CSS - Strange Background-image Behavior
Hello,
I am having an issue with some background images. Ive finally decided on a method to create my rounded corners. I am using three divs, a top bottom and center content div. The top and bottom divs have a background image for the top and bottom portions of the curved box. The center div contains the content and a background image repeating along the x-axis. Problem is, the image repeating stops just shy of the top and bottom images. Is there a way to solve this? When I place a border around the center div, the repeating image portion suddenly fills in the gaps, which I don't quite understand. Here is a link to a development area where I am displaying the problem: http://www.ioforge.com/ezt-example/index.html Similar TutorialsI have a very strange quirk going on with my development site right now. It's being developed locally so I can't provide a link to test with. However, I can describe the exact behavior. When any browser is maximized, everything looks great. If you size the browser, dragging any corner in any direction, again, the site looks great. However if you hit the restore down button on any browser, the following occurs: (Example) Browser max is 1900 x 1080. Browser 'restore down' is 1024x768. When hitting restore down the site looks fine at first glance. However, if you drag the horizontal scroll bar down at the bottom of the browser to the right, a large white gap appears in place of the header, the menu, the body, the footer where the background should be. (On the links below you will need to add an h t t p : / / to see the image issues I'm having. For some reason, I can't post any and it's really the only way I can show how this issue is occurring. Here is what it looks like before dragging horizontal bar: img21.imageshack.us/img21/2602/beforedrag.jpg Here is the strange gap pictu img31.imageshack.us/img31/6199/strangegap.jpg Again, if I grab the corner of the browser itself and drag diagonally and resize, the background fills and stretches exactly the way it should. Anyone have an idea of what might be causing it? I'm using a div container as a wrapper: div#container { text-align: center; margin: 0 auto; } Header contains a flash file. Menu contains: background-image: url(/images/menu-background.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; My main nav content is in a smaller container: #nav-main { position:inherit; white-space:nowrap; width:913px!important; font-family:helvetica, sans-serif; margin: auto auto!important; } Any ideas for what I need to do to fix this? Many thanks. Hi. I have noticed a strange behavior with my CSS and I cannot figure out a way to fix it. I have some css to override the body tag style. It sets the font family and size. I need to do this. However, when I use the font-size in the body, it adds extra pixels to a set of span tags that I use. (see attached picture). Here is my code. Does anyone know how I can include the font-size in the body, but not have that extra space in my div tags? Note: the sample image contains images on the edge of the tabs, but their presence has no effect on the issue. Also, this is for IE 6 on Windows. Thanks, Dave Code: <html> <head> <style> body { font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; /* with this line, extra space appears */ } .tab_off { height:17px; overflow:hidden; cursor:hand; } .tab_off_text { background:#ACA899; height:15px; font-size:10px; border-top:1px solid #aaaaaa; border-bottom:1px solid #ECECEC; padding-left:4px; padding-right:4px; vertical-align:middle; } .tabbed_panel { background:#ECE9D8; border-left:1px solid #666666; border-bottom:1px solid #666666; border-right:1px solid #666666; width:400px; height:400px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="pnlTabs"> <span class="tab_off"> <span class="tab_off_text">Tab One</span> </span> </div> <div id="pnlContent" class="tabbed_panel"></div> </body> </html> I'm currently working on the CSS template for a new client and running into a strange issue. The design calls for a separation bar of repeated background to resemble a negative strip (site is a portfolio piece for a commercial photographer), and below that the continuation of a gradation. For some reason, however, in Mozilla-based browsers a gap (visually as if it was a top margin) is appearing in the background repeat (gradation) in the pageblock. To see it, visit http://www.spearsphotography.com/test_index.html in Firefox or another Moz browser. The strange thing is... I noticed the contained news items were not being pushed down (that is to say, it wasn't a margin issue). I tried changing the CSS definition of the background image position on the div, etc. Finally to see exactly where the browser was drawing the div, I set a 1px green border on #pageblock. Oddly enough it fixed it! (weird, huh?) This is especially strange since the float: right; div with the splash image -is- affected by the mysterious "margin". You can see that by going to http://www.spearsphotography.com/test_index2.html. (Contains an inline style to add the border to #pageblock The css file is at http://www.spearsphotography.com/css/style.css I just don't get it. This was all coming together so quickly