CSS - Ie6: Container Div Does Not Surround Margin Of Inner Element (even With Overflow Set)

I have a container div that has a height of 500px.

My page content only takes up about 300px and I want a copyright notice at the bottom of the page.

So I am trying to get the copyright div to bottom align on the container div. In FF, position:absolute;bottom:0; works but that doesn't work in IE which for some reason places the div outside the container div.

Any tips on how to do this?

I'm looking for a CSS element that behaves like a table, where the size of the container will always be just big enough to surround the data inside, and will grow or shrink based on the content inside without having to specify any widths or heights.

A div (with a border) with no width specified will go on forever horizontally. A table (with a border) with no width will stop as soon as the data inside ends.

Is there a way to simulate this table behavior using CSS?

Thanks

okay I don't know why my text will not wrap in any of my "float:rights" My quicklink section I don't care about as much as the feature student section I'm building. The text spills out of the paragrah block and keeps running.

http://www.mgan.net/form-honors/main(2).htm

Any thoughts on how to fix it or a link to a site that would explain it's just as good

Hi all,
The easiest way to see the problem is to look at this demo in firefox. (I haven't patched it to work in IE yet.)

The menu items in the 1st 2 menu's don't expand to fill the available area. Any ideas?

Please look at
http://certified.tmhdesign.com/know.asp in FF

I have a div element with an id of "know" that is appearing under an h1 element with an id of know_header

In Firefox there is an unwanted top margin on the div#know (or a bottom margin on the H1 element).

I can't seem to understand why?

T

My css is at CSS.
The site is at site
The problem I am having is that on the .maintextdiv or the .subtextdiv if I add any left or right margin values IE6 in strict mode is adding that value to the parent element, #rightbox. I should clarify that if I add margin values to just one of them it displays fine, but if I add margin values to both of them then I end up with the problem of extra space added to the parent element.

More wierdness, if those (maintextdiv and subtextdiv) are not floated then the problem doesn't show up at all. It's only once they got floated did I have problems. This behavior doesn't show up in FF or Safari. Anyone with any ideas?

Forget it, I solved the issue. How does one delete a post like this...

Pleae look at this page in IE8 & Firefox -
Click Here

It appears as I want it in FF but in IE there is a gap between the paragraph in the center column and the first listing of product. I have tried to put margins on all elements but can not get that closed in IE. Can someone shed some light? Thanks. Tom

I don't know why but for some reason I thought if you give an element a position of absolute the margin is irrelevant. Not so in FF huh? Tom

My CSS works in IE and Mozilla but not Netscape or Opera
I have a 2 column website, built with 2 relative position DIVs, with overflow set to auto. Because of this, I turned off overflow on the body tag and on the html tag (overflow: hidden;). I didn't want to have 2 scroll bars on the right side of the window. When I first tested this on 4 browsers, IE, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, it worked great, only having one scroll bar on the right side of the window when the page was longer than the window height. But when I moved to a new host server recently, I discovered that Netscape and Opera stopped working. They now simply give me blank screens. When I remove the "overflow: hidden;" specifications from the body tag and the HTML tag in my CSS file, Netscape and Opera once again display my web pages. However, now I get 2 scrollbars on the right side of all 4 browsers (in IE, the second scrollbar isn't actually there, but the space holder for the scrollbar is there).

Is there a cross browser way for doing what I'm trying to do? Or am I faced with detecting the browser type on the server-side, and setting the style sheet appropriately?

Here are the related parts of my CSS:

/* CSS styles */
BODY {
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ;
font-size : 10pt;
background : Black;
color : White;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border-width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}


HTML {
overflow: hidden;
}


#LeftNavDIV {
position:relative;
width:185px;
height:100%;
float:left;
padding:2px 0px 0px 0px;
margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
border:1px solid white;
overflow:auto;
}


#ContentDIV {
position:relative;
height:100%;
width:75%;
float:right;
padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
border:0px dashed #336699;
overflow:auto;
}

Hi There -

Have a simple container div containing two other divs, top and content.

My problem is that I can't get the colorboxtop to stick to the top of its container. There's a wayward space. Can't find any stray margins or padding hanging around. Perhaps fresh eyes can see what I cannot. Please let me know.

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Code:

<body>

<div class="colorbox">

  <div class="colorboxtop">
    <h2>title goes here</h2>
  </div><!-- /colorboxtop -->

  <div class="boxcontent">
    <p>You should read this and <a href="#">Click Here</a>.</p>
    <a title="Go Here!" href="#">[button]</a>
  </div><!-- /boxcontent -->

</div><!-- /colorbox -->

</body>

No great complexity there...here's the CSS:

Code:

body {
	color:#666666;
	font-family:Lucida Grande,Verdana,sans;
	font-size:10px;
	font-size-adjust:none;
	font-style:normal;
	font-variant:normal;
	font-weight:normal;
	line-height:13px;
}

.colorbox {
	margin-bottom:9px;
	padding-bottom:15px;
	width:300px;
	border:thin solid #CCCCCC;
}

.colorbox h2 {
	color:#FFCC33;
}

.colorbox {
	color:#CC6633;
	padding:0px 20px 15px;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:10px;
}

.colorboxtop {
	background-color: #dddddd;
	height:50px;
	color:#666666;
	background-image: url(images/bg_Tiles/stripe-dk-blue-green.png);
	padding:auto 20px;
}

.colorbox a {
	color:#C5DBE9;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-decoration:none;
}

I've been looking through many, many forums trying to resolve this issue, so please forgive me if there is a solution to this that I've missed.

