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CSS - Centering And Standardizing Horizontal Menu Elements
Good evening,
I'm trying to center a horizontal menu on a website, and I can't seem to get the right code tags in the write places. I'd like to get the links on the menu to center on the page, and perhaps to display in a consistent width text box. My menu bar is 900px, and there are 10 links, so for instance I would like to reduce these boxes containing the links to a consistent 90px. Any thoughts? website - http://www.squadron282.com CSS Code: Code:
.nav2 {clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans serif; font-size: 1.0em;}
.nav2 ul {float: left; width: 900px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: solid 1px rgb(54,83,151); border-bottom: solid 1px rgb(54,83,151); background-color: rgb(127,162,202); font-weight: bold; white-space:nowrap}
.nav2 li {display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
.nav2 li a {display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px; border-right: solid 1px rgb(54,83,151); color: rgb(255,255,255); text-transform: uppercase; text-decoration: none; font-size: 100%;}
.nav2 a:hover, .nav2 a.selected {color: rgb(50,50,50); text-decoration: none;}
.buffer {clear: both; width: 900px; height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);}
HTML Code: Code: <div class="nav2"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="missions.html" class="selected">CAP Missions</a></li> <li><a href="sqinfo.html">Squadron Info</a></li> <li><a href="commanderscorner.html">Commander's Corner</a></li> <li><a href="resources.html">Member Resources</a></li> <li><a href="pics.html">Photo Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></li> </ul> </div> Similar TutorialsLet me start by saying I'm a PHP/MySQL guy, not a designer. I know enough CSS to get by, but my focus has been the data side, not the design side. Hell I usually just use tables so I don't have to mess with any of this crap. I guess it's come to the point where I need to update my design skills or be left in the dust (since you can outsource LAMP guys for $4 a friggin' hour now ) I'm using the pretty standard UL-LI menu set to display vertically. Now I've added a couple links and it's too big for one line if I want to maintain style at 800 x 600. I figured the easiest way was to let it wrap to 2 lines. It wraps fine, but everything is either left aligned or right. I'd like both of the rows to be centered. Is there an easy way to do this? Here's the general layout: PHP Code: // .main is the style for the container // #main is the positioning of this instance of main // .tree_menu_list is the vertical stuffs <div class="menu" id="main"> <ul class="tree_menu_list"> <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=vision">Vision</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=buying">Buying</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=renovation">Building</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=selling">Selling</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=payout">Payout</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=opportunities">Opportunities</a></li> <li><a href="index.php?p=services">Services</a></li> <li><a href="images.php">Photos</a></li> </ul> </div> Hello All, I am trying to get a "horizontal menu" in CSS to properly center in my "#topbar" dev which is basically a header that is 100% width of the page. I have the website name, then the menu which is to be centered directly below it. I have searched google for hours and found one website (I guess cause i'm new it won't let me put the url in here) and it broke down each section of the CSS and it says that to horizontally position the menu just add text-align: center; to the #tabsE ul section, but that doesn't change anything at all. I have also tried replacing the float values with margin-left: auto; and margin-right: auto; (I've used those to center images before) and that just destroys the menu (it all shifts to the right side of the screen, and spaces out vertically). I am really kind of stuck here, I'm pretty new to CSS and most the basics are clicking, it seems to me that centering items so far has been one of the biggest pains yet. Here is the CSS: Code: /*- Menu Tabs E--------------------------- */
#tabsE {
width:100%;
background:#000;
font-size:93%;
line-height:normal;
}
#tabsE ul {
margin:0;
padding:10px 10px 0 0px;
list-style:none;
}
#tabsE li {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#tabsE a {
text-align: center;
background:url("tableftE.gif") no-repeat left top;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 4px;
text-decoration:none;
}
#tabsE a span {
text-align: center;
display:block;
background:url("tabrightE.gif") no-repeat right top;
padding:5px 15px 4px 6px;
color:#000;
}
/* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
#tabsE a span {float:none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */
#tabsE a:hover span {
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#tabsE a:hover {
