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CSS - Equal Columns In Liquid Layout
Hello,
To make my columns have equal lengths in fixed layouts, I have employed the Faux technique successfully. What would be the best technique for liquid layouts? I know of a js that suppose to equal the columns, and someone told there is a CSS method also. Can you still use the Faux? Any suggestions? Similar TutorialsI have a three column layout. The third column is empty except for a background image which I'd like to be the same length as the main (content) centre column. This would ensure the background image in the right column is at the same length as the main content Any ideas how I can do that? The site is weary.me.uk/MT and the CSS is weary.me.uk/MT/css/threeColumn.css Thank you so much Hi I need these 3 columns http://dmumford.bizhat.com/equalheights.htm to be of equal height regardless of what column has the most text in. Could somone please help me with this, I have looked at Paul OB's 2 col example but I am at a puzzle how to do it with my requirements!! Your help is much appreciated! Hello, I'm working now on div layout that contains 3 sections (header, body, footer) in one centered wrapper with border (divs with background imgs). My problem is: - divs that are in fact borders (id="l_outerborder_b" and id="r_outerborder_b") don't stretch when main container (id="body_content_text") grows. Here is a html code: Code: <!--BEGIN TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link href="template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="template.js" />
</head>
<body onload="onloadprocedures()">
<div id="main_container">
<div id="template_header">
<div id="tl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="t_outerborder"></div>
<div id="tr_outerborder"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_h"></div>
<div id="header_content">
<div id="logo"><img src="img/logo.png" alt="" /></div>
<div id="slogan"><img src="img/slogan.png" alt="Centrum zdrowia" /></div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_h"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE BODY -->
<div id="template_body">
<div id="l_outerborder_b"></div>
<div id="body_content">
<div id="body_content_text">
<p>TEST</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_b"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE BODY -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
<div id="template_footer">
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="footer_content"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="bl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="b_outerborder"></div>
<div id="br_outerborder"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!-- END TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
and CSS: Code: @charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, "Times New Roman", Arial;
font-size:12px;
}
a:link {text-decoration: none} /* unvisited link */
a:visited {text-decoration: none} /* visited link */
a:hover {text-decoration: none} /* mouse over link */
a:active {text-decoration: none} /* selected link */
#main_container {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
width:960px;
height:auto;
}
#template_header {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
height:300px;
}
#header_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
height:270px;
}
#logo {
width:310px;
height:130px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#slogan {
width:580px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#tl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#t_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/t_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#tr_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tr_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#l_outerborder_h {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#r_outerborder_h {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#body_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#body_content_text {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:600px;
margin: auto;
overflow:hidden;
}
#l_outerborder_b {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_b {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#l_outerborder_f {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_f {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#template_body {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#bl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/bl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#b_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/b_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#br_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/br_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
