Each time i get this problem.. but the old fix doesn't work this time...
I have a <ul> full of <li> that are floated left
those are perfect.... but i like to have a nice box around... and i style the <ul>
but the <ul> is "sort of empty" because the insides are floated...
the trick with the <div style="clear:both"> dont work...
but event if it work.. it's ugly..
what is the "right" method to get the <ul> a size.. without hardcoding the width and height ?
as both point out... the solution was : OVERFLOW
here is the explaination (for future ference) :
The overflow property specifies what happens if content overflows an element's box.
The new solution
It was Alex Walker who first posted a new, simpler solution, though he gives the credits for actually inventing it to Paul O'Brien. In any case, the solution seems to be:
div.container {
border: 1px solid #000000;
overflow: auto;
width: 100%
}
Set overflow to auto for the ul elements..
ul{overflow:auto;}
I found a better solution:
Set ul properties:
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
border: 1px solid #000;
Set its li properties:
display:inline-block;
position:relative;
This worked for me. The ul is now wrapped around the li.
Note: However the space between two li can't be cleared in this sense.
Related
JS Fiddle here
I am attempting to align child elements evenly between left and right. I tried using margin-left and right: auto but nothing happened.
Here is a screen shot of the navigation in question. I have added a border of 1 px around each element so you can see:
I'd like the nav line items to be centred in comparisson to their parent. So in the image the line items would move to the right a bit to be centred between the parent rectangle, which is an unordered list.
Here is my approximation of the relevant html:
<nav>
<div id="main-nav">
<ul id="menu-main">
<li>cats</li>
<li>dogs</li>
<li>sheep</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
Currently relevant (I think) CSS is:
#main-navigation {
display: inline;
float: left;}
#main-navigation div {
display: block;}
#menu-main {
position: relative;
float: left;}
#menu-main li {
float: left;
}
Put another way, I'd like to centre floated child elements against the parent. If I zoom in and out with my browser I can see that the nav adjusts and change size with some line items moving between top and bottom row in order to fit.
But is there a way to ensure that, whatever the current size of the nav, the child line items will be centred?
Here's another picture, where I have manually added a margin left to #menu-main.
Now it looks more centred on my screen right now. But is there a way to auto centre it?
See this : http://jsfiddle.net/rahjrLny/1/
You don't need to float your li elements, simply set them to display:inline . Then you can add text-align: centre to your ul element, and all should be good.
(You'll need to remove some margins that have appeared in the fiddle due to the changes)
This would be my solution: JSFiddle
There's some redundant CSS (for example, no need to specify #main-navigation div {display: block;} if you don't have any div elements inside the #main-navigation).
I've gone with display:inline-block as opposed to display:inline (plus added some colour borders for visual clarity). Please bear in mind I'm working with the code you supplied in the question rather than building the code from the screenshots.
nav {display:inline-block; width:100%;}
#main-nav {
float:left;
width:100%;
}
ul#menu-main {
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
float:left;
}
#menu-main li {
list-style: none;
padding: 0.5em;
display:inline-block;
}
EDIT: I answered this question before I observed there was a fiddle supplied, and worked instead from the code supplied in the question. This may not be the right answer for OP but I'm going to leave it alone for now as I believe it gives a valid example of how one could approach the task of centering a nav list.
Here I have this markup:
<div class="cabinet">
<ul>
<li>This is short</li>
<li>This one is longer</li>
<li>Yet this one is a lot more longer</li>
</ul>
</div>
And here's the CSS:
div.cabinet{
width:120px;
border-right:5px solid #e7e8e1;
white-space:nowrap;
}
I need the content not to overlap the right border of the div but instead be padded some 5px away. Here's the jsfiddle. I tried to play with z-index but it didn't help. What should I do?
Demo Fiddle
How about the following:
div.cabinet{
border-right:5px solid #e7e8e1;
white-space:nowrap;
display:inline-block;
padding-right:5px;
}
Use inline-block to make the div fit the content, then add padding. If you only wish the child ul to do this, simply apply those properties to div.cabinet ul instead (as well as the border).
Add a Padding to your UL or LI tag,
ul{padding:5px;} /** Will be applicable to all li's or you can also give it seperately **/
you can change that 5px value, but it will be enough !
I've a header div and a menu ul below it. I'd like to accomplish 2 things:
1) the ul should have the same width as the div (outer vertical borders exactly same x position
2) I'd like to keep the spacing between li elements roughly equal
With some trial and error on the li's margins and padding I roughly achieved the first point in Google Chrome (please see this jsfiddle) but in Firefox the li's don't fit in the ul so they don't stay on a single line. Also, the last li tends to 'spill over' to a second line when zooming in/out.