from the Photoshop mockups, and now a brick wall that is driving me mad. Hi. I have a nav bar on my site which I created using Suckerfish Dropdowns. my <UL>-s id is "nav". Everything is working when I hide secong level list by Css: Code: ul ul{display:none;} But when I change it to (so as to not hide all second level lists) Code: ul#nav ul{display:none;} , the browser still hides the list, but didn't show it on hover! : Code: li:hover ul, li.sfhover ul{ display: block; } This behaviour seems very strange for me. Can anyone explain me that? The address of the page is http://www.dinal.ru/new/ Thank you. Artashes Well strange on IE 5.2 for mac (I am assuming others are ficked too) I have a div in which I want to put paragraphs in... Code: <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> #midRight { position:relative; top:20px; left:160px; width:550px; padding:0px; margin:0px; border:1px solid black; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="midRight"> <p>line1</p> <p>line2</p> <p>line3</p> <p>line4</p> <p>line5</p> </div> </body> </html> Everything works fine on firefox (as one would expect) but on IE the first paragraph displays fine (at the left edge of the DIV) but all the rest indent themselves to the right by 160px (or whatever I change the left:xx px; of the div to. This is bizzare! I cant work out why the first one would be fine but all the rest indented. Anybody know how I can fix this? (so IE looks like this) Code: line 1 line2 line3 line4 line5 etc Hi all, I'm building my first experimental CSS site, and I'm trying to attain accessibility for the widest array of users. While testing various browser settings, I came across this issue. (I'm looking at the site in IE, as I'm at work. I'll be able to look it over in other browsers when I get home.) When my site is viewed with text set to "Medium," everything appears fine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/251449...in/photostream/ When my site is viewed with text set to "Larger," the text in the middle left section doesn't fit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/251449...in/photostream/ Fair enough. But here's what has me stumped: when the site is viewed with the text set to "Largest," it fits again: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25144998@N00/4997174984/ I've learned alot very quickly in the last week or so, but this really has me over a barrel. Any ideas? CSS Code: body { background-color: #393939; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .header { text-align: right; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.6em; } .clickables { text-align: right; font-weight: bold; font-size: 0.95em; } .content { text-align: right; font-size: .8em; } .navbutton { float: right; width: 5em; background-color: #ffcc00; color: #666666; height: 1em; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; font-size: 0.95em; margin: .75em 0.2em .75em 0em; } #mother { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; min-width: 720px; max-width: 1000px; width:expression(document.body.clientWidth > 1000? "1000px": "auto" ); width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 500? "500px": "auto" ); } #UpperLeftWrapper { float: left; width: 35%; background-color: #7d7d7d; } #UpperLeft { height: 8em; margin: 0; background-color: #7d7d7d; } #UpperRightWrapper { float: right; width: 65%; background-color: #666666; } #UpperRight { float: right; width: 7em; height: 7em; margin: 0; padding: .5em; background-color: #666666; color: #ffcc00; } #MiddleLeftWrapper { float: left; width: 35%; background-color: #ffd426; } #MiddleLeft { float: right; width: 8em; height: 1.2em; color: #7d7d7d; background-color: #ffd426; margin: 0; padding: 0.6em; } #MiddleRightWrapper { float: left; width: 65%; background-color: #ffcc00; } #MiddleRight { float: right; width: 24.85em; height: 2.45em; background-color: #ffcc00; margin: 0em .6em 0em 0em; } #LowerLeftWrapper { float: left; width: 35%; background-color: #e5e5e5; } #LowerLeft { float: right; width: 5.8em; height: 75em; color: #7d7d7d; background-color: #e5e5e5; padding: 0.7em; } #LowerRightWrapper { float: left; width: 65%; background-color: #ffffff; } #LowerRight { float: right; height: 88em; color: #666666; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0.8em 1.1em 2em 2em; } HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <HTML> <HEAD> <META CHARSET="UTF-8"> <title>layout three</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="comp.css" /> </HEAD> <BODY> <div id="mother"> <div id="UpperLeftWrapper"> <div id="UpperLeft" class="header"> </div> </div> <div id="UpperRightWrapper"> <div id="UpperRight" class="header"> <p>demonstration<br>layout<br>number two</p> </div> </div> <div id="MiddleLeftWrapper"> <div id="MiddleLeft"> <div class="clickables"> <p>additional reading</p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="MiddleRightWrapper"> <div id="MiddleRight"> <div class="navbutton"> <p>tab one</p> </div> <div class="navbutton"> <p>tab two</p> </div> <div class="navbutton"> <p>tab three</p> </div> <div class="navbutton"> <p>tab four</p> </div> <div class="navbutton"> <p>tab five</p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="LowerLeftWrapper"> <div