A sticky nav bar is just a navigation bar that stays visible even when you scroll. A dropdown menu is just a menu in the navigation bar that has the ability to drop down other links when you hover over it. For some reason I can't integrate both aspects.
Heres some code for the sticky nav bar: https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_navbar_sticky
Adding this portion that makes it sticky:
position: -webkit-sticky;
position: sticky;
top: 0;
...adding it to the dropdown nav bar:
https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_dropdown_navbar
...gets rid of the dropdown functionality.
Here is my final code where the dropdown menu does not drop down after adding the above code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
font-size: 28px;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #333;
position: -webkit-sticky; /* Safari */
position: sticky;
top: 0;
}
li {
float: left;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: #111;
}
.active {
background-color: #4CAF50;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<h2>Scroll Down</h2>
<p>Scroll down to see the sticky effect.</p>
</div>
<ul>
<li><a class="active" href="#home">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Sticky Navigation Bar Example</h3>
<p>The navbar will <strong>stick</strong> to the top when you reach its scroll position.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Internet Explorer, Edge 15 and earlier versions do not support sticky positioning. Safari requires a -webkit- prefix.</p>
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<p>Some text to enable scrolling.. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, illum definitiones no quo, maluisset concludaturque et eum, altera fabulas ut quo. Atqui causae gloriatur ius te, id agam omnis evertitur eum. Affert laboramus repudiandae nec et. Inciderint efficiantur his ad. Eum no molestiae voluptatibus.</p>
<p>Some text to enable scrolling.. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, illum definitiones no quo, maluisset concludaturque et eum, altera fabulas ut quo. Atqui causae gloriatur ius te, id agam omnis evertitur eum. Affert laboramus repudiandae nec et. Inciderint efficiantur his ad. Eum no molestiae voluptatibus.</p>
<p>Some text to enable scrolling.. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, illum definitiones no quo, maluisset concludaturque et eum, altera fabulas ut quo. Atqui causae gloriatur ius te, id agam omnis evertitur eum. Affert laboramus repudiandae nec et. Inciderint efficiantur his ad. Eum no molestiae voluptatibus.</p>
<p>Some text to enable scrolling.. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, illum definitiones no quo, maluisset concludaturque et eum, altera fabulas ut quo. Atqui causae gloriatur ius te, id agam omnis evertitur eum. Affert laboramus repudiandae nec et. Inciderint efficiantur his ad. Eum no molestiae voluptatibus.</p>
</body>
</html>
So I managed to successfully combine both after some head-scratching. I ran into your same issue, and after some experiments, found out that
overflow: hidden
, as Luke suggested, was the (main) culprit.I deleted that line, and added
display: inline-block
andwidth: 100%
to theul
style to achieve the intended look as well. Note, however, that you need to add thedropdown
class to theli
menu item you want to add children to, and then add adiv
or equivalent tag with thedropdown-content
class that will contain all the childa
elements that will form the dropdown links. Hope it helps!Here is the code of the combined sticky + dropdown menu: