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Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
902 Points
Posted by Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
902 Points

Question about a Nav

Hey guys,

I'm coding a site for a client and they've made their nav a little tricky.. I can easily sort this with images, but I'd rather keep it text.. The tricky bit is the arrow beneath, this obviously isn't just a simple text hyperlink.. Can anyone throw up some code for how they'd do this?

The nav: http://www.hecticdesigns.co.uk/clients/binsafe/binsafe.png

Many thanks!

Ben

2 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

It won't affect the text. Here's a fiddle I found that some what shows what I'm talking about. http://jsfiddle.net/Daniel_Hug/ZRtHF/

Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
902 Points
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
902 Points

Thanks, I'll have a play around!

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

do you want the triangle to be a character or are you ok with that being an image? If you are ok with an image then I would suspect doing something like nav li:hover:after { content: url(mytriangle.jpg);} would work. might add some top margin to it as well.

can you post a link to the site it's on? Or try something like dev tools or firebug to inspect the code yourself to see what's under the hood.

Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
902 Points
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
902 Points

How would that effect the text though? Is content treated like background-image?