CSS - Help W/float Property.
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Link: www.vairlinecms.com Question: I set the html up like this on purpose to grasp the concept. <p> tags are block level containers. So each new set of <p> tags should equal start on new line. w/the float property holding a value of left, it floats all content to the left. Since each instance of float occurs in its own container...the two different <p> sets should not be affected. In short, the password: paragraph should be on a new line, not both on the same line. There should be no need to clear it because they are in their own containers - which are block level. Where is my logic/understanding of CSS flawed? HTML: Code: <div id="clientLoginBoxBody"> <form action=#"> <br /> <p class="user">Username:</p> <p class="pass">Password:</p> </form> </div> CSS: Code: #clientLoginBoxBody p.user, p.pass { float: left; margin: 0; margin-left: 10px; padding: 0; font-size: 12px; text-align: right; } Similar TutorialsHi, Here's my problem: css Code: Original - css Code <div style="width:69%; text-align:center; float:left;"> <div style="width:80%; min-height: 98px; border: black thin solid;"> BLEH </div> </div> <div style="width:30%; text-align:center; float:right;"> RIGHT </div> <div style="width:69%; text-align:center; float:left;"> The above code, should in theory make two "cells", one on the left and one on the right, side by side. Within the left one there should be another box, aligned centrally. This is fine in internet explorer, yet in Firefox & similar browsers it refuses to do this - I'm sure this is something very simple. Many thanks, Alan I'm having a problem with a float property placing a nested div outside of a parent box. I've ran validation on both the XHTML/CSS. Both are coming up with no errors. Heres the DIV snippet: Code: <!-- Div snippet --> <!-- start main --> <div id="main"> <div class="mainbx"> <!-- top border --> <!-- top left --> <div class="tl"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- top center --> <div class="tc"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- top right --> <div class="tr"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- top border --> <!-- bdy1 --> <div class="bd"> <!-- content area --> <div id="leftcol"> <pThis column ( leftcol ID ) is correctly placed.</p> </div> <div id="rightcol"> <!-- Rounded corner dialog begins --> <div class="dialog"> <!-- top border --> <!-- top left --> <div class="tl"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- top center --> <div class="tc"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- top right --> <div class="tr"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- top border --> <!-- bdy1 --> <div class="bd"> <div class="c"> <div class="s"> <!-- content area --> <h1>This is an inline dialog.</h1> <!-- content area --> </div> </div> </div> <!-- bdy1 --> <!-- botom border --> <!-- bottom left --> <div class="bl"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- bottom center --> <div class="bc"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- bottom right --> <div class="br"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- botom border --> </div> </div> <!-- content area --> </div> <!-- bdy1 --> <!-- botom border --> <!-- bottom left --> <div class="bl"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- bottom center --> <div class="bc"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- bottom right --> <div class="br"> <div class="c"></div> </div> <!-- botom border --> </div> <!-- end mainbx --> <div id="footer">footer text</div> </div> <!-- end main --> If I place a float property in the left or right col ID, the whole ID is placed outside of the mainbx class. For instance: Code: /* example w float */ #rightcol { float: right; height: auto; width: 500px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 35px; margin-right: 0px; } This is how it looks: http://b.imagehost.org/0176/inc_plcmnt.jpg URL Click to view larger image! Now if I remove the float and add a position property: Code: #rightcol { position:relative; right:-320px; top:-190px; height: auto; width: 500px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; margin-right: 0px; } This is how the rightcol is placed: http://d.imagehost.org/0643/cor_plcmnt.jpg URL Click to view larger image! It seems better, but if the black box is re-sized eventually it will end up outside mainbx class ( the purple box ). This leads me to belive that the problem has something to do with nesting. The weird thing is if I add lots of text to the black dialog box, mainbx re-sizes. Any ideas of how to fix this? Thanks for any help or ideas. Uggghhh, I hate it when seemingly simple things turn out to be very difficult. Ok, so I'm tasked with creating a newsletter and I have an image that I'm floating and there are words around the image. At least there are when you look at it in a browser or any email client other than Office 2007. Office 2007 apparently (just learned this today) now uses the Word engine instead of Internet Explorer. Float (among many, many, MANY other things) is not supported. Is there an equivalent to float? To try and simulate float, I put the images and words in a table and did a reasonable job...when viewed by a browser!!! Honestly, I try to be OS agnostic and just use these things as tools to get my job done. But Microsoft has proved time and again that they have no qualms about completely changing the rules and not supporting previous stuff. I mean, we're talking basic html here!!! Ok, rant over. Anybody have any suggestions on how to simulate a float? Thanks in advance. Well, I'm trying to make a comments-page for a certain thing, and I can't get the image to stop going over the bottom of the div, without using the min-height property. Can someone help?
Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; encoding=UTF-8;" /> <title>Comments on 2005-02-10: February 10, 2005</title>\n <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="comments.css" /> </head> <body> <h2>Posting on 2005-02-10: February 10, 2005 in <a href="refresh.php" id="title">XMLBlog</a></h2> <div id="entry" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <img src="../resources/images/Neil_Euphonium_3_[F][S{600,h}][32k].png" alt="New Euphonium!" title="New Euphonium!" style="width:30%;" class="left" /> <p class="dream">I can only remember two things... That there were a whole bunch of people from my school playing baritones, which was kind of creepy in this case <em class="entry">and</em> that my section from school in real life and I played this freaky, nonexistent Zelda games. One was for a calculator I had only owned in the dream, and it was spectacular! </p> <p class="normal">I brought my "newphonium" to school today.</p> <p class="normal">We had a pretty normal session in Jazz. <em class="entry">Someone actually got a trombone solo.</em></p> <p class="normal">Our teacher was back. The entire first half of the period going over our homework. <em class="entry">We learned that dropping a penny off of the <strong class="entry">Space Needle</strong> is very dangerous, since even a baseball would get going at 120 MPH.</em> Later, we began how to calculate things dealing with gravity with a position other than 0 and a velocity over 0.</p> <p class="happy">We didn't do much in Japanese. All we really did was read Katakana and finish our puzzle. <em class="entry">A few of us found new words.</em> I also told our sensei that my real Japanese same from my ancestors is <ruby><rb>たけした</rb><rt>take****a</rt></ruby>. During resource, I looked over this book with a couple of friends of mine and their friend. <em class="entry">It was so funny, too!</em></p> <p class="normal">In Health, we continued our lecture on alcohol. <em class="entry">There were some inspiring articles and poems on the subject.</em></p> <p class="happy"><span class="normal">Class started off with a lock-down. <em class="entry">I used this time to complete a gravity-based program for physics.</em></span> to Due to my premature completion of the paragraph that was due at the end of the period, I just listened to music and read for the majority of English. <em class="entry">A big guy in the <info popup="State of Fear">book I'm reading</info> died.</em></p> <p class="sad">Before actually eating, I wandered a bit. <em class="entry">It made it so I didn't have to carry my backpack around wherever I went.</em></p> <p class="normal">We continued on proofs. <em class="entry">It took a bit of effort to do.</em> <span class="happy">Still, we finished the investigation.</span></p> <p class="normal"><span class="happy">I got my new euphonium for class.<em class="entry">It sounded very nice.</em></span> Though, for a majority of the time I didn't do anything with my section, due to his preoccupation with a couple of other kids.</p> <p class="happy">I got a ride home</p> <p class="normal">I had a practice session with my mom, which wasn't the most successful.</p> <p class="happy">Once done with my homework, I took a two-hour nap.</p> <p class="dream">The entire thing revolved around this country area that had tiny roads and a <info popup="The salmon eggs would get bigger, then would grow spikes and split apart before returning to their grating to mature more">freaky salmon farm</info>. Also, I remember psychically communicating with my section from Band. <span class="hider">I actually cried over the idea of losing him, but I didn't have tears when I awoke.</span> Also, my old friend, who is a freshman now, was mentioned.</p> <p class="happy">The dream gave me the idea to call him up. <em class="entry">Apparently, the call woke him up.</em> We talked about how our lives were going, along with school. <em class="entry">Apparently, the school banned people from using their calculators. How could they!? He also told me that some kids were goofing around during Breakout library time.</em> We scheduled a time to meet and talk about some more things. <em class="entry">I could show him Linux.</em></p> <p class="happy"><strong class="entry">I fixed the comments system!!</strong> <em class="entry">Have fun posting.