CSS - Css List Menu Over Iframe Or Alternative

I am having problems with a horizontal list menu. If you take a look at the link below I'm trying to get the top picture, menu and the main content area to all line up vertically.

http://www.willisemail.co.uk/skill/

I may be wrong but the list menu seems to be the problem as it never lines up.

Any help would be great or a suggestion on how to go about this another way.

Thanks

Jemes


html {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
}

body {
background-color: #F5F5F5;
font-size: 12px;
color: #564b47;
text-align:center;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}


/* Site Holder Start */
#box {
width: 750px;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
border: 1px solid #979696;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image:url(../Images/mid.jpg);
}
/* Site Holder End */


/* Site Holder Start */
#box2 {
margin-left: 49px;
margin-right: 50px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
}
/* Site Holder End */


/* Content Start */
#content {
width: 461px;
padding:0px;
background-color:#FFF;
overflow: hidden;
}
/* Content End */


/* Content Start */
#content2 {
margin-left: 14px;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color:#FFF;
overflow: hidden;
}
/* Content End */


/*Right Menu Start*/
#right {
width: 178px;
padding:0px;
float:right;
background-color:#FFF;
overflow: auto;
}
/*Right Menu End */

.imgRight {
text-align:center;
margin-top: 10px;
}

.imgMain {
text-align:center;
margin-top:10px;
border: 1px solid #979696;
}

.Menu {
margin-top:10px;
padding: 0px;
}

.Menu ul
{
padding: 0px;
margin:0px;
list-style-type:none;
}

.Menu li
{
display: inline;
list-style-type:none;
padding: 1px;
margin:0px;
}

.Main {
margin: 0px;
border: 1px solid #979696;
margin-top:8px;
margin-bottom:10px;
}

I'm having troubles with a list menu.

The first problem I have is that the menu options dont fill the whole of the menu but do in Firefox.

The second problem is that the padding is different in IE and Firefox and I would like them to be the same.

If anyone could help that would be great.

http://departments.brooklands.ac.uk/wine/example/

Jemes

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 ..

Hi, I'm trying to make a simple rollover menu with a <ul><li> list.

Here's my stylesheet: Code:

.navigation{
	width:768px;
	height:26px;
	padding: 94px, 0px, 10px, 5px;	
	z-index:999;
}

.navigation ul.nav li {display:inline}

.navigation ul.nav li a.link: hover{
color:#fbe8be;
font-family:times, serif;
font-size: 14pt;
text-decoration:none;
}

.navigation ul.nav li a.link:active{
text-decoration:none;
color:#bac4a1;
font-family:times, serif;
font-size: 14pt;
}

And here's my XHTML: Code:

<div class="navigation">
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="index.php" class="link">Home</a></li> |
<li><a href="ScopeofServices.php" class="link">Scope of Services</a></li> |   
<li><a href="BaselineFees.php" class="link">Baseline Fees</a></li> |   
<li><a href="BaslineProcedures.php" class="link">Baseline Procedures</a></li> |   
<li><a href="Qualifications.php" class="link">Qualification<a></li> |   
<li><a href="contact.php" class="link">Contact Us</a></li> |
<li><a href="considerations.php" class="link">Key Considerations & Pre-Conditions</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Here's the page: http://www.caillouette.com/SelvanSite/index.php

Can anyone tell me why my rollovers don't work?

thanks
-

I've been hit with a problem that I think isn't possible, but I'm hoping that someone else here might be able to offer some sort of solution. It's a bit complicated to explain, so I'll try and give as much detail as I can.

I have a menu system set up on a site, and it's styled correctly for the way that one section works. It's a standard unordered list.

FIRST MENU:
Code:

<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="page1.html">Link 1</a>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="page1.1.html">Link 1.1</a></li>
            <li><a href="page1.2.html">Link 1.2</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="page2.html">Link 2</a>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="page2.1.html">Link 2.1</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

SECOND MENU:
Code:

<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="page1.html">Link 1</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="page2.html">Link 2</a>
    </li>
</ul>

My problem is that I also need to style another menu match this - but the second menu has to have it's first-level links look like the second-level links in the first menu.

This wouldn't be a problem normally as I'd be able to use different selectors, ID's or something else, but with this system, the menu is output from a closed function that I can't change. There's no ID's on the lists, and the classes are all the same. I can't change this, and I can't change the system to add anything else around each list to give it a better identifier. This means that both menus use the same CSS.

The only way that I can see that I can do this is to set up a CSS rule that styles the list item either only of it contains another<ul> item, or if it doesn't contain another <ul> item. As far as I know that's not possible to do.

