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CSS - List Item Width Issues
Hey everyone,
After doing some reprogramming of the site I was making I'm having troubles with lists. I can't set the width of the li or a so that the size takes shape. I can't figure out why, or how to do it. I know I've done it before but the code i used there just doesn't seem to want to work. The LI and A tags take the size of the text within. I've checked the resources I could find in the sticky and that kravitz gave me and they seem to be able to set width but it's just not working. here is my css Code:
#menu{
width:750px;
border:thin solid #000000;
}
#menu ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:750px;
display:inline;
}
#menu li{
width:150px;
display:inline;
border:thin solid #000000;
list-style-type:none;
background-color:#550210;
}
#menu a{
width:150px;
}
If I take out the display:inline the width takes shape but when I put it back in it resizes to the size of the text within. Similar TutorialsI've been struggling with this a bit. I would rather not use a container div for my lists, but it seems that it's not possible to assign the lists themselves a width. When I assign a width to the <ol> element, I lose the numbers under the margin on the left, which I can sort-of understand. If I assign a width to the <li> elements, it works fine in Firefox, but IE drops the number on the first <li> and changes the numbers on each following <li> to "1". 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? Hi I am creating a navigation bar using unsorted list and CSS. I have given my CSS and HTML code here Code: #navcontainer
{
width: 200px;
margin-top:150px;
}
#navcontainer ul#navlist
{
width:200px;
clear:left;
text-align:left;
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
list-style:none;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
line-height: 14px;
}
#navcontainer ul#navlist li
{
margin-left:0;
padding: 0px;
display: block;
list-style:none;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
}
#navcontainer ul#navlist li.last
{
border-right: 0;
background:none;
}
a.linkText {
padding: 10px;
display: block;
color : #444444;
font-family : arial;
font-size : 11px;
font-weight : bold;
text-decoration : none;
height:25px;
}
a.linkText:link {
color : Aqua;
/* you can define other styles if necessary */
}
a.linkText:visited {
color : Maroon;
/* you can define other styles if necessary */
}
a.linkText:hover {
color : Blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li><a class="linkText" href="#">Item One</a></li>
<li><a class="linkText" href="#">Item two</a></li>
<li><a class="linkText" href="#">Item three</a></li>
<li><a class="linkText" href="#">Item four</a></li>
<li><a class="linkText" href="#">Item five</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
The problem is, when I select the next list item, previously selected list item should come to the original color. Is there any way I can achieve this? Your guidence will be appreciated. Many thanks I have a list that I've created with the list-style-type being an image. For some reason, the space between the list-style-image and the list text differs in IE and Firefox. Has this happened to anyone else, or am I doing something incorrectly? Below is the code. The cell that these lists sit in has has an id of 'cellid'. Code:
#cellid {
margin: 0 0;
padding: 0 0;
}
#cellid ul {
margin: 10px 0 0 20px;
padding: 0 0;
}
#cellid li {
margin: 0 0;
padding: 0 0;
list-style-image: url(images/idxyellowlist.gif);
}
The ul has a margin of 20px on the left to line up with an element above it. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get around this space? Thanks, Brian I'm trying to use a simple background image to dress up my navigation tabs. When I set the <li> to a fixed with and height, both FF and IE ignore this; thus my graphic gets chopped off when the navigation tab is shorter than the graphic. I'm scratching my head and have tried just about everything. Here's How it is Presenting-Link to my Website Here's my css: Code: li.navbg {
width: 75px;
height: 20px;
display: inline;
margin-right: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-left: 7px;
padding-right: 5px;
background-image: url(/images/navbg.png);
background-attachment: scroll;
background-position: bottom center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
list-style: none;
background-color: #000;
}
My xhtml is a simple: Code: <li class="navbg">Navigation Title</li> My gratitude ahead of time! Please look at the bottom of this page in FF - http://certified.tmhdesign.com The li elements have a margin-left or the ul a padding left. Can someone help me out? Here is my css ul#hp_offers{ width:600px; margin:0 0 0 10px; border:1px solid #e0e0e0; } ul#hp_offers li{ padding:3px 5px 3px 25px; border-bottom:1px solid #e0e0e0; list-style:none; list-style-type:none; margin:0; } li.even{ background: #f1efef url(../images/offer_even_bullet.gif) no-repeat 10px 7px; } li.odd{ background: #e0e0e0 url(../images/offer_odd_bullet.gif) no-repeat 10px 7px; } Hi all, and thanks for reading. The following code looks fine in Firefox, but has huge spaces between the images in IE 6. CSS: Code:
#menu {float:left; width:157px; background-color:#FFFFFF;}
#menu IMG {display:block; margin:0; padding:0;}
#menu UL {list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0; background-color:#FFFFFF;}
#menu UL LI {margin:0; padding:0;}
HTML: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
...
