CSS - Creating A Expanding Menu With Css

I'm trying to create a menu using 'list' but so far without much success :-(

Problems?

Not displaying horizontally in browser.

Can't center text in box.

Adding 'padding' didn't work.

Any help would be much appreciated,

Mike

P.S. Please ignore the colors ;-)

//paste.pocoo.org/show/207718/

Please add http to the above - I'm not yet allowed to ..

I have a menu where the submenu li's have a blue/darker blue background color and hover color.

I have one set of submenu items where I would like to change the background and hover colors for that set only, but haven't been successful in writing the second set of code, the original colors still show up

Here's the part of my styles for the list that I'm trying to change..
Code:

/* original backgrounds for the menu */
ul.menu li ul li a {
  background: #ccc;
  color: #000;
  padding-left: 20px;
}

ul.menu li ul li a:hover {
  background: #aaa;
  border-left: 5px #000 solid;
  padding-left: 15px;
}

Is it the way I tried to rename the style?
Code:

/* change backgrounds to shades of green for one sub menu */
.green ul.menu li ul li a {
  background: #afe4bf;
  color: #000;
  padding-left: 20px;
}

.green ul.menu li ul li a:hover {
  background: #88b796;
  border-left: 5px #000 solid;
  padding-left: 15px;
}

thanks in advance for any help, Kathy

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a horizontal menu in CSS and each link has a background image. So I need an image to start the menu, the images for the buttons in the middle, and an image for the end of the menu.

Code:

	#topnav1 {
	position: absolute;
	height: 18px;
	top: 43px;
	left: 300px;
	font-weight: bold;
	}
	#topnav1 ul {
	margin:0; padding: 0;
	width: 420px;
	height: 18px;
	display: inline;
	}
	#topnav1 #first li {
	list-style-type: none;
	display: inline;
	background-image:  url(../images/topnav1_1_bg.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
 	background-position: bottom left;
	padding-left: 40px;
	padding-bottom: 4px;
	}
	#topnav1 li {
	display: inline;
	background-image:  url(../images/topnav1_2_bg.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
 	background-position: bottom left;
	padding-left: 34px;
	padding-bottom: 4px;
	}
	#topnav1 #last li {
	display: inline;
	background-image:  url(../images/topnav1_3_bg.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
 	background-position: bottom right;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 4px;
	}

First: It seems that as soon as I apply the 'display: inline; code to the 'li' tags, the browser completely ignores the height, width, and padding settings that I put on there. So the background image isn't being displayed properly.

Second: I want to align the menu to the right of the page - how can I do this?

Cheers!

Hello,

I started off trying to find a content box that expands depending on screen res because the last one I made would break in the middle if the users screen res was over 1600px wide.

This box worked great with the screen res but now I'm trying to put content in it and my content is not expanding the box down. Instead of pushing the box lower and forcing a scroll bar. The content keeps going down past the bottom of the box and makes a scroll bar.

Any idea how I can make the box expand with my content?

here is a link to my test page. http://www.gamerunion.com/test.html

My css code.

Code:

div#case {
position:absolute;
z-index:1;
top:200px;
left:50px;
bottom:50px;
right:50px;
background:url(/assets/images/tile.png) repeat;
}
div#tlcorner span, div#trcorner span, div#blcorner span, div#brcorner span, div#lftile span, div#rttile span, div#tptile span, div#btmtile span {
width:0;
height:0;
overflow:hidden;
display:block;
}
div#tlcorner {
position:absolute;
z-index:10;
top:0;
left:0;
background:url(/assets/images/corners.png) -369px 0 no-repeat;
width:123px;
height:123px;
}
div#trcorner {
position:absolute;
z-index:10;
top:0;
right:0;
background:url(/assets/images/corners.png) -246px 0 no-repeat;
width:123px;
height:123px;
}
div#blcorner {
position:absolute;
z-index:10;
bottom:0;
left:0;
background:url(/assets/images/corners.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
width:123px;
height:123px;
}
div#brcorner {
position:absolute;
z-index:10;
bottom:0;
right:0;
background:url(/assets/images/corners.png) -123px 0 no-repeat;
width:123px;
height:123px;
}
div#lftile {
position:absolute;
z-index:5;
top:0;
left:0;
bottom:0;
background:url(/assets/images/lr.png) -20px 0 repeat-y;
width:20px;
}
div#rttile {
position:absolute;
z-index:5;
top:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
background:url(/assets/images/lr.png) 0 0 repeat-y;
width:20px;
}
div#tptile {
position:absolute;
z-index:5;
top:0;
right:0;
left:0;
background:url(/assets/images/tb.png) 0 0 repeat-x;
height:123px;
}
div#btmtile {
position:absolute;
z-index:5;
bottom:0;
right:0;
left:0;
background:url(/assets/images/tb.png) 0 -123px repeat-x;
height:123px;
}
div#case div.content {
position:absolute;
z-index:10;
width:100%;
min-height:400px;
overflow:hidden;
}
div#case div.content h1 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, sans-serif, Arial;
font-size:16px;
color:#000000;
margin:5px 0;
padding:100px 0 0 100px;
text-align:left;
text-transform:capitalize;
}
div#case div.content p {
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, sans-serif, Arial;
font-size:14px;
color:#000000;
text-align:justify;
padding:0 100px;
}

