CSS - Doctype Changes Form Field Width

HI Guys,

Is there a way to do the following with just css?


Code:

<script language="javascript">
function ShowContent(d) {
document.getElementById(d).style.display = "block";
}
function HideContent(d) {
document.getElementById(d).style.display = "none";
}
</script>

// above code in header


Code:

<fieldset class="radio" style="padding-left: 20px;">
<legend><strong>Postal/Billing Address</strong></legend><br /><br />
<label for="Mixed1">
<input type="radio" name="postal_yn" onclick="HideContent('shaddress');"> Same
</label>
<label for="Mixed1">
<input type="radio" name="postal_yn" onclick="ShowContent('shaddress');"> Different 
</label>

<div id="shaddress" style="display:none;padding-left: 20px;">
<label for="postal_address">
<br /><span style="line-height:25px;">Please enter your postal address:</span><br />
  <textarea type="text" name="postal_address" rows="3" cols="25"><?php if(isset($_POST['postal_address'])) echo $_POST['postal_address'];?>
</textarea>
</label>
</div>
</fieldset>

How do you get the input text areas and selections to highlight or glow once active? For examples, visit Zappos.com or Amazon.com - when you click in the text fields to login it sort of glows.

Set margin:0px;

I'm missing something here. I want to change the color of the default value for this text field, without changing the overall color of the input field. For example, the default value of 170 will be gray, but when a user overwrites the data with their own numerical value, it will be black. I know how to change the color of the input field when a user types in data, but is there a way to change the color of the value= ?

<input type="text" name="trans1_1" size="6" value="170"/>

Any ideas? Seems like a simple task, but can't figure it out. Thanks in advance for the time.

Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help.

My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off...

The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view!

My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance....

i ve been playing with my page and been trying to modify the width of the page (divs) according to the browswer's width.
The problem is i want the navigation menu on left to be fixed width (say 200px) and the center div and the right column to be variable width. Also, i want to set a minimum width , so that the floating divs dont roll below the navigation menu.

here s the link to the page. try reducing ur browser windows size . the content div rolls down under theleft nav menu.
http://ccc.1asphost.com/pacemakerpr...r/cicuitlab.htm

Also , i get wierd result in netscape navigator. please help

I have an absolutely positioned <div> containing a block of text. I have not specified a width for this <div>.

This <div> is nested within another <div> for which I have specified a width of 200px.

So something like:
html4strict Code:
Original - html4strict Code <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 20px; z-index: 100;"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur eu purus a tellus mollis consequat. Phasellus aliquam sapien quis mauris. </div> </div>

  

 <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;">


     <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 20px; z-index: 100;">


         Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur eu purus a tellus mollis consequat. Phasellus aliquam sapien quis mauris.


     </div>


 </div> 

Since the absolutely positioned <div> is not part of the page's normal flow, I would expect that its width would expand according to its contents (and the browser window's boundries).

Instead, in Firefox only, the width of the absolutely positioned <div> expands only to the width of its parent - in this case 200px.

Am I doing something wrong? or is there a workaround for this?

I have seen a design which I find pretty interesting where in the main site is aligned left and fixed width at say 700px wide. Yet the footer seems to span the entire screen.

The header also seems to use the entire screen width but that is beign accomplished with the background image, but this footer goes all the way to end of the screen and naturally adjusts itself under all the content.

Is there a way to get this effect?

I'm at the very very very begaining of a table-less design (my first, actually). The problem is, since I have decided to have a non-fixed width, when the browser is minimized, at a certain point the design breaks.

See it here (please don't make fun! it's just the start): SiliconSatan.com/test.php

I'd like to set a minimum width, probably on the container <div>, so at a certain point it sort of becomes like a fixed width? No smaller than a set width?

[EDIT]

Also, I have a question about background color mismatch, but it was not quite OT for the CSS forum:

http://forums.devshed.com/web-desig...e7t-403266.html

Ok. Here's the problem:

I have a asp.net 1.x datagrid inside a floated div and I want the datagrid to stretch the width of the div. This div is in the center of two other floated divs. Is there a way to make a table go 100% the width of its container div?

