I'm revising my personal website to look more professional instead of the childish thing I've been running for so long. I'm running into a couple problems, and I figure, there are a number of folks around here who are web developers, so maybe someone here could point out what I'm doing wrong.
Right now I'm working on a menu bar at the top of the page(s) with all my site's content conveniently organized into groups and subgroups, which means a menu bar with drop-down menus for certain items. Overall, it has gone well, but I am facing two issues that I am uncertain how to solve.
First of all, when I have an item that is nested into three tiers of menu drop-downs, the menu box is squished to its absolute minimum width, so anything with a space or a hyphen in the name gets broken onto multiple lines. It looks ugly and I would rather keep them on one line.
Secondly, I have a gap in the menu, but it isn't working the way I want. I want to have the various elements of site content on the left side of the menu with the standard generic site pages on the right. Thus there is a gap between the two sections. While I am sure there are a myriad of way this could be set up, (including alternate methods I should be using instead,) I elected to keep all these elements lined up in sequence with one extra element in the menu which is blank. This serves as a functional division betwixt the two sections, (once I gave it a special class so it didn't change colors when hovered) the problem is that the size of this element is wrong.
Effectively, I would want all the other elements taking up no more than their padding allows, and then this blank element fills the whole of the remaining space. But how do I get this element to stretch while the others don't? Or perhaps, how can I add a natural division between the two sections while still keeping them on the same bar visually?
Right now, once I add a set width to the menu (which is what I'll be doing next) it will cause each item on the menu to expand equally, leaving me with long/wide buttons and a tiny division.
Also I am open to comments or suggestions about ways to improve what I am doing; I am not too experienced with CSS yet.
Site's content:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Drop-down Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Basic.css">
</head>
<body>
<nav>
<ul>
<li class="TopMenu"><a href="#">Gaming Projects</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Active</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Magic Castle</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Zelda-Style ARPG</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Finished</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">CAS-ilvania</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kefka the Mighty</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Innactive</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Ninja Mod</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kartcade</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="TopMenu"><a href="#">Videos</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Halo Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Ninja Mod Development</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Other Gaming Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Misc</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="TopMenu"><a href="#">Writing</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Twilight Descent</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Various Articles</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Gaming Articles</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Other writing</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="TopMenu"><a href="#">Artwork/Images</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Mischief in Maytia</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Photographs</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Artistic</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Humor</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="TopMenuGap" > </li>
<li class="TopMenu" ><a href="#">Links</a></li>
<li class="TopMenu"><a href="#">About/FAQ</a></li>
<li class="TopMenuLast"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</body>
</html> |
CSS file:
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body, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, ul, ol, li, dl, dt, dd, img, form, fieldset, input, textarea, blockquote {
margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0;
}
body {
background: #909eab url(bg.png);
font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;
}
nav {
margin: 50px auto;
text-align: center;
}
nav ul ul {
display: none;
}
nav ul li:hover > ul {
display: block;
}
nav ul {
background: #efefef;
background: linear-gradient(top, #efefef 0%, #bbbbbb 100%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #efefef 0%, #bbbbbb 100%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #efefef 0%,#bbbbbb 100%);
box-shadow: 0px 0px 9px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);
padding: 0 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
list-style: none;
position: relative;
display: inline-table;
}
nav ul:after {
content: ""; clear: both; display: block;
}
nav ul li {
float: left;
}
nav ul li:hover {
background: #4b545f;
background: linear-gradient(top, #4f5964 0%, #5f6975 40%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4f5964 0%, #5f6975 40%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #4f5964 0%,#5f6975 40%);
}
nav ul li:hover a {
color: #fff;
}
nav ul li a {
display: block; padding: 5px 10px;
color: #757575; text-decoration: none;
}
nav ul ul {
background: #5f6975; border-radius: 0px; padding: 0;
position: absolute; top: 100%;
}
nav ul ul li {
float: none;
border-top: 1px solid #6b727c;
border-bottom: 1px solid #575f6a; position: relative;
}
nav ul ul li a {
padding: 7px 15px;
color: #fff;
}
nav ul ul li a:hover {
background: #4b545f;
}
nav ul ul ul {
position: absolute; left: 100%; top:0;
}
.TopMenu {
border-left: 1px solid #ababab;
}
.TopMenuGap {
border-left: 1px solid #ababab;
display: block; padding: 5px 10px;
}
.TopMenuGap:hover {
background: #efefef;
background: linear-gradient(top, #efefef 0%, #bbbbbb 100%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #efefef 0%, #bbbbbb 100%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #efefef 0%,#bbbbbb 100%);
}
.TopMenuLast {
border-left: 1px solid #ababab;
border-right: 1px solid #ababab;
{
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