I tried it with margin:5px auto and padding:5px auto on the li elements but here auto seems to mean zero.
Is this really difficult/impossible or am I overlooking something obvious?
I also tried width:fit-contents but that didn't help either.
I edited a whole lot in your CSS, check the updated fiddle.
Basicly, this is what I've done:
HTML:
<ul>
<li>link</li>
<li>link</li>
<li>link</li>
</ul>
CSS:
ul {
width: 960px;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
}
ul li {
display: table-cell;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
}
The ul is displayed as a table, with the li's as table-cells, making it as width as the header. Within the li i display the anchors as a block, making them fill the whole li. Hope it suits you.
P.s. make sure you remove the class cf from the ul when you use this.
I think some fellow frustrates may find this useful:
.main-menu ul li ul li{
white-space: nowrap;
}
Like this
ul#mmenu li
{
padding:7px;
}
DEMO
You'll need to adjust the padding in ul#mmenu I changed the padding to padding:7px 23px; and it stays in a single line,but there will be a blank space at the right end of the last menu.
You can give absolute position to li items and position them (first have left:0, second: left:100px or so... last have right:0 and so on). That way they will always be at the same place when you zoom.
For those wanting to avoid CSS table and table-cell, which by the way, I have no probelm with you can use text-align:justify on the UL with a couple of tweaks.
Basic HTML:
<ul id='mmenu'>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah Blah Blah</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Blah Blah</a></li>
</ul>
Note we've lost the clearfix because: a) We're not going to use floats and b)it breaks this solution.
CSS:
ul#mmenu{
width:100%;
margin:15px 0 10px 0;
overflow:hidden;
text-align:justify; /*Added this*/
}
ul#mmenu li{
letter-spacing:.05em;
color:#0a93cd;
/*Now inline blocks instead of blocks floated left*/
display:inline-block;
font:24px arial;
padding:7px 26px;
background:#fff;
border-left:2px solid #0a93cd;
border:2px solid #0a93cd;
border-radius:13px;
text-align:center;
}
/*Now for the hacky part....
...justify does not, by design, justify the last row of text
therfore we need to add an additional, invisible line*/
ul#mmenu:after {
content: "";
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
}
I have also removed the :first-child style in the Updated Fiddle
I'm new to CSS tables, it's my first time. So I discovered that when you set display:table to a div, you can forgot all margin and padding (and whatever) you're planning on it's future cause they are ignored. Nice. The only property I've found to make this job is border-spacing but it is a little limited comparing with margin and padding. It have only two ways of styling, horizontal and vertical. You can't set the value of the side you want like border-spacing-left or border-spacing: 0 1px 2px 3px.
In my case, I have a table with one row that lies on the top right corner of the screen. I want it attached on the very top and spaced horizontally, which caused me problems. The top is okay but the right detaches from the border when I use border-spacing: 10px 0.
Smart guys like me don't see this as a problem, cause we can set it margin-right negatively, making it be attached again on the right side of the browser. Wow, whata smart ass I am!
However, I saw an little damn scrollbar on the bottom of the screen like a roach under your cooker at the kitchen. I hate roac.. scrollbars specially horizontals, so I got my inseticide called overflow-x and kil.. set it to hidden. She run desperately and dissapeared, but I know that she's there, somewhere staring at me. And this is driving me crazy.
Seriously now. I think this isn't the right way to do that and I hope somebody can teach me how to do it.
This is my scenario on Fiddle
Thank you in advance(mainly for reading this crap).
There are a few ways of achieving what you're trying to achieve. Most commonly, using display: table, display: table-cell, etc isn't very high on the list.
So, here's how I would do it: http://jsfiddle.net/VKnQZ/1/
Do bear in mind that I don't know the full circumstance of what you're attempting so it may well be that I'm missing a (valid) reason that you're using table display properties in the first place.
You'll notice a few things here:
I've done away with your table display properties. I don't think you need them, and floats do the job just fine (just remember to clear them).
I've removed your display from the cell divs. As someone in the comments above pointed out, divs inherit display: block by default. The additional dimensions set their size as you already had it.
I'm using the + selector to put in the spacing between elements. In this instance div + div is essentially short-hand for 'every div which is beside another div' - so all of them aside from the first.
Hopefully that achieves what you're aiming for and does away with all the nasty hacky overflow/margins/etc.