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="../balloons/" title="Balloons"><img src="../images/menu-balloons.gif" alt="Balloons" width="157" height="37" border="0" /></a></li>
<li><a href="../centerpieces/" title="Centerpieces"><img src="../images/menu-centerpieces.gif" alt="Centerpieces" width="157" height="37" border="0" /></a></li>
<li><a href="../supplies/" title="Supplies"><img src="../images/menu-supplies.gif" alt="Suppliers" width="157" height="37" border="0" /></a></li>
<li><a href="../contact/" title="Contact Us"><img src="../images/menu-contact.gif" alt="Contact Us" width="157" height="37" border="0" /></a></li>
<li><a href="../" title="Home"><img src="../images/menu-home.gif" alt="Home" width="157" height="37" border="0" /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Thanks in advance. -colin Of course, IE is being a P.I.T.A. I can't figure out why this is happening... but it's probably something so simple I'm overlooking it. I have a set of images and/or links set up as a list and the last item on the first row shifts down. After that row, everything looks fine. No problems on FF, Chrome and Safari (Mac). See this page for example and view with Explorer: www[dot]cameronstevens[dot]ca/gallery[dot]html Thanks I am having trouble with my navigation. it works fine in safari and firefox, but when i try it in IE for the PC the main navigational elements don't move. does anyone know why? www.iconiqdesigner.com thanks! I am really stumped -- I need to stack images on top of one another using an unordered list but I get a few pixels of whitespace at the bottom no matter what I do. I know this could be acheived using divs instead but I would like to figure it out using lists. I broke the code into as simple a form as possible and put it below. Removing everything between the </li> tag and the next <li> tag does not work. I tried adding "height: 20px;" under "#nav ul li" to force the images to stack on top of each other -- this works in Safari and Firefox but not in IE Windows. If I remove the DocType tag or switch it to xhtml transitional the images do stack in Safari but not in Firefox or IE. Am I missing something here or is this just not possible? Appreciate any help. The code: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>css list test</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
img {
border: 0;
}
#nav {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#nav ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
#nav ul li {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><img src="http://test.mightylab.com/images/colors/blue.jpg" width="40" height="20" /></li>
<li><img src="http://test.mightylab.com/images/colors/yellow.jpg" width="40" height="20" /></li>
<li><img src="http://test.mightylab.com/images/colors/red.jpg" width="40" height="20" /></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
First of all, I hope this makes sense - I just spent two hours nonstop tweaking the navigation on my first client's site, and my brain and eyes are a bit frazzled. I have the navigation in a list, displayed horizontally in a Suckerfish dropdown. The container is elastic but the navigation is not; I want it to stick to the right side but move to the left when the browser is made narrower. Floating it to the right works perfectly.. But it reverses the order of my list items so that "Home" is to the far right instead of the left. Is there any way to reverse the order of the list items without touching the HTML? Going for full accessibility here, so I obviously don't want to reverse the item order in the HTML. I could probably figure this out on my own but it would take time, and like I said.. My brain is a little wonky right now Thanks in advance! I've been using CSS for a couple of days now, and am a bit stuck on how to change the main background image in the body when I hover over a menu item on the side bar. Changing the menu item background seemed easy enough. But, I suspect I am missing a key piece on how to get access to a body style from inside a list style. Here is the short section I am working on, with the full CSS file shown below that. This validates with a couple of warnings about my black on black color selection. I would certainly appreciate any help with this. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html> <head> <title>HOTWORKS</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylz.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body class="top" id="bdy" > <!-- Site navigation menu --> <ul class="navbar" id="navlist"> <li><a href="tools.html"><br>Tools</a> <li><a href="glass.html"><br>Glass <br> Artwork</a> <li><a href="pottery.html"><br>Ceramic<br> Artwork</a> <li><a href="about.html"><br>About</a> </ul> <!-- Main content --> <h1> </h1> <p> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> TOOLS - ART - MISCELLANEA <br> <address> </address> </body> </html> Code: #navlist a:hover {
color: #1e5ebd;
background:url("images/drawer4b.jpg") no-repeat;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: 0px -10px;
color:#FF0000;
/* how do I do something like this
body.top { background-image: url(images/tabtool.jpg) ; }
*/
}
Just to be complete, and in case there is something in here that you might need, here is the full css file: Code:
body.top {
padding-left: 11em;
font-family: Fantasy, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:15px;
color: #000000;
/*background-image: url(images/tab3.jpg) ; */
background-position: 210px 10px;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color: #000000;
margin-left:5cm;
}
body.top { background-image: url(images/tab3.jpg) ; }
ul.navbar {
color: #000000;
list-style-type: none;
position: absolute;
display:block;
float:left;
left: 1em;
}
h1 {
font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial,
SunSans-Regular, sans-serif
}
ul.navbar li {
text-align:center;
/* vertical-align:100px; */
background: #000000;
border-right: 1em solid black;
}
ul.navbar a {
text-decoration: none ;
top:10%;
height:4em;
}
a:link {
color: white }
a:visited {
color: white }
#navlist {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:.8em;
