CSS - Left Navigation > Divs Are Correct In Ie Not Ff

Hi,

I have a site with a left navigation bar (which is fixed width, and has a background colour that must stretch full screen from top to bottom of the page).

The site is:
http://67.18.220.222/~duoboots/2005/z.html

Stylesheet:
http://67.18.220.222/~duoboots/2005...s/style2005.css

As you can see, the left navigation menu stops once the content within the div is displayed. It does not stretch to the bottom of the screen. (say if you're on 1024 x 768 resolution)

Note: this varies according to the main (right) content. If the main content was shorter than the menu bar - it would work fine. The menu bar has a min-height of 100% which means the background applies to the size of your screen.

However, if the main content height is greater than that of the menu bar - then the menu bar will not adapt, but the background simply stops.

Is there a workaround for this? With tables, this could easily be achieved because the background colour of one cell is stretch until the end of the table, and not the content within the cell. However, I'd like to do this with CSS.

Here's some CSS:

Code:

body, p {

	color:#666666 ; 
	font-family: Verdana, Arial ; 
	font-size:7.5pt ; 
	font-weight:normal; 
}
body {
	height:100%;
	margin: 0px;
	background-color: #2F201E;
}

#container {  
 	width: 968px;
	height:100%;
}


#nav {
	width: 201px;
	border-right: 3px solid #FFFFFF;
	background: #8D603B;
	float: left;
	min-height:100%;
}

I've tried switching "min-height" and "height" but they don't seem to do what I want.... if anyone could help me out it would be MUCH appreciated!

Thanks a lot!

Hi all,

This is really annoying me and I don't think it should happen!!

If you see this page, you will see one of the divs spans the whole page and it has gone behine the floated left element.

Now if it wnt below it that would be OK as a block level element, but the content is in the right place.

If you reduce the width it sits in its place OK. I think this is strange behavior.... is it correct?????

http://www.wellandpower.net/website...req=www_contact

Regards

Charlie

hi, this might be a simple question:

i have a "sidebar" div and a "img-content" div. I floated "sidebar" left and "img-content" right. i want them to be side-by-side. in IE6, the "img-content" div is to the right of "sidebar," but is also below it. in other browsers, they sit side-by-side (which is what i want).

this must be a common problem, so before i post my code, wondering if anyone can point me to the fix/hack to get the 2 divs to sit side-by-side in IE6?

thanks, tim

HTML:
Code:

<div id="title" class="title_lower_color">
	<div class="title">TITLE</div>
</div>

<div id="main">
  <div class="grouptitle1">Group 1
	 <div class="grouptext1">blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 	 </div>
  </div>
  <div class="grouptitle2">Group 2
     <div class="grouptext2">blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
     </div>
  </div>
</div>

CSS:
Code:

body {
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-left: 10px;
}

.title {
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 24px;
	color: #000000;
	font-weight: bold;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
	border-color: #000000;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	width: 100%;
	float: left;
	position: relative;
}

.title_lower_color{
	background-color: #666666;
	border-color: #000000;
	border-left-style: solid;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-right-width: thin;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	border-left-width: thin;
	border-top-style: solid;
	border-top-width: thin;	
	width: 100%;
	height: 40px;
	float: left;
	position: relative;
}
.grouptitle1{
	color: #000000;
	font-style: normal;
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	position: relative;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
	border-color: #000000;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: thin;
	margin-top: 10px;
	width: 300px;
	float: left;
}

.grouptitle2{
	color: #000000;
	font-style: normal;
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	position: relative;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
	border-color: #000000;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: thin;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-left: 10px;
	float: left;
}

.grouptext1 {
	color: #000000;
	font-style: normal;
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: normal;
	position: relative;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	border-color: #000000;
	border-top-style: solid;
	border-top-width: thin;
	width: 300px;
}

.grouptext2 {
	color: #000000;
	font-style: normal;
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: normal;
	position: relative;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	border-color: #000000;
	border-top-style: solid;
	border-top-width: thin;
}

I've only just started using CSS rather than tables. The title bit is ok. The problem is the main <div>. In Firefox l can't seem to get the two divs (grouptitle1 & grouptitle2) to float side by side. The only way l can do it is by setting grouptitle2 to a certain width. But l want grouptitle2 to fill the remaining width of the screen whatever size the browser is and not be a set width. Is there any way so that l can make the two divs appear side by side without adding a width to the grouptitle2??

here's a working version: Clicky

Trying to achieve this:



I'm having trouble figuring out how to float the right ad space correctly. This is what i've got so far:

http://gatehouse.graffetto.com/floating_divs.html

Code:

Code:

<html>
<head>

<style type="text/css">
.mainDiv {margin: 0; border: 1px solid black; padding: 10px; width: 600px; float: left;}
.image {height: 100px; width: 100px; background-color: red; float: left;}
.rightAd {float: right; background-color: blue; height: 250px; width: 300px; clear:right; margin-top: 300px;}
</style>

</head>
<body>

<div class="mainDiv">
       <div class="image">test</div>
       <div class="rightAd">test</div>
       <div class="textDiv">
              Text content
       </div>
</div>

</body>
</html> 

I know this is simple i just can't figure it out for some reason.. thanks for any help.

Hello,

I have two columns, one is on the left and another in the middle (center). Left column is where I want it to be, central column is also aligned properly, however, it is below left column. I want it to be on the same level as left.

See here

see how it got below ?

It is XHTML validated and CSS is fine too (some background color warnings).

Plz help me to make central column go up. Thanks.

Hi All,

I am building a site that has the following structure for the navigation;

Code:

<div id="navigation">
    <ul id="navlist">
      <li class="home"><a href="../index.asp" title="home"><span>home</span></a></li>
      <li class="aboutus"><a href="../aboutus.htm" title="aboout us"><span>about us</span></a></li>
      <li class="ourservices"><a href="../ourservices.htm" title="our services"><span>our services</span></a>
        <ul>
          <li class="internationalmail"><a href="ourservices_internationalmail.htm" title="international mail"><span>international mail</span></a></li>
          <li class="worldwidecourier"><a href="ourservices_worldwidecourier.htm" title="worldwide courier"><span>worldwide courier</span></a></li>
          <li class="worldwidefreight"><a href="ourservices_worldwidefreight.htm" title="worldwide freight"><span>worldwide freight</span></a></li>
          <li class="storage"><a href="ourservices_storage.htm" title="storage"><span>storage</span></a></li>
          <li class="publishingservices"><a href="ourservices_publishingservices.htm" title="publishing services"><span>publishing services</span></a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li class="requestquote"><a href="../requestquote.htm" title="request a quote"><span>request a quote</span></a></li>
      <li class="contactus"><a href="../contactus.htm" title="contact us"><span>contact us</span></a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>

The main LI is horizontal, and the containing UL, LI is a vertical dropdown. The seperate CSS file does the image replacements on the <a> and hides the text within the <span>, usual stuff. The nav works great, with the graphic rollovers etc. The rollover, again, standard way of doing it, background: url(<FILE>) no-repeat top left; and the a:hover rollover is a background: bottom left;.

Edit: Just noticed that I can't link to the full site that I have uploaded for preview.

What I want to do, is when the user roll's over any of the items within the sub-navigation, it keeps the main Services navigation link rolled over also. The only way I could think of doing this, and relatively simply, would be to use JavaScript, but wanted to explore any other CSS ways of doing this. For example, is it possible to change a style of another class, from another?

Your help would be much appreciated!

I always seem to run into this problem and somehow get it fixed but this time I am stuck.

I have a main wrapper and 2 footers that line up together and are all floated to the left. I'm trying to put in a column to their right that runs vertical called "right", to be spaced out about 110 px from the top of the page so it sits vertically below the banner and the navs. I tried giving it a left margin to clear the floated DIV's but to no avail. You can see the page he http://yourthreshold.com/playground/ It seems to clear in Firefox but not in IE ..

The main CSS:

Code:

* {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
}

body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background-color:#e5e5e5;
}

#wrapper {
width: 640px;
height: 720px;
margin-left:0;
margin-top:0;
border: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 0px solid gray;
background-image:url(../images/banner.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#c0c0c0;
float:left;
}

	#navigation {
	width: 640px;
	height: 22px;
	background-color:#c9c9c9;
	margin-top: 88px;
	}
	
	#insidewrapper {
	height:auto;
	width:99%;
	margin: 6px 1px 4px 1px;
	}

		/* Begin Left Side Info Boxes */
		#sidebar {
		width:150px;
		height:600px;
		margin-left:2px;
		float:left;
		border:1px solid #666666;
		border-bottom:0px;
		font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:9px;
		color:#666666;
		background-color:#ffffff;
		}
		
