I have a web page, 1000px by 1000px for the main div. Inside the main div, at the top, there is a horizontal bar with four sections, each taking up 1/4 of the space. Each section has some text [wrapped in h2 tag], horizontally/vertically centered in the middle of the 1/4 section and each section must generate a drop-down menu.
For the drop down menu [which must work both on mobile and desktop], I borrowed the idea of using a checkbox [check for make dropdown visible, uncheck for invisible], but it isn't working correctly. The checkbox is small and if it is invisible it is almost impossible to know where to click to check/uncheck. I want the drop down menu to appear if the user clicks/taps ANYWHERE in the 1/4 section area.
The horizontal row of 1/4 section drop down menus looks like this:
^ Note that they don't actually work.
HTML Code:
<div id="Media_Choices">
<div id="Video" class="media_choice"> <h2>Video▼</h2> </div>
<div id="Pictures" class="media_choice"> <h2>Pictures▼</h2> </div>
<div id="Audio" class="media_choice"> <h2>Audio▼</h2> </div>
<div id="Stories" class="media_choice"> <h2>Stories▼</h2> </div>
</div>
CSS:
#Media_Choices {
width: 100%;
max-height:40px;
min-height:40px;
}
.media_choice {
display: inline;
float: left;
width: 24.5%;
max-height: 38px;
min-height: 38px;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 38px; /* the same as your div height */
}
#Video {
}
#Pictures {
}
#Audio {
}
#Stories {
}
Extra credit if you can get the ▼ downward facing arrow to turn into a ▲ whenever the drop down menu is down and then revert back into a ▼ downward facing arrow whenever the menu is up. You don't need to use the check-box based technique [I know there is a hover option], but anything that works cross platform is good.
For reference, check boxes were origionally implemented using the following code [taken from another question], but copy-pasting in this solution and changing the text inside the box isn't good enough:
<input class="dropdowninput" type="checkbox" id="dropdownbox1"/>
<div class="dropdownbox">
<label for="dropdownbox1">Open dropdown</label>
<ul class="dropdown">
<li>...</li><li>etc</li>
</ul>
</div>
with CSS:
.dropdowninput, .dropdown {display:none;}
.dropdowninput:checked + .dropdownbox .dropdown {display:block;}
If i understand you correctly you want to create a responsive dropdown menu and you want the arrows to change when the menu appear/disappear, if this is the case a one way to do it would be to attach event listeners to the menu items that would show/hide the submenus on click, using css and javascript you can do the following:
.media_choice > h2:after {
display: inline-block;
content: '▼';
}
.media_choice.dropped > h2:after {
content: '▲';
}
.media_choice > ul {
display: none;
}
.media_choice.dropped > ul {
display: block;
}
And with javascript add the event listeners:
$(document).ready (function()
{
$('.media_choice').on ('click', function()
{
$(this).toggleClass ('dropped');
});
});
JSFiddle
Here it is using checkboxes and no JS.
nav {
width: 80%;
margin: 20px auto;
}
nav ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
overflow: none;
/* to contain the floats */
}
nav li {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
width: 25%;
float: left;
position: relative;
white-space: nowrap;
}
nav input {
display: none;
}
nav label {
display: block;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 10px;
cursor: pointer;
}
nav label:hover {
background: #ccc;
}
nav a {
display: block;
padding: 10px;
}
nav a:hover {
background: #ccc;
}
nav label:after {
content: '▼';
font-size: 10px;
}
nav ul ul {
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
border: 1px solid red;
box-sizing: border-box;
background: #fff;
width: 100%;
}
nav ul ul li {
width: 100%;
float: none;
}
nav input:checked ~ ul {
display: block;
}
nav input:checked ~ label:after {
content: '▲';
}
<!-- http://codepen.io/allicarn/pen/gPPmZZ -->
<nav>
<ul>
<li>
<input type="checkbox" id="navitem1" name="navinputs" />
<label for="navitem1">Menu Item #1</label>
<ul>
<li>Sub Menu Item #1a</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #1b</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #1c</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #1d</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<input type="checkbox" id="navitem2" name="navinputs" />
<label for="navitem2">Menu Item #2</label>
<ul>
<li>Sub Menu Item #2a</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #2b</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #2c</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #2d</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<input type="checkbox" id="navitem3" name="navinputs" />
<label for="navitem3">Menu Item #3</label>
<ul>
<li>Sub Menu Item #3a</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #3b</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #3c</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #3d</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<input type="checkbox" id="navitem4" name="navinputs" />
<label for="navitem4">Menu Item #4</label>
<ul>
<li>Sub Menu Item #4a</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #4b</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #4c</li>
<li>Sub Menu Item #4d</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
