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CSS - Css Navigation: Current Tab Highlight Not Working
I've been at this for hours and hours and I've tried about 50 different ways to get this to work but I'm totally stumped. I've switched the id and class around (in my site's theme.php and template.html) so often that I'm dizzy.
I've searched Google and these forums (among others) for help but still, I'm getting nowhere. Maybe my CSS skills are lacking but this seems simple enough (or is it?). Anyway, here's the problem: The CSS (below) just won't work...so what's wrong with it? What am I missing? Code: ul#navigation {
list-style: none;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Serif;
font-weight:bold;
background:#32478A;
text-transform:uppercase;
height:25px;
line-height:25px;
font-size:12px;
}
ul#navigation li {
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
white-space:nowrap;
background:none;
}
ul#navigation li a {
display:block;
padding:0 15px;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:1px;
border:none;
color:#fff;
}
ul#navigation li a:hover, ul#navigation li a:active, ul#navigation li.current_page_item a {
color:#242169;
background:#fff;
}
My template.html UL ID looks like this... Code: <ul id="navigation">
{SYS_MENU}
</ul>
...and the theme.php CLASS (login link for example) looks like this: Code: <!-- BEGIN login -->
<li><a href="{LOGIN_TGT}" title="Click here to log in" class="current_page_item"> Log in</a></li>
<!-- END login -->
Here's a link to my site: The hover and active bits seem to work but not the CURRENT...which is what I need to fix. Simply put, the current tab at the top of the page doesn't change to reflect what page you're on. I apologize in advance for the coding mess on my site but I'm just now getting around to cleaning things up. I could really use a hand fixing this little monster. Anyone with stellar CSS skills ready to school this lazy bum? Cheers. EDIT: The link (BBCode) above (to my site) doesn't work, so click my homepage in the drop-down menu under my user name. Thanks. Similar TutorialsThis is what i am using as my page, and i only want to highlight the top part i.e only test and not the lowers. when i include the current page highlight class to the menu the whole section is highlighted, is there a way to highlight just the li and not the ul under the li that are contained within the same class. Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> /* horizontal menu coding */ #nav { float: left; margin: 0 0 1em 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } #nav li { float: left; } #nav li a { display:block; padding: 7px 23.9px; text-decoration: none; font-family:"Arial"; color: white; border-right: 1px solid #ccc; border-bottom: 1px dashed #ccc; font-size: 14px; background-color: #3f6fb7; } } #nav li a:hover { color: #3f6fb7; background-color: #d1cf9f; } #nav pageHorizontal a { background:#d1cf9f; color: white; } #nav ul.current-pagelowerHorizontal a { background:#d1cf9f; color: white; } #nav #nav-home a { background:#d1cf9f; color: white; /* declarations to style the current state */ } /* Print menu coding */ </style> </head> <body onLoad="preloadImages();" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div class="ts-1-13"> <ul id="nav"> <li id="nav-home" > <a href="testnewMenu.html">test</a> <!--for the new menu --> <ul id="nav"> <a href="XXX.html">Lower 1 </a> </ul> <ul id="nav"> <a href="XXX.html">Lower 2</a> </ul> <ul id="nav"> <a href="XXX.html">Lower 3 </a> </ul> <ul id="nav"> <a href="XXX.html"> Lower 4</a> </ul> <!--for the new menu ul under a list --> </li> <li> <a href="XXX.html">Test2</a> </li> <li> <a href="XXX.cfm">test 3</a> </li> <li> <a href="About_Us.html">About Us</a> </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>
Hi There, Is it possible to highlight the current page without specifying a unique body id? I have been asked to implement current page style on a dynamic site where it is not possible to do this. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, I'm a CSS newbie, so forgive me if I'm going about this the wrong way entirely. I'm trying to build a website with a menu that changes the source of an iFrame. So I have: Code: <html> <body> <div>**MENU**</div> <div><iframe id="contentFrame" src="home.htm"></iframe></div> </body> </html> Clicking a menu item, say "Contact Us", changes the src of the iFrame using: Code: <a href="javascript:document.getElementById('contentFrame').src='ContactUs.htm'">Contact Us</a>
The menu is pure CSS, with each item underlining as it's rolled over, and some submenus that show up when hovering. What I'm looking to do is have the selected menu item have a different text color. So when you click "Contact Us", that item will change color and stay that other color while navigating the ContactUs.htm page in the iFrame. Is that even remotely do-able? I saw some examples where you use body classes and id's to match the id of the menu item to the body class of the related page. However, I think that would require loading completely separate pages (with the same menu, header, and footer code). I want to avoid the entire page flickering when changing content. I don't seem to be able to access the body class value of the page being loaded in the iFrame. Is that possible to do? Thanks for any guidance you all could offer. I am 99.99999% sure that there is no way to do this in pure CSS but just in case. I have tabbed navigation. When a user clicks on a link it loads that page from the server (a page refresh). The corresponding nav tab should then be in its active state. Does CSS support this at all? I am happy to run a server side script to set an item to "current" but I would like to know if there is any way around it. Thanks. Hi, I have a simple rollover navigation, which is as follows::
