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CSS - 2 Issues - Div & Content Heights + Div Positioning
Hello,
I'm relatively new to using CSS as the foundation of a site, as i've only ever built sites for family/work etc using tables. I have used it previously for styling and so on, but not as intensively as i now am. It's great, but a couple of issues are giving me a headache - the fun of web design, hey?... I'm experiencing two problems, and have spent a lot of time describing them (with examples and images) on the following page - fnb4wd.com.au/4x4wh/help/help.htm - not wanting to clutter up the forum with my explanations and too many images. The first is to do with the 100% height trick - my "wrapper" div is not expanding with my "content" div - but i do not believe faux columns are possible for my design (if someone proves me wrong, great!) as i don't have two full height columns, but one content column and a vertical menu div... The second issues is with a Horizontal menu i am using as main navigation. In both FireFox & Chrome, the menu shifts down so the text links are unreadable unless hovered over. In IE, it's positioned as i want (with Comp View Settings turned on for IE8). So, if anyone could shed come light on my problems, i'd love to hear some ideas. The full explanation, complete with working examples and images (as well as my code) can be seen at fnb4wd.com.au/4x4wh/help/help.htm. Thanks in advance, Azerus85 Similar TutorialsHi all, I have a page that is generated through PERL, but I cannot get the positioning right. There are graphics, 1 - 9 depending on what the user chooses, that I need to display at the top of the page. Below this, I need to place text descriptions of the graphics. However, the text is displaying under the graphics. The code that I am using for the CSS is: Code:
.MainWindow{
position: absolute;
max-width: 800px;
width: expression(document.body.clientWidth > 800? "800px": "100%" );
font-family:Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:Medium;
color:#AF31F4;
background-color:white;
Height: auto;
margin: 0 auto ;
}
.ShowCards {
position: absolute;
vertical-align: top;
margin: 0 auto;
top: 2px;
width: 640px;
height: auto;
Left: 200px;
COLOR: #AF31F4;
FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 11pt;
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
border-color:Red;
border-style:solid;
}
.Location2_3 {
position: absolute;
top: 110px;
left: 160px;
width: 85px;
height: 110px;
text-align: center;
}
.Location2_5 {
position: absolute;
top: 110px;
left: 310px;
width: 85px;
height: 110px;
text-align: center;
}
.Location3_4 {
position: absolute;
top: 220px;
left: 235px;
width: 85px;
height: 110px;
text-align: center;
}
.Text1 {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
top-margin: 20px;
left: 10px;
width: 500px;
}
This of course is not the complete CSS file, it is only representative. If you need/want to see the complete file, you can go here And the HTML that gets generated is: Code: <Body> <DIV CLASS="MainWindow"> <div id="printReady"> <DIV CLASS="ShowCards"> <DIV CLASS="Location1_4"> 1<BR> <img src="../tiles/thumbs/ansuz.jpg"> </DIV> <DIV CLASS="Location2_5"> 2<BR> <img src="../tiles/thumbs/daeg-r.jpg"> </DIV> <DIV CLASS="Location2_3"> 3<BR> <img src="../tiles/thumbs/fehu.jpg"> </DIV> <DIV CLASS="Location3_4"> 4<BR> <img src="../tiles/thumbs/nauthiz.jpg"> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV CLASS="Text4"> Rune 1<BR> <font color="#0000FF">Name: Ansuz</font><BR> <font color="#0000FF">Position 1</font>: Past feelings and desires<br> <font color="#FF0000">Keywords:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<BR> <font color="#FF0000">Meaning:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<P> Rune 2<BR> <font color="#0000FF">Name: Fehu</font><BR> <font color="#0000FF">Position 3</font>: Present feelings and desires<br> <font color="#FF0000">Keywords:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<BR> <font color="#FF0000">Meaning:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<P> Rune 3<BR> <font color="#0000FF">Name: Daeg Reversed</font><BR> <font color="#0000FF">Position 2</font>: Feelings and desires of others<br> <font color="#FF0000">Keywords:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<BR> <font color="#FF0000">Meaning:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<P> Rune 4<BR> <font color="#0000FF">Name: Nauthiz</font><BR> <font color="#0000FF">Position 4</font>: Your heart's deepest desires. If this rune is positive these desires will come to fruition in the next four months <br> <font color="#FF0000">Keywords:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<BR> <font color="#FF0000">Meaning:</font> ... Text deleted for space ...<P> </DIV> </DIV> </BODY> If you would like to see an example of this, go here Choose a layout in the drop down on the top left and follow the instructions. Will only take a few seconds, it is not a long process...... Thanks for any help or suggestions. Jim Hi, First off, I've tried a quick search to see if anyone else has posted this problem, but didn't come up with anything. So, if I am repeating, apologies :-) Anyway, I've got a problem that hopefully someone will be able to help me with. It's probably quite simple, but my CSS is a bit hit and miss ;-) Anyway, firstly, here's the CSS: Code:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: #FFFFFF url(images/img01.gif) repeat-x;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #8E959B;
