CSS - Multi Column Horizontal Menu With Multi Column Drop Down

I am trying to create a Horizontal Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menu, but instead of the css creating text i would like them to be images and when you hover over the links they rollover into a new image.

I would really like your help on this been trying to do it for weeks now!!

Cheers

ok, ive had a look on the internet (google) and in this forum, and have been upable to come up with a decent example of a mutli tier drop down menu where the sub menu also has a menu

Currently I am using this code, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/
PHP Code:
echo "
<ul id=\"nav\">    
  <li><a href=\"#\" class=\"bodytext\">Clients</a> 
    <ul>
      <li><a href=\"http://www.commusoft.co.uk/eheating/forms/addclientcard.php\" class=\"bodytext\">New Customer</a></li>
      <li><a href=\"http://www.commusoft.co.uk/eheating/forms/addagents.php\" class=\"bodytext\">New Agent</a></li>
      <li><a href=\"http://www.commusoft.co.uk/eheating/postcodecheck.php\" class=\"bodytext\">Postcode Check</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li> 
</ul>"; 





this is the javascrip to make it work with IE
Code:

<script language="JavaScript">
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;
</script>

Code:

ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	width: 150px;
	height: 18px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
ul li {
	position: relative;
	line-height: 16px;
}
li ul {
	position: absolute;
	left: 149px;
	top: 0;
	display: none;
	float: left;
}
ul li a {
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #777;
	background: #fff;
	padding: 5px;
	border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
	border-bottom: 0;
	height: 1%;
}
li hover ul, li.over ul { 
	display: block;
}

This is a single tier drop down menu were there are titles and a sub - menu.

I was hopeing someone would point me in the direction, or show me where to begin if I want to turn this code into a multi tier drop down menu.

Also, if anyone else has used this why does a gap appear between each menu option when hovering over?

Any help would not only help me but will supply a decent example for others..

Thanks

I have one issue left in this context menu:
www.webfletch.com/sharing
(( Make Sure You Right Click On The Page ))

The issue is in Internet Explorer, when you click on the sub-menu or one of the links in the sub-menu.

Everything works fine at that point, but when you right-click to bring up the context menu again, the sub-menu comes up showing. Because technically, the css didn't grab the mouseout (Or whatever the opposite of "hover" is.)

I attempted to fix this with javascript by placing different variations of different scripts all over the code that made the sub-menu style.display = 'none'

However, the javascript made the code permenant. Once it was executed, the sub-menu never showed back up again. I guess javascript out-trumps the "hover" attribute of CSS.

Any thoughts?

Hi

I am trying to make a table to display some stuff within a fix sized window. I want to have 5 columns of fixed width and one column that spans the rest of the remaining space. The Idea is to allow the widths of the first 5 columns to be changed by a script and having the last one adapting as needed...

html Code:
Original - html Code <div class="container"><table cellspacing="0"> <colgroup> <col width="40" /> <col width="220" /> <col width="120" /> <col width="65" /> <col width="40" /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>A</th> <th>B</th> <th>C</th> <th>D</th> <th>E</th> <th style="width: 100%;></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td style="width: 100%;></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div>

  

    <div class="container"><table cellspacing="0">
      <colgroup>
        <col width="40" />
        <col width="220" />
        <col width="120" />
        <col width="65" />
        <col width="40" />
      </colgroup>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>A</th>
          <th>B</th>
          <th>C</th>
          <th>D</th>
          <th>E</th>
          <th style="width: 100%;></th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>4</td>
          <td>5</td>
          <td style="width: 100%;></td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table></div>

css Code:
Original - css Code div.container { height: 400px; width: 800px; overflow: scroll; } table { width: 100%; } td { border-style: solid; border-color: silver; border-width: 0px; padding: 1px 3px; } th { border-style: outset; border-color: silver; border-width: 2px; background: silver; padding: 1px 3px; }

  

  


 div.container


 {


   height: 400px;


   width: 800px;


   overflow: scroll;


 }


 table


 {


   width: 100%;


 }


 td


 {


   border-style: solid;


   border-color: silver;


   border-width: 0px;


   padding: 1px 3px;


 }


 th


 {


   border-style: outset;


   border-color: silver;


   border-width: 2px;


   background: silver;


   padding: 1px 3px;


 } 

It really does fill the entire space but the last column crushes all the other into their minimal width resulting in linebreaks between words inside the cells...

Please help me

Hi all,

I've tried searching around for this issue, but I've not found any help so far and it's driving me nuts. I hope someone here can advise.

