CSS - Resizing Image Based On User's Screen Resolution

Hi There.. I am still learning CSS/Xhtml so please be patient and understanding, . Anyway, I am making a site for my business and wanted to try some new idea. Everything looks good except for my navigation bar in IE. Whenever I change resolution the navigation bar moves out of position and I have to refresh to get it to snap into place. In Firefox and Chrome I do not have this issue.

I have been googling trying to find the solution but have come up empty. Could someone look at my code and tell me when I did wrong so I don't make the same mistake again? Thanks for your help.


Here is the CSS:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
#html, body {
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
width:920px;
height: 100%;
background: url(desk.jpg) white center no-repeat;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#container {
width: 900px; height:840px;
background-image: url(bg1.png);
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
}
#mainContent {
padding: 3px 60px;
margin-top: 0px ;
}

#text {
padding: 0;
margin-left: 35px;
text-align: center;
}

#navigation {
float:right;
display:block;
width: 400px;
margin-top: 15px ;
font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif;
overflow:hidden;
}
#navigation ul {
float:left;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
position:relative;
left:50%;
text-align:center;
}
#navigation ul li {
display:block;
float:left;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
position:relative;
right:50%;
}

#navigation ul li a {
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:.4em .8em;
color:#000;
text-decoration:none;
line-height:1.3em;
}
#navigation ul li a span {
display:block;
}
#navigation ul li.active a {
color: #fff;
font-weight:bold;
}
#navigation ul li a:hover {
color: #fff;
font-weight: bold;
}

.guy {
float: right;
margin-top: -70px;
}

.yell {
float: left;
margin-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-left: 20px;
}

.second {
margin-top:45px;
}

#footer {
font-size: 11px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
-->

This one has probably been beaten to death by now, but I can't seem to find a specific answer.

I develop on a monitor 1024x768, and use a standard font size (for general text) of 11px. When using a 800x600 resolution monitor, the text seems oversized - which is what one would expect with a px setting.

Or looking at it from the other side of the fence, if I develop on the 800x600 and get a decent text size, it looks too small on the higher resolution.

I can use 2 .css files with different font size settings and javascript to direct to the relevant css file. As far as I can tell, that is the only way I can get a 'similar' look on both screen resolutions. Is there another way where I can get away with using only 1 css file? What do others do to get around this problem?

I have a web page with three columns. The column on the right is the menu column which i want to keep in a certain position even when the user scrolls down. I know how to do this using css, but the problem is that if the resolution changes so does the position of the column.

Is there a way to fix the position only from the top of the browser window and use the center column (or container that holds the 3 columns) for the horizontal alignment?

Thanks in advance

Hi everyone,

In high resolution settings (like 1600x900) this layout looks great. But, on 1280 x 720 the layout gets all screwed up.

Can someone look at the CSS below and let me know where I'm screwing up? Thanks!

The site is romanceplaybook dot com and here is the CSS:

body {
background: #ffffff url(images/bkgd.jpg) top repeat-y;
color: #333333;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#wrap {
background: #ffffff url(images/bg.jpg) top center repeat-y;
color: #333333;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
margin: 0px 300px 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

/************************************************
* Hyperlinks *
************************************************/

a, a:visited{
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
}

/************************************************
* Header *
************************************************/

#header {
background: #FFFFFF;
width: 1000px;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
text-align: center;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

#header a {
font-family: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 48px;
color: #333333;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
margin: 0px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

#header a:hover{
color: #333333;
}

/************************************************
* Navbar *
************************************************/

/************************************************
* Left Sidebar *
************************************************/

#l_sidebar {
float: left;
width: 160px;
margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px;
padding: 20px 0px 20px 0px;
}

#l_sidebar ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
}

#l_sidebar li {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#l_sidebar ul li {
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#l_sidebar ul li a {
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: none;
}

#l_sidebar ul li a:hover {
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: underline;
}

/************************************************
* Right Sidebar *
************************************************/

#r_sidebar {
float: right;
width: 160px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#r_sidebar p{
padding: 2px 0px 16px 0px;
margin: 0px;
line-height: 20px;
}

#r_sidebar ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
}

#r_sidebar ul li {
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#r_sidebar ul li a {
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: none;
}

#r_sidebar ul li a:hover {
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: underline;
}

/************************************************
* Content *
************************************************/

