CSS - Two Floaters With Margins... How Do I Set Their Widths???

q)When creating webpages with css , are you supposed to use pixels or % for page widths?
If I use pixels then i create for a 800X600 screen only, but it won't look messy when screen resized which I prefer.

hi,
i'm trying to create a horizontal navigation bar using Div's and css. So what i have is a background image for the background of the navigation bar, and then the links as images. i want to give varying widths to each link. i.e. if we were talking tables, i'd give the first cell with the first link a 10% width, the second a 8% the third a 15% etc...
my question is, how do i do that with Divs? do i have to create a separate id (#) for each link? or can i specify a width in the div tag in the html (<div width=10%>) for example?
Thanks,
Heidi

i recently changed up my homebrew forum's css on http://www.fasttracksites.com/forum/index.php and im having problems with it in FireFox, Opera and IE looks fine(usually its just the opposite). It looks like its not accepting the widths from http://www.fasttracksites.com/forum...FTSBlue/dim.css this is the file that contains the dimensions of each item, the other pages(if you click on one of the forum names) they are using the same widths for the last post and such and look fine, can someone please help?

This is driving me insane.

What is happening here? The green <div> should be the same width as the table - and that width should be 830px.

It looks like IE is stretching the table wider than it should be... but if so then why?

When you consider that the table is 830px wide, the pink div is 730px, the green div is 850px, the red div is 620px and the blue div is 100px, you can see that absolutely nothing is lining up correctly. It all seems quite random.

PHP Code:
// containg div
<div style="width:834px; padding:0; margin:0 auto; clear:both; text-align: left; float:left;">

// table
<table width="830px" cols="10" rows="$rows" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;">

// pink div
<div style="border: 2px solid #FF00FF; width:730px; padding: 0; margin:0;">&nbsp;</div>

// green div
<div style="width:100%; margin:0; padding:0; border: 2px solid #00FF00;">

// red div
 <div style="border:2px dashed #FF0000; float:left; width:620px; margin: 0; padding: 2px 2px 2px 100px; text-align:center;">

// blue div
<div style="border:2px dashed #0000FF; float:right; width:100px; text-align:right; margin: 0; padding: 2px;"> 





Internet Explorer:


Firefox:


Thanks,

Grrr for some particular reason in Firefox and IE div.userinfo wont stay to its assigned width.. what it is doing is that its expanding its width to fill up the text.. but.. it should just break to a new line.

html Code:
Original - html Code <div class="container"> <div class="subject">this is for your subject</div> <div class="userinfo">Your memosfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfsadfasdfasdfsadfasfasdfsadfsadfasdfa</div> </div>

  
 <div class="container">
  <div class="subject">this is for your subject</div>
  <div class="userinfo">Your memosfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfsadfasdfasdfsadfasfasdfsadfsadfasdfa</div>
 </div>

css Code:
Original - css Code div.container { border: 1px solid #000000; position: relative; margin: 0 auto; width: 580px; height: 432px; } div.subject { position: absolute; border: 1px solid #cccccc; top: 0px; left: 290px; width: 290px; height: 50px; } div.userinfo { position: absolute; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 15px auto; height: 150px; }

  

 div.container {


   border:   1px solid #000000;


   position: relative;


   margin:   0 auto;


   width:    580px;


   height:   432px;


 }


  


 div.subject {


   position: absolute;


   border:   1px solid #cccccc;


   top:      0px;


   left:     290px;


   width:    290px;


   height:   50px;


 }


  


 div.userinfo {


   position:  absolute;


   border:    1px solid #cccccc;


   width:     15px auto;


   height:    150px;


 } 

Anyone knows why? i even changed white-space: nowrap, and etc.

It has been a long day and tomorrow will be a longer. I give up trying to fix my problem and searching. So, that leads me here, where I will ask my question and once again receive the n00b stamp on my head. I hate css... but love it so.

go to church
css file

Now why the heck does IE not give a crap about the width I set. increase the text size(ctrl+scrollWheelUp) and you will see that it is acting like an auto width. It is the same if I switch between % em pt px.
Firefox views it just fine expect for the inner box going outside it's container on the navbar. Oh and the lists are shifted over to the right and the text goes outside the box and doesn't wrap inside. List problem with IE before and I fixed it only for it to show up in firefox.

These are probably easy fixes but I am too tired right now and know I will not have time in the next couple of days to mess around. So, answer me up please. Bonus points for posting a link to a topic that all ready covers this that I blatantly missed.

