What can I do to stop my list items from dropping below the menu even when there isn't enough space?

I'm facing an issue with my menu and despite several attempts, I can't seem to resolve it. In Firefox, everything looks fine, but in other browsers, the last anchor tag inside my menu keeps collapsing underneath. I've tried various solutions like adding overflow:hidden; to my menu wrapper, "clear both" div after the last ul tag, and display:inline-block to li tags - nothing seems to work. The problem persists even though I haven't set explicit width to my anchor tags (I really don't want to do that!). You can see how it looks in Firefox here: and in other browsers here: . I definitely don't want it to look like this:

Question: Can anyone help me prevent my li's from going below my menu even if there is no room? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Link to my menu

Here's the relevant CSS code:


.mainmenu{
display:block;
width:906px;
margin:0px auto;
height:42px;
background-image:url('http://robertpeic.com/kyani/template/mainmenubg.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
position:relative;
margin-top:-15px;
z-index:160;
}

.mainmenu ul{
list-style-type:none;
}

.mainmenu ul li {
float:left;
}

.mainmenu ul li a{
text-decoration:none;
display:block;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,FreeSerif,serif;
font-size:20px;
padding:0 23px 0 23px;
color:#383838;
border-left:1px solid #dedede;
height:42px;
line-height:42px;
z-index:100;
}

.mainmenu ul li a:hover{
color:#ffffff;
}

.mainHover{
background-image:url('http://robertpeic.com/kyani/template/hoverm.png');
display:block;
position:relative;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
z-index:-50;
}

The HTML structure is as follows:

<div class="mainmenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kyani</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Triangle of Health</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Business Opportunity</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Event Info</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div><!--/mainmenu-->

Answer №1

After some trial and error, I discovered that adding overflow:hidden to the .mainmenu class and adjusting the padding for .mainmenu ul li a did the trick for me.

.mainmenu
overflow:hidden;

.mainmenu ul li a
padding:0 22px 0 23px;

In my experience, the most reliable way to create a consistent full-width menu bar with cross-browser compatibility is by explicitly setting the widths of the list items. While this approach may not be the most future-proof, it has proven to be the most effective method for preserving the visual design.

Answer №2

To fix the issue and eliminate any excess white space, adjust the width of the mainmenu div to 910px.

Answer №3

After testing your code, I discovered that omitting the first line of DocType causes the menu to display incorrectly in IE while it works fine in Chrome. It seems that the issue you were facing was related to the Doctype declaration.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title></title>

        <style>
            .mainmenu
            {
                display: block;
                width: 906px;
                margin: 0px auto;
                height: 42px;
                background-image: url('http://robertpeic.com/kyani/template/mainmenubg.jpg');
                background-repeat: repeat-x;
                position: relative;
                margin-top: -15px;
                z-index: 160;
            }

            .mainmenu ul
            {
                list-style-type: none;
            }

            .mainmenu ul li
            {
                float: left;
            }

            .mainmenu ul li a
            {
                text-decoration: none;
                display: block;
                font-family: "Palatino Linotype" , "Book Antiqua", Palatino, FreeSerif, serif;
                font-size: 20px;
                padding: 0 20px ;
                color: #383838;
                border-left: 1px solid #dedede;
                height: 42px;
                line-height: 42px;
                z-index: 100;
            }

            .mainmenu ul li a:hover
            {
                color: #ffffff;
            }

            .mainHover
            {
                background-image: url('http://robertpeic.com/kyani/template/hoverm.png');
                display: block;
                position: relative;
                background-repeat: repeat-x;
                z-index: -50;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div class="mainmenu">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Pocetna</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Ky&auml;ni</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Trokut zdravlja</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Poslovna prilika</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Info predavanja</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Kontakt</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Answer №4

Feeling a bit silly right now :) To keep my li from dropping down, I simply wrapped my menu with another div and set that div to overflow hidden. It worked like a charm! Thanks to everyone for your assistance!!!

The CSS code now looks like this:

.mainmenu{
 display:block;
 width:903px;
 }

 .mainmenu ul{
 list-style-type:none;
 }

 .mainmenu ul li {
 float:left;
  }

 .mainmenu ul li a{
 text-decoration:none;
 display:block;
 font-family:"Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,FreeSerif,serif;
 font-size:20px;
 padding:0 23px 0 23px;
 color:#383838;
 border-left:1px solid #dedede;
 height:42px;
 line-height:42px;
 z-index:100;
 }

 .mainmenu ul li a:hover{
 color:#ffffff;
 }

.menuwrap{
margin:0px auto;
height:42px;
background-image:url('http://robertpeic.com/kyani/template/mainmenubg.jpg');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
position:relative;
margin-top:-15px;
z-index:160;
width:900px;
overflow:hidden;
}

The HTML code looks like this:

      <div class="menwrap">
      <div class="mainmenu">
      <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Kyani</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Health Triangle</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Business Opportunity</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Event Info</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
      </ul>
      </div><!--/mainmenu-->
      </div><!--/menuwrap-->

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