#content {
width: 950px;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#content p{
padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
margin: 0px;
line-height: 20px;
}

#content p img{
float: left;
border: none;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

#content h1 {
color: #333333;
font-size: 22px;
font-family: Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-weight: normal;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0px;
}

#content h1 a {
color: #333333;
text-decoration: none;
}

#content h1 a:hover {
color: #658DB5;
text-decoration: none;
}

#content h2 {
color: #333333;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
margin: 0px;
border-top: 1px dotted #C0C0C0;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #C0C0C0;
}

#content p ol{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
}

#content p ul{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
}

blockquote{
margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px;
padding: 0px 25px 0px 10px;
font-style: italic;
color: #666666;
border-left: 3px solid #B3C8DB;
}

#content blockquote p{
margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#contentmiddle {
float: left;
width: 550px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 20px 5px 10px 20px;
text-align: left;
}

#contentmiddle p img{
float: left;
border: none;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.contentdate {
background: #FFFFFF url(images/date.gif);
float: left;
width: 45px;
height: 50px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.contentdate h3 {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
padding: 1px 0px 0px 10px;
margin: 0px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

.contentdate h4 {
font-family: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
color: #999999;
font-size: 21px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px 4px 0px 0px;
margin: 0px;
text-align: center;
}

.contenttitle {
float: left;
width: 480px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
}

#contentmiddle ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
}

#contentmiddle ul li {
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#contentmiddle ul li a {
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: none;
}

#contentmiddle ul li a:hover {
color: #507AA5;
text-decoration: underline;
}

#content img.wp-smiley {
float: none;
border: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}

#content img.wp-wink {
float: none;
border: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}

.postspace {
background: #EFEFEF url(images/spacer.gif);
width: 440px;
height: 32px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

/************************************************
* Footer *
************************************************/

#footer {
background: #FFFFFF;
width: 952px;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
text-align: center;
border-top: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
}

/************************************************
* Search Form *
************************************************/

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

#searchform {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}

#s {
width: 190px;
background: #EFEFEF url(images/search.gif);
color: #333333;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
padding: 3px;
margin: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
border: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
}

/************************************************
* Comments *
************************************************/

#commentblock {
width: 395px;
background: #EFEFEF;
color: #333333;
float: left;
padding: 10px 20px 0px 20px;
margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
border: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
}

ol#commentlist {
padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
margin: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
}

.commentdate {
font-size: 12px;
padding-left: 0px;
}

#commentlist li p{
margin-bottom: 8px;
line-height: 20px;
padding: 0px;
}

.commentname {
color: #333333;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 0px;
}

.commentinfo{
clear: both;
}

.commenttext {
clear: both;
margin: 5px 0px 20px 0px;
padding: 20px 10px 5px 10px;
width: 365px;
background: #FFFFFF url(images/comment.gif) no-repeat top;
}

.commenttext-admin {
clear: both;
margin: 5px 0px 20px 0px;
padding: 20px 10px 5px 10px;
width: 365px;
background: #FFFFFF url(images/comment.gif) no-repeat top;
}

#commentsformheader{
padding-left: 0px;
}

#commentsform{
text-align: left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#commentsform form{
text-align: left;
margin: 0px;
}

#commentsform p{
margin: 0px;
}

#commentsform form textarea{
width: 99%;
}

p.comments_link img{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
}

Hey there! New to code, sort of flying blind but learning a lot as I go along.

I'm also kind of shooting for the stars with my design decisions. I was wondering if anyone here has any idea how to mimic the rotating image on Blizzard's website.

(As I cannot post the URL, I assume everyone can figure out how to get to Blizzard Entertainment's website easy enough).

If you zoom in and out on it, it remains static even as the pieces around it resize over it (this also happens at smaller resolutions). I would desperately like to know how to get it to lock flush against the side of the window like that. Additionally, you'll notice that it doesn't pop a scrollbar onto the window until you shrink the window smaller than the central content.

I guess a bigger question is, is this even something achievable in CSS? Do I have to delve into Flash or Javascript to do it, and if so, does anyone know how?

Thank you so much in advance!

Hello and thank you in advance for any help!

