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Mostafa Biomy
Mostafa Biomy

Reputation: 13

CSS menu with custom image or icon on every button

I have created Html menu as follow 

<a href="./football.html">Football</a>
<a href="./basketball-.html">Basketball</a>
<a href="./baseball.html">Baseball</a>

then my css file is as follow:

#main-nav a
{     
   display: block;
   float: left;
   margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
   color: #666666;
   border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
   background-color: #EEEEEE;
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 13px;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: normal;
   text-decoration: none;
   width: 106px;
   height: 78px;
   vertical-align: middle;
   line-height: 78px;
   text-align: center;
}
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav .active
{
   color: #666666;
   background-color: #C0C0C0;
   border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
}

I am trying to customize it a bit more by adding 30*30 icon of football etc in each corresponding button

i have tried to make every image as a Div and use position to make it in the corresponding button but this solution is fragile and not the best option.

can idea of better solution?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8392

Answers (3)

PonrajPaul
PonrajPaul

Reputation: 174

try this. your html

<div id="main-nav">
  <a href="#" class="football">Football</a>
  <a href="#" class="cricket">Cricket</a>
  <a href="#" class="tennis">Tennis</a>
</div>

css

#main-nav a
 {     
  display: block;
  float: left;
  margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
  color: #666666;
  border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
  background-color: #EEEEEE;
  font-family: Arial;
  font-size: 13px;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  text-decoration: none;
  width: 106px;
  height: 78px;
  vertical-align: middle;
  line-height: 78px;
  padding-left:50px;
 }

 #main-nav a.football{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/ampeross/qetto/32/icon-developer-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
 #main-nav a.cricket{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/3d-cartoon/32/Axialis-Icon-Workshop-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
#main-nav a.tennis{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/mac-folders/32/Blue-Apple-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav .active
 {
  color: #666666;
  background-color: #C0C0C0;
  border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid; 
}

my fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/ponrajpaul/4VMa4/

or if you want to use same icon for all links, remove all class names from a tags and use like this

<div id="main-nav">
 <a href="#">Football</a>
 <a href="#">Cricket</a>
 <a href="#">Tennis</a>
<div>


#main-nav a{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/3d-cartoon/32/Axialis-Icon-Workshop-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}

a:nth-child(numbers) will not support in ie6. If you dont need ie old browsers support, nth-child method is best to you..

Upvotes: 0

Sowmya
Sowmya

Reputation: 26969

Try this

    #main-nav a
    {     
       display: block;
       float: left;
       margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
       color: #666666;
       border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
       font-family: Arial;
       font-size: 13px;
       font-weight: normal;
       font-style: normal;
       text-decoration: none;
       width: 115px;
       height: 78px;
       vertical-align: middle;
       line-height: 78px;
       text-align: center; 
        background:url(http://img6a.flixcart.com/image/ball/4/g/g/vector-x-football-england-100x100-imade784dbrjbdzp.jpeg) no-repeat 50% 99% #EEEEEE;
        background-size:25px
    }
#main-nav a:nth-child(2){
    background:url(http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/BRILLIANT/sports/jpg/128/american_football_icon.jpg) no-repeat 50% 99% #EEEEEE;
    background-size:25px
}
#main-nav a:nth-child(3){
    background:url(http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/BRILLIANT/sports/jpg/128/archery_icon.jpg) no-repeat 50% 99% #EEEEEE;
    background-size:25px
}

DEMO

DEMO UPDATED

Upvotes: 0

mario595
mario595

Reputation: 3761

You can try this code:

    <div id='main-nav'> <a href="./football.html">Football<div class='icon'></div></a>

<a href="./basketball-.html">Basketball<div class='icon'></div></a>

<a href="./baseball.html">Baseball<div class='icon'></div></a> 
</div>

whit this css:

#main-nav a {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
    color: #666666;
    border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
    background-color: #EEEEEE;
    font-family: Arial;
    font-size: 13px;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    width: 106px;
    height: 78px;
    vertical-align: middle;
    line-height: 78px;
    text-align: center;
    position : relative;
}
#main-nav a .icon {
    height: 30px;
    width : 30px;
    background : red;//change this for the img.
    position : absolute;
    top : 0;
    left  : 35px;
}
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav .active {
    color: #666666;
    background-color: #C0C0C0;
    border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
}

Changing the red background for a background: url(/path/to/image)

Please, take a look at this jsfiddle.

Note: include a <div> intro a <a> it's valid in html5 but not in html 4.01. More info here.

Upvotes: 1

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