CSS - A Series Of Small Questions...

Well I got sick of reading through tons of <td> and <tr> tags today so I sat down and tried to write my first CSS script ever. I got the basic idea of it and tweaked it using Firefox/Firebug to get it working great. The problem was I checked back in IE (since most people use it =/...) It looked all messed up and I tried changing a lot of things around and I just got frustrated. Since I am new to this whole thing with CSS, I don't know what to look for or change. I know that the top links are messed up but I will fix those after I get my layout working in both browsers. Can anyone help me out?

www.etwcweb.com/ETWC.html

Here is the CSS code also:

Code:

/* Main Part */

body {
     font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
     background: #333333 url(Images/mainbacknew.png) repeat-y;
     font-size: 14px;
     margin: 0px;
}

h1 {
   font-size: 115%
   font-weight: bold;
   color: #000000;
}

p, ol, ul {
   line-height: 145%
}

a {
  color: #FFFFFF;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
	color: #CCCCCC;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration: none;
}


ul {
list-style-image:none;
list-style-position:outside;
list-style-type:none;
margin-left:0pt;
padding-left:0pt;
}

ul li {
list-style: url(Images/bluearrow.png);
padding-left:15px;
}

img {
border:medium none;
}
img.left {
float:left;
margin:5px 9px 0pt 0pt;
}
img.right {
float:right;
margin:5px 9px 0pt 0pt;
}

hr {
display:none;
}


/* Floating part of Page */

#main_content {
	      width: 800px;
	      margin: 0pt auto;
	      background: url(Images/bg_content.jpg) repeat;
}

#main_content a {
	      color: #000000;
	      text-decoration: underline;
}

#main_content a:hover {
	      color: #666666;
}


/* The Top Picture */

#top_area {
	  background: url(Images/CSSHeader.png);
	  height: 433px;
	  width: 100%;
}

#top_area li {
	  display: block;
}

#top_area a {
	  color: #FFFFFF;
	  display: block;
	  float: left;
	  padding: 40px 20px 0pt;
	  text-decoration: none;
}


/* Search Form */

.search {
	float: right;
	padding-right: 20px;
	margin-top: 50px;
	margin-bottom: 50px;
}

.search h1 {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 150%;
}

/* Top Links */

#main_links {
	   /* background-color: #000000;
	    opacity: 0.7; */
	    width: 800px;
	    margin: 0pt auto;
}

#main_links ul {
	    list-style-image: none;
	    list-style-position: outside;
	    list-style-type: none;
	    margin-left: 0pt;
	    padding-left: 0pt;
}


/* Right Side of Floating Page */

#stories {
	 background: transparent url(Images/bg_content.jpg) repeat;
	 width: 535px;
       	 padding: 30px;
       	 float: right;
	 margin: 0pt auto;
}

#stories h2 {
	 padding-left: 20px;
	 padding-top: 15px;
}

/* Left Side */

#left_bar {
	  background: transparent url(Images/bg_content.jpg) repeat;
	  float: left;
	  width: 205px;
	  margin: 0pt auto;
}

.left {
      padding-right: 10px;
      padding-top: 0px;
}

.left_list {
	   padding: 20px;
}

.left_list ul li {
	   border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
	   padding: 10px 15px;
}

#left_bar h1 {
	  background: url(Images/LeftHeaders.png) repeat-x;
	  padding-left: 20px;
	  padding-top: 5px;
	  color: #FFFFFF;
}

/* Message */
#top_footer {
	    width: 800px;
	    margin: 0pt auto;
	    background-color: #666666;
	    color: #FFFFFF;
	    font-size: 90%;
	    font-weight: bold;
	    padding-top: 4px;
	    padding-bottom: 4px;
	    text-align: center;
	    line-height: 150%;
}

/* Bottom Links */
#links {
       width: 800px;
       margin: 0pt auto;
       text-align: center;
       background: #000000;
       color: #FFFFFF;
       font-size: 90%;
       line-height: 160%;
       padding-top: 8px;
       padding-bottom: 3px;
}

#links a, #links a:hover {
       text-decoration: none;
       font-weight: bold;
}

#links .contact {
}

#links .contact a, #links .contact a:hover {
	       text-decoration: underline;
	       color: #0000CC;
}

Thanks in advance guys and sorry if this is already posted here, but my brain is frazzled and I couldn't find it with a quick search or three

Howdy folks. If you check http://www.clansunited.net/ and http://www.clansunited.net/phorum/read.php?55,20178,20178#20178 you will notice that it doesnt really appear as it should as in IE. Now there are 2-3 small minor errors left otherwise everything is valid.

