CSS - Margin Bug In Ie7: A Kind Of The Double Margin Bug...?

Hi there,

I have recently stumbled about a problem I had with another website I made as well, but since it was at the very bottom back then I kinda ignored it. My new website has this right in the header though, and so I decided to ask for help. Works perfectly in Gecko based browsers, though.

I have the problem that I have to Div's right after each other which both have a top and bottom margin of zero, but there is a visible gap between them, only in IE though (header and content as well as content and footer) and in Opera 7.54 at the very bottom. The colors of the background PNG are also broken in IE, never mind that, will exchange that with a JPG.

Website in question is http://cyxxon.com, WordPress with my own template. Had the same problem with a website completely handcoded by me.

Any ideas?
Thomas

Hi All,

I am having a hard time aligning an element on my site. The problem is I am floating an element to the left and it wont cross all the way to the right, its like the margin to the right doesnt exist and the text goes to the next line when there is room (so it seems) to the right.

Go to j4media.com to see what I mean...look in the sidebar and the problem is in the first bullet under the 'recent message board posts'.

Here's the CSS:

Code:

   
.sidecnt { /* individual container in sidebar */   background: #040c0f url(jimg/sb_bg1.jpg) repeat-x;   width: 245px;   height: auto;   border: 1px solid #000000;   border-bottom: 6px solid #172e34;   padding: 2px 2px 7px 2px;   }.sidecnt h2 { /* container title image */   float: left;      }    .sidecnt h3 { /* container title */   float: right;   color:#050608;   font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;   font-weight:bold;   font-size: 10px;   }.sidecnt h4 { /* tag text */	float:left;	margin: 25px -12px 2px 1px; /* top, right, bottom, left */	padding-bottom: 5px;	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;	}   .sidecnt1 { /* individual container in sidebar - other than tag box */   background: #FFFFFF url(jimg/sb_bg1.jpg) repeat-x;   width: 245px;   height: auto;   border: 1px solid #000000;   border-bottom: 6px solid #172e34;   padding: 2px 2px 7px 2px;   }.sidecnt1 h2 { /* container title image */   float: left;      }    .sidecnt1 h3 { /* container title */   float: right;   color:#050608;   font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;   font-weight:bold;   font-size: 10px;   }.sidecnt1 h4 { /* text elements */	float:left;	margin: 25px -12px 2px 1px; /* top, right, bottom, left */	padding-bottom: 5px;	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;	}   .sidecnt1 ul {    float:left;	margin-top: 25px; /*top, right, bottom, left*/	padding-bottom: 1px;	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;	}

and here's the HTML:

Code:

<div class="sidebar">		<div class="sidecnt">			<h2><img src="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"></h2>			<h3>j4media tags</h3>			   <h4>			<?php UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedtagcloud","",0) ?>			   </h4>			  </div>		<br>		<div class="sidecnt1">		  <h2><img src="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"></h2>		  <h3>Subscribe</h3>			<div class="subscriberss">				<form name="subsform">					<a href="#"><img src="<? echo get_settings('home')."/wp-content/themes/i-feel-dirty/img/";?>feedicon.gif" alt="RSS" /></a> <a href="<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>" class="rsstext">RSS</a>				<select name="aggs">				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">Bloglines</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">Feedness</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">My Yahoo!</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=rss&ut=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">My MSN</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">NetVibes</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">Newsgator</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">Rezzibo</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">Rojo</option>				<option value="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)/faves?add=<? echo get_bloginfo('rss_url');?>">Technorati</option>				</select>						<a href="#" class="btnnofloat" onclick="window.location.href = document.subsform.aggs.options[document.subsform.aggs.selectedIndex].value;"><img src="<? echo get_settings('home')."/wp-content/themes/i-feel-dirty/img/";?>okbutton.gif" title="ok btn" alt="ok" /></a>									</form>			</div>  </div>		<div class="sidecnt1">			<h3>Recent Message Board Posts</h3>			<ul>			<?php if (function_exists('wpphpbb_topics')):?>            <? wpphpbb_topics();?>            <?php endif;?>			</ul>		</div>		<div class="sidecnt1">			<h3>Categories</h3>				<ul>				<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>				</ul>		</div>		<div class="sidecnt1">					<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() ) { ?>								<?php                      if(get_links(-1,'', '','', false, 'name',false,false,-1, false, false)){                 ?>						<h3>Blogroll</h3>						<ul><? get_links(-1,'<li>', '</li>','', false, 'name',false,false,-1, false, true); ?></ul>					<? } ?>		</div>		<div class="sidecnt1">					<h3>Site Tools</h3>			<ul>				<?php wp_register(); ?>				<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>				<li><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>				<li><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>				<li><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>				<?php wp_meta(); ?>			</ul>			<?php } ?>		</div>		</div>	<div class="clearfix"></div>	<br></div>

Thanks in advance for your help!

