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CSS - Way To Scale Containing Div To Encompass Floated Child?
I am working on a website that contains a message mailbox interface that was designed entirely without tables.
Whoever designed it had obviously taken comments against design-by-tables to heart, in my mind excessively so. The problem is, the entire interface is designed by left-floating labels and content, so it's like: Code:
<style type="text/css">
.messages {
clear: left;
float: left;
}
.message {
clear: left;
float: left;
}
.left {
clear: left;
float: left;
}
.right {
float: left;
}
</style>
...
<div class="messages">
<div class="message">
<div class="left">From</div><div class="right">NAME</div>
<div class="left">Subj</div><div class="right">SUBJ</div>
<div class="left">Body</div><div class="right">BODY</div>
</div>
<div class="message">
<div class="left">From</div><div class="right">NAME</div>
<div class="left">Subj</div><div class="right">SUBJ</div>
<div class="left">Body</div><div class="right">BODY</div>
</div>
<div class="message">
<div class="left">From</div><div class="right">NAME</div>
<div class="left">Subj</div><div class="right">SUBJ</div>
<div class="left">Body</div><div class="right">BODY</div>
</div>
</div>
This creates a problem because all of this content is within a larger <div> that forms the "main body" of the page, which has a background color and a border. So, all of these floated <div>'s actually stick out below the "main body", pushing out of the background color and over the border. I'm wondering, is there any way to make the containing "main body" <div> expand so that these elements are floated within it? Or am I going to have to go back to a <table> based layout? (It seems like it would have been better to use a table in this case anyway, since it's being used for the presentation of data, but I digress.) Similar TutorialsI'm basically asking the same question as this post, but hoping that I can press for a better solution. I have an element which contains an image and some text, and I need that element to expand to the width of the image, not the text. The size of the image will change, so I can't set a fixed width on the containing element. The code I have which doesn't work looks like this: Code: <html> <head> </head> <body> <span style="display: inline-block; border: 1px solid black"> <img src="someimage.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 200px;" /> <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam vel placerat sapien. Aenean tempus lorem justo, at eleifend mi. Nam elementum nisl ut elit blandit dapibus. Donec et massa turpis, ac tincidunt odio.</div> </span> </body> </html> The solution proposed in the post I linked to looks like this: Code: <html> <head> </head> <body> <table width="1"> <tr> <td> <img src="someimage.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 200px;" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam vel placerat sapien. Aenean tempus lorem justo, at eleifend mi. Nam elementum nisl ut elit blandit dapibus. Donec et massa turpis, ac tincidunt odio. </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> The second example gives me the functionality I'm looking for, but I would really like to avoid using tables. I'm hoping there is a CSS solution to this. Thanks. In Firefox, I've got a right div that is not repsonding to an auto width in FF. I am not a pro a CSS (yet ) and I hope that someone can give me the one line solution that I am missing. I've included a screen shot of the problem, any help is greatly appreciated. - K CSS Code Code:
#MainContainer
{
float: left;
width: auto;
}
#Main
{
margin-right: 0.2em;
}
#MainContent
{
padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em;
}
#SidebarContainer
{
float: right;
width: 250px;
border-top: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
padding-top: 5px;
clear: right;
}
#Sidebar
{
padding-bottom: 5px;
background: #ADADAD;
background-image: url(../images/SidebarBackground.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
clear:left;
}
#SidebarContent
{
margin: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;
}
Just like the title says, the child is wider than the parent, and i want it automatically centered, so t hat the centers of both divs are inline with each other. I tried the Code: margin 0px auto; which works if the child is smaller, but it doesn't seem to work in this case, any other ideas? How exactly do I define a scaled height for a div? I can set a scaled width OK, as well as a fixed height, but I just can't manage to scale the height... Any suggestions? Here's my entire code, sweet und simple: Code: body
{
background-image: url('');
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: center;
position: absolute;
background-color: #999999;
overflow: scroll;
border:0px;
border-style: solid;
font-family: garamond;
color: #000000;
scrollbar-face-color:#ffffff;
scrollbar-arrow-color:#000000;
scrollbar-track-color:#ffffff;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #AE2473;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-Color: #000000;
}
a:link
{
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
a:visited
{
color: #232323;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
a:hover
{
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: underline overline;
font-weight: bold;
}
a:active
{
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
.main
{
background-color: transparent;
height: 900px;
width: 900px;
border-style: solid;
position: fixed;
overflow: scroll;
font-family: garamond;
color: #000000;
}
.header
{
background-color: #ffffff;
height: 100px;
width: 800px;
border: 1px;
border-style: solid;
position: absolute;
overflow: auto;
left: 50px;
font-family: garamond;
color: #000000;
}
.sidebar
{
background-color: #ffffff;
height: 600px;
width: 200px;
border: 1px;
border-style: solid;
position: absolute;
top: 125px;
left: 640px;
font-family: garamond;
color: #000000;
}
.index
{
background-color: #ffffff;
height: 600px;
width: 575px;
border: 1px;
border-style: solid;
position: absolute;
top: 125px;
left: 50px;
font-family: garamond;
color: #000000;
}
.footer
{
background-color: #ffffff;
height: 100px;
width: 800px;
border: 1px;
border-style: solid;
position: absolute;
left: 5%;
top: 750px;
left: 50px;
font-family: garamond;
color: #000000;
}
h1
{
background-color: #999999;
color: #ffffff;
width: 700px;
height: 35px;
border: 5px;
border-color: #000000;
border-style: double;
cellpadding: 0;
cellspacing: 0;
}
All I need help with, is aligning "MAIN" so that it scales to the browser, like this one here does: http://www.jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/preview/ the page and all it's content scales over as you widen/shorten it. I tried using absolute and fixed. Fixed works for scaling, but it doesn't scroll, my tables go off the page without being able to scroll down and see it all. Absolute enables scrolling, but it sticks to the left hand side. No matter what :\ and none of the % commands work ( ie, left: 20%; ) Anyone can help? Hello, I have a page where a left-floated <div> is nested within the main <div>. Content then is placed in a <div> next to the left-floated one. My problem is that the main <div> does not stretch to the height of the left-floated <div>, rather just to the height of the content. I placed: Code: <br style="clear: both;"> after the content <div> which usually does the trick but it's not working for some reason... And even more confusing is the fact that if I change the <br> to something else like say <span>, the main <div> does stretch to the proper height BUT the content within the <h1> tag and the content <div> are not displayed until you do something like minimize the window then restore it or bring another window in front of it then bring it back to focus. This happens in IE only. Any ideas? Page html/css: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 76%;
background-color: #f9dcb3;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
#cRightPaneBot {
background-color: #D9E0EA;
border: 1px solid #9DA7B5;
margin: 23px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 15px 10px 15px 15px;
/*
width: 673px;
height: 238px;
*/
}
.cLeftPane {
margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px;
border: 1px solid #9DA7B5;
overflow: hidden;
float: left;
background-color: #F5F7FB;
height: 223px;
/*
*/
}
h1 {
font-size: 1.5em;
/*
display: inline;
*/
}
.breakAfter {
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="cRightPaneBot">
<h1 class="breakAfter">My Title</h1>
<div class="cLeftPane" style="width: 200px;">
hello
</div>
<div id="content">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Duis tortor dui, imperdiet eu, porta vel, blandit in, augue. Morbi et sem ut libero tempus facilisis. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Sed vestibulum posuere neque. Nullam quis pede. Nulla posuere neque non pede. Etiam nec ante non eros sodales feugiat. Morbi malesuada lorem at velit. Praesent augue erat, sollicitudin sit amet, imperdiet eget, ornare at, dui. Curabitur at urna.
</div><br style="clear: both;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Aaaah! another problem... now i have 2 divs, left one floated, and right one set that it's left margine distances him from left div. when i print that page from FF it's ok, but when i try to print it from IE it looks like left one isn't floating - divs are one beneath other (right one shifted to right for that margin value). what now? thanks Hi, I'm having a familiar problem: with this page The the content on a contained and floated div is over running it's containing div. I have had this problem before and using something like: Code:
#innerwrap:after {
content:".";
display:block;
clear:both;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
Has worked before, but this time it's not. I'm having to specify a unique class and heitht for the #main box or use <br/>. It would be nice not to have to do this. Can anybody advise me what to look into please. Thanks James As always IE woes... Anyway I have a design that I'm currently reworking into a css/div positioned site. I'm almost done with it, but the problem I'm having is that I have 2 floated divs below a horizontal navigation bar. In IE these two floated divs are not positioning themselves directly beneath the nav bar like they do in FF. There looks to be a 3px or so gap between them. I will post screenshots for a better idea of what I'm talking about. The HTML is: Code:
<div id="container">
<div id="top"></div>
<div id="brands">
....stuff here....
</div>
<div id="slides"></div> <!-- Slides and Vert_nav are not appearing directly below brands in IE-->
<div id="vert_nav">
....stuff here....
</div>
</div>
CSS Code:
/* CSS Document */
html, body {
background: #000000;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
#container {
width: 760px;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#top {
width: 760px;
height: 239px;
background: url(../images/top.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
#brands {
width: 760px;
height: 31px;
}
#slides {
width: 667px;
height: 350px;
float: left;
background: url(../images/slides.jpg) top left no-repeat;
T}
#vert_nav {
width: 93px;
height: 350px;
float: right;
}
should.jpg is how the page is supposed to look. shouldnt.jpg is how it is appearing in IE. sure i read an article on this somewhere but cant remember where, the problem is this Code: <div class="floated and cleared right"> stuff </div> <div class="fixed width" > <img class="floated left"> lots of text <div> related to my previous layout post. the problem is that the img (infact any floated element, cleared or not) falls below the right floated div! (red box in attatched gif) if i float and clear the first div left then the img is in the correct place within it but the div itseld drops below the right floated div help! Hi Folks [I don't think my last attempt went through - I made a mistake], I have a page here with a problem that's occupied me for over a day. I can't get my non-floated 'DIV#left' to sit beside my floated 'DIV#right'. The DIV#left containing the subnav slips, or is forced down the page; http://johniwhite.com/tests/ireland/level_2.html I'd love to hear the easy answer! Here's the CSS: div#left_level2 { width: 130px; height: 50px; vertical-align: top; padding: 0; margin: 0px; /* display: inline;*/ /* border: 1px solid #0F0;*/ } div#right_level2 { float: right; width: 594px; height: 50px; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; } ---- The code for a more simple version at http://johniwhite.com/tests/ireland/2_col_test.htm <div id="middle"> <div id="right_level2"><!--the floated div for content--></div> <div id="left_level2"><!--the non-floated div for subnav--></div> </div> ---------- Love to hear thoughts, thanks John I've never run into this before, but I have the following document structure and the right div's top margin is about 10px below the left in FF and Opera.(aligns fine in IE-AMAZING, but true) Every other time I have simply set the margin and padding both to 0px of my floated divs and it has brought it to the same height as my left div: NOTE: I apologize, I don't have a link, this is being developed off line right now. CSS code: Code: /* You guessed it, my container div */
div.container {
clear: both; /* clears two divs above it */
text-align: right;
width: 100%;
}
/* Left div */
div.left {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 49%;
}
/* Right div */
div.right {
float: right;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 49%;
}