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#tabsE a:hover span {
background-position:100% -42px;
}
#tabsE #current a {
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#tabsE #current a span {
background-position:100% -42px;
}
I tried to post the HTML (its just a standard <ul> with list </ul>) but it won't let me, because it contains url's so, I can e-mail you that if neccesary. I truly appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks, Chris How do I align menu elements of my menu? In Mozilla the elements are leaning conpletely to the left of the screen and doing somewhat what they're supposed to do in internet explorer. To put it simply I'd just like to have the same style class used to center the menu items in both Mozilla and Internet explorer. Heres the html page : Code:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" title="thisstyle CSS"></head><body>
<style>
body
{
background-color: limegreen;
<font FACE="Lucida Console">
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="menu">
<ul align="center">
<li><a href="users/register.php">Join</a></li>
<li><a href="users/Log_in.php">Login</a></li>
<li><a href="users/help/tour.html" >Tour</a></li>
<li><a href="users/contact.php">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body></html>
Heres the css style sheet : Code:
#menu {
clear: both;
margin: 30; padding: 0 40px 0 0;
background: url(menu.jpg) repeat-y center top;
font: bold 12px/26px Lucida Console;
height: 26px;
background: #006633;
}
#menu ul {
float: left;
list-style: none;
margin-top:0; padding: 0;
margin-right:0; padding: 0;
margin-bottom:0; padding: 0;
margin-left:90; padding: 0;
}
#menu ul li {
display: inline;
}
#menu ul li a {
display: inline;
float: left;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 28px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left:8px;
color: gold;
text-decoration: none;
}
#menu ul li a:hover {
background-color: #ffff33;
color: #006633;
}
#menu ul li#current a {
background-color: #eee;
color: #333;
}
Thanks I am a bit new to CSS and am currently in the process of converting a design over to CSS2 and have run into come difficulty. I've created a list based horizontal menu and I want elements to align to both the left and right ends. Simply by adding "float:left" to most of the elements and "float: right" to others, I was able to get it to work, but strangely only in Internet Explorer, not in Firefox. The latter seems to drop my right aligned image onto the next line. For the offending code, please see: http://www.forma3.com/stuff/css/top_menu_v1.html http://www.forma3.com/stuff/css/css/right_menu_v1.css Also, any suggestions on the code would be highly appreciated. I have no doubt its more verbose than needed. Hi, I am wanting a site that is vertically and horizontally centered. I have achieved to vertically center in both FF and IE but now I am having horizontal centering problems which is usually the easy part. I have tried many different methods and I am not able to center it in FF but I am able to center in IE. If someone could help me that would be great. Here my page: jacenta.com/TESTING/ Here is the code: Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<head>
<title>Welcome Canada - Immigration Services Inc.</title>
<style type="text/css">
body, html
{
height:100%;
}
body
{
background-color:#dddddd;
}
#outer
{
display:table;
height:100%;
#position:relative;
overflow:visible;
}
#inner
{
#position:absolute;
_top:50%;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align:center;
}
#inner2
{
#position:relative;
#top:-50%;
}
#container
{
width:100%;
}
#box
{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
width:700px;
height:500px;
text-align:left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<div id="inner2">
<div id="container">
<div id="box">
Text
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I hope someone can help me with this, I've been messing with it for hours, and it /seems/ like it should be simple. Take a look at this page. I am trying to extend the green background of the nav bar over to the black line on the right hand side, and to center the css buttons so that the whole nav is centered within the containing div (the black lines on the web page.) Here is the relevant page code: PHP Code: <div id="navbar" class="nav"> <ul> <li class="first"><a href="/admin/events/">SUBSCRIBE</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/photos/">ISSUES</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/content/">PURCHASE CATALOG</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/press/">SELLERS GUIDE</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/resources/">PRODUCTS</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/resources/">NEWSLETTERS</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/resources/">EVENTS</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/resources/">BLOGS</a></li> <li><a href="/admin/resources/">ABOUT US</a></li> </ul> </div> and here is the CSS for the nav bar: PHP Code: #navbar { width: 768px; text-align: center; background-color: #098E00; margin-top: 35px; } .nav ul { width: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; } /* any li element within .nav container */ .nav li { float: left; margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; border-left: 1px solid #fff; } /* any anchor in a .nav list item element */ .nav li a { display: block; /* expand to fill parent li */ margin: 0; /* no space between anchors */ padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; text-decoration: none; /* no underline */ color: #fff; /* override default link color */ background-color: #098E00; } /* 1st list item has no left border */ .nav li.first { border-left: 0 none; } /* rollover effect */ .nav li a:hover { background-color: #ccc; } How do I center the nav bar, and make it so that the CSS buttons are centered on a green background that goes from the left hand black line to the right hand black line? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. Hello everyone, I'm trying to center a fixed size div both vertically and horizontally. Everything would work, but, as usual ... IE doesn't know how to handle it properly. Let me explain: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="ALL, INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
<title>Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
body, html {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.d1 {
width: 1px;
height: 1px;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
}
.d2 {
width: 700px;
height: 300px;
background-color: black;
position: relative;
left: -350px;
top: -150px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="d1"><div class="d2"></div></div>
</body>
</html>
If you copy and paste it to explorer, everything might even look good. But if you resize the browser to be just a little bit larger than the black div, you'll notice that both vertical and horizontal scrollbars appear. Why is this happening? How do i prevent IE from acting stupid? I've tested with ie6 and ie7. I have a small problem and I can't figure out what it is that's causing it as the CSS used to replicate the issue doesn't really give any insight as to why things are getting ****ed up. My site is: ( jump for joy I got my routers firewall to forward port 80 ) http://24.224.254.115/~wayne/moorhousehome.ca/NEW The CSS in question will work, but I have comments after the two lines that cause issues. Code: css
#inner-wrap{/*there is no outer-wrap*/
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:50%; /*causes the main body to clear the navigation*/
margin-left:-400px; /*causes the main body to clear the navigation*/
}
If I comment out both lines the issue goes away, but the horizontal centering disappears too. If I uncomment either of them the issue reappears. I will leave the issue live on my website while people have a look. And once I fix this I will be fixing the two images in the bottom left corner with the text beneath each one. There won't be a hover over effect as there is in Firefox. Hey guys, Im having a bit of a confusing problem at the moment, im trying to center my navigation menu inside my fixed width. This is how it currently looks like: Im trying to center it so it doesnt matter how many <li>'s there are it will still be centered. Here is my HTML: PHP Code: <center> <div class="main_menu"> <ul> <li> <a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Services</a></li> <li> <a href="#">Portfolio</a></li> <li> <a href="#">Portfolio</a></li> <li> <a href="#">Portfolio</a></li> </ul> </div> </center> And here is my CSS: Code: .main_menu
{
border:1px solid;
width:898px;
margin-bottom:5px;
background-color:#333333;
height:30px;
line-height:30px;
color:#000000;
position:relative;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:13px;
text-align: center;
}
.main_menu ul
{
position:relative;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
list-style:none;
cursor:pointer;
}
.main_menu ul li
{
list-style-position:inside;
cursor:pointer;
text-align: center;
padding:0;
margin:0;
float:left;
background:#333333;
}
.main_menu ul li a
{
cursor:pointer;
text-align: center;
color:#FFF;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
padding:0 25px;
}
.main_menu ul li a:hover
{
cursor:pointer;
text-align: center;
background:#3ea5ea;
color:#000;
}
Hi, I would like to center a div inside another div (both vertical and horizontal) in such a way that the inner div would move/reside depending on the content inside it. In other words I have two divs; outerDiv and innerDiv. InnerDiv will have more html inside it and I would like innerDiv to always be in the middle of outerDiv regardless of its content. I did some research on the internet and I managed to achieve the following: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div#mbBackground{
display:block;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100% !important;
height: 100% !important;
margin: 0 auto;
z-index: 2;
background-color: #c00;
}
div#mbBackground div#mbWindow{
position:fixed;
top: 40%;
