CSS - Padding Not Recognized

I am noticing that padding changes the width/height of an object. For example, if I have a div element with a width of 100% and padding at 10px, it will actually cause the horizontal scrollbar on the browser to appear because it takes the 100% width into account, plus 20px for the padding on the left and right side. I thought padding was suppose to push elements inward.

??? Any help will be greatly appriciated.

Right now, there is nothing about padding located in css file. And I was told I should add a bit because my page is a headache to read. I was told:

"Basically you want to add more white space between the vertical line and the text"

How would I go about doing this? The site Im talking about is:
www.ohiocichlids.com

Around this dropdown image?
http://199.134.225.62/NW_PORTAL/sliding_menu/sliding_menu.cfm

I have padding and margins all set to 0...

Hey everyone, I am working on a new template:

http://4xp.net/temp.html

The colors are there just so I can see the divs, so don't worry.

If you look at the page in IE, it looks fine, with some padding between the green and orange div, and to the right of the orange div. When you look at it in Firefox, there is a bunch of white padding to the top and bottom of both the orange and green divs, and I can't seem to get it to go away. The weird thing is, if I add a 1px border to the orange div, the green div aligns to the top, and the orange background expands to fill in the white area above and below the orange div.

Does anyone know how to remove this padding?

Thanks!

Hi there,

I have 2 main divs.. one which holds a small ammount of content on the right hand side.. like a 'related links' box which is located at the top right of the page. The other div holds the content. It wraps around the top right div, but there is no padding to the right of the content area, so the text goes right the way up to the right hand div. How can I add some padding to the right of this area? I have added padding, but it adds it to the text where it wraps below the top right div.

This is the code I am using:

PHP Code:
#related_links{
width: 165px;
height: 237px;
background-image:  url('images/related_bg.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
float:right;
padding-right: 10px;

}

#related_inside{
padding: 10px;
}


#content{
padding-right: 10px;
}

#content_inside{
padding: 10px;

} 





PHP Code:
<div id="related_links"><div id="related_inside">right hand text</div></div>
    
    
    <div id="content">
    <div id="content_inside" >is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <strong>Lorem Ipsum</strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <strong>Lorem Ipsum</strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. </div></div> 

Hello,

Can anyone explain me why the texts in the following example are not in the same (relative) position? It looks like that in the first container, the margin is actually more than I specified (10px)...

I don't get it... :S

Thanks,
diodorus

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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Title</title>

<style type="text/css">

#container{
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    width: 1000px;
    background: #ccc;
}

.block {
    background: #0ff;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 10px;
    text-align: left;
    width: 230px;
}

.block2 {
    background: #0ff;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    padding: 10px;
    text-align: left;
    width: 230px;
}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<p>First:<p>

    <div id="container">
        <div class="block">aaa</div>
        <div class="block">bbb</div>
        <div class="block">ccc</div>
        <div class="block">ddd</div>
    </div>

<p>Second:<p>

    <div id="container">
        <div class="block2">aaa</div>
        <div class="block2">bbb</div>
        <div class="block2">ccc</div>
        <div class="block2">ddd</div>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

I have a beautiful looking site when viewed in Firefox but I am having some problems with Internet Explorer (surprise, surprise!)

http://cbo4edu.org/newSite/index.html

I want the Headings, OUR MISSION and CBO NEWS to be lined up just below the navigation div. In Firefox, my CSS and padding renders perfectly, with the background on OUR MISSION blending in with the navigation div's bottom border. In IE, these headings are mostly hidden behind the navigation div.

How can I adjust my CSS for IE without disturbing the Firefox version?

I'm using the following code. I'd like the DIV that surounds the up / down images to more tightly wrap the images (there is too much space between the top and bottom border and the images). I'm having trouble understanding how to accomplish this.
Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
	<style>
	.nav_box {	
		width: 95%;
		padding: 1px 1px 1px 2px;
		margin-top: 10px;
		margin-bottom: 10px;
		border: 1px solid #003366;
		background-color: #eef7ff;
		text-align : left;	
	}	
	</style>
</head>

<body>

<div class="nav_box">
	<img ... />
	<img ... />
	&nbsp;Row Zero
</div>	

</body>
</html>

Hi all,
My CSS for a <DIV> is:
Code:

.title {
  width: 350px;
  background: #aaccff;
  padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
  border: 1px #cccccc solid;
}

When I enter text in the DIV, it shows a bit to the right of the left border, which is what padding property is supposed to do!

The problem is, in Internet Explorer, this "shift" is PERFECT and there is no extension beyond the right border, but in Firefox, the background color can be seen extended 10px to the right border.

I searched on internet and people called it a problem with I.E.

Everywhere I visited, people seemed to curse a Microsoft product and give a line of code, "DOCTYPE" etc to force I.E. to change mode and behave like Firefox. Those guys dont understand that what the coder wants is a solution so that Firefox shows the DIV exactly like I.E.

1) So please! Stop cursing I.E. and give solution as to how to modify the code...!


2) A person said that the width is calculated as:
width + padding + margin.