Thanks in advance for info how to stretch those doomed divs EDIT: Here is layout concept. URL hTTp://qsrc.pl/layout.jpg Hello css gurus. I'm trying to fit a flash movie with 100% height in a liquid layout but i cant get rid of scroll bars. i have tied to explain the problem in this image: http://i(dot)imgur(dot)com/PhvSZ.gif (sorry new members are not allowed to post with links) in that image you can see its fine in case (1) but in case (2) when i add a header div on top, flash movie doesnt fill available space. Can anyone tell me how can i fix it with a heading div on top? Thanks. I would like to create a 2-column layout with a content area on the left and a "sidebar" area on the right. Pretty standard, right? Now the trick: on some pages, the sidebar will be absent, and I want the content area to then overflow the whole page width. I tried the following: Code: <div style="background-color: red; float: left;">content area text</div> <div style="background-color: blue; width: 200px; float: right;">sidebar text</div> When div #2 is excluded, div #1 of course expands to take up the whole page width. So that works. The problem is that when they're both present, and div #1 has a lot of text, it just pushes div #2 down a line. Note: The reason div #2 will sometimes not be present is that Drupal is generating the page, and plain leaves out div #2 if there's no content in it. It's not just empty -- it's not even included in the page. Can anyone help me accomplish this? I've looked at a lot of liquid layouts, but none seem to do quite this. Hello on this page, the author shows a 3 Column Liquid Layout based on CSS percentage use. http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm The column layout is 2,1,3 (center page comes first in the html code). He states "The columns can also be configured to any other order if required." How to do the column configured as 1,2,3? (left, middle, right)? Hi all, I'm trying to get this mock up's structure finished STAT so that I can move on to the graphical, stylistic, and textual elements that need to be done, but I'm running into issues with IE... (surprised?) The goal is to get it to render as it does in FF and Safari. The issue right now is that, while the #body div is where I want it, it is not accepting the 85px bottom margin I am trying to code. Any help? (keep in mind I had to throw it in quirks mode to get it all to render like this) SITE is at: w w w [DOT] w h o l l y l i f e [DOT] o r g [SLASH] d r u m 2 [SLASH] Thanks, Michael i'm trying to write a liquit layout based in layers and css and have the next code: Code:
<style type='text/css'>
<!--
body{font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin:5px 5px 5px 5px; position:relative;}
#header{border:1px solid #000000; width:100%; height:60px; position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; min-width:600px;}
#menu{border:1px solid #000000; position:absolute; top:60px; left:0px; width:15%; min-width:150px;}
#content{border:1px solid #000000; position:absolute; top:60px; left:15%; width:85%; min-width:450px;}
-->
</style>
and in the body: Code: <body> <div id='header'>header</div> <div id='menu'>menu links</div> <div id='content'>contents</div> the little problem here is thata due to the percentages used to determine the left position of the contents layer it overlaps with the menu layer when i resize the window but i've seen a lot of pages that do not behave this way... what am i missing???? Hi, I'm having a problem a liquid layout using 100 percent width. The inner box peeks out side to the right of the containing box (which is 100% width). I am viewing with firefox. At a resolution of 1024 width. With IE 6 it's very nasty looking (extremely wide). Can anyone tell me what I need to do or what I'm doing wrong please I have simplified the page to highlight the problem I'm having a problem on this page http://www.jamesfarrell.eu/fixhtml/search.htm HTML as follows: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <link href="fixlayout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> </head> <body> <div id='wrap'> <div id="content"> <div class="searchresult1"> <h3><a href='info.php?id=486'>rent in france</a> (222.00) per week)</h3><a href=info.php?id=486><img src='images/no_image.gif' width='130' height='127' border=0 /></a><p>1 Bedrooms, 0 Bathrooms, House</p><p>s..</p> <a href='info.php?id=486'>More details</a> </div> </div> </div> <!-- <div id="goToTop" class="sNav"><p><a href="#content">^ Top</a></p></div> --> </body> </html> CSS as follows: Code: body {
color: #333333;
background-color: white;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 1.3em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border:1px solid black;
width:100%;
}
#wrap {
background: white;
margin: 0 0 2em 22%;
}
#content {
padding:0;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-right: 4em;
width:97%;
margin-left:2.75%;
}
div.searchresult1 {
width:800px;
width: expression(this.width > 400 ? 400: true);
margin-top:20px;
margin-right:40%;
border:1px solid #9eceeb;
}
div.searchresult1:after {
content:".";
display:block;
clear:both;
height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
div.searchresult1{display: inline-block;}
/* Hides from IE Mac \*/
* html
div.searchresult1{height: 1%;}
div.searchresult1{display:block;}
/* End Hack */
div.searchresult1 h3{
background: #c0ddea;
margin:0;
padding:4px;
}
div.searchresult1 h4{
background: #c0ddea;
margin:0;
padding:4px;
border:1px solid black;
}
div.searchresult1 img {
margin: 10px;
float:left;
border:1px solid black;
}
Whenever I work on a liquid layout, I have been setting the Max-Width to 1280px. Is this still the normal setting? Or designers do go wider these days? Thank you Hi Guys, I have a layout which is currently setup to be liquid. Aka it spreads out depending on how big the browser window is. I'm trying to get it to be a set width. I can't quite get it figured out. Here is the link to the current layout (made to be generic). It's a layout I got from a CCS class. http://65.175.116.253/design/demo.html The css is here http://65.175.116.253/design/css.css The entire package can be downloaded here http://65.175.116.253/design/design.rar Now, to explain how I want it to look, I took my browser and made it just wide enough to show how wide I want the layout to be, and took a screenshot. But I can't get my css to make the whole layout that wide.. I'm scracthing my head here because it's probably really easy. http://65.175.116.253/design/demo.jpg Let's not worry about the exact width, but I want to define in the css the pixel width, so that can be changed whenever. Here is the CSS Code: /*--- Generic Styles ---*/
