CSS - Background Image Positioning And Table Problem In Firefox
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I recently started creating websites again and I have been pulling my hair out on this Firefox compatibility issue. The site navigation looks great in IE but in Firefox a couple of the background images are skewed down and to the left. Since all my tricks from years ago are so outdated now, I decided to try CSS for a simplified navigation setup. The code is probably pretty messy since I chopped it together from numerous sources and still am not completely sure how it works. Background: I created a large 794x1200 PNG image that contains two complete border and navigation sets. I am using CSS to both position the appropriate portion in each table/cell as well as switching to a slice on the 2nd image set for rollover purposes. An example of the current test is he (URL address blocked: See forum rules) *not sure if this is okay but would be best to see the example. If it is not allowed as a non-clickable then feel free to delete. It is here - classtime . org / test6 . htm and the navigation image is he (URL address blocked: See forum rules) *classtime . org / navigate . png I would be eternally grateful to anyone that can help me figure out why the site works great in IE but is coming up skewed in Firefox. As a side note, when I pull up the site in Frontpage, it shows the left-most cell as being larger than it is supposed to be even though it is hardcoded. To get my left image bar to show up in the correct place I had to use a value of "left: -40px;" I'm not sure why that is but I suspect it has something to do with the problem. Thank you very much for taking a look. My jumbled code is as follows: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <title>Ultrasonic Blind Company - Elk Grove Village, Illinois</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> a:link {color: #FFF4D1;} a:visited {color: #FFF4D1;} a:hover {color: #74060c;} a:active {color: #FFF4D1;} .top a { display: block; width: 794px; height: 120px; background-image: url('navigate.png'); } .top a:hover { background-position: 0px -601px; } #left { left: -40px; width: 150px; height: 460px; display: block; background: url('navigate.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0px -120px; position: relative; } #left li {margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; position: absolute; text-align: center; font: bold 18px Batang; line-height: 50px; } #left li, #left a {height: 50px; width: 146px; display: block;} #panel1b {top: 10px;} #panel2b {top: 63px;} #panel3b {top: 116px;} #panel4b {top: 169px;} #panel5b {top: 223px;} #panel1b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -730px no-repeat} #panel2b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -785px no-repeat} #panel3b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -839px no-repeat} #panel4b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -890px no-repeat} #panel5b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -945px no-repeat} #right { width: 154px; height: 460px; display: block; background: url('navigate.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: -640px -120px; position: relative; } #right li {margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; position: absolute; text-align: right; font: bold 18px Batang; } #right li, #right a {height: 85px; width: 154px; display: block;} #panel1r {top: 0px;} #panel2r {top: 100px;} #panel3r {top: 200px;} #panel4r {top: 300px;} #panel1r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -721px no-repeat} #panel2r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -821px no-repeat} #panel3r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -921px no-repeat} #panel4r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -1021px no-repeat} </style> </head> <body bgcolor=#74060c> <div align=center> <table id="Table_01" width=794px height=600px border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td colspan="3" height="120" width="794" bgcolor="#FFF4D1"> <div class="top"> <a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=left valign=top height=674px width=150px bgcolor="#FFF4D1"> <ul id="left"> <li id="panel1b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Contact</a></li> <li id="panel2b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Residential</a></li> <li id="panel3b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Commercial</a></li> <li id="panel4b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Coupons</a></li> <li id="panel5b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Questions</a></li> </ul> </td> <td align=left valign=top width=490px height=674px bgcolor="#FFF4D1"> aaa</td> <td align=left valign=top width=154px height=674px bgcolor="#FFF4D1"> <p align=right> <ul id="right"> <li id="panel1r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li> <li id="panel2r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li> <li id="panel3r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li> <li id="panel4r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html> Similar