How do I make the space between the menu and the rest of the site appear as in IE without messing it up in IE?

Any feedback is welcome.

So I made a test design for a site, which I uploaded for testing HERE.

The problem is that for a few borders to the navbar and such, an image needed to overlap them, so instead I made them very short div's and cut the image to fit inside the div, about 2px in height. Although this displays fine in firefox, in IE the small images do not show.

At first it looked even worse in IE, until I implemented overflow: hidden; to make the div shrink to its actual size.

Any recommendations? Is there a better way to do this, or an easy fix?

Thanks in advance

Hi Guys,

Hope someone can help out here.. I am trying to create a page with a header and footer and a middle portion for the content. I am not used to using CSS and I thought I had it working but when I test in IE it doesn't quite work as expected.. The footer removes itself from the bottom of the page and the scrollbars for the maincontent extend below the footer.. You'll see what I mean if you open this in IE:

http://www.modelglamorous.com/div_test.htm
http://www.modelglamorous.com/css/mainstyle.css

It works perfectly in Firefox but not in IE.. I think it's something simple but I am not sure how to fix it..

TIA,

N.

Wondering if anyone can tell me why there is a gap above my header image. Surely I am missing something in Firebug?

h**p://www.topofferspage.com

Hi! In this page [www].bezlica.ru/chat/sample.php , left bottom flash window is 3 pixels up of its normal position. In Firefox it renders well. Is there any way to fix in IE, while not affecting Firefox?

im making a panel with rounded corners

just 4 divs , topLeft, topRight etc...

i have them inside 1 container div that is 80% width,
the 4 corner div's are all 50% width and 50% height

it's all floated left and theres a <BR> between the top en bottom section

but it works only in firefox...in IE they just line up below eachother unless i make the width of them 49%....so wheres the 1 ****ing % ?

Ok, I have a two column layout. And I'm trying to get the base of the div stacks to match eachother.

Here's the stripped down code I've been playing with to try to create this behavior.

Code:

<div style="width:600px;">

    <div style="width:50%; background-color:#66C; float:right; text-align:center;">
    	<img src="#" width="150" height="300"  alt="Fake Content"/><br />
    </div>
	
    <div style="width:50%; height:150px; background-color:#0F0;">1</div>
    <div style="width:50%; height:30px; background-color:#C96;">2</div>
    <div style="width:50%; height:50px; background-color:#CCC;">3</div>
    <div style="clear:both;"></div>

</div>

So the size of div #1 is always fixed, #2 contains dynamic content, and #3 is fixed content but I would like the height of #3 to stretch to match the right column when needed.

For the right column, the content is dynamic, and I would like it to stretch to match the bottom of #3 when needed.

So basically, the height of both column will vary and I'd like the shorter of the 2 to stretch. I looked around and experimented a bit with some success, but not exactly the behavior I was looking for. The things that have been giving me the most trouble, is that the left column consists of 3 divs, and the right column is floated. From the left, I could probably get away with removing the content from #1 from it's div and let it hang out in the parent div, but the other two really need their own containers. Also, I don't know how else to put the right column on the right side other than to use a float or absolute position (and absolute won't expand the parent div) because both columns are dynamic...

Anyhow, I'm searching for suggestions.
One thing that sucks is I know this would be a non issue using tables, but this is a page layout and I'm not about to cave now.

Hi,

I've been a close watcher of this forum for some time now, and it's now that I've run into a problem I can't figure out.

http://donimusic.com/test/

In the above site (currently in progress), I have made the #ctop and #cbottom divs a height of 2px, yet in IE it displays the height much more and thus creates the image to repeat itself. I can't figure out how to fix this (for view wanted - view in FF).

