how to rectify li text overlapping

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In the following code I am unable to use 'display:inline' exactly as what it has to do.
All the text in all the five li's under ul id'sbmenu'are overlapping and not appearing as a single line.

CSS

#submenu li ul
{
 display:none;
}
#submenu li
{
 top:22px;
  left:314px;
 position:absolute;
display:inline;
width:300px;
}

XML

<div id="header">
<h1>Vasan heights</h1>
<ul id="submenu"  class="submenu">
<li class="sbmenu"> Home </li>
<li class="sbmenu"> About us </li>
<li class="sbmenu">Projects

     <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Completed</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">On going</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">About to start</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Photo Gallery</a></li>
            </ul>

            </li>

<li class="sbmenu">Contact Us</li>
<li class="sbmenu">Mail us</li>
</ul>

</div> <%--header--%>

Posted 20-Nov-14 18:29pm

S.Rajendran from Coimbatore

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Praneet Nadkar · Answer 1 · 2014-11-20T19:03:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Just change your css to this:

CSS

#submenu li
{
 top:22px;
 left:314px;
 position:inherit;
 display:inline;
 width:300px;
}

Check these links on how to use position:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp[^]
http://css-tricks.com/absolute-relative-fixed-positioining-how-do-they-differ/[^]

Regards,
Praneet

Posted 20-Nov-14 19:03pm

Praneet Nadkar

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S.Rajendran from Coimbatore 21-Nov-14 8:58am

Now when I changed position:inherit it works fine but it is not appearing within the 'header' div. It is appearing outside that 'header' div. My header div code as follows:
#header {
top:0px;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color:Gray;
color:white;
height:51px;
position :fixed;
text-align:left;
padding:5px;
width:1012px;
}

#header h1
{
margin-top:-2px;
color:Yellow;
font-size:xx-large;
}

Praneet Nadkar · Answer 2 · 2014-11-23T17:19:00

Hi,
Your #header has height defined as 51px. Either remove it or adjust it.
First try removing it and see how it looks and what type of look and feel you want.
See, you are applying the class to parent div, hence you will have to look at it first.
By adjusting this, your menu and submenu will come under it.

Regards,
Praneet