CSS - Horizontal Multi Level Navigation Menu, With Rollover Images

hello. I am currently using a simple horizontal top menu with a vertical drop down. I would like to change the vertical drop down to be horizontal, multi column, and should accomodate more than one line, if possible. The example I'm going for is used as top navigation he
nfl - baltimore ravens home page
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ge home page

Here is the code I'm using currently (would like it to be all CSS).
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ul#mainNavigation
{
padding-left:185px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li
{
padding:0 16px;
float: left;
display:inline;
position: relative;
list-style: none;
color:White;
_width:1px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.Seperator
{
padding:0px;
_width:1px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over
{
background-color:white;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over a
{
color:Red;
}
ul#mainNavigation li a
{
color:White;
text-transform:uppercase;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
display:block;
}
ul#mainNavigation a:hover {
color: Red;
}
ul#mainNavigation li a
{
display: block;
}
ul#mainNavigation li p
{
height:19px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li ul
{
display: none;
position: absolute;
background-color:Black;
opacity:.8;
filter: alpha(opacity=80);
-moz-opacity: 0.8;
margin-left:-16px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over ul
{
display: block;
z-index:999;
}

ul#mainNavigation li.over ul li
{
float: none;
background:none;
border:none;
white-space:nowrap;
padding:0px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over ul li a
{
color: white;
padding:5px;
border-bottom:solid 1px black;
}

ul#mainNavigation li.over ul li a:hover
{
background: #3d1f6e;
color: white;
}
~~~~~~~ HTML ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<ul id="mainNavigation">

<li>
<p><a href="Mainlink1.html">Mainlink1</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="link2.html">LINK 2</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.html">LINK 3</a></li>
<li><a href="link4.html">LINK 4</a></li>
<li><a href="link5.html">LINK 5</a></li>
<li><a href="link6.html">LINK 6</a></li>
<li><a href="link7.html">LINK 7</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li>
<p><a href="Mainlink2.html">Mainlink2</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="link2.html">LINK 2</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.html">LINK 3</a></li>
<li><a href="link4.html">LINK 4</a></li>
<li><a href="link5.html">LINK 5</a></li>
<li><a href="link6.html">LINK 6</a></li>
<li><a href="link7.html">LINK 7</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

####
Thank you, in advance!
~ lahddah

I'm trying to get my horizontal navigation to work for a PTA page I'm creating. New to CSS and I think I've got a bit of the gist of it... but I'm really struggling with this. I've mostly "found" the coding I needed and then modified it to suit my needs.

As a designer, though, I still want it to look the way I want it to and I'm not quite able to accomplish that.

Basically, I would like a drop down menu added to the navigation I've created here - lwptsa . org/newsite/

This is the solution I found - lwptsa . org/newsite/dropdown . html

But I am unable to get the dark blue to continue to the end of the container.

** ACK, not allowed to post images. You can find the image I'm referring to he lwptsa . org/newsite/images/navigation . jpg

I'd like to fix the left margin spacing and it's coloring (A), making the lines between the buttons/blocks white (B) and having the blue flush with the white containers above and below (A). I'd also like to keep the top lines between the drop-down menu (C) but remove it from the main menu/navigation (B).

