Search box in unordered list

**Daz** · Jun 22, 2004 05:46

Has been bugging me for a while this one. I want to use an unordered list for a top nav with the last item being a search box. The label for the search is aligned bottom, how do I get all of my text in my nav to align perfectly?

Code:

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>test</title>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
#topmenu {
 background-color: #005AAD;
 width: 100%;
}
#topmenu ul {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 display: inline;
 list-style-type: none;
}
#topmenu li {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 float: left;
 list-style-type: none;
}
#topmenu a {
 display: block;
 width: 100px;
 text-align: center;
}
#topmenu a:link {
 color: #fff;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#topmenu a:visited {
 color: #fff;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#topmenu a:hover {
 color: #ffcc00;
 text-decoration: underline;
}
#topmenu form {
 margin: 0;
 color: #fff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="topmenu">
 <ul>
  <li><a href="water_Service_index.htm">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Text Only</a></li>
  <li><a href="#;">About Us</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Feedback</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Site Map</a></li>
  <li>
   <form name="kbs">
   <label for="qt">Search</label>&nbsp;<input name="qt" id="qt" class="qt" size="14" maxlength="1000"> <input class="submit" type="submit" value="Go">
   </form>	 
  </li>
 </ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

**Daz** · Jun 22, 2004 06:01

I think I've just stumbled upon a solution, doesn't work in Opera 7.23 tho

Code:

#topmenu label {
display: block;
float: left;
vertical-align: middle;
}

**redux** · Jun 22, 2004 06:04

Code:

#topmenu label { vertical-align: top; }

**Daz** · Jun 23, 2004 02:05

*bump*

Redux's solution doesn't work but mine does except in Opera, suggestions anyone?

**redux** · Jun 23, 2004 09:01

Originally Posted by Daz

*bump*

Redux's solution doesn't work but mine does except in Opera, suggestions anyone?

hmmm...works for me (only did a quick check in Firefox, though)

**Paul O'B** · Jun 23, 2004 11:05

HI Darren,

Try this:

Code:

#topmenu form {
 margin: 0;
 padding:0;
 color: #fff;
 float:left;
}
#topmenu ul {line-height:24px}
#topmenu label {vertical-align:top}
* html #topmenu label {float:left}

Paul

**Daz** · Sep 10, 2004 03:08

Paul, I'm just revisiting this problem as I still have an issue with Opera. Your solution did help but the submit button is now floating outside of the nav bar under the search label - any suggestions as to how I can fix?

**Paul O'B** · Sep 10, 2004 10:43

Hi Darren,

Have you gor some updated code or is it the same as above with the fixes. The above code looks ok in opera 7.5

Paul

**Daz** · Sep 13, 2004 00:39

Paul, this is the first part of the coding where the menu is.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
 <style type="text/css">
#masthead {
 width: 100%;
 height: 80px;
 background: url(banner.jpg) no-repeat fixed;
}
#menu {
 width: 100%;
}
*html #menu { height: 23px; }
html>body #menu { height : 22px; }
#menu ul {
 margin: 0 0 0 5px;
 padding: 0;
 display: inline;
 list-style: none;
}
#menu li {
 margin: 0 10px 0 0;
 display: inline;
 list-style: none;
}
#menu a {
 padding: 0 3% 0 0;
 font-weight: bold;
 border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}
#menu a:link {
 color: #fff;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#menu a:visited {
 color: #fff;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#menu a:hover {
 color: #000;
 text-decoration: underline;
}
#menu form {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 position: absolute;
 top: 81px;
 right: 0;
}
#menu label {
 display: block;
 float: left;
 padding: 0 1% 0 0;
 color: #fff;
 font-weight: bold;
}
#menu .srchbx {
 display: block;
 float: left;
}
#menu .go {
 display: block;
 float: left;
 background: #999;
 color: #fff;
 font-weight: bold;
 border: 1px solid #eee;
}
 </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="masthead"></div>
<div id="menu" style="background-color:#6599FE;">
 <ul>
  <li><a href="index.htm">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="links.htm">Organisation chart</a></li>
  <li><a href="a-z.htm">A-Z</a></li>
  <li><a href="links.htm">Links</a></li>
  <li><a href="feedback.htm">Feedback</a></li>
 </ul> 
 <form>
  <label for="search">Search</label>
  <input type="text" name="search" class="srchbx" id="search" style="border: 1px solid #6599FE;" />
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go" class="go" />
 </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

**Paul O'B** · Sep 13, 2004 14:02

Hi,

I'm not sure what you are trying to do with that absolute positioning as it doesn't display in any browser lol

I would do something like this:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
 <style type="text/css">
#masthead {
 width: 100%;
 height: 80px;
 background: url(images/pmoblogo7.jpg.jpg) no-repeat fixed;
}
#menu {
 width: 100%;
}
*html #menu li{ height: 22px; }
html>body #menu li{ height : 22px;line-height:22px; }
#menu ul {
 margin: 0 0 0 5px;
 padding: 0;
 display: inline;
 list-style: none;
}
#menu li {
 margin: 0 10px 0 0;
 display: inline;
 list-style: none;
}
#menu a {
 padding: 0 3% 0 0;
 font-weight: bold;
 border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}
#menu a:link {
 color: #fff;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#menu a:visited {
 color: #fff;
 text-decoration: none;
}
#menu a:hover {
 color: #000;
 text-decoration: underline;
}
#menu form {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 float:right;
 width:14.8em;
}
#menu label {
 display: block;
 float: left;
 padding: 0 1% 0 0;
 color: #fff;
 font-weight: bold;
}
#menu .srchbx {
 display: block;
 float: left;
}
#menu .go {
 background: #999;
 color: #fff;
 font-weight: bold;
 border: 1px solid #eee;
}
* html #menu input,* html #menu input {vertical-align:bottom}
 
 </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="masthead"></div>
<div id="menu" style="background-color:#6599FE;">
 <form>
  <label for="search">Search</label>
  <input type="text" name="search" class="srchbx" id="search" style="border: 1px solid #6599FE;" />
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go" class="go" />
 </form>
 <ul>
  <li><a href="index.htm">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="links.htm">Organisation chart</a></li>
  <li><a href="a-z.htm">A-Z</a></li>
  <li><a href="links.htm">Links</a></li>
  <li><a href="feedback.htm">Feedback</a></li>
 </ul> 
<br style="clear:both" />
</div>
</body>
</html>

But I'm not reallay sure what you were trying to do exactly. Input buttons and submit buttons are hard to line up and pu will probably end us using classes and manipulating the padding on each.

Paul

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