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CSS - Help With Absolutely Positioned Element Within Relative Parent
The goal of the following code is to have a search box with several tabs above it to narrow down the search. The issue is that the design calls for a little upside down triangle to appear below the tab and bleed into the text box. The code works great in Firefox and even in IE6 where the Doctype was switched to HTML 3.2. I'm using 4.01 Transitional and noticing that the arrow doesn't center itself below the tab, rather it centers itself in the entire page. If I take out the width: 100% from .searchbox li.active .downarrow, then both browsers behave the same, although the downarrow now appears in the left bottom corner of the tab rather than the center.
Note that I've stripped most of the code away to narrow down the issue. Code:
<style>
.searchbox ul { float: left; padding-left: 10px; list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 10px 0 0 0; }
.searchbox li { float: left; }
.searchbox li .downarrow { display: none; }
.searchbox li a { display: block; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px; color: #213327; }
.searchbox li.active { position: relative; }
.searchbox li.active a { color: #fff; border: 1px solid #b3b2b0; background: #266d1e url('/c2footsearchbg.jpg') repeat-x scroll top left; }
.searchbox li.active a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
.searchbox li.active .downarrow { display: block; position: absolute; bottom: -9px; width: 100%; height: 10px; text-align: center; margin: auto; }
.searchbox div { clear: both; display: inline-block; }
.searchbox input.txt { border: 2px solid #999; padding: 5px 0 0 3px; width: 305px; height: 30px; }
.searchbox input.submit { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #fff; width: 71px; height: 30px; border: 0; background: transparent url('/c2searchbutton.jpg') no-repeat scroll top left; vertical-align: top; cursor: pointer; }
.searchbox input.submit:hover { background-position: 0 -30px; }
</style>
<div class="searchbox">
<h3>Search</h3>
<ul id="c2FootSearch">
<li class="active"><a href="/index.php">Main</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/groups/">Groups</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/people/">People</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/petitions/">Petitions</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/news/">News</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
</ul>
<div>
<form action="/searchall.html" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="search" value="main" />
<input type="text" name="q" class="txt" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
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...
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<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
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<style>
body
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.centered
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</style>
</head>
<body>
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I'm a centered absolutely positioned div.
</div>
</body>
</html>
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.container {
position: relative;
}
.container div {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
}
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#hd {
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 780px;
margin: 30px 0 0 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #0099CC;
}
#hdlogo {
float: left;
margin: 0 0 18px 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: left;
}
#hdnav {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#hdnav ul {
position: absolute;
bottom: 16px;
right: 0;
height: 22px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#hdnav ul li {
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
#hdnav ul li a:link img, #hdnav ul li a:visited img {
border: 0;
}
#hdbar {
clear: right;
width: 780px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
And the HTML... Code: <div id="hd"> <div id="hdlogo"> <img src="images/logo.gif" alt="Home" title="Home"/> </div> <div id="hdnav"> <ul> <li><a href="index.htm"><img src="images/home.gif" alt="Home" title="Home" /></a></li> <li><a href="aboutus.htm"><img src="images/aboutus.gif" alt="About us" title="About us" /></a></li> <li><a href="performance.htm"><img src="images/performance.gif" alt="Performance" title="Performance" /></a></li> <li><a href="aesthetics.htm"><img src="images/aesthetics.gif" alt="Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics" /></a></li> <li><a href="sustainability.htm"><img src="images/sustainability.gif" alt="Sustainability" title="Sustainability" /></a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="hdbar"> <img src="images/hd-bar.gif" alt="" title="" /> <!-- hd-bar is 780px wide by 16px high --> </div> </div> Just for further knowledge, here's the body tag, and the two container wraps for the rest of the site... Code:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #555759;
}
body a:link, body a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #555759;
}
body a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #555759;
}
#content {
width: 780px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
}
#allwrap {
float: left;
width: 780px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#content centers everything and #allwrap is a container for all it's child elements. I've also had a colleague that said in IE 6.0 that the navigation stacks, rather than displays inline. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks a bunch.. -Brian found what I was looking for. How can I position several elements, relative to the position of another element? I tried this: <div> Test <span style="position:relative;top:40;left:40">Foo</span> <span style="position:relative;top:40;left:40">Bar</span> </div> I want both Foo and Bar to be 40 pixels to the right and below of Test. But they appear next to eachother instead of stacking on top of eachother. How can I position them "relative" to the div tag? I was under the understanding that an element positioned absolutely is positioned in context to the closest parent object that has positioning of absolute or relative, and barring that, the body. I have quite simple code: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <div style="position:relative; height:50px; width:250px; background:#69c;"> <input type="text" style="position:absolute; top:5px; left:0; right:0;"> </div>
I would expect this to be top-aligned with 5 pixels of blue showing, and stretched the width of the containing div, but it's not. It's the correct height from the div but not the sides of the container - can anyone tell me why that is, or what should be done ( short of width:100%; )? Thanks, Brett |
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