Hopefully this makes sense. My style sheets a

No drop-down menu, but working spacing and white separating lines (id - navigation):
lwptsa . org/newsite/
Code:

body
{
	margin: 20px;
	padding: 0;
	font: 100%/1.3 arial;
	font-size: medium;
	color: #000;
	background: #ccc;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
	margin: 0 0 1em;
	line-height: 1.1;
}

h2, h3 { color: #00693e; }
h2 { font-size: 110%; }
h3 { font-size: 90%; }
h4 { font-size: 118.75%; }
h5 { font-size: 112.5%; }
p { margin: 0 0 1em;
	font: 80%/1.3 helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
 }
img { border: none; }

a:link { color: blue;text-decoration:none; }
a:visited { color: blue;text-decoration:none; }
a:hover { color: green;text-decoration:underline; }

a:link.aside { color: #00693e;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none; }
a:visited.aside { color: #00693e;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none; }
a:hover.aside { color: #002664;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline; }

a:link.title { color: #00693e;text-decoration:none; }
a:visited.title { color: #00693e;text-decoration:none; }
a:hover.title { color: #002664;text-decoration:underline; }

#container
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 1024px;
	background: #fff;
}

#container table
{
	font: 80%/1.3 helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
}

#header
{
	font-style:italic;
	font-size:small;
	color: #00693e;
	background: #fff;
	text-align: center;
	height: 115px;
	padding: 20px 20px 20px 30px;
}

#navigation
{
	font-size:small;
	float: left;
	width: 1024px;
	background: #002664;
}

#navigation ul
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

#navigation ul li
{
	list-style-type: none;
	display: inline;
}

#navigation ul ul
{
position: absolute;
background: #d1d5da;
top: 0;
left: 100%; /* to position them to the right of their containing block */
width: 100%; /* width is based on the containing block */

}

#navigation li a
{
	float: left;
	padding: 5px 10px;
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration: none;
	border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

#navigation li a:hover { color: #a3d869; }

#content-container
{
	float: left;
	width: 1024px;
	background: #fff;
}

#content
{
	height:	inherit;
	clear: left;
	float: left;
	width: 590px;
	padding: 0 20px 0 0;
	margin: 20px 0 20px 30px;
	display: inline;
	border-right: 1px solid #00693e;
}

#content h2 { margin: 0; }

#aside
{
	float: right;
	width: 340px;
	padding: 20px 0;
	margin: 0 20px 0 20px;
	display: inline;
}

#aside h3 { font-size: 90%;margin: 20px 0 0 0; }
#aside p { font-size: 80%;margin: 0; }

#footer
{
	font-size: x-small;
	clear: both;
	color: #fff;
	background: #002664;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 5px;
	height: 1%;
}

#translator
{
	text-align: center;
	margin: auto;
	position: absolute;
}

Drop-down menu, but issue with the blue not continuing to the end and weird issues with separating lines and margins (id - menu):
lwptsa . org/newsite/dropdown . html
Code:

body
{
	margin: 20px;
	padding: 0;
	font: 100%/1.3 arial;
	font-size: medium;
	color: #000;
	background: #ccc;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
	margin: 0 0 1em;
	line-height: 1.1;
}

h2, h3 { color: #00693e; }
h2 { font-size: 110%; }
h3 { font-size: 90%; }
h4 { font-size: 118.75%; }
h5 { font-size: 112.5%; }
p { margin: 0 0 1em;
	font: 80%/1.3 helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
 }
img { border: none; }

a:link { color: blue;text-decoration:none; }
a:visited { color: blue;text-decoration:none; }
a:hover { color: green;text-decoration:underline; }

a:link.aside { color: #00693e;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none; }
a:visited.aside { color: #00693e;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none; }
a:hover.aside { color: #002664;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline; }

a:link.title { color: #00693e;text-decoration:none; }
a:visited.title { color: #00693e;text-decoration:none; }
a:hover.title { color: #002664;text-decoration:underline; }

#container
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 1024px;
	background: #fff;
}

#container table
{
	font: 80%/1.3 helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
}

#header
{
	font-style:italic;
	font-size:small;
	color: #00693e;
	background: #fff;
	text-align: center;
	height: 115px;
	padding: 20px 20px 20px 30px;
}

#menu ul
{
  font-family: Arial, Verdana;
  font-size:small;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;}

#menu ul li
{
  display: block;
  position:	relative;
  float: left;}

#menu li ul { display: none; }

#menu li a
{
  display: block;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #ffffff;
  border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
  padding: 5px 15px 5px 15px;
  background: #002664;
  margin-left: 1px;
  white-space: nowrap;}

#menu ul li a:hover {   background: #00693e; }

#menu li:hover ul {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
}

#menu li:hover li {
  float: none;
  font-size: 11px;
}

#menu li:hover a { background: #00693e; }
#menu li:hover li a:hover { color: #fff;background: #008d53; }

#content-container
{
	float: left;
	width: 1024px;
	background: #fff;
}

#content
{
	height:	inherit;
	clear: left;
	float: left;
	width: 590px;
	padding: 0 20px 0 0;
	margin: 20px 0 20px 30px;
	display: inline;
	border-right: 1px solid #00693e;
}

#content h2 { margin: 0; }

#aside
{
	float: right;
	width: 340px;
	padding: 20px 0;
	margin: 0 20px 0 20px;
	display: inline;
}

#aside h3 { font-size: 90%;margin: 20px 0 0 0; }
#aside p { font-size: 80%;margin: 0; }

#footer
{
	font-size: x-small;
	clear: both;
	color: #fff;
	background: #002664;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 5px;
	height: 1%;
}

#translator
{
	text-align: center;
	margin: auto;
	position: absolute;
}

Any and all help welcome. I'm trying to redesign the look and information of the PTA's website.

a.