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how to prevent opening link if parent li hasClass: has-menu ? it must work for all nested level
in example below only Sub Sub cat 1/1 and Sub cat 1/2 should open link but if i make it work then collapse with + and - is broken , how to combinate both collapse and link opening only if li dont have class: has-menu
$('li').click(function(e){
if ($(this).hasClass('has-menu')) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
$(this).children("div").children("ul").toggleClass("menu-close");
$(this).toggleClass("menu-open");
}
})
ul{
padding: 0px;
list-style: none;
}
ul li{
padding: 5px 0;
}
ul li a{
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
}
.menu-close{
display: none;
/*background-color:red;*/
}
/* Main menu */
.menu-main{
width: 250px;
}
.menu-main li{
position: relative;
}
.has-menu:before{
content: '+';
position: absolute;
right: 0;
}
.has-menu.menu-open:before{
content: '-' !important;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul class="menu-main">
<li class="has-menu">
Test 1
<div class="menu-wrapper">
<ul class="menu-child menu-close">
<li class="has-menu">
Sub cat 1/1
<div class="menu-wrapper">
<ul class="menu-subchild menu-close">
<li>
Sub Sub cat 1/1
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="menu-child menu-close">
<li>
Sub cat 1/2
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
.has-menu>a{
pointer-events: none;
}
Try this.
just disable pointer-events on anchor tags that have parent with class .has-menu
My jsFiddle is here : https://jsfiddle.net/r1s6651y/1/
I am not able to get Navigation with Numerals to be aligned horizontally.
I have applied display : inline-block for upper ul but still the next menu item begins on the second line.
Any clues ?
It should be stacked as :
1111111 22222222
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBBBBBBB
You can't have li with width: 100%; and then expect them to align next to eachother. Ofcourse they naturally fall to 2 lines instead of 1, they're inline elements after all (Think of it like this: the <p> tag is also "inline" bu default. When the text in a <p> is too long, the text "breaks" to a new line. As will your li when it is set to be inline). You also want the li to next to eachother, not the ul which is what contains the li. So apply the display: inline-block; to the (correct) li elements
ul#myRow li {
width: auto; //could also be set to 50% if it's just 2 li elements
display: inline-block;
}
Two things. As already noted, you want the li items to be display:inline. You also need to remove the width:100% from the lis of #myRow. Then it will collapse and display inline as long as the container is wide enough for them (otherwise it will wrap).
li {
background: #00945f;
border-bottom: 1px solid #016e39;
clear: both;
float: none;
height: 62px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 30px 30px;
width: 100%;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
ul#myRow li {
display:inline-block;
width: auto;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<section>
<ul id="myRow" class="row">
<li>
11111111
</li>
<li>
2222222
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="row">
<li>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
</li>
<li>
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
</li>
</ul>
</section>
Man, you do some mistakes.
I fixed it at: https://jsfiddle.net/r1s6651y/4/
li {
display: inline-block;
background: #00945f;
border-bottom: 1px solid #016e39;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 20px;
}
put a class on the li you want horizontal, then add css display: inline
.horiz {
display: inline;
}
<section>
<ul id="myRow" class="row">
<li class="horiz">
11111111
</li>
<li class="horiz">
2222222
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="row">
<li>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
</li>
<li>
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
</li>
</ul>
</section>
I am trying to make a menu that has some links in two levels.
What I am trying to do is to make it so that when you click on the top level then level 2 opens.
Right now my problem is that I want to have two columns but I want level two to be one full width column.
See my codepen here: http://codepen.io/mathiasha/pen/KdzmBL
I don't know if it's easiest to make it in CSS or jQuery.
I dont have control of the HTML.
<div class="block block-menu-block">
<ul class="menu">
<li>
1
</li>
<li>
2
<ul class="menu">
<li>2.1</li>
<li>2.2</li>
<li>2.3</li>
<li>2.4</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
3
<ul class="menu">
<li>3.1</li>
<li>3.2</li>
<li>3.3</li>
<li>3.4</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
4
</li>
<li>
5
</li>
<li>
6
<ul class="menu">
<li>6.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
See the CSS below:
.block-menu-block {
width: 100%;
border: 5px solid red;
overflow: hidden;
}
ul.menu {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-weight: bold;
}
ul.menu li {
display: block;
width: 50%;
border: 1px solid #000;
margin: -1px;
float: left;
text-align: center;
}
ul.menu li a {
display: block;
padding: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
}
li a ~ ul a {
color: green;
}
As long as first level LIs are set to be width:50%, children are bounded. Setting sub-level absolutely positionned could have been a solution, but in your case, it breaks the desired effect.