Does anyone out there have an idea of where I can start with this?

Hi,

I am working on this website atm: www.powys.gov.uk

I have a problem with the menu, the problem is when you scale the browser window and the menu links(on the left column) are forced to wrap, the indentation of the link isnt the same e.g:

Code:

   My Menu Link
Has been wrapped

I want it to be like:

Code:

  My Menu Link
  Has been Wrapped

The problem only occurs in IE, it looks perfect in Mozilla, can anyone offer any help on how I might fix this? I am out of ideas.


Regards,
Graham

I'm embedding menumatic into a joomla 1.6 based website.
Menumatic is just a slick css suckerfish menu with some mootools effects. http://greengeckodesign.com/menumatic

Anyway, I've edited the CSS to look ALMOST right. The only problem is that I cannot get the menu as a whole to center correctly on the page.

Anybody have any ideas about how i can do this?
(In addition to the 100's of things I've tried, I've tried putting it in another set of div's and centering that div, but it didn't work )

below is all the code. I left the JS out, since it also runs (a bit less prettily) on pure css. Also, I have verified the CSS at w3. There are four lines that are not standard, but they are to do with the rounded corner borders, not the spacing or alignment.

Edit: A bit more playing around and I have think it is a conflict with floating the items left. They need to display:block in order to display correctly so they also need to float (left) since they would otherwise be on separate lines (I think).

Anybody have an idea about how to get around this?

I tried to justify the text (that would be fine for my purposes), but it didn't work either.


CSS:

Code:

#mainMenu{
background-color: #036;
padding: 0px;
font-size: medium;
text-align: center;
}

/* Based partially on Matthew Carroll's keyboard accessible flavor of Suckerfish 
 * Dropdowns by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb. 
 * http://carroll.org.uk/sandbox/suckerfish/bones2.html
 */

/* ----[ LINKS ]----*/

/* all menu links */
.menuMain a, #subMenusContainer a{
	text-decoration:none;
	display:block;
	padding:10px 20px;
	background-color:#036 ;
	-moz-border-radius: 7px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 7px;
}

/* Just main menu links --[for non-javascript users this applies to submenu links as well]*/
.menuMain a{
	margin:0;
	float:left;
        color:#fff;
        
}

/* Just sub menu links */
#subMenusContainer a, .menuMain li li a{
	
}

/* All menu links on hover or focus */
.menuMain a:hover, .menuMain a:focus, #subMenusContainer a:hover, #subMenusContainer a:focus, .menuMain a.mainMenuParentBtnFocused, #subMenusContainer a.subMenuParentBtnFocused{
	background-color:#06c ;
	color:#FFF;
}

/* sub menu links on hover or focus */
#subMenusContainer a:hover, 
#subMenusContainer a:focus, 
.menuMain a.mainMenuParentBtnFocused, 
#subMenusContainer a.subMenuParentBtnFocused,
.menuMain li a:hover,
.menuMain li a:focus{
	background-color:#06c ;
	color:#FFF;
}

/* Parent Sub Menu Links ---[javascript users only]*/
.subMenuParentBtn{ 
	background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_right.gif) right center no-repeat;  
}

/* Parent Sub Menu Links on hover or focus ---[javascript users only]*/
.subMenuParentBtnFocused{ 
	background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_right_over.gif) right center no-repeat;  
}

/* Parent Main Menu Links ---[javascript users only]*/
.mainMenuParentBtn{	
	 background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_down.gif) right center no-repeat; 
}

/* Parent Main Menu Links on hover or focus ---[javascript users only]*/
.mainMenuParentBtnFocused{	
	background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_down_over.gif) right center no-repeat; 
}

/* ----[ OLs ULs, LIs, and DIVs ]----*/

/* Submenu Outer Wrapper - each submenu is inside a div with this class - javascript users only */
.smOW{ 
	display:none; 
	position: absolute; 
	overflow:hidden; 
	/*the 2px left & right padding lets you have a 1px border 
	  on the ul or ol inside since overflow is set to hidden*/
	padding:0 2px;
	margin:0 0 0 -2px;
}


/* All ULs and OLs */
.menuMain, .menuMain ul, .menuMain ol, #subMenusContainer ul, #subMenusContainer ol { 
	padding: 0;
	margin:0 20px 0 0;
	list-style: none;
	line-height: 1em;
}

/* All submenu OLs and ULs */
.menuMain ol, .menuMain ul, #subMenusContainer ul, #subMenusContainer ol {	
	/*border around submenu goes here*/	 
	-moz-border-radius: 8px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 8px;
	background:#036;	
	left:0;
}


