Question

this is my first post to stackoverflow, but I use you guys knowledge constantly, so thanks!

I’m having an issue with menu alignment. I have a wordpress menu that I added divs inside the li element so that I could have a first/middle/last componant for each menu. This is so that I can have the current menu state raised up with the first and last items being “endcaps”. Hard to explain, you can see it here: http://clarksvillevet.com/new/

Notice how the middle of the current menu item “sinks”? I cannot figure out what I’m missing here. I thought it was the line height, but that only moves it a bit. I’m guessing something is overlapping on the css (kinda calling it twice if you know what I mean), but again, no idea. Here is the HTML generated:

<div id="main-menu">
<ul id="menu-main-menu" class="menu">
<li id="menu-item-8" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8">
<li id="menu-item-23" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-9 current_page_item menu-item-23">
<div class="first"></div>
<div class="middle">
<a href="http://clarksvillevet.com/new/about-southside-va-veterinary-hospital/" title="About Southside Virginia’s Best Veterinary Hospital">About</a>
</div>
<div class="last"></div>
</li>
<li id="menu-item-20" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-20">
<li id="menu-item-50" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-50">
<li id="menu-item-56" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-56">
<li id="menu-item-62" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-62">
</ul>
</div>

And the CSS

#main-menu{
width: 598px;
height: 51px;
margin: -6px 0px 0px;
z-index:401;
float: left;
background:url('images/BG-Menu.png') no-repeat top left transparent;
}

.menu {
list-style-type:none;
list-style-position:outside;
list-style-image:none;
position:relative;
z-index:300;
width: 598px;
height: 51px;
float: left;
line-height: 57px;
}

.menu ul{
position:absolute;
line-height: 57px;
overflow:hidden;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
top: 51px;
left:0px;
display: none;
list-style-position:outside;
}

.menu a {
display:block;
display:inline-block;
padding:0px;
text-decoration:none;
letter-spacing: 1px;
font-size: 13px;
color: #dddddd;
margin: 0px;
}

.menu .first, .menu .middle, .menu .last {
position: relative;
padding:0px;
display: inline-block
}

.menu .first, .menu .last{
width: 11px;
height: 51px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.menu .middle {
height:51px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.menu a:hover {
color:#ffffff;
background-color:transparent;
}

.menu li {
float:left;
position:relative;
}


.menu ul a:hover {
color:#ffffff;
}

.menu li ul a {
width: 250px;
height: 32px;
float:left;
line-height: 30px;
background: url('images/BG-Drop-Menu.png') no-repeat top left transparent;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
color: #ffffff;
}

.menu li ul a:hover{
background: url('images/BG-Drop-Menu-Hover.png') no-repeat top left transparent;
}

.menu li ul ul {
left:0em;
margin:0px 0 0 10px;
}

.menu li:hover ul ul, .menu li:hover ul ul ul, .menu li:hover ul ul ul ul {
display:none;
}

.menu li:hover ul, .menu li li:hover ul, .menu li li li:hover ul, .menu li li li li:hover ul{
display:block;
}

.current-menu-item .first{
background:url('images/BG-Menu-Current-A.png') no-repeat top left transparent;
}

.current-menu-item .middle{
background:url('images/BG-Menu-Current-B.png') repeat-x top left transparent;
}

.current-menu-item .last{
background:url('images/BG-Menu-Current-C.png') no-repeat top left transparent;
}

.current-menu-item{
line-height: 51px;
}

There is also a dropdown menu, so when you see the .menu ul display:none , that is what its for… Feel free to correct any craziness you may see! Thanks!

Answer 1

All of the child divs are inline-blocks. When this happens, line-height will be applied if it contains text. To fix this, you need to float the divs as done below.

.menu ul > div { float: left }