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CSS - Problems With Sizing Divs Relative To Parent Size
Similar Tutorialsfound what I was looking for. The goal of the following code is to have a search box with several tabs above it to narrow down the search. The issue is that the design calls for a little upside down triangle to appear below the tab and bleed into the text box. The code works great in Firefox and even in IE6 where the Doctype was switched to HTML 3.2. I'm using 4.01 Transitional and noticing that the arrow doesn't center itself below the tab, rather it centers itself in the entire page. If I take out the width: 100% from .searchbox li.active .downarrow, then both browsers behave the same, although the downarrow now appears in the left bottom corner of the tab rather than the center. Note that I've stripped most of the code away to narrow down the issue. Code:
<style>
.searchbox ul { float: left; padding-left: 10px; list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 10px 0 0 0; }
.searchbox li { float: left; }
.searchbox li .downarrow { display: none; }
.searchbox li a { display: block; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px; color: #213327; }
.searchbox li.active { position: relative; }
.searchbox li.active a { color: #fff; border: 1px solid #b3b2b0; background: #266d1e url('/c2footsearchbg.jpg') repeat-x scroll top left; }
.searchbox li.active a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
.searchbox li.active .downarrow { display: block; position: absolute; bottom: -9px; width: 100%; height: 10px; text-align: center; margin: auto; }
.searchbox div { clear: both; display: inline-block; }
.searchbox input.txt { border: 2px solid #999; padding: 5px 0 0 3px; width: 305px; height: 30px; }
.searchbox input.submit { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #fff; width: 71px; height: 30px; border: 0; background: transparent url('/c2searchbutton.jpg') no-repeat scroll top left; vertical-align: top; cursor: pointer; }
.searchbox input.submit:hover { background-position: 0 -30px; }
</style>
<div class="searchbox">
<h3>Search</h3>
<ul id="c2FootSearch">
<li class="active"><a href="/index.php">Main</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/groups/">Groups</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/people/">People</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/petitions/">Petitions</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/news/">News</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
</ul>
<div>
<form action="/searchall.html" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="search" value="main" />
<input type="text" name="q" class="txt" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
Hi, I am using the code below to try and create a resizable page. the problem is when the i cant get left nav to stretch the full height of the content div..... so when it is resized the footer etc all go over the top of the image...which looks wrong as iwant it all to stay in proportion any help would be much apreciated css body { /*sets properties for the body of the document*/ background-color:#ffffff; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; } #container { margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-bottom: 50px; padding: 0px; background-color: orange; width: 80%; min-width: 241px; } #footer { padding: 0px; position: relative; padding: 0px; background-color: yellow; width: 100%; } #content { margin-left:182px; width:100% - #leftnav; background-color: red; align: right; min-width: 50px; } #leftnav { /*sets properties for the left nav bar*/ float:left; background-color : #66ccff; width: 180px; border-right:2px solid; border-color:#663300; height:100%; } html <div id="container"> container <div id="leftnav"><img src="images/home-menu.gif" width="179" height="251"></div> <div id="content">content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content</div> <div id="footer">footer</div> </div> OK, I am pulling my hair out on this one. Since new users are banned from posting url's in the body of a post you will have to get my domain out of my user profile and add "/wordpress" for the page and "/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Rancho%20Vista%20Theme/style.css" for the css). There are three areas that I am having a problem with. For reference, if you view this in Safari 3, you will get an idea of what it should look like. 1. In a Mozilla browser (Flock), the main menu is lower than it should be, and the size of the box in "Upcoming Events" is a couple pixels too small (you will see it cuts off the triangle at the bottom 2. In IE6 the "Last Blog Post" and "Upcoming Events" boxes' sizes are way too big. The white space between the logo and the green nav bar is too large. 3. In IE7 the "Last Blog Post" and "Upcoming Events" boxes' sizes are too small. Can somebody help please? CSS & HTML validate as well. I am relatively new to css, and I am having a hard time designing cross-browser code. There has to be an easier way. FMI (For My Information) - is there any information out there that shows a listing of what css is not recognized by each of the browsers? I could see this as potentially being really easy to do or really hard to do. I'm hoping for the former. Suppose I have 3 divs, A, B, C and that I want the total width of A + B + C to equal the width of the screen. Suppose also that I want them to be inline. How can I have B to be a fixed width while A and C expand depending on the screen width (such that the width of A = the width of C)? hello is it possible to use css or some other artifice to make textarea/input elements adjust their row/col/size when the user increases/decreases the font size? i'm mostly talking about IE, because netscape/etc. seem to work it out just fine... setting a relative font-size for textarea/input elements