CSS - Repositioning Div In The Front Of An Image

--------This Part Solved!---------

Hi Guys!

I have a CSS dropdown menu going on, and it's working semi-properly in Firefox, but is stuck behind the content div in IE6/7. I've tried using Z-index but either I'm altering the wrong tag or I'm way off in the wrong direction, as it ain't workin.
Here is the page:
http://www.whitecapgraphics.com/bates/front.php
If you look at it in IE, there's actually no indication that it is dropping down at all, but I know it is as I moved the drop downs up a few pixels and I could see them dropping behind the div.
PS - The Home button does not have a drop down menu.

My CSS:
Code:

#d1 {
	background-color: #003366;
	float: left;
	width: 200px;
	background-image: url(images/header_bg.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	height: 107px;
}
#d2 {
	background-color: #1F2935;
	float: right;
	width: 477px;
	background-image: url(images/header_bg.gif);
}
#head_container {
	background-color: #000066;
	float: left;
	background-image: url(images/header_bg.gif);
	height: 107px;
}
#nav_container {
	background-color: #1F2935;
	float: left;
	width: 100%;
	background-image: url(images/nav_bar_bg.gif);
	height: 30px;
}
#page_container {
	margin: auto;
	width: 99.99%;
	height: 100%;
}
#content_container {
	background-color: #e4e4e4;
	float: left;
	width: 100%;
	background-image: url(images/content_blue_column_bg.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	background-position: right;

}
#content {
	background-color: #e4e4e4;
	position: relative;
	margin-right:253px;
	border-bottom-width: 2px;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-bottom-color: #000000;
	border-right-width: 2px;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-right-color: #000000;
	padding-left: 10px;
	padding-right: 10px;
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: medium;
}
#right_column {
	background-color: #CC9900;
	float: right;
	width: 253px;
	border-bottom-width: 2px;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-bottom-color: #000000;
}












/*____________________________________________________________*/


* {margin:0; padding:0;} /*Need to lookup this line - prevents the dropdown from sitting off kilt from the nav bar options */

/* the horizontal menu starts here */
div#nav {
	width:600px; /* sizes the nav div at a fixed width */
	float:left;
	background-color:#CCF; /* colors the div */
	background-image: url(images/nav_bar_bg.gif);
	z-index:10;
	}
div#nav li {
	float:left;	/* causes the list to align horizontally instead of stack */
	position:relative; /* positioning context for the absolutely positioned drop-down */
	list-style-type:none;	/* removes the bullet off each list item */
	border:1px solid black; /* creates dividing lines between the li elements */
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: medium;
	font-weight: bold;
	min-width: 126px;
	text-align:center;
	height:26px;
	}
div#nav li:first-child {
	border-left:1px solid; /*the first vertial line on the menu */
	}

div#nav li:hover { 
	background-color:#D1C9B9; /*sets the background of the menu items */
	}
div#nav a {
	display:block;
	padding:1px 6px; /*creates space each side of menu item's text */
	text-decoration:none;	 /* removes the underlining of the link */
	color:#D1C9B9;	/* sets the type color */
	}
div#nav a:hover {
	color:black;
	}
/* the menu ends here */
/* the drop-down starts here */
div#nav ul li ul {
	margin:0; 
	z-index:20; /* puts drop-down on top of div - Safari needs this as menu is 1px higher */
	position:absolute; /* positions the drop-down ul in relation to its relatively positioned li parent */
	width:10em; /*sets the width of the menu - in combo with the li's 100% width, makes the menu stack*/
	border-right:0; /* stops SCBs drops having two right borders - they inherit the border, IE doesn't */
	left:-1px; /*aligns the drop exactly under the menu */
	top:28px;
	}
#pyt ul li {
	background-color:#B3916B;
}
#h ul li {
	background-color:#1F2935;
}
#ri ul li{
	background-color: #827977;
}
#bn ul li{
	background-color: #455D67;
}


div#nav ul li ul li {padding:0;
	width:100%; /* makes the list items fill the list container (ul) */
	border-left:1px solid; /*  three sides of each drop-down item */
	border-bottom:1px solid;
	border-right:1px solid;
}
div#nav ul li ul li a {
	padding:1px .5em;
	font-size:small;
	text-align:left;
	vertical-align:middle;}
div#nav ul li ul li:first-child {
	border-top:1px solid; /*the top edge of the dropdown */
	}
/* make the drop-down display as the menu is rolled over */
div#nav ul li ul {display:none;} /* conceals the drop-down when menu not hovered */
div#nav ul li:hover ul {display:block; } /* shows the drop-down when the menu is hovered */
div#nav ul li:hover a {color:black;}


/* THE HACK ZONE - */
/* hack for IE (all flavors) so the menu has a vertical line on the left */
* html div#nav ul {
	float:left; /* makes the ul wrap the li's */
	border-left:1px solid #000; /* adds the rightmost menu vertical line to the ul */
	}