So a "dirty" solution that I can give you is to use this :
.block-menu-block ul li ul{ width:200%; margin-left:-100%; }
.block-menu-block ul li ul li{ width:100%; background:#fff;}
Sub-level UL width will be multiplied by two, and then has the same width as the menu. Used negative margin to make a translation, otherwise, it will start under the parent LI and will expend out of the menu boundaries.
And finally, reset the sub LIs width to 100% (background is used to hide parent borders).
Updated Codepen
I have a top menu with various links. On hover, each should show a dropdown with additional menu items. I have tried attached onmouseover and onmouseleave events to the menu item to hide/show the sub menu; however, when transitioning off of the menu item and into the sub menu, the onmouseleave fires and hides the sub menu and the user doesn't have a chance to actually interact with the sub menu.
<nav>
<div class="container-fluid">
<ul class="">
<li>
<a ui-sref="home.person" ng-init="showPersonSubMenu=false" ng-mouseenter="showPersonSubMenu=true" ng-mouseleave="showPersonSubMenu=false">People</a>
<ul class="person-sub-menu" ng-show="showPersonSubMenu">
<li>Add Person</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a ui-sref="home.company">Companies</a></li>
<li><a ui-sref="home.job">Jobs</a></li>
<li><a ui-sref="home.report">Reports</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
How can I show the sub menu on hover, and hide it on leaving... whilst still allowing the user to actually access the sub menu so it doesn't hide before they can interact with it.
You were on the right track.
Make sure there is no space between your menu item and your absolute sub-menu. To ensure that there is no space, make the menu item bigger (using height or line-height), or add a padding to it...
Here's a working example:
http://codepen.io/jlowcs/pen/QwJwJZ
HTML:
<ul class="menu">
<li>
<a>People</a>
<ul class="sub-menu">
<li>Add Person</li>
<li>Action 2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a ui-sref="home.company">Companies</a></li>
</ul>
CSS:
ul, li {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.menu {
background: lightblue;
height: 30px;
padding: 0 10px;
}
.menu > li {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
line-height: 30px;
}
.sub-menu {
position: absolute;
display: none;
background-color: lightgreen;
padding: 5px;
}
.sub-menu > li {
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
}
li:hover .sub-menu {
display: block;
}
EDIT: if you want your submenu to float lightly lower, here's a way of doing that:
http://codepen.io/jlowcs/pen/dPQPxW
Just add the following CSS:
.sub-menu {
margin-top: 10px;
}
.menu > li:hover {
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
I need a drop down menu for my asp.net website where I can have menu items as well as images. I need one like http://www.petcarerx.com/. If I keep mouse on any of menu item on blue bar ( Dogs, Cats, Other Pets, A drop down menu opens with menu items and some images. I want it to expand to full length horizontally. Please suggest me which control should I use?
Regards,
Asif Hameed
I have had good experiences with the Kendo UI menu by Telerik.
searching a little google, i stumbled upon this website:http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/11/25/overlay-effect-menu/
have a great tutorial for a great kind of jquery drop down menu
I use Superfish for this purpose.Multilevel and Image supported when slightly customize it.
use telerik menu control...
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/menu/examples/functionality/templates/defaultcs.aspx
A quick example for you:
HTML:
<ul id="menu">
<li>Home</li>
<li>
about
<div class="submenu">
<div class="col1 border-right">
<ul>
<li>about link 1</li>
<li>about link 2</li>
<li>about link 3</li>
<li>about link 4</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="col2 border-right">
<img src="http://www.funnycutepics.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fan-pet-karma.jpg" / width="100" />
</div>
<div class="col3">
<img src="http://www.funnycutepics.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fan-pet-karma.jpg" / width="100" />
</div>
</div>
</li>
...
...
...
</ul>
jQuery:
$("ul#menu li").hover(function(){
$(this).find('a').next('.submenu').stop(true, true).slideToggle(300);
}, function(){
$(this).find('a').next('.submenu').stop(true, true).slideToggle(200);
})
CSS:
ul#menu {
width: 100%;
position: relative;
height: 30px;
background:#ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #666;
}
ul#menu li {
display: block;
float: left;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
}
ul#menu li a { display: block; padding: 0 20px; }
.submenu {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
left: 0px;
display: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
ul#menu li div.submenu ul li {
float: none;
}
.col1, .col2, .col3 {
width: 33%;
background: #f4f4f4;
float: left;
}
.col2, .col3 {
text-align: center;
}
.border-right { border-right:1px solid #ccc; }
DEMO