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CSS - Creating A Variable-width Square Div?
I'm beginning to suspect that this just isn't possible without javascript, but I'm throwing it out here just in-case I get lucky.
Basically, what I want is a square-div that is no more than 90% of the window-height or 90% of the window-width, and will scale to fit the smaller of the two sizes. So, say the viewable area of the page is 800 x 600, the div would scale to be 540 by 540. If the size were 400 x 500, then it would be 360 by 360. I know that of course it's trivial to do with fixed-width divs by specifying a size in pixels, but is there any-way to do it for anything else? Images work nicely, as they will try to remain at the same aspect-ratio when stretched. I'm trying to make a nice simple interface composed of a few large, elements, that is able to scale seamlessly from desktop to mobile screen-sizes. Similar TutorialsI'm trying to create a full width bar across the page. My current attempt is at: http://www.mixicon.com/dev/test.html It is currently working in Safari, but not in Firefox.I'm open to opinions in what I might be missing here, any thoughts? I'm mostly happy with how it looks in Safari, so I need any help to get it there in other browsers. The attached image shows what it should look like. Hi, I've been running into a specific issue in projects for months now, and it's beginning to drive me nuts. I'm sure there must be a way to do what I'm trying to do. The situation will usually be something like this: I'll have a vertical menu in list form. All of the menu items are to be 150 pixels wide with a background image, and that background image will change when the link is hovered over. The links themselves, though, are not all the same text and therefore not the same width. I cannot get CSS to implement a width to links, and when using CSS like the below, that's a necessity to get the same width background hover image on each link. CSS/HTML: css Code: Original - css Code <style type="text/css"> ul{} ul li{ background: url(someimage.gif) no-repeat #FFF; width: 150px; } ul li a:hover, ul li.active a:hover { background: url(someimage_over.gif) } </style> <ul> <li><a href="#">Link One</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link Number Two</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link Three</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link Number Four (4)</a></li> </ul>
I hope that illustrates what I'm trying to get across, but maybe not. Basically, I need a way to use CSS to change the background of multiple areas of the same width within which the <a> sizes may not be the same. I'm having trouble explaining this. Let me know if you need it further explained.. otherwise, I'd greatly appreciate any input. Thanks in advance! There are very few things which are just impossible to do using HTML and CSS, but I'm wondering if I've finally hit something that is. First, some background: I'm trying to do some code for a wordpress image gallery on my blog. I have a plugin that allows me to code the gallery however I want, so that's not a problem. However, I'm redesigning my site, and I want to keep both galleries I have already posted and new galleries that I'm going to post to all look the same. The problem is this: the old galleries all have 2 images in a row, while the new ones will have 3 images in a row (and perhaps even 4 in some situations). All images in any given gallery will have the same heights and widths, but height and width of images between galleries can change. What I've been trying to accomplish is the following: A box, which creates a border around the entire gallery. Images stack horizontally as wide as they can go on the page, then drop down to the next line. As I said, sometimes this will be 2 and sometimes 3 images. However, the border should always be "skin tight" (give or take a few pixels of padding) around the gallery. I've tried just about every combination of tags, floating, and display options, and nothing seems to work. Either the containing element is either full width of it's container (if container is display block or inline-block with no width) constrains the widths of the images (if it does have a width), or the box doesn't fully contain the top row of images (if the container is display inline with non-floated content). I can usually either get the right width, but not the right height, or the right height, but not the right width. Getting both the right height and width appear to be the problem. As of right now, my code for the gallery looks something like the following (it is ever changing, so it's kind of pointless to post what it is at this exact moment): Code: <div class="outer"> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> </div> However, I'm just running out of ideas, and I'm about ready to either say "screw the look of the old galleries" or use wordpress's built in options for how many rows there are (the problem with this is I have to set it for each gallery - something that I'm trying to avoid if possible, as resorting to that also presents issues with galleries I've already posted) Hi! I'm working on a design for an art gallery client that calls for a primary image of variable width with static alignment to the right and bottom, with a row of thumbnails below that align with the left edge of the image. This is working fine in FF and Chrome, but I can't seem to get IE to constrain the containing div by the image width. The thumbnails, floated left, go all the way to the edge of the layout... I've tried different combinations of positioning on the containing div (you can see the comments in my CSS), but can't seem to get it to go. The URL in question is here . Any help would be mightily appreciated! -BBD I am using the sons of suckerfish drop downs and have managed to produce css code that looks great in all browers, except IE6. In IE6, the top level links stetch all the way across rather than fitting to the text of the link. I figure this is because #nav li is float:left, but #nav li a is display:block which for somereason IE thinks, lets stetch out even though my container says to float. So, can anyone help me keep variable width on top level links and display correctly in all browers? I know in sons of suckerfish they have stated that you must put a fixed width, but thats not an option for me. I don't have enough space to make all of them the same width. So here is the css and some sample code: Code:
#nav {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style:none;
}
#nav a {
}
#nav li {
float:left;
height:34px;
line-height:34px;
}
#nav li a{
background: url(../images/site/nav-li-bg.gif) no-repeat right center;
height: 34px;
line-height:34px;
padding: 0 8px 0 8px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 13px;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Bitstream Vera Sans,Verdana;
color: #626262;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
text-align:center;
}
