I recently implemented a hamburger menu with some cool animations into my site for mobile devices. Now, I am facing the challenge of centering the menu on desktop screens and it's proving to be tricky. The positioning is off, and traditional methods like justify-content are not doing the trick. I even attempted using a grid layout, but that didn't work either. I've included both my HTML and CSS below in hopes that someone can offer guidance or suggestions on how to achieve proper centering.
My goal is to have the menu appear as a hamburger icon on phones and transform into a standard navigation bar centered at the bottom of the screen for desktops, all while maintaining responsiveness.
I'm still relatively new to web development, so please bear with me if things seem a bit messy :)
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
html {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
body {
background-color: #262626;
font-family: "Roboto Slab", serif;
position: relative;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
main {
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
}
#backdrop {
width: 90%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 1rem;
border-radius: 1rem 1rem 0 0;
background-color: #727365;
}
#home-link {
color: #f2f2e4;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 1.7rem;
font-family: "Space Mono", monospace;
font-weight: 400;
position: absolute;
top: 1.95rem;
left: 2.6rem;
}
/* Hamburger menu */
#menu a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #3f403b;
}
#menu a:hover {
color: #0c0c0c;
}
#menu-toggle {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 2.5rem;
right: 3rem;
z-index: 1;
}
#menu-checkbox {
display: block;
width: 40px;
height: 32px;
position: absolute;
top: -7px;
left: -5px;
cursor: pointer;
opacity: 0;
z-index: 2;
}
#menu-toggle span {
display: block;
width: 33px;
height: 4px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
position: relative;
background: #f2f2e4;
border-radius: 3px;
z-index: 1;
transform-origin: 4px 0px;
transition: transform 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.77, 0.2, 0.05, 1),
opacity 0.55s ease;
}
#menu-toggle span:first-child {
transform-origin: 0% 0%;
}
#menu-toggle span:nth-last-child(2) {
transform-origin: 0% 100%;
}
#menu-checkbox:checked ~ span {
opacity: 1;
transform: rotate(45deg) translate(-2px, -1px);
background: #3f403b;
}
#menu-checkbox:checked ~ span:nth-last-child(3) {
opacity: 0;
transform: rotate(0deg) scale(0.2, 0.2);
}
#menu-checkbox:checked ~ span:nth-last-child(2) {
opacity: 1;
transform: rotate(-45deg) translate(0, -1px);
}
#menu {
width: 60vw;
height: 70vh;
position: absolute;
right: -100px;
margin: -100px 0 0 0;
padding: 50px;
padding-top: 125px;
background-color: #bfbfae;
list-style: none;
transform-origin: 0% 0%;
transform: translate(100%, 0);
transition: transform 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.77, 0.2, 0.05, 1);
}
#menu li {
padding: 10px 0;
font-size: 22px;
}
#menu-checkbox:checked ~ ul {
transform: none;
opacity: 1;
}
/* Scrollbar */
::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 13px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
border-radius: 100px;
border: 3px solid transparent;
background-clip: content-box;
background-color: rgb(88, 88, 88);
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover {
background-color: rgb(109, 109, 109);
}
/* Media queries */
@media only screen and (min-width: 600px) {
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 769px) {
#backdrop {
width: 98%;
height: 95.5%;
border-radius: 1rem;
}
#menu-checkbox {
display: none;
}
#menu-toggle span {
display: none;
}
#menu {
-webkit-transition: none !important;
-moz-transition: none !important;
-o-transition: none !important;
transition: none !important;
transform: none !important;
padding: 0 1rem 0 1rem;
position: absolute;
top: 97vh;
right: 38.2vw;
border-radius: 1rem;
height: fit-content;
width: max-content;
}
#menu li {
display: inline-block;
}
#home-link {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
position: static;
padding-top: 0.5rem;
}
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>OVERCASTING</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
<script src="script/js.js"></script>
<link
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto+Slab:wght@200;300;400&display=swap"
rel="stylesheet"
/>
<link
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Space+Mono&display=swap"
rel="stylesheet"
/>
</head>
<body>
<main>
<div id="backdrop">
<header id="wrapper">
<nav>
<a href="index.html" id="home-link">OVERCASTING</a>
<div id="menu-toggle">
<input id="menu-checkbox" type="checkbox" />
<span class="hamburger-span"></span>
<span class="hamburger-span"></span>
<span class="hamburger-span"></span>
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
</header>
</div>
</main>
</body>
</html>