id="LowerLeft" class="clickables"> <p> first link<br> second link<br> third link<br> fourth link<br> fifth link<br> sixth link<br> seventh link<br> eighth link<br> </p> </div> </div> <div id="LowerRightWrapper"> <div id="LowerRight" class="content"> <p> Body content here... </p> </div> </div> </div> </BODY> </HTML> Thanks in advance for any advice! Hello there. I'm afraid I can't provide a live example because it's a complicated commission that hasn't yet been published, but I'll try to be as specific and detailed as possible. My overall aim: To have a squarish div on the left hand side and a few short rectangular divs vertically stacked on the right hand side of a container. The container is a div whose width is known. The stacked rectangles must have a minimum width but there is some margin for error. All these divs are separated by margins. Code: OOOO === OOOO OOOO === OOOO OOOO === There are other, unrelated blocks above and below this arrangement, and there are blocks nested within these divs as well, all unrelated though. So how did I implement this? I figured this was simple enough: Code: <div> ... <div class="left-square">...</div> <div class="right-short-rectangle">...</div> <div class="right-short-rectangle">...</div> <div class="right-short-rectangle">...</div> ... </div> And the CSS would then look something like this: Code: .left-square { width: 100px; height: ...px; float: left; } .right-short-rectangle { margin-left: 110px; margin-bottom: 5px; height: ...px; } So, this works just fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer. However, for some reason, Chrome doesn't like it. What Chrome does is, it completely ignores the margin on the right-short-rectangles, placing them underneath the floating left-square, but giving them the correct width (the width of the container minus the margin). By fooling around with the DOM inspector, I discovered that if I remove the margin attribute from one of the rectangles, they show correctly (in Chrome). However, they obviously will break in Firefox and Internet Explorer if I do that. Also, if I remove the float attribute from the square, Chrome suddenly recognizes the margins of the rectangles properly (when it no longer matters). So, does anyone have any idea about what's going on here? EDIT: I just noticed this and it is certainly relevant: The right-short-rectangles contain a few *unstyled* divs and one div that is floated to the RIGHT (in other words, content I want to have on the right hand side of each of these rectangles). Without this inner, right-floated div, the margin issue no longer happens in Chrome. The inner div is, however, essential. What can I do? Use tables? This pertains to the "last nail in the coffin" so to speak in cross-browser compatability with the template for this site. The template is at http://www.spearsphotography.com/test_index.html The effect in question is on paragraph tags in the news item elements under the pagebody id div. (e.g., #pageblock div.story p ). Essentially, in every browser -except- IE Windows, the line spacing is as intended by the design. In IE6Win (haven't tested 5, but assume same) the lines are too-tight. Can anyone see the problem here, or has experienced this before? CSS File is at: http://www.spearsphotography.com/css/style.css Thanks. Hi there. I have a blank space that appears as a link when my animated T-R MENU button is clicked. Click here to view the problem It didn't do this in the last version of FF... I can't see why it's doing it, there aren't blank spaces in the code to make it behave this way. Opera, Safari and IE view it fine. Just FF3 that's doing it. Can anyone shed some light on why it's doing this or how to fix it? Thanks in advance. I have a big div container. In this container, I put my content - mostly text. I have a nested div in this container that floats a "sidebar" to the upper-left corner of the container. The sidebar is set up to allow text in the container to fill in around the bottom half of the side bar if the sidebar is shorter than the length of the container. My problem occurs when I have an unordered list as part of my content. If I have an unordered list sitting to the right of the sidebar, the bullets of the list sit immidiately on the right the left of the sidebar (with no indenting). Below the sidebar, all bulleted lists starts indenting from the left of the container, as expected. One solution would be to put my content in it's own div, that would be completely separate from the sidebar div. However, if I do this, my content won't fill in around the bottom of my sidebar. Any advice? Thanks! - Ryan I haven't seen this one before. And I can't for the life of me figure out what could be causing this. Take a look at This Page To see what I'm talking about, you'll need to view it in a good browser first (Mozilla, Netscape, Opera) Then look in IE. Basically there's an H3 that also serves as a link to my RSS Feed page. You don't see it in IE unless you actually hover the mouse over it. Even then, if you move the mouse over the menu on the left, the heading disapears again. At first I thought it could be because it was a heading, but on another page a regular link does it too. I've got two