}
#header {
width: 100%;
height: 225px;
margin: auto;
padding: 12px 0 0 0;
}
#logo {
float: left;
width: 208px;
height: 208px;
margin: 0px 0 0 14px;
padding: 0 15px 0 0;
border: 3px solid #EB850C;
}
#logo h1 {
padding: 120px 0 0 0;
text-align: center;
letter-spacing: -3px;
font-size: 2em;
font-weight: normal;
}
#logo h2 {
margin-top: -10px;
text-align: center;
font-size: medium;
}
#logo a {
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
#logo a:hover {
color: #990000;
}
#splash {
position: absolute;
left: 250px;
margin-right: 10px;
top: 100px;
border: 3px solid #EB850C;
width: 73%;
max-width: 73%;
height: 115px;
}
#menu {
float: right;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
}
#menu ul {
height: 55px;
margin: 0;
padding: 41px 0;
list-style: none;
}
#menu li {
display: inline;
}
#menu a {
border: 3px solid #EB850C;
display: block;
float: left;
width: 80px;
height: 22px;
padding-top: 12px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: lowercase;
letter-spacing: -1px;
font-size: 1em;
}
#menu a:hover, #menu .active a {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
And the HTML: Code: <body> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"> <h1><a href="#">Company Logo Image</h1> <h2></a></h2> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li ><a href="#">About</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> <li><a href="#">Careers</a></li> <li><a href="#">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="splash">This is the page heading montage image</div> </div> </div> </body> The problem is, I need the splash div to resize depending on the width of the screen. The idea being a cheat so depending on different resolutions, the different the size of the div and with a background-image set, the image will appear to expand/contract depending on the width of the screen. It's gonna be a repeating montage image. If the window is over, say, 80% wide, then it works fine. Thing is, if you shrink the width of the window past about 80%, then the div starts to go off the right hand side of the screen... Hopefully I've made myself reasonably clear? Any ideas? Thanks! Hello I've been developing a new website for my dad.. Unfortunatly i cant seem to get some of the things to look how i want them. so i was wondering if you could help, as some of you have been a great help to me on previous websites. the pages in question are the following: http://visitours2london.com/v2/ (in internet explorer) the middle conent drops below the sidebars. (in firefox its fine) http://visitours2london.com/v2/tours2.html (both in i.e. and firefox doesnt come out right) i cant get the titles of the dt tags to align to the right hand side.. and in i.e. the back to top text jumps to the far right, overlaying onto side bar two.. All pages are xhtml valid... link to check is on bottom of the page... Ignore everything else on the website, its simply those two pages that im working on.. other aspects of the website will either not load or not work properly as ive not finished them. I am trying to position two buttons on a line. They should each sit in the middle of one half of the line. Here's my code: Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.clear { /* generic container (i.e. div) for floating buttons */
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}
a.button {
background: transparent url('http://www.oscaralexander.com/tutorials/img/bg_button_a.gif') no-repeat scroll top right;
color: #33C;
display: block;
float: left;
font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif;
height: 24px;
margin:0 auto;
padding-right: 18px; /* sliding doors padding */
text-decoration: none;
}
a.button span {
background: transparent url('http://www.oscaralexander.com/tutorials/img/bg_button_span.gif') no-repeat;
display: block;
line-height: 14px;
padding: 5px 0 5px 18px;
}
a.button:active {
background-position: bottom right;
color: #22B;
outline: none; /* hide dotted outline in Firefox */
}
a.button:active span {
background-position: bottom left;
padding: 6px 0 4px 18px; /* push text down 1px */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div style="float:left; width:50%; background-color:#EEE">
<a class="button" href="#" onclick="this.blur();"><span>Learn More</span></a>
</div>
<div style="float:right; width:50%; background-color:#DDD">