left: 40%;
z-index: 2;
margin: 0 auto !important;
margin-left: 40%;
margin-top: 40%;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
background-color: #fff;
color: #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- start: message box -->
<div id="mbBackground">
<div id="mbWindow">
Please Wait
</div>
</div>
<!-- end: message box -->
</body>
</html>
However with the above code, innerDiv does not re-position it-self correctly based on its content. Is what I need possible? Regards, Sim085 The Website in Question I just started to remake my portfolio site from scratch, and since I'm a crappy coder, I ran into a brick wall right away. It was easy horizontally and vertically centering the tan rectangle, but for the life of me I can't get the green sliding panel where I want it, and have it otherwise horizontally and vertically centered at all times. How I want it: Example I think the problem may be a conflict between the javascript that enables the sliding function of the green panel and the CSS trying to center it. The javascript demands absolute positioning of the two divs (the part that says "PORTFOLIO" and the part that slides right), because that's what tells the sliding panel where to slide and expand to. However, the CSS demands relative positioning, in order to position the panel a percentage down the page, and half its height in pixels back up again, as well as the horizontal alignment. Below is the source code for the site. At the moment, the sliding panel (its code is shown in blue) is set to be in the top left corner of the site, but it obviously isn't. Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type='text/css'>
body, html {
height:100%;
}
#container{
height:100%;
text-align: center;
}
#panel {
width: 700px;
height: 500px;
position:relative;
top:50%;
margin-top:-257px;
left:50%;
margin-left:-350px;
}
body {
background-image: url(bg3.gif);
}
</style>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="panel"><img src="work.png"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Animation.js"></script>
<div style="position:relative;
width:350px;
height:520px;
top:0px;
left:0px;">
<div id="exampleHeader"
style="position:absolute;
width:50px;
height:500px;
top:0;
left:0px;
background:#298b12;
text-align:center;
color:#FFFFFF;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 25px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 25px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 25px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 25px;"
onclick="runAnimation(animationObject, this)">
<img src="pf.png">
</div>
<div id="examplePanel"
style="position:absolute;
width:0px;
height:500px;
top:0px;
left:50px;
background:#ac926d;
background-image: url(pbg.gif);
background-position:right top;
overflow:hidden;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 25px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 25px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 25px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 25px;"
align="center"
overflow:hidden;">
Content
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var animationObject = new AnimationObject('examplePanel');
animationObject.AddFrame(new AnimationFrame(50, 0, 210, 500, 400));
function runAnimation(animation, header) {
if(header.check) {
animation.RunBackward();
header.check = false;
}
else {
animation.RunForward();
header.check = true;
}
}
</script>
</body>
</HTML>
I just can't seem to get my code to work. Can anybody offer any help to solve this problem? I'd really appreciate it. I am trying to have an element that will float above the others on the page and also be centered. When I make the position absolute, it will float above the others, but won't center (dynamically with window resize) and if I make the position auto, it will center but not float above the others. Here is the style: Code:
.main {
position:auto;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: center;
width: 800px;
background-color:red;
z-index:1;
}
Thank you Hello! I used CSS to vertically center my web site however when it is viewed in the horizontal mode on an iphone, the site is cut off and not centered. How can I fix this? Here is the css I used to center the site: #wrapper { width:850px; height:650px; position:absolute; top:50%; margin-top:-325px; left:50%; margin-left:-425px; } And here is the site: (URL address blocked: google Maid Marian Muffins) I need the result to be fully functional i.e. zoom & pinching functions must still work. Nevermind: solved Hi all, I've got a horizontal menu that is working just fine in every browser but IE 6 and 7. In IE it's almost there, except that the submenus will only appear one level deep. The menu is created with nested lists. The :hover functionality is simulated via JavaScript for IE 6. The IE developer toolbar shows the 3rd level menu is correctly being changed to display: block when its parent is hovered, and the border the dev toolbar draws even puts it in the correct place, it just doesn't actually appear. You can find the page he