Dropdown menu showing permanently and altering nav bar

[lara B]

I am trying to use a dropdown menu with a fixed navigation bar.  The dropdown links are showing all the time and teh navigation bar has grown to include them so it is wider than normal.

below is the CSS code, attached is the file which tries to use it. Why does my navigation bar not do the same as teh one in W3schools?

 

/* Style the navigation bar links */
ul {
    list-style-type: none;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: #008080;
  position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%;
}

 li {
    float: left;
}

li a, .dropbtn {
  display: inline-block;
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 14px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

li a:hover, .dropdown:hover .dropbtn {
  background-color: lightseagreen;
}

li.dropdown {
    display:inline-block;
}
.dropdown-content {
  display: none;
  position: absolute;
  background-color: #008080;
  min-width: 160px;
  box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
  z-index: 1;
}

.dropdown-content a {
    color:black;
    padding:12px 16px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
    text-align:left;
}
.dropdown-content a:hover {background-color: #f1f1f1;}

.dropdown:hover .dropdown-content {
  display: block;
}

 

Services.html

[niche]

what's the w3schools link for comparison?

[lara B]

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_dropdown.asp

 

ooh, no it isn't that one, but I think this may be the link I should have used.

 

Edited October 30, 2020 by lara B
wrong link

[dsonesuk]

You are breaking the rules of having child elements within ul element that are not! li elements. The closest correct option you can have, is

        <div class="topnav">
            <ul>
                <li><a href="index.html">Home</a><span class="hide"></span></li>
                <li><a href="About.html">About</a></li>
                <li><a href="Terms.html">Terms</a></li>
                <li><a href="Links.html">Links</a></li>
                <li><a href="Contact.html">Contact</a></li>
                <li><a class="active" href="Services.html">Classes</a></li>
                <li>
                    <div class="dropdown">
                        <a href="javascript:void(0)" class="dropbtn">Dropdown</a>
                        <div class="dropdown-content">
                            <a href= "upton.html">Upton St Leonards</a>
                            <a href="kingsway.html">Kingsway</a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>

You will have to remove overflow: hidden from topnav, and reset li .dropdown to

li .dropdown {
                position: relative;
                display:inline-block;
            }

You require position: relative to keep the position: absolute content at the correct location, also i would apply position: fixed properties to .topnav, 

Your link tag has a href link to google fonts and also includes a href link to style.css.

no one uses <center>...</center> anymore, and you not allowed to invent new closing tags '</p2>' and each p tag must have relative closing tag of </p>

 

 

Edited October 30, 2020 by dsonesuk

[lara B]

Hi @dsonesuk,

 

Thanks for your help, sorry it has taken me some time to get back to this.

The above suggested solution has changed my topnav to a side nav, any idea why or how?

L

[dsonesuk]

I assume you did apply

position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%;

To topnav?

[lara B]

somehow the dropdown part does not show anymore. can anyone point me to something I can look at which would help please?

 

[dsonesuk]

Sounds like overflow: hidden; was not removed. Anything outside a element boundary with overflow: hidden;  property does what it suggests, hides it!

[lara B]

22 hours ago, dsonesuk said:

Sounds like overflow: hidden; was not removed. Anything outside a element boundary with overflow: hidden;  property does what it suggests, hides it!

Yes, now it shows. thank you.

Now can anyone explain why I have a black line above every link I hover over?