css display: inline-block issue

Question

i was trying to work on html,css and i got a problem. i am using display: inline-block so that my list items cover all the width of the header. but instead of covering whole width it just floats to the left. here is a demo of html/css on jsfiddle, http://jsfiddle.net/oso6x7cd/

html

<nav id="globalheader" class="globalheader gh-selected-tab-iphone" role="navigation" aria-label="Global Navigation" data-hires="false" data-analytics-region="global nav" lang="en-US">
            <div id="gh-content" class="gh-content">
                <div class="gh-nav">
                    <div class="gh-nav-view">
                        <ul class="gh-nav-list">
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-apple"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">Apple</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-store"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="http://store.apple.com/us"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">Store</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-mac"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/mac/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">Mac</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-iphone"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/iphone/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">iPhone</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-watch"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/watch/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">Watch</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-ipad"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/ipad/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">iPad</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-ipod"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/ipod/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">iPod</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-itunes"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/itunes/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">iTunes</span></span></a></li>
                            <li class="gh-tab gh-tab-support"><a class="gh-tab-link" href="/support/"><span class="gh-tab-inner"><span class="gh-text-replace">Support</span></span></a></li>

                        </ul>
                    </div>
                </div><!--/gh-nav-->
            </div>
        </nav>

thanks

Answer 1

In fact inline-block is working fine. That's the normal behavior for inline-block.

Answer 2

Setting an element to display:inline-block; does not make it fill it's container's width.

Setting display:table; width:100%; display:table; width:100%; to the ul element and display:table-cell; to the li elements seems to do the trick and is relatively simple.

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/oso6x7cd/1/

See an updated fiddle with a minimal working example along with media queries to change the padding of the menuitems as the browser window gets smaller:

http://jsfiddle.net/oso6x7cd/2/

Another update to make the nav-bar narrower according to the screen size: http://jsfiddle.net/oso6x7cd/3/