Question
I have a drop Down Menu, which when clicked upon, pushes the content below it to make space for its items. However I would like for the drop down to overlap the contents below without pushing it down.
I tried a couple of things but they didnt work including z-index:1; on the drop down list.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23336217
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Russian <td valign="top" class="navigationLink" style="width: 20%" >
<div class="reportDiv">
<h:outputLabel value="Report" rendered="#{welcomeBean.report}" class="reportMenu"/>
<ul class="reportUL" >
<li><h:link value="Project Wise Report" outcome="/webpages/ProjectWiseReport.xhtml" rendered="true" class="reportItems"/></li>
<li><h:link value="Employee Wise Report" outcome="/webpages/EmployeeWiseReport.xhtml" rendered="true" class="reportItems"/></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
This is the drop down. This forms one row of the table in which i have placed the contents of the webpage. When i click on My Account label, the ul drops down and the height of the table's row increases and pushes the row below it down. I would like for the drop down to overlap the next row contents. How should i do that?
Some more code below and above it
<div class="container">
<!-- this is where the webpages starts from. The below table is where the main contents are -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" style="width: 100%; ">
<tr style="background-color: #95D0CA;">
<!-- contains header of page -->
<td colspan="2">
</td>
</tr>
<tr style=" position: relative; z-index:1;">
<td colspan="2" valign="top">
<!-- THIS IS WHERE I HAVE ADDED A NEW TABLE TO CONTAIN THE MENU ITEMS. THE DROP DOWN IS A (td) OF THIS TABLE -->
<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" class="templateBody" style="width: 100%;">
<tr >
<td>
<!-- other menu items -->
</td>
<!-- DROP DOWN -->
<td valign="top" class="navigationLink" style="width: 20%" >
<div class="reportDiv">
<h:outputLabel value="Report" rendered="#{welcomeBean.report}" class="reportMenu"/>
<ul class="reportUL" >
<li><h:link value="Project Wise Report" outcome="/webpages/ProjectWiseReport.xhtml" rendered="true" class="reportItems"/></li>
<li><h:link value="Employee Wise Report" outcome="/webpages/EmployeeWiseReport.xhtml" rendered="true" class="reportItems"/></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- NOW the Row which gets pushed down appears -->
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" style="width: 100%">
<div class="contentBody">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
I will show some snaps of how it looks. This might guide you guys to understand my problem.
Below an image of before drop down expands: !(http://imgur.com/QauRGVc)
image after drop down expands: !(http://imgur.com/VMlcCbp)
I have tried using jsFiddle as many of you suggested, but it wasnt showing my code as it is. So that was not serving the purpose. I hope this edit helps.
Please Help me. And do let me know if you need additional codes. ** Thank You in Advance :)**
**Edit**
Adding CSS and JAVA SCRIPT CODES
CSS CODE for the code i have provided
.navigationLink a
{
background-color: #95D0CA;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
.navigationLink label
{
background-color: #95D0CA;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
.reportMenu
{
text-decoration: none;
color: #216961;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
display: block;
padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
}
.reportItems
{
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: 400;
font-size: 15px;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #95D0CA;
text-align: center;
}
.container
{
width: 1000px;
background-color: whitesmoke;
padding: 10px;
margin: 50px auto;
position: relative;
}
.templateBody
{
font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: auto;
}
.templateBody td
{
text-align:center;
}
.contentBody
{
background-color: whitesmoke;
margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
width: 100%;
position: relative;
clear: both;
}
.reportUL
{
list-style-type: none;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
text-align: left;
}
.reportUL li
{
background-color: #95D0CA;
}
JQUERY CODE
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(".img, #img").show();
$("#loginWindow").hide();
$("#loginSlide").show();
$(".reportItems").hide();
$(".reportItems1").hide();
$("#loginSlide").click(function()
{
$("#loginWindow").slideToggle(200);
});
$(".toDate").datepicker();
$(".fromDate").datepicker();
$( "#accordion" ).accordion({
collapsible: true
});
$(".reportDiv").hover(function()
{
$(".reportItems").slideToggle(150);
});
$(".accountDiv").hover(function()
{
$(".reportItems1").slideToggle(150);
});
$(".mainLinks, .reportMenu, .reportItems, .reportMenu1, .reportItems1 ").hover(function()
{
$(this).css({"text-shadow":"0px 0px 5px #FFFFFF"});
}, function(){
$(this).css("text-shadow","none");
});
});
Solution 2
I just need to add the following CSS properties to the class reportUL of the the un-ordered list (ul) i used to add the drop down menu:
the property required to overlap the drop down on the contents below is:
position: absolute;
and to make it show above / on top of the below content i used:
z-index: 1;
the complete and correct CSS for the class is:
.reportUL
{
list-style-type: none;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
text-align: left;
}