Jrexi

Hi,

Im creating a list that shows a photo and personal data of people.

It's he

http://tiregarfio.byethost17.com/web/frontend_dev.php/miembros

username: fer
password: m

When i load it with IE6 i can see the list, but between the photos there are little space. I FF there isn't any space.

Is that the bug of the "doubled margin" of IE6?


Regards

Javi

Hello,

I am working on my website w w w . pujckyvcr . c z and there is problem with IE. Firefox is ok, in top menu, there is text with same margin from top and bottom. When you look on it in IE, text is 1px upper and text is more to up. Then hover isn't symmetrical from top and bottom in menu. Do you know how to fix thix IE bug?

Thanks you,
Jiri

I must be really dumb or blind here... For some reason i cant seem to get div.show_listing to actually move up. Sorry for my ignorance here in CSS, but i learn as i go.

css Code:
Original - css Code .container { display: block; margin-top: -32px; margin-left: 3px; width: 780px; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid #cccccc; } /* Start Mac IE5 filter \*/ div.left_menu, div.show_listing { padding-bottom: 32767px !important; margin-bottom: -32767px !important; } /* End Mac IE5 Filter */ div.left_menu { margin-top: -32px; width: 150px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; height: 250px; background: #fbfbfb; border: 1px solid #cccccc; } div.show_listing { margin-top: -32px; margin-left: 155px; width: 620px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; }

  

  


 .container {     


    display: block;


    margin-top:   -32px;


    margin-left:  3px;


    width:        780px;


    overflow:     hidden;


    border:       1px solid #cccccc;


 }


  


 /* Start Mac IE5 filter \*/


 div.left_menu, div.show_listing {


    padding-bottom: 32767px !important;


    margin-bottom: -32767px !important;


 }


 /* End Mac IE5 Filter */


  


 div.left_menu {


   margin-top:   -32px;


   width:        150px;


   border-left:  1px solid #cccccc;


   height:       250px;


   background:   #fbfbfb;


   border:       1px solid #cccccc;


 }


  


 div.show_listing {


   margin-top:   -32px;


   margin-left:  155px;


   width:          620px;


   border:  1px solid #cccccc;


 } 

html Code:
Original - html Code <div class="container"> <div class="left_menu"> <div style="float: left;"> {link_one} </div> </div> <!-- This part is actually on a separate script.. it gets parsed via php --> <div class="show_listing"> <div style="float: left;"> -listing_text- fsdfsadf<br> </div> </div> </div>

  
<div class="container">
       <div class="left_menu">
        <div style="float: left;">
           {link_one}
        </div>
       </div>

<!-- This part is actually on a separate script.. it gets parsed via php -->
<div class="show_listing">
        <div style="float: left;">
          -listing_text-
          fsdfsadf<br>
        </div>
       </div>
      </div>

Again sorry for my ignorance. ( just incase its viewable here )

i am having a serious issue with ie 7 i really need help.

i am using a center layout using 900px the center layout looks and works fine

in all browsers except for ie7 i have used a border for the wrapper tag.
what i have noticed only in the case of ie7 is the left border for the wrapper

tag starts a few pixels 2px or 3px before compared to all other browsers and

due to this in ie7 the right border ends a few pixels when compared to all

other browsers. so if i can fix the left border the right border for the

wrapper tag will adjust automatically.

i am using a valid xhtml transitional document. following is my 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=utf-8" />
<title>Background image</title>

<style type="text/css">

body {
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 10px;
}

#wrapper {
width: 900px;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px solid #ffff00;
}

p{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="wrapper">
<p>Content </p>
</div></body></html>

-------------------------------
can someone please tell me what the issue is and what the code should be. i

would highly appreciate any help as this is an issue in ie7 and not in other

browsers.

thanks.

Please look at www.tmhdesign3.com

The h1 on teh bottom -

<h1 id="header-bottom">Santa Rosa Luxury Estates, Vineyards, Ranches, and Wineries Realtor</h1>

i can put a margin-top of 20px on it in FF !!!

I am getting a 9px left margin that I do not understand. Here is a simple example;

#logobar {
background-color: #ddb;
color: #000;
border: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: left;
height: 50px;
background-image: url(primarynav.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

I get my brown bar across the top of the screen, but it is indented by 9px on the left. Any idea why?

