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CSS - Float Left But Center Ul On Page
Hi,
Please help! I have multiple ul lists and I'm trying to float each list left and center on the screen all of them using css. I'm not trying to have an inline list. I'm trying to keep the three list, float left but center on the page. floating works but I'm having problems centering on the page. I have used margin-left and right:auto but because I'm using float left if stays on the left. Does anyone have any solutions. thank-you in advance Similar TutorialsHi all, http://www.jaysonsgroup.com/zpip2/z.html - please see the bottom four links (home, glossary, contact, credits) The HTML is as follows: Code:
<div class="centerlinks">
<table align='center'>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>Home</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Glossary</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Contact</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Credits</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
The CSS: Code:
.centerlinks {
float: left;
width: 550px;
text-align: center;
}
.centerlinks ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
.centerlinks li {
float: left;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
As you can see, what I want is a simple UL list that is horizontal, plain text, and centers within the 550px div that surrounds it , even if I add a fifth <li> link in the future. On Internet Explorer, the <table align='center'> hacks fixes the problem. But it doesn't work on Firefox. Any ideas how I can center this? (I know I can use padding-left or margin-left but then this isnt a good solution when more menu items are added to that list) Thanks in advance!! Every time I switch Web pages, the display starts at the far left and jumps to center. Is there a way to correct this and still allow for variations in screen sizes and resolution. http://www.madjazz.org/index.html http://www.madjazz.org/CSS/RobustLayout.css Thank you Hi There - Am converting another design from tables, working with a CMS (Drupal) and an existing CSS / table combination that I didn't write and have no choice about. Think of the header as having three sections. The top section has logo on the left, search box on the right. Rounded corners. I'm cool with that section. Then there's a space. Created a div for the space. Love the space. Problems with the space in IE. Will go into it later. Then there's the next section. Rounded corners. Contains the entire page. On the left is a pulldown menu, about 1 cm from the top. On the right is a tabbed menu. This menu has flexible height. It needs to be right up against the bottom with the menu below it. Call this section the tabbed menu section. Third section. Immediately below that is a bar menu like the one Apple's got. Looks like a metal bar with divisions. Call this primary links. ---------- First, the space between. In IE, when you roll over the bar menu, the space disappears. Won't come back. Initially, in the second section, floated the pulldown menu left and the tabbed menu right. That worked fine, except that the tabbed menu had a width of 100% and pushed up the pulldown menu so the section was too wide. When I put it to 65%, all hell broke loose with the bar menu in the third section below it and bits of it snuck up into the second section. If I left it alone, and left the tabbed menu at 100%, when I checked over its container with firebug, it said that it was being affected by the primary links. I figured that out also because the background for that container was a really weird color that I finally found in the background of the navigation id and changed to white. Primary was overlapping it so I couldn't see it with firebug. So after fiddling with several clearing methods, I gave up and decided to try a table. Table worked fine, and the second section looks good except that there's a one pixel space between the tabbed menu and the bar menu. --------- It is my greatest wish right now to be able to float the pulldown to the left, the tabbed menu to the right and have the primary links stay below. I wish I could get the space to work and I wish for a clear understanding of it all so I can then figure out where to put the corners. Anyone who can enlighten me on this would have my undying gratitude. I've been working on this all day and the deadline's tomorrow. Code: <div id="top part" logo and searchbox </div> <div> that pesky space that disappears in IE when roll over primary links </div> <div id=navcontainer> dropdown and tabbed menu </div> <div id="navigation" class="menu> <!-- couldn't find the menu class in the css --> <div id="primary" class="clear-block"> contains barmenu - very fussy </div> </div> Here's the relevant CSS: Code:
div#navigation {
background: #fff url(../images/blue/menu-bg.png) 100% 100% repeat-x;
}
#primary {
line-height: 30px;
}
#primary ul {
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style:none;
}
#primary li {
display:inline;
}
#primary a {
font-weight:bold;
display:block;
float:left;
padding:0px 14px 0px 14px;
margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
font-size: 95%;
}
#primary a {
background-position:0% 0px;
}
#primary a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#primary a.active {
background-position: 0% -84px;
}
#primary a {
background: url(../images/blue/menu-div.png) 100% 0 repeat-y;
color:#666666;
font-size: 120%;
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
#primary a:hover {
color: 666666;
background: #B8B8B8;
}
#primary a.active {
color: 666666;
background: #B8B8B8;
}
I always seem to run into this problem and somehow get it fixed but this time I am stuck. I have a main wrapper and 2 footers that line up together and are all floated to the left. I'm trying to put in a column to their right that runs vertical called "right", to be spaced out about 110 px from the top of the page so it sits vertically below the banner and the navs. I tried giving it a left margin to clear the floated DIV's but to no avail. You can see the page he http://yourthreshold.com/playground/ It seems to clear in Firefox but not in IE .. The main CSS: Code: * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background-color:#e5e5e5;
}
#wrapper {
width: 640px;
height: 720px;
margin-left:0;
margin-top:0;
border: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 0px solid gray;
background-image:url(../images/banner.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#c0c0c0;
float:left;
}
#navigation {
width: 640px;
height: 22px;
background-color:#c9c9c9;
margin-top: 88px;
}
#insidewrapper {
height:auto;
width:99%;
margin: 6px 1px 4px 1px;
}
/* Begin Left Side Info Boxes */
#sidebar {
width:150px;
height:600px;
margin-left:2px;
float:left;
border:1px solid #666666;
border-bottom:0px;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:9px;
color:#666666;
background-color:#ffffff;
}
.infobox {
height:123px;
font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:9px;
padding:3px;
border-top:0px;
border-left:0px;
border-right:0px;
}
.infopic {
margin-top:9px;
}
.infobutton {
height:20px;
border-bottom:1px solid #666666;
padding-left:3px;
}
/* Begin Main Content */
#maincontent {
width:465px;
height:593px;
margin-left:158px;
border:1px solid;
border-color:#666666;
font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
color:#333333;
padding:3px;
background-image:url(../images/background_trans2.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-color:#ffffff;
}
/* Main Content for pages with textual content */
#content {
width:97%;
height:auto;
padding:5px;
}
/* Main Content for pages with products */
#productWrapper {
height:auto;
width:100%;
margin-top:10px;
}
#productLeft {
height:auto;
width:115px;
float:left;
}
#productMiddle {
height:auto;
width:200px;
margin-left:1px;
float:left;
}
#productRight {
height:auto;
width:auto;
}
/* Begin Footer */
#footerlinks, #footer {
width:640px;
height:auto;
text-align:center;
float:left;
}
#footerlinks {
border-right: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
border-left: 2px solid gray;
background-color:#c0c0c0;
font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:9px;
letter-spacing:1px;
color:#555555;
padding-bottom:4px;
}
#footer {
margin-left:0;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:15px;
padding-top:8px;
border-top: 0px;
border-right: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 2px solid gray;
border-left: 2px solid gray;
font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:9px;
color:#555555;
background-color:#a9a9a9;
}
/* Begin Rightside Column */
#right {
border: 1px solid orange;
width:195px;
margin-left:650px;
padding-top:111px;
}
OK, so I have this nice clean form that I wanted to style up like the table-forms of old. I did it by floating the labels and form elements left, then clearing the labels left so they use their own lines. This works beautifully in Firefox and Safari, but IE (Win, at least) seems to think everything not cleared left should go on the same line! Is this a known IE bug/discrepancy? If so, is there a way to combat it without introducing meaningless elements to the markup (such as encasing each label/element pair in a div)? Here's some example HTML: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> @import url("style.css"); </style> </head> <body> <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="name" /> <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label> <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea> <label for="fun">Having fun?</label> <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" /> </form> </body> </html>
And the CSS: css Code: Original - css Code label { display: block; float: left; clear: left; width: 8em; margin-right: .5em; text-align: right; } input, textarea { display: block; float: left; }
This is my first try at css and i have been at it about a week on and off. I have tried to use examples from here and the o'reilly CSS cookbook. I want to create a two column row of pictures with a caption. I selected DIV as the tool (my css is below). The container DIV looks great. I want the div.float, however, to start a second row when a third picture is added and to continue thereafter with successive two column rows. Unfortunately, each of my rows contain only one picture. here is my css style sheet. A demonstration of the problem can be seen at: http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/?How_to_create_pages Code: div.float {
float: left;
BORDER-RIGHT: #808080 2px solid;
PADDING-RIGHT: 2px;
BORDER-TOP: #808080 2px solid;
PADDING-LEFT: 2px;
FONT-WEIGHT: lighter;
FONT-SIZE: medium;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px;
MARGIN: 16px 2%;
BORDER-LEFT: #808080 2px solid;
COLOR: #000000;
PADDING-TOP: 2px;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #808080 2px solid;
HEIGHT: 200px;
WIDTH: 150px;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;
TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
div.float p {
text-align: center;
}
div.container {
border: 2px dashed #333;
background-color: #ffe;
}
div.spacer {
clear: both;
}
MY HTML is like this: Code: H1>How to create pages</H1> <P>The headings are used for splitting up the content file. An H1, H2 or H3 heading will dynamically split the document into new pages in the table of contents. An H4-heading is used as a heading within a page. See the following pages...<BR></P> <P></P> <DIV class=container> <DIV class=spacer></DIV> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 1" src="image1.gif" width=100> <P>caption 1</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer></DIV> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 2" src="image2.gif" width=100> <P>caption 2</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 3" src="http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/image3.gif" width=100> <P>caption 3</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer></DIV></DIV></DIV> Hi, I have this page: Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
p {padding: 0; margin: 0; }
html {padding:0; margin:0;}
.leftDiv {
height: 100px;
width: 30px;
background-color: teal;
float: left;
}
.mainDiv {
padding: 5px 0 10px 0px;
width: 200px;
height: 20px;
background-color: blue;
}
.mainPara {
padding-left: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contentDiv" style="width: 700px; height: 700px;">
<div class="leftDiv">
</div>
<div class="mainDiv">
<p class="mainPara">
First Para
</p>
</div>
<div class="mainDiv">
<p class="mainPara">
Second Para
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And have two questions. First, why the gap between the left div and mainDiv in IE? I thought 3px bug was only for block elements with no dimensions? Second, why does padding left not take effect in FF untill I have overcome the width of the float? Even padding-left in the para does not take effect, which should be based off of its parent. Any help is appriciated, CJB I came across this today and realized I didn't have a nice clean answer for how to handle it. A client was editing a page where text was wrapping around an image. Something like this: Code: <div style="border: 1px solid blue; float: left; width: 100px; height: 200px">image</div> <p>This is some text.</p> <ul> <li>list item1</li> <li>list item2</li> <li>list item3</li> </ul> She asked why the bullets weren't appearing. Sure enough, the bullets appear underneath the float, not next to it. Now I could enclose the bullets and the paragraph in a div and give that div some left padding, but this is a free form text page where she should just be able to type and have the text flow around the floated element. I shouldn't have to manually tweak styles on elements just so she can have bullets show up in the right place. Is there an easy CSS method to make the bullets appear in the right place whether they're next to a floating element or not? Say I have the code: Code: <div style="float: left">left</div> <div style="float: right">right</div> In Opera, Firefox and IE, "left" will be on the left side of the scren, "right" will be on the far right. Now let's say I nest those two in a parent. I want the parent to expand with the child's content, so I float it too: Code: <div style="float: left;"> <div style="float: left">left</div> <div style="float: right">right</div> </div> In Firefox in IE, "left" is still on the far left and "right" on the far right. In Opera, it collapses the div so they're right next to each other, or "leftright". Now I could set a width of 100% on the parent, but the situation I'm actually using something like this in is more complicated -- padding, margins, etc. So setting a width of 100% makes the parent overflow it's parent nodes. I've tried not floating the parent and setting it to overflow: auto, but that doesn't seem to work either. Is there an easy fix I'm missing? hey all, i have divs within a div but the inner div with the text does not expand the main wrapping div with so the main wrapping div is very thin and the text just goes over it?? here is the code Code: <div id="greyinset"> <div id="insetcontent"> <form name="form1" method="post" action=""> <div id="insetcontentL"> <div align="left"> <label>Smoking:</label> <br> <label>Bed Type:</label> <br> <label>Accessible:</label> <br> </div> </div> <div id="insetcontentR"> <div align="left"> <input name="smoking" type="radio" value="yes"> yes <input name="smoking" type="radio" value="no" checked> no<br> <input name="radiobutton" type="radio" value="radiobutton"> King <input name="radiobutton" type="radio" value="radiobutton"> Two Beds <input name="radiobutton" type="radio" value="radiobutton"> No Preference<br> <input name="accessible" type="checkbox" id="accessible" value="yes"> </div> </div> </form> </div> </div> and the css code Code:
#greyinset { width: 100%; background-color: #eee; border: 1px solid black; clear:left; }
#insetcontent {width: 100%; padding: 3px 10px 3px 10px; white-space:normal;}
#insetcontentL {width: 50%; float: left;}
#insetcontentR {width: 50%; float: right;}
any ideas?? or do i have to go back to trusty tables thanks RF Internet Explorer 7 has an odd way of dealing with adjacent left and right floats in a container without set width. Instead of leaving the parent div to its natural content width as a float, IE7 forces the right-floating div to float right until it meets an element with a fixed width, or otherwise the document margin. IE8 and other browsers float the items correctly. The example below was meant to do a menu with rounded buttons, the two rounded images floated to the left and right edges of the button containing the text. The button should only be the width of the text link plus the rounding divs. This is easily fixed by adding a fixed width to the floating container div. However this may not always be the desirable action when div content widths may vary -- especially if space is at premium. Is there any decent way to fix this without resorting to ugly hacks? An easy way to make rounded corners for buttons that are floating. Perhaps use ul/li as the menu item container elements -- would that make any difference? ul/li come with their semantic limitations however, as far as their contents are concerned. (No divs for one.) 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>
<title>Test Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
body{
background-color:#ffffff;
font: 12px Verdana;
}
.container {
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #eee;
width: 500px;
}
.button_holder {
float: left;
margin: 1px;
/* width: 100px; */ /* IE7 wants width! Comment out and it floats right. */
}
.top_button_left {
/* background-image: url(../images/top_button_left.png); */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #bbb;
width: 5px;
height: 31px;
float: left;
cursor: pointer;
}
.top_button_right {
/* background-image: url(../images/top_button_right.png); */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #bbb;
width: 5px;
height: 31px;
float: right; /* This bugs the hell out of IE7: right float inside left float floats to the right of the first container with specified width */
cursor: pointer;
}
.top_button_mid {
/* background-image: url(../images/top_button_mid.png); */
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color: #ccc;
height: 31px;
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
}
.top_button_link {
padding-top: 7px;
padding-left: 13px;
padding-right: 13px;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<b>Three buttons, the sides of which float to the right extreme in IE7</b>
<br />
<br />
<div class="button_holder">
<div class="top_button_mid">
<div class="top_button_right"></div>
<div class="top_button_left"></div>
<div class="top_button_link">
<a href="index.html" title="Home">Home</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="button_holder">
<div class="top_button_mid">
<div class="top_button_right"></div>
<div class="top_button_left"></div>
<div class="top_button_link">
<a href="other.html" title="Home">Other</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="button_holder">
<div class="top_button_mid">
<div class="top_button_right"></div>
<div class="top_button_left"></div>
<div class="top_button_link">
<a href="weather.html" title="Home">Weather</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br style="clear: both;" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hi, Code: <div class="paginator"> <span style="float:left"><span class="prev_next"><a href="">PREV</a></span> <span class="page_links"><a href="">2</a><a href="">3</a><a href="">4</a></span> <span style="float:right"><span class="prev_next"><a href="">NEXT</a></span></span> </div> How do I create this layout? ------------------------------------ |PREV...............123..............NEXT| ------------------------------------ 123 must be in the middle. I have been trying to position it correctly but it always comes up messed up. Thank you. i want to position a div 383 pixels left of the center of my browser. i've tried using left:50% and a negative margin..anyone have suggestions on things to try? Hi: I have the following in My CSS file PHP Code: #body { background: url('images/columns.gif') repeat-y; text-align: left; } #body2 { width: 256px; padding: 