Thank you kindly for your help.

Stacey

na

Hi everyone,

I am new to the forum. I am new to CSS and just trying to learn as much as i can as i go. I am currently working on a website and having a small problem with my drop down menus. It works great in Firefox, but in Safari when i hover over the drop down, it shifts to the left by a few pixels. I haven't added the IE workaround yet because i wanted to get this sorted before doing that so it won't work in IE yet.

I would post a link but can't because i'm too new.

I'm new to this, so be kind on my coding

The code:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
	<title>Center test - "text-align: center" set for body, "text-align: left" for containing div</title>
	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body		
		{
			margin: 0;
			padding: 0;
			text-align: center;
		}
		
div#container		
		{
	
	width: 100%;
	
	background-color: #EAFBFF;
	width:760px;
	height:220px;
	text-align: left;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: auto;
	border-top-width: thin;
	border-right-width: thin;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	border-left-width: thin;
	border-top-style: none;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-bottom-style: none;
	border-left-style: solid;
	border-top-color: #0066FF;
	border-right-color: #0066FF;
	border-bottom-color: #0066FF;
	border-left-color: #0066FF;
		}
div#container2		
		{
	width: 760px;
	background-color: #ddd;
	width:760px;
	text-align: left;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: auto;
	border-top-width: thin;
	border-right-width: thin;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	border-left-width: thin;
	border-top-style: none;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-left-style: solid;
	border-top-color: #0033FF;
	border-right-color: #0033FF;
	border-bottom-color: #0033FF;
	border-left-color: #0033FF;
	padding-top: 15px;
	padding-bottom: 15px;
		}
div#container3		
		{
	width: 760px;
	background-color: #666666;
	width:760px;
	text-align: left;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: auto;
	border-top-width: thin;
	border-right-width: thin;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	border-left-width: thin;
	border-top-style: none;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-bottom-style: none;
	border-left-style: solid;
	border-top-color: #0033FF;
	border-right-color: #0033FF;
	border-bottom-color: #0033FF;
	border-left-color: #0033FF;
	padding-top: 13px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;	
		}
#container {
}
    #Layer1 {
	position:absolute;
	width:760px;
	height:115px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 405px;
	top: 102px;
	background-color: #0000FF;
	overflow: scroll;
}
#container2 {
}
    #Layer2 {
	position:relative;
	width:760px;
	height:600px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 405px;
	top: 102px;
	background-color: #0000FF;
	overflow: scroll;
}
#container4 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	width: 500px;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-style: normal;
	color: #DDDDDD;
	text-decoration: none;
	text-align: left;
	margin-right: 110px;
	margin-left: 125px;
	background-color: #999999;
	border: thin solid #999999;
	padding-left: 15px;
}


    #Layer3 {
	position:relative;
	width:200px;
	height:600px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 405px;
	top: 102px;
	background-color: #0000FF;
	overflow: scroll;
}
    .style1 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
}
    .style2 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	color: #FFFFFF;
}


    #navbar {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
	background-color: #666666;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	height: 20px;
}
    #navbar ul {
	padding: 0;
  	margin: 0;
  	list-style: none;

}
    #navbar li {
	float: left;
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #666666;
  	position: relative;
  	width: 130px;
}
	#navbar li ul{
	position: absolute;
	display: none;
	text-align: center;
	line-height: 25px;
	padding-top: 7px;
}
	#navbar li > ul {
	top: auto;
	left: auto;
}
	#navbar li:hover ul { 
	display:block;
	text-align: center;
	text-indent: 0;
}
	#content {
	clear: left;
}

    
    #mainphoto {
	padding: 0px;
	float: right;
	border: 1px solid #0066FF;
	margin-top: 20px;
	margin-right: 30px;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
	margin-left: 30px;
}
    