I am trying to add code to my website so that the CSS that is loaded will be based on the user's browser. Specifically, I want to load one CSS if the user is not using IE, and another if they are using IE. This is the code in my HEAD:

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/chooser.css" />
<!--[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/chooser_ie.css" /> <![endif]--> 
<!--[if IE 6]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/chooser_IE6.css" /> <![endif]-->

I have tested with FF, Chrome, IE8 and IE6 and it does not work. I am guessing that the "default" stylesheet (chooser.css) is loading, and then either the IE (chooser_ie.css) or IE6 (chooser_ie6.css) is loading in addition to it. But I want only one of these CSS to be loaded.

Any help appreciated!

LSIRYAN

PS: URL = www.languagesystems.com/languagechooser.html

Hi, is there any way to achieve this effect (pseudocode) with CSS?

if (image width > 100)
add property width="100" to all img tags


ie. i want to make all images larger than 100 pixels scale down

I need to add a background picture to my web form. I want that the picture should be dynamically resized to the client area of the browser, when the page loads
How to do it using CSS?

Hey all,
I have a couple of related questions. First off, is there a way to automatically resize a div or any other element to be the size of the background image. Basically I am trying to do all my images in the stylesheet to allow for easy skinning. I've been doing stuff like:
Code:

#myDiv {
background:url(graphics/cat.jpg); 
height:75px; 
width:75px;}

But manually setting the height and width gets really tedious after a dozen or so images.

And a related question: manually setting the size of a div doesn't seem to work if I have display set to inline. I get divs that are zero width and zero height. But when I remove that line it works fine, except that I'd rather they be inline elements for positioning purposes. Thanks in advance.

I've had an issue in the past where the background image creeps, or hangs, when resizing the window. To explain what I mean, check out this page:

http://ridersresto.com/

this is the background image: http://ridersresto.com/images/main_bg.gif

when you slowly resize the image, you will notice the background image on both sides of the page closing and opening a 1px gap.

here is the CSS for the BG image:

Code:

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #131313;
color: white;
background-image: url(http://ridersresto.com/images/main_bg.gif);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: repeat-y; 
background-position: top center;
}

.frame {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: 778px;
background-color: #000000;
color: white;
}

Code:

<body>
<div class="frame">
</div>
</body>

Is there a more efficient way of accomplishing this effect?

Hello,

I'm using jquery and the cycle plugin to cycle through a few images on my homepage inside a container.When i load the website at any browser size, it seems to do the proper thing. The problems arise when i try to make the browser bigger or smaller after that, it does funky things to the images. If you begin to scale the browser when the first image is displayed, it also seems to scale properly for that first image, but goes haywire after that. It pretty much does it in all browsers and i can't seem to figure out if it's something im not setting properly within css or if it have something to do with jquery and the cycle plugin.

here's the website thus far:

www.beaucoupla.com

this is my first time writing code so please any help would be appreciated!

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

#mainWrapper {
	/*
	background:#000 right top no-repeat; 
	min-width:1000px;
	min-height:775px;
	border:0px;
	background-color:#000; */
	padding: 0 0 0 1px;
	margin:0;
	top:0;
	left:0;
	width:100%;
}

.mainbar { 
	position:absolute;
	top:0px;
	left:0px;
	display:none;
	visibility:hidden;
	width:78%;
	min-height:100%;
	height:auto;
	/*This works for IE7
	min-height:775px;
	height:775px;*/ 
	border-right: #FFF solid medium;
}

#imagelist {
	left:0;
	position:absolute;
	display:block;
	visibility:visible;
	/* width:auto; static size */
}

#imagelist img {
	display:block;
}

#imagelist img.first {
	display:block;
}

.theimage {
	position:absolute;
	left:0;
	width:100%;
	/* Adding this works for IE7 */
	/* height:775px; */
	border-right: solid #FFF medium;
}


#podcast {
	/*right:303px; */
	position:absolute;
	top:0px;
	left:0px;
	height:100%;
}


.about_info p {
	font-size:1.1em;
		
}

.contact_info, .about_info, .news_info {
	position:relative;
	margin-top:4em;
	margin-left:10%;
	width:78%;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size:1.3em;
	color:#FFF;
	height:100%;
}

.contact_info #title, .about_info #title, .news_info #title {
	font-size:1.75em;
	padding-bottom:1.5em;
	color:#1ac089;
	color:#03c5d1;
}
.contact_info .heading {
	color:#c04141;
	font-size:1.2em;
}

