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jeny
jeny

Reputation: 387

How to fit tabs according to screen size / browsers?

I have a 4 tabs which I have showed below. It keeps moving as the screen size changes and with different browsers. I see about.html going down each time I open it on different computers it doesn't stay on a single line tab. I need to keep changing my width:303px.

Actually I need to reduce it on different computers and browsers. Whats the best way to fix this so that it stays on a single line with rest of the tabs.

css

 ul 
 {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
 }

 li 
 {
   float: left;
 }


a:link, a:visited {
  display: block;
  width:303px;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  background-color: #98bf21;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 4px;
  text-decoration: none;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

html

<ul>
  <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="offers.html">Offers</a></li>
  <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a><li>
  <li><a href="links.html">Links</a></li>
  <li><a href="about.html">About us</a></li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1392

Answers (2)

Scott
Scott

Reputation: 21882

You could use the calc() function....

width: calc(100% / X);

Where X is the number of tabs.

You can also use....

width: calc((100% / X) - Ypx);

Where Y is the sum amount of padding, margin, or space you want between tabs.

So for 4 tabs with margin: 0 5px; between them and a 1px border on them, you'd use:

width: calc((100% / 4) - 48px);

More info here

Upvotes: 0

Paulie_D
Paulie_D

Reputation: 115066

You have a couple of options that will space and align these without explicit widths (either % or actual px/em etc values):

CSS Tables (Green Version) - Support IE8 and above

ul.table {
  display: table;
  table-layout: fixed;
  width: 100%;
}

ul.table li {
  display: table-cell;
}

Flexbox (Plum Version) - Support IE10 and above

ul.flex {
  display: flex;
}

ul.flex li {
  flex:1;
}

Demo of both

ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
}
ul.table {
  display: table;
  table-layout: fixed;
  width: 100%;
}
ul.table li {
  display: table-cell;
}
ul.flex {
  display: flex;
}
ul.flex li {
  flex: 1;
}
ul.flex a {
  background: plum;
}
a:link,
a:visited {
  display: block;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  background-color: #98bf21;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 4px;
  text-decoration: none;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}
<ul class="table">
  <li><a href="index.html">Home</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="offers.html">Offers</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="links.html">Links</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="about.html">About us</a>
  </li>
</ul>

<ul class="flex">
  <li><a href="index.html">Home</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="offers.html">Offers</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="links.html">Links</a>
  </li>
  <li><a href="about.html">About us</a>
  </li>
</ul>

Note: This is not a one-stop solution. At some point the screen may not be wide enough to hold all the text. At that point you need media queries.

Upvotes: 1

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