CSS giving me headaches

[hermann87]

Hi, I am having trouble with the layout of a website I'm making.
I'm not very good with CSS.

So the trouble I'm having is that I want to have a horizontal menu bar that I want to center in my website. This menu can have dropdown children.

The implementation is in jQuery.
So this is the HTML code of my menu bar :

echo "<ul class='dropdown'>
            <li><a href='index.php'>Home</a></li>
            <li><a href='#'>Incident</a>
            <ul class='sub_menu'>
            <li><a href='index.php?action=new'>New</a></li>
            <li><a href='index.php?action=edit'>Edit</a></li>
            <li><a href='index.php?action=manage'>Manage</a></li></li>
            </ul>";
    if ($_SESSION['isAdmin']) {
        showAdmin();
    }
    echo "<li><a href='action_logout.php'>Log out</a></li>
            </ul>";

and this is the CSS that is being implemented :

*                                   { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body                                { font: 14px Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 15px; } 
a                                   { text-decoration: none; }
ul                                  { width: 800px; list-style: none; text-align: center; margin: auto; padding: 2px 2px;}
p                                   { margin: 15px 0; }

/* 
    LEVEL ONE
*/
ul.dropdown                         { position: relative; }
ul.dropdown li                      { display: inline; font-weight: bold; background: #ccc; padding: 2px 2px; border-bottom: 1px solid #777; }
ul.dropdown a:hover              { color: #000; }
ul.dropdown a:active                { color: #ffa500; }
ul.dropdown li a                    { display: inline; padding: 2px 8px; border-right: 1px solid #777; border-bottom: 1px solid #777;
                                      color: #222; }
ul.dropdown li:last-child a         { border-right: none; } /* Doesn't work in IE */
ul.dropdown li.hover,
ul.dropdown li:hover                { background: #F3D673; color: black; position: relative; }
ul.dropdown li.hover a              { color: black; }


/* 
    LEVEL TWO
*/
ul.dropdown ul                      { width: 175px; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; top: 100%; left: 0; text-align: left; }
ul.dropdown ul li                   { font-weight: normal; background: #f6f6f6; color: #000; 
                                      border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; float: none; }

                                    /* IE 6 & 7 Needs Inline Block */
ul.dropdown ul li a                 { border-right: none; width: 100%; display: inline-block; } 

I did manage to center my menu bar after all. However there seems to be a little gap between Home and Incident menus and I've no idea how to get rid of it.

Any ideas?
Thank you in advance.

[drjohn]

I think that this bit

<li><a href='index.php?action=manage'>Manage</a></li></li>
</ul>";

should be

<li><a href='index.php?action=manage'>Manage</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
";

i.e. close the nested ul inside the li containing it

[hermann87]

Thanks, that was wrong indeed, however that didn't fix it.

[manzoor.ilahi77]

not like this

ul.dropdown                         { position: relative; }
ul.dropdown li                      { display: inline; font-weight: bold; background: #ccc; padding: 2px 2px; border-bottom: 1px solid #777; }

Change as

ul.dropdown                         { position: relative; left:350px; }
ul.dropdown li                      { display: inline; float:left; font-weight: bold; background: #ccc; padding: 2px 2px; border-bottom: 1px solid #777; }

u can fix trhe pixel of left in ul.dropdown and add float:left in ul.dropdown li