#nav a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color:#000;
}
#nav li ul {
position: absolute;
width: 200px;
left:-999px;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ADA8A5;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding: 0;
}
#nav li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul {
left: auto;
z-index:99;
}
#nav li ul li {
width: 200px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
z-index:99;
}
#nav li ul li a {
display:block;
float:none;
font-size: 11px;
font-family:verdana;
width: 190px;
height:auto;
padding:5px;
margin: 0;
line-height:normal;
font-weight:normal;
color: #000;
z-index:99;
text-align:left;
background: #fff;
border-left: none;
border-right:none;
border-top:none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #e7e7e7;
}
#nav li ul li a:hover {
background: #a2c9f4;
}
Code: <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="">HOME</a> <ul> <li><a href="">Test</a></li> <li><a href="">test</a></li> <li><a href="">test</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="">NEWS</a> <ul> <li><a href="">Latest News</a></li> <li><a href="">Hot News</a></li> <li><a href="">Submit a Story</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> Hey guys, I'm having trouble with the cellpadding on a "tab" on my page. I've got a div that has a table with a single cell inside it. The table is left justified in the div and has a black background. I can't give the table cell a fixed width because a word of variable length will appear inside it. The text in the cell appears aligned center and valigned middle, with 10 pixels of padding on the left and right sides. This appears exactly right in every browser but IE 6 on Windows, where the left and right padding is lost, and the word is bumped right up to the edge of the black table cell. How can I fix this? Thanks a lot. Here's the page: http://aoi2.keysandwings.com/about.php Here's the HTML: Code: <div class="relativetitle"">
<table class="titletable">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">About</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
And here's the CSS: Code: .relativetitle {
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
z-index: 1;
width: 682px;
height: 30px;
color: white;
background: transparent;
font-size: larger;
text-align: left
}
.titletable {
height: 100%;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
background: black
}
I have a titlebar for an article for my site and i'm trying to achieve rounded corners with transparency. The problem is that my transparent images (toprightcorner and blobs) are showing the background of the div i've used to tile the background image across the bar (it's variable width). How can I prevent this? i know there is background-position but i need a fixed size that the background won't tile across at either end while the width is variable. Is the only solution to make 3 divs and use 2 as columns to hold the corner images and have the background tile across it or is there an easier way? Here is the relevant code Thanks --James Code: <div class="articlebox"> <div class="articletitle"><img class="left" src="blobs.jpg" border="0" /></div> </div> css Code: Original - css Code div.articlebox{ width:100%; /*attach it to the top of the box so we can layer the corner on top of it*/ background:rgb(249,249,249) url('topbg2.png') repeat-x fixed; padding:0px; margin:0px; } div.articletitle{ text-align:left; width:100%; height:21px; background:url('toprightcorner2.png') no-repeat right top; border-bottom:1px solid #888; padding:0px; margin:0px; } div.articletitle img{ float:left; } * html div.articletitle img{ margin-left:-3px; }
I'm trying to make up a thumbnail page that shows pics in a row at a constant height. I don't want the images distorted so the width will vary. I tried: Code: img.proj_thumb {border-style:none; height:75px; width:auto}
Ths worked on mylaptop, but fails on the server - see the attached pics. Any suggestions? Something for the css pros: Can anybody give me a hint on how to convert the following (table) based markup snippet to div-only markup? http://www.twosailors.net/test.html In all my tests I cannot get the rightmost cell expand so the whole menu gets it's total size. I do NOT want to convert the boxes to fixed width but keep them shrinkwrapping around the menu texts. Also, I do want a border around the boxes so any faking with background colors will not work either. Any ideas? Andreas Pardeike Hi, I was trying to display a small colored square using <table> tag. It worked fine on the screen but when I do print preview, the square shows up as white. I used both: <table width="15" height="15" style="border: 1px solid #000; background:#00cc00"> ... </tabel> and <table width="15" height="15" style="border: 1px solid #000"> <tr><td bgcolor="00cc00"></td></tr> </table> but none works. Can someone tell me why this does not get printed? Is there a CSS method to create this that would print? Hello All, Is it possible to include square brackets in CSS classes? And if so, how can you reference them in CSS, since square brackets in CSS definitions are for attributes? Code: <div class="foo[bar]" cool="yes"></div> How would I reference this element in CSS? Could somebody give me some kind of hint how to do this. Appreciate your help, chris 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;"> 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 I have a header div with a background image - it's basically a pair of hands holding a banner - the arms extending to the sides of the window. I'm trying to work it so that, no matter how wide or thin the window, the arms will always extend to the sides. So when you make it smaller, the image will disappear beyond the viewing window. This happens automatically on the right-hand side, but the image is stopping it on the left. Is there a way to set a min-width, which is smaller then the image itself, so that when the window is shrunk the image starts to disappear on either side until it reaches the min-width? I'm trying to get it so the arms will disappear and stop at the hands. Or can anyone suggest an alternative solution? I tried to do it with background and header image, with the arms on the background, so when the top image moves it looks like the arms move with it. That worked great until I started using a patterned background. Full width: |---------------------------------------| |AAAAAAAAHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHAAAAAAAAA| |---------------------------------------| Shrunk width: ------- |------------------------| -------- AAAAAAA |AHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHA| AAAAAAAA ------- |------------------------| -------- Grey bit outside window edge. | Window side A Arms H Hands B Banner I hope that makes sense. I expect there's an easy solution but I've been trying to figure it out for several hours and could do with someone else's perspective. Thanks. |
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