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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:25:06+00:00

Hi I have a dropdown button that when you hover it, it drops down

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Hi I have a dropdown button that when you hover it, it drops down some links to pages. I want those links to be the same size as the width of the button.

The button size is 100% width of the content, so it varies. How do I make the size of the drop down items the same size as the button with CSS?

    <style type="text/css">
      #button {  /* Box in the button */
        display: block;
        width: 190px;
      }

      #button a {
        text-decoration: none;  /* Remove the underline from the links. */
      }
ul
{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
overflow:hidden;
}
li{
float:left;
list-style-type: none;
}
      #button ul {
        list-style-type: none;  /* Remove the bullets from the list */
      }

      #button .top {
display:block;
width:100%;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFFFFF;
background-color:#98bf21;
text-align:center;
padding:4px;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;  /* The button background */
      }

      #button ul li.item {
        display: none;  /* By default, do not display the items (which contains the links) */
      }  

      #button ul:hover .item {  /* When the user hovers over the button (or any of the links) */
        display: block;

        border: 1px solid black;
        background-color: #6CC417;
      }
a:link,a:visited
{
display:block;
width:120px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFFFFF;
background-color:#98bf21;
text-align:center;
padding:4px;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;
}
a:hover,a:active
{
background-color:#7A991A;


}
.container
{
text-align:center;
}

.center_div
{
border:1px solid gray;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:90%;
background-color:#d0f0f6;
text-align:left;
padding:8px;
}

    </style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

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  1. Editorial Team

    Three things:

    1. #button ul:hover .item needs width set to 100%.

        #button ul:hover .item {any of the links) */
    display: block;
    width:100%;
    border: 1px solid black;
    background-color: #6CC417;
  }

      .

    2. All links are set to 120px!

      a:link,a:visited {
  display:block;
  width:120px;
  ...

      Delete the width:120px;

    3. As meder said, Do not use an id, use a class. And the code has the same id multiple times — which is illegal.

      So: <div id="button"> becomes: <div class="DropDwnMenuBtn">.

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