CSS - Problem With Border On Three Column Layout

Hello

I would be really grateful if anyone can help me - I'm struggling with a 3 column layout using css.

It seems to work well in all except IE6 (I'm looking at it on a Mac using Safari and Firefox, I've got different browser screen shots from a website and all seem OK except IE6, which puts the center column under the other two, instead of at the same height.

If anyone has any ideas, they'd be much appreciated - I don't really know what I'm doing with css, and I have tried several different 3 col layouts that I've found on the web: this is the only one that has worked in almost all browsers for me.

This is the style sheet:

body {background: #003366; }
a { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration:none; font-size: medium; color: #de8600;}
h1 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; background: #FFFFFF; color: #DE8600}
h2 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; color: #003366}
h3 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; color: #003366}
h4 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; background: #003366; color: #DE8600}
h5 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; background: #FFFFCC; color: #000033}
p { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #003366;}
a:visited {font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #de8600;}
a:hover { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration:underline; font-size: medium; color: #DE8600;}

body {
padding: 0px;
border:0;
background: #003366;

}

div#wrapper {
width: 780px;
margin: 0 auto;

}

div#header {
background-image: url("header.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top: 0;
width:780px;
height: 200px

}

#header .slogan {
text-align: left;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

p.slogan {
text-align: left;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
}

div#navcontainer
{
background: #003366;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 1em 0 0 0;
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center
text-transform: lowercase;
border-top: 2px solid #de8600;
}

/* to stretch the container div to contain floated list */
#navcontainer:after
{
content: ".";
display: block;
line-height: 1px;
font-size: 1px;
clear: both;
}

ul#navlist
{
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
display: inline;
width: 100%;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

ul#navlist li
{
display: block;
float: left;
width: 20%;
text-align: center
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

ul#navlist li a
{
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 0.5em;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #ffe #aaab9c #ccc #fff;
border-style: solid;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
background: #cccccc url(nav.gif);
}

#navcontainer>ul#navlist li a { width: auto; }

ul#navlist li#active a
{
background: #cccccc url(nav.gif);
color: #996600;
}

ul#navlist li a:hover, ul#navlist li#active a:hover
{
color: #996600;
background: transparent;
border-color: #aaab9c #fff #fff #ccc;
}

#container
{
position: relative;
display:block;
background:#0ac;
border-left:200px solid #003366;
border-right:200px solid #003366;
}

#inner
{
display:block;
margin-left:-200px;
margin-right:-200px;
padding:5px;

}

#left
{
float:left;
position: relative;
width:200px;
left:0px;
}

#right
{
float:right;
position: relative;
width:200px;
right:0px;
}

#center
{
margin-left:200px; margin-right:200px; position:relative; display:block; height:1%;}
.clear {clear:both;}

/* Just to extend each column */
#inner a:visited, a {text-decoration:none; cursor:default;}
#inner a span {display:none;}
#inner a:active, #inner a:focus {color:#fff; text-decoration:none; background:transparent; cursor:default;}
#inner a:active span, #inner a:focus span {display:block;}

.menu {
width:150px;
height:150px;
position:relative;
margin:0;
font-size:11px;
margin:0px 0;
z-index:100;

}

.menu ul li a, .menu ul li a:visited {
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
color:#003366; width:150px;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
border:1px solid #fff;
border-width:1px 1px 0 0;
background:#003366 url(nav.gif);
line-height:19px;
font-size:11px;
}

.menu ul {
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style-type: none;
}

.menu ul li {
float:left;
margin-right:1px;
position:relative;
}

.menu ul li ul {
display:none;
}

/* specific to non IE browsers */
.menu ul li:hover a {
color:#996600;
background:#cccccc;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:150px;
width:150px;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li a.hide {
background:#ffffff;
color:#003366;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover a.hide {
width:150px;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li ul {
display: none;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li a {
display:block;
background:#cccccc;
color:#996600;
width:200px;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li a:hover {
background:#dfc184;
color:#666666;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul {
display:block;
position:absolute;
left:151px;
top:0;
color:#003366;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul li a {
display:block;
width:200px;
background:#dfc184;
color:#003366;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover ul li a:hover {
background:#bd8d5e;
color:#fff;
}

div#fla {
position:relative;
text-align: center;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 20px 0 20px 0;
}

p.fla {
text-align: center;
font-size: 10px;
color: #ffffff;
margin: 0;
}

p.date {
text-align: right;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #ffffff;
margin: 0;
}

div#guardian {
height:60px;
margin: 10px 0 10px 0;
align: right;
}

div#banner {
width:200px;
margin:20px 0 20px 0;
background:#ffffff;
padding:10;
color:#003366;
font-size:10px;
text-align: center;
border:1px solid #de8600;
}

#banner a:hover {
color:#996600;
font-size:10px;
text-align: center;
background:#cccccc;

}

p.banner {
color:#003366;
font-size:10px;
text-align: center;

}

div#google {
width:180px;
height:120px;
margin:10px 0 0 0;
background:#003366;
padding:5px;
color:#ffffff;
}

div#search {
width:180px;
margin:20px 0 20px 0;
background:#ffffff url("search.gif");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding:10px;
color:#003366;
border:1px solid #de8600;
}

p.search {
color:#003366;
font-size:11px;
text-align: center;

}

a.search {
color:#003366;
font-size:11px;
text-align: center;

}

#search a:hover {
color:#996600;
font-size:11px;
text-align: center;

}

div#edit {
width:250px;
margin:20px 0 0 0;
background:#ffffff url("edit-box.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding:20px;
color:#003366;
border:1px solid #de8600;
}

p.edit {
color:#003366;
font-size:11px;
text-align: center;

}

a.edit {
color:#003366;
font-size:11px;
text-align: left;

}

#edit a:hover {
color:#996600;
font-size:11px;
text-align: left;

}

.gallerycontent{
width: 250px;
border: 1px solid #de8600
background-color: #fffFFF;
text-align: center;
display: block;
}


div#footer {
clear:both;
position:relative;
align:center;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top: 20px;
width:780px;
height: 160px

}

p.footer {
color:#ffffff;
font-size:10px;
text-align: left;

}

I am apparently not allowed to post the URL of the page, but I hope that someone may be able to make some suggestions anyway.

Thanks for your time!

Frances

i want 2 columns side by side:css is as below. it seems the 2nd column is displayed below the first column.wat can be done to avoid this.
div#column1 {
margin-left: 150px;
width: 70px;
height: 500px;
background: #CCCCFF;
color: blue;}

div#column2 {
margin-left: 250px;
color: black;
background: blue;

}

[/CODE]I have a 2 column css layout. I am having a problem with getting the vertical line that separates the left and right column to go the length of the page. It grows with the content in the right column.

Here is an example:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
<html xmlns="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>xyzTrader.com</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body id="type-b"><!---->

<div id="wrap">

	<div id="header">

		<div id="site-name">xyzTrader.com</div>
		<div id="search">
			<form action="">
			<label for="searchsite">Site Search:</label>
			<input id="searchsite" name="searchsite" type="text" />
			<input type="submit" value="Go" class="f-submit" />
			</form>
		</div>
	</div>

	<div id="content-wrap">
		<div id="login">
					<form method="post" action="/test/header.php">
		  Username <br />
		  <input name="uname" type="text" id="uname">
		  <br />
		  Password<br />
		  <input name="pword" type="password" id="pword">
		  <br />
		  <input name="Login" type="submit" id="Login" value="Login">
		</form>
				</div>

		<div id="utility">

		<ul id="nav-secondary">
		<li class="first"><b>Catagories</b></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Books</a></li>


		</div>

		<div id="content">
		test<br>
		test<br>
		test<br>
		test<br>
		test<br>
		test<br>
		test<br>
		test<br>
		<p>hello<br>sfafssf</P>

and here is the css file:
Code:

/* THE BIG GUYS */
* {margin:0;padding:0}
html {min-height: 100%; min-width: 100%;}
body {padding: 0 0 20px;background: #fff url("images/body_bg.gif") repeat-x 0 100%;color:#333;font:83%/1.5 arial,tahoma,verdana,sans-serif}

/* LINKS */
a,a:link,a:link,a:link,a:hover {background:transparent;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer} 
a:link {color:#c00} 
a:visited {color:#999} 
a:hover,a:active {color:#069} 

/* FORMS */
input {font-family: arial,tahoma,verdana,sans-serif;margin: 2px 0}
/* FORMS - general classes */
input.f-submit {padding: 1px 3px;background:#666;color:#fff;font-weight:bold;font-size:96%}
	

/* TYPOGRAPHY */
p, ul, ol {margin: 0 0 1.5em}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {letter-spacing: -1px;font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif;margin: 1.2em 0 .3em;color:#000;border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;padding-bottom: .1em}
h1 {font-size: 196%;margin-top:.6em}
h2 {font-size: 136%}
h3 {font-size: 126%}
h4 {font-size: 116%}
h5 {font-size: 106%}
h6 {font-size: 96%}
.highlight {color:#E17000}
.subdued {color:#999}
.error {color:#c00;font-weight:bold}
.success {color:#390;font-weight:bold}
.caption {color:#999;font-size:11px}
.date {font: bold 82% arial;color:#bbb;display:block;letter-spacing: 1px}
small {font-size:11px}

/* LISTS */
ul {margin: .3em 0 1.5em 0;list-style-type:none}
	ul.related {margin-top: -1em}
ol {margin: .5em .5em 1.5em}
ol li {margin-left: 1.4em;padding-left: 0;background: none; list-style-type: decimal}
li {line-height: 1.4em;padding-left: 25px;background: transparent url("images/sprites.gif") no-repeat 0 0}
li.doc {background-position: 3px -500px}
ul.nomarker li {background:none;padding-left:0}

dl {margin: 0 0 1em 0}
dt {font-weight:bold;margin-top: 1.3em}
dl dl {margin: 0 0 1.5em 30px}

/* GENERAL */
img {border:none} 
hr {margin: 1em 0;background:#f2f2f2;height:1px;color:#f2f2f2;border:none;clear:both}
.clear {clear:both;position:relative;font-size:0px;height:0px;line-height:0px} 

/* LAYOUT - HEADER */
#header {background: #666 url("images/sprites.gif") repeat-x 0 100%;margin: 0 0 25px;padding: 0 0 8px}

	#header #site-name {font: 265% arial;letter-spacing: -.05em;margin:0 0 0 40px;padding:3px 0;color:#ccc;border:none}
	
	/* SEARCH */
	#search {color:#fff;font-weight:bold;position:absolute;top:10px;right:50px;left:auto;width:18em}
	#search form {margin:0}
	#search input {width:8em;margin: 0 0 -1px;height:1.2em}
	#search label {padding:5px 0 0;display:inline}
	#search input.f-submit {width:auto;font-size:81%;margin:0 0 -.15em;height:1.95em}

/* LAYOUT - main body of page */
#wrap {min-width:770px;max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;position:relative; }
#content-wrap {position:relative;width:100%;}
	#login   {position:absolute;top:0;left:25px;width:165px;border-top: 5px solid #999;padding-bottom: 40px}
	#utility {position:absolute; top:125px;left:25px;width:165px;border-top: 5px solid #999;padding-bottom: 40px}
	#sidebar {position:absolute;top:0;right:25px;width:20%;border-top: 5px solid #999;padding-top: 1px;padding-bottom: 40px}

#content {margin: 0 50px}
	#content #breadcrumb {margin-top:-5px;font-size:93%;font-weight:bold}
	#content #breadcrumb a:link, #content #breadcrumb a:visited {text-decoration:none}
	#content #breadcrumb a:hover, #content #breadcrumb a:active {text-decoration:underline}

/* LAYOUT TYPE B */
	#type-b #content-wrap {background: url("images/content_wrap_bg.gif") repeat-y 30px 0;min-height:98%;}
	#type-b #content {margin: 0 23px 0 235px}

/* SECONDARY NAVIGATION - vertical navigation */
	#nav-secondary, #nav-secondary ul {position:static}
	#nav-secondary, #nav-secondary li {list-style: none;margin:0;padding:0;background:#fff}
	#nav-secondary {padding-top:0;border-top: 1px solid #ccc;margin-top: 1px}
	#nav-secondary a {line-height:1.8;padding: 5px 0 5px 23px;background: #fff url("images/sprites.gif") no-repeat 10px -695px;font: bold 86% arial;display:block}
	#nav-secondary a, #nav-secondary a:link, #nav-secondary a:visited, #nav-secondary a:hover, #nav-secondary a:active {text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer} 
	#nav-secondary a:link {color:#000} 
	#nav-secondary a:visited {color:#000} 
	#nav-secondary a:hover {color:#c00;background: #fee url("images/sprites.gif") no-repeat 10px -695px} 
	#nav-secondary li.active a:link, #nav-secondary li.active a:visited, #nav-secondary li.active a:hover, #nav-secondary li.active a:active {color:#c00} 
	#nav-secondary li {border-top: 1px solid #fff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc}

/* SECONDARY NAVIGATION - 2nd TIER */
	#nav-secondary ul {margin: 0 0 1em 23px;padding:0}
	#nav-secondary li.active li a, #nav-secondary li.active li a:link, #nav-secondary li.active li a:visited {line-height:1.5;background: #fff url("images/sprites.gif") no-repeat 0 -798px;padding:0 0 0 12px;font-weight:normal;width:auto;color:#000;width:130px;display:block}
	#nav-secondary li.active li a:hover, #nav-secondary li.active li a:active {color: #c00}
	#nav-secondary li.active li {border: none;margin:0}
	
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active a:link, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active a:visited, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active a:hover, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active a:active {font-weight:bold}

/* SECONDARY NAVIGATION - 3rd TIER */
	#nav-secondary ul ul {margin: 0 0 1em 13px;padding:0}
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li a, #nav-secondary li.active li.active li a:link, #nav-secondary li.active li.active li a:visited {width:117px}
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li a:link, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li a:visited, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li a:hover, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li a:active {font-weight:normal}
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active a:link, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active a:visited, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active a:hover, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active a:active {font-weight:bold}

/* SECONDARY NAVIGATION - 4th TIER */
	#nav-secondary ul ul ul {margin: 0 0 1em 13px;padding:0}
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a, #nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a:link, #nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a:visited {width:104px}
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a:link, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a:visited, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a:hover, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li a:active {font-weight:normal}
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li.active a:link, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li.active a:visited, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li.active a:hover, 
	#nav-secondary li.active li.active li.active li.active a:active {font-weight:bold}

/* LAYOUT - FOOTER */
#footer {clear:both;border-top: 1px solid #E3E8EE;padding: 10px 0 30px;font-size:86%;color:#999}
	#footer p {margin:0}
	#footer a:link {color:#999}

Can anyone give me some advice or what to do to make this line go the length of the page??

Thanks in advance,
Mike

I have a css site which is structured as following:

<head>
<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="navigation"></div>

<div id="leftmenu"></div>
<div id="rightmenu"></div>

<div id="content"></div>

<div id="footer"></div>

</div>

</body>
</html>


#container{width:100%;height:100%;}

#header{height:105px;width:100%;}

#navigation {width:100%;}

#LeftMenu {
position: absolute;
width: 150px;
top: 145px;
left: 2px;
height: 553px;}

#RightMenu{
position: absolute;
width: 220px;
top: 145px;
right: 2px;
height: 553px;
}

#content{
margin: 20px 225px 5px 155px;
height: 550px;
}

My main problem is that when the left menu or right menu content increases it overflows the container and goes above footer. how can i make leftmenu, content and right menu when one is increasing all to increase together?

Cheers

I have this problem on 2 sites I'm working on. I can't seem to nest 2 divs in a content div to create a 2 column layout. In FF it seems to work fine but IE is pushing the left column content down below the right column content. I've tried many things and I'm stuck.

Am I going about the whole concept the wrong way or is there some small hack I'm missing somewhere? Any help would be great.

link

Thanks,

Brad

I have a pretty typical three column layout with col1 floating left, col2 in the middle and col3 floating right. The HTML calls the divs in order of col1,col3,col2 and everything generally works fine with the exception of using a div in the middle column (col2) with a style that has clear:both in it. The clear:both clears all items in the sidebar columns and not just in the middle column (which is what I want). The problem can be seen at the below URLs.

wwwDOTjessiekpowellDOTcom/2009/08/kristin-cavallari-filming-on-malibu-beach-for-the-hills/

and wwwDOTjessiekpowellDOTcom/2009/10/alessandra-ambrosio-bikini-photo-shoot/

As you will see the second set of images from the gallery is displayed after a huge gap of white space after it has cleared the last div in the right sidebar. What I want is to just clear the first row of images in the middle column. This does not just affect images but anything with a div style=clear:both

Any suggestions will be appreciated as I've exhausted my skills on this one.

I have an issue with a 2 column CSS layout.

Here is my code:

Code:

<style>
#container1 {
    float:left;
    width:100%;
}
#col1 {
    float:left;
    width:30%;
    background:red;
}
#col2 {
    float:left;
    width:70%;
    background:yellow;
}

</style>

<div id="container1">
    <div id="col1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi turpis   augue, elementum nec euismod vel, ultricies a lorem. Duis ac posuere   sem. In feugiat ante in orci ultricies non sagittis felis consectetur. </div>
    <div id="col2"><p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi turpis   augue, elementum nec euismod vel, ultricies a lorem. Duis ac posuere   sem. In feugiat ante in orci ultricies non sagittis felis consectetur.   In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Etiam urna magna, tincidunt eu   venenatis ac, imperdiet fermentum arcu. Pellentesque vehicula   sollicitudin bibendum. Donec eu eros nibh. Phasellus ultricies aliquet   mollis. Morbi vel ipsum vitae tellus porta accumsan quis quis ligula.   Proin nulla tellus, mattis et interdum non, convallis ac ipsum. Morbi   tellus nisl, tempor condimentum tincidunt a, tincidunt sed tellus. Sed   cursus posuere erat a venenatis. Donec vel velit felis, sit amet posuere   tortor. Etiam tincidunt orci ut est tincidunt bibendum vel in erat.   Nunc dignissim faucibus enim sed rhoncus. Duis quam tellus, iaculis   feugiat elementum eu, fermentum malesuada mauris. In metus nibh, sodales   eget facilisis a, sollicitudin id lorem. </p>
            <p> Donec at eros tortor. Quisque et tellus ipsum, id sodales erat. Ut   commodo ornare nisl, ut rhoncus arcu sagittis vel. Aliquam erat   volutpat. Nulla non facilisis nunc. Suspendisse potenti. Suspendisse   nulla massa, consequat nec tincidunt id, aliquam quis lacus. In hac   habitasse platea dictumst. Aliquam sit amet pharetra magna. Praesent   nibh est, consequat vitae congue nec, ullamcorper sit amet magna. Etiam   sagittis dignissim mauris, eu dapibus leo fringilla eu. Morbi in ipsum   lorem. Morbi pharetra sem at justo dictum non imperdiet libero   convallis. Etiam sed arcu arcu. Maecenas vulputate, lorem at dignissim   consequat, felis mauris pharetra ipsum, in condimentum urna ipsum sit   amet lacus. Quisque facilisis fringilla felis et feugiat. Donec vel   tincidunt dolor. Praesent congue nunc nec augue ornare vehicula. </p></div>
   
</div>

Which produces this:


Basically, I need a set up on the columns so that if there is no content in the left column (col1) col 2 will fill up the missing area.

It doesn't work with the above code, specifically because of this part of the CSS

Code:

#col2 {
    float:left;
    width:70%;
    background:yellow;
}

Which makes col2 move to the left, but retains the 70% width

If i change the width to 100% or auto, then the col2 appears below col1 if I have content in col1.


If I put no width or float in col2, the content in col2 wraps around col1:






Help greatly appreciated

At the moment I have a css layout nearly done.
It works fine in IE and Firefox except for that the left navbar does not push the footer down. Instead it jumps out the parent div.

The 2nd (maincontent) and 3rd (right column) do push the footer down. This wouldn't be such a problem if the navbar would contain static content, but it is dynamic and database driven.
A simple solution would be to move the navigate thing to the right bar, but sadly I'm not allowed to do that.

Layout CSS code
Code:

#body {
 position:relative;
 margin:0 auto;
 width:94%;
 min-width:50em;
 max-width:70em;
 border: 15px solid #ffffff;
}
#header {
/* border: 1px solid #000000;*/
 height: 185px;
 background-color:#ffffff;
 background-image: url(../images/design/test3.jpg);
}
#outer_wrapper {

 background: #ffffff url(../images/design/background_3.gif) repeat-y left;

 border-top:none;
 border-bottom:none;
}
#wrapper {

 background: url(../images/design/background_2.gif) repeat-y right;
}

#container {
 width: 100%;
 float: left;
 margin-right: -200px;
 background: #ffffff url(../images/design/background_2.gif) repeat-y right;
/*border:1px solid #000000;*/
}
#content {
 margin-right: 200px;
 /*background: url(../images/design/background_3.gif) repeat-y left;*/

}
#main {
/*border:1px solid #000000;*/
 margin-left: 150px;
/*  background-color:#bbbbbb;*/
}
#left {
 position: absolute;
 top:189px;
 width: 140px;
/* height: 100%;*/
 float: left;
 text-align: left;
/* border-left: 2px solid #bbbbbb;*/
 font:normal normal normal 12px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#sidebar {
 width: 200px;
 float: right;
  clear:right;
}
#footer {
/* border: 1px solid #000000;*/
 background: #304773;
 height: 30px;

}

.last {
 margin-bottom: 0;
}
.clearing {
 height: 0;
 clear: both;
}

Div structu
Code:

  <div id="body">
    <div id="header"><h1>Welkom bij Overeem de Haas</h1>
    </div>
    <div id="outer_wrapper">

      <div id="wrapper">
        <div id="container">
          <div id="content">
          
            <div id="main">
            </div>

            <div id="left">
                 <? include ("../include/navigatie.inc"); ?>
            </div>

            
          </div>
        </div>
        <div id="sidebar">
            <? include ("../include/uitloggen.inc");?>
            <? include ("../include/winkelmand.inc"); ?>
        </div>
        <div class="clearing">&nbsp;</div>
      </div>

    </div>

    <div id="footer"><p class="content"></p></div>
  </div>

navigatie.inc code
Code:

    <div id="navigatie">
            <ul>
               <li class="menu">Navigatie menu</li>
               <li><a href="index.php">Home pagina</a></li>
               <li><a href="#">Wat is Overeem?</a></li>
               <? ...
                 echo "<li><a href=\"#\">Contact</a></li>";
                 echo "</ul>";
                 echo "</div>";
               ?>

Live example

Can anyone (dev)shed some light on this?
I just can't get it to work without messing up the 3rd column.

My site has three columns.

left-middle-right

The middle column in IE is right underneath the header as it should be.
On firefox the middle coumn is as far below the header as the height of the right column.

I have tried everything but i cant get it to look right in both browsers.
It is all done with floated divs and doesn't use any tables at all.

Please can someone help me!

www.datahq-online.co.uk

Thank you!

Hi, I'm working on a website for a church and we're near completion, but I'm having trouble getting the site to display properly in IE7 on Windows XP and a few other browsers according to browsershots.org. CSS and XHTML both validate at w3c.org. I've ripped this thing apart and put it back together with no luck. The really weird thing is the Home page looks fine, but in the rest of the pages the body content gets pushed below the left and right navigation bars. Is it a CSS float problem? Margins or paddings???

Home page: Looks OK in IE7, at least on my machine - http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/index_temp.php
Ministry page: Content is pushed to bottom of page - http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/mini...ns_ministry.php

The CSS files are at http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/css/main.css and http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/css/common.css.

Would anyone be willing to take a look? Thanks in advance.

Hey,
So I have a three column layout being implemented as such:

html:
Code:

<div class="content">
    <div class="col1 column"></div>
    <div class="col3 column"></div>
    <div class="col2 column">
        <div class="header">Header</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:
Code:

.column {
padding: 10px;
position:relative;
}

.header {
background:#cfe6f5;
color:#416383;
font-size:11px;
font-family:Arial;
font-weight:300;
padding-left:15px;
}

.col1 {
float: left;
width:250px;
}

.col2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.col3 {
float:right;
width:250px;
}

The problem is that the width of the header div extends all the way to the left and right of the page when it's in the middle column, but behaves the way I want it to (extends to the left and right of the column) when it's in the left or right column. Any ideas? Thanks.
--Surgery

Question title:
A 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally and let them both scroll vertically

Hello

I did try several idea's, but all failed. Then I did search the web but found a list of > 400.000 in google.

If someone is willing to tell me if it is possible and give me some directions, please do. Everything is welcome.

I got a list with 3 columns ( basically you could say I have only two columns because 2-3 could be concatenated to together, but they have a different style and justification, but I could live to start with a two column sample)

f.e
line 1 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) )
line 2 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) )
line 99:....
e.t.c

Column one has a fixed width of 32px.
'some text' can be longer then the wide available and value_two is with 3 spaces appended to column 2. I want that column one is fixed horizontal and that the second and the third column can scroll horizontally. Of course when there are more line's then the height of the container is should be posable to scroll vertically.

Finally I need the color behind column one be different then the column 2 and 3.

So what I did create is a container with two containers where the left one has a different colour then the right one and above those a container with the list. I have overflow on auto, so I get scroll-bars when necessarily.
But my problem is that when I scroll horizontally that my first column scrolls away to the left.

Basically my question is. How can I get a 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally ( first is locked in horizontal place ) and let them scroll both vertically?

Hello,

I am having difficulty with the center column on the following page: http://cbo4edu.org/index2.html

I want to widen the center column so that the CBO NEWS heading touches the blue line which divides the center and right column. When I try to add width to the style sheet the left column moves out of alignment.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

I am working on the new home page which is based on a template.

