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CSS - Disable Overflow In Div (make Them Behave Like Table Cells)
I'm fighting with this for a while now. I want to change my table layout into div based one, but keeping all the positive features of table design. The layout is based on percents and em (the liquid philosophy)
The problem: Make div resize like table cell with minimal width equal to width of widest unbreakable element. I don't want my "verylongunnecesaryword" stick out of menu div nor dissapear partaily when resizing the window. I basically want the menu to always stay wide enough to accomodate the longest word and resize dynamically with window and fonts. There is no such problem when using tables, cells automatically resize to fit content and never become so small that content sticks out or disappear. Setting the min-width with either em, px nor percent is a no go, because it's impossible to tell what size will the biggest element be. No javascript either. Also keeping it IE6 complaint would be good. I still think that tables are the best idea and unless someone shows me how to fix this problem with div and css, I'm just sticking with tables till the end of world. shortened HTML: Code: <div class="menu"> menu here </div> <div class="contents"> the rest of page </div> shortened CSS: Code: .menu
{float: left;
width: 20%;
padding: 1%;
}
.contents
{float: left;
padding: 1%;
width: 76%;
}
Similar TutorialsHi, I would like to make a html 'button' tag of 'submit' type look and behave like a html hyperlink. (For those who would be curious, the reason is that I want to pass a variable to the target script, using the post method rather than appending a name-value pair to the hyperlink url, while keeping a conventional presentation. In the end, it should make the passed variable less visible for the end user, except of course if they look at the source code and look for a hidden input). I considered to use the CSS2 system colors codes, but I did not find a code for hyperlink, and anyway, system colors will be deprecated in CSS3, so it is no good idea if I want to make my pages portable in the far future. I tried to use the appearance property from CSS3, but it does not seem to be wel implemented yet in current browsers. For now, I just styled my html button, removing border, and setting the background and foreground colors to something similar to an hyperlink, but then I have no guarantee that this will match the actual look & feel in the end user's browser. Any hint or suggestion ? with border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; in css i got border only around the table I want the border to surround every cell of the table as it is with <table border="1" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" > how? Here is what I am trying to do: <table> <tr> <td>left cell</td> <td>right cell</td> </tr> </table> I want to have the code so that the left cell is read first by the search engines followed by the right cell but I want the css to reverse the cells so that the right cell is shown first followed by the left cell. I have done this in IE by assigning the table element to position: relative and then using relative positioning to scoot the right cell to the left and the left cell to the right but this does not work in FF. I am using different stylesheets for different browsers so I dont need a solution that is cross browser compatible, just a solution that will work in standards compliant browsers like FF. Thanks for your help. My Goal: using an onmouseover, highlight the mouse-overed table cell red and highlight another table cell green. Code:
<head><style type='text/css'>
.cell1 { background-color: #cccccc; }
.cell1_over { background-color: #ff3366; }
#other_cell { background-color: #cccccc; }
</style></head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td class='cell1' onmouseover='this.className="cell1_over";' onmouseout='this.className="cell1";'>words</td>
<td id='other_cell'>more words</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
OK - the above code will change the first cell from grey to red no problem. What I want is to not only make the first cell grey but also the other cell turn green under the same onmouseover. How might I go about this? Thanks in advance! Hi, I have the following code which is for a table. Code: <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="A"></a>A</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="B"></a>B</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="C"></a>C</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="D"></a>D</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="E"></a>E</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="F"></a>F</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="G"></a>G</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="H"></a>H</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="I"></a>I</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="J"></a>J</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="K"></a>K</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="L"></a>L</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="M"></a>M</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="N"></a>N</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="O"></a>O</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="P"></a>P</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a name="Q"></a>Q</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </table> What I want to do is to have a black 1px border around the cells with the letters in, in A, B, C , D etc etc. I am hoping it is a CSS thing, but I only want it to apply to this table, not all the other tables on the page. Anyone know the easiest way to do this? Thanks Ok, so I'm making a website using tables and css since I personally hate using <div>. Anyway, it's