/* List items in main menu --[for non-javascript users this applies to submenus as well]  */
.menuMain li { 

	/*great place to use a background image as a divider*/
	display:block;
	list-style:none;
margin:0 5px;
	position:relative;
	float:left;

}

#subMenusContainer li{
	list-style: none;
}

/* main menu ul or ol elment */
.menuMain{
	display:block;
	list-style:none;
	margin-top:0px;
	margin-bottom:0px;
	margin-left:40px;
	margin-right:auto;
	z-index:5;
	text-align: center;
	display:block;
}

#subMenusContainer{	display:block; 	position:absolute;	top:0;	left:0;	width:100%;	height:0;	overflow:visible;	z-index:1000000000; }


/* --------------------------[ The below is just for non-javscript users ]--------------------------*/
.menuMain li li{	float:none; }

.menuMain li li a{ /* Just submenu links*/	
	position:relative;
	float:none;
}

.menuMain li ul { /* second-level lists */
	position: absolute;
	width: 10em;
	margin-left: -1000em; /* using left instead of display to hide menus because display: none isn't read by screen readers */
	margin-top:2.2em;
}

/* third-and-above-level lists */
.menuMain li ul ul { margin: -1em 0 0 -1000em; }
.menuMain li:hover ul ul {	margin-left: -1000em; }

 /* lists nested under hovered list items */
.menuMain li:hover ul{	margin-left: 0; }
.menuMain li li:hover ul {	margin-left: 10em; margin-top:-2.5em;}

/* extra positioning rules for limited noscript keyboard accessibility */
.menuMain li a:focus + ul {  margin-left: 0; margin-top:2.2em; }
.menuMain li li a:focus + ul { left:0; margin-left: 1010em; margin-top:-2.2em;}
.menuMain li li a:focus {left:0;  margin-left:1000em; width:10em;  margin-top:0;}
.menuMain li li li a:focus {left:0; margin-left: 2010em; width: 10em;  margin-top:-1em;}
.menuMain li:hover a:focus{ margin-left: 0; }
.menuMain li li:hover a:focus + ul { margin-left: 10em; }

The menu html (an excerpt)
Code:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="MenuMatic.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="mainMenu" style="width:950px;">
					
<ul class="menuMain"> 

	<li id="item-101" class="current active"><a href="/ottest/" >Home</a></li>
	<li id="item-102" class="deeper parent"><a href="/ottest/currentissuemenu" >Current Issue</a>
		<ul>
			<li id="item-133"><a href="/ottest/currentissuemenu/test-item-menu" >Test item menu</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	<li id="item-103"><a href="/ottest/otblogmenu" >OT Blog</a></li>
	<li id="item-104"><a href="/ottest/previousissuesmenu" >Previous Issues</a></li>
	<li id="item-105"><a href="/ottest/classifiedsmenu" >Classifieds</a></li>
	<li id="item-124"><a href="/ottest/contact-us" >Contact Us</a></li>
</ul> 
	
</div>
</body>
</html>

Hi Folks

This is my first post here, hopefully I'll keep to etiquette I'm always ready to be corrected if I step out of line.

Anyway, I have an unusual problem I can't seem to solve. I am making a menu with drop downs using lists, I have it working in my HTML editor (CoffeeCup). When I try to view it in Firefox or IE7 the sub lists show and push the tabs I made to the side.

Here is the CSS I'm trying to use, some I've taken from tutorials, some of my own (which is where the problem possibly lies)

Code:

/*1. Taken from http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/liquid-color-adjustable-css-buttons/ with thanks */
.btn {
	float: left;
	background: url(images/btn_left.png) no-repeat;
	margin: 5px 0;
}
.btn a{
	float: left;
	height: 40px;
	width:100px;
	background: url(images/btn_stretch.png) repeat-x left top;
	line-height: 40px;
	color: #fff;
	font-size: 1em;
	text-decoration: none;
	padding-bottom:25px;
padding-left:10px;
}
.btn span {
	background: url(images/btn_right.png) no-repeat;
	float: left;
	width: 10px;
	height: 40px;
}
.btn_home { background-color: #575757;padding-left:10px; }
.btn_e1 { background-color: #575757;padding-left:10px; }
.btn_e2 { background-color: #575757;padding-left:10px; }
.btn_e3 { background-color: #575757;padding-left:10px; }
.btn_e4 { background-color: #575757;padding-left:10px; }
.btn_e5 { background-color: #575757;padding-left:10px; }
.btn_home:hover { background-color: #DC134C; }
.btn_e1:hover { background-color: #DC134C; }
.btn_e2:hover { background-color: #FF00FF; }
.btn_e3:hover { background-color: #DC134C; }
.btn_e4:hover { background-color: #DC134C; }
.btn_e5:hover { background-color: #DC134C; }
/*End of 1*/
/*My random scrawlings*/
#navigation {
	height:35px;
	width:787px;
	position:relative;
	margin:0 auto 0 auto;
	z-index:100;
}