Sorry for the banner(too big file). The whole banner/header top will change but the navbar and content area concept is going to stay almost like it is so I need ot firgure this out.

Hi,

I'm Currently Redesigning my site Here And it all looks perfect in IE but when i go onto FireFox it looks mostly the same.
Just One Problem The Menu At The Top, The Widths And There Is Gaps. Ive Been Working Hard And Cant Seem To Find The Problem.

Heres The CSS for the whole menu:
Code:

.navigation {
margin : 0 auto;
padding : 0;
font-family : franklin gothic book;
background-color : silver;
width : 59em;
min-height : 1em;
min-width : 59em;
text-align : center;
margin-top : 5px;
}
.navigation li.t {
min-width : 1em;
width : 1em;
min-height : 1em;
float : left;
background : silver url(img/tl.gif) no-repeat top left;
}
.navigation li.b {
min-width : 1em;
width : 1em;
min-height : 1em;
float : right;
background : url(img/tr.gif) no-repeat top right;
}
.navigation li.tls {
min-width : 1em;
width : 1em;
background : silver url(img/tls.gif) no-repeat top left;
}
.navigation li.trs {
min-width : 1em;
width : 1em;
background : url(img/trs.gif) no-repeat right top;
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
}
.navigation ul {
color : white;
list-style : none;
min-width : 59em;
display : inline;
width : 59em;
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
}
.navigation li {
min-width : 15em;
max-width : 15em;
width : 10em;
height : 1em;
display : inline;
}
.navigation li a {
height : 1em;
min-width : 11em;
max-width : 11em;
width : 10em;
color : black;
text-decoration : none;
background : white;
}
.navigation li.tl {
min-width : 1em;
max-width : 2em;
width : 1em;
background : white url(img/tls.gif) no-repeat top left;
}
.navigation li.tr {
min-width : 1em;
max-width : 2em;
width : 1em;
background : white url(img/trs.gif) no-repeat right top;
}
.navigation li a.mi {
margin : 0 auto;
padding : 0;
min-width : 11em;
max-width : 12em;
margin-top : 5px;
width : 11em;
color : black;
text-decoration : none;
background : white;
}
.navigation a:hover {
text-decoration : underline;
}

I Just Cant Seem To Find Out What To Do,

Please Could SomeOne Help,

Thanks In Advance,

Jamie

Code:

<table style="width:90%;">
<tr>
  <td>
    Text goes here
  </td>
  <td>
    Text 2 goes here
  </td>
</tr>
</table>

The problem is that since I say width:90%, the second td is all the way to the right of my table. The width of the first table depends on the length of the text to be inserted. How can I have the text for the second td show up just to the right of where the 1st td ends? I'd like to do this without having to specify a fixed with in the first td.

I want some particular text on my page to have an underline that keeps going after the text has finished so it spans 100% of the page (actually a div, not a page). It's easier to understand what I'm trying to do if you look at the links at the bottom of my post. My problem is that I got it to work fine on Internet Explorer, but not on Mozilla.

Here is the webpage:
http://www.eutron-inc.com/newsite/

And here is the stylesheet:
http://www.eutron-inc.com/newsite/stylesheet.css

So... can somebody help me?

http://whittierpunks.com/test/bio.html and stylesheet

In the CENTER <div>, I want to have some text, with an image floated to the right. It's basic; there is no problem with an internal stylesheet (like the example at w3c)...but as you can see from my exapmle, its not doing that at all. And I'm not sure where the problem lies

Could someone show me how to correct this?
Many thanks,

I'm having a problem with CSS widths on Firefox. My website, http://www.freefootball.org looks good in IE7 but when I look at it in Firefox, the main div on the left gets pushed down. I'm using a conditional CSS statement to get it working in IE which works well so its the #maincontentdiv that is the problem. My code for the divs in question is below. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Code:

}#ffsquaread {
	display: block;
	width: 270px;
	text-align: center;
	float: right;
	margin-top: 10px;
}
#ffmaincontent {
	float: left;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 1.3em;
	color: #000000;
	display: block;
}
html>body #ffmaincontent {
	float: left;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 1.3em;
	color: #000000;
	display: block;
	width: 80%;
}

I'm having a problem with my top Navigation. The top left has a search box, with a fixed width, but the other boxes across the top need to be dynamic width. Anyone have any suggestions on a good way to do this? I assumed I could set the boxes to a % width, and the % would be based on the container div, but this doesn't appear to be the case. Below is the skeleton of my code.