font-weight:bold;
list-style:none;
}
#navlist a {
display:block;
width:144px;
height:137px;
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
background:url("images/drawer4.jpg") no-repeat;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: 0px -10px;
}
#navlist a:hover {
color: #1e5ebd;
background:url("images/drawer4b.jpg") no-repeat;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: 0px -10px;
color:#FF0000;
/* how do I do something like this
body.top { background-image: url(images/tabtool.jpg) ; }
*/
}
#navlist a:active {
background:url("images/drawer4b.jpg") no-repeat;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: 0px -10px;
color:#FFC741;
}
I would like the link colour to change and the background of the <li> to change as well. I can't figure out what CSS to use for it though. I have made bold and underlined the li I want to change on hover. Code: <li id="menuitem_2mainnav"> <a id="menulink_2mainnav" class="mainlevelmainnav" href="/example/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2">Meetings</a> <ul id="menulist_2mainnav"> <li id="menuitem_2_1mainnav"><a id="menulink_2_1mainnav" class="sublevelmainnav" href="/example/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=14">TEST 1</a></li> <li id="menuitem_2_2mainnav"><a id="menulink_2_2mainnav" class="sublevelmainnav" href="/example/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=15">TEST 2</a></li> <li id="menuitem_2_3mainnav"><a id="menulink_2_3mainnav" class="sublevelmainnav" href="/example/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=16">TEST 3</a></li> <li id="menuitem_2_4mainnav"><a id="menulink_2_4mainnav" class="sublevelmainnav" href="/example/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=17">TEST 4</a></li> </ul> </li> I have tried: Code: #menulist_2mainnav li:hover{ color:#000000 !important; }
But it doesn't change the links text colour. i have never encountered an issue like this... i isolated the code so i can work with it.... here is a link... A LINK problem is... a line of numbers is generated via php... there is no php working on this page... i just took the final resulting code from View Source, and copied it here... anyhow, a list of numbers is generated... i want to set a width, so the numbers will auto flow to another line... but when i set a width, the numbers just go outside the div... i put a 1px dashed border to show where the div is... it shows the correct width in firefox, but the data flows outside of the div... and in IE... the div is just the size of the text, regarless my set width I'm having trouble getting my dropdown navbar to stretch the width of the parent container. I can get it almost the right width but I have to make the width 107.16px which seems really stupid and wrong to me. But if I change it to 100% the list becomes vertical and all jacked up. Any clues on how to get it to stretch the entire width of the container? link Thanks! edit: I added the follow css to get rid of the white border at the end of the navbar. It looks good in FF but in IE there's a small gap now between the navbar & the side of the container. I'm hoping that there's a better way to do this. Code: #contact_nav a {border:none;} /*Removes right border on end of navbar*/
ok, i know that because span is a inline element width cant be applied to it, and a lot of people suggest DIV my problem is that div wont work, because of its auto-break thing.... it being a block element and all... so, how would i apply a width of something like 100px to the span elements in code like this?... Code: <div class="infocontainer"> <span class="infobox">Publisher: <?php print $publisher; ?></span> <span class="infobox">Developer: <?php print $developer; ?></span> <span class="infobox">System: <?php print $system; ?></span> <span class="infobox">Gen <?php print $genre; ?></span> </div> I have a page whose outer-most container has a fixed width. On some pages, there is a table whose width I cannot set to be fixed because its contents (more specifically the number of <td>s) are dynamic. My problem is that when the table has so many <td>s that its width is forced to be greater than its parent <div>'s fixed width, the other page elements are not rendered as desired. Here is a simple illiustration of what I'm talking about. The text on the page explAins my issues (although it should be evident from loooking at it in a browser). Code: <!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#outer {
width: 950px;
min-width: 950px;
background-color: #fc0;
}
#hdr {
background-color: #66c;
height: 50px;
padding: 10px;
color: #fff;
margin-bottom: 25px;
}
table#data1 {
background-color: #eee;
margin: 10px;
}
table#data1 td {
font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="hdr">
This box should span the entire width of its orange container box even if the orange box's width exceeedes the width of the browser window due to the content it contains.
</div>
<table id="data1" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="24"><p>This table has a lot of TDs which causes its width to go beyond both the 900px assigned to its containg DIV as well as the width of my browser window. My desired behaviours a </p>
<ol>
<li>the containing element would expand to the width of the table (meaning that the orange background will be displayed behind the content of the grey table)</li>
<li>the DIV with the blue background at the top would also expand to the width of its parent container (the DIV with the orange background)</li>
</ol>
<p>Neither of these are happening in Mozilla and only #1 is happening in IE.</p>
<p>I'm sure that Mozilla is displaying properly per the CSS spec, but there must be a way to acheive what I'm trying to do.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
<td>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</td>
<td>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I'm not saying my code is correct and that the browsers are not displaying it properly. I know I'm doing something wrong, I just can't figure out what. Any suggestions? |
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