10px; float: left; background: url('images/body2_bg.gif'); } #body1 { width: 654px; float: left; padding: 10px; } The intention is that the main body of the web page is in the "#body" ID. That section contains two ID's, "#body2" is the menu which is narrower and floats left, "#body1" is wider and floats right. The issue is that #body2 is supposed to have a darker color background and #body1 is supposed to have a white background. This works fine except when the length of #body1 exceeds the length of #body2, then there is white space at the bottom of the #body2 "column". Can anyone suggest a fix for this so that the entire left column is a color, regardless of the page length of the #body2? Thanks Thanks The code below displays the boxes i want but i do not understand why those that could be aligned to left are not aligned. I would like to have those boxes to be aligned to the left. Any help is appreciated. Code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
div {
position: relative;
width: 10em;
padding: 0.25em;
margin: 0.25em;
border: 1px solid black;
text-align: center;
overflow: auto;
float: left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="top: 0em; height: 2em;"> 8 pm</div>
<div style="top: 5em; height: 2em;"> 9 pm</div>
<div style="top: 10em; height: 2em;">10 pm</div>
<div style="top: 8em; height: 5em;">Box A</div>
<div style="top: 9em; height: 5em;">Box B</div>
</body>
</html>
The site is he http://andamu.org/main/yarn/ or "andamu.org /main /yarn" The appearance of the date, byline, comments/trackbacks and tags on the left, aligned beneath one another in IE 8 is the desired appearance. In Firefox, the date appears in the correct spot, but the rest appears to its right instead of below it. (I am modifying the Pico theme in MT5.) I'll try to get the relevant bits here, but please ask if I can provide more detail. The html part: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <h2 class="date-header">September 6, 2010</h2> <div class="asset-footer"> <p class="asset-footer-info"> <span class="byline"> <span class="vcard author">Sivani</span> at <abbr class="published" title="2010-09-06T18:47:04-08:00"> 6:47 PM</abbr> </span> <span class="separator"><br /></span> <a href="http://andamu.org/main/yarn/2010/09/the-socks-of-doom---part-ii-sucked-in-again.html#comments"> No Comments</a> <span class="separator"><br /></span> <a href="http://andamu.org/main/yarn/2010/09/the-socks-of-doom---part-ii-sucked-in-again.html#trackbacks"> No TrackBacks</a> </p> </div> <!-- class="asset-footer" -->
The css part: Code: .date-header {
float: left;
text-align: right;
padding: 5px 20px 4px 0;
margin-left: 20px;
border-right: 1px solid #eee;
width: 128px;
color: #999;
}
.asset-footer {
float: left;
text-align: right;
padding: 5px 20px 4px 0;
margin-left: 20px;
border-right: 1px solid #eee;
width: 128px;
color: #999;
clear: all;
}
Note: I have tried using clear: all; in the .date-header to no effect. In advance, I'd like to say that I appreciate the assistance from people on this site. I'm laying out a site with a three-column layout. The right <div> floats to the right, and the left <div> floats to the left with the middle content "flowing" to the top in between the two. I'm using strict xhtml. Both the xhtml and the css validate properly with no warnings. In Firefox, Opera and Safari, the layout behaves as I would expect. However, with IE7, the left div behaves very unexpectedly, as though IE7 is causing it to use fixed positioning. If you open the site in IE and manually resize your browser window by dragging the right-hand side back and forth horizontally, you'll see how the left div stays in place. I can't figure out the cause of this strangeness. I've put the index page temporarily online for anyone to take a look at, and I'll append the code right after this post. The site is www [dot] MeInShape [dot] com Again, thanks in advance. Edited because I accidentally said "absolute positioning" when I meant "fixed positioning". Hi all, This is really annoying me and I don't think it should happen!! If you see this page, you will see one of the divs spans the whole page and it has gone behine the floated left element. Now if it wnt below it that would be OK as a block level element, but the content is in the right place. If you reduce the width it sits in its place OK. I think this is strange behavior.... is it correct????? http://www.wellandpower.net/website...req=www_contact Regards Charlie Hello everyone, I am having some problems making my website show the same in all browsers (this is not a doctype problem, I am using a proper one). My problem is with float:left, and here is how I am using it on my website at the moment: Code: #ctr1{float:left;width:189px;}
#ctr2{float:left;width:590px;}
<div id="ctr1">blahblahblah</div>
<div id="ctr2">blahblahblah</div>
This shows fine with IE, but with all the Netscape based browsers (NS, Mozilla, Moz Firefox).. and also in Opera, it shows wrong. Is there anything I can use instead of float:left? Thanks. |
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