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Text on the top not center in the button

I have button with text on top
Here is code
.settings-button-new {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 14px;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 4px #d3dbde;
-webkit-border-radius: 13px;
-moz-border-radius: 13px;
border-radius: 13px;
font: 15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1c559b;
background-color: #ffffff;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#fcfcfc 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#fcfcfc', endColorstr='#fcfcfc',GradientType=0 );
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#fcfcfc 100%);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
}
.settings-button-new span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
}
<button class="settings-button-new"><span>Home</span></button>
It on the top, but not centered as you can see.
I try to use text-align: center; but seems it not works.
How can i center it in button?
Thank's for help

Just add below css code for center, if don't need to vertically center then the top:0 or as your need; and transform: translate(-50%, 0);.
.settings-button-new span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
.settings-button-new {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 14px;
position: relative;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 4px #d3dbde;
-webkit-border-radius: 13px;
-moz-border-radius: 13px;
border-radius: 13px;
font: 15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1c559b;
background-color: #ffffff;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#fcfcfc', endColorstr='#fcfcfc', GradientType=0);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
}
.settings-button-new span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
<button class="settings-button-new"><span>Home</span></button>
Only center.
.settings-button-new span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 5px;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}
.settings-button-new {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 14px;
position: relative;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 4px #d3dbde;
-webkit-border-radius: 13px;
-moz-border-radius: 13px;
border-radius: 13px;
font: 15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1c559b;
background-color: #ffffff;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#fcfcfc', endColorstr='#fcfcfc', GradientType=0);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
}
.settings-button-new span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 5px;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}
<button class="settings-button-new"><span>Home</span></button>

Maybe this code can help you
.settings-button-new {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 14px;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 4px #d3dbde;
-webkit-border-radius: 13px;
-moz-border-radius: 13px;
border-radius: 13px;
font: 15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1c559b;
background-color: #ffffff;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#fcfcfc 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#fcfcfc', endColorstr='#fcfcfc',GradientType=0 );
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#fcfcfc 100%);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
}
.settings-button-new span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top:0;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
}
<button class="settings-button-new"><span>Home</span></button>

You can remove vertical aligning text using without absolute positioning: you can use vertical-align and pseudoelement for this. Source answer for this technique.
Also
You don't need absolute position in this case (and text-align: center).
I would recommend you to delete vendor prefixed properties because they are for very old browsers
linear-gradient will work for background, not background-image property
Demo:
/* styles to align button's text at the top */
.settings-button-new:after {
content: "";
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
height: inherit;
}
/* styles to align button's text at the top */
.settings-button-new span {
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
}
/* Cleaned up button styles */
.settings-button-new {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 4px #d3dbde;
border-radius: 13px;
font: 15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1c559b;
background: #fff linear-gradient(top, #fff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #fff;
}
<button class="settings-button-new">
<span>Home</span>
</button>

.settings-button-new span {
margin: 0px;
text-align: center;
}

can you change span to div , text-align:center will then work fine

remove the poistion .and simply add margin:auto
.settings-button-new {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 14px;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 4px #d3dbde;
-webkit-border-radius: 13px;
-moz-border-radius: 13px;
border-radius: 13px;
font: 15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1c559b;
background-color: #ffffff;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #fcfcfc 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#fcfcfc 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#fcfcfc', endColorstr='#fcfcfc',GradientType=0 );
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#fcfcfc 100%);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #bababa, inset 0px 0px 1px #ffffff;
}
.settings-button-new span {
margin:auto;
}
<button class="settings-button-new"><span>Home</span></button>

Anchor tag not working inside List Item

https://jsfiddle.net/1exbczjy/
<body>
<section class="main">
<form class="search" action="">
<input type="search" id ="searchit" placeholder="search.." />
<ul class="results" id="searchlist">
</ul>
</form>
</section>
</body>
This is a demo of the code that I am trying to run , my original code contains js file which is dynamically populating my ul class using the innerHTML function but the output is same as the dummy list data I have provided.
I am not able to understand why my list tag does not work . I have tried to resolve it using other answers provided on this site , checking for z index and absolute and relative position of a and li tag.

The reason is because on click, the input loses its :focus (as pointed out by shaochuancs) and the content is hidden before the click on the anchor is registered. A click event consists of mousedown and mouseup event. The loss of focus is triggered on mousedown anywhere on the page. So just prevent the loss of :focus on mousedown on the anchor tags. The rest of the code would function as expected, because the anchor tag click is triggered on mouseup.
So the issue can be dealt with some basic javascript/jQuery, by simply preventDefault() on mousedown on the anchor tags.
$("a").mousedown(function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
}
Note that in this code snippet the link doesn't load because it is blocked by the frame. But you can see in the console that the link is clicked.
$("a").mousedown(function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
console.log($(this).attr("href"));
console.log("Click triggered");
});
/* * Copyright (c) 2012 Thibaut Courouble
* Licensed under the MIT License
================================================== */
body {
background: #f7f7f7;
color: #404040;
font-family: 'HelveticaNeue', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: normal;
line-height: 20px;
}
a {
color: #1e7ad3;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline
}
.container,
.main {
width: 640px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
height: 300px;
}
.main {
margin-top: 50px
}
input {
font-family: 'HelveticaNeue', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #555860;
}
.search {
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 300px;
}
.search input {
height: 26px;
width: 100%;
padding: 0 12px 0 25px;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #a8acbc #babdcc #c0c3d2;
border-radius: 13px;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-ms-box-sizing: border-box;
-o-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px #e5e7ed, 0 1px 0 #fcfcfc;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px #e5e7ed, 0 1px 0 #fcfcfc;
-ms-box-shadow: inset 0 1px #e5e7ed, 0 1px 0 #fcfcfc;
-o-box-shadow: inset 0 1px #e5e7ed, 0 1px 0 #fcfcfc;
box-shadow: inset 0 1px #e5e7ed, 0 1px 0 #fcfcfc;
}
.search input:focus {
outline: none;
border-color: #66b1ee;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(85, 168, 236, 0.9);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(85, 168, 236, 0.9);
-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(85, 168, 236, 0.9);
-o-box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(85, 168, 236, 0.9);
box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(85, 168, 236, 0.9);
}
.search input:focus+.results {
display: block
}
.search .results {
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 35px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
z-index: 10000;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #cbcfe2 #c8cee7 #c4c7d7;
border-radius: 3px;
background-color: #fdfdfd;
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #fdfdfd), color-stop(100%, #eceef4));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #fdfdfd, #eceef4);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fdfdfd, #eceef4);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #fdfdfd, #eceef4);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #fdfdfd, #eceef4);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #fdfdfd, #eceef4);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
-ms-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
-o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}
.search .results li {
display: block
}
.search .results li:first-child {
margin-top: -1px
}
.search .results li:first-child:before,
.search .results li:first-child:after {
display: block;
content: '';
width: 0;
height: 0;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -5px;
border: 5px outset transparent;
}
.search .results li:first-child:before {
border-bottom: 5px solid #c4c7d7;
top: -11px;
}
.search .results li:first-child:after {
border-bottom: 5px solid #fdfdfd;
top: -10px;
}
.search .results li:first-child:hover:before,
.search .results li:first-child:hover:after {
display: none
}
.search .results li:last-child {
margin-bottom: -1px
}
.search .results li a {
display: block;
position: relative;
margin: 0 -1px;
padding: 6px 40px 6px 10px;
color: #808394;
font-weight: 500;
text-shadow: 0 1px #fff;
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.search .results li a span {
font-weight: 200
}
.search .results li a:before {
content: '';
width: 18px;
height: 18px;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
right: 10px;
margin-top: -9px;
}
.search .results li a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
text-shadow: 0 -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
border-color: #2380dd #2179d5 #1a60aa;
background-color: #338cdf;
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #59aaf4), color-stop(100%, #338cdf));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #59aaf4, #338cdf);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #59aaf4, #338cdf);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #59aaf4, #338cdf);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #59aaf4, #338cdf);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #59aaf4, #338cdf);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
-ms-box-shadow: inset 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
-o-box-shadow: inset 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
box-shadow: inset 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
}
:-moz-placeholder {
color: #a7aabc;
font-weight: 200;
}
::-webkit-input-placeholder {
color: #a7aabc;
font-weight: 200;
}
.search li {
padding: 0px;
}
.search li a {
margin: 0px;
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.lt-ie9 .search input {
line-height: 26px
}
/*adding effect when the mouse is hovered over list item*/
/*adding effect when the mouse is hovered over list item*/
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<title>Input Autocomplete Suggestions Demo</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://designshack.net/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" href="http://designshack.net/favicon.ico">
<body>
<section class="main">
<form class="search" action="">
<input type="search" id="searchit" placeholder="search.." />
<ul class="results" id="searchlist">
<li>Tag A</li>
<li>Tag B</li>
</ul>
</form>
</section>
</body>

The root cause is: when anchor tag is clicked, .search input lose its :focus status, which makes .search input:focus + .results { display: block } disabled and .search .results's display as none again -- As the <a> tag does not exist on page anymore, nothing happens. It has nothing to do with ul or li.
Here is a simplified example: https://jsfiddle.net/cshao/rtonLr4z/, the <a> won't work as in the question.

There is also another possibility. If you set the decoration of the Anchor to none and change the background of the li on hovering the Achor link only works when you are hovering on the text of the Anchor but what you want is that the Anchor activates on the whole surface of the li, but how you can make that work is another thing.

How to change tooltip background color?