on the stylesheet doesn't seem to do the trick. as usual, i tried looking around for info on this but found none, i'm beginning to think it just can't be done. any help would be really appreciated I'm creating a blog for someone, and my issue resides in <h2>. Using Wordpress, <h2> is typically the blog entry title. As you know, blog entry titles vary, because people put in different titles for different entries. I have <h2> formatted to my friend's likings, but an issue has arisen. If a blog entry title is particularly longer than the average, <h2> breaks into another line of text. This results in corrupting the layout entirely. So my question: How do I go about formatting <h2> so that the blog entry title text fills up the entire width of <h2> without breaking into a new line? Clarification (if needed): I want the font size to be dependent upon the physical length of text in the blog title Here's my code for <h2>. It resides in two containers of sorts. Code: h2
{
float:left;
font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium";
font-size:55px;letter-spacing:-2px;
width:728px;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
This is my first post/topic. Be gentle! Thanks. I'm aiming to have a flash navigation console nested inside a div which extends outside the left boundary of it's parent div. It's very hard to explain exactly so I've drawn some diagrams. Here's what I'm trying to acheive: URL Here's the actual result i've come up with so far: http://www.advancedschoolyearbooks.com/divtest.html The results differ depending on the browser. In IE the horizontal positioning of the "NavInner" DIV is spot on but vertically it is hugging the top of the "Wrapper" table when it should be hugging the top of the "Navigation" DIV In firefox I can not see the image contained in the "NavInner" DIV at all. Here's a snip of my CSS: Code:
body, html, #wrapper {
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-color: #000000;
height: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 100%;
}
#OuterFull {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
display: block;
}
#OuterBoxed {
width: 969px;
height: 650px;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#LeftCol {
width: 485px;
height:650px;
float: left;
}
#RightCol {
width: 484px;
height: 650px;
float: left;
background: url(bg.jpg) bottom left no-repeat;
}
#Navigation {
width: 484px;
height: 180px;
float: right;
overflow: hidden;
text-align: right;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#NavInner {
width: 969px;
height: 180px;
float: right;
text-align: right;
position: relative;
left: -485px;
}
#Content {
width: 484px;
height: 470px;
float: right;
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
Here's my HTML: Code: <body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="wrapper">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<div id="OuterFull" align="center">
<div id="OuterBoxed">
<div id="LeftCol">LeftCol</div>
<div id="RightCol">
<div id="Navigation">
<div id="NavInner"><img src="nav.jpg" /></div>
</div>
<div id="Content">Content</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
The Example I've read a bunch about how div's won't stretch to accomidate div's inside of them if they overrun the height/min-height set for the container div. How do I get around this? You can see the skeleton of the site above. It's fine unless you resize the window smaller than the content. Hello I have a DIV (let's call it "the parent") which contains three child DIVs. Each of the children has some text in it. Neither the parent nor any of the three children have any special positioning attributes applied to them, and so the parent sizes just so that it wraps the children. So far so good. Now I want another DIV child, which when visible will completly fill the parent (using the size the parent now has because of its other three children, not stretching the parent in any way). I tried giving the parent "position:relative", and giving this fourth child "position:absolute; top:0; left:0; width:100%; height:100%", which works fine in FF but doesn't work in IE. I tried also "bottom:0; right:0" instead of the "width:100%; height:100%", still to no avail. Is there a way to make this work in IE? Is there maybe another way to make this without absolutely-positioning the fourth DIV? Cheers, Calius Sample code follows: Code: <html> <body> This is a test<br /> <div style="width:400px; position:relative; border:1px solid red;"> <div style="position:absolute; background-color:green; height:100%; left:0; top:0; width:100%;">COVER ALL</div> <div style="border:1px solid blue; margin-bottom:16px;">1</div> <div style="border:1px solid blue; margin-bottom:16px;">2</div> <div style="border:1px solid blue;">3</div> </div> This is a test<br /> </body> </html> Hi. How would I go about horizontally centering a number of divs within another parent div which has a set width of 500px? There maybe 2,3 or 4 divs of varying length within the parent div but no matter the number I always want them centered within the parent div. |............................................................| |............................................................| |............................................................| | <---DIV---> | <---DIV---> | <---DIV---> | |............................................................| |............................................................| |............................................................