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CSS - Centred Horizontal List Problem
Hi,
I have been developing my own website for some time now, and have asked a lot of questions, and checked other CSS resources to do a horizontal list. I have managed to create a horizontal list and it looks very good in my website. However I wish to improve this. At the moment I have to give a width for each element in my list. This means that if I have 5 elements in my list then I set the following CSS property in the ul li as follows: Code: div#header ul li {
width: 20%;
padding: 0px;
}
If the elements become four then I would set the width equals to 25% and so on. I would like to change this so that the list will still appear the same without me having to set the width. This would mean I do not need to change the CSS file each time I add a new element in my list. My list is inside a div tag. I would like to have the elements inside that list extend through the whole space of the div. I have checked other websites to see the examples they give, however they all seem to only provide an example with a width. Is this possible? Or I have to always set the width of the li element? I am sorry if I am not clear enough. Thanks for any suggestions. Regards, Sim085 Similar TutorialsHeya! I am really new to html - creating my first website for uni course now. My problem is with the menu I have created - it's basically 5 div's with list within list in them. so that the deeper list is a sub-menu, displaying on hover on the first one. The problem appears only in IE9 compatibility view, it works in IE9,8,7,firefox and chrome. this is the html: <div id="ourproject"> <ul> <li>OUR<br> PROJECT <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Project Overview</a></li> <li><a href="Introduction.html">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="participants.html">Participants</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> and my css: #ourproject ul { position:relative; color: #FFF; text-decoration: none; width: 102px; top:0px; left:0px; height:86px; list-style:none; float:left; padding-left:20px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #FFF; } #ourproject ul:hover { color:#FF9900; border-left-color: #F90; padding-left:20px; } #ourproject ul ul { position:relative; visibility:hidden; z-index:2000; background-color:#0E1221; font-size: 12px; width: 602px; display: inline-block; height: 45px; float: left; top:25px; left:-23px; } #ourproject ul li { display: inline-block; margin-right:30px; height: 25px; float: left; margin-top:4px; width: 125px; } #ourproject ul:hover ul { visibility:visible; } #ourproject ul ul li{ width:80px; padding: 0; text-align:left; } In IE9 compatibility view, the menu is distorted. I have tried playing with widths of the #ourproject ul, changed it to 50px and turned on overflow:hidden. It made the other divs jump in, but there is a weird blank space bwteen where the div is cut off bu overflow, and the place where next one starts. I have tried to put in links with photos, but forum does not allow me to. please if someone can help me, i will send them on e-mail or pm, if needed. I hope to get some answer soon! Please ask any more question if you need to- i will be happy to answer. Thanks in advance. hey out there, 1st post so here goes: i've been designing our new website in css. it looks great in the following browsers: pc: ie6, ns7, firefox 1, mozilla 1 and above and opera 7.5 and above. mac: ns7, firefox 1, mozilla 1 and even safari. however, the centre layout totally breaks in ie 5.2 on a mac and i cant find out why. it's centring the content horizontally but not virtically. i *think* it's got something to do with static and relative positioning and the mac ie seems to be ignoring it. is there a hack i'm missing? this is the site: http://62.49.5.36:8181/28design/index.asp (ignore the black outlines on the divs, this is pury so you can see each div) and this is the main css that controls the centred layout and the navigation: /* controls for centering the page */ #centreTable { width: 100%; height: 100%; } #centreTable td { vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; } #containerDiv { position: relative; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 750px; height: 400px; z-index:1 } #containerBckDiv { position: absolute; background-image: url(../images/28bck.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; position: relative; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 750px; height: 400px; } /* end */ /* controls for the main website areas */ #navDiv { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 340px; height: 40px; } /* the discTxtDiv needs styling but gets it's ID name from the rs*/ .discTxtDiv { position: absolute; top: 40px; left: 0px; width: 340px; height: 80px; visibility: hidden; } #subNavTxtDiv { position: absolute; top: 120px; left: 0px; width: 170px; height: 40px; } #subNavDiv { position: absolute; top: 120px; left: 170px; width: 170px; height: 40px; } #jobTitleDiv { position: absolute; top: 160px; left: 0px; width: 170px; } #jobInfoDiv { position: absolute; top: 160px; left: 170px; width: 170px; } #contactDiv { position: absolute; top: 265px; left: 0px; width: 117px; height: 85px; } #imageDiv { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 350px; width: 400px; height: 400px; } /* end */ as always, any suggestions are grand, cheers, jake This is sort of an addendum to my earlier post on CSS, but with a new problem, now the problem is with IE. I am trying to get the SuckerFish drop downs to work and have been successful in Firefox, but IE is giving me problems. The best thing to do is look at it in action: http://www.forma3.com/stuff/css/index-v1.2.html http://www.forma3.com/stuff/css/css/index-v1.2.css I am guessing it is related to the parent child relationship in IE, namely the drop down is adopting the style (float: left) that is set for the horizontal menu. I had to put in an underscore for the "#nav li" since it was causing problems in Mozilla. Unfortunately, this causes a validation error. I've been fighting with this for a good couple of days here so I figure it's time to come ask people who might have a better idea than I do. I've been trying to get this list to display on a horizontal bar. It's not a navigation bar that's an integral part of the site's layout, just an unordered list that I need to have go across a line instead of down. I got the code from a site that does pre made menus because I'm still new to all of this so, you know, blah life story. Ha. My HTML looks like this: Code: <li><a href="#url">2005<!--[if gte IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