Here's the code:
HTML (only change is to remove the row div):
<div id="nav">
<div class="red"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
<div class="blue"></div>
</div>
CSS:
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#nav {
float: right;
}
#nav div {
float: left;
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
}
#nav div + div{
margin-left: 10px;
}
.red { background-color:#f00 }
.green { background-color:#0f0 }
.blue { background-color:#00f }
and can you tell me why are you trying to imitate table behavior when you have "table" tag? it could be styled pretty well also
what you are doing is sometimes called "divitis"
edit:
you can position table absolutely http://jsfiddle.net/n83kT/
Not too sure if this the right place to discuss float and display :)
But , flex is on his way, and display is already quiet efficient.
Display + direction and you could kick floats away.
border-spacing version : http://jsfiddle.net/GCyrillus/2EZ3F/
border-left version : http://jsfiddle.net/GCyrillus/2EZ3F/1/
<section>
<div id="nav">
<div class="red"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
<div class="blue"></div>
</div>
</section>
section is to set direction .. or not
unset & reset direction to fake float ,
else use text-align if you dislike this method.
In CSSheet, notice inline-table instead of table so it reacts to text-align and or direction (not all pages are EN or FR :) )
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
section {
direction:rtl; /* unset regular if you wish, else text-align will do for inline-boxes */
}
#nav {
direction:ltr;/* reset/set here if you want cells from left to right */
display:inline-table;
border-spacing: 10px 0 ;
}
#nav div {
/*direction:ltr; reset here if you want cells from right to left */
display: table-cell;
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
}
#nav div + div {
margin-left: 10px;
}
.red {
background-color:#f00
}
.green {
background-color:#0f0
}
.blue {
background-color:#00f
}
My 2 (late) cents for a different point of view :)
For completeness, I would like to offer the case for the often overlooked inline-block display type.
Similar to the use of floats, the HTML is as follows:
<div id="nav">
<div class="red"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
<div class="blue"></div>
</div>
and the CSS:
#nav {
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
}
#nav div {
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
#nav div + div {
margin-left: 10px;
}
This inline-block approach behaves similarly to the floated-child-div's approach.
In this application, I can't think of a reason to use one over the other.
One minor consideration is that inline-block is not supported in some older browsers.
Otherwise, both approaches use the same mark-up and the CSS rules are similarly simple.
The choice may depend a lot on the content that you use in the #nav div elements.
Demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/EVJPN/
I have a problem with a div in IE7, it's disappearing and I don't understand why.
I already tried to add zoom:1 and overflow: hidden as someone suggested but it is not working.
The div is inside an unordered list (floated left) as the last element, floated right.
This is the HTML
<div id="top_menu">
<ul id="dropmenu">
<li>menu item1</li>
<li>menu item2</li>
...
</ul>
<div class="lang">content</div>
</div><!-- end top menu -->
This is the CSS
#top_menu {width:900px;font-size:13px; }
#top_menu ul#dropmenu {width:630px; height:28px; margin:0px; padding:0px; list-style:none; float:left; }
#top_menu ul#dropmenu li {float:left;display:block;}
.clearfix {display: inline-block;} /* for IE/Mac */
#top_menu .lang { width: 120px; color:#fff; margin:4px 10px 0 0; float: right; }
#top_menu .lang a{ color:#ff8601; }
#top_menu .lang a:hover{ color:#fff; }
Thanks for your help
EDIT: I included the html and removed url to avoid client complaints.
You need to add .clearfix to div#top_menu and add height: 24px; to div.lang
That fixed all the menu problems for me.
edit
...and probably don't use absolute positioning to solve layout issues.
i'm on IE9 now, but putting this site into "Compatibility View" seems to show the issue too.
The last entry in the main menu [ul] seems to extend all the way to the right of the element. This appears in markup before the .lang div so I wouldn't expect it to be covering it up...
Have you maybe tried putting the .lang element into "position:absolute" and then seeing if it shows up, (obviously assuming the parent element of it is positioned relatively). After that maybe try absolute with a top of 20px or so and see if it shows up then.
Good Luck!
UPDATE
Hang on a tick there. your .lang div is inside the [ul] element so is actually incorrectly positioned, since the only element allowed as a child of a [ul] is a [li].
Why not try taking this div out of the list and have it instead, just outside, as a child of the #top_menu element....?
That might work!
Not sure if this is relevant to your situation, but some versions of IE will throw away empty divs; if the div doesn't contain anything, adding something like will force it to exist.