TutorialsHey folks, here's an odd problem that's got me totally stumped. I've got a nine item unordered list, each of which is a link that contains both text and a background image. The background image is a large spritebox. I'm using background-position to shift the spritebox to display the sprite specific to the a:link and also to display a separate a:hover version. Looks great in Safari and CSSEdit, but in Firefox four of the links are misplaced and the sprite is incorrect. The hover state is correct, however. This is hard to explain, but the example should help illustrate the problem. My thought was that it was related the psuedo class of a:link, but nothing I've tried seems to help. Any thoughts? The example file contains both the HTML and the CSS (just to simplify this problem for this forum). The full background image and the file containing the sprites is at my website, artmeetsearth dot org slash 2011 slash codetest dot html. To get the image type socialmediaicons.jpg instead of codetest. Thanks for any help you can offer! Hi all Having some problems with background image positioning - all CSS/XHTML has been validated See http://community.foe.co.uk/tmp/quote_and_image_test.html Relevant CSS : Code: #imageleft {padding:0px; float:left; width:auto; margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:5px} .imagecaptionleft{padding:0px; margin:0px; text-align:left; font-size:8pt} blockquote { background: transparent url(/images/common/quote1a.gif) left top no-repeat; margin:0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; color:#000; } blockquote div { padding: 2px 30px; background: transparent url(/images/common/quote2a.gif) right bottom no-repeat; } Relevant html Code: <div id="imageleft"> <img src="/images/common/dummy.gif" alt="Test image" width="100" height="100" /> <div class="imagecaptionleft">Caption goes here</div></div> <blockquote><div> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vestibulum augue odio, condimentum et, iaculis quis, facilisis nec, quam. Aliquam eros. Nulla ut lorem. Cras bibendum orci at ligula lobortis bibendum.</p> </div></blockquote> The opening quote mark is hidden behind the image - as you can see it has a position of left, and for some reason the <div> within the <blockquote> is including the image so is full width. Any help appreciated I have a problem I can't resolve as I'm out of my depth with this CSS positioning issue on a joomla site with a bespoke template I have customised. The problem is that the client (a graphic designer) created a menu design where the top level menu buttons overlap with a curve. I have assigned a background image on hover and it works well. You can see it he I can't post an image of the menu as it won't let me, being a new poster, which is a pain... Code: #horiz-menu a:hover { display: block; z-index: 100; line-height: 22px; left:-53px; position: relative; background: url("../images/style9/menu-bar-hover.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent; padding-left:63px; height:27px; width:162px; border-bottom:1px solid #fff; margin-bottom:-3px; } To achieve the overlap, the background has to sit behind the button to its left and that is achieved by moving it a fixed amount of pixels leftward. The menu text is then put back in place with the padding. However the client now wants the hovered image to stick in the parent position when the submenu items are hovered over. I've achieved this with: Code: #horiz-menu li.parent.active a { background: url("../images/style9/menu-bar-hover.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent; z-index: 100; line-height: 22px; left:-53px; position: relative; padding-left:63px; height:27px; width:162px; border-bottom:1px solid #fff; } The trouble is that although the background image is positioned correctly, it has a knock-on effect on all the submenu list items which are being positioned to the beginning of the background image, 53 pixels to the left... I cannot pad the submenu items over to the right as it causes all the other submenus items under the other parents to move to the right too. I suppose my question is twofold: is there any way of setting the active parent list item background image position without the children items inheriting the position change? ; is there a better way of doing what I am attempting to do? If the client had not specified overlapping buttons I would be in the clear but my client was a graphic designer who designed without any thought as to the css implications. The requirements have been signed off and I have to find a way of implementing it. Please, any thoughts? I am not a css coder and I find css to be impenetrable, arcane whilst being slow and difficult to debug. All help really appreciated. Hi there, First time posting here so dont bite my head off! First up allow me to say, that i've done a search for previous posts and although i found topics similiar to what im asking none of the answers within helped me. Second, i've run my CSS and XHTML through the validation service over at w3c. - XHTML transitional - is valid on all pages apart from the main page this is due to me running cutenews on that page and the markup isnt valid. - CSS is valid. Okay to business, im hoping someone out there can help me, i've recently just updated my website with a new layout. It works perfectly in IE-6 but not in firefox, or any other browser for that matter (i used browsercam). I have issues with the background images not displaying as they should do. And not only that, my flash animation at the top of the page isnt displaying in FF either! Heres a link to my website And heres a link to the CSS file someone help please! I'm trying to get a repeating background image to show up in my Firefox browser but can't get it to work. Grateful if somebody can tell me what is wrong with this code? Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!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>Test</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css" media="all"> #header { background:#A31135 url(images/fill.gif) repeat-x fixed; height:100px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> </body> </html> Many thanks. Hi, has anyone ever had a problem with firefox only (not IE). that when you shift your background image, the divs on top shift with it? I dont want them to shift down but they do when I look at it in firefox its shifted, in IE its not. I am sorry this is my first posting. if anybody can help me, thanks alot. Here is my code: 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> <style type="text/css"> #outer { width: 820px; height:800px; margin: auto; background: url(images/background2.png); background-repeat: no repeat; background-position: center; } </style> <title>test</title> </head> <body> <div id="outer"> <div style="backgroundimage:url(images/header2.png); background-repeat: no repeat; background-position: center; width:819px; height:120px; margin-top:20px;"> </div> <div style="background-image:url(images/header2.png); background-repeat: no repeat; background-position: center; margin-top:20px; width:819px; height:120px; "> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> I am trying to set background of my divs with: background:#FFFFFF url(images/nheadlines_bg.gif) top no-repeat; It works fine with IE but at Firefox there is only a white background. You can check this out at: http://www.pearl.ru/isdunyasi Hey everyone, I'm redesigning a site and I'm running into some problems in firefox with the placement of the header-background image. The problem is that firefox places the image about 15 pixels below the intended area. When I add a border of 1 pixel to the header div firefox places the image correctly. I don't have this problem when viewing the site in IE. I've coded the following XHTML and css: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>ParaCentrumEeldeHoogeveen</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="nl" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/layout.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> </div> </div> </body> </html> And the css file: Code: html { padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } body { background: #3a60db url('../gfx/background.jpg') repeat-x; font-family: arial, "lucida console", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000000; text-align: center; margin: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; } #container { border: 0px solid #ff0000; width: 760px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; } #header { background: url('../gfx/header.jpg') no-repeat; height: 238px; width: 760px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } Screenshot of the problem Does anybody know what the problem is? Thanks in advance. Grtz. Arjen My logo is defined as a background image in my .css. It appears in IE when I print/print preview, but in FF it does not. This is the .css code for the logo div: #logo { float: left; margin-left:1px; width: 200px; background:url(../images/mm-logo.jpg) no-repeat; height:50px;} Any ideas or suggestions? i have table in which i display bunch of query results. i use <table width="80%" ....background="something.gif"> when the user's screen resolution is high the table still takes 80% of the space but the background image starts repeating. is there a way to automatically extend the image width in case the user's screen resolution is high? thanks for the help in advance Hi, I have centered a table horizontally and vertically. To do this I put a table inside a table. so i don't want to use absolute positioning, as the position would change if the window size changes... My problem, with relative positioning, is that I can't figure out how to put my "some text" over an image -which is inside the table cell- in the exact position i want, without "collateral damage"... The collateral damage is that if I put the <div> tag inside the table (see example 1), it will occupy the space and as result the image wll be moved down and layout won't be centered vertically anymore... If I put the <div> tag outside the table (see example 2), as result there will be more occupied space at the top, and the layout isn't centered