This is an abridged version of the site's code for example:
Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
#main1 {
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}

#left {
	width:260px;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	float: left;
}
#left-top {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-top-left.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center top;
	height: 16px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
#left-middle {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-middle-left.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	padding-right: 20px;
	padding-left: 20px;
	padding-bottom: 2px;
}
#left-bottom {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-bottom-left.gif);
	background-position: center;
	height: 18px;
}
#logo {
	background-image: url(../images/swalingslogo.gif);
	background-position: center top;
	width: 260px;
	height: 120px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
/* Navigation List */
#navlist
{
	padding-left: 0;
	margin-bottom:10px;
	width: 217px;
}
#navlist li
{
	list-style: none;
	margin-bottom:4px;
	padding: 0;
	font-size:1.2em;
	line-height:1.8em;
	width:217px;
	height:32px;
	background-image:url(../images/nav2.gif);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: 0;
	margin-left: 0;
}
#navlist li a:link, #navlist li a:visited {
	display:block;
	text-decoration: none;
	color:#039;
	width:207px;
	height:32px;
	font-weight:bold;
	padding-top: 2px;
	padding-right: 5px;
	padding-bottom: 2px;
	padding-left: 5px;
}
#navlist li a:hover { 
	text-decoration: none;
	color:#FF6600;
}
/* Testimonials */
div#fscroller {
	width:200px;
	height:200px;
	background-image:url(../images/bg-testimonials.gif);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	margin-left:8px;
}
div#fscroller p {
	margin-left: 10px;
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
}

/* Middle Column */
#middle {
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-left: 0px;
	padding-top: 0px;
	text-align: justify;
	margin-left: 260px;
}
#middle #top-left {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-top-rightleft.gif);
	height: 16px;
	font-size: 2px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#middle #top-right {
	float: right;
	margin-top: -16px;
	background-image: url(../images/panel-top-rightright.gif); 
	height: 16px; 
	width: 20px;
	font-size: 2px;
}
#middle a {
	color: #003399;
}
#middle a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
/** Country Titles **/
#middle h2#unitedkingdom {
	background-image: url(../images/title-unitedkingdom.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 26px;
	width: 201px;
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}
#middle h2#antigua {
	background-image: url(../images/title-antigua.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 26px;
	width: 128px;
	margin-top: 16px;
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}
/* Minisite Links */
div.minisite {
	float: left;
}
div.minisite span {
	display: none;
}
div.minisite a {
	background-position: top;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 168px;
	width: 190px;
	display: block;
}
div.minisite a:hover {
	background-position: bottom;
}
a#minisite-swimminglessons {
	background-image: url(../images/swimming-lessons-uk.jpg);
}

.clear {
	clear:both;
}
.hidden {
	display: none;
}

.notopgap {
	margin-top: 0;
}

.nobottomgap {
	margin-bottom: 0;
}
.inside {
	background: #EFEFEF;
	padding-left: 10px;
	padding-right: 10px;
}
-->
</style>
<div id="main1">
<div id="left">
<!-- Logo -->
<div id="logo"></div>
		
<div id="left-top"></div>
<div id="left-middle">

<!-- Navigation -->
<!--#include file="../inc/nav2.asp" -->

<!-- Testimonials -->
<!--#include file="../inc/testimonials.asp" -->
<!--#include file="../inc/special-offers.asp" -->
</div>
<div id="left-bottom"></div>
</div>
	
<!-- Middle Column -->
<a name="skipnav" class="hidden"></a>
<div id="middle">
	
<div class="top-left"></div><div class="top-right"></div>
<div class="insideleft"><div class="insideright"><div class="inside"><div class="gap-saver"></div>
	
<!-- UK Sites -->
<h2 id="unitedkingdom"><span class="hidden">United Kingdom</span></h2>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swimming Lessons</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Training</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Residential Courses</span></a></div>

<div class="clear"></div>

<!-- Antigua Sites -->
<h2 id="antigua"><span class="hidden">Antigua</span></h2>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Soccer</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Parties and Events</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings International School of Swimming</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Babysitting and Nanny Agency</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings School of Rugby</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings School of Volleyball</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Training</span></a></div>
			
<div class="clear"></div>
			
<div class="gap-saver"></div>
</div></div></div>
<div class="bottom-left"></div><div class="bottom-right"></div>
	
</div>	
<!-- End Middle Column -->
	
</div>

I've placed the Country Title in an H2 tag, then beneath that, each anchor is enclosed in a DIV, and is set as a left-floated block. Then I placed a spacer DIV (clear: both) to create a new line, then repeated with H2 and links.

This all works fine in Firefox, IE7 and Opera, but of course IE6 is being a pig as usual. The spacer DIV is pushed to sit alongside the bottom of the left column, and I can't figure out how to (or if I can) stop this.

