I've been using the SuckerFish menus for pretty much ever right now... however I need something a little newer. mainly something that will handle drop-down items and fly-outs of variable widths. i.e. I may have 6 drop-down main items, each sub-menu needs to be a variable [dynamic] width AND the fly-outs for each are also of differing widths.
SuckerFish does not handle variable widths for the drop-downs particularly well .... has anyone got any suggestions?
The site is using jQuery, though I am not too hot on javascript 'anything' for navigation a pure CSS would be nice if possible.
-thanks
-sean
CSS has limited animations with limited browser support (looks like only the latest WebKits).
For a cross browser animated menu, you'll have to leverage JavaScript.
jQuery will make doing it quicker and less painful, but is not a requirement.
You could set things up with your usual SuckerFish as a baseline and then add Superfish on top of that to provide the fancy animations and what not. Superfish is built with jQuery so it should drop in fairly easily.
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I am looking for a user friendly way to:
Indicate a table is too wide, and thus scrollable, even when the bottom scrollbar is not visible yet
Allow the user to scroll this table easily, also on mobile
It does not need IE support :)
I found this jquery plugin, which seems to handle that fine:
https://www.jqueryscript.net/table/Mobile-friendly-Scrollable-Table-Plugin-For-jQuery-ScrolTable.html
I would prefer a pure CSS or TS/angular solution, as I would rather not incorporate jQuery when not needed.
Are there any, more modern alternatives? Is there a standard UX approach that I missed?
I'm very new to this and don't know how to use javascript or jquery and would prefer to avoid using it in all possible cases as I know it's not compatible in all browsers, takes time to load and can be disabled by users.
I've already made and designed the menu but would like the main heading in the menu to change to the submenu link when clicked on whilst keeping the rest of the menu in tact. How do I achieve this in css?
You can take a look at http://davidwalsh.name/css-target and use the css target selector (But it's not supported in IE - I haven't checked IE10 though).
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If you want to change the text or href attribute then, it's not possible in pure css (correct me if I'm wrong). You would have to use javascript. Jquery makes it easier to make your site support most used browsers, why not give it a go? I am certain if you get stuck, people on Stack overflow would gladly help you.
on a sidenote, css can also be disabled by the user (and not all browsers support all css features). Css and Javascript are in the same boat, because the browser dictates what is supported.
I'm trying to make a sample web page to get acquainted with HTML5, and I'd like to try replicating Facebook's page layout; that is, the header that spans the entire width of the screen, a small footer at the bottom, and a three-column main body, consisting of a list of links on the left, the main content in the middle, and an optional section on the right (for ads, frames, etc.). It's neat and displays well in multiple window sizes.
So far, I've tried to accomplish this with a <header>, <footer> and a <nav> and <section> block, respectively. There's a few anomalies with the page, however. The footer (which contains a simple text block with copyright info) appears at the top-right of the page below the header when the window is maximized. On the other hand, when there isn't enough space to display everything in the window, it places the main body text below the section. In other words, it keeps moving elements around to fit the window.
Could someone please tell me how I'd achieve the look I'm going for? I've tried playing around with a few CSS attributes I read about through Google, but I'm pretty sure I don't know what I'm doing, and could really use some guidance.
Thank you!
This isn't an HTML5 question as much as it is a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. If you're going to jump in to web dev you're going to need to understand basic CSS like floating etc. I would recommend some tutorials on YouTube or NetTuts. Just play around with a few divs, move them around the page, manipulate them with CSS and it will start to come together. Then making a three column layout with fixed header and footer will seem like a piece of cake.
Floating Divs w/ CSS
I find CSS to be super hard. It is quite difficult to make a page that looks good and works on lots of different platforms and browsers. You may find it easiest to use a css framework, such as Bootstrap.
Drop that into your website, and use it to make your layout. Use the dev tools for your browser (Firebug for firefox) to examine the styles that are being applied to the various elements. Modify the styles to suit your needs.
HTML5 doesn't really give you a page layout for free. The elements you mention (header, section,etc) are used to create semantic pages, rather than to specify how they should be displayed.
Can't help much without your code. But I am sure it is because of float issue. add this CSS property to your footer clear: both
Hope it might help.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make yourself a little hack, or if you're looking for a complete library that will do all this for you, but if you're looking for the latter, I recommend Twitter Bootstrap, which is a cross-platform solution for implementing many HTML5 features, and even resorts to fallbacks for non-modern browsers. The only drawback is the requirement of jQuery in order to initialize the components that are responsive*. However, this is optional if you are not looking to implement these features. The responsive design, amazingly, does not require javascript since it is pure CSS. Hope this helps!
*Edit: meant "interactive" there, not "responsive."
anyone know how to re-design scrollbar slider for IE ??not just a color but perform too..
Googling will lead you to a variety of articles on this, including "10 jQuery Custom Scrollbar Plugins".
In general, a redesign requires JavaScript to control the scrolling of an overflowed container.
The best way to do it would be disabling the browser scroll bar and using a javascript solution instead. This, of course, would effect all browsers instead of just IE.
If you want to go that route, I highly recommend jScrollPane.
http://www.kelvinluck.com/projects/jscrollpane-custom-cross-browser-scrollbars/
After installing just add this to your css:
html, body {overflow: hidden;}
jScrollPAne is great because you can style it easily with CSS or custom images. You can also easily adjust the scrolling speed and other behaviors.
While the extensions mentioned here are useful most of the time , I find that they are not on parity with native scrollbars.
For example a container with dynamic content or on resize will not trigger scrollbar resize which I find is huge limitation.(HTML5 Mutation Observers will probably make this easier in the future.)
For now I prefer scrollbar styling ,which has all the native functionality.
The downside is that is supported only by Webkit - Chrome and Safari browsers.
Still I consider that is a good trade-of... lately I notice Google is using the same technique for their apps (Gmail, G+, Reader, etc.)
Can someone tell me why the CSS dropdown menu (rollover "Software Solutions") works here :
http://deltaassocc.web704.discountasp.net/temp/page-works.html
but not here:
http://deltaassocc.web704.discountasp.net/temp/page.html
This has been driving me crazy! I'm using Firefox 3.0.10. Please help..
There is an awful lot of knowledge built into a CSS menu to cover different browser versions and so on. My advice is don't do this yourself. Get a prebuilt one like suckerfish (or one of the many variants).
Alternatively you can use a Javascript based solution like superfish as suggested here.
Note: if you need to support IE6 then you'll be using Javascript for that browser anyway as it doesn't support the :hover pseudo-element on anything other than anchors.
Because you are loosing focus on the parent element. On the second one, there are more elements below and when the dropdown extends it goes under the content container - you move your mouse down and it's over the text content container, not over the menu container no more.
Install web developer toolbar and outline box elements, you will see that.
Google for jquery dropdown menu or other javascript-framework based solutions, they'll work fine and cross-browser, unless you're doing it just for self-education.
The pages look the same in IE8 and Firefox. The menu drops down but doesn't look at that great. If your using JQUERY SuperFish is a really good cs-menu.