Help needed with CSS drop down menu

HTML & CSS
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Hi guys,

I’m trying to build a drop down menu for my site but, despite seeing a few tutorials and examples, I’ve had no luck yet!

I’m pretty sure my HTML is correct…


	<ul id="nav">
	<li><a href="#">Menu 1</a></li>
	<li><a href="#">Menu 2</a></li>
	<li><a href="#">Menu 3</a>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Drop Down 1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Drop Down 2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Drop Down 3</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Drop Down 4</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
	<li><a href="#">Menu 4</a></li>
	<li><a href="#">Menu 5</a></li>
	</ul>

My CSS looks like this at the moment…


ul#nav {width:920px; height:35px; list-style:none; padding:0; margin:0; background:url(navBg.jpg) repeat-x; font-family:'OpenSansRegular'; font-size:11px; font-weight:700; text-transform:uppercase; -moz-box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1c1c1c; -webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1c1c1c; box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1c1c1c; z-index:999;}
ul#nav li a:hover, #nav li a:active {background:url(navOn.jpg) repeat-x; text-decoration:none;}
ul#nav li a {border-right:1px solid #000; color:#E0E2E7; display:inline-block; float:left; margin:0; padding:10px 19px; width:auto; text-decoration:none;}

* html #nav li {display:inline; float:left; }  /* for IE 6 */
* + html #nav li {display:inline; float:left; }  /* for IE 7 */


ul#nav li ul {left:-9999px; position:absolute; list-style:none;}
ul#nav li:hover ul {left:0; position:absolute;}

ul#nav li ul li {}
ul#nav li ul li a {width:250px; background-color:#FFF; color:#000; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-transform:none;}
ul#nav li ul li a:hover {background-color:#028efd;}

I’m really struggling with this. Does anyone know how I can get Menu 3 to display the four drop down items beneath it - not the same width as the Menu 3 button but just inline with it.

Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you.

SM

2

basically you arent floating your sub LIs… of course that leads to a few other issues…

the corrected code would be as follows:


	#nav {width:920px;   list-style:none; padding: 0 ; margin:0 ; background:url(navBg.jpg) repeat-x; font-family:'OpenSansRegular'; font-size:11px; font-weight:700; text-transform:uppercase; -moz-box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1c1c1c; -webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1c1c1c; box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1c1c1c; z-index:999;  position: relative; display: inline-block; width:100%}
	
#nav li a:hover, #nav li a:active {background:url(navOn.jpg) repeat-x;}

#nav li a {border-right:1px solid #000; color:#E0E2E7; display:block; margin:0; padding:10px 19px;  text-decoration:none;}

* html #nav li {display:inline; float:left; }  /* for IE 6 */
* + html #nav li {display:inline; float:left; }  /* for IE 7 */


#nav li{}
#nav ul {left:-9999em;   margin:0; padding:0; position: absolute;  border-bottom:1px solid #000; border-left:1px solid #000; margin-left:-1px;}
#nav li:hover ul {left:auto; }

#nav li{float:left; }
#nav li  li a { background-color:#FFF; color:#000; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-transform:none;}
#nav li  li a:hover {background-color:#028efd; }

hope that helps

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That’s fantastic, thank you so much!! :slight_smile:

I’ve put it all together and everything works perfectly, pretty much.

On the drop down there is a small (like 1px or so) gap between the list items and the border of the ul. I tried deleting margin-left:-1px from ‘#nav ul’ but to no avail.

Do you by any chance know what may be causing it? I was thinking the default whitespace you sometimes get between <li>'s…?

Thank you again, great help and much appreciated :slight_smile:

4

Actually, scrap that!! Sorry, I was being an idiot, I fixed it!

All works perfectly, thank you so much!