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CSS

Posted by Brian Joseph
Brian Joseph
309 Points

Help With My Sub Menu Drop Down.

hello everyone i have some sub menus under Blog And Gallery i just don't know why when i hover over the navbar they do not appear on the bottom of the nav bar. can someone please help me here.

Brian Joseph
Brian Joseph
309 Points 
<nav>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a></li>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="weddings.html">Weddings</a></li>
        <li><a href="engagements.html">Engagements</a></li>
        <li><a href="newborns.html">Newborns</a></li>
          <li><a href="seniors.html">Seniors</a></li>
      </ul>
    <li><a href="clients.html">Client Access</a></li>
    <li><a href="retouch.html">Retouching Services</a></li>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="beforeandafter.html">Before And After</a></li>
        <li><a href="rates.html">Rates</a></li>
      </ul>
      <li><a href="blog.html">Blog</a></li>
      <ul>
      <li><a href="365.html">365 Days</a></li>
      </ul>
    <li><a href="prices.html">Prices</a></li>
    <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
</nav>    

nav{
    font-family:Oswald;
    font-size: 1.20em;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 10px auto;
}
nav ul{
padding: 0;
margin: 10px;
list-style:none;
position:relative;
display:inline-table;

}



nav li {
display: inline;
position: relative;
margin: 10px;
}

nav a:hover{
color: #2cb6de;}

nav ul ul {
    display: none;
}
 nav li:hover ul {
    display: block;
}

2 Answers

Liam Linacre
PLUS
Liam Linacre
Courses Plus Student 386 Points
Liam Linacre
Liam Linacre
Courses Plus Student 386 Points

You have 2 problems.

Firstly your markup is incorrect, this is why you are not experiencing what you expect. Secondly your CSS doesn't quite give the dropdown menu effect. I'll help you with the first but you should try and fix the second on your own. If you need more help i can help with that too.

The markup issue is caused by you closing the list item li too early. When nesting lists as you are you need to wrap the nested ul with the containing li.

Example

<ul>
    <li>
        Menu Item
        <ul>
            <li>Sub Menu Item</li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

In your code you are closing the list item too early, just after the link, when it should be after the nested list.

  <ul>
    <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a></li>
      <ul>...</ul>

Here is your code fixed, try and see what the difference is

<nav>
    <ul>
        <li>
            <a href="index.html">Home</a>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a>

            <ul>
                <li>
                    <a href="weddings.html">Weddings</a>
                </li>

                <li>
                    <a href="engagements.html">Engagements</a>
                </li>

                <li>
                    <a href="newborns.html">Newborns</a>
                </li>

                <li>
                    <a href="seniors.html">Seniors</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="clients.html">Client Access</a>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="retouch.html">Retouching Services</a>

            <ul>
                <li>
                    <a href="beforeandafter.html">Before And After</a>
                </li>

                <li>
                    <a href="rates.html">Rates</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="blog.html">Blog</a>

            <ul>
                <li>
                    <a href="365.html">365 Days</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="prices.html">Prices</a>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="about.html">About</a>
        </li>

        <li>
            <a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</nav>
Brian Joseph
Brian Joseph
309 Points
Brian Joseph
Brian Joseph
309 Points

i figured it out thank you