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CSS - Holy Grail Of Layouts + Floats Driving Me Crazy
Have a look at this page
http://aenui.com/test/hg.html It is exactly the same as the wrapper-free holy grail layout as demonstrated on AListApart (http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_4.html), except that I added 2 more divs in the center column. I floated the 2 divs to the left and I expect the 2 divs to start stacking side by side but no, it doesn't do that. Apparently this only happens in the holy grail layout. Does someone have a fix? I'd hate to abandon the otherwise elegant holy grail layout just because of this. Similar TutorialsI am following the layout described in A List Apart's In Search of the Holy Grail layout article. The layout itself is working in FF3, IE7, and IE6. But I deviate from the article in a couple of points. The equal column heights are not too important to me. Instead, I am employing a faux-column technique to have #left #center and #right all appear to stretch to the bottom of the page. This is how my HTML is setup. Code: <body>
<div id="page">
<div id="header">
<div class="layoutContainer">
<div id="primaryContent" class="column">
<div id="leftBar" class="column">
<div id="rightBar" class="column">
<div id="footer">
The left faux-column and center background image is specified in my "page" div. I align the BG image to the top left. This works great! My right faux-column background image is specified in the "layoutContainer" div. Aligned to the right, this works well in FF3, works with some weird kinks in IE7, and does not work at all in IE6. IE7 cuts off some of the background-image for some reason, making it appear more to the right than the end of the actual page. IE6, however, does not display the background-image for #layoutContainer at all. I have tried many fixes but haven't gotten anywhere so far. Here is my CSS: Code: #page{
font-size:1.1em;
background:#fff url(../images/common/page-bg.gif) top left repeat-y;
}
#header{
background:url(../images/common/header-darkBlue.jpg) top right repeat-x;
overflow:hidden;
clear:both;
}
.layoutContainer{
overflow:hidden;
padding-left:210px;
padding-right:251px;
background:url(../images/common/secondaryContent-bg.gif) repeat-y top right;
}
#primaryContent {
padding:10px 15px 0 20px;
width:100%;
}
#leftBar{
margin-left:-100%;
width:210px;
padding:0;
right:245px; /* leftBar fullwidth + primaryContent padding */
}
#rightBar{
width:204px;
padding-left:12px;
margin-right:-251px; /* rightBar fullwidth + primaryContent padding */
}
#footer{
clear:both;
}
.column{
position:relative;
float:left;
}
IE6 CSS: Code: #leftBar{
left:216px;
}
IE7 CSS: Code: .layoutContainer{
background-position:96.5% 0;
}
I'm TRYING to design a site with CSS, but every browser seems to display CSS differently. How do I do it? How can I make a CSS site that'll render properly in IE6 & 7 and FF, and at 800x600 and 1024x768? This is driving me absolutely bonkers. Look at my site: http://www.firstinsurancefunding.net/ It displays differently in EVERY different browser. WHAT'S THE FIX?? (sorry, I'm frustrated. Could really use some pointers). Hi, I've got a strange problem, which I'm sure the answer to it is simple, but it escapes me at the moment. I have a site we're building at: 209.200.245.223/$sitepreview/quality-edge.com/content.aspx?usertype=2&page=home And as you can see, the background image is cut off (the colour on the left-hand side should be seen to fade out. I had to use min-height to get it to show, but I don't think that I completely understand min-height. Mainly my problem is the footer and the background. I think I've read every footer how-to there is and I can't seem to get anything to work properly. I'm not new to CSS so this is really frustrating me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steph Hi - I have a small problem with a contact form on my website not working properly and it is driving me crazy, now let me explain. The website works fine in Firefox and Safari, and almost all the pages work fine in IE. The only thing that isn't working is the contact page in IE. The contact page works fine in Firefox and Safari. It's quite tricky to explain to you what I mean really, without showing you. The website is set to a certain width and I have all the margins and paddings correct, as far as I can tell anyway. The contact form is in PHP. The website should be in the middle of the browser at about 900px wide, but when you go to the contact page the PHP code is for some reason making it align to the left, and making the horizontal menu become vertical and out of place. If anyone on here knows about CSS and could take a look for me to see what's gone wrong, I don't think it would take to long, it's just something that I am not aware of or have overlooked in the code. It would be greatly appreciated if