			.infobox {
			height:123px;
			font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
			font-size:9px;
			padding:3px;
			border-top:0px;
			border-left:0px;
			border-right:0px;
			}
				.infopic {
				margin-top:9px;
				}
				
			.infobutton {
			height:20px;
			border-bottom:1px solid #666666;
			padding-left:3px;
			}
				
		/* Begin Main Content */
		#maincontent {
		width:465px;
		height:593px;
		margin-left:158px;
		border:1px solid;
		border-color:#666666;
		font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:12px;
		color:#333333;
		padding:3px;
		background-image:url(../images/background_trans2.gif);
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		background-position:center;
		background-color:#ffffff;
		}
			/* Main Content for pages with textual content */
			#content {
			width:97%;
			height:auto;
			padding:5px;
			}

			/* Main Content for pages with products */
			#productWrapper {
			height:auto;
			width:100%;
			margin-top:10px;
			}
			
			#productLeft {
			height:auto;
			width:115px;
			float:left;
			}
			
			#productMiddle {
			height:auto;
			width:200px;
			margin-left:1px;
			float:left;
			}
			
			#productRight {
			height:auto;
			width:auto;
			}
	
	/* Begin Footer */
	#footerlinks, #footer {
	width:640px;
	height:auto;
	text-align:center;
	float:left;
	}
	
	#footerlinks {
	border-right: 2px solid gray;
	border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
	border-left: 2px solid gray;
	background-color:#c0c0c0;
	font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:9px;
	letter-spacing:1px;
	color:#555555;
	padding-bottom:4px;
	}
	
	#footer {
	margin-left:0;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:15px;
	padding-top:8px;
	border-top: 0px;
	border-right: 2px solid gray;
	border-bottom: 2px solid gray;
	border-left: 2px solid gray;
	font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:9px;
	color:#555555;
	background-color:#a9a9a9;
	}
	
	/* Begin Rightside Column */
	#right {
	border: 1px solid orange;
	width:195px;
	margin-left:650px;
	padding-top:111px;
	}

OK, so I have this nice clean form that I wanted to style up like the table-forms of old. I did it by floating the labels and form elements left, then clearing the labels left so they use their own lines. This works beautifully in Firefox and Safari, but IE (Win, at least) seems to think everything not cleared left should go on the same line! Is this a known IE bug/discrepancy? If so, is there a way to combat it without introducing meaningless elements to the markup (such as encasing each label/element pair in a div)?
Here's some example HTML:
html4strict Code:
Original - html4strict Code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> @import url("style.css"); </style> </head> <body> <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="name" /> <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label> <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea> <label for="fun">Having fun?</label> <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" /> </form> </body> </html>

  

  


 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>


 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">


 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">


 <head>


 <title>Test</title>


 <style type="text/css">


     @import url("style.css");


 </style>


 </head>


 <body>


  


 <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post">


     <label for="name">Name:</label>


         <input type="text" name="name" />


     <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label>


         <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea>


     <label for="fun">Having fun?</label>


         <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" />


 </form>


  


 </body>


 </html> 

And the CSS:
css Code:
Original - css Code label { display: block; float: left; clear: left; width: 8em; margin-right: .5em; text-align: right; } input, textarea { display: block; float: left; }

  

  


 label {


     display: block;


     float: left;


     clear: left;


     width: 8em;


     margin-right: .5em;


     text-align: right;


 }


 input,


 textarea {


     display: block;


     float: left;


 } 

Hi, I have this page:

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">
<title>New Page 1</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}

p {padding: 0; margin: 0; }

html {padding:0; margin:0;}


.leftDiv {
	height: 100px;
	width: 30px;
	background-color: teal;
	float: left;
}

.mainDiv {
	padding: 5px 0 10px 0px;
	width: 200px;
	height: 20px;
	background-color: blue;

}

.mainPara {
	padding-left: 5px;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="contentDiv" style="width: 700px; height: 700px;">
	<div class="leftDiv">
	
	</div>
	<div class="mainDiv">
		<p class="mainPara">
		First Para
		</p>
	</div>
	<div class="mainDiv">
		<p class="mainPara">
		Second Para
		</p>
	</div>
</div>
</body>

</html>

And have two questions. First, why the gap between the left div and mainDiv in IE? I thought 3px bug was only for block elements with no dimensions?

Second, why does padding left not take effect in FF untill I have overcome the width of the float? Even padding-left in the para does not take effect, which should be based off of its parent.