I also have a problem with the main div. I cannot get it to float left of the side navigation bar when I put a sufficient amount of text in it.

Thanks for the time to help me out!

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
	
	<title>Welcome!</title>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" 
		content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

  <style TYPE="text/css">

	#header {
		color: #fff;
		background-color: #000;
	}
	#topNav {
		width: 100%;
		min-width: 750px;
		margin: 10px 0px;
		padding: 0;
		border: 1px solid #0f0;
	}

	#topNav:after {
		content:".";
		display:block;
		clear:left;
		height:0;
		visibility:hidden;
	}

	/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
		* html #topNav {height: 1%;}
	/* End hide from IE-mac */



	/* Search Box */
	#searchBox {
		float: left;
		padding: 0; 
		margin: 0;
		width: 150px;
		height: 125px;
		border: 1px solid #000;
		background: #FFF;
		text-align: center;
	}
	
	#nav, #nav ul {
		list-style: none;
		padding: 0;
		margin: 0;
	}

	#nav li {
		float: left;
		margin-left: 8px;
		padding: 0;
		width: 18%;
		height: 125px;
		border: 1px solid #000;
		background: #235;
		color: #FFF;
	}


	#sideNav {
		float: left;
		width: 151px; /* 1px adjustment for no border */
		margin-right: 10px;
		border: 1px solid #0f0;
	}

	/* sideNav Boxes */

	#sideNav .box {
		margin-bottom: 10px;
		padding: 5px 5px 5px 50px;
		border: 1px solid #000;
		height: 90px;  /* add 10 for padding */
		background: #235;
		color: #fff;
		background-repeat: no-repeat;
	}


/* Main Content Container */

	#main {
		float: left;
		padding: 10px;
		border: 1px solid #000; 
		background: #fff;
	}

/* Page Footer */

	#footer {
		clear: both;
		background: #235;
		border: 1px solid #000;
	
		color: #aaa;
		text-align: center;
	
		margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
		padding: 20px;
	}
  </style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="header">
	Top Header Area
</div>
<div id="topNav">

	<!-- Search Box -->

	<div id="searchBox">

	Fixed Size Search Box

	</div>

	<ul id="nav">
		<li >Dynamic Sized Box in Top Nav</li>
		<li>Dynamic Sized Box in Top Nav</li>
		<li>Dynamic Sized Box in Top Nav</li>
		<li>Dynamic Sized Box in Top Nav</li>
	</ul>
</div>

<div id="sideNav">
	<div class="box"> Fixed Size Box in Side Nav
		</div>
	<div class="box"> Fixed Size Box in Side Nav
		</div>
	<div class="box"> Fixed Size Box in Side Nav
		</div>
</div>

	<div id="main">
			Main Content Area<br /><br />
	
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	</div>

<div id="footer">
	Footer
</div>



</body>

</html>

I have a left div which is fixed let is say 400px and the right div should extend to the edge of the screen. How can i get it to extend.

If i don't give any width to the right div:
The right div has other dives which has got dotted bottom border, these dotted border will not extend to the end

any ideas?

cheers

I am having an issue with a div that I am trying to float and set the width of. The page works fine in Firefox, but in IE it doesn't display correctly,

Here is the pertinent code,

<div id="textbar" class="sidebar" style="width:175px;">
<div id="handle">
<a href="#"><img src="http://swvtc06/swvtc/images/collapse.jpg" border="0" alt="Click to Collapse the Navigation Bar" onclick="sidebar()" /></a>
</div>
<div id="sbText" style="display:block;">
<!--#include virtual="/swvtc/include/nav_test.htm" -->
<!--#include virtual="/swvtc/include/smweather.asp" -->
</div>
</div>

Here is the CSS for the #handle div,

#handle {
float:right;
width:9px;
}

In Firefox, the handle div is correctly inline with the background graphic. In IE, the handle div is about 9 pixels to the left of where it should be.

We are in the ancient times, we still are mandated to be using IE 6, so that is where I am having the problems.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks,
Drew

If I have the following:

<span id="span1"></span>
<span id="span2"></span>


If I set the width of span1, I want to have span2 adjust it's width to be the same automaticly. Something dynamic or a variable.

For example in simple terms.

span1.width = 150px;
alert(span2); would show 150px also.

Hope that make sense.


Thanks