you could let me know if you would like to help me out. I'm new to this forum and I did come here looking for help but plan on sticking around so I look forward to meeting you all. Huge thanks if anyone wants to help me, will probably only take a few minutes, I would post the link here but I don't wanna get banned as I am a new member. Hi there.. please have a look here, someone knows how to get rid of the 20px gap between the two black boxes? Hey, so I am a beginner in css and I can't seem to figure out this problem. I am trying to get a td to float: left, and it works just fine on firefox, but IE7 is not showing the float. Here is the code I have for it /* Style for Entries in Category View (Cards View) */ /* -------------------------------------------------------- */ table.sobi2Listing { } table.sobi2Listing td { vertical-align: top; float: left; height: 1%; width: 97%; } /* new */ div.vcard_item { margin: 1px 0px 2px 0; padding: 6px; width: 97%; border:1px solid #dddddd; background-color:#fbfaf2; -moz-border-radius: 5px; The actual page is findawebsitedesigner.info/directory-2.html If you look at the entries, they are all floated perfectly in firefox, but not in IE7. If anybody has the fix to this I would love your help. Hi guys Can anyone see why the following has a space under the nav in IE but not in Opera or FF? http://www.mitya.co.uk/cssproblem (CSS: http://www.mitya.co.uk/cssproblem/css/main.css ) I have been playing with it for ages and can't crack it. I've tried removing the clear, etc etc. I'm relatively new to CSS-based design (as opposed to tables) but feel the code and my CSS are OK. Thanks in advance Hi All - I've edited the post to try and define my problem a little better. I've also updated the code so it validates. I'm trying to convert a horrendous table layout into CSS. What I need to have is the logo on the left, and the text on the right. The text needs to move with the browser resize - but it needs to stop moving when it gets to be 425px from the left margin. Currently, it keeps moving with the browser but it doesn't stop at the 425px mark. It drops to the bottom, and eventually if you make the window REALLY small, it drops below the logo. I'm sure that I have just got the code all wrong. I guess what I need to know is how do I put a fixed element next to a fluid element and eliminate the drop from happening. What am I missing. This is my current code: Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<title>Argh</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {margin: 0px; padding: 0; background-color:#ffffff;}
#header {height: 80px; width: 100%; background-image: url(icon_bg_grad.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment:fixed;}
#nav {clear: both; height: 25px; background-image: url(icon_grad2.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<div style="width: 425px; float: left;">
<img src="logo.jpg" width="220" height="66" alt="logo">
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
<p>This is annoying</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="nav">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hi folks. I'm new to this forum, but I'm not new to CSS. I've inherited a little problem that was left behind by my client's original developer. Here is the code the makes up the header on my page: Code: <body> <div id="issingle"> <div id="container"> <div id="sitename"> <a href="http://www.nectardesign.com"><img src="http://www.nectardesign.com/blog/wp-content/themes/default/nectar-product-development.gif" border="0" alt="Nectar Product Development"/></a> </div> <div id="mainmenu"> <ul> <!--<li class=""><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/blog">Home</a></li>--> <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/about/">about</a></li> <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/service/">service</a></li> <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/category/all-products">portfolio</a></li> <li class="page_item current_page_item"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/blog/">blog</a></li> <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/blog/category/news/">news</a></li> <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/career/">career</a></li> <li class="page_item no_bar"><a href="http://www.nectardesign.com/contact/">contact</a></li> </ul> </div> And here is the css pertaining to that code: Code: body {
background:#fff;
color:#303030;
font: normal 12px /*Verdana,Tahoma,*/Arial, sans-serif;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
width:850px;
}
#container {
position: relative;
background:url('http://www.nectardesign.com/images/headerbg.jpg') top center repeat-x;
color:#303030;
border:1px solid #C8C8C8;
margin:10px;
/* padding:10px;*/
text-align:left;
height:598px;
}
html>body #container {height: 1%; min-height: 598px;}
#mainmenu {
