I've set up a very basic site with a #container div that includes the #navbar and #content. However, when I zoom in or out, the #navbar distorts, if I zoom in the links get pushed down below each other instead of being inline. If I zoom out, too much padding is added between the links. How can I stop this?
HTML:
<div id="navbar">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="top.html">Top</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="free.html">FREE</a></strong></li>
<li><a href="photo.html">Photo</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
<p>Some sample text.<p>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#container {
position: static;
background-color: #00bbee;
margin-left: 20%;
margin-right: 20%;
margin-top: 7%;
margin-bottom: 15%;
border: 2px solid red;
}
#navbar ul{
list-style: none;
}
#navbar li{
display: inline;
}
#navbar li a{
text-decoration: none;
color: #11ff11;
margin: 3%;
border: 1px dotted orange;
padding-left: 4px;
}
#navbar li a:hover {
background-color: white;
color: green;
}
#navbar {
background-color: #eeeeee;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
border: 1px solid yellow;
}
How can I stop it from distorting?
Also, I'm still pretty new to CSS, I was taught to use % instead of px. Is that right? Also anything else you've got to point out, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
I had a similar problem that I fixed by adding an extra div around my navigation menu. I then added the following
#menu-container {
position: absolute;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
This prevented it from wrapping. Hope it works.