anymore... Here you can see the code i used for both example 1 and example 2: example 1: <html> <head> <title>relative problem - example 1</title> </head> <body> <table width="100%" height=100% border="1"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="100%" align="center" valign="middle"> <table border=1> <tr> <td width="640" height="480"> <div id="Layer1" style="position:relative; left:50px; top:50px; width:50px; height:200px; text-align:left; overflow: auto; z-index:1;"> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text </div> <img src="http://www.pbworks.net/images/help.jpg" width="640" height="480"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> example 2: <html> <head> <title>relative problem - example 2</title> </head> <body> <table width="100%" height=100% border="1"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="100%" align="center" valign="middle"> <div id="Layer1" style="position:relative; left:0px; top:200px; width:50px; height:200px; text-align:left; overflow: auto; z-index:1;"> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text </div> <table border=1> <tr> <td width="640" height="480"> <img src="http://www.pbworks.net/images/help.jpg" width="640" height="480"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> thx for letting me know... I am desperate. I think I found a bug in Firefox, and I'm not sure how to work around it. The following code works in everything (IE 8, Chrome, Safari, Opera) except Firefox (version 3.6.3). Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in Firefox? You can look what happens to the drop-down menu's on Menu 2 and 3 live by going to my site (deenfoxx dot com slash firefox-bug dot html). css Code: Original - css Code #main-nav { background-color: black; height: 40px; } #nav { position: relative; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #nav li { position: relative; float: left; display: table; width: 99px; height: 40px; border-right: 1px solid white; text-align: center; font-size: 10px; } #nav li:hover { background-color: darkred; } #nav a { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #fff; } #nav li ul { position: absolute; padding: 0; background-color: gray; top: 40px; left: 0px; } #nav li ul li { width: 98px; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid white; } #main-nav html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <div id="main-nav"> <ul id="nav"> <li id="m1"><a href="#1">Main Menu 1</a></li> <li> <a href="#2">Main Menu 2</a> <ul> <li><a href="#2a">Sub-Category 1</a></li> <li><a href="#2b">Sub-Category<br/>with multiple lines</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#3">Main Menu 3 with multiple lines</a> <ul> <li><a href="#3a">Sub-Category 2</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#4">Main Menu item which has a really long name on it</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="main-nav"> The problem appears to be that "#nav li" happens to have position:relative; and a display:table; and "#nav li ul" is position:absolute;. Normally, absolute positioning requires its parent or ancestor position to be set, but when used with the table display, it doesn't work normally on Firefox--but it does on other browsers. Can someone help me with a workaround that does not involve altering the HTML? If I must, I will accept a workaround that requires changing the HTML, but I'll have to do some heavy duty recoding of Magento's core menu generation. Anyone that knows Magento knows I want to avoid that like the plague--my example is a very simplified version of the problem. Hello! If i need to put background-image at the bottom of display i use such css rule: background-position: bottom; but in my case i need image to be fixed in right bottom corner. apparently i cant use two declarations like: background-position: bottom; background-position: right; so how could i attain this via just CSS? Hi, I learned css a couple of years ago but am real rusty...anyways, here is an image that i wanted as the background to the top of the page. in the white space, i simply want a horizontal menu with 4 links. i cannot figure out how to position my links in that space correctly. any help appreciated! [/IMG]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1333/toplogoinfo.jpg[/IMG] here is the code i have so far: 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" /> <title>Precision Truck Painting and Repair</title> <style type="text/css"> .body{ margin:0; padding:0; } #page { width: 800px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; } #banner { background-image:url(images/jpegs/top_logo_info.jpg); height: 140px; background-repeat:no-repeat; } ul.nav { list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0; margin:0px 0 0 360px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } ul.nav li { display: inline; width:115px;} ul.nav a { text-decoration:none; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div id="banner"> <div id="top"> <ul class="nav"> <li class="index"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li class="painting"><a href="pages/painting_collision.html">Painting/Collision</a></li> <li