Code: <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="about.html" class="about"></a></li> <li><a href="guestpics.html" class="guestPics"></a></li> <li><a href="staff.html" class="staff"></a></li> <li><a href="webcams.html" class="webcams"></a></li> <li><a href="parties.html" class="parties"></a></li> <li><a href="contact.html" class="contact"></a></li> </ul> Here is the CSS for the about link:: Code: #nav a.about{ background-image:url(images/nav/about_off.gif); width:77px; height:18px; }
#nav a.about:hover { background-image:url(images/nav/about_on.gif);}
I don't see what I am doing wrong? Can someone help? thanks Hi I have used this drop down navigation as the main navigation on my website, it drops down perfectly in firefox but won't drop down in IE??? Is there something I am missing or could add to make it work?? My sites below and css byronyoga(dot)com byronyoga(dot)com(slash)templates(slash)css(slash)style.css (the style is down the bottom of the css) Thanks. Hi, I am designing this site for my Web Design class, and have made the big mistake of working only in FF and not checking IE until the end. The problem is with the Navigation. It is a UL-based Navigation with 5 items. The text of each LI is made "invisible" by using text-indent -9999px in CSS. I have 5 images that have 2 states used for each button. Here is the CSS code for the whole Navigation: #nav {list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; background: #fff; width: 934px; height: 62px; position: absolute; top: 0;} #nav a {float: left; height: 62px; text-indent: -9999px; overflow: hidden;} #nav #home a {background: #fff url(home.jpg) no-repeat; height: 62px; width: 194px; float: left;} Here is the CSS that is used for the header and logo: #header {height: 62px; padding-bottom: 231px;} #logo {position: relative; top: 62px; left: 95px;} Here is the XHTML: <div id="container"> <div id="header"> <img id="logo" src="logo.gif" width="740" height="231" alt="Justin Cener Designs Logo 2008" /> <ul id="nav"> <li id="home"><a href="index.htm">Home</a></li> <li id="about"><a href="about.htm">About</a></li> <li id="services"><a href="services.htm">Services</a></li> <li id="portfolio"><a href="portfolio.htm">Portfolio</a></li> <li id="contact"><a href="contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div>...............other code follows The above is then repeated for each button and again for each hover state. The problem seems to be in the first part of code. In FF, the buttons make up a full navigation bar and are flush next to each other. This is the way I want it to come out. Then, in IE 7, there are 2 huge differences. 1) The whole Navigation starts on the right of the header logo. 2) Each button drops down maybe 3-5 px from the next (see picture attached) I don't understand why it is like this? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks! Sorry, screen caps don't work here. I dont understand what I am missing, the menu is suppose to be a drop down menu (and suppose to be horizontal, but i havent got that far yet) but its not dropping, its displaying everything? I would appreciate any help on making it work correctly, thanks much! -Sean nav_style.css file: Code: body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#nav {
width: 200px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
}
#nav ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#nav li {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ed9f9f;
}
#nav li a:link, #nav li a:visited {
display: block;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 0.5em;
border-left: 12px solid #711515;
border-right: 1px solid #711515;
background-color: #b51031;
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
#nav li a:hover {
background-color: #711515;
color: #ffffff;
}
#nav ul ul {
margin-left; 12px;
}
#nav ul ul li {
border-bottom: 1px solid #711515;
color: #ffffff;
}
#nav ul ul a:link, #nav ul ul a:visited {
background-color: #ed9f9f;
color: #711515;
}
#nav ul ul a:hover {
background-color: #711515;
color: #ffffff;
}