</em></p> </div><p>No comments</p><hr /><form action="postcomments.php?ie=&title=February 10, 2005&date=2005-02-10" method="post" name="comment" id="main"> <div class="right"> <img src="comments_files/right_main_bar.png" alt="right_side" /> </div> <div class="left"> <img src="comments_files/left_main_bar.png" alt="left_side" /> </div> <div class="center"> Date: <input type="textarea" class="upper" name="date" value="2005-02-10" readonly="readonly" /> Title: <input type="textarea" class="upper" name="title" value="February 10, 2005" readonly="readonly" /> <br /> Name: <input type="textarea" name="name" class="lower" /> E-mail: <input type="textarea" name="e-mail" class="lower" /> </div> <div class="comment"> <input type="textarea" name="comment" class="text" /> <input type="submit" value="Post!" class="click" /> </div> </form> </body> </html> CSS: Code: h2 { text-align:center; font:bold italic 3em/1.5 'Pepita MT', 'Lucida Handwriting', 'Sans-Serif'; color:rgb(0,150,150); } h3 { text-align:center; font: italic normal 2em/1.5 'Lucida Calligraphy', 'Sans-Serif'; color:rgb(0,0,150); } form#main { display:block; } form#main div.left { float:left; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); } form#main div.right { float:right; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); } form#main div.left img, form#main div.right img { height:60px; } form#main div.center { background-color:rgb(0,0,0); background:url(comments_files/center_main_bar.png); font:bold normal 1em/1 'Times New Roman', 'Courier New', 'Sans-Serif'; color:rgb(255,255,255); padding:2px 18% 2px 28%; } form#main div.center input.upper { height:20px; filter: alpha(opacity=50); -moz-opacity: .5; display:inline; width:20%; margin:2px 10% 2px 0; } form#main div.center input.lower { height:20px; filter: alpha(opacity=50); -moz-opacity: .5; display:inline; width:20%; margin:2px 8% 2px 0; } form#main div.comment { width:95%; border:1px solid rgb(0,150,150); } form#main div.comment input.text{ width:90%; margin:5px 5% 5px 5%; height:100px; } form#main div.comment input.click { width:25%; margin:5px 37.5% 5px 37.5%; } body p { text-align:justify; font: italic normal 1.2em/1 'MS Mincho', 'SimSun', 'Sans-Serif'; color:rgb(150,0,0); } a { color:rgb(0,100,0); text-align:left; } a:hover { font-weight:bold; color:rgb(0,255,0); border:1px solid rgb(0,255,0); } a#title { color:rgb(0,100,0); text-decoration:none; margin-left 25%; text-align:left; } a#title:hover { font-weight:bold; color:rgb(0,255,0); border:1px solid rgb(0,255,0); } div.comment a.mail { font:normal normal 1.2em/1.1 'MS Mincho', 'SimSun', 'Courier New', 'Sans-serif'; color:rgb(0,100,0); text-decoration:none; text-align:left; } div.comment a.mail:hover { font-weight:bold; color:rgb(0,255,0); border:1px solid rgb(0,255,0); } div.comment span.mail { margin-left 25%; font:normal normal 1.2em/1.1 'MS Mincho', 'SimSun', 'Courier New', 'Sans-serif'; color:rgb(0,0,150); text-align:left; } div.comment { border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(0,0,255); margin:1.5em; } div.comment p { font:normal normal 1.2em/1.1 'MS Mincho', 'SimSun', 'Courier New', 'Sans-serif'; display:block; } /* ENTRY */ div#entry { border:4px double rgb(0,0,0); padding:0.25em; margin:0.5em; min-height:79em; } div#entry p { font:normal normal 1em/1.2 'Tempus Sans ITC', 'Nimbus Roman', 'Times New Roman', 'Serif'; text-indent:2em; text-align:justify; } div#entry p.dream { font:normal normal 1em/1.2 'Lucida Handwriting', 'URW Chancery L', 'Serif'; color:rgb(150,150,0); text-indent:2em; text-align:justify; } em.entry { font-style:italic; } strong.entry { font-weight:bold; } span.uentry { text-decoration:underline; } span.hider { color:rgb(255,255,255); } div.story { border-left:2px solid rgb(0,0,0); border-top:2px solid rgb(0,0,00; } div.story div.title { border-bottom:1px solid rgb(128,128,128); border-right:1px solid rgb(128,128,128); font:italic normal 1.5em/1.2 'Tempus Sans ITC', 'Nimbus Roman', 'Times New Roman', 'Serif'; width:50%; text-align:center; } div.story div.storybody { padding:0.25em; } span.happy, p.happy { color:rgb(0,100,0); } span.sad, p.sad { color:rgb(0,0,100); } span.normal, p.normal { color:rgb(100,0,0); } img.center { margin:0.25em auto; } img.right { float:right; margin:0.25em; } img.left { float:left; margin:0.25em; } subject isn't too good anyhow.. i have 4 cells __ __ |1 | |2 | --- --- __ __ |3| |4 | --- --- 2 and 4 are said to float right, such that 1 and 3 define the height of the page.. but.. when the contents of 2 go LONGER than the contents of 1, number 4 doesn't float right properly.. instead this happens __ __ |1 | |2 | --- | | --- | | |4| --- --- __ |3| --- do you see that? 4 tries to float right, but since it's called underneath 1, and 2 is extended, floating right relative to the page doesn't make it ACTUALLY float right any thoughts that will render this properly? (namely that cells 1 and 3 will inherit the height of 2 and 4 somehow?) 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; } 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 all, I have a bit of an odd situation (prob not odd if you seen it before but I have no clue why its doing it!).... I have my webpage: http://www.houseofhawkins.com/index.html which works great in IE. the part in question is the menu tabs at the top. Within IE they keep the width I have given them.. In firefox they only go to the width of the text. They are links with the following CSS attached: div#Header #MenuSection a.MenuTab { PHP Code: filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#A8DBA8', startColorstr='#A4B7A4', gradientType='0'); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-size: 1.3em; background-color: #BCD6BC; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #A5BEA5 #BCD6BC #BCD6BC #A5BEA5; margin: 0 5px 0 2px; height: 