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user676853
user676853

Reputation:

Dropdown menu not showing when using position: absolute;

I've just turned my website into a responsive layout and along the way I've somehow managed to make my dropdown menus not work. When hovering over 'Drop-downs' they don't display unless I'm using position: relative. They worked before using position: absolute - but it seems they only work with position relative now. When using relative it uses the width which messes up the navigation bar.

Using relative: http://d.pr/i/tp5R
Using absolute: http://d.pr/i/j7r1

CSS for my sub-menu 

div.left_first_header ul.sub-menu {
    width: 125px;
    top: 14px;
    z-index: 2;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
    background: url(images/drop_down_bg.jpg);
    padding-left: 15px;
    padding-right: 15px;
    background-repeat: repeat;
}

jQuery for the drop down functionality

jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
    jQuery("ul.dropdown li").hover(function() {
        $('ul:first',this).css('visibility', 'visible');
    }, function() {
        jQuery(this).removeClass("hover");
        jQuery('ul:first',this).css('visibility', 'hidden');
    });
});

My website
http://wpvault.com/kahlam/

Considering it's 4am I've probably made a really stupid simple mistake.

I apologise if I've missed anything.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4666

Answers (1)

Shankar Cabus
Shankar Cabus

Reputation: 9792

There is no need to use jQuery for this. Try using CSS :hover

<div class="left_first_header">
    <ul class="dropdown">
        Dropdown
        <ul class="sub-menu">
            <li>item</li>              
        </ul>
    </ul>
</div>

CSS:

.left_first_header .sub-menu {
    width: 125px;
    top: 14px;
    z-index: 2;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
    background: url(images/drop_down_bg.jpg);
    padding-left: 15px;
    padding-right: 15px;
    background-repeat: repeat;
    display: none;
}


.left_first_header .dropdown:hover .sub-menu {
    display: block;
}​

CSS demo: http://jsfiddle.net/TZbfJ/

EDIT: But if you still want to use jquery, try this:

.left_first_header .sub-menu {
    width: 125px;
    top: 14px;
    z-index: 2;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
    padding-left: 15px;
    padding-right: 15px;
    background-repeat: repeat;
    display: none;
    background-color: blue;     
    margin-top: 4px;    
}

.dropdown {
    background-color: red;
    position: relative;
    margin: 20px;
}

JS:

$(function(){
    $(".dropdown").mouseenter(function(){
        $(this).find(".sub-menu").show();        
    }).mouseleave(function(){
       $(this).find(".sub-menu").hide();
    });
})

jQuery demo: http://jsfiddle.net/63hkm/

Upvotes: 2

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