CSS Drop Down Menu without using UL/LI?

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I am trying to create a drop down menu for a button. It is a small image with text next to it, when hovered i want a drop down menu to appear.

I have tried nesting it in UL/LI and then having a sub LI to display on hover, however when i put my button between <li> it goes crazy.

I've tried doing list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; to remove all styling from LI but it doesnt help, is there anything else?

This is the code i want to have a drop down menu when hovered:

<a class="profile" href="#"><span id="image"><img src="avatar.gif" /></span></a><span id="username">name</span>

similar to what neowin is using for the username drop down menu at the top

[Cupcakes]

Nope, the best (and to be honest, only) way to do a dropdown menu is with an llist item in either an unordered (or ordered) list.

Can you post up the CSS and HTML you have for your current dropdown menu? Or a linik to test out your dropdown in a browser?

[LaP]

Why would you want to create a drop down menu using tag others than ul and li? Semantically ul and li are the best options right now for a menu.

http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

[DeathLace]

Well technically you can do it with anything, it's just known that li's make it easiest, because they have most of the default CSS styling built in (display: block, width: 100% of parent element), so it usually lines up perfectly right away.

But you can do it with anything as long as you sit and set the styling, but I would stick wtih the ul/li way, as it's the easiest.

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  On 26/11/2010 at 20:59, Cupcakes said:

Nope, the best (and to be honest, only) way to do a dropdown menu is with an llist item in either an unordered (or ordered) list.

Can you post up the CSS and HTML you have for your current dropdown menu? Or a linik to test out your dropdown in a browser?

this is basically it at the moment:

<a class="profile" href="#"><span id="image"><img src="avatar.gif" /></span></a><span id="username">name</span>

The css is positioning and sizing.

When i stick an <li> round it, thats when it messes up, there is no styling applied to the list what so ever.

I've done it using only DIVs but i dont think it's the best way to do it.

#session a.profile:hover {
	position: relative;
}
#session div.menu {
	display: none;
}
#session:hover div.menu {
	display: block;
   	position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 0;
   	padding: 10px; margin: 10px; z-index: 100;
	opacity: 0.8;
	color: #ffffff;
	width: 100px;
	background: #000000;
	-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 4px;
	-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px;
	-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 4px;
	-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px;
}


<div id="session">
		<a class="profile" href="#"><span id="image">
		<img src="avatar.gif" /></span></a> 
		<span id="name">username</span>
		<div class="menu">
				Menu<br />Menu<br />Menu<br />Menu<br />Menu<br />
                </div>
</div>

[Cupcakes]

  On 26/11/2010 at 21:05, LaP said:

Why would you want to create a drop down menu using tag others than ul and li? Schematically ul and li are the best options right now for a menu.

http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

Semantically ;). Suckerfish dropdowns are pretty outdated as well. There are plenty of versions that can utilize just CSS alone (no js) and work in a multitude of browsers.

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-dropdown-menu/

http://speckyboy.com/2010/03/15/15-css3-navigation-and-menu-tutorials-and-techniques/

[LaP]

  On 26/11/2010 at 21:14, Cupcakes said:

Semantically ;).

I blame google translate ;)

Yeah suckerfish menu is old but i think it is one of the easiest to understand for someone who start.

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The code in my previous post is working great, is it browser safe? obviously i've cleaned that Menu list up.