body
{
background: #e3edc2; color: #333;
font: .8em, Arial, verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding:0px;
}
#main {width:840px; margin:18px auto 0 auto; _text-align:left;}
a
{
color: #686397;
}
a img
{
border: 0px none;
}
p
{
margin: 0 0 1em;
}
.smallboldtext
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #686397;
font-size: .7em;
font-weight: bold;
}
.mediumtext
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #686397;
font-size: .9em;
}
.mediumboldtext
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #686397;
font-size: .9em;
font-weight: bold;
}
.largetext
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #686397;
font-size: 1.5em;
}
/*--- Header Styles ---*/
#header
{
margin-bottom: 1.75em;
padding-top: 1px;
background: #abd240;
}
#navbar
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0.5em 3em;
background: #686397;
color: #fff;
}
#navbar li
{
display: inline;
margin-right: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.75em;
border-right: 1px solid #99c;
font-weight: bold;
}
#navbar li.last
{
border: 0px none;
}
#navbar a
{
color: #d4ec84;
text-decoration: none;
}
#today
{
text-align: right;
margin-top: -1.66em; padding: 0 2em 0 0;
color: #fff;
line-height: 1;
}
/*--- Content Styles ---*/
#content
{
float: left;
padding: 0 20em 4em 3em;
}
#content h1
{
background: #fff; color: #686397;
font-size: 1.5em;
margin: 0 33% 1.25em -2em; padding: 0.4em 2em;
}
#content h1 b
{
color: #b0d742;
}
#content h2
{
margin: 0.5em 0; padding-bottom: 0.25em;
border-bottom: 1px solid #b0d742;
font-size: 1.5em;
}
/*--- Content Styles ---*/
table.basic
{
border: 0px;
width: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.basicborder
{
border: 2px solid #b0d742;
width: 505px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.mainsearch
{
border: 2px solid #b0d742;
width: 415px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
/*--- Sidebar Styles ---*/
#sidebar
{
float: right;
width: 17em;
margin: 0 1em 4em -18em; /* this creates a mathematical layout width of -1 */
}
#sidebar div h3{
background: #9b96ca;
}
#sidebar form_div
{
margin: 0; padding: 0.8em;
}
#sidebar div{
background: #3a3c2d; color: #fff;
padding: 0 1em 1em;
margin-top: 0.75em;
}
#sidebar div h3{
font-size: 1.25em;
margin: 0 -0.8em; padding: 0.4em 0.8em;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
#whatiscompany h4{
margin: 0 0 0.5em; padding: 0.5em 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
font-weight: normal;
}
#whatiscompany p:first-line{
font-style: italic;
}
/*--- Footer Styles ---*/
#footer
{
clear: both;
padding: 1.5em 3em;
background: #a0c63a;
height: 15px;
}
#footer p
{
margin: .1em;
}
#footer a
{
color: #333;
text-decoration: underline;
}
Hi all, I've spent several hours to solve this problem, but found nothing working . The problem (well, there are much more problems ) is that I use 2-cols layout, so the left column (menu) is floating left. And now I need in the one page's head to get 2 images, one aligned to the left, the other to the right and actual text of the headings. I've found 2 good solution: 1) Classic, use float:left on one image, float:right on the other, and text-align: center on the headings. First thing I don't understand, why the image on the right is moved down? You can see it here. Then, the clear property should be used to force the headings to end bottom the images, but clear can't be used, because it also clears the menu (floating to the left) so the headings ends bottom the menu. 2) Using absolute/relative positioning - headigns can be made relatively positioned, images absolutely, one with left:0 and the other with right:0, but then the contents following after the headings is moved to the top, mixed with the heading. Similar problem is being solved in this thread, but I didn't found there anything working . Can anybody help, please? Here are used CSS: Web.css, Fotogalerie.css. I've got a site I've started to work on: domosworld.net I want it setup so the three middle columns are equal width? I set right/left borders on the middle content, but am worried that perhaps the right side will be longer than the middle which will cause the layout not to look right. What is the best way to achieve the equal columns? I would appreciate any advise as to whether this degrades properly as the browser is narrowed. I didn't post this in the "critique" forum because my only concern (right now) is related to CSS. There is a separate style sheet for handhelds, so if you have one I would appreciate a look from there also. Most links are still inactive. Liquid design TIA, Rob Hello, I am looking for a CSS two fixed width columns centered layout with header and footer. Could someone recommend me a good one? Thank You, Miguel Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help. My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off... The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view! My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance.... Hi ya My goal is to get this page: portfolio.modernmusicians.com/portfolio.html to have the layout like this: portfolio.modernmusicians.com/port_goal.gif Notice how "description" is squared up in the image. I'm not sure if I should make nested div's or use margins or padding or what. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I've converted my site to a css layout http://www.mrhodges.net and it woks well for the browsers I've checked except ie5 for mac. On this browser it drops the center column below the two floated side columns. Now I know that the browser is no longer supported and all that but wouldn't you know... I work for a school board where almost all of the machines are macs and they are running os9 and you guessed it mac ie5. So of the miniscule number of people running this browser I'm smack dab in the middle of most of them. Consequently I need to figure out how to get my page to display properly as I'd like to use the template to put together the schools's web site. What is the best solution for this problem? I'd rather not have to write two sets of pages and redirect using javascript. Hello, Below is css I am trying to get to work and use as a template for a two column , header, and footer layout. I can get by with css, but an not a designer so can't figure out the exact specifics on how to do this. I've looked at many sites, make examples, javascripts included, but either they are to hard to fit into what I am looking for or just cause me to hit my head against the wall. I'm trying to get the left columns background to fill height 100% to the footer. The content's doesn't need it because the wrapper's background act's as its color. Also, if either column's height changes past the screen's height. I need the footer to move down too. Currently, I tested if the left-column and the main content goes past the screen's height it will just go past the footer. This works beacuse the css I have currently is making sure that the footer is always at the bottom. Code: <html >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
html {
overflow-y: scroll; /* forces firefox scrollbar on */
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: #F2F2F2;
font: 100% Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
height: 100%;
}
/* text-align: center; is so that the content will float in the center*/
div.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: left;
margin-bottom: 42px;
}
div.header {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
font-size: 1.5em;
height: 42px;
}
div.footer {
position: absolute; bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
font-size: 1.5em;
height: 42px;
}
div.wrapper .left {
width: 215px;
float: left;
background: yellow;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
div.wrapper .right {
width:auto;
margin-left: 215px;
}
div.wrapper .tabs {
background: green;
height: 35px;
}
div.wrapper .mainContent {
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header" class="header">header</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="leftColumn" class="left">left content</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="tabs">Tabs go here</div>
<div class="mainContent">Main content goes here</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer" class="footer">footer</div>
</body>
</html>
Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance. Risso Hi, Creating a Wordpress theme. I need help to clear:left JPG thumbnails in my 2nd-column div, but WITHOUT clearing the 1st-column div that is floated:left. In other words, I want these two columns to work independently, just like <TD> in html. Here is my setup -- it is a 2-column layout, with the left column being a navigational sidebar (navigation content automatically generated by wordpress), and the Right Column is the "real content" div. Wordpress generates the content in the right column, also. And since Wordpress generates the content based upon what the reader selects, I cannot assign any HEIGHT attributes to the Divs, because I do not know whether the selections have a lot of content, or very little. ----------------- HEADER DIV------------------------------------------ -- Sidebar Div-- __________ --- RIGHT DIV (not floated) ----------------- FOOTER DIV ---------------------------------------- (property of footer is set to clear:both) SIDEBAR DIV is float:left; width 160px RIGHT DIV is not floated, and contains all the content. 600px; Problem I need to solve: In column #2 -- the right div, I want to float-left small thumbnail jpgs, and write text flowing along the right side of the thumbnail. If the text does not naturally drop below the jpg, I want to clear:left to drop down to a new line and start the process over (new thumbnail, new text beside it). *** The problem is that when I clear:left on the jpg, it NOT ONLY clears the JPG, but also clears:left on the whole Sidebar DIV, thereby dropping the next line WAY DOWN on the page. So it looks like this: ___ HEADER ____ Sidebar __________________ Thumbnail #1: Text text text (clear:left clears everything....) __________________________ Thumbnail #2: Text ---- FOOTER --- Attempted solution: If I set the sidebar div to position:absolute, it works ok EXCEPT (and big except) that if there is not much content in the RIGHT DIV, then the FOOTER DIV is not low enough on the page, thereby overlapping the Sidebar Div. Obviously, this whole design could be EASILY accomplished with TABLES, but those are blasphemy these days, so I would like a more "modern" solution. I have googled this all day, and have not seen a solution. Help is appreciated. |
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