Question

I’ve created a nav menu like in the screenshot below. It spans the entire width of the container and the left/right padding of each menu item is constant. This was easy to do by hardcoding the left/right padding in the CSS, but I want the paddings to be able to change as the site admin edits the menus.

Is there a way to do this with pure CSS (CSS3 is okay)?

This was easy enough to do with jQuery (I totaled up the width of the menu items and calculated the necessary padding). But I ran into some issues on some browsers due to our use of Google Web Fonts. On Chrome and Firefox 4 on Windows (not on Mac), the web font was not loaded at the time that my script ran, resulting in incorrect width measurements. I tried running the script in the jQuery’s DOM ready event and in the Google Font API’s active event. The active event worked in Chrome but in Firefox 4 it was often fired before the font had been applied.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use jQuery’s .load event as suggested by user thirtydot.