CSS - Layout Questions

Hi there and thanks for reading & helping! I am new to this site, but here is my question:

I need to build about a 20 page website. I have been told I should do the "layout" for each page using CSS. Is it possible for each page to "link" to one CSS file for layout instructions? I have found suitable CSS layout templates but am unsure how to link each page to the external CSS file for a basic "header, 2 column, footer" layout, or if it is even possible?

Does anyone know much about IE 7? In particular does it conform to the WWW consortium's box model (margins and padding). This would reduce a whole lot of extra CCS elements and headaches. Does is finally support transparent PNG files? Support for PNG will change the look of the web dramatically!

I have the following code:
Code:

<div class="Outer">
	<div class="Inner">
		Text one
	</div>
</div>
<div class="Outer">
	<div class="Inner">
		Text two
	</div>
</div>

I have the following CSS
Code:

.Outer{
width:150px;
float:left;
}
.Inner{
Margin:10px:
}

I would like to set the Inner div in first instance of Outer to have a margin-left of 0px.
I have tried the following
Code:

 .Outer:first-child .Inner{
margin-left:0px;
}

This works in Chrome but not in IE, but it does work if I apply the style inline to the First Inner Div. Can it be done within the CSS file?

i have three relatively simple questions --

i want to put thumbnails on my page inside the main container-- (2 column layout)

i have used some code from
REAL WORLD
its close but not quite there--
also the thumb sizes will be different - they are stamps- like postage stamps so some
horizontal and some square -- just need a tweak here


also i have a gray line running thru the site--- not sure where it is coming from
but i think it might be from the link container on the sidebar--

and speaking of side bar list container--
i would like it to be centered
instead of up against right side--
i played with margins and padding -
i am still wading thru that concept-- but coudlnt get anything to work---

so i SURE WOULD appreciate help on these three items -- many thanks in advance--

here is link to page
THE PAGE

here is link to CSS

CSS

I know how to center an element horizontally, but why does it not work with vertical centering?

Horizontal (working) -
Code:

   element.foo {
   margin: auto;
   width: 0;
   }

Vertical (not working) -
Code:

   element.fuu {
   margin: auto;
   height: 0; /* no values work */
   }
   

I've seen an entire layout vertically centered by containing the entire layout in a single-cell table and applying the "valign" attribute to the cell, but I'd rather not use tables. I've also checked out the W3C's "Centering Vertically" example, but it relies on the author knowing the height of the content. Since height doesn't work with %, I can't use that.

Does somebody know of a way to center vertically without using absolute positioning (relative is fine) or tables, and without knowing the height of the content?

I'd rather not use trial and error, but this does seem like a question that is virtually impossible to answer 100% affirmatively (about as sure as 100% height works ).

I never usually code my layouts and test for validation (which after this I see they would fail horribly), even though it displays right theres so many mistakes. I finally got my layout to pass validation in HTML 4.1, but some things went wrong.

First heres the links: (and yes this does involve CSS):
http://65.26.50.204/ec/index.php - My Layout (View Source)
http://65.26.50.204/ec/stylesheet.css - The CSS

One thing I was told to do is take out height="100%" but it only told me to take it out in some places and not otheres... strange. Anyways how do I get it to stretch 100% with CSS?

Second question, is it a bad practice to use a lot of css classes, I mean like if I have a CSS class used only once is that bad? Does it even matter how many I use?... it wont delay page loading time will it?

Third question, I was told to remove the cellspacing tag in most of the places, is that not used anymore or what?

I am working on css for a project of mine and I am having a few minor problems with the position and widths of my divs.

If I have a parent container and divs within the parent container do the child containers not inherit the width and height of the parent containers?

For example here is my css thus far:
Code:

/* CSS Document */
h1 {
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 20px;
	color:#000000;
}

h2{
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 16px;
	color:#000000;
}

h4{
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color:#000000;
}

body {
	margin: 0;
	border: 0;
	background: #ededed;
}

/*============================ Begin Layout Structure ============================*/

#wrapper {
	width: 1024px;
	min-height: 768px;
	position: relative;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-top: 5px, auto;
	background: #ffffff;
}

#accountselector {
	position: relative;
	height: 15px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-top: auto;
}

#headerwrapper {
	position: relative;
	padding-top: 5px;
	width: 100%;
	height: 200px;
}

#headerwrapper-left {
	position: relative;
	width: 65%
	height: 100%;
}

#headerwrapper-left-logo {
	position: relative;
	height: 75px;
	width: 100%;
	background: blue;
}

#headerwrapper-left-navigation {
	position: relative
	height: 15px;
	width: 100%;
	background: red;
}

#headerwrapper-left-banner {
	position: relative;
	height: 110px;
	width: 100%;
}

