop down portion of the menu. However, it's not appearing.
I thought adding a "suboptions" class to the dropdown ul would do the trick, along with setting CSS for that dropdown, but it doesn't seem to be working.
HTML in question:
<ul class="suboptions">
<li>F.A.Q.'s</li>
<li>Installation</li>
</ul>
CSS in question:
#menu li ul.suboptions {
background-image: url(/images/bkg_nav.png) !important;
background-color: transparent !important;
}
Any suggestions? Thanks!
you have float for the <li>
You have to clear the float, after <li> or apply bg image for li.
EX:1
add this to your css
#menu li ul.suboptions:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
}
#menu li ul.suboptions {
display: inline-block;
}
html[xmlns] #menu li ul.suboptions {
display: block;
}
* html #menu li ul.suboptions {
height: 1%;
}
EX2:
add this to #menu li ul.suboptions li class
#menu li ul.suboptions li {
background-image: url(/images/bkg_nav.png) !important;
background-color: transparent !important;
}
I use the following menu:
<ul id="menu">
<li class="subMenu">
<h2><span>menu item</span></h2>
<div>
<p><span>submenu item</span></p>
</div>
</li></ul>
I have the following css:
ul#menu {
float:right;
height:80px;
color: #FFF;
margin: 0;
padding: 0.8em 0em;
}
ul#menu li {
display: inline;
margin: 0.1em 1em;
position: relative;
}
ul#menu h2,ul#menu h3 {
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}
ul#menu li a {
text-decoration: none;
}
ul#menu li a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu a {
padding: 0 1.2em;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
ul#menu div {
display: none;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu div {
border: 1px solid #fff;
width: 125px;
position: absolute;
top: 2.5em;
left: 30px;
background: #fff;
color: #000;
}
ul#menu li.hovered div {
display: block;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu div a {
text-decoration: none!important;
}
can anybody advise how i can keep menu item hovered when i hover over the submenu item
thank you in advance.
Quick solution in jsFiddle. (See the comments in the CSS to find out what I've changed.)
You are most of the way there already. Replacing the ul#menu li.hovered div selector in your CSS with ul#menu li:hover div is most of the battle; the rest is adjusting the submenu position so that you can actually hover over it without it disappearing. (In the jsFiddle above I've simply used padding instead of offsetting with absolute positioning.)
However, please pay attention to the commenters above! Their observations are entirely correct and germane:
The markup being used is rather heavy and unorthodox. For example, your submenu "items" are paragraphs in a div, but normally I would expect to see just a nested list; also, the spans seem unnecessary, and you don't need the submenu class on the list items when you already have an ID on the parent ul.
Second, they are also correct that there are plenty of great tutorials and examples for this out there, so while rolling your own worthwhile exercise you don't need to do it alone—nor should you! My first introduction was this old A List Apart article, and you can even ignore the whole section about JavaScript/Suckerfix since it's 2011 and most of us are perfectly happy to forget about IE6.
http://www.devinrolsen.com/pure-css-horizontal-menu/
You could use li:hover to keep the contents of the li tag displayed. You could also follow this simple tutorial on creating a pure CSS hover menu.
What css styles to be applied to make the clickable area of button to the exact shape of the button.Could you please tell me
If you use HTML you have to use a somewhat obsolete technique - Image maps - to get a clickable area that's not in the shape of a square. If you use Flash, you have more options. This reply addresses HTML/XHTML up to version 4, I haven't read the the specs for HTML 5 wich may have more ways of solving this (probably in combination with Javascript).
If I wish to style links in a menu I use an unordered list. You need to use display:block to make the whole list item click-able. I have included example css and html below.
In my stylesheet:
#menu {
width: 800px;
height: 40px;
}
#menu ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#menu li {
display: inline;
margin-right: 10px;
float: left;
background-color: #FC0;
}
#menu a {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 1.2em;
color: #006;
display:block;
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
}
#menu a:hover,
#menu a:active {
color: #009;
background-color: #F90;
}
In my html:
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Articles</li>
</ul>
</div>
This will give you a horizontal menu of three yellow boxes/buttons which will change to orange on hover. The a is displayed as a block and so the hover affect takes affect when the mouse hovers anywhere within the yellow box, rather than just over the text.
Hope this helps :o)