1.5em; width: 140px; padding: 5px 1px 1px 1px; } div#Header #MenuSection { float:left; margin-top: 30px; } here is the HTML code for that part of the page. PHP Code: <div ID="MenuSection"> <a Class="SelectedMenuTab" Title="You are currently viewing the Home page">Home</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Curriculum Vitae for Jonathan Hawkins, Author of House of Hawkins">CV</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/projects/index.html" title="Portfolio of Work created by Jon Hawkins">Portfolio</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Online Photo Gallery of Jon, friends and family">Photo Gallery</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/games.html" title="Games created by House of Hawkins">Games</a> </div> <div style="clear:left"> </div> I just dont get why firefox wont be nice and give me the width I ask for... the oddest bit is if I put float:left into the menutab part they do work! I wish to understand why its like this... I have attached the CSS and the file if that helps anyone. Thanks for the help and advice. Is there such a thing as using an alt property for <img> tag? This would be awfully useful for SEO Hi, i am very new to css and I am confused about the difference between margin-top vs top please help Regards Ltoso I am wondering if there is some way to make a <div> layer automatically expand to the full height of the screen similar to the way that one would use width=100% when talking about the width of a page. I have a layer that I want to extend to the bottom of the page no matter what resolution the user has on their screen. Maybe the layer could just extend all the way until the next layer? Any Ideas? Thanks Jamie Question: I have two class below. What I want is when I change the padding-top property value in div.content-full, I also want the padding-top property value in the div.content change to the same value div.content-full { float:left; width:100%; padding-top:10px; margin:0px; } div.content { float:left; width:70%; padding-top:06px; margin:0px; } Can anybody help me out? I am trying to figure out how I can get this red curve to align to the bottom of the page, while also being able to move up and down with the size of the browser window. http://www.woodrichwebworks.com/psa/psa_comps/bycor/html/redtest.html Any help would be great. Will the -moz property ever become a valid CSS property. when I validate my CSS on w3.org I get errors. I remove all propertys that have a -moz in front of it and it is 100% valid. ALSO ... Is there a way to mask parts of the css from the validator or have a separate CSS file that can be masked from the validator to make it appear to be 100% valid.. Thanks Hi all, I've got problm in css Listbox properties, I put list box within a normal html .. and there are 3 option to list like this.., 1.name 2.Address of a person 3.Phone no: resident so i give width=80px; in css and it will show the list box width correctly. but drop down part also the same width . so i want to expand the width as when we entered option text width. how can i achieve this ? pls help me......! Prachalitha I'm trying to create some links that swap background images when you mouseover them. The non-CSS solution (which looks exactly how I want it to look) is located he http://84.9.221.75/domains/backingt...Musicindex.html My attempt at creating a CSS equivalent of those links is located on this page: http://84.9.221.75/domains/backingt...Musicindex.html I just need some help with the CSS I'm using on the latter page...I read up a little on how to do this, but it's obvious I'm still doing something wrong... I need the buttons and the text inside the buttons to line up and appear like they do in the first URL....can anyone give me some pointers here? Thank you. I'm pretty new to css but now use one css file for all of the formatting of my entire website. The only problem I see with that (I say problem because I can't figure out a way around it) is that all of my hyperlinks throughout the website have only one normal state, hover state, active state and visited state. Is there a way to make more than one hyperlink set of formats? Like if I wanted to make one for each page? I could do something like ahomepage:link, ahomepage:visited, ahomepage:active or something??? Code: a:link, a:visited, a:active { font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; font-family: times; text-decoration:none; color : #000000 } a:hover { font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; font-family: times; text-decoration:underline; color : #000000 } Ok what i want to happen is that when person clicks on a link i want a div to appear/be visible underneath that link. But i want that div to not take any space unless i click on a link. I recently did something similar BUT the div was taking the space but was just hidden. This style is use useful or not @property-group title-style() { color: #004080; font-weight: bold; } @property-group standard-vmargins() { margin: 1.33ex 0; } title, subtitle, titleabbrev { display: block; property-group: title-style(); property-group: standard-vmargins(); } This is not support IE... My documentation for css shows that content: url(); works in navigator but not in ie. The info I've got is dated. Does the content property work in the newer ie browsers? |