CSS - "semi-absolute?"
Is there a way to position something inside another block relative to the coordinates of its parent block? I mean something analogous to the way position: absolute puts a block relative to the coordinates of the body. So I could say have a block with a width and a height, and then have something "right: 20px" inside that block.
Similar TutorialsI'm taking over a departmental web page that has a whole bunch of Code: <body topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0"> in the web pages. Does anyone know how to put this in a stylesheet so that I don't have to put this code in every <body> tag when I create a new page? I've searched all over and can't find a reasonable resolution. Thanks I'm trying to cut down on my use of the absoute property in CSS. But I'm having some troubles. To make part of my drop-down menus, I am creating small mini pages to start with that will contain the menus. I have some images made up. They're pretty close to all being the same size. I need those images to "stack" on each other. I hate to break out using absolute positioning and using their heights to get the proper values if I don't have to. What should I use instead? I'm leaning towards margins maybe? http://www.alexwait.com/Nortonville.../education.html what is the equivilant to <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> in css? i've tried PHP Code: table { border-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; border-colapse: colapse; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; } td { border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; padding: 2px; } That makes the width 2px wide though. I want it to only be one. And the padding seems to be messed up as well. I've got a menu that is a group of three absolutely positioned images. It renders as intended in Firefox, but not in IE. everything seems shifted 4 pixels to the left. As far as i know, absolute should mean absolute. I tried relative positioning; which, again, only worked in Firefox. Any and all input is appreciated. I'm using the CakePHP framework to build my site. I hope I'm not asking an impossible question and being since I'm new an all.. Anyways I finished a simple design well I thought it was simple anyway until I tried to make the content box to be a fluid width. Here's what it's supposed to look like. http://planet-rpg(dot)com/PR_style.png // yes I know I'm a new user.. Here's what I currently have. http://planet-rpg(dot)com Here's my coding. html Code: <?php echo $html->docType('xhtml-trans'); ?> <html> <head> <title>Planet RPG::. Imagine a creative universe : <?php echo $title_for_layout; ?></title> <?php echo $html->css('styles'); ?> </head> <body> <div id="top_bar"> <p>top bar</p> </div> <div id="body"> <div id="header"> <p>Header</p> </div> <div id="page-wrap"> <ul id="navigation"> <li class="first"><a href="/games/">Games</a></li> </ul> <div id="frame"> <div id="container"> <div id="main_content"> <p>Content area</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>footer coding</p> </div> </body> </html> css Code: html { background: #2b435d; } html, body { margin: 0; } body, table { color: #303030; } img { border: 0; } #body { background: #d8dde8; padding: 0 0 16px; } #page-wrap { min-width: auto; margin: 10px auto; } #frame { margin: 0 auto; padding: 0px 1170px 0px 220px; margin-top: -17px; } #main_content { background-color: #fff; } #header { background: url("../img/header.png") repeat-x bottom left; height: 64px; margin-top: 36px; } #navigation { background: url("../img/navigation.png") repeat-x bottom left; height: 31px; margin-top: -20px; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif !important; font-size: 14px; color: #fff; text-shadow:-1px -1px 0 black; list-style-type: none; padding:1px 5px 1px 220px; } #navigation li { float: left; } #navigation li a { border-left: 2px solid #303030; text-shadow:-1px -1px 0 black; color: #D0D0D0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; display: block; height: 21px; padding: 6px 12px 1px; } #navigation li a:hover { color: white; text-shadow:-1px -1px 0 black; } #navigation li.first { padding-left: 236px; margin-left: -236px; text-shadow:-1px -1px 0 black; } #navigation li.first a { background: url("../img/cursor.png")bottom center no-repeat; height:24px; color: #6193c7; border: 0; text-shadow:-1px -1px 0 black; } #logo { width: 166px; height: 50px; margin-top: -32px; margin-left: 20px; position: absolute; z-index: 2; } #footer { background: #607080 url("../img/footer.png") repeat-x; height: 60px; padding: 30px 0; clear: both; } #top_bar { background: url("../img/top_bar.png") repeat-x bottom left; height: 36px; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif !important; font-size: 12px !