<ul class="sub pos1">
<li><a class="sub2" href="#">August<!--[if gte IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
<div class="border b1"></div>
<div class="base div1">
<h4>August 2005</h4>
<p>August 29</p>
<p>New school division office will be in Weyburn</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#url">Section 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#url">Section 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#url">Section 3</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<!--[if lte IE 6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]-->
</li>
and I'm still not really sure what part of the code is the CSS affecting this but I think? it's this: Code: #verticalNav :hover ul.toplevel :hover ul.sub :hover div.base ul {float:left; padding:0; margin:0; list-style:none; width:200px;}
#verticalNav :hover ul.toplevel :hover ul.sub :hover div.base ul li {display:block; float:left; width:150px; height:auto; padding:0; margin:0;}
#verticalNav :hover ul.toplevel :hover ul.sub :hover div.base ul li a {width:190px; padding-left:10px; background:#fff url(vertical-list/dot.gif) no-repeat left center; color:#000; border:0; margin:0; height:auto; line-height:18px;}
#verticalNav :hover ul.toplevel :hover ul.sub :hover div.base ul li a:hover {color:#069;}
Is there a way to over ride this code so I can put the list on a single line? I'm staring at the emoticon bashing its head against a wall and it seems pretty accurate at this point. Hi, I'm trying to make a horizontal list using li tags. I got the text to align horizontally but the bullet icons I want to use (or even when I try with the default bullets) don't appear. Can anyone help me out with this? Here's the code : Code:
#onlineToolsNav ul {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom : 0px;
margin-left : 5px;
padding: 0px;
line-height: 25px;
white-space: nowrap;
display : inline;
}
#onlineToolsNav li {
display: inline;
list-style-image: url(onlineArrow.jpg);
list-style: url(onlineArrow.jpg);
}
#onlineToolsNav li:before {
content: url(onlineArrow.jpg);
}
#onlineToolsNav li.first:before {
content: " ";
}
<div id="onlineToolsNav">
<ul>
<li><a href="link1.html">link1</a></li>
<li><a href="link2.html">link2</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.html">link3</a></li>
<li><a href="link4.html">link4</a></li>
<li><a href="link5.html">link5</a></li>
<li><a href="link6.html">link6</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Thanx Olografix I think I have the basics down to making my ul navigation list display as a nav bar. The rules I am using are
Code:
div#navigation
{
background: #7799aa;
color: #ffffff;
margin: 4px 0 0 0;
}
div#navigation ul { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 8px; }
div#navigation ul li { margin-right: 50px; width: 200px; display: inline; }
div#navigation ul li a { color: #ffffff; width: 400px; }
div#navigation ul li a:hover { background: #255599; }
and the corresponding html Code:
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li><a href="/" title="The Company">Company</a></li>
<li><a href="/" title="Our Solutions">Projects</a></li>
<li><a href="/" title="What We Do">Services</a></li>
<li><a href="/" title="Contact Us">Contact</a></li>
<li class="last"><a href="/" title="What people are saying">Testimonials</a></li>
</ul>
</div> <!-- navigation -->
Now, the problem is that I am trying to make the links seem like "buttons" or blocks. I cannot get them to a) have a width; or b) expand to the width of the list item (which I cannot give a specified width to either). I am still working with the design in firefox so I haven't ventured into getting it to work in IE. The XHTML is completely valid as is the rest of the stylesheet. I can post more if necessary, but does anyone have a bone? Hi ppl I'm trying to figure out how to do the following list, with CSS Is there any way that the boxes can accomodate themselves based on the width of their container's space? I mean, if the width of the site is reduced, maybe some box from the 1st row will go down, and so... Thanks I'm making a horizontal navigation menu using lists and CSS. It looks fine in IE, but in Mozilla, the double border on the bottom appears just beneath the top one, and the next line shows up after the unordered list. Hard to explain - you'd basically have to check it out for yourself: http://www.michaelaparicio.com/ Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. Regards, Mike Aparicio Hi, I have a site with a horizontal menu bar that has a submenu that pops up with the top menu is hovered over. I've got everything working fine, except for one little thing; in Firefox the submenu is vertically aligned instead of horizontally. For once IE has gotten it right (or at least the way I want it) by positioning the sub menu horizontally. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the sub menu to flow horizontally in FF. I've tried display: inline and float: left and all kinds of things but nothing seems to affect it. My site is here http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rollhock/new/index3.php And the css file http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rollhock/new/includes/style.css If anyone is able to help I will be eternally grateful! Thanks Is there any way to add a horizontal scrollbar to a SELECT listbox that works in both Mozilla and IE? I have a mutiple-select enabled box with about 50 items, only displaying 10 rows, and some of the rows are really wide because the text is very lengthy. I'd like to add a horizontal scrollbar to the SELECT box in addition to the vertical scrollbar. Here's what I've tried - I'm running Windows XP and testing with Firefox 1.0 and IE 6.0.2. a) Adding various overflow styles, like overflow:scroll and overflow-x:scroll. None of these cause the horizontal scrollbar to show up. b) Adding the mozilla "-moz-scrollbars-horizontal" style, which doesn't add it even in Mozilla. c) Surrounding the SELECT inside a DIV tag, with scrollbars. This works, and IE is even smart enough to