<a class="button" href="#" onclick="this.blur();"><span>Buy Now!</span></a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here's a link to the test page: http://rentalocal.thad.com/test Does anyone know what I've done wrong? Thanks, Thad Using Firefox, the current state of the site I am working looks like I want it to look, yet in IE 6 it does not look correct, surprise. (IE7 looks great). I've tried several things, and I am completely lost as to a solution, I'd love some help, or suggestions, thanks. UTC Site I'm having some issues with the positioning of a link in my header. For some reason in IE 7, it does not line up below the search box like it shows in IE 8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. I cannot figure out for the life of me, what's wrong. http://trinebay.net/cart/ is the site. You can see in the header the advanced search is the link that wont align in IE7 and probably IE6 as well. Thanks for the help guys I am recoding the site jthensley dot com (The forum wouldn't let me list the site needing assistance) to HTML 5 and CSS. I've redesigned some features, which are basically already in the new layout, at jthensley dot com / 2012alpha The 2 horizontal neon lines and the vertical line are simply repeated outside of the header by the CSS. However, one problem I have is that the vertical line that is repeating becomes unaligned with the header if the browser window is expanded. Is there anyway to have it as a repeating background, set to begin at a certain pixel position, and move to the right to maintain alignment with the header as the page is expanded? Secondly, at the bottom, you have the copyright line, which I plan to use as a repeating background or image, as well, and my picture to the right, standing on top of the copyright line. Idealy, I would like the picture of myself to be in a certain area, and push down as page contents make the page longer, but maintain it's "link" with the footer. Any suggestions on how to achieve that? Thanks for your help! This is quite a refresher/learning experience for me! The CSS I have already written is below. * { margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; } body { font-size: 62.5%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: white; background-color: #000000; background-image: url(images/horzneon.png), url(images/horzneon.png), url(images/verneon.png); background-position: 0px 137px, 0px 172px, 250px 0px; background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y; } ul#nav { height: 185px; width: 1024px; margin: 0 auto; background: url(images/header.jpg) no-repeat; } height: 185px; width: 1024 px; Hi, Just wondering it anyone can help... I am trying to get my left hand navigation to sit at the top of the cell and no matter what I change it won't budge! You can see what I am working on at www. freedomwhalewatch .com.au /Stirling /index.html as you can see the left hand navigation is sitting towards the bottom... anyone have any suggestions as to how I would move it up to be directly underneath the logo? To see my working files just use the right click and view page source. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I am a newbie to css! Cheers, Jen ** UPDATE - sorry guys i spelt the url incorrectly! http://www. freedomwhalewatch .com.au/Stirling /index.html For a search tool, I have a "results toolbar", horizontally across the top of the results page. Within this toolbar (position: relative) I have a span containing the current page, absolutely positioned at top: 8px; left: 5px; What I get when rendering however, is the following: Right: http://tim.komta.com/images/css/Firefox.gif Wrong: http://tim.komta.com/images/css/IE.gif More accurately, I should say that I get what I expect in Firefox, and not what I expect in IE, which is not overly surprising. Anyway, what am I doing wrong? If I change the text-align of the box from right (current) back to left, it's still overlaid on top of the images, but on the left, like it's supposed to be. It kinda seems like IE is making the images the bounding box for absolute positioning. Any thoughts? MPEDrummer EDIT: OK, I've worked out all of the issues except the fourth one, which doesn't really have to do with CSS specifically. Why do line breaks insert gaps? The problem is especially prevalent in IE. First issue: I'm trying to position one image over another image and its inserting this big gap! As seen on http://www.zacwittedesign.com/olive/pool.html we have the "about the pool" image position on top of the big image to the left side, but you can see there is a big gap above the big image. If I simply comment out the 'about the pool' image, the gap goes away and all is fine. I thought relatively placed elements were not supposed to affect the flow of elements beneath them? Can you see anything wrong in my code? Second Issue: There are two issues