I can't add in links properly, so I hope this is acceptable under the rules --
The site in question is: www.swalings .com/swalings/index4.asp
and here's a screenshot of IE6 behaviour: www.swalings .com/images/swalings-ie6-troubleshoot.jpg

Hopefully that's enough information to go on, please let me know if there's something I missed out.

Thanks a lot!

Rob

Question title:
A 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally and let them both scroll vertically

Hello

I did try several idea's, but all failed. Then I did search the web but found a list of > 400.000 in google.

If someone is willing to tell me if it is possible and give me some directions, please do. Everything is welcome.

I got a list with 3 columns ( basically you could say I have only two columns because 2-3 could be concatenated to together, but they have a different style and justification, but I could live to start with a two column sample)

f.e
line 1 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) )
line 2 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) )
line 99:....
e.t.c

Column one has a fixed width of 32px.
'some text' can be longer then the wide available and value_two is with 3 spaces appended to column 2. I want that column one is fixed horizontal and that the second and the third column can scroll horizontally. Of course when there are more line's then the height of the container is should be posable to scroll vertically.

Finally I need the color behind column one be different then the column 2 and 3.

So what I did create is a container with two containers where the left one has a different colour then the right one and above those a container with the list. I have overflow on auto, so I get scroll-bars when necessarily.
But my problem is that when I scroll horizontally that my first column scrolls away to the left.

Basically my question is. How can I get a 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally ( first is locked in horizontal place ) and let them scroll both vertically?

Hey,
So I have a three column layout being implemented as such:

html:
Code:

<div class="content">
    <div class="col1 column"></div>
    <div class="col3 column"></div>
    <div class="col2 column">
        <div class="header">Header</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:
Code:

.column {
padding: 10px;
position:relative;
}

.header {
background:#cfe6f5;
color:#416383;
font-size:11px;
font-family:Arial;
font-weight:300;
padding-left:15px;
}

.col1 {
float: left;
width:250px;
}

.col2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.col3 {
float:right;
width:250px;
}

The problem is that the width of the header div extends all the way to the left and right of the page when it's in the middle column, but behaves the way I want it to (extends to the left and right of the column) when it's in the left or right column. Any ideas? Thanks.
--Surgery

In IE6, the right sidebar column drops down below the content or disappears and creates space below the content before the footer. On some of my other pages it happens and on others, it does not. Can anyone suggest the problem and/or solution?

Best,
Colin

http://029c92a.netsolhost.com/abrasives/cuttingdiscs.html

Hi, hopefully you enjoyed the title, I had a good laugh thinking of it in that split second it took me to write it.

So, I found a 3 column css layout on a CSS generator website, because I got sick of trying to hack up layouts I've made in the past that didn't work.

Anyhow, it was working fine with one line of content in each column when I tested it out, however, once content in the middle column was added, and stretched vertically beyond a certain point, it will drag the left columns content down with it. The right column is not affected in any way.

I have spent a few hours trying to look for reasons as to why it would happen, but I had no luck. I would appreciate any help... so thank you in advance if you take a stab at it.

Here's the html:

Code:

<body>

<div id="pagewidth">
	<div id="header"></div>

		<div id="wrapper" class="clearfix" > 
			<div id="twocols" class="clearfix"> 
				<div id="maincol">Main Text, woot. (aka hi hi hi)</div>
				<div id="rightcol">Sidebar, yippee.</div>
			</div> 
		<div id="leftcol">

			<div id="navigation">test</div>
		</div>
	</div>
		
	<div id="footer"></div>
</div>

</body>

and the CSS:

Code:

html, body
{
 background: #333399;
 margin:0; 
 padding:0; 
 text-align:center;
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
 font-size: 12px;
 font-weight: normal;
 color: black;
 	 
} 
 
#pagewidth
{ 
 width: 750px; 
 text-align:left;  
 margin-left:auto; 
 margin-right:auto;
 background: #333399 url('images/bodycontent.gif') repeat-y center top;
} 
 
#header
{
 position:relative; 
 height:138px; 
 background: url('images/header.gif') center;
 width: 100%;
} 
 
#leftcol
{
 width: 118px; 
 float: left;
 left: 25px;
 position: relative; 
 background-color: transparent;
 margin:0; padding:0;
 }
 
#twocols
{
 width: 700px; 
 float: right; 
 position: relative; 
  }
 
#rightcol
{
 width:180px;
 right: 25px;	 
 float:right; 
 position:relative; 
 background-color: transparent;
 }
 