remove the vertical scrollbars on the SELECT listbox if I make it tall enough to show all choices at once. However, in Mozilla, the vertical scrollbar stays visible even when it's not needed. So in this case I end up with two vertical scrollbars - one for the SELECT and one for the DIV. I tried various things to disable the Mozilla vertical scrollbar but that didn't work either. So basically I'm looking for a way to either: a) Add a horizontal scrollbar to a SELECT that works in both browsers. b) Or, a way to disable the vertical scrollbar in the SELECT object in Mozilla Firefox, so that I can use the DIV trick. Any clues? Is there any way to have horizontal list items automatically fill any given width? for example, If I have 5 list items, I can set each width to 20% and the list will fill the width of the container, but if I don't set a width, then they collapse to the left. the behavior I'm after is like a table. The 'old' way to create a horizontal list would be to create a table with one row and 5 cols. Setting the width of the table to 100% would make each cell 20% automatically. Any way to accomplish this in css without explicitly setting the width? Let 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> I've got the standard <ul><li> horizontal menu, but each menu item has a space between it. I've tried wrapping the entire menu in a div with a background color, but so far I've had no luck. Can I change the CSS to not have padding between? also, why does a styled <hr> not appear in Firefox? Thanks for the help! Here is what I have in the code. css Code:
#navcontainer ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
#navcontainer ul li {
display: inline;
}
#navcontainer ul li a
{
text-decoration: none;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
#navcontainer ul li a:hover
{
color: #C0C0C0;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
html Code:
<div id="navcontainer">
<hr />
<ul>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Home</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Products and Services</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Employment</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Blah</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Home</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 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. Hello, I'm trying to create an list menu like the one in attached image and I have 2 problems. 1. In IE 6,IE 7 the list is ordered verticaly and not horizontaly (in Opera and FF it is ok) 2. I need to align the text on the bottom of the list like inattached image. Here is what I manage to do till now : http://www.sibiul.net/test/list-align.php Anyone knows what I must do ? 10x I have the following list that I want displayed horizontally. I chose to do it with display:inline instead of float:left as that seemed to be the only way to get it to center on the page: http://www.jimandkris.com/listtest.html However, now I can't figure out how to get those submenus to align under their respective parent. Hopefully this is an easy one, any suggestions? Hi Everyone, I'm new to the forum and somewhat new to CSS. I am developing a simple webpage that has a horizontal unordered list serving as a navigation bar. Firefox adds what looks like about 20px of extra space above and below the entire list while internet explorer shows it aligned top left. Eventually I would like to center the unordered list top and bottom, but I can't seem to get any alignment formatting to work at all. Here is the problem code: Code: <div id="navbox">
<ul id="navbar">
<li><a href="index.html">HOME</a></li>
<li><a href="http://showrooms.canadatrader.com/7010/7622">INVENTORY</a></li>
<li><a href="formapp.html">APPLY NOW</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:rjtria@gmail.com">EMAIL ME</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
And the corresponding CSS: Code: #navbox {
background-color: #B1C5D0;
height: 50px;
width: 760px;
overflow: visible;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-color: #333;
border-right-color: #333;
border-bottom-color: #333;
border-left-color: #333;
color: #036;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 130%;
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
line-height: normal;
}
#navbar li {
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: dotted;
border-right-style: dotted;
border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-left-style: dotted;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}
I know it's not much.. but it's making me crazy. I have tried zeroing out all padding / margins to no avail... Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance! Celeste I have a simple query, and don't know if this can be done. I have a <div> layer, which is centred on the page, and I am trying to get another <div> within that to be centred as well. I have a sample page on http://jimpix.co.uk/002.htm which shows that this doesn't work. This is my code: ######################################### <html> <head> <style> body { text-align: center; } div#container { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 50%; text-align: left; border:10px solid pink; } div#container2 { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 50%; text-align: left; border:10px solid red; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="container2">test</div> </div> </body> </html> ###################################### I thought that the 2nd div, would sit centred in the middle of the first one. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong, or if there is a way this can be done? Thanks Jim Hi All, I have a new site and it has a bug that I don't know how to fix. The navigation and sub navigation is done with a list that is styled with CSS to be horizontal. I am not an expert at this, but learned it from a site, but unfortunately can't remember where The thing is, the site works most of the time. But when pages load slow, sometimes the list gets displayed as a normal vertical list and the entire "look" of the navigation is ruined. I'm sure I've done something wrong, but I don't know what. Are there any CSS experts here who can set me straight? The site is http://www.thehousebreakingbible.com/training/index.htm Thanks for your time, Dana |
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