Can somebody tell me if this is possible?

I have a horizontal menu and I'm using images. I'm using javascript for the drop down menu etc. The menu is an include so it looks the same on all the pages. What I want to do is when I'm on say "Contact" the rollover color (this is an image) displays the "Contact" hover image, and the same with the other pages.

So what needs to happen is CSS needs to override the button with the hover image.

Is it possible to put css in every page that tells it to display the needed hover image when on that page?

Hi ! Me again :P

So this is a simple test i made to try this out. But I ran into a problem. Take a look for yourself:

(view-source for xhtml and css)

http://fotoz.hit.bg/test/menu.html

The problem is that annoying flickering that happens when you roll over. Any ideas how to fix it ?

And most importantly why does it occur?

Thanks!

p.s

I should explain what i wanted to do here. Basicly 1 big background image to the <div>. It will be holding the "over" state of all the buttons. At the same time the <a> elements will be holding images of the "normal" state buttons, and when you hover over them they will disappear and you will see the "hover" state below.

It works but I get the flickering with visibility:hidden and even if i just move the img out of the way

Hi All,

I am building a site that has the following structure for the navigation;

Code:

<div id="navigation">
    <ul id="navlist">
      <li class="home"><a href="../index.asp" title="home"><span>home</span></a></li>
      <li class="aboutus"><a href="../aboutus.htm" title="aboout us"><span>about us</span></a></li>
      <li class="ourservices"><a href="../ourservices.htm" title="our services"><span>our services</span></a>
        <ul>
          <li class="internationalmail"><a href="ourservices_internationalmail.htm" title="international mail"><span>international mail</span></a></li>
          <li class="worldwidecourier"><a href="ourservices_worldwidecourier.htm" title="worldwide courier"><span>worldwide courier</span></a></li>
          <li class="worldwidefreight"><a href="ourservices_worldwidefreight.htm" title="worldwide freight"><span>worldwide freight</span></a></li>
          <li class="storage"><a href="ourservices_storage.htm" title="storage"><span>storage</span></a></li>
          <li class="publishingservices"><a href="ourservices_publishingservices.htm" title="publishing services"><span>publishing services</span></a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li class="requestquote"><a href="../requestquote.htm" title="request a quote"><span>request a quote</span></a></li>
      <li class="contactus"><a href="../contactus.htm" title="contact us"><span>contact us</span></a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>

The main LI is horizontal, and the containing UL, LI is a vertical dropdown. The seperate CSS file does the image replacements on the <a> and hides the text within the <span>, usual stuff. The nav works great, with the graphic rollovers etc. The rollover, again, standard way of doing it, background: url(<FILE>) no-repeat top left; and the a:hover rollover is a background: bottom left;.

Edit: Just noticed that I can't link to the full site that I have uploaded for preview.

What I want to do, is when the user roll's over any of the items within the sub-navigation, it keeps the main Services navigation link rolled over also. The only way I could think of doing this, and relatively simply, would be to use JavaScript, but wanted to explore any other CSS ways of doing this. For example, is it possible to change a style of another class, from another?

Your help would be much appreciated!

Hello,
I'm using a 'slide-out' navigation on an intranet, however I need it to go to a 3rd level and for the life of me I cannot get the combonation for expanding the list to 3 levels.

Here is a 'demo' of what I'm trying to do, if you go to Office support, and resources it needs to come out when you hover.

DEMO

*This site was designed with IE 6.0 in mind.

Code:

/*Navigational CSS*/

#navigation ul
	{
	position: absolute;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	width: 185px; /* Width of Menu Items */
	border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
	font-family:"trebuchet MS", Garamond, arial;
	}
	
	#navigation li 
	{
	position: relative;
	}

	#navigation a 
	{
	display: block;

	}

	#navigation li ul
	{
	left: 185px;
	top: -0px;
	display: none;

	}

		#navigation ul li a, #navigation li a 
		{
		display: block;
		text-decoration: none;
		color: #fff;		
		background-color: #0F2344;
		padding: 3px;
		font-family:"trebuchet MS", Garamond, arial;
				
		}

		#navigation li
		{
		position: relative;
		z-index: 10;
		}

		#navigation li ul li
		{
		position: relative;
		z-index: 15;
		}

		#navigation ul li a:hover, #navigation li a:hover
		{
		color: #000;
		background: #467BB4;
		}

		#navigation li ul li a
		{

		padding: 2px 5px;

		}

		#navigation li:hover ul, #navigation li.over ul
		{
		display: block;
		}
		

Thanks for the assistance..

