CSS - Vertical Element Coverage, Terrible!

Hi,

My page has 3 elements: one at the top(header banner), one in the middle (a middle content area) and one at the bottom (footer banner).

Now I want those positions to remain intact regardless of the number of lines output in the middle element. The content is going to be determined at runtime by a server-side routine so I don't want to use a fixed positioning for the footer banner. I want it to be displayed at the bottom - after the middle content is displayed. And I want the middle content to be visible in the page i.e. I don't want a scroll area within the page.

I have tried various approaches and read up on positioning but so far have not been able to do it using css.

Any help is much appreciated.

Jim

I have an navigation menu that I am building as an unordered list. What I have is an image rollover that appears at the bottom of the navigation menu when the cursor hovers over one of the first level links by using a span within the link that has its display set to none, and then set to absolute positioned directly below the navigation menu on a:hover.

Here is an example:


Code:

<ul>
<li>
<a href="link1.html" id="link1">Link<span></span></a>
</li>
</ul>

.link a { some link height }

.link a span { display: none; }

.link a:hover span {
  position: abolute;
  top: (some link height * the number of links);
  background-image: (some image url)
  width: (image width)
  height: (image height)
}

Appearance:

------
Link1
Link2
Link3
Link4
-------
-------
Rollover Image to appear here
-------

The problem that I have is that since the rollover image is positioned absolutely, if the size of the list of links changes (IE with sub-links in the list) it slides under or over where I have the rollover image placed.
IE
------
Link1
sublink1
sublink2
Link2
Link3
Link4
-------

will break my scheme.


Is there a way to get the span within the link to show up relative to the bottom of the <ul> element, or at the bottom of an element that contains the whole shebang?

If I cant get this to work, I'm going to be forced to adopt the existing tables/javascript based template for our site, and I'd hate hate hate to do that.

thanks.

Can anyone explain the difference between the two? For example, what is the difference between:

this:
element element {}
div p { }

and this:
element > element { }
div > p { }

I don't understand it and have not found an explanation in tireless searching. Thx!

/*Left Links*/

#leftcol{
float: left;
display: block;
width: 200px; /*Width of left column*/
}

ul#leftcol{
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0.5em 0 1em 0;
margin: 0;
}

li#leftcol{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#leftcol a, #leftcol a:link, #nav a:visited {
float: left;
display: block;
position:relative;
width: 165px;
height: 1%;
padding: 8px 5px 8px 30px;
margin: 0;
font: normal 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
background-image:url(images/sidelinks_back.jpg);
border-bottom: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
}

#leftcol a:hover {
background-position: 0 -45px;
color: #0C0F1B;
}

#leftcol img {
border-bottom: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
}

<!--LEFT COLUMN -->


<ul id="leftcol"
><li><img src="images/sidelinks_top.jpg" alt="Our Services" width="200" height="40" border="0" /></li>
<li><a href="**">Collision Repair</a></li>
<li><a href="**" >Heavy Frame Repairs</a></li>
<li><a href="**">Truck Body Repairs</a></li>
<li><a href="**" >Sprinter Repair Specialists</a></li>
<li><a href="**">Commercial Van Repairs</a></li>
<li><a href="**">Painting & Decaling</a></li>
<li><a href="**">Custom Truck Body Services</a></li>
<li><a href="**">Morgan Body Parts & Service</a></li>
<li><img src="images/sidelinks_btm.gif" alt=" " width="200" height="10" border="0" /></li
></ul>


2 problems:

1) In IE and Firefox: gap between <img> and <li>
2) In IE6, a gap appears between all my <li>tags

What to do? Do I have to put my <ul> in a <div> and keep my <img> out of the <ul>?

If you look at
Lakelandedc.com you notice the menu is very weird when trying to go from each link to the other links... how can i fix the menu so it is easier to navigate?