#headerwrapper-right {
	position: relative;
	width: 35%;
	height: 100%;
}

#headerwrapper-right-heading {
	position: relative;
	width: 100%;
	height: 15px;
}

#headerwrapper-right-customer{
	position: relative;
	width: 100%;
	height: 185px;
}

#bodywrapper {
	position: relative;
	min-height: 478px;
	width: 100%;
	padding-top: 10px;
}

#bodywrapper-leftwrapper {
	position: relative;
	height: 100%;
	width: 20%;
}

#bodywrapper-leftwrapper-subnav {
	position: relative;
	height: 50%;
	width: 100%;
}

#bodywrapper-leftwrapper-news {
	position: relative;
	height: 50%;
	width: 100%;
}

#bodywrapper-rightwrapper {
	position: relative;
	height:100%;
	width: 80%;
}

#bodywrapper-rightwrapper-body {
	position: relative;
	height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
}

My HTML is as follows:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="test5.css" />
</head>

<body>
<div id= "wrapper">

	<div id= "accountselector">Home&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Business</div>
	
	<div id= "headerwrapper">
		<div id="headerwrapper-left">
			<div id= "headerwrapper-left-logo">US Sonet Logo</div>
			<div id= "headerwrapper-left-navigation">Link1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Link2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Link3</div>
			<div id= "headerwrapper-left-banner">US Sonet Banner</div>
		</div>
		<div id="headerwrapper-right">
			<div id="headerwrapper-right-heading">Manage Account</div>
			<div id="headerwrapper-right-customer">Account Control Center</div>
		</div>			
	</div>	
	<div id="bodywrapper">	
		<div id="bodywrapper-leftwrapper">
			<div id="bodywrapper-leftwrapper-subnav">Link1 &nbsp; Link2 &nbsp; Link3</div>
			<div id="bodywrapper-leftwrapper-news" >News</div>
		</div>
		<div id="bodywrapper-rightwrapper">
			<div id="bodywrapper-rightwrapper-body">
				<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque 
				adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque 
				penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam 
				libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor 
				cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum 
				pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque 
				in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.</p>
				<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque 
				adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque 
				penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam 
				libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor 
				cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum 
				pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque 
				in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.</p>
				<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque 
				adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque 
				penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam 
				libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor 
				cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum 
				pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque 
				in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.</p>
				<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque 
				adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque 
				penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam 
				libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor 
				cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum 
				pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque 
				in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.</p></div>
		</div>		
	</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Why aren't the children divs inheriting their width from the parents or do they not function this way?

Hi all,

I'm working on a page layout, and would like some advice.

I have two questions. First, here is my code so far:

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">
<meta name="Description" content="A Milwaukee Based Industrial Cleaning Company that specializes in Janitorial Programs, Green Cleaning, Specilaty Cleaning, One-Time Cleaning, Post-Construction Cleaning, Carpet Cleaning, Fabric Upholstery Care Floor Mainenance, Concrete Floor Coatings, Snow Removal, and Lawn Mainteneance">
<title>CSS Template</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/gibb.css" >
</head>

<body >
<div id="containerDiv" style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
	<div id="mastDiv" style="width: 100%; background-color: teal; height: 150px;"><p>tasd</p></div>
	<div id="contentDiv" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: red;">
		<div id="leftArticleDiv" style="float: left; width: 90px; background-color: red;">
			<p>
				Left Content <br /><br />
			</p>
		</div>

		 <div id="navDiv" style="width: 100%; height: 100px; background-color: gray; margin-left: 90px">Nav Content</div>
		 <div id="mainDiv" style="background-color: blue; height: 100% width: 100%; margin-left: 90px;">
		 <p>
		 Center Content<br /> longer
		  <p>
		 Center Content<br /> longer
		  <p>
		 Center Content<br /> longer
		 <p>
		 Center Content<br /> longer
		 		 <p>
		 Center Content<br /> longer
		 </p>
		 
		 </div>
		 <div id="footer" style="clear: left; height: 0px; visibility: hidden;"></div>
	</div>
</div>

</body>

</html>

This looks exactly how I would like it too in FF. My first question is, how can I fix it for IE. Specifically, navDiv and mainDiv appear below my leftArticleDiv, or they appear after it in IE. In FF they float right around the leftArticleDiv, but not IE. I've read many bug reports at ALA, but they don't seem to fit. Any ideas?

Also, as you can see, my leftArticleDiv does not grow. That is, if it were to be longer than mainDiv, the results would be disatserous. Is ther anyway to have mainDiv and leftNavDiv always equall each other in height? So that whichever one were longer, the other one would be the same height?

Thanks for your time.