stylesheets, and it does it on both. Any thoughts or suggestions? Here's the main stylesheet Hello to all, I have a problem of compatibility when using Safari (V3). I have a strange interface and i can't identify the problem. When I refresh my page,I don't have the same css !!!! The same interface is testing wit hFirefox and IE and it's ok. Can you help me please. Thank you in advance for your time. hello! My name is Marco, I'm italian, I hope nobody will be hurted by my english. Consider this code: Code: <html><head><style> body { text-align: center; } #wrap { width: 100%; background: yellow; height: 400px; } #inside { width: 800px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto; background: red; } </style></head><body> <div id='wrap'><div id='inside'> try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? try to downsize the width of the window! what is the yellow background doing? </div></div> </body></html> if you try to downsize the width of the browser window (to 100px, for example) the yellow background will move to left I hope the problem is clear exposed...thank you I'm using the "hacked" version IE6 since I have IE7 installed. I designed a web page with a really strange problem. I've created a "div popup" that shows an image and some text when you click on a link but the image doesn't appear in IE6 until you right click and choose "show picture". And even then, the combo box in the background still shines through. Any suggestions? wwwDOTstoneycreekrentalsDOTcomSLASHequipmentDOTasp (Then search for dozers) Here's the CSS I'm using: Code: div#popup { background-color: black; color:white; display:none; font-size:small; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding:5px; position:absolute; text-align:center; width:736px; z-index:1; } And my javascript: Code: <script type="text/javascript"> function popupDiv(str){ var popup = document.getElementById('popup'); popup.style.display='block'; popup.style.top=27+'px'; popup.style.zIndex=1002; popup.innerHTML = str + '<br /><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="document.getElementById(\'popup\').style.display=\'none\'">Close</a>'; } </script> I've got a background image problem with my first real attempt at a table-free CSS design. There are two main images (one is top-right in the body background, the other is bottom-left in a div). It looks like the bottom-left image occasionally gets displayed at the bottom of the viewable area instead of the actual page. When you scroll down you can see that the image is repeated. Refreshing the page sometimes solves the problem (and sometimes creates it), but switching windows with Alt-Tab fixes it every time. Hovering over the links in the body of the page, which change the background color, sort of "erases" the repeat image. Has anyone come across this before? Any chance it's the same problem Dave Shea mentions at: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/04/08/ie_vs_image_/index.php Thanks, Josh html: http://66.213.53.5/index.html css: http://66.213.53.5/season.css screen: http://66.213.53.5/images/problem.gif I have a page setup like this.... <table height="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td valign="top" class="lt_bar"><img src="template/blue_234/images/lt_shd.jpg" /></td> <td valign="top"></td> <td valign="top" class="rt_bar"><img src="template/blue_234/images/rt_shd.jpg" /></td> </tr> </table> and: .lt_bar { width: 27px; background-image: url("images/lt_shd.jpg"); background-repeat: repeat-y; float: left } .rt_bar { width: 27px; background-image: url("images/rt_shd.jpg"); background-repeat: repeat-y; float: right; } In IE all is fine, in FireFox the right side shows, the left side does not. any clues... The layout I have going is a bit difficult to explain. Here's a diagram.. The area of importance is the header. The content and main head area are centered. The area to the left and right of the header are a <div>. However, as you can see, the background image on the left is different than the one on the right. I'm having difficulty making this work. the images can be stretched horizontally without a problem, but the two sides must meet in the middle beneath the header. I hope this makes sense. What I've got to do, I think, is tell the background image of the underlying <div> to stretch to 100%, and make this image 300px wide or so including both sides of the image and a split. The split would hide behind the header. I can't find a method to stretch the background image, though. Does anybody know of a better way, or a way to achieve this method at all without getting into completely different layouts? Thanks in advance for any assistance/suggestions. In short, I'm trying to get this one image to tile down the page to the bottom, underneath a static background image. Basically, it's a 2pixel high image that's ready to tile vertically, just having a tough time getting it to work. You can clearly see the problem here, a gap at the bottom: http://www.groundedgroup.com/clients/NWR/ Here's the relevant css: http://www.groundedgroup.com/client...WR-GG/style.css I've googled and subsequently tried out some solutions, but no luck. Got any ideas? Thanks in advance. PS - Is there a way to keep