In my case, since margin is "0", the suggession seemed to use the following code:
Code:

.title {
  width: 340px;
  background: #aaccff;
  padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
  border: 1px #cccccc solid;
}

i.e., subtracting the padding-left from width.
But that makes "no sense" because if we do the above, it should do nothing but to just change the width of the DIV, and so the end result would be that in Firefox, instead of spanning to 360 px horizontally, this would cause it to span in 350px horizontally. Keeping in view that its the "only" DIV on the page, setting the width parameter should not be a problem.


3) Now, if Firefox follows standard, then how will firefox ever show the padding property correctly if the above scenario is considered...!

4) Microsoft may not follow the standards sometimes, but the result "is" userfriendly most of the times...!

Thanks!

Hi there,

I am trying to add some padding to my inputs, but the padding is being ignored by IE.

This is my CSS:

PHP Code:
 INPUT {

    background-color:#FFFFFF !important;
    border: 1px solid #ececec;
            padding: 10px;
} 






Any ideas why it is not working?

I've been having a hard time with browser compatibility and I need a bit of help. This is what I'm trying to acheive. It's a link bar on top and then a page that contains left and right headers, dividers and content plus a footer (height is not an issue right now). I would like the #page to have a 2px border and every element inside to have a white 2px padding.
It seems that in IE, if I set #page with a 2px padding, I get exactly what I want but Firefox does not interpret it the same way. Is there a hack/workaround for this. I've attacned a picture of what I'm trying to get at.

Thanks

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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css"><!--

html, body {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	height:100%;
}

div {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}

div#holder {
	margin:auto;
	margin:auto;
	width:800px;
	height:100%;
	background:black;
}

div#links {
	width:auto;
	height:30px;
	background:pink;
}

div#page {
	width:auto;
	height:100%;
	background:white;
	border:2px black solid;
	padding:2px;
}


div#left {
	float:left;
	background:red;
	width:180px;
}

div#right {
	float:right;
	background:blue;
	width:610px;
}

div#footer {
	clear:both;
	width:auto;
	height:30px;
	background:green;
}


--/></style>

</head>
<body>

<div id="holder">
	<div id="links">1</div>
	<div id="page">
		<div id="header">
			<div id="left">1</div>
			<div id="right">1</div>
		</div>
		<div id="divider">
			<div id="left">1</div>
			<div id="right">1</div>
		</div>
		<div id="content">
			<div id="left">1</div>
			<div id="right">1</div>
		</div>
		<div id="footer">1</div>
	</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

I am having a problem..
The site am working on looks great in FF but in IE breaks when you click on a the link to view a larger picture and then mouse off the link. The padding on the bottom of the body (#main) disappears. i have a Javascript that switches the image out for another one. i am not sure if this is the problem.

can someone please take a look i have been racking my brain on this for days.

http://www.avallo.com/test/fatcatweb/phototest.shtml

(Problem occurs when thumbnail is clicked and then moused off in IE 5.5 and IE 6)

i have a border on the #main div so you can see what i am talking about.

* Update *
it isnt the javascript.

here is the css and html.

Code:

#main {
border:#333 dotted 1px;
	float:right;
	display:inline;
	position:relative;
	width: 610px;
	padding-bottom:30px;
	background:url(images/body-top.gif) no-repeat;
}
#mainbody {
	margin: 30px 20px 20px 15px;
}
a.thumb {
	float:left;
	margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
	padding: 2px;
	border: #fff 2px solid;
}
a.thumb:hover {border: #895FA5 2px solid;}

					<div id="mainbody">
						<h1>Photo Portfolio</h1>
						<p>Fat Cat Art Studio is proud to provide our clients with images of their business, area, or workers. This portfolio is a SMALL representation of recent photos.</p>
						<div class="photos">
							<h2>The Shore Photos</h2>
							<div class="floatR" id="change1"><img src="images/photos/photo-01.jpg" alt="Enlargment" width="350" height="245" border="0" /></div>
							<p>Taking a stroll on the shore leads to inspiration and some unique perspectives.</p>
							<a class="thumb" href="javascript:change('change1','photo-01',350,245)"><img src="images/photos/photo-01x.jpg" alt="Thumb" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a>
							<a class="thumb" href="javascript:change('change1','photo-02',350,263)"><img src="images/photos/photo-02x.jpg" alt="Thumb" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a>
							<a class="thumb" href="javascript:change('change1','photo-03',350,264)"><img src="images/photos/photo-03x.jpg" alt="Thumb" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a>
						</div>
					</div>

thanks,
weston

First off, I'm a new member. I'd like to thank everyone for such a great board. My name is Mike and I'll be a very active user in this community as I enter the world of web design.

I have a page with an embedded flash object. I created a CSS Border around the object, and would like to add padding to it so that text can wrap around it. I understand that when adding padding to an object, it actually pushes the border out. I want the padding to reflect outside the border and not inside. All of my CSS has to be inline (the company's site does not allow workers to access template files via FTP). Here's what isn't working:

<div style="padding-left:10px;padding-bottom:10px;">
<div style="border: 5px solid rgb(198, 175, 144); float: right;position:relative;right:12px;bottom:9px;">

*flash code*

</div>
</div>

As you can see, I tried adding padding-left and padding-bottom outside the border but the text is still going underneath the object. Is there a better solution to this (using inline css)?

Thanks to all.