HTML / CSS Dropdown Menu

Question

I would like to have 5 divs, inline, with the third one showing a dropdown menu beneath it when hovered on. When I hover over the third div my dropdown menu appears, but it appears to the left of the page on the next line, rather than directly beneath the third div.

HTML:

<div class="option">One</div>
<div class="option">Two</div>
<div class="option">
    <div id="container">
        <div class="onHover">Three
            <div class="showMenu">
                <a href="#">Link 1</a></br>
                <a href="#">Link 2</a></br>
                <a href="#">Link 3</a></br>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
<div class="option">Four</div>
<div class="option">Five</div>

CSS:

.option {
    display: inline;
}

#container {
    display: inherit;
}

.onHover {
    display: inline;
}

.showMenu {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
}

.onHover:hover .showMenu {
    display: block;
}

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Give relative position to the parent of absolute & then position the menu with top/left. You might also need to adjust the width or use ellipsis.

 .option { display: inline; } #container { display: inherit; position: relative; } .onHover { display: inline; } .showMenu { display: none; position: absolute; top:1em; left:0px; } .onHover:hover .showMenu { display: block; }

 <div class="option">One</div> <div class="option">Two</div> <div class="option"> <div id="container"> <div class="onHover">Three <div class="showMenu"> <a href="#">Link 1</a></br> <a href="#">Link 2</a></br> <a href="#">Link 3</a></br> </div> </div> </div> <div class="option">Four</div> <div class="option">Five</div>

Answer 2

First you must define the positions for the absolute elements :

.showMenu {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    top:15px; // add this
    left:0;   // add this
}

and to make it on the left of specific element you must make this element position is relative

.onHover {
    display: inline;
    position:relative; // add this
}

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/9dxn0cn8/

Answer 3

In your case you need to make

.option { position: relative; }

You need to reed about position:absolute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position

Also always good idea is look to some examples: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_dropdowns.asp

Answer 4

try this , i am updated in your jsfiddle

code

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/mhrjnsa1/jpwqcxtj/3/

Answer 5

 .option { display: inline; } #container { display: inherit; } .onHover { display: inline; } .showMenu { display: none; position: absolute; left:70px; } .onHover:hover .showMenu { display: block; }

 <div class="option">One</div> <div class="option">Two</div> <div class="option"> <div id="container"> <div class="onHover">Three <div class="showMenu"> <a href="#">Link 1</a></br> <a href="#">Link 2</a></br> <a href="#">Link 3</a></br> </div> </div> </div> <div class="option">Four</div> <div class="option">Five</div>