Code:

 /* CSS Document */

#menu
{
text-align:left;
width:155px;
background-color:#084D9C;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

#menu ul
{
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

#menu a, #menu h2
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
display:block;
border-width:1px;
border-style:solid;
border-top:solid 2px;
border-color:#ccc #888 #555 #bbb;
margin:0;
padding:2px 3px;
}

#menu h2
{
color:#fff;
background:#BA5D92;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

#menu a
{
color:#FFF;

text-decoration:none;
}

#menu ul a:hover
{
color:#fff;
background-color:#091F51;
text-decoration:none;
}


#menu ul
{
position:relative;

}


#menu ul ul 
{
position:relative;
top:0;
left:10%;
width:100%;
}

s#menu a:hover {
}

.submenu 
{
background-color:#9A1F61;
color:#fff;
}

div#menu ul ul,
div#menu ul ul li:hover ul ul
{
display:none;
}



div#menu ul:hover ul,
div#menu ul ul ul li:hover ul
{display: block;}

Hi,

The following example is positioned as I want.
Code:

<div><label id="day">Day:</label><span>
<input type="checkbox" name="day" value="1"   />Sat
<input type="checkbox" name="day" value="2"   />Sun
</span>
</div> 	

How do I make in next example
<table> vertically aligned with <label> element?
Right now <table> element is positioned next to it but way below <label> element.
Code:

<div><label id="lang_lbl">What languages do you speak?:</label>
<span>
<table><tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="lang" value="1"   />English </td>&nbsp;
<td><input type="checkbox" name="langs" value="2"   />Spanish</td>
</tr> 
</table>
</span>
</div> 

Thank you.

PHP Code:
echo "<div class=\"tbody2\">";
echo "<div class=\"client\">Client<div class=\"clientname\">Client Name</div></div>";
echo "</div>"; 





Using the above code it displays Client on top of Client Name. How do I make Client name appear to the right of Client using only css?

Ok...I am dabbling with CSS and I was wondering if there was anyway to specify your text to run bottom to top instead of left to right in a table cell.

Anyone know if it can be done?

What I'm trying to do... I have some navigation links, a few pictures, and someone's name on the left hand side of the page. I want everything except for the name to be at the top.... the name is to be at the bottom. Is there a specific way to accomplish this? The content area will generally extend as high as 600 or so px, so would like the name to appear at the very bottom lined up with the content box.

Thanks.

Not sure exactly what code you need to see, but here's the left hand column:

CSS:
Code:

body {width:770px;
height:100%;
}

.nav_links {vertical-align:top; width:150px; }

.nav_links a{display:block; border-top:1px solid black; text-decoration:none;}

HTML:
Code:

<!-- Left Nav Menu -->
<div class="nav_links">
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5
</div>
<!-- End Left Nav Menu -->

<!-- Misc. Pictures (Left Column)-->
<div>
<div style="float:right;">
<img src="images/left_pic_1.jpg" alt="Pic1" style="width:50px; margin-bottom:10px;" /><br />
<img src="images/left_pic_2.jpg" alt="Pic2" style="width:50px;" />
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;">
<div style="float:right;">
<img src="images/left_pic_3.jpg" alt="Pic3" style=" width:50px; margin-bottom:10px;" /><br />
<img src="images/left_pic_4.jpg" alt="Pic4" style="width:50px;" />
</div>
</div>

<!-- End Misc. Pictures (Left Column) -->
<!-- Name -->
<div class="name" style="vertical-align:bottom;">
First M. Last
</div>
<!-- End Name -->

Hi, I have navigation links at the top of a blog in a header file, and cannot get them to align vertically for both firefox and IE. I've tried everything I can think of (using extra <br>, <p>, vertical-align: middle, changing margins, changing padding, etc) but cannot find a solution that aligns them vertically in both browsers. Any help is appreciated. Here is the code, which works in firefox:

Code:

<body>

<!-- page header -->
<div id="header" "border: 0px solid; margin:0 auto; ">
<a href="http://www.website.com/blog/"><IMG SRC="http://www.website.com/images/logo.png" BORDER=0 width="435" height="92" ALT="logo" align="left"></a>
</div>