    #container6 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
	padding-right: 30px;
	padding-left: 30px;
}
    .style3 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #000000;
}
    .style4 {color: #000000}
.style5 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #FFFFFF; }
    a {
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:link {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #CC6600;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #CCCCCC;
}
    </style> 
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
  <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=7,0,19,0" width="760" height="220">
    <param name="movie" value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
    <param name="quality" value="high">
    <embed src="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" quality="high" pluginspage="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="220"></embed>
  </object>
</div>
<div class="style2" id="container3">
<div id="navbar">
<ul>
  <li><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">Home</a></li>
  
   <li>About the Office
    <ul>
      <li><a href="">Meet Dr. Toolson
        </a></li>
      <li><a href="">Meet the Team</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Office Tour</a></li>
	  <li><a href="">Location</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  
  <li>About Orthodontics
    <ul>
      <li><a href="">Adults</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Children</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>

  <li>Life with Braces</li>

  <li>Contact Us
    <ul>
	  <li><a href="">Contact Information</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Request Appointment</a></li>
	  <li><a href="">Location</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
  </div>
</div>
<div id="container2">
  <div id="container4">
    <p class="style3">Contact Information Form</p>
	
    <form action="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" method="post" class="style4">
      <span class="style1">
      <label>Name
        <br>
        <input type="text" name="Name">
      </label>
      </span>
    
      <span class="style1">
	  <br>
	  <br>
      <label>Email
        <br>
        <input type="text" name="Email Address">
      </label>
      </span>
    
      <span class="style1">
	  <br>
	  <br>
      <label>Phone Number
        <br>
        <input type="text" name="Phone Number">
      </label>
      </span>
   
        <span class="style5">
		<br>
		<br>
        <label><span class="style4">Description (if neccessary)</span> </label>
      </span>
        <span class="style4">
		
        </span>
	
      <label><br>
        <textarea name="Description" rows="5"></textarea>
      </label>
  
    
      <label>
	  <br><br>
      <input name="Submit" type="submit" class="style1" value="Submit">
      </label>
      <label>
      <input name="Reset" type="reset" class="style1" id="Reset" value="Reset">
      </label>
      <input name="recipient" type="hidden" id="recipient" value="jeff@dinorestoration.com">
	  
	  <input name="redirect" type="hidden" id="redirect" value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">  
    
	</form>
  </div>
</div>
  
<div class="style1">
Copyright Toolson Orthodontics 2009 </div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

</body>
</html>

http://lovemeforme.org

if you notice, right under the main image, you will see the two purple boxes (under the header and above the content and sidebar).. I don't know how to get rid of them. It has to do with the content and sidebar div's, because when I take out the background color it goes away, but... I can't figure out what to do, i've tried everything.

Thanks in advance

Hello all!

I'm new to the community here--it feels great to be a part of an active community where people can give eachother help.

I'd consider myself a pretty good Web designer, I mean, I've been doing it for a long time, however, I'm still very new to the concept of CSS. I've used it with rollover links, but never have I used it to design an entire Web page (basically, I've used tables my whole life).

Now that I've gotten some practice with CSS by reading books and tutorials, I've put together a start-up page for a computer company that I am a part of. We are a new company and are looking to start off on the right foot by having a killer Web site. So in the past two weeks I've been hand-coding this Web site.

http://www.freewebs.com/missaghi

As you can see, it's all in CSS! I'm very happy that I've been able to accomplish this, but there is a problem that I've found, and honestly, I've yet to find the cause! If you are using Firefox (and I hope you are, if you're using a PC), you'll notice that the TOP of the paragraphs are CORRECTLY horizontally aligned with the TOP of the navigation links. It looks nice and clean.

Now open up the site with Internet Explorer (I know it's hard for some of you, as it is me, heh), and notice how the paragraphs sit lower by about seven or so pixels. Well, if you look at my code, I have forced the margin up by 18 pixels (margin: -18px 0px 0px 140px) in order for my paragraphs to be aligned in Firefox. I COULD have modified it for IE, but meh, I'd rather make sure Firefox is covered since in my opinion, it has the best CSS support. However, my goal is to find out WHY it is acting different in all these browsers, and WHY I need to cheat (using the -18px) in order to make it work. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'm sorry that this is so long.