going fine except for one problem. There is air between my cells. I wanted to show a SS of it, but apparantly I'm not allowed to post either links to the picture nor attach pictures to my thread, so I'll try to explain it. Now, the html code for the tables looks like this: Quote: <table class="center"> <tr> <td class="top"> <img src="img/top.jpg" alt="top" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="horizontal"></td> </tr> </table> The is air between my two cells here. My horizontal border wont connect to my top cell containing the top.jpg. The CSS code for trying to make the cells connect looks like this: Quote: table.center { width: 590px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; } tr, th { padding: 0px; } td.horizontal { width: 590px; height: 2px; background: #28847F; padding: 0px; } td.top { width: 590px; height: 91px; padding: 0px; } How come the two freakin' cells wont connect? I am displaying data from mySQL in a table. I am having a problem controlling the width of the columns. I am trying to replace code like this: <td width="100px><?php echo $row_rsList['taskpriority']; ?></td> with a css style <td id='pcol' ><?php echo $row_rsList['taskpriority']; ?></td> where td.pcol { width: 100; } But when I display the table it seems to disregard the width setting. The only other table formatting I ahve done so far is this: table { margin:0; padding:0; } table th { vertical-align: baseline; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; font-variant: small-caps; background: #CCCCCC; text-align: left; } Thoughts? I've got the div below Code:
<style>
div
{
height: 100px;
position: absolute;
overflow-y: auto;
}
</style>
<div>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
Some text goes here<br>
</div>
This div is the width required to hold the text. Unfortunately once the scroll bar is added to the div it obscures the text. Is there a way to make the div expand horizontally that bit extra required by the scrollbar? I know i can put padding-right on the div. I'm looking for a way that will only expand if further if a scrollbar is needed. is there a problem with placing div tags inside table cells. I have a need to do this and it works fine on my FF3 and IE7 but i am told this is bad practice. is there a problem and/or workaround to using div tags inside a table cell Hello, I am attempting to have two pieces of text within a table cell that also contains an image. I was able to figure out the first piece of text that I wanted vertically aligned to the top and to the left, but the next piece of text, which I want vertically aligned to the bottom of the cell and aligned right I am having issues with. Here is the example code: Code: <td style"vertical-align: bottom;"><img src="image1.jpg" border="0" width="195"><font style="position: absolute;left: 2;background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;font-weight: bold;font-size: 18px;">STYLE#</font><font style="position: absolute;right: ;background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;font-weight: bold;font-size: 18px;">As low as $x.xxfont></td> Is this possible within the same table cell as the image? Or do I have to place a CSS table within this cell to place text over top of the image? I would have placed the image as the cell background image, however, I am dynamically creating these tables, and not all of my images are of same size. I am specifying the width though, just not the height. Thank you in advance. Hello, I am working on a site and want to put a thin black line border on individual cells in a table with out putting a border on the whole table. Im not very experienced with css and would perfer to keep it simple. any info will help thanks Nick Carlevaris I'm building a table (for tabular data, of course) and need text within cells centered. However, applying "text-align:center;" to the cells in any other way but inline styles doesn't work. For example, this does not work: Code: td.centercell {
text-align: center;
}
<table>
<tr>
<td class="centercell">Hi!</td>
<tr>
</table>
But this does: Code: <table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Hi!</td>
<tr>
</table>
I'd rather not have to put inline styles on every single cell I need centered, as this is most of them. What's going on? Is it not possible to do the following? What is the correct way of aligning a cell if not? PHP Code: TD.theader { background-color: #D0D0D0; border: 1px solid #000000; padding:5px; horizontal-align: right; } Anyone know of a good way to break up a long word from an element with a certain width? Say I have a word like wordddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd, I'd want it to show up properly. Here's the best I've come up with: Code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div
{
background-color:#00FFFF;
width:150px;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
Longworddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
</div>
</body>
</html>
As you see, just cutting off the word isn't really ideal. Is there a way to auto-break up long words or something? Hello, I posted this in the HTML forum too but didnt get any replies so maybe people in here know it. When you have a table cell with a width of 20%, and you put a very long string in it. Let's say 255 chars long, without spaces in between. The cell will then expand beyond the 20% that was specified. How can you prevent this and make sure the string is broken down and goes further on a next line in the cell when the 20% width is reached? thanks in advance I am developing a PHP/CSS database application built for Safari and have run into a very nasty bug. (Aside: the web application I am building is sort of browser-specific... we are an all-Mac company, so we want people to use Safari. [I'm not even trying to make it work with IE5/Mac. Screw that.] But having said that, I'd also like it to work in IE6/Win and Firefox [Mac/PC] to give people at least a few more options, like if they're on their PC at home... whatever. Just thought I would explain that before I get flamed by those who think I'm crazy for going that route.) Anyway, I'd like to have tables with cells/columns that are hidden on the screen but visible on printouts and vice versa. But I've discovered that using display:none for table cells in the print style sheet crashes Safari. It does not affect span tags within table cells. This will crash Safari. Code: td { display: none; }