The left sideColumn is working fine, however I am having a few problems with the mainColumn layout.

Here is a static image to show what I want it to look like

Here are the problems I am having:

1) The #scroll box is place where I want it in IE but in foxfire it is right up against the left side of the #sideColumn partially hidden.

There will be text that scrolls into this box and stops. I haven't started on the part yet - in case that makes a difference. Not my choice, but that is what the bosses want.

2) I want the image centered horizontal within the #mainColumn. Here is what I have for the css:

#home img {
margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

which I thought would do the trick, but it's not.

3) I want the p text to have a 40px margin on the right and left side like the .large does.

Here is what I have for the css:

#home p, .large {
margin: auto 40px auto 40px;
}

It works for the .large (Welcome to Vitalograph), but not for the text below it. At one point I had it working, but after addtional changes fixing other problems, now it doesn't and I can't figure out why.

Here is the xhtml starting at the 2 column part (wrapper): Code:

  	<!--begin wrapper-->
  	<div id="wrapper">
  
  	<!--begin side column -->
  	<div id="sideColumn">
        <span class="category">Products</span>
    <ul>
		<li><a href="/products/spirometers.html">Spirometers</a></li>
		<li><a href="/products/clinical_trials.html">Clinical Trials</a></li>
		<li><a href="/products/asthma_copd.html">Asthma & COPD</a></li>
		<li><a href="/products/smoking_cessation.html">Smoking Cessation</a></li>
		<li><a href="/products/resuscitaion.html">Resuscitation</a></li>
	</ul>
	
	<span class="category">Resources</span> 
    <ul>
      <li><a href="/resources/contact_us.html">Customer Support</a></li>
	  <li><a href="/resources/training_services.html">Training & Services</a></li>
      <li><a href="/resources/exhibitions.html">Exhibitions</a></li>
      <li><a href="/resources/newsletters.html">Newsletters</a></li>
      <li><a href="/resources/downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
      <li><a href="/resources/useful_links.html">Useful Links</a></li>
      <li><a href="/resources/industry_information.html">Industry Information</a></li>
	  <li><a href="/resources/industry_information.html">Sitemap</a></li>
	</ul>
  </div>
  <!--end of side column -->
  
  <!--begin main column -->  
  <div id="mainColumn">
  
  	<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main_Section" -->
  
  
  
    <div id="home">	
        <div id="scroll"><span>scrolling news will go hear and stop</span></div>
		
        <img src="/images/boys_bubbles.gif" width="485" height="333" alt="boys and bubbles" />
	
		<span class="large">Welcome to Vitalograph</span>
		
		<p>Vitalgraph offers a wide range of spirometers along with other asthma 
          management equipment with over 40 years experience. From simple hand-held 
          units to sophisticated Windows based spirometry systems, we have it 
          all. Check out our full line of respiratory equipment under the product 
          category.</p>
		
		
      <p><a href="/about_us/about_us.html">more about us...</a></p>
		
		
	</div>
  
  
  <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
  
  </div>
  <!--end of main column -->
  
  </div> 
  <!--end of wrapper--> 

Here is the vitalograph_master.css: Code:

body {
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #ffffff;
	color: #515151;
	margin:0px;
	padding:10px;
}

/*page container settings*/

#page {
	width: 750px;
	height: 600px;
	border: 1px solid #5094F9;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	overflow: hidden;
	margin: auto;
	padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
	text-align: left;
}

/*logo header and tag settings*/
	
#header {	
	margin: 0;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	width: 450px;
	height: 36px;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #5094F9;
	text-align: left;
}

#header img {
    vertical-align: -7px;
    }

.tagline {
	color: #5094F9;
	font-size: 16;
	font-style: italic;
	font-weight: bold;
	display: inline;
	clear: both;
	line-height: 20px;
	margin-left: 10px;
}

/*top bar settings*/

#topbar {
	float: top;
	height: 20px;
	background-color: #5094f9;
	clear: both;
	padding-left: 10px;
	text-align: left;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#topbar a:link, #topbar a:visited {
	background-color: inherit;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#topbar a:hover, #topbar a:active {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #5094F9;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#topbar ul {
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding-top: 2px;
}

#topbar li {
	display: inline;
	margin-right: 160px;
}

/*Main Section two columns under top section*/

#wrapper{
	padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}

#sideColumn {
	float:left;
	width:155px;
	height: 78%;
	background-color: #5094F9;
	padding-top: 50px;
	padding-left:10px; 
	padding-bottom:10px;
	pading-right: 10px;
	margin-right: 10px;
	text-align: left;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-weight: bold;
	line-height: 20px;
}