CJB

I have 3 problems with the CSS I'm attempting (been a very long time). You can see my crud in progress at .shelleysjewelry.com/uploads/newsite/shelleys/index dot html (and, yes, it is pure crud -- besides the god-awful CSS & JS, none of the links work). I've been banging my head on these...

Problem the First:
I have a tricky absolute positioning situation that uses a combination of sliding dropdown menus and Javascript, like so:

var h = document.getElementById(id + '-ddheader');
var c = document.getElementById(id + '-ddcontent');
var dimensions = getPosition(h);
c.style.left = dimensions[0];
c.style.top = dimensions[1] + h.offsetHeight + 5;
c.style.display = 'block';

"c" represents the slideout submenu and is absolutely positioned. Both values are being set to something that is expected (e.g., dimensions[0] is not zero). However, while it works in IE, it doesn't work in Firefox -- the top is being respected, but the left isn't. I understand I have a lot of margin/padding that will mess with absolute positioning, but AFAIK, that should only affect a few pixels, not render it unusable. Anyone have insight why?

Problem the Second:
I love the overflow property. The tabs are wrapping around. However, I'd like them to not overlap, without explicitly breaking them into two rows. I don't suppose there's any way to do that?

Problem the Third:
In IE, to run the site, I have to "allow ActiveX Content". There is a Javascript function that runs on startup to calculate minimum div heights and other innoconous methods. How do I get rid of that warning?

Any help much appreciated... )

I am using <ul><li> menu.

My questions are, how can I keep one element from wrapping down, when the screen size gets too small?

Also, how can I make the grey of the menu span across the whole div?

I tried a few things like wrapping the menu in a div with a background, setting extra elements..ect. I can't seem to keep the design with the above solutions.

Any help would be appreciated.

- Gnome

Html
Code:

<div id="MainContent">
		<div id="Content">								
					<div id="Menu">				
						<ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li
						><li><a href="index.html">Products and Services</a></li
						><li><a href="index.html">Employment</a></li
						><li><a href="index.html">Blah</a></li
						><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li						
						></ul>
					</div>							
				<div id="imageWrapper">
					<img src="team.jpg" class="displayed" border="0" />
				</div>
				<div>
					Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
				</div>			
			</div>	
		</div>

CSS

Code:

#MainContent{
	float: left;
	width: auto;	
}

#Content{
	margin-right: 265px; /*Set right margin to RightColumnWidth*/
}

#Menu	{
	backgound-color:#C0C0C0;
	border-top:1px Solid #C0C0C0;
	padding-top: 6px;
	padding-bottom:6px;
	display:block;
}

#Menu ul
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	width:auto;
	
}

#Menu ul li { 
	display: inline;
}

#Menu ul li a
{
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: .2em 1em;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	background-color: #C0C0C0;
}

#Menu ul li a:hover
{
	color: #C0C0C0;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

Hi,

I'm designing a web site using a full CSS layout with XHTML. It's quite challenging as I'm used to complex table designs. My design is located at http://www.definitedigital.com/vida/index.html
And the style sheet at http://www.definitedigital.com/vida/style.css

There's some things that look different across browsers, and I'm not sure if it's some sort of bug or my mistake. For example,

1. On Firefox the 'Punta Del Este Vida Beach House' link image is sometimes detected and sometimes unclickable.
2. There's much more vertical spacing between the divs (logo, photo, menu) in Firefox than in IE.

I'd really appreciate if someone could take a look at my CSS, as I don't really know whether I'm doing this right or not.

Thanks,
Ralph

So I just started a class about 4 weeks ago with CSS and I have run into a problem. Its probably a stupid mistake on my part somewhere but I can't figure it out.

I have div id tags and for those id tags I have created for example:

#test h2, p {
font-style:italic;
text-align:center;
font-weight:bold;
display:inline;
padding: 10px;
}

This is because I want only the header and p content in this specific div tag to have these properties. But for some reason its spilling out onto the rest of my p and h2 tags. Why is this happening and how do I stop it so that I can control which h and p tags have specific properties?

Hope someone can help!!

Thanks

First: I have seen:

p.classname
and just
.classname

What is the difference between the two if the latter is applied to a paragraph?

Also:

I have seen classes stack on top of each other like:

<p class ="classname" class ="classname2">text</p>
<p class = "classname" id = "idname">text</p>

So is there a way to use classes with other classes id with other ids or classes and ids together like the above?

Hi,

I've been using nested layers in Dreamweaver and wanted to know if it's possible to hide all nested layers of a given layer (say A) by applying a behavior to hide just the layer A to an object? Or is it that in order to hide the nested layers also, I'll need to apply behaviors for each nested layer separately?

Also, is there a way to load the content of a layer (such as swf movies, images and other stuff) only when its property is changed to visible (by default the layer is hidden).

Thanks,
Jayant