CSS - Div Layout Not Centering All The Time - Need Help Coding Cross Browser And Screensize

Having an odd rendering problem involving centering content in a fixed-width right hand column that lies within a fixed width centered master content div.

Take a look at the template he http://www.ipfwcommunicator.org/devindex.php

At first I tried to center the content using align="center" in the HTML markup, which I know is a no-no, so I'm not too sad it didn't work. I then tried {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}, thinking it would work in IE as it does with tables, but it did not. Both of these attempts worked worked with most modern browsers (Moz/Firefox/Safari/NN7) but failed on MSIE5/Mac and IE6/Win. Nice and compliant, and I would be happy in a perfect world, but alas, 90% of my readers use a (vastly) imperfect browser.

I decided to get a bit more professional and utilize CSS positioning, setting the DIVs that hold the content boxes (i.e., Weather/Search/etc.) as {position: relative; left: 15px;}This also worked in most browsers, but oddly enough on IE5 Mac (and assume IE6 win although I didn't have a chance to test) the boxes centered but the tables inside the weather/search boxes that allow for cross-platform formating jutted out the side.

Lastly, and this is the current solution, since the column is fixed width and the boxes are fixed width, I used the "ice" solution of dividing the remaining margin by two, and setting margin-left: equal to that. In this case:

{margin-left: 15px;}

Oddly enough this works FINE on everything, even IE5/Mac, but doesn't work on IE6/Windows, which instead results in what appears to be 5 or 6px more than the defined 15px.

Compare here between Firefox and IE6 and you'll see it.

And CSS is here

So the question: What IS the best way to center up those boxes in that column? This is my first major CSS undertaking, having worked with nested tables up until now, so any pointers on my bad markup will be gladly accepted

Thanks in advance,

Aiden

i have a web site that i am redesigning and the redesign is @

http://cometosandiego.com/weekendvisit/index.php

it shows up GREAT in firefox

screwed in opera

and COMPLETLY out of wack in IE 6 and 7

what to do????

thanks

Hi;

I don't mind writing straight CSS with a text editor; my big problem is cross-browser compatibility -- getting all those tweaks for everything you do to include ie 5, 6 & 7 (I guess we can drop 5 by now).

To that end, I don't object to using an IDE or other tool to develop cross browser CSS. So my question is, what is/are the best resources available to handle the cross-browser issues; from broken box model, etc.

** I know about ie7-js from Dean Edwards, but I don't know how well that works.

** I know about some CSS IDE's like Aptana & Stylizer; but again I don't really know how well they handle these issues.

** And I would like to hope there are some sites out there with total references that tells you everything you need to know about cross browser CSS, though all I've found so far are piecemeal articles; how to handle this or that aspect.

So in short, I don't expect one magic bullet (though that would be nice), but I'm looking for pointers to and evaluations of various resources that could be maybe used together to make this problem a little easier.

Thanks

Anyone have any recommendations on a good program to check cross browser stuff. I am tired of having to open every browser up to check my sites.

Also, anyone know any good links for getting better at coding for cross browser CSS?

Thanks!

I am having problem making this cross browser friendly



Code:

/* Div Structure */

#heading { 
margin: 0;
position: relative;
top: -20px;
background-color:#0066CC;
}

#search { 
float: left;



}


#img {
float:left;
}

#text {
float:right;
}

#phone {

position: relative ;
float: right ;
top: 15px ;
right: 10px


}


#head {
margin: 5px ;
padding: 0; 
height: 195px;
background-color: #FDFCFF;
border: solid;
border-color: #0066CC; 
border-width: 2px; 
background-color: #FDFCFF;
}



#headnav {
float: right ;
margin: 100px 17px 5px 10px; 
padding: 0;
}

#sidebar {
float: left ;
background-color:#FDFCFF;
border-width:2px;
border-style:solid;
border-color: #0066CC;
padding: 10px;
width: 170px;
margin: 2px;
margin-top: 5px;
height: 530px ; 
}

#mainpage { 
float: right; 
position:relative; 
width: 730px ; 
right:  -5px; 
left: -5px;
border: solid;
border-color: #0066CC; 
border-width: 2px; 
background-color: #FDFCFF;

margin-top: 5px;



}

/* Side Bar */

	#sidebar h3 {
		color:black; 
		font-size: 11px;
		font-weight: normal;
		letter-spacing: 0.2em;
		margin: 5px;
		padding: 0px;
		text-transform: uppercase;
		border-bottom:dashed;
		border-bottom-color:black;
		border-width: 1px;
		}
		
	#sidebar ul, #sidebar ol {
		list-style: none;
		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
	
		
		
		}
		
		
		
	
	
	#sidebar li {

		margin: 0;
		list-style:none;
		padding: 0;
		font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:12px;
		}
		
	#sidebar a {
		color: #9999FF;
		text-decoration:none;
		}
		
	#sidebar a:hover {
	color: black;
	text-decoration:underline;

