How to center Suckerfish menu
Posted: Mon, 2008-06-30 14:15
Hello, I have a problem with suckerfish menu. By default menu is align to left side of page. I have a fluid template and I wont to center the suckerfish menu. Write now i have made an improvisation and I put padding-left 27% to my ja-sosdmenu.css. This works only for 1280px resolution. When I resize the window the menu is not centert any more. Is it posible to make a menu to be centert and fluid? Sorry for bad english. Thx
This is my \www\templates\ja_purity\css\ja-sosdmenu.css file
#ja-mainnav ul.menu {
margin: 0px; /* all lists */
float: left;
border-right: 1px solid #555555;
padding-left: 26%;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul {
margin: 0px; /* all lists */
padding: 0px;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li {
margin: 0px; /* all list items */
padding: 0px;
float: left;
display: block;
background: none;
cursor: pointer;
position: relative;
list-style: none;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul {
width: 16.4em;
position: absolute; /* second-level lists */
z-index: 99;
height: auto;
w\idth: 15.9em;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul ul {
margin: -1.5em 0 0 14em; /* third-and-above-level lists */
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li li {
padding: 0 1em 0 0;
margin: 0;
width: 14.9em;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul a {
width: 14.8em;
w\idth: 10.8em;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul {
left: -999em; /* using left instead of display to hide menus because display: none isn't read by screen readers */
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li:hover ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li:hover ul ul ul,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.sfhover ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parentsfhover ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parent-activesfhover ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.activesfhover ul ul,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.sfhover ul ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parentsfhover ul ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parent-activesfhover ul ul ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.activesfhover ul ul ul {
left: -999em;
}
/* This "unhides" the sub-menus (left: -999em is what hides them) */
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li:hover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li:hover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li li:hover ul,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.sfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parentsfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parent-activesfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li.activesfhover ul,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li li.sfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li.havesubchildsfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li.havesubchild-activesfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li.activesfhover ul,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li li li.sfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li li.havesubchildsfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li li.havesubchild-activesfhover ul, #ja-mainnav ul.menu li li li.activesfhover ul {
left: auto;
}
/* STYLING THE MENU
-----------------------------------*/
/* 1st level */
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li a {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 20px;
border-left: 1px solid #555555;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
display: block;
color: #CCCCCC;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: normal;
text-decoration: none;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li a:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li a:active,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li a:focus {
background: url(../images/arrow2.png) no-repeat bottom center #555555;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li {
margin: 0;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.sfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parentsfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.parent-activesfhover {
background: url(../images/arrow2.png) no-repeat bottom center #555555;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active a,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active a:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active a:active,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active a:focus {
background: url(../images/arrow2.png) no-repeat bottom center #333333;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
/* 2nd level and above */
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul {
border: 1px solid #555555;
background: url(../images/opaque.png);
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul li {
border-top: 1px solid #777777;
border-bottom: 1px solid #444444;
background: none;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul a {
border-right: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 7px 10px;
background: none;
color: #CCCCCC;
font-weight: normal;
line-height: normal;
text-transform: none;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.havesubchild,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.havesubchild-active {
background: url(../images/bullet2.gif) no-repeat 94% 50%;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul a:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul a:active,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul a:focus,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.sfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.havesubchildsfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.havesubchild-activesfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul ul li:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul ul li.sfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul ul li.havesubchildsfhover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul ul li.havesubchild-activesfhover {
background: #333333;
color: #CCCCCC;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.active a,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.active a:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.active a:active,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu ul li.active a:focus {
background: none !important;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: bold;
}
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active li a,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active li a:hover,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active li a:active,
#ja-mainnav ul.menu li.active li a:focus {
background: none !important;
}
#ja-mainnav h3 {
display: none;
}
#ja-mainnav .moduletable_menu {
background: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}


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Hi, try adding
Posted: Mon, 2008-06-30 14:51
Hi,
try adding your
#ja-mainnav{ margin:0 auto; }Mihir.
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Thx for you answer. With
Posted: Mon, 2008-06-30 16:49
Thx for you answer. With this lines in css file my menu only changed height, the position unfortunately remains saim.
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Hi, Can you give me a link
Posted: Mon, 2008-06-30 22:01
Hi,
Can you give me a link to the site? SO that i can take a look, and tell you the solution.
Mihir.
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display:table;
Posted: Fri, 2008-07-11 16:21
You are going to want both
#ja-mainnav { display:table; margin: 0pt auto; }for your container div. Let me know if this work!
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Sorry for waiting. My
Posted: Wed, 2008-07-23 09:20
Sorry for waiting. My website is not internet, its on local server.
nichoka2, I did try it, but it didn't work. The menu is still on the left side of screan. Thx for your help but I gonna use the standard menu.
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Posted: Wed, 2008-07-23 11:09
http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/articles/css/centering-a-dropdown-menu/
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Sorry kemo, the reason
Posted: Wed, 2008-07-23 11:09
Sorry kemo, the reason
#ja-mainnav{
margin:0 auto;
}
Didn't work is because margin: 0 auto only works when you state a width. You can set the width in em's or % if you need it a bit more flexible than px. Set the width of your whole menu-holder and the margin: 0 auto will center it (it's the same as:
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: automatic;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: automatic; )
I'm no expert, but I can fake one on teh Interwebz