.contact_info .mail {
	text-decoration:underline;
}

.contact_info a:hover {
	color:blue;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

.news_info .heading {
	color:#c04141;
}



body {
	/*width:1400px;
	height:775px;*/
	padding:0;	
	margin:0;
	border:0;
	background-color:#000;
}



#share td {
	padding-left:0.5em;
}


#share {
	margin-left:1.4em;
	margin-top:0;
	border-top:0;
	/* padding-top:5; */
	font-size:0.65em;	
}

.sidebar {
	position:relative;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight:bold;
	margin-left:78%;
	margin-top:1em;
	font-size:2em;
	color:#FFF;
}


ul {
	border:0;
	margin:2px;
	text-decoration:none;
}

li {
	list-style:none;
}

a {
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#FFF;
}

a.home:hover {
	color:#bc7bd4;
}

a.news:hover {
	color:#7bd488
}

a.podcast:hover {
	color:#d47b88;
}

a.blog:hover {
	color:#d4cb7b;
}

a.about:hover {
	color:#7bd4c6;
}

a.contact:hover {
	color:#d4a37b;
}

a.twitter:hover {
	color:#33ccff;
}

a.myspace:hover {
	color:#999;
}

a.facebook:hover {
	color:#5b61d5;
}

Hi - I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to CSS etc. but have been asked to modify some code for someone. Basically it's a simple site that has the main content centered on the screen (about 960px wide). However there is a large banner image that is about 2000px wide that is supposed to stretch as wide as say a large 27" mac. I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it but I guess they couldn't use a smaller image and repeat it because there is a unique design/pattern throughout the whole width. Anyway, on smaller browsers everything looks good except the horizontal scroll bar allows the user to scroll all the way to to the right. Is there anyway to clip the image on the top to prevent the scroll bar from showing based on screen width?

Hope that makes sense. Thanks.

Im trying to make a link that is based on 2 images, one for the un-hovered or normal state, and the other for the hover state. I just did 2 of these at 3dotmedia.com/redesign and now I'm trying to do the same thing at greedydogkennel.com/redesign but it WILL NOT WORK.
I am totally stumped, it has to be something to do with the positioning inside my css I assume...

on the page, I want the pictures of the dogs to be normal, but when hovered I have a frosty shaded grey image (as in some kind of lighting) to serve as the hover state..I am masking the a href with a class with a transparent .gif (since SOMETHING has to serve as the object of the anchor yes?) but here is my css:

.rock-link {background-image: url(looks/Rock_small_w_frame.jpg); }

.rock-link:hover {background-image: url(looks/Rock_small_w_frame-up.jpg); }

.suade-link {background-image: url(looks/Suadey_Ladysmall_w_frame.jpg); }

.suade-link:hover {background-image: url(looks/Suadey_Ladysmall_w_frame-up.jpg); }

and the HTML is as follows:

<a href="suade.html" class="suade-link"><img src="looks/seethru2.gif" border="0"/></a>
<img src="looks/spacer2.gif" border="0" />
<a href="rock.html" class="rock"><img src="looks/seethru.gif" border="0" /></a></div>

but there is nothing that displays, only the transparent .gif

on the index page you will not see any images under the heading "The Dogs" because this is where the problem is, but if you click on any of the links you will see the pages where I have not applied the class for the a href to take on the hover states, just so you can see how the images look and where they appear.

I have done this so many times, and my code is IDENTICAL at 3dotmedia.com/redesign and it works fine...any help would be GREATLY appreciated...it has to be something Im missing, but WHAT?!?!?

thanks.

Hi,

I am trying to achieve a layout which uses unordered lists.

Within the LI, there is an image and some text. The images are all different heights though.

The issue i'm having at the moment is how can I make the text vertically align within the LI? Keep in mind that I can't put a height on as each image changes height. And these lists will be generated dynamically probably - so I don't really want to specify individual heights for each one... To make it even more difficult, the text may end up spanning onto two lines at some stage if i have to enter a larger description - so that also needs to be kept in mind.

I've been looking around all morning for examples of how to do this and I can't find anything - so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Here is what I'm trying to achieve:
http://www.joshsphotos.com/user_interface/final_look.gif

Here is the HTML at present:
http://www.joshsphotos.com/user_interface/

And the CSS:
http://www.joshsphotos.com/user_interface/css/style.css

Thanks!