http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/ The CSS and JS (uses jQuery) can be found he http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/css/screen.css http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/css/ie.css (loaded with a conditional comment) http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/js/tdps.js http://www.perceptes.com/topdog/js/ie.js (loaded with a conditonal comment) For a specific example of what I'm talking about, try hovering over the second item, Filters & Parts. This will give you another level with four choices. Each of those also has child elements, but when hovered over, the next level doesn't appear. Try it in something other than IE 6 or 7 to see how it's supposed to look. Thanks very much in advance! Ok, I know virtually nothing about css, but realized that that a css menu is better for SEO. Anyway I found this vertical menu that works the way I want it. But I also need a horizontal version of it with dropdown submenus. Can someone help with this? I have been trying a bunch of things but it just looks awful and doesn't work right. It has 3 basic componets; Html, Javascript, and css. Here they are below. drop_down.js: Code: // JavaScript Document
startList = function() {
if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {
navRoot = document.getElementById("nav");
for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) {
node = navRoot.childNodes[i];
if (node.nodeName=="LI") {
node.onmouseover=function() {
this.className+=" over";
}
node.onmouseout=function() {
this.className=this.className.replace(" over", "");
}
}
}
}
}
window.onload=startList;
HTML: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Horizontal Drop Down Menus</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="drop_down.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
@import "style2.css";
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">About</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">History</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Team</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Offices</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Services</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Web Design</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Internet Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Hosting</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Domain Names</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Broadband</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">United Kingdom</a></li>
<li><a href="#">France</a></li>
<li><a href="#">USA</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Australia</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Style2.CSS: Code: body {
font: normal 11px verdana;
}
ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
width: 150px; /* Width of Menu Items */
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
ul li {
position: relative;
}
li ul {
position: absolute;
left: 149px; /* Set 1px less than menu width */
top: 0;
display: none;
}
/* Styles for Menu Items */
ul li a {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #777;
background: #fff; /* IE6 Bug */
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 0;
}
/* Fix IE. Hide from IE Mac \*/
* html ul li { float: left; height: 1%; }
* html ul li a { height: 1%; }
/* End */
ul li a:hover { color: #E2144A; background: #f9f9f9; } /* Hover Styles */
li ul li a { padding: 2px 5px; } /* Sub Menu Styles */
li:hover ul, li.over ul { display: block; } /* The magic */
what i want as horizontal fly out menu BUT I want the list of items to appear horizontally in a line below. These menus have the items appear vertically from a horizontal menu i looked at these and could find one http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/menudesigns/category/C20/ I've tried the tutorials on CSS menus but can't seem to get it to work right for my project. I want a spacer to seperate the buttons at 1 pixels wide but currently it's about 10 pixels wide. I've adjusted until i'm blue in the face can somebody help? The code is below: Code:
<tr>
<td width="766">
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul>
<li><a href="">Home</a></li>
<li><a href=""> Project Status</a></li>
<li><a href=""> Tasks</a></li>
<li><a href="">General Information</a></li>
<li><a href="">Completed Tasks</a></li>
<li><a href="">About</a></li>
<li><a href="">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS Code:
body,html {
margin: 0;
}
#navcontainer ul {
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#navcontainer ul li {
display: inline;
}
#navcontainer ul li a {
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0.2em 1em;
color: #fff;
background-image: url(images/back.gif);
height: 24px;
line-height: 23px;
}
#navcontainer ul li a:hover {
color: #fff;
background-color: #960033;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: center;
background-image: url(images/backover.gif);
}
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