CSS - Styling Ul Inside Div

Im trying to get an input field and form button to line up to the right of an <li> tagged menu and not sure of the approach i should take.

I'd prefer not to use a table if possible, and the table im using now is a bit buggy anyway.

this is a page with the menu as it shows right now....
http://www.seesawusa.com/products/

this is the page with the basic idea of what im trying to do
http://www.seesawusa.com/pages/74/

Things i'v tried
1. put the form inside a LI tag.... This results in putting the search box below the list of menu items across all my test browsers.

2. put the UL and the FORM inside a table with 2 cells...
in FF, i get the result i want... except the LI and INPUT field are not aligned to the right
in IE6 & 7 I get it lined up the way i want it. But the table pushes the the height and width of the containing div to an unacceptable level

I've seen this type of thing before and in my searching other sites i've only found complicated table based layouts that use it. Does anyone know an approach that would allow me to leave out tables, or at the very least only use one?

Thanks for the glance.

P.S. Interestingly enough, the page you are reading has a menu and text field configuration that im wanting to use, but it is very table oriented.

Hi, my xml code is:

<room>
<features>
<pool/>
<Aircon/>
<Radio/>
<DVD/>
<beds double="2"/>
</features>
</room>

<room>
<features>
<pool/>
<TV/>
<VCR/>
<beds twin="1" double="2"/>
</features>
</room>

i want to Display the word "Features" in bold, then under the word features i want the list of features to be displayed with bullet points. I want beds to appear in bold in the list.

This is the code i have so far:

features{
}

features:before {
content:"Features";
font-weight:bold;
}

beds:before{
content:"Beds: ";
}

beds[sofa-bed]:after{
content:attr(sofa-bed)" x Sofa-bed ";
}

beds[double]:after{
content:attr(double)" x Double ";
}

beds[twin]:after{
content:attr(twin)" x Twin ";
}


The problem is, i can't get in to display anything except, the beds entry. But when it displays the beds entry, it only gives the last one in the list. So the one with a twin and a double, only the twin is displayed.

Any idea's?

I have a menu constructed <div><ul><li><a><img><p>.

The li is margined as 16% to space a given number of links across the page in the 100% div.

I am trying to put a border around the <a> but the browser only shows the border as a sort of collapsed div and does not surround the child elements. I try giving height to the <a> but that does not work.

Any ideas how I can get the <a> border to surround the <img><p> tags?

Hi Guys,

Hope you are all well. My page layout is in CSS, however in the middle I have a selection of images and text, based in a standard HTML table.

All the images are 300px wide. It works fine on all nice small browsers, but it doesn't look nice on screens with a high resolution, because the images have lots of ****e space round them, and adjusting the background colour looks just as bad.

I have tried to apply width: 300px; (as well as max-width: 300px; ) to the td element, but neither FF or IE seems to accept this? Should they accept this?

Has anyone got a better more practical layout model for this type of display? either using a fix to the above or 'pure' CSS and ditch the table?

Charlie

I am styling my <pre> on my template document and have some questions. First, I tend to gravitate to semantic correct CSS and xHTML. Thus chose xHTML strict for my template document and have been extensively styling the CSS style sheet.

The <pre> tag presents the latest dilemma. Basically, I came across this link where the developer presented CODE in a <textarea> tag. The code did not require entities, < or &rt; in the markup. These styling attributes appealed to me; inset design and overflow with scrollbars for extending text beyond the page.

Bottom of the Page
http://www.evolt.org/article/HTML_is_not_an_acronym/17/35750/

The developer also used presentational styling in the markup. HTML strict does not allow one to use style attributes in the HMTL; besides the style sheet. But my sensibilities gravitate toward using semantically correct markup. Most people, including myself, use div containers with classes or ID for presentational styling. But for this exercise, the <pre> or <code> tag are preferable since these classes serve to present (you guess it) code.

One annoyance about the <pre> relates to indenting the markup (the actual text file). By default (and by design), <pre> tag incorporates any indents or white space in the browser. My thoughts revolved around changing the wrapping property to account for line breaks and disregard white space. Then, in theory, one could indent the markup for readability. This document is for personal use and semantically organized and indented for readability. The correct markup will help me understand or edit the document two years from now. In addition, it forms my quick reference to copy & paste tags.

The following class style did not produce the <textarea> desired attributes.

Code:

pre.CodeExample {
	/*background-color: transparent;*/
	border: medium inset #CCCCCC;
	font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	margin: 1em 2em 1em 2em;
	overflow: auto;
	padding: .5em .5em .5em .5em;
	white-space: nowrap;
}

Please let me know what are the default CSS attributes for the <pre> and <textarea> tags.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions about styling the <pre> tag or links to cool implementations. You may review my markup at the following link.

http://www.geocities.com/robert_neville310/Template_Sample.html#blockquote

The Blockquote section has several methods for displaying code. I am looking to consolidate and standardize my classes. Suggestions are welcomed.

div.ExampleOutput
pre.CodeExample