xhtml markup: Code: <div class="container"> <fieldset class="info"> <legend>Get Information For Your Next Trip Here!</legend> <p> Before you venture out on your next road trip, get your directions here. </p> <form action="myform.php" method="get"> <div class="right"> <ul class="none"> <li><img src="images/end.png" class="mapimg" alt="Enter Where Your Trip Will End" title="Enter Where Your Trip Will End" /> <label for="address2">Address/Intersection:</label> <br /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="address2" name="2a" size="35" maxlength="80" /></li> <li><label for="city2">City:</label> <br /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="city2" name="2c" size="35" maxlength="50" /></li> <li><label for="state2">State:</label> <label for="zip">Zip:</label> <br /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="state2" name="2s" size="2" maxlength="2" /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="zip2" name="2z" size="10" maxlength="10" /></li> <li><input type="submit" value="Get Directions" /></li> </ul> </div> <div class="left"> <ul class="none"> <li><img src="images/start.png" class="mapimg" alt="Enter Where Your Trip Will Begin" title="Enter Where Your Trip Will Begin" /> <label for="address">Address/Intersection:</label> <br /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="address" name="1a" size="35" maxlength="80" /></li> <li><label for="city">City:</label> <br /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="city" name="1c" size="35" maxlength="50" /></li> <li><label for="state">State:</label> <label for="zip">Zip:</label> <br /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="state" name="1s" size="2" maxlength="2" /> <input type="text" class="fbgcolor" id="zip" name="1z" size="10" maxlength="10" /></li> </ul> </div> </form> </fieldset> <!-- End Container Div --> </div> Both my code and css validate just fine. Any ideas or good links? Hi, I have managed to rewrite my three column navigation page using floated divs instead of its original table (the page was written years ago and I am updating to get away from tables). This was hard for me because I am very new to CSS. My code validated and the page looks fine in IE but in Firefox the third or right column does not clear the middle column. I tried to google the problem but the explanations are way over my head. Also the only way I could get the blue border to not show up in firefox was to add the style directly to the image code. Can someone please help me. The link is www.medeaslair.net/myths.html. Here is the CSS Code:
<!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">
<head>
<title>Greek Myths</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="author" content="Rose A. Rosencrans" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
text-align: center;
padding-top: 45px;
background-image: url("images/tan_marble3.jpg");
color: black;
font-family: papyrus;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
}
a:link {
color: blue;
}
a:visited {
color: green;
}
a image {
border-style: none;
}
#container {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 750px;
text-align: left;
}
#columnone {
float: left;
margin: 0;
width: 250px;
padding-top: 45px;
}
#columntwo {
float: left;
width: 250px;
padding-top: 45px;
}
#columnthree {
float: right;
clear: both;
padding-top: 25px;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
}
h3 {
text-align: center;
}
#email {
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
padding-top: 150px;
border: 0;
}
ul {
margin: 0 auto
width: 750px;
}
li {
text-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
padding-right: 4px;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-bottom: 2px;
border-style: none;
list-style-type: none;
}
</style>
</head>
Here is the HTML Code: <body> <div id="container"> <img src="images/grapes-l.gif" style="float: left; width: 70px; height: 85px;" alt="Grapes" title="Grapes" /> <img src="images/grapestran.gif" style="float: right; width: 70px; height: 85px;" alt="Greek Man" title="Greek Man" /> <h1>Tales of Greek Mythology</h1> <img src="images/bar66.gif" style="float: left; padding-left: 100px; width: 420px;" alt="Vine" title="Vine" /> <br /> <div id="columnone"> <ul> <li style="font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; padding-bottom: 4px;">Gods and Goddesses</li> <li><a href="aphrodite.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Aphrodite</li> <li><a href="apollo.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Apollo</li> <li><a href="artemis.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Artemis</li> <li><a href="athena.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Athena</li> <li><a href="dionysus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Dionysus</li> <li><a href="hades.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Hades</li> <li><a href="hera.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Hera</li> <li><a href="hermes.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Hermes</li> <li><a href="poseidon.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Poseidon</li> <li><a href="zeus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Zeus</li> <li style="font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 210px; padding-bottom: 4px;">Tales of Love and Woe</li> <li><a href="hermes.html#baucis"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Baucis and Philemon</li> <li><a href="cupid.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Cupid and Psyche</li> <li><a href="pan.html#echo"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Echo and Narcissus</li> <li><a href="pan.html#endymion"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Endymion</li> <li><a href="artemis.html#orion"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Orion</li> <li><a href="orpheus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Orpheus and Eurydice</li> <li style="font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 60px; padding-bottom: 4px;">Giants and Beasts</li> <li><a href="artemis.html#otus"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Otus and Ephialtes</li> <li><a href="minotaur.