class="painting"><a href="pages/body_trailer_repairs.html">Trailer & Body Repairs</a></li> <li class="index"><a href="pages/Contact_us.html">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> Hi there, I'm trying to position a background image (starting 756 pixels from the left) which is repeating horizontally - but of course am running into problems because as soon as you repeat-x an image repeats the whole screen, not taking into account background positions. Does anyone have any ideas how I can possibly avoid this?! The only thing I can think of is to create a huge image to factor in for all screen solutions, and just not repeat it at all. I'd prefer not to do it this way as firstly it's not very clean, and secondly it will result in a large file size. Here is a link to the background image to show you what I'm talking about: http://joshsphotos.com/images/bg.jpg I've also put in the CSS that would show what I'm trying to achieve. Code: body { background-image: url(../images/bg_repeat.jpg); background-position: 756px 0px; background-repeat: repeat-x; } Any help would be most appreciated. Hi all, Okay, so I've got a page with a central column which has a drop-shadow and a background image... The obvious problem is that the repeated background image doesn't always line-up with the background image in the dropshadow. Plus, The backround image changes position whenever the page is resized. So I was looking here, to see if I could find the code to center the background image in the screen, and make it a fixed position, but even then, when you resize the page, the background image seems to move with it. Does anyone know how to fix a background image so that it will stay aligned with the central content/dropshadow of the page? Thanks. I have worked out a section banner. There is one for each section in a column of 4 or 5. The buttons on the left call a JavaScript that move DIVs up and down, reordering the content as the user wishes. Anyway, I'm having trouble figuring out how to make the center section where the Title is, non-fixed (expand to fit the space). I'd like it to spread out to as wide as the container allows, minus the width of the left and right ends, of course. See the actual thingy on a test page he Siliconsatan Here's the styles: Code: <style type="text/css" media="all"> .col_tab_left { position: relative; width: 36px; height: 30px; left: 0px; top: 0px; background-image: url(./images/col_tab_left.gif); } .col_tab_middle { width: 430px; height: 30px; position: absolute; left: 36px; top: 0px; background-image: url(./images/col_tab_bg.gif); text-align: center; } .col_tab_right { width: 26px; height: 30px; position: absolute; left: 466px; top: 0px; background-image: url(./images/col_tab_right.gif); text-align: center; } .col_tab_title { font-family: tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: .05em; color: #003366; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px } .col_block_up { width: 36px; height: 30px; border: 0px solid #003366; left: 5px; } .col_block_down { width: 36px; height: 30px; border: 0px solid #003366; position: absolute; left: 13px; top: 0px; } .col_image { position: relative; display:block; left: 6px; top: 12px; } </style> Here's the html: Code: <div class="col_tab_left"> <div class="col_block_up"> <img onclick="MoveBlock('ys101','bizJournalCity','Up');" class="col_image" src="images/block_up2.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="" alt="Move section up" title="Move section up" style="cursor:pointer;" /> </div> <div class="col_block_down"> <img onclick="MoveBlock('ys101','bizJournalCity','Down');" class="col_image" src="images/block_down2.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="" alt="Move section down" title="Move section down" style="cursor:pointer;" /> </div> <div class="col_tab_middle"><span class="col_tab_title">Business Journal News</span></div> <div class="col_tab_right"></div> </div> It looks like this: I have successfully added a background image to the page but it does not center how I want it to. Right now it is positioned at top center. I would like to move it to Center center of entire page. Using this code instead of center for background-position did not do anything. Neither did 50%, 50%. What can I do to move this over. I have the same problem with a picture file to go above the background file and web links which are all placed at top left of page. It would be nice to move them to top center of page. How is this possible through html code? Here is the code for the background image: <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url(picture/bamboo.jpg) } body { background-position: center } body {background-repeat: no-repeat } </style> Thank you for your help, Hi I am trying to position a background image in my list, but I can't seem to position it where I want it, heres the example http://dmumford.bizhat.com/test/list.htm I need the bullet to be before the link home, but when I change the padding in the ul class the bullett moves with it, if that makes sense. Could someone please help me! Thank you! |