#maincol
{
 background-color: transparent;  
 float: left;
 left: 100px; 
 display: inline; 
 position: relative; 
 width: 390px; 
 }
 
#footer
{
 text-align: center;
 height:39px;
 background: url('images/footer.gif');
 clear:both;
 } 
 


.clearfix:after 
{
 content: "."; 
 display: block; 
 height: 0; 
 clear: both; 
 visibility: hidden;
 }
 
.clearfix{display: inline-table;}

/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
* html .clearfix{height: 1%;}
.clearfix{display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */  


 
 /*printer styles*/ 
 @media print{ 
/*hide the left column when printing*/ 
#leftcol{display:none;} 

/*hide the right column when printing*/ 
#rightcol{display:none;} 
#twocols, #maincol{width:100%; float:none;}
}

Again, thank you in advance if you can come up with anything.

Hello,

I am having difficulty with the center column on the following page: http://cbo4edu.org/index2.html

I want to widen the center column so that the CBO NEWS heading touches the blue line which divides the center and right column. When I try to add width to the style sheet the left column moves out of alignment.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

can i make my left column, the same height as my right column? or infact, if the left is taller than the right, the right extends to it and if the right is taller than the left the left extends to it?

is this possible, cheers

heres my css:
left column, is #leftNav and the right column is #contentMain

PHP Code:
#content {
        margin:0px auto;
        padding: 0;
        width: 760px;
    }
    
    #contentMain {
        padding: 0;
        margin: 0;
        float: right;
        width: 632px;
    }

    #leftNav {
        color: #000;
        float: left;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        width: 128px;
    } 

Hi!

I want to make a two-column menu with lists, is that possible, or do I need to make two UL's?

Code:

item 1 | item 2
item 3 | item 4
item 5 | item 6

<ul>
<li/>item 1
<li/>item 3
<li/>item 5
</ul>
<ul>
<li/>item 2
<li/>item 4
<li/>item 6
</ul>

Is there a better way?

/Chrille

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!

I am a HTML&CSS novice - I am trying to write a page using a three column layout but the column colour doesn't reach the footer.

I understand that this is a common problem and I've looked at a lot of examples on the web of how to work around this or create a better layout but I'm still not sure enough to know which would be the easiest and best to go within the page I have written.

I want to avoid images but other than that any help would be great!

I have validated the HTML & CSS and they are copied below (could any advice be really specific, as I said this is very new to me!).


Thanks

HTML:


<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Drivers Jonas Information Unit</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="djiucss.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="djiuprintcss.css" media="print" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="top">
<div id="picture">
<img src="GIF.gif" alt="DJ" width="200" height="100" />
</div>
<div id="heading">
<div id="title"><h1>Drivers Jonas Information Unit</h1></div>
</div>

</div>
<div id="left">
<br/><p><a href="about.html">About us</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="company.html">Company Information</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="legal.html">Legal information</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="landreg.html">Land Registry</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="research.html">Research</a></p><br/>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="title"><h2> News
</h2></div>
<ul>
<li>The Information Unit has recently acquired a set of new APC guides</li>
<li>If you would like any training on databases</li>
<li>The Information Unit has created an economy timeline </li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="main">
<div id="title"><h2>Main stuff</h2></div>
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</div>
<div id="bottom">
Drivers Jonas Information Unit
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS:

#top
/*DJ logo and page title - includes h1*/
{
color: black;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
background: #d31145;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}

body
{
color: black;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size:14px
}

img /*DJ logo*/
{
padding: 20px;
float:left;
}

#heading
{
text-align: center;
padding:20px;
}

/*main page title*/
/*should change all reds to DJ red: #d31145*/

#left, #right, #main
{
color: white;
background: black;
}

#left
{
float: left;
width:140px;
border-right:2px solid #d31145;
text-align:left;
padding-left: 1em;
}

#right
{
float:right;
width:140px;
border-left:2px solid #d31145;
text-align:left;
padding-right: 1em;
}

#main
{
margin-left: 150px;
margin-right: 150px;
border-left: 1px solid;
border-right: 1px solid;
padding: 1em;
}

#bottom
{
clear:both;
margin: 0;
color:black;
background: #d31145;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}

#title
{
text-align:center;
}

a:link {color:white}
a:visited {color:silver}
a:hover {color:#d31145}
a:active {color:#d31145}

Hi,

http://www.dudley.nhs.uk/search.asp has a two column effect. The CSS for it is he http://www.dudley.nhs.uk/css/screen.css I was wondering why if there is a table in the right hand column with a width percentage over 77% there is some horizontal scrolling? This happens in IE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Janusz Jasinski