Here's the deal:
On some installs of Firefox (4.0), the body is being positioned 28px lower than the top of the screen. I set the <html> tag to have a light blue background to troubleshoot the issue, and now there is a light blue bar across the top of the page, proving that it is the body of the page that is lower than it should be.

I thought it was a Firefox "collapsing margin" issue, so I added "margin:0; to almost everything, and it didn't help.

I'm trying to do this without having to absolutely position everything.

Here's the site:
www-dot-myportlandtours-dot-com

here's the css:
www-dot-myportlandtours-dot-com/wp-content/themes/myportlandtours/style.css

Anybody have insight into this?

Background info:
- I have validated the page and CSS, no problems there
- Site is working properly in Firefox and IE, seems to be a margin issue in Safari
-This margin issue is not the common Safari bug with a negative margin being applied to a floated element
-I am using Safari in a windows environment, I do not have a Mac

The problem:
-in Safari the top margin on the content either is either not being applied at all or is being interpreted differently
-it may be of note that I was having the same issue with IE, but was able to specify an IE specific style sheet for it, I don't believe this is possible in Safari?

The website:
http://www.lisa-noble.com/test/redo.html

The HTML
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>
<head>
  <title>Site Test</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="redo.css" />
   <!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
<![endif]-->
</head>

<body>

<div id="top_filler">
</div>

  <div id="left_filler">
</div>

<div id="right_filler">
</div>

<div id="top_left">
</div>

<div id="header">
</div>

<div id="top_right">
</div>

<div id="content">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>   

<p>Etc, etc, etc....</p>
</div>

<div id="bottom_filler">
</div>

<div id="bottom_left">
</div>

<div id="bottom_right">
</div>

</body>
</html>

The CSS
Code:

* {
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
}

body {
   background: #fdd9e9;
}

div#top_filler {
   background: url(images/bg_slice_sm.png) repeat-x;
   width: 100%;
   height: 164px;
   position: fixed;
   top: 0px;
   z-index: 5;
}

div#left_filler {
   background: url(images/left_slice_sm.png) repeat-y;
   width: 174px;
   height: 100%;
   position:fixed;
   left:0px;
   z-index: 5;
   
}

div#right_filler {
   background: url(images/right_slice_sm.png) repeat-y;
   width: 161px;
   height: 100%;
   position:fixed;
   right: 0px;
   z-index:5;
}

div#bottom_filler {
   background: url(images/bottom_slice_sm.png) repeat-x;
   width: 100%;
   height: 76px;
   position: fixed;
   bottom: 0px;
   z-index: 5;
}

div#header {
   position: fixed;
   top: 0px;
   left: 37%;
   height: 125px;
   width: 316px;
   margin: 0 auto;
   background: url(pink_logo2.png) no-repeat;
   z-index: 25;
}

ul.NoBulletNoIndent {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin-left: 0px;
  padding-left: 0px
}

div#top_left {
   height: 314px;
   width: 221px;
   background: url(images/left_top_corner_sm.png) no-repeat;
   position: fixed;
   top: 0px;
   left: 0px;
   z-index: 5;
}

div#bottom_left {
   height: 175px;
   width: 176px;
   background: url(images/left_bottom_corner_sm.png) bottom no-repeat;
   position: fixed;
   bottom: 0px;
   left: 0px;
   z-index: 5;
   
}

div#top_right{
   height:174px;
   width:174px;
   background: url(images/right_top_corner_sm.png) top no-repeat;
   position: fixed;
   top:0px;
   right: 0px;
   z-index:5
}

div#bottom_right{
   height: 602px;
   width:198px;
   background: url(images/right_bottom_corner2_sm.png) bottom no-repeat;
   position: fixed;
   bottom: 0px;
   right: 0px;
   z-index: 5
}

div#content {
   margin: 40px 164px 0px 180px;
   position: relative;
   z-index: 1;
}

Heya guys,

Hope someone can help me with this one. Been looking around the web but most are suggesting to do what i have already done.

I've got this in style.css file:

Code:

/* SEARCH Bar */
.lb_bl {background: url(/img/lb_bl.gif) 0 100% no-repeat #E5ECEC}
.lb_br {background: url(/img/lb_br.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat}
.lb_tl {background: url(/img/lb_tl.gif) 0 0 no-repeat}
.lb_tr {background: url(/img/lb_tr.gif) 100% 0 no-repeat; padding: 3px}
.clear {font-size: 1px; height: 1px}

.topform {
	position: absolute;
	right: 5px;
	top: 65px;
	width: 300px;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-family: myriad, verdana, sans-serif;
	text-align: right; }
	
input, form {
	font-size: 11px;
	font-family: myriad, verdana, sans-serif;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin: 0px; }
/* End of SEARCH Bar */

Which refers to this part of my index.php page:

Code:

  <!-- Top right SEARCH -->
  <div class="topform"> 
    <div class="lb_bl"> 
      <div class="lb_br"> 
        <div class="lb_tl"> 
          <div class="lb_tr">
            <form name="form" id="form" method="post" action=""><input name="search" type="text" />
            <input name="search" type="button" value="SEARCH" /></form>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
  </div>
  <!-- End of top right SEARCH -->

But i am still getting a space below the form in IE (firefox is perfect). What should i do? You can see an example of the page at www.theresortwarehouse.com

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help - Gaz