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.
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Logic escapes me for two days on what I'm trying to achieve, which is targeting certain class elements in the wordpress menu with CSS. It is usually simple really for me, but something (small usually) is making me battle.
I need to apply a small background image behind the menu item text to the "active" or "current" menu item. But this must apply ONLY to the parent menu items (not on any of the child/submenu dropdown items). Applying the background image is fine, so that's not the issue. It's targeting only on the parent item that's the issue.
I've tried variations of the following CSS (forgot about the background image for now, I'm keeping it simple here, to resolve the targeting) to make the current/active PARENT menu item text turn red:
.main-navigation div ul li.current-menu-parent a:not(.sub-menu)
{color: red !important;}
(I have commented out this custom CSS on the website, to prevent confusion)
The :not pseudo I thought would do the trick but it's possibly my failure at syntax, even though I googled it, to which I may learn something further about CSS today, when resolved.
It's not working how I expect it to. Any ideas? I might revert back here again if I battle with the background image, but I suspect once the 'CSS targeting' is worked out, that shouldn't be an issue to apply.
Thank you brainy people :)
The answer is more simple than you think: use the > CSS selector. See articles here and here.
For example:
Codepen
/* Target top level only */
.my_navigation > li > a {
background-color: yellow;
}
/* Or perhaps target only top-level with children */
.my_navigation > .has_children > a {
background-color: orange;
}
<div>
<h1>Only top-level parents get styled:</h1>
<ul class="my_navigation">
<li>Link 1</li>
<li class="current_link has_children">
Link 2
<ul>
<li>Link 2a</li>
<li class="current_link has_children">Link 2b
<ul>
<li>Link I</li>
<li>Link II</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Link 2c</li>
<li>Link 2d</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Link 3
<ul>
<li>Link 3a</li>
<li>Link 3b</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Link 4</li>
</ul>
</div>
Using Javascript (e.g. jQuery) is overkill in this case. It would be a different story if you're using an eventlistener and need to get the parent of the clicked target; in that case you DO need JS because as others have mentioned CSS doesn't yet have a parent selector yet (but it seems like it's coming in CSS4).
However here you just need to style items on page rendering, and WP provides plethora of classes to work with. Also: Do a Google search for "wordpress menu class walker function" and you can generate some more classes, like identify each level of menu e.g. ".top-level", ".second-level", etc.
try below, this will select the a tag which is direct child of li.current-menu-parent.
.main-navigation div ul li.current-menu-parent > a{color: red !important;}
Seems jQuery was the way to go for the solution, based on the thread Is there a CSS parent selector? posted by #Paulie_D, thank you!
My jQuery solution below targeting only the active parent menu item and inserting a small background image on the <li> menu tag. You can see the yellow 'paint swish' image happening in the screenshot below.
The .not is used to exclude targeting the dropdown submenu items (their class is .sub-menu):
$('.main-navigation .current-menu-item, .main-navigation .current-menu-parent').not('.sub-menu li').css(
{
'background-image':'url(PATH TO YOUR IMAGE HERE)',
'background-size': '100% 50px',
'background-repeat': 'no-repeat',
'background-position': 'center'
}
);
Thanks for your input. I learnt something today.
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 ^^)
I'm following this tutorial here http://www.kriesi.at/archives/create-a-multilevel-dropdown-menu-with-css-and-improve-it-via-jquery on adding a menu with jquery.
I've created my menu, but I'm having trouble adding it to wordpress. I opened up the header.php file since I want it to appear below the banner, and I paste it in it's own div, but it always "pushes" everything below it to the right.
How do I stop it from doing this?
Here's the code:
<ul id="nav">
<li>1 HTML</li>
<li>2 CSS</li>
<li>3 Javascript
<ul>
<li>3.1 jQuery
<ul>
<li>3.1.1 Download</li>
<li>3.1.2 Tutorial</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>3.2 Mootools</li>
<li>3.3 Prototype</li>
</ul>
</li>
Hard to say without looking at the whole, but based on knowing very little of your problem, the only thing I can recommend you to try is this CSS property:
ul#nav {
position: absolute;
}
This way, it will not push other elements away. It might have other consequences tough, depending on other elements you might have.
Looks like you're missing a closing </ul>? You can also use The W3C Markup Validation Service to tack down errant tags.
I have an unordered list I'm displaying horizontally as the page's top menubar. I've gotten it to display relatively well, although I've been playing with the spacing for IE6 and IE7 cause it's not displaying properly. Shocking. In either case, is it better to use a table to display the menu or use some CSS hacks, which I can't find a way around? What is the best way to display the menu? I should add some of the options have dropdown menus using their own unordered lists.
Check out List-a-matic, it has a host of different menu templates that you can use as a base.
A simple horizontal list can be displayed using css and an unordered list
HTML
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active">Item one</li>
<li>Item two</li>
<li>Item three</li>
<li>Item four</li>
<li>Item five</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
#navlist li
{
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
padding-right: 20px;
}
It's hard to give a definitive answer without an SSCCE from your side (a plain <html> document including doctype and embedded styles) which reproduces exactly the problem you have. But I can at least tell that the common problem is that you didn't get the doctype right and that IE's boxmodel bug plays a role here.
If that's not the root cause, then the next possible cause is the fail in understanding how to use floats and/or inline/block elements. To get good and solid code examples to start with, Google "suckerfish menu".
EDIT:
You cant depend on display: inline-block to handle this because cross browser support is problematic. Use floats instead with dispaly: inline; position: relative.
I would continue on with the UL's. Dont use hacks for IE* though - use IE Conditionals to add different stylesheets for different versions of IE.
I have a menu that will be automatically created in an asp.net page. I'm trying to use a pure CSS cross browser menu but how can i set it so that each subsequent child is autohiden/shown w/o having to define the style for each level of the menu.
Is this the only way to accomplish this with css?
Essentially im looking for a way to use css to show/hide the child menu items w/o having to define the style for every level - especially since i dont know how many levels there will be.
you should be able to do it by only specifying down to the second level
<html>
<head>
<style>
.mnusub li ul{ display:none; }
.mnusub li:hover > ul{ display: block; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul class="mnusub">
<li>test1
<ul class="mnusub">
<li>test2</li>
<li>test11
<ul class="mnusub">
<li>test3</li>
<li>test4</li>
<li>test5</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>test5
<ul class="mnusub">
<li>test6</li>
<li>test7</li>
<li>test8</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>test9</li>
<li>test10</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
The key here is the ">" selector as it specifies direct descendants and not sub-descendants
enjoy
When you want to affect each child individually, but without having to make style rules for each of those children, then you need more logic, which CSS doesn't provide. You could use something like PHP for that logic, or you could go with Javascript/jQuery. In that case, you can toggle CSS classes on child[x] through jQuery, and you only need to style those classes. Then it wouldn't matter which child got the class, it would be styled accordingly. Note that you should first make sure your menu is at least usable without Javascript, so users aren't dependent upon it.