HTML

Code:

<body>
<div id="header">
<h1 class="small">GamerUnion</h1>
<h2 class="small">For Gaming Addicts by Gaming Addicts.</h2>
</div>
<div id="case">
    <div id="tlcorner"><span>top left corner</span></div>
    <div id="trcorner"><span>top right corner</span></div>
    <div id="blcorner"><span>bottom left corner</span></div>
    <div id="brcorner"><span>bottom right corner</span></div>
    <div id="tptile"><span>top side tile</span></div>
    <div id="lftile"><span>left side tile</span></div>
    <div id="rttile"><span>right side tile</span></div>
    <div id="btmtile"><span>bottom side tile</span></div>
    <div class="content">
    <div id="nav">
		<ul>
			<li><a href="/" class="current">Home</a></li>
			<li><a href="/about.html">About</a></li>
			<li><a href="/forum/">Forum</a></li>
			<li><a href="/resources.html">Resources</a></li>
			<li><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a></li>
		</ul> 
	</div>
        
        <h1>Gamerunion</h1>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
        <p>Text text text text</p>
               
    </div>
</div>
</body>

Hello.

Trying to construct a page with vertical expansion on both of two nested DIVs. Left column is primarily text which varies in length. Right column is a navigation/contact panel that is mostly fixed height, but want ability to drop in objects and expand vertically on some pages.

I have tried to background image in container DIV, but I am still getting the content breaking out of the bottom of the DIV. Any other approaches? Min-height (could not get that to work either). Ideally I would like for these to have the same height. Not shading, so it doesn't need to be exact.

Here's a sample of code (w/o all the junk).

I have started creating a new DIV layout for my website but can't seem to get it to function correctly. I finally got the DIVs to expand with whatever content is in them, but now they will only span to the height of the window and hide the rest of the content instead of expanding further and just making the IE window scroll. Maybe one of you guys can help me out? Here is the test page:

well apparently I can't post the url, so I guess I'll just "say" it.

juicyart dot net / test.html

Hi there

I have a container DIV that nests 4 DIVs one on top of the next (logo, navigation, content and footer, all the same widths).

If there is a single paragraph (or small amount) of text in the content DIV of the page, the page looks fine.

However, if there is a large amount of text in the content DIV of the page, the width gets pushed out slightly. IE5 is fine. Firefox and Opera are the problem.

Note: I have left the height of the content DIV blank as it will be of varied size. When I set a height of say, 500px, the page looks fine (but because a background colour is needed for the DIV, it doesn't appear as I intended it to).

Any ideas to why this is happening?

Thanks in advance :-)

-Solange.

Hey guys,

I've got a two column layout, and I want both columns to be the same height inside the wrapper. Ussually when I do this sort of thing I have a repeating background image or something so it makes it appear they are both the same height, except this template is using rounded corners, so a repeating background won't work.

Code:

#wrapper{
	width:962px;
	margin: 25px auto;
}
#mainContent{
	width:735px;
	background-color: #F4FEFE;
	padding:0px;
	border:0px;
	float:left;
}
#rightColumn{
	background-color: #F4FEFE;
	width:207px;
	height:100%;
	min-height:100%;
	float:left;
	margin-left:20px;
}

Click here to see what I'm talking about... I want that right column to match the height of the main content div.

