Trying to show a menu using CSS

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My problem is that I have a nav section in my page and I want to only show the parent items, on hover the child items need to be displayed. That works but it then moves the remainder of the page down. This is not what I want. Can I make it, using CSS only, to show the child content over what follows?

My page is thus:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
	<title>Test Menu</title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style>
		.drop-menu {
			display: inline-block;
			min-width: 100px;
			text-align: left;
			padding: 10px 10px;
			cursor: pointer;
			border: 1px solid #f6f0e4;
		}

		.drop-menu:hover .sub-menu {
			display: block;
		}

		.sub-menu {
			display: none;
			width: 200px;
			padding: 10px 10px;
			margin-left: -11px;
			margin-top: 10px;
			border: 1px solid #fff;
		}

		.sub-menu li {
			list-style-type: none;
			display: block;
			border-bottom: 1px dotted #eaeaea;
		}

		.sub-menu li:hover {
			border-bottom: 1px dotted #bababa;
		}
	</style>

	<body>

		<header>
			<h1>Test Menu</h1>
		</header>

		<nav>
			<ul>
				<li class="drop-menu">
					<div>Parent</div>
					<ul class="sub-menu">
						<li>Child 2</li>
						<li>Child 1</li>
					</ul>
				</li>
			</ul>
		</nav>
		<section>
			<h2>Content</h2>

			<article>
				<h3>Article</h3>
				<h6>by Author</h6>
				<p>
					Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
				</p>
			</article>
		</section>
		<footer>
			<p>Footer</p>
		</footer>
	</body>
</html>

For the .drop-menu:hover, I have tried different display styles, but it appears I'm missing something or other.

Posted 11-Feb-15 1:05am

Nagy Vilmos

Updated 11-Feb-15 1:11am

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jaket-cp · Answer 1 · 2015-02-11T01:13:00

Solution 1

Try using position, that may help.

CSS

/*add these to the css style*/
.drop-menu {
    position:relative;
}
.sub-menu {
    position:absolute;
    background-color:white;
}

Here is jsfiddle of your example with additions: http://jsfiddle.net/mL28mohg/[^]

Posted 11-Feb-15 1:13am

jaket-cp

Updated 11-Feb-15 2:09am

v3

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Nagy Vilmos 11-Feb-15 8:04am

Looks likely, thanks. The css file shouldn't have been there, it contains all the stuff I don't want to move.

jaket-cp 11-Feb-15 8:08am

No problem, glad to help :)
I see you storyboard.css has been removed from question, will change solution accordingly.