with the layer on the top of the page where the dots should be coming out of 'new projects' (id=projects_layer). It should be positioned over top.jpg as seen in hotstuff.html. In that page I manually moved it down by adding an additional 60px to the relative offset, but the space where it would have occupied remains and pushes the whole page down. Everything should look like it does in portfolio.html which doesn't currently use layers. You can see a version without my manually shifting it down and demonstrating the third issue at pool-valign.html. Third Issue: The vertical-align of all the images inside the projects layer. For the layout to be correct, the images need to be top-aligned or they won't line up with the dots and they'll slightly cover the button images beneath them. I have a style property set vertical-align:top; but it doesn't seem to do anything. Do I misunderstand the vertical-align property? There's also a small gap beneath the images when viewed with IE. I've changed the background color of the layer so you can more easily see the problem. Fourth issue: You've probably noticed in my code that I insert and HTML comment for every line break. That is because if I don't, IE reads the line beaks as non-whitespace and inserts both vertical or horizontal gaps between the images. Whats the deal there? Fifth Issue: In IE there is a one or two pixel gap above right.jpg where the tim olive logo is. This doesn't happen on firefox and it doesn't happen on pages that don't use layers like portfolio.html. ...And I haven't even tried it on a mac browser yet... Hi all, I'm not a n00b with CSS, but I'm no expert, either. I am making a test page at http://www.bartlett-family.net/test/ In IE, it looks pretty much like I WANT it to. In Mozilla and Opera, it looks all messed up( you'll see for yourself). Basically, I would like the globe logo, the GFS image text, and the footer bar vertically lined up and centered (pretty much like it is right now in IE). However, I am obviously doing something wrong because it is not right in other, proper browsers. I've been playing with it for a while and just can't figure it out. Any help would be most appreciated. TIA! Chris Hi, I had a little problem with this design earlier, and a kind soul on the forum helped me by showing me a template to use (instead of all the absolute positioning i was using), but i've got one little issue, and it's all that's stopping my site from going live. You'll see it quite clearly, my "content" gets pushed under my "menu" - fnb4wd.com.au/4x4wh/help/category1_1.htm is the URL. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hey there, im not good with CSS, just know some basics so looking for some help here... I see on some sites, in their source code, the menu appears at the near bottom of the source code page, but when the page is viewed in the browser.. the menu is rendered as been placed before all the other contents. how is this possible? I thought the browser reads line by line and renders accordingly... actually.. what I want to do is place the source code of something at the top of the page, but when rendered, I want it to appear near the bottom.. is this possible? Thanks in advance and sorry if the question confused you or sound stupid On the this page you will notice the ASDF overflowing into the footer if you resize the page to 1024x768 size. I'm trying to keep the footer on the bottom but the content still seems to creep into the footer? Any ideas? This only happens in IE 6 and 7, FF seems to handle it just fine. I w3c checked everything, html is good to go, css has some warnings but nothing that I seem to have to worry about. Any help is greatly appreciated. When this design was originally built-out, there were no set requirements on how the CMS behind the design would function. As the project has progressed, some of those requirements have started to trickle down and a some of them are getting pretty ridiculous. This is loosely the code I'm working with. Code: <div id="primaryContent"> <div class="primaryModule"> Content </div> <div class="primaryModule"> Content </div> <div class="tertiaryModule"> Side Content </div> <div class="tertiaryModule"> Side Content </div> </div> <!-- end primaryContent --> And the accompanying CSS Code: .threeColumn #primaryContent,
#primaryContent.threeColumn {
float:left;
margin-left:6px;
padding:7px 10px 20px 22px;
width:732px;
}
#primaryContent .primaryModule,
.primaryModule.primaryContent {
margin:0 300px 2em 0;
position:relative;
width:514px;
}
#primaryContent .tertiaryModule,
.threeColumn .tertiaryModule {
float:right;
margin:0 0 2em 531px;
padding:0 11px 0 12px;
position:relative;
width:178px;
}