Would this only be possible using JavaScript or is there a CSS solution?

ive been at this for a while now. i have a navleft.gif, navbody.gif, and navright.gif.

what i want to do is make an expandable nav bar with the body repeating on the x axis. every attempt ive made doesnt work. im still fairly new to css.

should i have a <div id="nav"> and within this div put a another div with id=navleft and another with navright? no idea how to go about this. any help would be appreciated.

I think that this is something really basic but I just haven't been able to put my finger on the problem. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

In IE 6 the cell background (as defined in CSS) or the table cell size is not correct, but it looks fine in FF.

The test page is: http://www.kdays.com/box/kerrin.htm

Hi all,

I have a site where I have several divs that stack on top of each other for layout purposes and they fill the entire width of the screen.

In the div that contains the content, I'm finding a rare case where a table appears that's so wide, it is off the edge of the content element.

I wanted to do overflow:auto so that it wouldn't mess up the layout but the customer wants the layout to expand with the content.

Since all these divs sit on top of each, they aren't really interacting with the div that has the content in it. Is the only way to make those expand to use JavaScript to detect the width and adjust on the fly or is there a better way to do it?

I'll be happy to supply some code if you all need me to but its a lot so I'll hold off on that for now.

Hi, I am trying to make a website for a friend that scales to fit most monitors. The website is very image heavy and I have a navigation bar on the left side that lines up with the background on the right. I haven't made a webpage for awhile so I don't know a lot about CSS.

This is what I have so far. It almost works, but the background on the right will not expand to fit the full div, only goes up to the content that I put inside the Div. The background also doesn't appear to shrink when I scale the window size.

HTML CODE:
Code:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"/>

<title>Test Page</title>
</head>

<body>

<div id="sample-container" align="center">


<div id="header"> <img src="images/header.jpg" width="1647" height="147" / id="headerbar"></div>

<div id="nav"> <img src="images/navbar.jpg" width="413" height="776" / id="navbar"></div>

<div id="content"> <img src="../../../Pictures/Misc/101_0138.JPG" width="527" height="428" />
</div>

<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS CODE:
Code:

#header
{
	height: auto;
	background-color: #666;
}
#nav
{
	float: left;
	width: 25%;
	height: auto;
	background-color: #999;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#content
{
	float: left;
	width: 75%;
	height: auto;
	background: url(images/mountain.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#footer
{
	clear: both;
	height: 50px;
	background-color: #666;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#headerbar
{
	height:auto;
	width:100%;
}
#navbar
{
	height:auto;
	width:100%;
}

If anyone knows a way to expand the background to fill the div and scale down when the div scales is size, that would be great.
I was also thinking that maybe I could put the the navigation bar and the background image on the page and not as an background. Put those both in a div and have a floating div on the right aligned over the top of the background that contains the page content. If anyone could give any help with a solution it would be appreciated. Thanks.

going bonkers, I have tried everything to find out why on earth the background goes all the way to the right when this page is viewed in IE..

Black Background Not Stoping!!

You can see the problem he

BrianRoyer.com

The google adsense ad is expanding past the container.

Here is my style.css for troubleshooting:

Code:

html, body {
	background: #a0a0a0 url(images/main_bg.gif) center top repeat-x;
	height: 100%;
  margin-top: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	height: 100%;
}

a:link {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

a:visited {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

a:hover {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:active {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#container {
	width: 703px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	background: #068add url('images/content_bg.gif');
	border-left: 5px solid #cdcdcd;
	border-right: 5px solid #cdcdcd;
	border-bottom: 5px solid #cdcdcd;
}

#content em.u {
  text-decoration: underline;
	font-style: normal;
}

#top {
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
}

#top img {
	border: 0;
}

#top h1 {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}

#leftnav {
	float: left;
	width: 160px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: .25em 0 0 .75em;
}

#rightnav {
	float: right;
	width: 125px;
	margin: 0;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 1em 1em 0 0;
}

#rightnav img {
	margin: 0;
	border: 0;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 1em 0 0 0;
}

#content {
	margin-left: 200px;
	margin-right: 200px;
	padding: 1em 0 0 0;
	width: 290px;
}

#content img.left {
	margin: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	float: left;
}

#content img.right {
	margin: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	float: right;
}

#leftnav img {
	margin: 0;
	border: 0;
}

#google-search img {
	border: 0;
	padding: 1em;
}

#footer {
	width: 699px;
	padding-top: 1em;
	margin: 0 auto;
	background: #068add url(images/footer_bg.gif) center bottom repeat-x;
}