| How could I Force a parent div to vertically expand to size of its child div? Thanks in advance, Richard Carson Okay, I have a few menu items and when I mouse over one of them, I want a sub div to show up. However, if I try and position the div relative to another, it gets positioned properly, but pushes the content below it downward, which I do not want. I want the content to float above like any sub menu would when the main menu item is rolled over. However, when I absolutely position the div, it's position changes based on the current width of the browser. I could technically get the width of the browser when the page loads and dynamically position it but I'm obviously making this harder than it has to be. Besides, the function would have to rerun every time the person changes the width of the browser. Possible, but again I know I'm making this harder than need be. I'd rather not spam devshed with a link to my site, but if you want to see the problem, I'll post it. Thanks in advance. Alright guys. I'm working on a horizontally scrolling news ticker type deal. I have two divs on screen, and the rest are off screen using the overflow:hidden on the parent. The divs are set to 466px wide, float:left, and the parent is 932px wide. Since div 3 and up are all 466px, they drop down below the other two. Not a problem, since the overflow is set. However the jquery animation does not reset the reference point when it scrolls, so the divs stay in this arrangement. Is there any way to keep them all lined up next to eachother horizontally? I'm wondering if there is a CSS solution first, before I get creative with the jQuery. I could easily set it for the next two divs to display right, but there is no telling how many divs there will be and it would quickly become a nightmare trying to account for all possibilities. Here is the current CSS I'm using: Code: #test {background-color:#F1F2F2; width:932px; padding:10px; margin-top:20px;overflow:hidden; display:inline-block; height:400px;} #newswrapper {height:100px; position:relative; left:0px;} #newswrapper div {float:left; position:relative; background:#CCC; width:466px; height:400px;}
Hello, i'm making a new site and i did the layout in photoshop, then i did the slices and i came out with this layout: _http://chromex.altervista.org/cse/CSE.htm The problem is now to add the content since i have to use Layers Visibility. But i cant make them stay in the same place. When i resize the window, the layer doesnt stay in the same place Any solution? PS: click on contatti in the layout to show the layer http://cwin.redirectme.net/ext/ch/test.html ^ On IE, this works fine, the parent is red as expected, whereas on Mozilla, the parent has a white background. If i have no floats, it works as expected I'm trying to create a 3 column layout where all the columns are contained within 1 larger <div>. So far I've managed to create 3 columns using absolute positioning that dont allow the back-ground image of the containing <div> to show through. If I use relative positioning, the background-image shows, but the columns are set relative to one another and they stagger from left to right in a diagonal fashion. I can correct it using negative values for the "top" attribute, but it seems bushleague and its incredibly tedious. Is there anyway I can have 3 PROPER (not using the above method) columns while also having the largest containing div's back-ground image show through them? The following gives me the staggered layout: Code:
.leftColumn{
margin-left:20px;
width:100px;
border:thin dotted #999999;
}
.middleColumn{
margin-left:121px;
width: 450px;
border:thin dotted #999999;
}
.rightColumn{
margin-left:572px;
width: 200px;
border:thin dotted #999999;
}
.main{
left:200px;
width: 950px;
background-image: url(Images/PaperBkg.gif);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="leftColumn">
</div>
<div class="middleColumn">
</div>
<div class="rightColumn">
</div>
</div>
Thanks guys. I have an navigation menu that I am building as an unordered list. What I have is an image rollover that appears at the bottom of the navigation menu when the cursor hovers over one of the first level links by using a span within the link that has its display set to none, and then set to absolute positioned directly below the navigation menu on a:hover. Here is an example: Code:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="link1.html" id="link1">Link<span></span></a>
</li>
</ul>
.link a { some link height }
.link a span { display: none; }
.link a:hover span {
position: abolute;
top: (some link height * the number of links);
background-image: (some image url)
width: (image width)
height: (image height)
}
Appearance: ------ Link1 Link2 Link3 Link4 ------- ------- Rollover Image to appear here ------- The problem that I have is that since the rollover image is positioned absolutely, if the size of the list of links changes (IE with sub-links in the list) it slides under or over where I have the rollover image placed. IE ------ Link1 sublink1 sublink2 Link2 Link3 Link4 ------- will break my scheme. Is there a way to get the span within the link to show up relative to the bottom of the <ul> element, or at the bottom of an element that contains the whole shebang? If I cant get this to work, I'm going to be forced to adopt the existing tables/javascript based template for our site, and I'd hate hate hate to do that. thanks. Hi All, I'm using divs to layout some boxes. There are a lot of boxes but if they are sized to fit the screen tehy are unreadably small. Hence they go off the edge of the screen. The user will use the scroll bars to view the page. BUT ... the blocks off the screen in aren't obeying the width rules! The ones on the initial screen view are fine, but when you scroll sideways they have gone to an odd size. This only happens on my local machine and intranet. See teh attached screen shot. The bottom row of boxes should all be the same size. When posted to a www address it works fine. I've posted the page here which works and a txt file with the code is attached. Any ideas how to correct this? By the way this is for an internal intranet so only have to consider IE 6 users. |
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