Hello. I've searched far and wide for a good tutorial on how to make multi-row navigation tabs (something that kind of resembles the System Properties box in Windows). Can this be done using ordered lists? Does anyone know of a good source for this?

thanks much.
-Dan

i have set up my navigation menu like so:
PHP Code:
<style type='text/css'>
   div#nav {
      border:1px solid #000000;
      background-color:#F2F2F2;
      height:auto;
   }
   div#nav a {
      display:block;
      color:black;
      border:1px solid #FFFFFF;
   }
   div#nav a:hover {
      color:red;
      border:1px solid #000000;
      background-color:white;
   }
</style>

<div class='nav'>
   <a href='page1.html'>Page 1</a>
   <a href='page2.html'>Page 2</a>
   <a href='page3.html'>Page 3</a>
   <a href='page4.html'>Page 4</a>
</div> 




the above works perfectly in Firefox, but doesnt in IE.
IE seems to keep around the fact that the <a> tag only encapsulates the text: Page 1, so the rollover effect only works in IE when the user hovers over the text and not anywhere in the row.
Does IE not understand the display:block? as i think this is whats causing it...

I'm just wondering everyones opinions on what the best way to do a rollover navigation button is.

Should I use two background images and on hover switch the background image?

Is using one background image and moving the background up or down to switch between the images better?

Is there another better way to do rollovers that i'm missing?

I'm not really sure if I like the loading time that it takes to load the roll over image, and am wondering what method you guys use to achieve a similar effect.

hey guys. wanna use an UL as navigation. my problem is I am unsure how to get this centered and get that tail of black off. here is the code.

Code:

 ul#navlist
{
padding: 0;
margin: 10;
list-style-type: none;
float: center;
width: 85%;
color: #fff;
background-color: #000000;
}

ul#navlist li { display: inline; }

ul#navlist li a
{
float: center;
width: 5em;
color: #fff;
background-color: #000;
padding: 0.2em 1em;
text-decoration: none;
border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

ul#navlist li a:hover
{
background-color: #369;
color: #fff;
}

html
Code:

<ul id="navlist">
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Band<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font>Bios</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Multimedia</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Shows</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Merchandise</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li>
</ul>

I have a menu, click he http://progra.ro/demomenu/
This menu not appear correctly in Internet Explorer 6 due to "SPAN" element. Anyone know how to fix this problem leaving the span element intact in HTML ?

All browser show the menu correctly, except IE6.Thanks!

I am going to heck right now trying to get this navigation to work.

Here is what it is

A horizontal list based navigation that has a unique background for each of the 6 choices. It will also have a rollover effect on the background and the text when the user is on that item. The links will be text but the background will be an image. How do I set each item's background to the correct width and height pixel wise?

Hi All,
I want to use images for a vertical navigation menu. I don't want to use background images, since I can't set width=100% with background images and I want the navigation panel to scale with em's.
Instead, I want to use image swapping with the z-index.
Rather than post my buggy solution and ask for help, maybe there is already a good sample I can work from?

I want to avoid using a table with one column for this.
I am new to CSS but here is my outline for what I am trying to do...
Basically I want some block divs going down the navigation column. Each div represents a menu button showing the "off" image until someone hovers over it and then the z-index changes, allowing the "rollover" image to show instead.
I would like the button div's to flow naturally down the column, but within each div I want to position the 2 images at top=0 left=0 relative to the button div.
Seems simple right?
Thanks for any suggestions or links.
Savoye

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a horizontal navigation near the top of my website. But I can't seem to make it center but AND horizontal, i've only been able to center it but not horizontal... or have it horizontal but not center.

This is my CSS so far.

Quote:
ul#nav li {
display:inline;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
text-align:center;
}

ul#nav li a {
display:block;
height:48px;
width:113px;
background: transparent url(images/nav.png);
margin: 0 auto;
text-indent:-9009px;
}
ul#nav li a:hover {background-position:0 -48px}

ul#nav li#photos a {
width:139px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-position:-113px 0;
}
ul#nav li#photos a:hover {background-position:-113px -48px}




My home link and photo link are currently centered and on top of each other in a vertical fashion with this code.

Please help!

Hi,

Could someone please help me to fix this error in my code.

I created this website for my school,
http://www.rit.edu/~cie/
but for some reason the navigation menu rollover does not work in IE. Could someone please point me to the errors as I have been spending so much time and still couldn't see what cause this.

Thanks in advance