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How to Build A WordPress Theme - Menu only showing correctly in Chrome.

in the How to Build A WordPress Theme course I am building along and the Menu is only showing correctly in Chrome. It is showing vertical instead of horizontal. Is there a reason for this that I am missing? Or is the theme only supposed to show in Chrome?

6 Answers

Aaron Jackson
Aaron Jackson
5,644 Points

Can you show your code for this? It's always easier to see what is going on.

it is the same code from the course http://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme/converting-static-html-into-wordpress-templates/convert-blog-listing-and-single-post-templates-2 in project files.

The same thing happens with their finished code from the project files. Shows correctly in Chrome and then shows up wrong in Firefox

this is the PHP for the Nav

            <nav>
                                <?php

            $args = array(
                'menu' => 'main-menu',
                'echo' => false
                );

            echo strip_tags(wp_nav_menu( $args ), '<a>');

            ?>
            </nav>

=====this is the CSS=====

nav { display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient:horizontal; padding: 2% 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e6e6e6; border-top: 1px solid #e6e6e6;
margin: 2% 0 2% 0; }

nav a { font-family: 'GoudyRegular'; display:block; -webkit-box-flex:1; text-align:center; font-size: 1.25; color: #666; }

Aaron Jackson
Aaron Jackson
5,644 Points

Are you getting in errors in the dev tools console in Chrome? Sounds like there is some CSS that isn't loading properly.

no i do not, here is the link http://ballisondesign.com/blog/

Aaron Jackson
Aaron Jackson
5,644 Points

OK, I see the problem. This is a CSS error, change the following code:

nav { display: -webkit-box; }

nav a { display: block;  text-align: center;  font-size: 1.25; }

========================================================================

nav { display: block; text-align: center; } 

nav a { font-size: 1.25em; margin: 95px; }

That just breaks it in all browsers.