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
top: 27px;
margin-right: 5px;
}
#mainmenu li.page_item {
float:left;
/* height:35px;*/
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#mainmenu a {
border-right:1px solid #b0b0b0;
color:#808080;
display:block;
margin: 0;
padding: 1px 8px;
text-transform:lowercase;
}
Basically, this page's header looks correct in Firefox and Safari, but terrible in IE 5.x (Mac). Not only do the horizontal links (About, Service, Portfolio...) not show up correctly--they're actually on the left sidebar--but the repeating image doesn't repeat like it should. It doesn't even show up at all. Since I'm new, please don't hesitate to let me know if I'm forgetting to include any other important info. Thank you!! J Well, I know CSS however I am a bit confused with fixed width and liquid layouts as far as I know fixed width is where you set a divs width in pixels and liquid is in % so it scales to the users screen size? Which one is best to use? Also, I have the following style sheet which I created, I am guessing this is a liquid layout? Code: * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
font-size: 15px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
}
#header {
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
}
#header h1 {
padding-left: 25px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
#content {
padding: 10px;
margin-left: 200px;
border-left: 1px solid white;
}
#content h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
text-align: center;
}
#nav {
float: left;
padding: 10px;
padding-left: 15px;
width: 20%;
}
#nav li {
list-style-type: none;
}
#nav a {
text-decoration: none;
}
#footer {
clear: left;
border-top: 1px solid white;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
width: 100%;
}
a {
color: silver;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:hover, a:focus {
font-weight: bold;
}
a:visited {
font-style: italic;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin: 10px;
}
p {
margin: 5px;
}
select {
width: 30%;
}
textarea {
width: 40%;
}
.floatimage {
float: left;
margin: 10px;
}
OMG! I just clicked on A List Apart, and it's GONE! What's happened? Surely they didn't forget to...renew??? I know you pro CSS users probably know this already, but I was accidentally discovered something REALLY cool with css. CSS Code: Original - CSS Code alexText { background-color: rgb(116,130,208); }
Code: <alexText> Some Alex Text </alexText> That code essentially creates your own HTML tags. Wow. That's going to save me SO much time. I have floating items inside of floating items. The problem is I cannot clear my floating items in the middle column because that ruins the other columns. How can I clear floats in the middle column? Do you have any better ideas to make my layout work? I have attached in image of how the layout should work. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
#content {
display: block;
margin: 0 5px;
padding: 0 10px;
border-top: 1px solid #0B4867;
}
.content100 {
width: 100%;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
display: inline;
background: #ffeeee;
}
.content50 {
width: 48.75%;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
padding: 0px;
background: #eeffee;
}
.content33 {
width: 32.25%;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
padding: 0px;
background: #eeeeff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<div style="margin: 0px 215px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: block;">
<div class="content100">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vivamus viverra malesuada turpis. Sed iaculis justo sed turpis. Nulla malesuada turpis sed nibh. Mauris dui quam, cursus at, sollicitudin a, auctor quis, ligula. Vivamus varius blandit velit. Sed eu nibh. Vestibulum sit amet massa. Maecenas elementum massa ac ligula. In vitae massa ut dui facilisis lacinia. Maecenas tristique pede in elit. Duis ultricies aliquam metus. Mauris neque. Nunc nec lectus eu metus rhoncus imperdiet. Etiam egestas semper nunc. Nunc pretium tincidunt felis.
</div>
<div class="content50">
<h2>Row 1, Column 1</h2>
In nec est pretium elit eleifend semper. Suspendisse potenti. Nunc bibendum sollicitudin ante. Aliquam facilisis mi quis turpis. Nullam aliquet. Sed eget urna in metus mattis luctus. Sed nunc. Maecenas est. Morbi ullamcorper eros non magna. Donec auctor, orci pretium rutrum eleifend, pede arcu pretium dui, vitae vestibulum ante odio sit amet dui. Aliquam fringilla velit sit amet magna. Proin cursus, elit quis faucibus fermentum, diam tellus rhoncus nulla, ut iaculis orci velit id metus. Pellentesque diam metus, dapibus eu, vestibulum quis, elementum id, turpis. Morbi elementum, quam non rhoncus hendrerit, metus lacus bibendum ante, vitae sodales velit est eu neque.
</div>
<div class="content50">
<h2>Row 1, Column 2</h2>
This column is not very high.