I have created a tooltip in my html file like this:
<span title="" class="duedate-warning-msg"></span>
And I set the CSS property like this:
.duedate-warning-msg{
background: url("/static/img/error.png") no-repeat scroll 14px 12px white;
border-color: #f5c7c7;
padding: .5em 0.25em 0.5em 2.5em;
title:"my tooltip";
color: #D11006;
}
span:hover{
position:relative;
}
span[title]:hover:after {
content: "This statement is past due.";
padding: 4px 8px;
color: white;
font-size:16px;
font-family: "open_sansregular";
background: #0679ca;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
z-index: 20px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #eeeeee),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
}
The above style created tooltip perfectly. Only problem which I am facing is that I want background color of tooltip is blue. But it always shows gray. Why it is happening so?

Remove the background-image and add background, like so:
span[title]:hover:after {
content: "This statement is past due.";
padding: 4px 8px;
color: white;
font-size:16px;
font-family: "open_sansregular";
background: #0679ca;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
z-index: 20px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background: #00F;
}

Easy, in background-image property replace #cccccc with a color of your choice, assuming that you want to keep the fade-to-almost-white (#eeeeee) gradient.

Remove the background image from span[title]:hover:after
Here is the working Demo

Css/javascript position

Well, this is my problem:
I need the red box behind the number , not above.
My css:
[data-counter]:after {
background-color: #FF6969;
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#FF6969 0%, #ff0000 100%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#FF6969 0%, #ff0000 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#FF6969 0%, #ff0000 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(#FF6969 0%, #ff0000 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(#FF6969 0%, #ff0000 100%);
height: 8px !important;
margin-top: 4px;
content: attr(data-counter);
top: -10px;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 4px;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.5), 0 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,.4), 0 0 1px rgba(0,0,0,.7) inset, 0 10px 0px rgba(255,255,255,.11) inset;
background-clip: padding-box;
font:bold 10px "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.6);
margin-left: -10px;
}​
My javascript(lol)
$(function () {
$('head').append('<style>#numberMps {display:none !important; }#sizeMps { color: red; width: 5px; margin-left: -7px; } </style>');
$('#inbox_link').prepend('<div id="numberMps"></div>');
var newMPs = ".main-content .statused .tcl.tdtopics:has(img[src='http://illiweb.com/fa/empty.gif?NEW']) a[href*='/privmsg?folder=inbox&mode=read&p']";
$('#numberMps').load('privmsg?folder=inbox ' + newMPs, function () {
$('#numberMps').after('<div id="sizeMps"></div>');
var sizeMPs = $('#numberMps a').size();
if (sizeMPs == '0') return;
$('li a[href^="/privmsg?folder=inbox?BOX"]').attr('data-counter', ''+sizeMPs+'');
});
});
Look, the javascript obatin the number of messages, and the css draw this.
Anyone have tips or a solution?

Try useing z-index, it should help.

How to stop HTML element getting covered when window resized?

I have a nav bar and a a div on a website right now. The div is slightly covering the nav bar, however when I resize my window it completely covers the nav bar. I would like it to always somewhat cover the nav bar but not completely.
HTML
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<ul>
<li class="nav">Home</li>
<li class="nav">About Me</li>
<li class="nav">Projects</li>
<li class="nav">Resume</li>
<li class="nav">Contact</li>
</ul>
<div id="bod">
<h1 class="title">Home</h1>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS
#bod {
height: 100%;
width: 86%;
background-color: #F4F3EE;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
box-shadow: -1px 0px 10px 1px #999;
-moz-box-shadow: -1px 0px 10px 1px #999;
-webkit-box-shadow: -1px 0px 10px 1px #999;}
.nav {
border: 1px solid #F4F3EE;
width:20%;
height:100px;
color: #F4F3EE;
margin: 2px 0px 0px 10px;
text-align: left;
font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 30px;
padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
list-style-type: none;
border-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: -1px 0px 10px 1px #999;
-moz-box-shadow: -1px 0px 10px 1px #999;
-webkit-box-shadow: -1px 0px 10px 1px #999;
box-shadow: inset 1px 2px 4px #F4F3EE;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 1px 2px 4px #F4F3EE;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 1px 2px 4px #F4F3EE;
background: #b58aa5;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ad8599 1%, #b58aa5 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(1%,#ad8599), color-stop(100%,#b58aa5));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ad8599 1%,#b58aa5 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ad8599 1%,#b58aa5 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ad8599 1%,#b58aa5 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #ad8599 1%,#b58aa5 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ad8599', endColorstr='#b58aa5',GradientType=0 );
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.nav').mouseenter(function() {
$(this).animate({marginLeft: '-=20px'}, 100);
$(this).addClass('.nav1');
});
$('.nav').mouseleave(function() {
$(this).animate({marginLeft: '+=20px'}, 100);
});
});
I can't for the life of me figure out what to do make sure the user can still see the nav when the window is resized.

Set left: 200px; on #bod, that will fix it. Then you can get rid of the width: 86%; which is set on #bod as well. You are absolutely positioning #bod, this means that #bod is taken out of the regular flow and turned into it's own thing. Now you can set top, left, bottom and right to specify the space between the sides of the web page and #bod. If you set bottom: 0px; on #bod you won't need height: 100%; on #bod either.