Any help is appriciated,

CJB

Ok, so I've learned to stay away from tables when you don't need them, and I have an instance where this is the case. I have a container div that has a header, content and a footer. On my home page, I have to divs next to each other with the same height and a div below them towards the right.

To simplify my problem, look at this example.
Code:

<html>
  <body>
    <div style="float:right">
      Hello there!
    </div>
    <hr>    
  </body> 
</html>

If there's a "float:right" on that div, the hr tag below doesn't get pushed down. But if I use relative positioning and don't use the floats, I can't put the two top divs next to each other. The other option is to use absolute positioning, but again content below doesn't get pushed down correctly.

It seems that using "clear:both" works, but it seems weird that this has to be done. For example if I have floating divs in a container, I can get them to stretch out the container like so:

Code:

<html>
  <body>
    <div style="border: 1px solid #000; ">
      <div style="float:right">
        Hello there!<br />
        Hello there!<br />
        Hello there!<br />
        Hello there!<br />
        Hello there!<br />
        Hello there!<br />
        Hello there!<br />
      </div>
      <div style="clear: both"></div>
    </div>
    <hr>    
  </body> 
</html>

Am I missing something fundamental here? Is there a better solution? Thanks in advance.

Here's the site in Question: http://www.winchps.vic.edu.au

It's a standard fixed width floated DIV columns with a wrapper. One thing it does have is a second DIV inside both columns to display the Gradient background over the top of the repeated background. It works perfect in Firefox & IE7 (with a tweak) but IE6 mkes the sidebar nested div drop below the original sidebar DIV click here for a screenshot for those lucky enough not to have IE6.

Here's the CSS code for the basic layout:

Code:

body {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 0px 60px 0px;
padding:0px;
border: 0;
line-height: 2;
}

#header {
width: 802px;
}

#wrapper {
width: 802px;
margin:0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 auto;
background: url(images/bodybg.jpg) center repeat-y;
}

#content {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}

#maingrad {
background: url(images/winchcontentgrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
padding: 10px;
}

#main {
width: 589px;
float: right;
background: url(images/winchcontentbg.jpg) repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
}

#mainstop {
width: 589px;
float: right;
background: url(images/winchcontentbg.jpg) repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
border-bottom: solid 1px #000;
font-size: 10px;
}

#sidebargrad {
background: url(images/winchsidebargrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
padding: 10px 5px 0px 10px;
}

#sidebar {
width: 200px;
float: left;
background: url(images/winchsidebg.jpg) repeat;
line-height: 2;
font-size: 14px;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
}

I obviously need to put a conditional comment in there, same for what I did for the minor IE7 tweak, but I'm struggling to suss out what's causing it, I haven't found the specific issue on any of the regular sites (PIE etc).

Anyone got any ideas?

Centering DIVs inside other DIVs in Firefox? Can it be done in a straight forward way? Setting the inner DIVs float to none seemed to work for IE but not FF.

The Example

I've read a bunch about how div's won't stretch to accomidate div's inside of them if they overrun the height/min-height set for the container div.

How do I get around this? You can see the skeleton of the site above. It's fine unless you resize the window smaller than the content.

Alright, I've been working on my own custom border box for a while and I've almost got it, but it has a few problems still. How I do it is I have one div that contains it all (.box) that defines the height and width of the whole box. Then I have three boxRows to lay out the images, and then I define how three cells in each of those rows should behave, very much like how custom borders used to be done with tables. Here are the problems:

In both firefox and internet explorer, the bottom row and the far right column actually appear OUTSIDE the .box containing box.

There are two additional problems in internet explorer. First, the middle row handles the auto height differently and only expands about 10px instead of the height of the containing box. The second is that the whole middle row for some reason appears to be pushed to the right by about 16px.

Any help would be appreciated. Here's the code:

HTML:

Code:

<html>
	<head>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="reset.css" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="testBox.css"> 	
	</head>
	<body>

		<div class="box">
			<div class="boxRowTop">
				<div class="boxCellLeft"></div>
				<div class="boxCellMiddle"></div>
				<div class="boxCellRight"></div>
			</div>
			<div class="boxRowMiddle">
				<div class="boxCellLeft"></div>
				<div class="boxCellMiddle"></div>
				<div class="boxCellRight"></div>
			</div>
			<div class="boxRowBottom">
				<div class="boxCellLeft"></div>
				<div class="boxCellMiddle"></div>
				<div class="boxCellRight"></div>
			</div>

	</body>
</html>

And here is the layout css file:

Code:

/* Box classes */
.box {
	background: rgb(120,120,120);
	height: 200px;
	width: 500px;
}
.boxRowTop {
	height: 16px;
	position: relative;
	width:%100;
}
.boxRowMiddle {
	height: auto;
	width:%100;
	position: relative;
}
.boxRowBottom {
	height: 16px;
	width:%100;
	position: relative;
}
.boxCellLeft {
	height: 100%;
	left: 0;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	width: 16px;
}
.boxCellMiddle {
	height: 100%;
	margin-left: 16px;
	margin-right: 16px;
	width: auto;
}
.boxCellRight {
	height: 100%;
	left: 100%;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	width: 16px;
}


/* Define Cell Backgrounds/Images */
.boxRowTop .boxCellLeft {
	background: url(../LandingImages/topleft_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
.boxRowTop .boxCellMiddle {
	background: url(../LandingImages/top_border.png) repeat-x;
}
.boxRowTop .boxCellRight {
	background: url(../LandingImages/topright_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
.boxRowMiddle .boxCellLeft {
	background: url(../LandingImages/left_border.png) repeat-y;
}
.boxRowMiddle .boxCellMiddle {
	background: rgb(255,255,255);
}
.boxRowMiddle .boxCellRight {
	background: url(../LandingImages/right_border.png) repeat-y;
}
.boxRowBottom .boxCellLeft {
	background: url(../LandingImages/bottomleft_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
.boxRowBottom .boxCellMiddle {
	background: url(../LandingImages/bottom_border.png) repeat-x;
}
.boxRowBottom .boxCellRight {
	background: url(../LandingImages/bottomright_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}

And last, the reset CSS, which I don't think has anything to do with the problems because if I take it out it still has them.

Code:

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend, caption
{
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	border:0;
	vertical-align:baseline;
}

* {font-size:1em; font-family: inherit;}

:focus {outline:none;}

body { font-size: 62.5%; line-height:normal; font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif; color:Black; } /* 62.5% (10px), 75% (12px), 87.5% (14px), 100% (16px) */

p {	margin: 0 0 1.2em 0; }

a			{ color:#ff0000;	text-decoration:none; }
a:link		{ color:#ff0000;	text-decoration:nonee; }
a:visited	{ color:#ff0000;	text-decoration:none; }
a:active	{ color:#ff0000;	text-decoration:none; }
a:hover		{ color:#ff0000;	text-decoration:none; }

a.h1,a.h2,a.h3,a.h4,a.h5,a.h6,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6
{
	font-weight:bold;
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:Black;
}

h1, a.h1, a:link.h1, a:visited.h1, a:active.h1, a:hover.h1 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 2.00em; }
h2, a.h2, a:link.h2, a:visited.h2, a:active.h2, a:hover.h2 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.75em; } /* this is normally skipped? 1.50em */
h3, a.h3, a:link.h3, a:visited.h3, a:active.h3, a:hover.h3 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.50em; } /* 1.25em */
h4, a.h4, a:link.h4, a:visited.h4, a:active.h4, a:hover.h4 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.25em; } /* 1.00em */
h5, a.h5, a:link.h5, a:visited.h5, a:active.h5, a:hover.h5 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.00em; } /* 0.75em */
h6, a.h6, a:link.h6, a:visited.h6, a:active.h6, a:hover.h6 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 0.75em; } /* 0.66em WTF? */

fieldset { border:solid 1px; padding:0.25em 0.5em 0.75em; margin: 0 0 1.5em; }
legend { margin:0 0 0 2em; padding:0 1em; }

textarea, input, select { border:solid 1px #ccc; margin:0; padding:0; }
textarea, input { padding:0 .2em; }
input:focus,textarea:focus,select:focus { border:solid 1px black; }

small { font-size:.9em; }

ul, ol, dl { position: relative; padding:0 0 0 1.5em; margin:1.5em 0; }
dir, menu { margin:1.5em 0; }
/* nested lists have no top/bottom margins */
ul ul,   ul ol,   ul dir,   ul menu,   ul dl,
ol ul,   ol ol,   ol dir,   ol menu,   ol dl,
dl ul,   dl ol,   dl dir,   dl menu,   dl dl,
dir ul,  dir ol,  dir dir,  dir menu,  dir dl,
menu ul, menu ol, menu dir, menu menu, menu dl
{
	margin:0;
	padding: 0 0 0 1.5em;
}

hr { margin:0.75em 0; padding:0; }

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as I've been working on this for a while!

Thanks!