This is okay. Code: td span.printhide { display: none; }
This is also okay, but why do this if it's still going to take up the space on the page? Might as well just leave it. Code: td { visibility: hidden; }
Now, I've found a workaround that works, but it's a pain. Basically, instead of setting it up like a normal table, like this: Code: <table> <tr> <td>Cell</td> </tr> </table> You have to set it up like this: Code: <span class="table"> <span class="row"> <span class="cell">Cell</span> </span> </span> As long as you give those span tags their respective display attributes, this works when you set this in your print stylesheet, for example: Code: span.cell { display: none; }
But the big problem with doing it this way is that you're now completely handcuffed to the stylesheet. At least if the style sheet bonks the old way, you still have a table with tabular data in it. Plus, say if the next version of Safari fixes this problem, then you'd have to go back and fix it on every page that uses these span tags in order to "unlock" the handcuffs, which kind of nullifies the purpose of style sheets in the first place. So I guess what I'm asking is if anyone knows of a workaround that I can use that does NOT involve converting my <table><tr><td> to <span><span><span>? Thanks for reading. Hi again, Can anyone let me know if they have encountered this problem before. Its caused me around 12hrs of headaches so far.. The problem is that in Firefox this works perfectly, but in IE7 i cannot get it to be 100% of the browser window, it always takes 100% of the gif image. A good test is with a browser window of 800x600 If I change class test to fixed width for example width:614; instead of width:100%; then it seems to work perfectly again. Many thanks in advance. G. -----SNIP <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="EditPlus"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT=""> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=""> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT=""> <style> .test { z-index:1; width:100%; overflow: auto; } </style> </HEAD> <BODY> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" width="169"></td> <td width="100%"> <div class="test"> <table><tr><td><img src="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"></td></tr></table> </div> </td> <td><img src="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" width="169"></td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> ------- I see my images have been removed, the two outer cells are just a 169 wide spacer The inner image was 850 wide, just add any image of this size to try. Thanks again. G Hello, I'm pretty new to CSS so I'm not really sure what I'm doing. Anyway, I created a website layout in photoshop and exported it to html, so far so good. But the area I have reserved for text is a picture, when I type over the picture it creates a cell, however my problem is when the text exceeds the width of the picture my whole layout gets messed up. My question is how would I put an auto overflow in. Here's my code: <tr> <td> <img src="images/index_02.jpg" width="279" height="1" alt=""></td> <td rowspan="2"> this is where my text goes</td> <td rowspan="2"> <img src="images/index_04.jpg" width="3" height="383" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td> Thanks in advance My CSS works in IE and Mozilla but not Netscape or Opera I have a 2 column website, built with 2 relative position DIVs, with overflow set to auto. Because of this, I turned off overflow on the body tag and on the html tag (overflow: hidden;). I didn't want to have 2 scroll bars on the right side of the window. When I first tested this on 4 browsers, IE, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, it worked great, only having one scroll bar on the right side of the window when the page was longer than the window height. But when I moved to a new host server recently, I discovered that Netscape and Opera stopped working. They now simply give me blank screens. When I remove the "overflow: hidden;" specifications from the body tag and the HTML tag in my CSS file, Netscape and Opera once again display my web pages. However, now I get 2 scrollbars on the right side of all 4 browsers (in IE, the second scrollbar isn't actually there, but the space holder for the scrollbar is there). Is there a cross browser way for doing what I'm trying to do? Or am I faced with detecting the browser type on the server-side, and setting the style sheet appropriately? Here are the related parts of my CSS: /* CSS styles */ BODY { font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ; font-size : 10pt; background : Black; color : White; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-width: 0; overflow: hidden; } HTML { overflow: hidden; } #LeftNavDIV { position:relative; width:185px; height:100%; float:left; padding:2px 0px 0px 0px; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; border:1px solid white; overflow:auto; } #ContentDIV { position:relative; height:100%; width:75%; float:right; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; border:0px dashed #336699; overflow:auto; } Hi! How does padding and margin on text and images behave? And on other inline elements? Didn't get it to work in IE6. Thank you |
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