</div>
<div class="content100">
Donec sed velit mollis erat consequat ornare. Donec accumsan, sapien a posuere tristique, felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 1</h2>
Felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 2</h2>
This column is not as high as the previous one.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 3</h2>
</div>
<div class="content100">
Nunc vel arcu. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nam luctus tellus luctus magna. Aenean tellus sapien, venenatis id, hendrerit sit amet, lacinia sed, ante. Nullam metus. Sed cursus lobortis orci. Etiam suscipit, tellus ut rutrum mollis, urna libero ultrices lectus, non hendrerit quam elit id leo. Quisque sollicitudin, mi id imperdiet sollicitudin, orci enim rutrum nibh, non adipiscing diam augue commodo nunc. Maecenas erat massa, sagittis eu, sagittis at, commodo nec, dolor. Aliquam erat volutpat. Donec nisl erat, vulputate id, dictum non, vulputate egestas, sapien. Fusce non justo eu felis imperdiet placerat. Suspendisse mattis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut ac tellus eget risus varius vehicula. In ante.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So I have a body div which has a left and right div(columns). I need to add 2 more divs inside the left div. But, these 2 divs have to unordered lists in them. I know my CSS is pretty average if not worse. My layout looks fine except for when I add 2 divs.. I have the float:left with %50 widths.. Screen shot of how my layout looks. img209.imageshack.us/img209/2913/idear.gif I did not add any clear tags to my css.. which I think might be what's causing the issue. Side note: In IE compatibility view the top of the page has a gap and so does the right of the page.. the logo and footer are both 100% width and the top div has a -negative margin to close the gap, it looks fine without compatibility view, and fine in firefox, and chrome. XHTML passed validation and so did CSS. This is before even messing with the columns. I didn't do anything with the unordered lists. Maybe i should ask how to correctly make my layout first.. Because what I've been doing is just adding new divs where I see fit, and then going back to edit the CSS till it works. Thanks for helping me out! BTW: what book would you recommend me getting.. I understand basics of CSS and I think I'm good with XHTML, I just need to get a better definition of CSS than w3schools has to offer. Thanks again. First off I am entirely new to using CSS for anything other than some link and scroll bar decorations. Secondly, this code does not (currently) validate but I think I can resolve those issues, but before I go to the trouble of appeasing a (forum) guideline and making sure the code validates I have some questions that may or may not prevent me from using the code or CSS all together. The code (template/stle sheet) I am using is from http://www.code-sucks.com/css%20layouts/css-3-column-layouts/ the top question I have now is: How can I seperate elements within the "header" section of this format? i.e. within the "header I would like to place a logo to the far left + a slogan and also place an advertising banner? normally I would do this with three or more table cells. would it compromise the benefit of switching from mainly table oriented pages to CSS by including "some" tables within the CSS sections? Thanks for any insights and sorry if I have crossed any lines with this query. Hi, Am very new to CSS, and need some advice. Broadly speaking, how would I achieve this layout using purely CSS? Thanks in advance http://forums.devshed.com/attachmen...tachmentid=4990 This is driving me absolutely insane. The transition from table designs to css designs is a brutal one, in case no one is aware. Table designs seem so much easier, but I guess I might as well be compliant. Here's my problem: All I need to do is have a three column box that has a select box in the left column, then two images vertically aligned in the middle within the middle column, and a second select box in the right column. This would be incredibly easy with tables seeing that all I would need is: Code: <table>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<select>
<option>Option</option>
</select>
</td>
<td valign="middle" align="center">
<img src="picture1.jpg"/><br/>
<img src="picture1.jpg"/>
</td>
<td align="left">
<select>
<option>Option 2</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I'm assuming that since it's this easy to do with tables and everyone is opposed to using tables for design, there must be an easier way using divs and the like. Please enlighten me, someone! I've been thinking about switching over to making table-less css layouts, but there's been a few things holding me back, as I'm not sure if they're possible. Firstly, can you have two fixed width divs on the sides of a variable width div, which will stretch to fit the screen? Something like this is generally what I mean: Code: <div style="width: 50px; float: left;">left</div> <div style="width: *; float: left;">middle</div> <div style="width: 50px; float: left;">right</div> Also, is there any way to make a div that has been placed to the right of another match the height of the the one to it's left? Basically, I want it to behave more like standard tables do in that every cell in a row is the same height. Is this possible? |
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