Css code:
Code:

/* left bar: */
#navBar{
	width: 185px;
	float: left;
}

/* right bar: */
#rightModulesContainer {
	width: 130px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
	float: right;
}

/* center content: */
#content{
	padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:0;
	margin-left:4px;
	margin-right:0px;
	float: left;
	text-align:left;
	/*display: inline;*/
}

/* contained in #container: */

#dataGridContainer{
	margin: 0;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	min-width:360px;
}

.categoryGridStyle {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-style: normal;
	color: #000000;
        width:100%;
}

and here is the layout of the divs:
Code:

<div id="navBar">left navigation bar here (tree view)</div>

<div id="rightModulesContainer">right side bar here</div>

<div id="content"><div id="dataGridContainer">datagrid here</div></div>

Thanks for your help in advance. I've been messing with this for a while - trying to get it to work cross browser is driving me nuts. I've tried placing the divs in containers and floating the containers, I've tried everything I can think of...

Hello,

(please also see attached/uploaded style sheet)

I'm puzzled why (in the following code) the TEST #2 table renders as required (i.e. 2 rows in 1 column, all with the same cell WIDTH) but the table in TEST #1 seems to render the table cells (i.e. 2 columns in 1 row) without a common cell WIDTH.

How can I get all the cells (there are plenty more!) in table TEST #1 to all be exactly the same width (preferably 85px)?

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://thinet/cgi-bin/thinetStyleSheet.css">

TEST #1
<table class="menu" border=1 CELLPADDING=2>
<tr>
<td class="pinkButtons"><a title="Treats menu" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=82'>Treats</a></td>
<td class="pinkButtons"><a title="New Starters, Leavers and Transfers" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41'>Joiners etc.</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

<P>

TEST #2
<table class="menu" border=1 CELLPADDING=2>
<tr><td class="pinkButtons"><a title="Treats menu" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=82'>Treats</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="pinkButtons"><a title="New Starters, Leavers and Transfers" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41'>Joiners etc.</a></td></tr>
</table>

I don't think I've quite grasped the idea of CSS yet?!?!

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy

Hello,

I am trying to make my webpage, www.jwwebdesign.info, W3 Valid. However, when I insert:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

at the top of the page, and try to vaildate, it does not like my <table height="100%"> What is a CSS alternative I can use so that I can validate my page (height: 100% won't work).

Thanks,
Jeff

I know this may sound a stupid question. However I have been reading about XHTML and CSS for these last few weeks.

From what I understand a DocType is there to determine if an XHTML document is well-formed.

Therefore from my understanding the DocType should have not be related with CSS.

However today I wrote the following peace of code: Code:

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Test</title>
  <style>
   div > span { color: red; }


  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <div><p>
    <span>hello</span>
   </p><span>World!!</span>
  </div>


 </body>
</html>

On Internet Explorer 7 it did not work since 'Hello World!!' was writen all in black. However on Firefox it worked fine since 'World!!' was correctly displayed in red. Then I added the Strict DocType to the page: Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
 "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

... and it started working on Internet Explorer 7 as well!

Now I am glad that it worked on Internet Explorer 7 when using the DocType (Strict). However isn't this wrong? I mean shouldn't this just work without the DocType since it is CSS related and not XHTML?

I am very new to all this and I understand that I may be missin something here! However I would be very greatfull if someone could explain me if this behavior from Internet Explorer 7 is correct or not!

Thanks and Regards,
Sim085

hi, I am trying to do DIV 100% height to match the browser height. as I read only way is to make body tag set to 100% and then whatevers is defined 100% within body will readjust at 100% height.

problem i found, it doesnt work with any Doctype I set for the page, not xmlns transitional, strict, 4.01 strict , transitional, you name it.

BUT as soon as I remove Doctype and start page with just <html> tage this CSS works.
I ve tried to link css and embed, same results.

W3C validation checks out with no errors.
hers code.

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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>CSS</title>


<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    background-color:#333333;
    height: 100%;
}

.centerwrapper {
width: 1000px;
height: 100%;
background-color:#0099FF;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

}

-->
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="centerwrapper"></div>

</body>
</html>

if someone has an idea what doctype would work or if theres another problem with this.

Is this a strict (or even valid) doctype?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

what should I expect the UA to behave like?