I have attached a picture of what the desired display is. The vertical gray bar is a background image of a div higher up in the code. Originally, the XHTML and CSS were very well thought out, but as the requirements came through for the CMS, the XHTML had to go out the window. Now, everything in #primaryContent is handled by the CMS. Each module can have it's own class or ID to have styles applied to it, but no additional divs can be put in to sort the side content from the main content. Furthermore, the order of the divs can shift every time the user refreshes the page - there's no telling in what order div.primaryModule or div.tertiaryModule may come in. Awesome! I was able to get this displaying correctly in IE6 and IE7 using the following styles: Code: #primaryContent .primaryModule,
.primaryModule.primaryContent{
position:relative;
float:left;
clear:left;
width:514px;
margin:0 0 2em;
}
#primaryContent .tertiaryModule,
.threeColumn .tertiaryModule{
width:178px;
padding:0 11px 0 12px;
clear:right;
float:right;
position:relative;
margin:0 0 2em;
}
But I keep running into clearing and floating issues in FF3. The only way I can get the layout functioning correctly in FF3 is if I know that the .primaryModule divs come before the .tertiaryModule divs (or vice versa). Any thoughts? Thanks for your help. Hi, I not very good at CSS and I need to create a page that shows divs in other order that are in the script: in my page i want to be something like this: Code:
<body id="body" >
<div id="bodyHolder" >
<div id="mainHolder" >
<div id="mainColumn">Here will be the main content</div>
<div id="leftColumn" > Left Column</div>
</div>
<div id="topLogoHolder">Site Logo</div>
<div id="topMenuHolder" > Top Menu</div >
</div>
<div id="footerHolder"> Footer</div>
</div>
but I want to show: Site Logo, Top Menu, Left Column, Main Column, Footer My problem is with Footer. I can't get to position at the bottom of page (not at the window) because the Main Column is not fixed. The CSS code is : Code:
body {margin:auto; background:url('../imgs/bg.body.jpg') repeat-x; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; background-color: #FFFFFF;}
#bodyHolder {margin:auto; width:1006px; text-align:left;}
#mainHolder {width:1006px; text-align:left; display:block; float:left; clear:both; background-color:#FFFFFF; margin:0px; padding:15px 0px 15px 0px; position:absolute; top:150px;}
#mainColumn {text-align:left; display:block; float:right; margin-right:10px; width:810px;}
#leftColumn {text-align:left; display:block; float:left; width:180px; }
#topLogoHolder {width:1000px; text-align:left; display:inline; margin-left:6px; float:left; clear:both; height:112px; position:absolute; top:0px;}
#topMenuHolder { text-align:left; display:block; margin:0px 0px 0px 6px; padding:0px; background:url('../imgs/bg.top_menu.jpg') no-repeat; width:1000px; height:38px;position:absolute; top:112px;}
#footerHolder {margin:auto; background:url('../imgs/bg.footer.jpg') repeat-x; height:234px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding:0px;width:100%; display: block; position: absolute; bottom:0px; height:100%; clear:both;}
I really don't what to try (google gives me no clue... all my attempts failed ) I'll appreciate any help! Thanks a lot in advance Ok, I have three problems with this test page. 1. How do I force the logo to be always to the extreme left (just over left container) whilst ensuring the menu options stay on the right side? 2. How do I force the menu options to vertically align to the bottom? (So that their baseline matches the baseline of the logo) 3. In FF the right side image is correctly displayed in the right-side container, but in IE the images somehow ends up directly below the left side image! Any idea where I'm going completely wrong? If anyone has sometime to have a look here a a link containing the test page content in a zipped file...zipped test page For reference, I'm testing this with the following browsers... IE 6.0 FF 2.0 Thank you in advance. PS. I can create a page with this (and more complex) layout easily using the html "table" tag (it's what I've been doing for at least a few years), but we don't do things like that any more so I thought I'd better get with the scene and master this div thing once and for all! Using "table" tags for layout is so last century! Hi there im fairly noob to css and I cant figure out how to do this, or if its at all possible? please take a look at: http://www.freelayouts.us/css/page2.html this page display just fine, and the html code flows like this: - header - left column - right column - content - footer but what i want to do is make the source code flow like this: - header - content - left column - right column - footer BUT still display just like the above page.. is this possible? here is what happens when I reposition the source code: http://www.freelayouts.us/css/page1.html is there anything I can do to the CSS that will make it appear like the first example but the source code flows like my 2nd example? hope i didnt confuse you... thanks in advance |
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