/* add a top line to drops and pops in IE browsers - can't read :first-child */
* html  div#nav ul li ul {
	border-top:1px solid #069;
	border-left:0px; /* stops the drop inheriting the ul border */
	}

/* an Opera-only hack to fix a redraw problem by invisibly extending the ul */
/* the first-level drop stays open for 100px below the bottom but at least it works */
/* this can be reduced to as little as 22px if you don't have pop-outs */
	@media all and (min-width: 0px){
   body div#nav ul li ul {padding-bottom:22px;}
   }
/*end Opera hack */
/* END OF HACK ZONE */
/* the drop-down ends here */
/* END OF LIST-BASED MENU */




#h {
	background-color: #1F2935;
}
#ri {
	background-color: #827977;
	letter-spacing: -.06em;
}

body {
	background-color: #1F2935;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
#pyt {
	background-color: #B3916B;
}
#bn {
	background-color: #455D67;
	}

#content #flash_map {
	text-align: center;
	border: 2px solid black;
	width: 660px;
	margin: auto;
}

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Unrelatedly, I'm also experiencing the following quirks that I'm not knowledgeable enough to work out quickly, so tips are aprpeciated:

****1) That menu bar is 26 pixels. Is there a way to vertically center the <a> inside the <li>?

2) The word-wrapped drop down options are extending outside of the menu - which of my styles is causing this? How can I solve it? *SOLVED*

Sorry for the noob question, but when I tried to validate the css in a page created by joomla the validator complained about these two errors:

Quote:
168 div#left Property _overflow doesn't exist : hidden hidden
210 div#left li ul Property _margin-left doesn't exist : 10px 10px


Those are a reference to the following css for the page:

Code:

div#left{
	_overflow:hidden;
}

Code:

div#left li ul{
	margin-left:15px;
	_margin-left:10px;
	margin-bottom:0px;
}

I am thinking that maybe a "_" before a property is a way some people use to have that line ignored (like adding /* before and */ after the line). Is that the explanation so that I can safely drop those lines and everything will validate properly? Or do those lines actually mean something?

Thanks.

Hi. Really hoping someone can help me with this... I'll try and explain this as best I can(!)

Basically I've got a page containing a block of 9 images, with each linking to a video clip. At the moment I've got the CSS coded so that whenever the mouse is hovered over the 'infobar' (at the bottom of each image) it goes from having a transparent background with black text to having a grey background with white text.

What I'm trying to achieve is that same effect whenever the mouse is hovered over any part of the image and infobar. The live online link can be found at:
www.markmcm.co.uk/test/test.html

The CSS is as as follows:

Code:

/*
 *  Page Stylesheet 
 */
body {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  background-color: #eaeaea;
  border:0; margin:0; padding:0;
  height: 100%;
}
a:link {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
}
#container {
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
   	min-height: 100%;
	width: 936px;
}
* html #container {
	height: 100%;
}
#content {
	float:left;
	position: relative;
	height: 528px;
	width: 936px;
	z-index: 0;
}
.miniscreen1, .miniscreen2, .miniscreen3, .miniscreen4, .miniscreen5, .miniscreen6, .miniscreen7, .miniscreen8, .miniscreen9 {
	position: absolute;
	float: left;
	display: block;
	width: 312px;
	height: 176px;
}
.miniscreen1 {
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
}
.miniscreen2 {
	top:0;
	left: 312px;
}
.miniscreen3 {
	top: 0;
	left: 624px;
}
.miniscreen4 {
	left: 0;
	top:176px;
}
.miniscreen5 {
	left: 312px;
	top:176px;
}
.miniscreen6 {
	left: 624px;
	top:176px;
}
.miniscreen7 {
	left: 0;
	top:352px;
}
.miniscreen8 {
	left: 312px;
	top:352px;
}
.miniscreen9 {
	left: 624px;
	top:352px;
}
.info {
	height: 30px;
	top:3px;
	left: 40px;
	width: 265px;
	float: left;
	position: absolute;
}
.infobar  {
	left:0px;
	position: absolute;
	top: 140px;
	width: 312px;
	height: 36px;
	outline: none;
	color:#000;
	background: url("data/infobar.png") no-repeat 0 0;
	z-index: 650;
}
.infobar:hover  { 
	background-position: 0 -36px;
	outline: none;
	color:#fff;
}
#infobar span {
	display: none;
	outline: none;
}
.clip_title {
	outline: none;
	font-size: 85%;
	font-weight: 700;
	vertical-align: top;
	text-align: left;
}
.clip_sub {
	outline: none;
	height: 13px;
	font-size: 80%;
	line-height: 13px;
	font-weight: 700;
	vertical-align: top;
	text-align: left;
}

And the HTML is:

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">
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
		<title>Test Page</title>
		<meta name="description" content=" " />
		<meta name="keywords" content=" " />
		<meta name="generator" content=" " />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page.css" media="screen" />
	</head>
<body>

<div id="container">

	<div id="content">
		<span class="miniscreen1">			
		<a href="#"> <img src="img/clip1.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 1<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
					
		<span class="miniscreen2">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip2.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 2<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
		
		<span class="miniscreen3">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip3.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 3<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
			
		<span class="miniscreen4">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip4.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 4<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen5">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip5.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 5<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen6">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip6.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 6<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen7">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip7.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 7<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen8">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip8.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 8<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen9">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip9.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 9<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
				
	</div>
</div>
	
</body>
</html>

There must be a better (and easier?) way to do this. Any help would be very-much appreciated - and save an old bloke from tearing too much of his hair out(!)