Regards,
Nathan

I have two small issues that I can't seem to figure out.

I've attached markup and css files to this post and would appreciate a look by someone with css good chops.

The first issue is that in I.E. the page displays with the header at the top of the browser window, whereas in Firefox there is a gap.

I have set the body, and containing div with zero margin, zero padding, so I'm assuming that the thing should attach itself to the top of the window.

The second issue is a curious thing to me. If you look at the style sheet attached, in the content portion of the page, if I remove the top padding from the #content div, i.e. puts a break between the nav bar and the content where the body background shows through.

#content {
clear: left;
padding: 1px 10px;
background-color: #FFF;
margin: 0;
}

No issue with firefox.

If someone could take a look at these issues and respond I would appreciate it.

I've got three issues with my CSS on my page that I cannot seem to figure out. I'm stumped again. Any help would be appreciated.

Code:

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

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

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<title></title>
		<style type="text/css" media="screen"><!--
body  { background-color: #fff; background-image: url(../images/top_bar_striped.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; margin: 0; padding: 0 }
hr  { color: #ccc; background-color: #ccc; width: 100%; height: 1px; border: 0 }
#container  { background-color: #fff; margin: 0 auto; width: 950px }
#main  { margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; width: 938px }
#top { margin-bottom: 6px; height: 40px }
#nav      { height: 40px }
#banner { height: 212px; overflow: hidden }
#body { background-image: url("../images/body_back.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-y; margin-top: 6px; overflow: hidden }
#bodyLeft  { background-image: url("../images/body_left_top_back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 30px 20px 20px; width: 200px; min-height: 100px; float: left }
#bodyLeft ul  { color: #333; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 0; padding: 0 }
#bodyLeft li    { margin: 12px 0 }
#bodyLeft li a    { color: #333; text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 6px }
#bodyLeft li a:hover    { background-color: #a5a687 }
#bodyRight   { background-image: url("../images/body_right_top_back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 40px 30px 30px; width: 632px; min-height: 100px; float: right }
#introHeading    { color: #32508a; font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px }
#introText   { color: #333; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px }
#introPullout     { color: #c00; font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; background-image: url("../images/quote_back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 30px; padding-left: 20px; width: 180px; float: right }
#featuredProject { margin-top: 30px; clear: both }
#featuredPhoto  { margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; float: left; border: solid 8px #fff; outline: solid 1px #ccc }
#featuredTitle     { color: #333; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-image: url("../images/featured_arrow.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0 0 0 12px }
#featuredText  { color: #333; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px }
#footer { background-image: url("../images/body_btm_back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 24px }
#copyright  { color: #666; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: right; padding: 20px }
--></style>
	</head>

	<body>
		<div id="container">
			<div id="main">
				<div id="top">
					<div id="nav"></div>
				</div>
				<div id="banner"></div>
				<div id="body">
					<div id="bodyLeft">
						<ul>
							<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
							<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
							<li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
							<li><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>
						</ul>
					</div>
					<div id="bodyRight">
						<div id="introPullout">
							<p>Text here...</p>
						</div>
						<div id="introHeading">
							<p>Text here...</p>
						</div>
						<div id="introText">
							<p>Text here...</p>
						</div>
						<div id="featuredProject">
							<img id="featuredPhoto" src="photo.jpg" alt="" width="130" border="0"/>
							<div id="featuredTitle">FEATURED PROJECT</div>
							<hr/>
							<div id="featuredText">Text here...</div>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div id="footer"></div>
				<div id="copyright"></div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>

</html>

1. How do I make the background color for the links (bodyLeft li a:hover) in the bodyLeft DIV fill the entire width of the DIV? Minus the padding, of course.

2. The text/DIVs inside the bodyRight DIV appear to have too much space above them in Safari (appear too far down). It looks like IE is correct. Any ideas?

3. The text in DIV featuredTitle is supposed to have an arrow on its left side where the text would normally start. It doesn't appear and/or looks like the featuredPhoto is covering it up. How can I make the arrow (background image) appear in the correct spot and slide the text over to the right?

Thank you for all your help!