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>The Minotaur</li> <li><a href="cyclopes.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>The Cyclopes</li> </ul> </div> <!-- end of columnone div --> <div id="columntwo"> <ul> <li style="text-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline;">Men and Heroes</li> <li style="padding-top: 4px;"><a href="atreus.html#agamemnon"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Agamemnon</li> <li><a href="atreus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Atreus</li> <li><a href="daedalus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Daedalus and Icarus</li> <li><a href="athena.html#erichthonius"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Erichthonius</li> <li><a href="heracles.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Heracles</li> <li><a href="apollo.html#hyacinthus"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Hyacinthus</li> <li><a href="hera.html#ixion"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Ixion</li> <li><a href="atreus.html#orestes"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Orestes</li> <li><a href="dionysus.html#pentheus"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Pentheus</li> <li><a href="perseus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Perseus</li> <li><a href="phrixus.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Phrixus</li> <li><a href="pandora.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Prometheus</li> <li><a href="hades.html#sisyphus"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Sisyphus</li> <li><a href="atreus.html#tantalus"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Tantalus</li> <li style="text-size: 15px; 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text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 42px;">Satyrs and Centaurs</li> <li style="padding-top: 4px;"><a href="chiron.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Chiron</li> <li><a href="dionysus.html#midas"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>King Midas </li> <li><a href="apollo.html#marsyas"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Apollo and Marsyas</li> <li><a href="chiron.html#nessus"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Nessus</li> <li><a href="pan.html"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a>Pan</li> <li><a href="chiron.html#peirithous"><img src="images/grape.gif" style="border-style: none;" alt="grapes" /></a> Peirithous</li> </ul> </div> <!-- end of columnthree div --> </div> <!-- end of container div --> </body> </html> I am creating a top nav with links that are turned into floated blocks. I have 2 issues that I can't seem to figure out. 1. How do I keep the elements from wrapping? 2. How do I make the set of floated items centered? Here is what I have so far (see code below). Because the items are floated to the left, they stay anchored to left and aren't centered. I tried giving the nav div a width. That did allow it to be centered, but I don't know what the exact width of the combined link blocks would be, so if it is too short, it wraps, and if it is too wide it doesn't center evenly. Code:
#nav{
text-align:center;
padding-top:24px;
}
#nav a{
display:block;
float:left;
padding:13px;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#9BA047;
background:#FFF;
line-height:1em;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
}
#nav a:hover{
color:#85231C;
}
#nav a#logo{
float:left;
padding:0px;
}
<div align="center">
<div id="nav">
<a href="/" id="logo"><img src="images/logo.gif" alt="Associated Group" border="0" /></a><a href="/about-us.html">About Us</a><a href="/exterior.html">Exterior</a><a href="/interior.html">Interior</a><a href="/display.html">Display</a><a href="/employment.html">Employment</a><a href="/location.html">Location</a><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
I am new to css, and am eager to build the equivalent of a work-week calendar using only css. Basically, a five item table without using table tags. I have succeeded with firefox, but for some reason I am getting an odd reordering of the div elements in IE. I will post the html and the css below, and could really use some pointers. I am sure it has something to do with the float commands, but am not even sure what to call this problem to search for it! Here's the html page <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="killmer.css"> <title>Killmer's Science Page - Chemistry Assignments</title> </head> <body > <div class="left"> <h1><a href="chemcalendar.html" class="one">Chemistry Calendar</a></h1> </div> <div class="left"> <h1>Chemistry Textbook Online</h1> </div> <div class="left"> <h1>Chemistry Today Calendar</h1> </div> <div class="left"> <h1>Chemistry Today Textbook Online</h1> </div> <div class="right"> <img src="./images/logo.jpg" ></img> </div> <div class="right"> <h2>Chemistry Daily Assignments</h2>. </div> <div class="right"> <div class="monday"> <h1>MONDAY</h1> </div> <div class="tuesday"> <h1>TUESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="wednesday"> <h1>WEDNESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="thursday"> <h1>THURSDAY</h1> </div> <div class="friday"> <h1>FRIDAY</h1> </div> <div class="monday"> <h1>MONDAY</h1> </div> <div class="tuesday"> <h1>TUESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="wednesday"> <h1>WEDNESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="thursday"> <h1>THURSDAY</h1> </div> <div class="friday"> <h1>FRIDAY</h1> </div> </div> </body> </html> And here's the css a.one:link {color:black; text-decoration: none;} a.one:visited {color:black; text-decoration: none;} a.one:hover {color:red; text-decoration: none;} a.one:active {color:black; text-decoration: none;} body { background: url(./images/backgroundblend.