Trying to delete my post but no option to delete so just removing content.

Hi,

I have a question about setting up the Body background-image via a linked external stylesheet.

I have a index.html file and a myStyle.css file. I want to setup the background to load an image file, test.JPG.

When I embed the following in my index.html, I see the background show up:

** inside index.html file **
<BODY STYLE="background-image: url(test.JPG);"> blah </BODY>

BUT, when I define my background in the externally linked myStyle.css file, the background does not load:

** inside myStyle.css file **
BODY { background-image: url(test.JPG); }

** inside index.html file **
<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="myStyle.css">
<BODY>
blah
</BODY>
</LINK>

Please help.

thanks!

Can someone please help me?

I am trying to get my left side column to meet my footer image... just like on this website:

newcastlegateshead.com

See how they side bar goes all the way down and meets the footer?

Mine has a one inch gap between the bottom of the column and the footer.

Does anyone know what they did to make it meet perfectly?Or the proper css code & where to put it? I've been trying to get this solved for dayyyssss

Thank you so much...

On button on my website store on CSS but when user turn off "load image automatically" then images don't display.

Please show me how to fix it.
Thanks a lot.

Figured this was simple, but I can't seem to figure it out.

Using CSS, I want to put an image on the left with text to the right aligned to the bottom. I could easily do this with a table, but I'd like to find a CSS way.

With CSS like:

.imginfo {float:none;clear:both;margin-top:1em;}
.imginfo img {float:left;margin-right:1em;}

and code like:

Code:

<div class="imginfo">
  <img src="..." />
  Line of Text<br />
  Line of Text<br />
  Line of Text<br />
</div>

I get the image on the left and the text on the right, but, the text starts at the top of the image. I want it to end up aligned to the bottom of the image.

Attempting to use vertical-align: bottom doesn't do anything with the text.

The effect I am looking for is like below. If you assume the XXX are the image...

Code:

XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX Line of Text
XXXXXXXXXXXX Line of Text
XXXXXXXXXXXX Line of Text

Hi,

Instead of organising an image sprite as follows:

image image image
image image image

i'm wondering if there are any negative effects to organising the images in a linear fashion as follows

image image image image image image

I know that Flash will only render images that are a certain width or height but is there any such limitations when using css sprites?



Thanks

Hi
I am redesigning my blog and took it down completely. I want to place the day's text post on the day's photo post on top of the latter, while graying out the photo. Is that possible without using flash?

I am using a single gif file as an image sprite and want to link the file name in another style sheet so i can reuse this sheet without having to have many copys of the style sheet with a different file names example:

Currently like this
Code:

#store{left:-200px;width:158px;}
#store{background:url('mred.gif') -150px -161px;}
#store a:hover{background: url('mred.gif') -150px 0;}
#fourms{left:0px;width:158px;}
#fourms{background:url('mred.gif') -304px -161px;}
#fourms a:hover{background: url('mred.gif') -304px 0;}

want like this
#home{left:-200px ;width:150px;}
#home{background:inherit;background-position: 0 -161px;}
#home a:hover{background-position: 0 0;}

with the background:url('mred.gif') specified in another style sheet once insted of repeating over the entire sheet.

effectively so i can just change the other external style sheet to change the gif file and keep this one the same.

HOW? possible?

Here's the deal. I want to have one generic button image that I can use for all buttons. Therefore, I don't want to have words on the image but instead want to write them in afterward. Normally, you could just do something like

Code:

<input type="image" src="..."

and things are fine. However, like I said, I don't want to do that because this forces me to create an image with the words already on them. I want a black button that I can write the words on, but want it to still behave like a submit button. Which means, once I type in my username and password, I just want to be able to hit enter (and not be forced to click on the button) and submit the form. Am I asking for too much?

I cant seem to get this to position correctly in firefox. Looks great in IE though...

Perhaps I should just use divs with margins rather than ul's

Hello.

So I have this situation (on the right):
h t t p : / / img339.imageshack.us/img339/6958/1stb.png

and when I change my browser resolution, I get this (on the right):
h t t p : / / img35.imageshack.us/img35/3892/2ndhw.png

Is it possible to do that the image wouldn't change the place on a screen even you when change the resolution of the browser? And yes, the image must be behind the text.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions and tips.