	}
		
	#sidebar div { 
		margin: 20px 0;
		padding: 0;
		}
/* Header Style */ 

	#head h1  {
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ;
	letter-spacing: 0.5em;
	font-size: 2em;
	color: black;
	
	}
	#head a { 
	color: black; 
	text-decoration: none;
	}
	
	
/* Head Nav */ 

	
	#headnav a  { 
	color: black; 
	text-decoration:none; 
	}
	#headnav a:hover { 
	text-decoration:underline;
	}
	
	#headnav p { 
	color:black; 
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:0.1em;
	
	}

/* Main Page */ 

	#mainpage img { 
	padding: 10px;
	}
	
	#mainpage h2 { 
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	color:black; 
	letter-spacing: 0.5em;
	font-style: bold ;
	border-bottom: solid;
	border-bottom-color:#0066CC;
	border-bottom-width: 2px;
	
	}
	#mainpage p {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	
	}
	
	#mainpage li { 
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	
	} 
	
	#mainpage h3 { 
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	border-bottom: dotted; 
	border-bottom-color: black;
	border-bottom-width: 1px ;
	latter-spacing: 0.2 em; 
	font-size:18px;
	}
	
	#mainpage a {
	color: #910B2D;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
	
	#mainpage a:hover {
	color:silver;
	text-decoration:underline;
	}
	
	/* Phone */ 
	
	#phone p { 
	color: black ;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 18px ;

}

/* Heading's */ 

#heading h2 { 
color: white; 
}

Hi all,

I'm relatively new to pure CSS (as opposed to hacking tables together) and I'm experiencing a cross-browser inconsistency that I'm hoping I can get help with.

I've created a table using DIVS as follows (I've given just one line as an example):

Code:

<div id='dashed_box'>

<div class='divleft'>Company Name:</div><div class='divright'><input type='text' name='company_name' size='32' class='boxes'></div>

<div class='spacer'>&nbsp;</div>
</div>

And the CSS is this:
Code:

#dashed_box
{
  border: 1px dashed #333333; 
  margin:5 auto;
  padding:5 auto;
  width: 600px;
}
.divleft {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 12px;
  line-height: 20px;
  float: left;
  text-align: right;
  color: #000;
  width: 49%;
  }

.divright {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 10px;
  float: right;
  text-align: left;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #000;
  width: 49%;
  }
 
div.spacer {
  clear: both;
  }

..In IE7 the box is laid out perfectly, as I wanted it to:




..but in FireFox 5.0, it is laid out as follows, which I don't want:



Can anyone point out what I might be doing wrong?
Or might it be a case of defining HTTP_USER_AGENT and specifying CSS depending on browser?

All help appreciated.
Woolyg.

Hi All
Can anyone please tell me where am I going wrong in code below it fairly straight forward, Style switcher works fine. The problem is When I'm using Firefox background image doesn't show but there no problem in IE. why????
Thanks
Zed
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>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="styleSheetSwitcher.js"></script>
</head>

<body><center>
<div id="main">Hello
<div id="centerbox">world</div>
</div></center></body>
</html>

css code
Code:

#main {
		position: relative; 
		background-image:url(images/Driving_bkg3.gif);
		background-repeat: no-repeat;
		height: 100%;
		left: 5%;
}
    

    #centerbox {
        margin: -20% 3% 0 40%;
        padding: 0%;
        width: 41%;
        height: auto;
        background-color:#C9F;
        }

Hi there, I am reposting this question after removing the extraneous items from the site. Basically, I can get things to line up in either IE or FF, but not both, I have managed to solve this with past sites, but can't seem to figure this one out! Currently I have it set so it is correctly displayed in IE:

http://www.kohlrbaby.com/vcc/portfolio/portfolio.htm

Please, please help me to figure out how to do fixes for this issue, I have been searching online but can't seem to figure it out and am very frustrated!
Thanks so much and here is my CSS:

body {
margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000000;
background-color: #999999;
text-align: center;

}
#title{
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left:0px;
position: relative;
float: left;
clear: left;

}
#rightBox {
border-right: 2px solid #666666;
width:625px;
padding: 0px;
border-top: 2px solid #666666;
border-bottom: 2px solid #666666;
border-left: 2px solid #666666;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left:0px;
background: #ffffff;

}
.mainPic {
margin-top: -475px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 30px;
position:relative;
float: left;
clear: left;
z-index: 100;
}

img.pic{
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;

}
PS: i know I don't need to have all my margin positions shown (ie: may eventually become margin: 0px), however I have kept it like this until I figure out what my problems are.

I know there are a lot of articles lying around about this problem, but im having trouble with css layout for a site im working on,

in IE6.0 the site displays as it should do.

in Opera 7.23 + 7.11 the site displays with the main text sitting on the logo for the page,

in firefox it displays as it does in opera.

I am using includes for the full page with no html in the index.php page, i have tried this without includes bur get the same problems as before.

the site addy is:

http://www.kptspanishproperties.org.uk

any help wpuld be great, also im not using tables just using css for all the layout needed

I'm designing a site with a combination of css and tables and I've run into some issues w/IE.