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-color:black; } h1 { color:black; font-family:"times new roman",serif; font-size:100%; } h2 { color:silver; font-family:"times new roman",serif; } div.left { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:150px; font-family:courier, monospace; float:left; clear:left; margin:5px; } div.right { margin-left:250px; margin-top:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-botton:0px; padding:0px; } div.monday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px; float:left; clear:left; } div.tuesday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left;} div.wednesday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left; } div.thursday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left; } div.friday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left; } Thanks for the time! Hi, I've got a little problem. I have two floated DIVs (left and right) inside a non-floated DIV. Below that, I have another non-floated DIV. In Internet Explorer, the bottom DIV appears where the floating DIVs end. In Firefox, however, the bottom DIV god underneath the floated DIVs and sticks to the top. here's the related CSS: css Code: Original - css Code #content { padding: 34px 26px 0 26px; text-align: left; } #content #leftcol, #content #rightcol { height: 30px; padding: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; } #content #leftcol { width: 532px; float: left; } #content #rightcol { width: 230px; float: right; } #footer { height: 95px; background-image: url(images/footerstrip.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; width: 100%; text-align: center; margin: auto; float:left; }
The floated DIVs need to be height-flexible, so floating the bottom DIV relatively would not work. The bottom div needs to start at the bottom of the floating DIVs. I hope somebody can lend a hand - thanks in advance, all. Hey, Why does this look different in IE and in Firefox? Code: <html><body>
<div style="float:left;border:3px solid green;">Left div</div>
<div style="width:200px;border:8px solid black;">Right div</div>
</bodY></html>
In FF, the right div's border starts at the same place as the left div's border. In IE, the right div's border starts to the right of the left div. Thanks in advance... In IE6, the right sidebar column drops down below the content or disappears and creates space below the content before the footer. On some of my other pages it happens and on others, it does not. Can anyone suggest the problem and/or solution? Best, Colin http://029c92a.netsolhost.com/abrasives/cuttingdiscs.html I have some tabular data that I would like displayed in two columns within a div. The div has some basic styling on it to create a block around the tables. The tables should appear side by side at the top of the div, so I floated the tables. I then found that the width of the div was always 100% unless I floated the div as well. This made the div wrap around the tables nicely, but caused the next element to appear to the right of the div, not on the next line as it normally would. Here is the basic code I have so far: Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.box1 {
border: 1px solid red;
background: #afafaf;
padding: 2px;
float: left;
}
div.box1 table {
float: left;
border: 1px solid blue;
margin-right: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Div</h1>
<div class="box1">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Field1:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Field1:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Field1:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Field1:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Field2:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Field2:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Field2:</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<h1>Next Text</h1>
</body>
</html>
I would like for the "Next Text" to appear on a new line after the div. After reading this page, I added the following to my css: Code: div.box1:after {
content: 'clear me';
clear: both;
display: block;
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
}
However, this had no effect on the results in Firefox or Safari. The only way I have found to clear the div is to add style="clear: both" to the h1 tag following the div. I would prefer to not do this because it will be problematic for our graphics guys down the road. Any advice on how to clear the div and keep it wrapping around the tables? |
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