Adding search box to CSS menu

**NightShift** · 03-22-2008, 01:52 AM

G'day everyone,

I am new to using CSS and trying to convert my current site from tables to full CSS.

I have a horizontal menu bar with drop down menus on the left and I am trying to add a search box to the right side of the menu, but for some reason, it keeps adding it below the menu?

HTML

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Menu</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<div class="nav-container-outer">
<img src="images/nav-bg-l.jpg" alt="" class="float-left" />
<img src="images/nav-bg-r.jpg" alt="" class="float-right" />
<ul id="nav-container" class="nav-container">
<li><a class="item-primary" href="#">HOME</a>
</li>

<li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
<li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Products</a>

<ul style="width:150px;">
<li><a href="#">SoftwarePlus</a></li>
<li><a href="#">MagicDriver</a></li>
<li><a href="#">GreatFX</a></li>
<li><a href="#">SampleSoft</a></li>
<li><a href="#">UnDoIt</a></li>
<li><a href="#">100% CSS Menu</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">With Cross-Browser</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">Dropdowns</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">Absolutely NO Javascript</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">Being Used On</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">These Menus</a></li>
<li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
<li><a href="#;">Example Of a Divider</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">With No Title</a></li>
</ul></li>

<li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
<li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Quality</a>

<ul style="width:150px;">
<li><a href="#">SoftwarePlus</a></li>
<li><a href="#">MagicDriver</a></li>
<li><a href="#">GreatFX</a></li>
<li><a href="#">SampleSoft</a></li>
<li><a href="#">UnDoIt</a></li>
<li><a href="#">100% CSS Menu</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">With Cross-Browser</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">Dropdowns</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">Absolutely NO Javascript</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">Being Used On</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">These Menus</a></li>
<li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
<li><a href="#;">Example Of a Divider</a></li>
<li><a href="#;">With No Title</a></li>
</ul></li>

<li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
<li><a class="item-primary" href="#">Services</a>

<ul style="width:150px;">
<li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Title For Links</span></li>
<li><a href="#">These Links Still Appear</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Just Like The Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Even When Under A Title</a></li>
<li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
<li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Title After Divider</span></li>
<li><a href="#">Once Again...</a></li>
<li><a href="#">These Links Still Appear</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Just Like The Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Even When Under A Title</a></li>
</ul></li>

<li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
<li><a class="item-primary" href="#;">Very Long Item</a>

<ul style="width:150px;">
<li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Title For Links</span></li>
<li><a href="#">These Links Still Appear</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Just Like The Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Even When Under A Title</a></li>
<li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
<li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Title After Divider</span></li>
<li><a href="#">Once Again...</a></li>
<li><a href="#">These Links Still Appear</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Just Like The Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Even When Under A Title</a></li>
</ul></li>

<li><span class="divider divider-vert" ></span></li>
<li><a class="item-primary" href="#;">Fully Flexible</a>

<ul style="width:150px;">
<li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Title For Links</span></li>
<li><a href="#">These Links Still Appear</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Just Like The Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Even When Under A Title</a></li>
<li><span class="divider divider-horiz" ></span></li>
<li><span class="item-secondary-title" >Title After Divider</span></li>
<li><a href="#">Once Again...</a></li>
<li><a href="#">These Links Still Appear</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Just Like The Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Even When Under A Title</a></li>
</ul></li></span>
<li class="clear">&nbsp;</li></ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

body{
padding: 25px;
}

/*^'^ Navigation Structure ^'^*/
.nav-container-outer{
background: #990000;
padding: 0px;
height: 74px;
background: url(images/nav-bg.jpg);
}
.float-left{
float: left;
}
.float-right{
float: right;
}
.nav-container .divider{
display:block;
font-size:1px;
border-width:1px;
border-style:solid;
}
.nav-container .divider-vert{
float:left;
width:1px;
display: none;
}
.nav-container .item-secondary-title{
display:block;
cursor:default;
white-space:nowrap;
}
.clear{
font-size:1px;
height:0px;
width:0px;
clear:left;
line-height:0px;
display:block;
float:none;
}
.nav-container{
position:relative;
zoom:1;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.nav-container a, .nav-container li{
float:left;
display:block;
white-space:nowrap;
}
.nav-container div a, .nav-container ul a, .nav-container ul li{
float:none;
}
.nav-container ul{
left:-10000px;
position:absolute;
}
.nav-container, .nav-container ul{
list-style:none;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
}
.nav-container li a{
float:none
}
.nav-container li{
position:relative;
}
.nav-container ul{
z-index:10;
}
.nav-container ul ul{
z-index:20;
}
.nav-container ul ul ul{
z-index:30;
}
.nav-container ul ul ul ul{
z-index:40;
}
.nav-container ul ul ul ul ul{
z-index:50;
}
li:hover>ul{
left:auto;
}
#nav-container ul {
top:100%;
}
#nav-container ul li:hover>ul{
top:0px;
left:100%;
}

/*^'^ Primary Items ^'^*/ 
#nav-container a{
padding:7px 17px 7px 18px;
margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight: bold;
background: url(images/item-primary-bg.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top;
}

#nav-container a:hover{
color: #6C3600;
background: url(images/item-primary-bg.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
}

/*^'^ Secondary Items Container ^'^*/ 
#nav-container div, #nav-container ul{ 
padding:10px 4px 10px 4px;
margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
background: url(images/item-secondary-container-bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color: #FF9900;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CA6500;
}

/*^'^ Secondary Items ^'^*/ 
#nav-container div a, #nav-container ul a{ 
padding:3px 10px 3px 6px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background: url(images/item-secondary-bg.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0px 22px;
font-size:11px;
border-width:0px;
border-style:none;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 149px;
}

/*^'^ Secondary Items Hover State ^'^*/ 
#nav-container div a:hover, #nav-container ul a:hover{ 
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background: url(images/item-secondary-bg.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color:#CC0000;
}

/*^'^ Secondary Item Titles ^'^*/ 
#nav-container .item-secondary-title{ 
cursor:default;
padding:4px 0px 3px 7px;
color: #6C3600;
font-family: Arial, Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica;
font-size:11px;
/* background: url(images/item-secondary-title-bg.jpg); */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
font-weight:bold;
}

/*^'^ Horizontal Dividers ^'^*/ 
#nav-container .divider-horiz{ 
border-top-width:1px;
margin:5px 5px;
border-color: #C16100;
}

/*^'^ Vertical Dividers ^'^*/ 
#nav-container .divider-vert{ 
border-left-width:1px;
height:15px;
margin:4px 2px 0px 2px;
border-color:#AAAAAA;
}

As I said I am brand new to CSS, so any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

Thank you

**Medyman** · 03-23-2008, 02:32 AM

Just add the text input as another item to the menu.
You could do floats, et. al. but that might get a little messy.

In your menu, find:

Code:

<li class="clear">&nbsp;</li>

after, add

Code:

<li id="search"><input type="text" /></li>

Next, use CSS to position li#search to whereever you want and style the input (li#search input) however you want.

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