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 36px; position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; z-index: 5; } I haven't used CSS/html in awhile but if anyone can help me either "fix" the content box so it appears like mockup which would be centered on my screen as my resolution is 2560X1600(30") and just repeat the <div's> when needed. Hope someone can help me with my question. http://stuweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~as234/full/full.htm some problems: in IE the menu at the top is "block" level but i want it to be in a line? whereas in ff its ok! in ff, one of the menu image (called "main" on the left of review) doesnt appear but if u hover over it, u will see the rollover image! the background colour should be grayish however that DOESNT happen! (I originally posted this at the end of another of my topics but I don't think it was seen). I have just noticed this problem in firefox (may happen in other browsers) but I couldnt make it happen in IE6. After the first load of the page or after a "hard refresh" (ctrl + F5) the middle and right column do not "shift up" and leave a gap. (see attached picture). But if I refresh (just F5) firefox shifts them up to display the page as it should be seen. Example Picture The site itself. Any ideas? Hi guys, For a pure CSS site, is it still necessary to have height="82" and width="82" in <img ... /> ? Moreover, is it depreciated to have a size="25" tag in <input elements? (I know it could ba handled in CSS but nice to have directly in the html). Thank you Hi, I'm trying to build a nav using css, I need to style each <li> within the nav becuase they need to be different lengths on the page. I have had it working fine on IE but I can'#t get it working for for any other browser. Does soneone know how I can style each of my list items accordingly, notice the different block lengths for each one which is very important. I have tried both id="Style" and class="Style" and no joy, I have also tried #nav ul li li li li li a:hover in my style without id or class in my HTML Here is my Html PHP Code: <DIV id="nav"> <ul> <li id="1"><a href="Home">Home</a></li> <li id="2"><a href="About-us">About us</a></li> <li id="3"><a href="FlexNews">FlexNews</A></li> <li id="4"><a href="Careers">Careers</A></li> <li id="5"><a href="Contact">Contact</A></li> </ul> </div> Pretty straight forward, now my css PHP Code: #nav { width:1005px; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left; } #nav ul { list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; } #nav li { float: left; text-align: left; } #1 a{ line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 215px; display: block; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #1 a:hover { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 215px; display: block; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: #33A02C; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #2 a{ line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 211px; display: block; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #2 a:hover { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 211px; display: block; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: #33A02C; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #3 a { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 211px; display: block; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #3 a:hover { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 211px; display: block; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: #33A02C; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #4 a { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 184px; display: block; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #4 a:hover { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 184px; display: block; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: #33A02C; text-indent: 17px; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #FFFFFF; } #5 a { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 183px; display: block; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-indent: 17px; } #5 a:hover { line-height: 20px; float: left; width: 183px; display: block; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: #33A02C; text-indent: 17px; } Here is an exmple link http://dev.121design.co.uk/flextrade2/ Works fine in IE but not in Firefox, heres hopling someone can help. Thanks in Advance, tried so many different methods and none seem to work. Cheers, Stuart that is basically the question. I have a main div, where content will dynamically be placed, so it will change height frequently. However, It has rounded corners, so either side of it I have 3 images, 2 of which are the corners, and one is a repeating y image. If i set a fixed size for the containing div's height(<div id="submaincontainer">), everything will jump to that.(everything else is set to inherit) However, if it's height is set to auto (which is really what I want) everything will be 1px tall. (URL address blocked: See forum rules)/cv/cv.html This is my first project with trying to strictly use div tags and CSS rather than a table. A table seems like it would be incredibly easier. Anyone know how to make this work? What i want to do is have a block set to the exact width and height that i want. I am trying to find it on w3schools and cant seem to get anywhere. When i use the code below it works great, untill i enter text to it. i want the height of the block to be 15 pixels, the text is set at 12 in the external stylesheet. When i add the text it makes it about 25px or something... does this have something to do with clip? Line-height also makes no differences. This is my attempt at getting rid of my smaller tables Code: <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 200px; background-color: #ECDC74; width: 140px; height: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <h5 class="left">s</h5> </div> stylesheet Code: h5 { padding: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; text-align: center; font-size: 12px } .right {text-align: right } .center {text-align: center } .left {text-align: left } here is the basic idea of the site Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>3 Kingdoms-Tester</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet1.css" /> <title></title> </head> <body> <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; background-color: TRANSPARENT; padding: 0px;"> <!