CSS - Background Not Resizing In Ie

I'm looking to basically replicate the design of Engadget. Not entirely, just the real basic design of it. I'm trying to figure out how to use 4 different images (a right header, left header, left footer, right footer) to construct a site that resizes in different browsers to look good. How do I do this? I'm familiar with CSS and html. I want to make the images in Fireworks and slice them, but after I do that and have the html how do I do things like using a wrapper?
Thanks for any help you can offer.

Hi there!

I am tweaking a WordPress template to fit a blog for a roleplaying game. The template is a three-column, fixed-width one. It looks fine on my tiny 17" monitor at work, but at home on my 22", the blog is very small and sits in the center of the page. (The content section is just 904px wide.)

Is there a way to tweak the style.css file in order to give the columns percentage widths instead of absolute pixel widths, so that the center "content" area will resize properly according to the reader's resolution/monitor size/window size?

I have some experience with CSS and I'm usually pretty good at tweaking pre-existing CSS to fit my needs, but this is something that's a bit beyond me.


I can't put a direct URL in my post, but here's a snippet of the CSS file:


Code:

body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, address, blockquote, dd, dl, hr, p, form{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

body{
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Sans-Serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	text-align: center;
	vertical-align: top;
	background: #fff url();
	color: #fff;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6{
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Sans-Serif;
	font-size: 16px;
}

a{
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #08441e;
}

a:hover{ text-decoration: none; }

a img{ border: 0; }

abbr, acronym{ border: 0; }

address, dl, p{ padding: 10px 0 0; }

blockquote{
	margin: 10px 10px 0;
	background: #fffada url(images/bg_blockquote.gif) no-repeat 5px 7px;
	color: #736926;
}

blockquote p{
	padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;
}

blockquote blockquote{
	margin: 10px 20px;
	background: #fff;
	color: #333;
}

blockquote blockquote p{ padding: 10px; }

code{
	background: #f9f9f9;
}

dt{
	font-weight: bold;
}

dd{
	padding: 0 0 5px 15px;
}

hr{
	clear: both;
	margin: 15px 0 5px;
	width: 100%;
	border: 0;
	height: 1px;
	text-align: left;
	background: url(images/bg_comment_bottom.gif) no-repeat;
}

small{
	font-size: 10px;
}

input, textarea{
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding: 2px;
}

input#author, input#email, input#url, textarea#comment{
	border: 1px solid #cbb945;
	background-color: #fffadb;
	padding: 3px;
}

input#author, input#email, input#url{
	margin: 0 5px 0 0;
}

#container, #header, #menu, #menu ul li, #menu ul li a, #pagetitle, h1, #syndication, .pagewrapper, .page, .wrapper, .narrowcolumnwrapper, .narrowcolumn, .content, .post, .entry, .browse, sidebar{
	text-align: left;
	vertical-align: top;
}

#container{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 904px;
	padding: 10px 0 0;
}

#header{
	margin: 0 0 10px;
	float: left;
	width: 904px;
	height: 250px;
	background: url(images/bg_header.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
	color: #333;
}

#menu ul{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0 0 0 175px;
	list-style: none;
}

#menu ul li{
	float: left;
	margin: 0 5px 0 0;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	background: url(images/bg_tab_right.gif) no-repeat right top;
	color: #ffffff;
}

#menu ul li a{
	display: block;
	padding: 14px 20px 10px;
	text-decoration: none;
	background: url(images/bg_tab_left.gif) no-repeat left top;
	color: #ffffff;
}

#menu ul li a:hover{
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#pagetitle{
	clear: both;
	width: 904px;
	height: 250px;
}


}

#pagetitle h1 a{
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #fff;
}


.pagewrapper{
	margin: 0 0 10px;
	float: left;
	width: 904px;
	background: #fff url(images/bg_page_bottom.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
	color: #333;
}

.page{
	float: left;
	padding: 0 5px 5px;
	background: url(images/bg_page_top.gif) no-repeat;
}

.wrapper{ /* This wrapper class appears only on Page and Single Post pages. */
	float: left;
	width: 500px;
}

.narrowcolumnwrapper{
	margin: 5px 0 0;
	float: left;
	width: 500px;
	background: #fff url(images/bg_narrowcol.gif) repeat-y;
}

.narrowcolumn{
	float: left;
	width: 500px;
	background: url(images/bg_narrowcol_bottom.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
}

.content{
	float: left;
	width: 500px;
	background: url(images/bg_narrowcol_top.gif) no-repeat left top;
}

Thank you!

I fixed it on my own, thanks for the multitude of responses, not.

hello people, im stuck.

i have a simple layout in html, it works fine in html but when i try to use css to layout the page i cant get the centre cell to resize while the top and bottom don't.

here is my html page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="52" bgcolor="#009999">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FF9933">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="52" bgcolor="#009999">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

can anyone help? can css do this?

Paul Sully the stuck

Here is the code for what is basically the masthead for the top of a web page. It uses tables, and expands and contracts to fit the browser as the viewer re-sizes.

Quote:
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td><IMG src="images/banner_left_end.gif"></td>
<td width="100%" background="images/some_background.gif" align="middle" valign="center">
<!-- middle cell at 100% to push the left and right cells to the browser edges -->
</td>
<td><IMG src="images/banner_right_end.gif"></td>
</tr>
</table>



What I would like to do is get rid of the table and use DIV tags and CSS to do this, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to push the left image to the left and the right image to the right to make it grow and contract as the browser re-sizes.