.category {
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 16px;
	font-weight: bold;
	letter-spacing: 5px;
}

#sideColumn a:link, #sideColumn a:visited {
	background-color: inherit;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#sideColumn a:hover, #sideColumn a:active {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #5094F9;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#sideColumn ul {
	list-style: none;
	padding: 15px 0px 15px 10px;
	margin: 0px;
}

#mainColumn {
	padding: 0px;
}

/*footer*/

.footer {
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 9px;
	color: #999999;
}

/*text*/

.large {
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #5094F9;
	font-size: 18px;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-bottom: 15px;
}

Here is the home.css: Code:

/*home page*/

#home {
	margin: auto;
}

#home img {
	margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

#home p, .large {
	margin: auto 40px auto 40px;
}

#home a:link, #home a:visited {
	background-color: inherit;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #5094F9;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#home a:hover, #home a:active {
	background-color: inherit;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #990099;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#scroll {
	width: 560px;
	padding: 5px;
	background-color: inherit;
	border: 1px solid #5094F9;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
}

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I am a HTML&CSS novice - I am trying to write a page using a three column layout but the column colour doesn't reach the footer.

I understand that this is a common problem and I've looked at a lot of examples on the web of how to work around this or create a better layout but I'm still not sure enough to know which would be the easiest and best to go within the page I have written.

I want to avoid images but other than that any help would be great!

I have validated the HTML & CSS and they are copied below (could any advice be really specific, as I said this is very new to me!).


Thanks

HTML:


<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Drivers Jonas Information Unit</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="djiucss.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="djiuprintcss.css" media="print" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="top">
<div id="picture">
<img src="GIF.gif" alt="DJ" width="200" height="100" />
</div>
<div id="heading">
<div id="title"><h1>Drivers Jonas Information Unit</h1></div>
</div>

</div>
<div id="left">
<br/><p><a href="about.html">About us</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="company.html">Company Information</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="legal.html">Legal information</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="landreg.html">Land Registry</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="research.html">Research</a></p><br/>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="title"><h2> News
</h2></div>
<ul>
<li>The Information Unit has recently acquired a set of new APC guides</li>
<li>If you would like any training on databases</li>
<li>The Information Unit has created an economy timeline </li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="main">
<div id="title"><h2>Main stuff</h2></div>
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<p>Donec facilisis ante sit amet mauris. Nunc fermentum orci eu quam. Donec vestibulum. Vestibulum ultricies nisl eu eros. Curabitur urna. Duis enim erat, lobortis nonummy, mollis non, porttitor nec, nisi. Phasellus pulvinar purus eu pede. In mollis. Duis sit amet dui et arcu rhoncus auctor. Integer est dui, pharetra vel, volutpat ac, luctus in, elit. </p>
<p>Suspendisse adipiscing malesuada lectus. Cras vitae dolor. Donec consequat, lectus sed euismod consequat, ipsum mi mollis nunc, eget nonummy neque purus a tortor. Ut vel lorem. Curabitur mollis mauris id diam. Nam posuere. In placerat sapien ut nisl. Donec volutpat augue ut velit. Proin ne</p>
</div>
<div id="bottom">
Drivers Jonas Information Unit
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS:

#top
/*DJ logo and page title - includes h1*/
{
color: black;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
background: #d31145;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}

body
{
color: black;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size:14px
}

img /*DJ logo*/
{
padding: 20px;
float:left;
}

#heading
{
text-align: center;
padding:20px;
}

/*main page title*/
/*should change all reds to DJ red: #d31145*/

#left, #right, #main
{
color: white;
background: black;
}

#left
{
float: left;
width:140px;
border-right:2px solid #d31145;
text-align:left;
padding-left: 1em;
}

#right
{
float:right;
width:140px;
border-left:2px solid #d31145;
text-align:left;
padding-right: 1em;
}

#main
{
margin-left: 150px;
margin-right: 150px;
border-left: 1px solid;
border-right: 1px solid;
padding: 1em;
}

#bottom
{
clear:both;
margin: 0;
color:black;
background: #d31145;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}

#title
{
text-align:center;
}

a:link {color:white}
a:visited {color:silver}
a:hover {color:#d31145}
a:active {color:#d31145}