--A very large mess of tables in here for my navigation bar at the top--> </div> <!--I want to have a lot of blocks (such as below) in here i was hoping to do with absolute positions and place them where i want. Its basically a multi columned theme with a bunch of sections--> <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 200px; background-color: #ECDC74; width: 140px; height: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <h5 class="left">s</h5> </div> <div style="position: absolute; top; 2px; left: 617px; width: 147px; height: 30px; background-color: transperant; padding: 0px;"> <h5 style="padding:0px;margin:3px;">Click here to join the community!</h6> </div> </body> </html> thanks for any help! Is there by chance a feature of MS Front Page that helps us out by changing height and width attributes to upper case, which CSS does not recognize? If so, is there a way to disable this feature? What is the popular alternative (among those in the know) to MS FP? The "normal-html-preview" screen format in FP is great. Or, can we simply get rid of the height and width calls in "img src=" links? Thank you for any attention to this. Ed I have a very simple question: I have this html code: Code: <div id="text"> <p><a>text</a></p> <p><a class="red">text</a></p> <p><a>text</a></p> </div> And this CSS style: Code: .red { color: red; } #text a{ color: blue; } I would like to apply the .red class, but it does not work, because the #text a overrides it. How can I solve that? It is just an example because it is a cause of a problem generated by a CMS, and I can only play with the CSS, not with the HTML side. Hi guys! Let's say I have this IN BODY directly: Code: <div id="top_section"> ... </div> <ul id="menu"> ... </ul> Or should I do it like this: Code: <div id="top_section"> ... </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> ... </ul> </div> UL and DIV are both block elements so I think the first is acceptable (combining block elements whatever their sort is logical or am I completely wrong here??) Thank you http://cheers-sendai.com/fluidframe.htm has a great and simple example of 3 cols (OK, 2 cols in the middle section makes "4 cols"), header and sticky footer, where the middle col has overflow:auto so it can be scrolled. GREAT example, I think (due to the use of bg colors, etc.). The left/right/width values of the divs are manipulated so that the middle section runs from 10% to 90% and the left/right divs fill in accordingly. I'd like to be able to set, for example, the left and right divs to be 150 px wide (NO percentages!) and have the middle section stretch between them (regardless of viewport width) and be able to be scrolled, too. The problem I see is that most examples use percentages. I can set the left div to be a fixed width, then set the middle section left coord. to be, say, 150px, but then I need to set its width to stretch to "150 to the left of the right side of the viewport" and I don't know how to do this. Thanks. I am using the following code. In firefox the input box (including the border) fits a nice box of 83 by 15. In IE it seems to not be so well, and is bothering things near it. Any ideas on how to rectify this? Code: <td><input type="text" class="loginbox" size="13" /></td> .loginbox { border: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: #9AA8C3; padding: 0; margin: 0; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11px; color: #40668C; } Hello, I am currently making a site, and this is my first experience using css, and so far I love it. Now I have a page with multiple links on it, and this page has its css info stored in a seperate css file. Now I want some of the links to show up in all satus's (hover, visited ect)with one color, size ect, and some links to show up with a different color. I know i can modify all the links on the page color by adding this to the css page... ------------------------ A:LINK {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000; text-decoration:none; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold;} ----------------------- but how can i make it so each class has a differnt a:link, a:visited, ect. Thanks! ok at Rodoslovlje I have an issue. The menu on the left is most of the times longer then the right content part. Is there a way to fix that when this occurs I can make the right part move along without editing every page and hitting enter 20 times? Thnx Hi, not sure if it is possible but i thought it may be possible in CSS... I was wondering: * I have a shopping cart (using JS) * A CSS based Navigation which is "View Shopping Cart" * An form button called "Add to cart" ** I want the CSS based Nav, to be hidden, until the user clicks on the form button, then it is visible, so that the user can click on it... Anyone know how this is done??? 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