I have a question about the behavior of the margins for contents of a container div. Basically what I have done is created a container div that has a specified width but no margin, so it should be slammed up against the top, left, and bottom of the page. However, when I put divs inside the container div, their margins seem to be applying to the container as well - at least their top and bottom margins seem to be. I've included the code below, which can easily be copied and pasted.

Basically what's happening is that if the first div inside the container has a top margin, that margin is then being applied to the container div, meaning the container div is then pushed down from the top of the page by the amount of top margin specified. The same thing is happening at the bottom of the container div when I've included a bottom margin on the last element inside the container.

To my surprise, this problem is only happening in Firefox. It is showing exactly how I want it to in IE6.

Here is the code. This is just a very simple page to demonstrate the problem, so I used an embedded style sheet. I am using the transitional doctype (couldn't include it here because it contains a URL). The height of the first div inside the container is so big so that the page must be scrolled down to see the entire thing on any normal screen resolution:

<html>

<head>

<title>box test</title>

<style type="text/css">

body {margin: 0; padding: 0;}

#bgbox {width: 500px; background-color: #aaaaaa; margin: 0; padding: 0;}

#boxone {height: 700px; border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 20px; padding: 20px; color: #000000;}

#boxtwo {border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 20px; padding: 20px; color: #000000;}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="bgbox">

<div id="boxone">This is box one</div>

<div id="boxtwo">this is box two</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>



Any thoughts?

Thanks!

I seem to be missing the margin at the bottom of my subforums in IE. Works fine in FF. See the subforums, in IE the boxes are right up against the bottom instead of spaced out like in FF.

http://mmogm.com/

Anyone please help me with the solution? Thanks in advance

Greetings,

The following webpage works in firefox but not in ie:
http://resonantprogramming.com/homen.html

For some reason the menu does not show up correctly. I want the menu to show up within the top gradient graphic, but ie doesn't like that for some reason. I did alter the z-index value to no avail. Any ideas?

Thanks

I am using an iMac which has a very large screen. The problem that I am having is that the footer (on my screen) appears to have a margin bottom of about 20px set (just estimating). However, when I shrink my screen to closer of that of a laptop, the margin dissapears and the footer aligns nicely to the bottom of the page.

I cannot figure out why the space is only added for larger screens. Any help here would be great. Keep in mind that this site has just begun to take development and will change dramatically by the time I'm done.

Here is the site (you may not see the margin below the footer if you have a normal size screen)

Beckin4

Here is my stylesheet:

stylesheet

Thanks!

I cannot see a margin when I test this page in safari from dreamweaver. Basically I am trying for a centered container which will hold all the content and have some space from the top margin and be centered. With the CSS I have the container shows up with a margin when I test it in the firefox browser and even when using live view, but not in Safari. The latest version of Safari.

What do I need to change to get the top margin to show correctly in Safari? Is something overriding something else?

Code

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

body {

color: #000000; /*This sets all text to Black*/
/*background-color: #FFFFFF; /*This sets the bacground to white*/
margin: 100px auto; /*This sets the margin to zero*/
padding:0;
font-size:12px;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align:center;
}
p {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
}
h1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #000099;
}
h2 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #000099;
}
h3 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #000099;
}
.redtext {
color: #FF0000;
}
a {
color: #009900;
}
a:link {
color: #000099;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;

}
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;

}

.menu {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #000000;
}
.menu a:link {
color: #336600;
text-decoration: none;
}
.menu a:visited {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}

.menu a:hover {
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none;
}

.menu a:active {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
div#container {
width: 960px;
height:760;
/*margin-left:0 auto; /* the auto value on the sides, coupled with the width, centers the layout */

}
div#outer {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 960px;
}
div#header {
position:relative;
text-align: center;
width: auto;
}
div#nav {
width: auto;
padding: 10px;
margin-top: 1px;
position:relative;
}
div#main {
position:relative;
width: auto;
}
div#footer {
position:relative;
width:auto;
padding: 15px;
margin: 0px;
}#nav {
position: relative;
padding:20px;
width: auto;
}

I've run into this problem a few times. The padding attribute has spottty support in IE. Same with margin. Has anyone found a workaround?

For example, I would like paragraphs and bullet points to have extra space above them. In the past, I've set a style using padding-top to specify this space. However, in IE it yields some bad results.

Similarly, I've got some text links which I would like to bump over to the right a few pixels. Padding or margin would sure come in handy.

Any other ways to achieve the same result?