I've got some content in a nested table

<table id="content">
<tr>
<td>
Content...
</>
</>
</table>

and in my style sheet i have

#content{
padding-left:20px;
...
}

Firefox recognizes this property just fine and displays the table slightly indented, but IE seems to completely miss it. I have figured out a few workarounds, but they end up causing more problems and there are also other thigns that IE has been missing.. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

ALSO

i have a <div id=divider> inside a td w/css props as width:1px and height:100% and background-color:#000000.

again, firefox recognizes this and displays a black line that is the height of the td and 1 px wide, but IE displays a little midget line thats like 10px tall instead of the entire height of the cell. wtf?

Im not a newbie to CSS but I am still a bit new to hand coding and div positioning.

heres the link - http://members.cox.net/tekjock/test/

the body section I want it to be
bottom 5px
Left 5px
right 5px

I can get it to look good in firefox but IE it looks like crap. I have tried the above and it does not work.

Any suggestions
Thanks

Ok, so I've having some problems getting a webpage I'm designing looking good (I'm better at the "behind the scenes" coding, not so much the visual part). Anyway, I'm having some problems in Firefox and even more in IE, so here goes. In Firefox I want it to extend all the way to the bottom of the page, I tried adding "min-height:100%" to the container's styles, but that doesn't work. Can I not use a percent for the min-height? If I directly declare the height to be 100%, then the body can expand outside of the container rather than the container expanding with it. I also want to make sure that the body is always completely filling the container. The page in question is he
http://www.magicsoftinc.com/michigans_edition/
My styles are below and you can view the page source or use Firebug to see the elements I'm talking about

Code:

a:link {
	color:black;
	text-decoration:underline;
}
a:active {
	color:black;
	text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover {
	color:black;
	text-decoration:none;
}
a:visited {
	color:black;
	text-decoration:underline;
}
body {
	background-color:#BBCCFF;
	font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin-bottom:0;
	margin-top:0;
}
div {
	border:0px solid #FF0000;
	border-top-width:0;
}
img {
	border-width:0;
}

.even{
	background-color:#FFCCBB;
}
.odd {
	background-color:#BBCCFF;
}
.preload{
	display:none;
	left:-9001px;
	position:absolute;
	top:-9001px;
}

#background {
	height:100%;
	left:0;
	margin:0;
	overflow:hidden;
	padding:0;
	position:absolute;
	top:0;
	width:100%;
	z-index:-9001;
}
#backgroundLeft{
	position:fixed;
	top:0;
	left:0;
	height:100%;
}
#backgroundRight{
	position:fixed;
	top:0;
	right:0;
	height:100%;
}
#body {
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	color:#000000;
	min-height:250px;
}
#container {
	border:1px solid black;
	border-bottom-width:0;
	border-top-width:0;
	height:100%;
	margin:0 auto 0 auto;
	min-height:100%;
	min-width:760px;
	width:95%;
}
#diggThis {
	background-color:transparent;
	margin-left:-27px;
	z-index:-9001;
}
#footer {
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	text-align:center;
	font-size:small;
}
#header {
	background-color:#000000;
	height:271px;
}
#leftMenu {
	background-color:#BBCCFF;
	float:left;
	margin-right:4px;
	padding:4px;
	width:260px;
}
#main {
	min-width:500px;
	padding:4px;
}
#main .title {
	font-size:xx-large;
	font-weight:bold;
}
#menu {
	background-image:url("images/menuGradient.png");
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	border-top:1px solid #7E7E7E;
	border-bottom:1px solid #4E4E4E;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-weight:900;
	height:35px;
	position:relative;
	top:-35px;
}
#menu a:link {
	color:white;
	text-decoration:underline;
}
#menu a:active {
	color:white;
	text-decoration:none;
}
#menu a:hover {
	color:white;
	text-decoration:none;
}
#menu a:visited {
	color:white;
	text-decoration:underline;
}
#menu .button {
	background-image:url("images/menuButtonUp_blue.png");
	background-position:center;
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-weight:600;
	height:35px;
	overflow:hidden;
	padding:0;
	text-align:center;
	width:106px;
}
#menu table {
	padding:0;
	text-align:center;
	width:100%;
}
#menu tr {
	padding:0;
}
#userPanel {
	position:absolute;
	right:3%;
	top:136px;
	width:200px;
	height:100px;
	background-color:#BBCCFF;
}

On this site http://www.freewaytransmissions.com I am having issues with the spacing on the navigation. The nav is an ul and I used inline css for spacing the links apart, but as you see in Chrome they are spaced correctly, but in IE they are not aligned correctly. If someone can shed some light I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Tom

I was wondering if anyone knows of downloadable software for cross-browser testing (other than downloading all browsers manually). I know there are several websites that offer these features, but I'd like downloadable software as well.

It would be even better if it offered some emulators for mobile device browsers as well....

Anyways, just wondering if anyone knows of anything good other than the online web service ones.

What do you use for Cross Browser Testing? I just came across BrowserCam ($25 per year) at fundable.org. Do you recommend it?

thank you.

Dr. Mk.