<div style="clear: both; margin:0 auto; "></div>

<div style="background-image: url(http://www.website.com/images/sidebar_center2.jpg); border: #333333 2px solid; width: 900px; height: 60px; padding: 6px; margin: 0px auto; font-size: 17px; text-align: center; ">
<p><font face="calibri,verdana" color="#ffffff">
<a href="http://www.website.com/"><font color="#ffffff">Home</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.website.com/tips-1.html"><font color="#ffffff">ilnk 1</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.website.com/tips-2.html"><font color="#ffffff">link 2</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.website.com/tips-3.html"><font color="#ffffff">link 3</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.website.com/tips-4.html"><font color="#ffffff">link 4</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
</font></p>
</div>

<!-- begin wrapper divs -->
<div id="content">

I have an image 425px x 260px which is floated left of an unordered list. The unordered list, of course, is at the same height as the top edge of the image.

Any way to vertically position the ul so it is vertically centered to the image?

Is not working for me, or I'm not using it right.

Here is my problem:
http://www.kingtoad.net/development/kingtoad.net/

I want the "navigation" to align to the top even with the "content". I can't seem to get it up there though. Any suggestions would be nice.

I'm trying to ensure the absence of the horizontal scroll bar within a div for all browsers. Is there a solution?

overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical !important; only works in FF, but this is the effect I want.
overflow-x and overflow-y only work in IE6 and below (right?), so does anyone know what to do for ie7 and safari and opera?

Hello to all of you,

I am doing my first steps in respect to CSS programming and wonder if I can get some hint here.

I have created a table, with two different line colors, and a changing line background color with hover. Basically everything works as expected - just the vertical-align command does not respond at all. Am I doing something wrong? What could be the reason, and how can I continue investigating?

I am using the CSS stylesheet, in connection with a Joomla 1.5 CMS. Please see the code below:

Code:

table.general {
    text-align: left;
    vertical-align: top;
    width: 100%;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.general th {
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 15px;
    color: white;
    font-style:bold;
    height: 30px;
    background-color:#95B3D7;
    border: 3px solid #FFFFFF;
}
table.general tr.row1 {
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
}
table.general tr.row2 {
    background-color: #e0e0e0;
}
table.general tr.row1:hover {
    background-color: #CCCCCC;    
}
table.general tr.row2:hover {
    background-color: #CCCCCC;
}    
table.general td {
    border: 3px solid #FFFFFF;
    padding: 4px;
}

The classes are being used in the following form:
Code:

<table style="width: 320px;" class="general">
<col span="4" width="80"></col> 
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>head A</th> <th>head B</th> <th>head C</th> <th>Alface</th>
</tr>
<tr class="row1">
<td>Topic A</td>
<td>65</td>
<td>215</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row2">
<td>Topic B</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>2,3</td>
<td>1,2</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row1">
<td>Topic C</td>
<td>68</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>13</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row2">
<td>Topic D</td>
<td>44</td>
<td>50</td>
<td>33</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row1">
<td>etc.</td>
<td>494</td>
<td>611</td>
<td>238</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Thank you in advance for your kindness!

for example if there is a container div which holds an inner div, if i want the content of the inner div to appear exactly at the bottom edge of the inner div i have used the following code,
#outer{
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 900px;
height: 200px;
}
#outer .inner{
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 500px;
height: 200px;
vertical-align: bottom;
}

however the content of the inner div is starting at its default location which is top left of the inner div

instead of using margin-top or padding-top, or positioning methods for the inner div to position the content at the bottom edge can the vertical-align: bottom; be used as this will be very accurate placed at the bottom edge even if the content increases the content will always appear at the bottom edge, unlike other methods where the margin-top, padding-top, and positioning, these values will have to be changed whenever content increases or decreases.

please advice.

thanks.