and here is the head_nav.php file: Code: <?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?> <!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>?</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css_inc/nav_style.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="nav"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Services</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Cinematography</a></li> <li><a href="#">Photography</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Video</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Demo Reel</a></li> <li><a href="#">Music Video</a></li> <li><a href="#">Commercial</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Photo Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">About Valliant</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Biography</a></li> <li><a href="#">Resume</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Links</a></li> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html> Hi there, I'm haing a problem getting my navigation to appear correctly in Mac IE 5.2 and Safari 2.0.1. The dates on the right are supposed to pop you down to the date in the central box. It works correctly on a PC, all browsers. I replaced NAME with ID. Thanks for any help or suggestions! http://www.cofc.edu/~finchj/timeline_not_template.html http://www.cofc.edu/~finchj/style_timeline.css Jannette I'm trying to create a tiered vertical navigation menu and I'm nearly there. Everything works correctly in FF but in IE the background-position property on the current menu item fails to position the bullet image. Removing the property displays it but at the margin which is set to 0px. I'm not that savvy with CSS so if there's a better approach to this I'm open to suggestions. Thanks for your help! Open in FF to see how it's supposed to work: Open in IE to see problem. Here's the HTML Code:
<div id="Menu">
<div id="nav_header">
<div id="text">
Admissions & Financial Aid
</div>
</div>
<ul id="nav_level_1">
<li id="submenu"><a href="../index.php">Applying to Union</a></li>
<ul id="nav_level_2">
<li id="nav_active"><a href="index.php">Types of Admission</a></li>
<ul id="nav_level_3">
<li><a href="Transfer.php">Transferring to Union</a></li>
<li><a href="Early.php">Early Decission</a></li>
<li><a href="Regular.php">Regular</a></li>
<li><a href="international.php">International Admission</a></li>
<li><a href="aop_heop.php">AOP/HEOP</a></li>
<li><a href="Medical.php">Eight-year Medical</a></li>
<li><a href="Law.php">Six-year Law</a></li>
<li><a href="MBA.php">Five-year MBA</a></li>
<li style="line-height:0px;font-size:0px;">*</li>
</ul>
<li><a href="../Applications.php">Apply Online</a></li>
<li><a href="../Forms/index.php">Download Application Materials</a></li>
<li style="line-height:0px;font-size:0px;">*</li>
</ul>
<li><a href="../../FAQs/index.php">Have a Question?</a></li>
<li><a href="../../Financial_Aid/index.php">Financial Aid</a></li>
<li><a href="../../Events/index.php">Events/Programs & Visiting</a></li>
<li><a href="../../interviews.php">Interviews</a></li>
<li><a href="../../PerfectSchool/index.php">Tips for College Search</a></li>
<li><a href="../../About/index.php">Admissions Staff</a></li>
<li><a href="../../AlumniAdmissions/index.php"></a></li>
<li><a href="../../Media/index.php"></a></li>
<li><a href="/union/admissions/Viewbook/index"></a></li>
<li><a href="/union/admissions/Alumni/index"></a></li>
<li><a href="../../sample.php"></a></li>
<li style="line-height:0px;font-size:0px;">*</li>
</ul>
</div>
Here is the pertinent CSS Code:
/* Style for three levels of unordered lists */
#Menu #nav_level_1 {
list-style-type:none;
width: 200px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
background-color: #d2c6aa;
line-height:17px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
#nav_level_2 {
list-style-type:none;
width: 200px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
background-color:#ded4bc;
line-height:17px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
#nav_level_3 {
list-style-type:none;
width: 200px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
background-color:#e5dece;
line-height:17px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
/* End unordered list base styles */
/* To get indented, wrapping, text that's cross browser compatible
we need to additionally style the unordered lists and line items under each top <ul>
*/
#nav_level_1 li {
margin-left:20px;
}
#nav_level_1 li ul {
margin-left:-20px;
}
#nav_level_2 li {
margin-left: 40px;
}
#nav_level_2 li ul {
margin-left:-40px;
}
#nav_level_3 li {
margin-left:60px;
}
#nav_level_1 #nav_active {
background-image: url(http://waterfall.union.edu/images/navigation/nav_current.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 4px;
background-color: #f2ede1;
margin-left:0px;
padding-left: 20px;
}
#nav_level_2 #nav_active {
background-image: url(http://waterfall.union.edu/images/navigation/nav_current.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 24px;
background-color: #f2ede1;
margin-left:0px;
padding-left: 40px;
}
#nav_level_3 #nav_active {
background-image: url(http://waterfall.union.edu/images/navigation/nav_current.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 44px;
background-color: #f2ede1;
margin-left:0px;
padding-left: 60px;
}
#Menu #submenu {
list-style-type: circle;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
background-color:#d2c6aa;
line-height:17px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
#submenu2 {
list-style-type:circle;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
background-color:#ded4bc;
line-height:17px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