#leftnav p, #content p { 
	margin: 0 0 1em 0; 
	text-align: justify;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 12px;	
	line-height: 130%;
}

#rightnav p {
	margin: 0; 
	padding: 0;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;	
}

#leftnav hr, #content hr, #rightnav hr { 
	color: #FFFFFF;
	height: 1px;
}

#content h2 {  
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 12px;	
}

#content h2.center { 
  text-align: center;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 12px;	
}

#leftnav h2, #rightnav h2 {
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0; 
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 12px;	
}

#content h6, #leftnav h6, #rightnav h6  { 
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 1em;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 8px;
}

#navcontainer ul
{
	list-style-type: none;
	text-align: left;
	padding: 0 0 0 1.25em;
	margin: 0;
}

#navcontainer ul li a
{
	background: transparent url(images/list_off.gif) left center no-repeat;
	padding-left: 15px;
	text-align: left;
	font: normal 10px Verdana;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #FFF;
}

#navcontainer ul li a:hover
{
	background: transparent url(images/list_on.gif) left center no-repeat;
	color: black;
}

#navcontainer ul li a#current
{
	background: transparent url(images/list_active.gif) left center no-repeat;
	color: #666;
}

And here is snippet of code where the adsense ad is located:

Code:

    <div id="container">
      <div id="top">
        <? include("ssi/header.inc"); ?>
        </div>
      <div id="leftnav">
        <? include("ssi/leftnav.inc"); ?>
        </div>
      <div id="rightnav">
        <? include("ssi/rightnav.inc"); ?>
        </div>
      <div id="content">

ad = rightnav.inc

hi,

Im making a site, and i decided to use CSS instead of tables. I have used basic CSS before, but it gets abit harder when i start making boxes etc.

Here is my code so far -

layout.css - (one that gets included on each page)

Code:

@import "style.css";
	
body {
	margin:10px 10px 0px 10px;
	padding:0px;
}
	
#leftcontent {
	position: absolute;
	left:10px;
	top:50px;
	width:200px;
	background:#fff;
	border:1px solid #000;
}

#centercontent {
	
	background:#fff;
 		margin-left: 199px;
 		margin-right:199px;
	border:1px solid #000;		
	voice-family: "\"}\"";
	voice-family: inherit;
  	margin-left: 201px;
  	margin-right:201px;
}

#shoutbox {
	position: absolute;
	right:10px;
	top:50px;
	width:200px;
	background:#fff;
	border:1px solid #000;
}

#rightcontent {
	position: absolute;
	right:10px;
	top:50px;
	width:200px;
	background:#fff;
	border:1px solid #000;
}
	
#banner, #footer {
  background:#fff;
	height:40px;
	border-top:1px solid #000;
	border-left:1px solid #000;
	border-right:1px solid #000;
	voice-family: "\"}\"";
	voice-family: inherit;
	height:39px;
}

#footer {
  background:#fff;
	height:40px;
	border-bottom:1px solid #000;
	border-left:1px solid #000;
	border-right:1px solid #000;
	voice-family: "\"}\"";
	voice-family: inherit;
	height:39px;
}

#banner h1 {
	font-size:16px;
	padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;
	margin:0px;
}
	
#shoutbox, #rightcontent p {
	font-size:10px
}

style.css - text formatting etc.

Code:

body {
	font:	12px/1.2 Tahoma;
	background:#ddd;
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
}
	
a {
	text-decoration:none;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#c00;
}
	
pre {
	font-size:11px;
	color:blue;
}
	
ol {
	margin-right:40px;
}
li {
	margin-bottom:10px;
}

p,h1,pre {
	margin:0px 10px 10px 10px;
}
		
h1 {
	font-size:14px;
	padding-top:10px;
}

it produces a good layout, with a header, 3 coloums and a footer. whoever, the boxes expand at different rates and the footer doesnt move down. the header also doesnt expand. i know how i can fix this, but i dont know how to fix it without making it so that its locked at a resolution. i would like the site to exapand as the window is made larger.

here is an image of what i get -



and this is what i am aiming to acheive -



as you can see, i want all the boxes to be the same length, which is defined by the size of the largest box. also, i want to create 2 or more boxes on the left, only the bottom of which gets made longer. on the first image you cannot see the extra box because it is covered by the other one :-/

i would be greatful for any help you guys can provide me

thanks,

dynamyt