the spiders from indexing my links above? The site is on a test server, so I don't want the url indexed. Hi. Really hoping someone can help me with this... I'll try and explain this as best I can(!) Basically I've got a page containing a block of 9 images, with each linking to a video clip. At the moment I've got the CSS coded so that whenever the mouse is hovered over the 'infobar' (at the bottom of each image) it goes from having a transparent background with black text to having a grey background with white text. What I'm trying to achieve is that same effect whenever the mouse is hovered over any part of the image and infobar. The live online link can be found at: www.markmcm.co.uk/test/test.html The CSS is as as follows: Code: /* * Page Stylesheet */ body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #eaeaea; border:0; margin:0; padding:0; height: 100%; } a:link { text-decoration: none; } a:visited { text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: none; } a:active { text-decoration: none; } #container { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; min-height: 100%; width: 936px; } * html #container { height: 100%; } #content { float:left; position: relative; height: 528px; width: 936px; z-index: 0; } .miniscreen1, .miniscreen2, .miniscreen3, .miniscreen4, .miniscreen5, .miniscreen6, .miniscreen7, .miniscreen8, .miniscreen9 { position: absolute; float: left; display: block; width: 312px; height: 176px; } .miniscreen1 { top: 0; left: 0; } .miniscreen2 { top:0; left: 312px; } .miniscreen3 { top: 0; left: 624px; } .miniscreen4 { left: 0; top:176px; } .miniscreen5 { left: 312px; top:176px; } .miniscreen6 { left: 624px; top:176px; } .miniscreen7 { left: 0; top:352px; } .miniscreen8 { left: 312px; top:352px; } .miniscreen9 { left: 624px; top:352px; } .info { height: 30px; top:3px; left: 40px; width: 265px; float: left; position: absolute; } .infobar { left:0px; position: absolute; top: 140px; width: 312px; height: 36px; outline: none; color:#000; background: url("data/infobar.png") no-repeat 0 0; z-index: 650; } .infobar:hover { background-position: 0 -36px; outline: none; color:#fff; } #infobar span { display: none; outline: none; } .clip_title { outline: none; font-size: 85%; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; } .clip_sub { outline: none; height: 13px; font-size: 80%; line-height: 13px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; } And the HTML is: 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"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Test Page</title> <meta name="description" content=" " /> <meta name="keywords" content=" " /> <meta name="generator" content=" " /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page.css" media="screen" /> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> <span class="miniscreen1"> <a href="#"> <img src="img/clip1.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 1<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen2"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip2.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 2<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen3"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip3.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 3<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen4"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip4.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 4<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen5"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip5.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 5<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen6"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip6.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 6<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen7"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip7.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 7<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen8"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip8.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 8<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen9"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip9.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 9<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> </div> </div> </body> </html> There must be a better (and easier?) way to do this. Any help would be very-much appreciated - and save an old bloke from tearing too much of his hair out(!) Hi, I have a question about setting up the Body background-image via a linked external stylesheet. I have a index.html file and a myStyle.css file. I want to setup the background to load an image file, test.JPG. When I embed the following in my index.html, I see the background show up: ** inside index.html file ** <BODY STYLE="background-image: url(test.JPG);"> blah </BODY> BUT, when I define my background in the externally linked myStyle.css file, the background does not load: ** inside myStyle.css file ** BODY { background-image: url(test.JPG); } ** inside index.html file ** <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="myStyle.css"> <BODY> blah </BODY> </LINK> Please help. thanks! |