Question

I am using a which has links which are floated to left. Then when I am giving the bounce effect to the elements on click, when I am clicking them the bounce occurs but it shifts to the right of the container.

The phenomenon does not happen when I remove the float:left effect. I have been trying to find a replacement for the float property but unable to find any proper effect.
This is my HTML code

<div id="menu"> 
        <ul>
        <li><asp:LinkButton ID="lbDashboard" ClientIDMode="Static" runat="server"  onclick="lbDashboard_Click">Dashboard</asp:LinkButton></li>
        <li><asp:LinkButton ID="lbFindHotfix" ClientIDMode="Static" runat="server" onclick="lbFindHotfix_Click">Search</asp:LinkButton></li>
        <li><asp:LinkButton ID="lbHelpWiki" ClientIDMode="Static" runat="server" onclick="lbHelpWiki_Click">Help/Wiki</asp:LinkButton></li>
        </ul>
        </div>

and this is the CSS part

#menu {
padding-top:30px;
padding-right:30px;
margin: 0;
float: right;
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
}

#menu ul, #searchdropdown ul{
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
}

#mainlinks ul
{
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
}
#menu li, #mainlinks li, #searchdropdown li{
display: inline;
}

#menu a{
display: block;
float: left;
padding: 10px 10px;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #616B4F;
}


#menu a:hover{
background: #9FAB87;
color: #FFFFFF;
border-top-left-radius:1em;
border-bottom-right-radius:1em;
}

This is my script code-

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    $(function () {

        //Add bounce effect on Click of the DIV
        $('#lbDashboard').click(function () {
            $(this).effect("bounce", { times: 3 }, 300);
        });

        $('#lbFindHotfix').click(function () {
            $(this).effect("bounce", { times: 3 }, 300);
        });

        $('#lbHelpWiki').click(function () {
            $(this).effect("bounce", { times: 3 }, 300);
        });

    });

</script>

Answer 1

What happens when you float the list items, not the links, and perform the bounce on the link?

#menu li, #mainlinks li, #searchdropdown li{
display: inline;
}

#menu li {
float: left;
padding: 10px 10px;
}

#menu a{
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #616B4F;
}