#navmenu, #navmenu ul {
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
	list-style-type:none;
}

#navmenu {
	margin:0;
}

#navmenu li {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	text-align:center;
}

#navmenu li a, #navmenu li a:visited {
	width:101px;
	font-size:1em;
	font-family:Arial;
	height:16px;
	text-decoration:none;
	
}



#navmenu li li a, #navmenu li li a:visited {
	display:block;
	width:122px;

	color:#fff;
	height:15px;
	text-decoration:none;
	z-index:100;
	margin-left:-1px;
}

#navmenu li:hover > a {
	background-color:;
	color:#fff;
	text-decoration:underline;
	
}

#navmenu li li:hover > a {
	background-color:#DC134C;
	color:#fff;
	text-decoration:underline;
	}

#navmenu li ul {
	display: none;
}
#navmenu li:hover > ul {
	display: block;
	position: absolute;
	top:0;
	left:203px;
}

#navmenu > li:hover > ul {
	left:0;
	top:35px;
}
/*End of my random scrawling*/

And here is the HTML I'm using the create my lists

Code:

<div id="navigation">
  <ul id="navmenu">
    <li class="btn btn_home"><a>Home</a><span></span></li>
    <li class="btn btn_e1"><a>Element 1</a><span></span></li>
      <ul>
        <li><a>Sub 1</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 2</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 3</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 4</a></li>
      </ul>
  	<li class="btn btn_e2"><a>Element 2</a><span></span></li>
      <ul>
        <li><a>Sub 5</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 6</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 7</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 8</a></li>
        <li><a>Sub 9</a></li>
      </ul>
  	<li class="btn btn_e3"><a>Element 3</a><span></span></li>
  	<li class="btn btn_e4"><a>Element 4</a><span></span></li>
  	<li class="btn btn_e5"><a>Element 5</a><span></span></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Any help in where I've been going wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


Dave

Hi;
I got two problem in my code.
1) a list of menu could not sit in the center.

2) a list menu has a gap from top in the Firefox, but there is not gap from top from IE browser. And in the IE Browser, the list of menu sit too hight on the top.
How could i sit the list of menu in the center and there are about 1px gas or not
gas between the top and the menu bar in IE and Firefox.

my code as following;

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en"> 
<head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<style type="text/css">
  body {
         font: 80% arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
         background: white;
         margin: 0;
       }
#container{
   
    position: relative;
    width: 780px;
    w\idth: 780;
    border: solid #036;
    border-width: 0 3px;
    margin: auto;
 }

#navlist
{
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
  list-style-type: none;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
 
     
}

#navlist li
{
  bacground-color: #4c56d9;
  margin-left: 1px;
  display: inline;
  border: 3px solid #4c56d9;
  padding: 1px;
  
}

#navlist li a
{
  text-decoration: none;
  border: 2px solid #737be4;
  padding: 2px;
  color: white;
  margin-left: 1px;
  background-color: #4c56d9;
}
  


	
	
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us </a></li>
<li><a href="#">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>

</html>

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.

Hi,

I am creating a site with drop down menus, done purely in CSS. If I don't set the 'width' parameter for 'ul' element then in IE7, Firefox and Opera the menu appears fine. In IE6 however the menu just stacks vertically unless I set the width parameter.

The reason I don't want to set width is because I would like the top level menu items to just be the length of the text as in IE7 etc. One item is particularly longer than the others and so wastes space.

The code for this element:

Code:

#menu ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;

/*change for IE6*/
/*width: 7em;*/

/*stops going onto two lines but then just becomes hidden*/
/*white-space: nowrap;*/

/*
width: auto;
min-width: 40px;
*/

float: left;
}

Is there any way to set the width to be that of the text contained? IE7, Firefox and Opera seem to do this automatically.

After extensive searching I have tried auto width, floating in different ways, setting min-width as well as setting no-wrap but no joy. Is there a way to do this, or will I need to configure a set width to make it backwards compatible?

Thanks.

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

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being a new forum user I cannot add url links, so copy and paste blog address below

rwstewart.blogspot.com

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