How is this done?

http://hmv.co.in/temp/html/boxes.html

when the content of the box of either left and right boxes in the above page is diff... the boxes margin is also changed...

how can i make both the boxes of the same siz so tht theres blank space in the box tht has less content

I have a div centered in the middle of my page if i type a long paragraph between the two <div> tags it is all one line, and resizes the div, even though i have its width set to a fixed size? is there something im doing wrong? Im completely stumped

thanks in advance

Hi, is there any way to achieve this effect (pseudocode) with CSS?

if (image width > 100)
add property width="100" to all img tags


ie. i want to make all images larger than 100 pixels scale down

Alright, this seems to be tricky, but here's the story:

I've got a photography gallery I made for a friend, and the last thing that needs to be taken care of is cross-browser compatability. I'm down to one problem of image resizing for thumbnails in IE.

I've seen a few solutions, but none of them seem to work, so maybe I'm just doing things wrong, but then again no site has talked about resizing both horiz. and vert.

For the site, any image thrown on the page needs to be resized to no greater then 105x100. But please, don't tell me to use PHP for this - I'm very attached to the fact that the entire site weighs in at under 300 lines.

Thanks,
Brian Ziemek

Sup all. Im trying to make a website but it keeps resizing when I expand and retract me webbrowser. So Far this is my code


PHP Code:
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Free UFC PPV</title>
    <style type="text/css">
        body
        {
            background-color: #CCC;
            font-family: Tahoma;
        }
        #holder
        {
            width: 75%;
            padding: 10px;
            border: 1px solid;
            text-align: left;
        }
        #img{
            background-image:url(images/header.png);
        }
        #login
        {
            width: 100%;
            font-family: Tahoma;
            font-size:15px;
            text-align: right;
            color: Black;
            border: 1px solid;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <center>
        <div id="holder" style="width:75%">
            <a href="index.php">
            <img src="images/header.png" alt="Header Image" width="1024" height="150" /></a>
            <div id="login" style="100%" >
                <form action="">
                    Login:<input name="userlog" type="text" />
                    Password:<input name="passlog" type="text" />
                    <input name="btn_sub" type="button" value="Login" />
                </form>
          </div>
        </div>
    </center>
</body>
</html> 





What can I do to stop resizing?

Hey people. I've been desperatly searching for a fix for the bug in my CSS, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Here is a link to the the testfile: http://users.skynet.be/bert_fonteyn...iek/index.html. The page validates as valid XHTML.

Now here is the bug in Windows (I have not tested it in Mac yet), both in Netscape 7 as in IE 6. Shrink your window, so you have a horizontal scrollbar. Scroll to the right, and you will notice there is a white area which can 't show the backgroundtile for some 60 px wide. The content (which is white) is there however...

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Greetz, Bert

I have attached the file, If you Open a File using that, the Textarea was styled to go to 90% (<textarea style="width:100%;height:90%;"></textarea>) this is designed only to work in IE!
Can someone please help me?
Thank you, In advance
Zero

Hello everybody, I present myself, I'm Alessandro a new member from Italy.
I found this forum very useful.
Hope to find good answers following topics and hope to help someone when I'm able to.
Ciaooooo

I have this issue for the moment:

I have a homepage layout with 3 columns with an images and captions inside everyone.
I have a subtitle also, and I want the subtitle extends orizzontally over the div without resizing it and without rollbars.

see a screenshot he http://www.alessandroboselli.it/foto/screenshot.jpg

and here is the involved CSS code:

Code:

/* Homepage layout --- start */
#wrapper {
	text-align: left;
	margin: 0px auto;
	padding: 0px;
	border:0;
	width: 980px;
}

#side-left {
	float: left;
	width: 300px;
}

#center { 
	float: left;
	width: 300px;
}

#side-right {
	float: right;
	width: 380px;
}
/* Homepage layout --- end */


/* Homepage images --- start */
.homepageimage {
	position:relative;
	float:left; /* optional */	
	top:40px;
	-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
	-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
	box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
	/* For IE 8 */
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#5f5f5f')";
	/* For IE 5.5 - 7 */
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#5f5f5f');
}
.homepageimage a {
	text-decoration: none;
	float: left;
}
.homepageimage a .homepageimagetitle {
	display: block;
	font-family: 'Molengo', Arial, serif;
	font-size: 18px;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 400;
	text-shadow: none;
	text-decoration: none;
	letter-spacing: 0.050em;
	word-spacing: 0em;
	line-height: 1.2;
	padding: 10px 0;
	background: #111;
	filter:alpha(opacity=75);
	opacity:.75;
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=75)";
	color: #fff;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	left: 0px;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 0;
	width: 190px;
	/*position: absolute;
	right: 20px;
	bottom: 20px;
	filter:alpha(opacity=65);
	opacity:.65;
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=65)"; /*--IE 8 Transparency--*/
}

.homepageimage a .homepageimagesub {
  	display: block;
 	font-family: 'Buda', serif;
 	font-size: 22px;
 	font-style: normal;
 	font-weight: 400;
 	text-shadow: none;
 	text-decoration: underline;
 	text-transform: none;
 	letter-spacing: 0.007em;
 	word-spacing: 0em;
 	line-height: 1.15;
	padding: 10px 0;
	background: #111;
	filter:alpha(opacity=75);
	opacity:.75;
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=75)";
	color: #fff;
	position: absolute;
	top: 215px;
	left: 0px;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 0;
}

I have a table with 5 columns. I only want the table to cross about 70% of the screen. Whenever I try to re-size it either via css or just 'width = 70%' the table stays the same width and just jumps towards the right of the page.

It doesn't matter if I put a width on my body, a div wrapper, or the table.. same results.

I've never had these resizing issues before but I admit i haven't coded anything in 6 months

Thanks for any help.

**Edit** Oh, I forgot to mention the table is initially wider than the screen and its seems to be staying that wide because each column will stay as wide as it's longest entry.