Question

My site was working fine across all major browsers right up until the update to Safari 5.1. Now, the primary navigation is busted up. I was using display:table-cell on the anchor element within the list element and was also using the font-size:0 hack to remove the spacing in between menu elements. Has anyone else encountered this issue and have a solution they could offer up?

Before:

After:

CSS:

#navigation {
  padding-top: 7px;
}

#navigation ul.links, /* Main menu and secondary menu links */
#navigation .content ul /* Menu block links */ {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  display: block;
  font-size: 0; /* this is a hack so that the spacing between the menu buttons disappear
                   since they are inline-block elements, this should be unneccessary when
                   CSS3 is approved */
}

#navigation ul.links li, /* A simple method to get navigation links to appear in one line. */
#navigation .content li {
  display: inline-block;
  padding-right: 0;
  padding-left: 0;
  margin: 0;

  /* below is a fix for IE7 to get the main navigation items lined up correctly
   * in one row
   */
  zoom: 1;
  *display: inline;
}
#main-menu ul {
  width: 100%;
}
#main-menu li {
  width: 108px;
  text-align: center;
  padding-bottom: 7px;
  font-size: 11pt;
}
#main-menu a {
  display: table-cell;
  width: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-size: 0.9em;
  color: #035B9A;
  background-color: white;
  height: 30px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

HTML:

<div id="navigation">
    <div class="section">
        <h2 class="element-invisible">Main menu</h2>
        <ul id="main-menu" class="links inline clearfix">
            <li class="menu-379 first"><a href="/about-scrubbed">About Us</a></li>
            <li class="menu-401"><a href="/" title="">Research</a></li>
            <li class="menu-385"><a href="/education">Education</a></li>
            <li class="menu-402"><a href="/" title="">Outreach</a></li>
            <li class="menu-403 active-trail active"><a href="/news" title="" class="active-trail active">News &amp; Events</a></li>
            <li class="menu-439"><a href="/people">People</a></li>
            <li class="menu-405"><a href="/" title="">Resources</a></li>
            <li class="menu-406"><a href="/" title="">Publications</a></li>
            <li class="menu-415 last"><a href="/partners">Partners</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

Thanks.

Just a note, this is a Drupal 7 site.

Also I freely and humbly admit I am not the very best at CSS markup. I’m learning a lot right now and am just trying to scrape through.

Answer 1

Solved by making the list elements display as block and float them to the left.

#navigation ul.links li, /* A simple method to get navigation links to appear in one line. */
#navigation .content li {
  display: block;
  float: left;
  padding-right: 0;
  padding-left: 0;
  margin: 0;

  /* below is a fix for IE7 to get the main navigation items lined up correctly
   * in one row
   */
  zoom: 1;
  *display: inline;
}