I'm not sure if we are allowed to post urls here or not, didn't see anything against it but I'm sure someone will inform me if we can or can't. Anyways I'm having problems getting the "current" class to work for the active page. I want the current page to use the rollover id. This is a code snippet that should be enough to figure out how I am doing my navigation. I am using a single image and shifting it depending on the state it's in. CSS Code: Original - CSS Code .nav1 {float:left; position:relative;display:block;} .nav1 li {margin:0px; padding:0px; display:inline;} .nav1 li a {height:30px; float:left; list-style:none;} a span { position: absolute; left: -999em; }/*This hides span text for when CSS is supported*/ #home a{ float:left; background-image: url(images/nav_main_1.png); display: block; height: 30px; width: 132px; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px -31px; } } #home a:hover, a.current{ background-image: url(images/nav_main_1.png); background-position: 0px 0px; } #news a{ float:left; background-image: url(images/nav_main_2.png); display: block; height: 30px; width: 131px; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px -31px; } #news a:hover, a.current { background-image: url(images/nav_main_2.png); background-position: 0px 0px; }
.nav1 {float:left; position:relative;display:block;}
html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <ul class="nav1"> <li id="home" class="current"><a href="#"><span>Home</span></a></li> <li id="news"><a href="#"><span>News</span></a></li> </ul> <ul class="nav1"> Any help is greatly appreciated, I would imagine I am missing something simple. 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! I have this: Code: img.decor{
text-decoration:none;
border:#CCCCCC thin solid;
padding: 4px;
}
My HTML: Code: <a href="google.com"><img class="decor" src="images/birds.jpg" /></a> when I hover over the image "decor" in my CSS, I would like the whole image to turn grey. I tried this: Code: img.decor a:hover{background-color:#CCCCCC;}
but it doesn't work. Any ideas?? I just start learning CSS. thanks I'm using external style sheets on a couple of sites, and have the following problem: When I click and drag down over the text, to copy & paste it into an email or whatever, all the text on that page is automatically highlighted .... I can't control the drag / selection, it's all or nothing. When I click and drag upwards, nothing happens at all ... it won't work. Any way to solve this? I don't get this problem with internal style sheets. Andy My problem is getting very frustrating been trying to fix it for ages, and its probably something simple but if i dont fix it soon my laptops going to find a river very quickly. I have a site using CSS(duh!) and when i highlight over a link on the site some of my text moves around. then when i highlight over my javascript drop down menu it moves back. its very strange. heres the link to one of the worse pages for jumping. http://zephyr-wgtn.co.nz/newsite/eventS.aspx Any help much appreciated. Regards Dan Hi folks. Long time lurker, first time poster. I've got some navigational menus that look great and work well in Firefox and Opera, but there are some odd issues in Internet Explorer. (I'm currently testing with IE7, but am fairly certain the same problems occur on IE6.) Interesting. The system won't let me put the URL in my post as I'm a new user, but this works... The URL for my test page is at a machine named www in the domain bobramstad.com and has the filename menu.html Just run that all together and you'll find the page OK. I'd cut and paste it here but I use a lot of whitespace and the file is kind of long, easier to hit the URL and view source it. For some unknown reason, under IE7, when I highlight any of the entries on the left which have submenus, the formatting of the main entry jumps around. It's odd. I have my own theories as to why this is happening, but frankly, none of them have panned out, or at least, I'm not sophisticated enough to hit on the right solution. FWIW, the current version of our home page uses an older mix of javascript and CSS which is not compatible with Safari or Opera and is also a bit clunky. Strangely, however, it looks fine in Firefox and IE, which might provide some clues as to what I'm doing wrong. I've been looking at this literally for three weeks, on and off, and have made some strides... the last problem is main menu jumping around when hover occurs... Any and all help gratefully received! -- Bob how can I highlight the link which I am currently viewing? Hi guys, just want to ask for help and if this is possible? I have a textlink inside of a row ,and I want to highlight the row color when mouseovers on that row or textlink. (maybe row color white will change to gray.) pls help. thanks in advance ok, so after i click a link it goes to the css visited link. .menu_1a a:link {color:#666666; text-decoration: none;} .menu_1a a:hover {Background: #666666; color:white;} .menu_1a a:visited {color:#666666; text-decoratoin: none;} is my code. after i have clicked a link and i hover over the link again the background color is #666666 and the color is #6666666. i need the visited link to have the same exact thing as the original link any ideas? -kevin How do you get the input text areas and selections to highlight or glow once active? For examples, visit Zappos.com or Amazon.com - when you click in the text fields to login it sort of glows. |
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