CSS - Help!! I Is Noob..

Hey all.

I'm just starting out in web design. To make things even more complicated, I'm using CSS for my first ever website.

So I'm building this website from scratch, using online tutorials and such. But I'm running into a problem. On a PC, everything displays perfectly in IE and Firefox. But on a Mac, the nav bar is stretched with dead space after the last list item. This is the same in Safari, Firefox, and IE for Mac.

Would you guys give it a look and maybe help me around the issue? What I'd like is no dead space after the last list item on any computer, (if you're looking on a PC, it appears correct) and I want a fixed width.

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Thanks.

Hello,

I'm a self taught web designer, i've not really got much experience of CSS and i'm having a few issues with some alignment.

I'm in the process of developing a site for my cousin, what i'm trying to achieve is the left menu to be at the top of the page, and the text to be in the center of the screen, as i'm new here i'm not able to post a link to my site, so have posted the CSS below.

Playing with css and looking at Google I've padded the text so its where i want it, but i can't get the menu to come up from below the text.

Any help / links in the right direction would be really appreciated.

Code for the text:
Code:

p.mainbody
{ 
z-index: 1000; 
vertical-align:top; 
padding-left: 200px; 
padding-right: 250px; 
text-align:left;

code for the menu:
Code:

/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical 
{ 
vertical-align:top; 
margin: 0; 
padding: 0; 
list-style-type: none; 
font-size: 100%; 
cursor: default; 
width: 10em; 
/*height:10em;*/ 
} 
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */ 
ul.MenuBarActive 
{ z-index: 1000; } 
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are same fixed width as parent */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical li 
{ 
margin: 0; 
padding: 0; 
list-style-type: none; 
font-size: 100%; 
position: relative; 
text-align: left; 
cursor: pointer; 
width: 10em; 
} 
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical ul 
{ 
margin: -5% 0 0 95%; 
padding: 0; 
list-style-type: none; 
font-size: 100%; 
position: absolute; 
z-index: 1020; 
cursor: default; 
width: 8.2em; 
left: -1000em; 
top: 0; 
}
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible { left: 0; } 
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li { width: 8.sem; } 
/******************************************************************************* DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts *******************************************************************************/ 
/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical { border: 1px solid #CCC; } 
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical ul { border: 1px solid #CCC; } 
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical a 
{ 
display: block; 
cursor: pointer; 
background-color: #EEE; 
padding: 0.5em 0.75em; 
color: #333; 
text-decoration: none; 
} 
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus 
{ 
background-color: #33C; 
color: #FFF; 
} 
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible 
{ 
background-color: #33C; 
color: #FFF; 
} 
/******************************************************************************* SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item *******************************************************************************/ 
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenu 
{ 
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif); 
background-repeat: no-repeat; 
background-position: 95% 50%; 
} 
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover 
{ 
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif); 
background-repeat: no-repeat; 
background-position: 95% 50%; 
} 
/******************************************************************************* BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert *******************************************************************************/ 
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */ 
ul.MenuBarVertical iframe 
{ 
position: absolute; 
z-index: 1010; 
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1); 
} 
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */ 
@media screen, projection 
{ 
ul.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE 
{ 
display: inline; 
float: left; 
background: #FFF; 
} 
}

Many Thanks

Basic positioning problem...

Suppose I want to stack two (or more) elements on top of eachother, sort of a column. I want a masthead (images), and boxes of text below it. So I tried this:

Quote:
<html>
<head>
<title>No Jail Test Page</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
div.box_one
{
width: 100%;
background: url(./Image_Back.gif);

}
div.image_left
{
float: left;
}
div.image_right
{
float: right;
}
div.box_two
{
background-color: #F4F4F4;
width: 100%;
border: 2px solid #006633;
border-collapse: collapse;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box_one">
<div class="image_left"><img src="images1.gif"></div>
<div class="image_right"><img src="images2.gif"></div>
</div>
<div class="box_two">
Some Text Some Text
</div>
</body>
</html>


But the images end up over the text, so obviously I don't understand the positioning.

SEE ATTACHED IMAGE

Can someone point out my positioning problem here and recomend a tutorial?

[EDIT] This actually looks almost perfict in IE, it's in FF that things "stack up" on eachother...

Hi ..

I have decided to teach myself Web Development .. and I have jumped into HTML and CSS first .. and will be branching off to PHP once I have a solid HTML and CSS foundation ..

To teach myself practically .. I have decided to make a webpage that does nothing but have a blank coloured background and an area to write text that is surrounded by a rounded rectangle constructed of gifs ..

I know this may not be the most efficient way to do this, but I am using this as an exercise to gain a greater holistic understanding of the way CSS works with HTML.

The desired outcome is to have a rounded rectangle box that will be drawn to fit its container, so that it can be reused all over the place ...

The code is pasted below, and any images can be substituted for the ones in my code .. but my question is .. : in the attached code, why is the final element not lined up horizontally with the other 2 elements ??


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "(*********)">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="body">
<div id="container">
<div id="box_top_left">
</div>
<div id="box_top">
</div>
<div id="box_top_right">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS Code

div#container{
width: 500px;
height : 500px;
position:absolute;
background:#7868723;
}

div#box_top_left{
width: 10px;
height: 10px;
display: block;
float:left;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: *******
}
div#box_top_right{
width: 16px;
height: 10px;
float: right;
position: relative;
display: block;
top: 0px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: ********
}
div#box_top{
width: 100% - 26px;
height: 10px;
display:block;
position:relative;
left : -5px;
margin:0;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-image: *******
}

Thanks for any assistance you can give ...