CSS - Controlling List Height

Hi.. another question for the CSS mastas out there.

I have a table taht I have applied a class to:

PHP Code:
<table class="middle"
                       cellspacing="0"
                       cellpadding="0"
                       border="0">
                    <tr>
                        <td>&nbsp;<img border="0"
                             src="images/spacer.gif"
                             width="1"
                             height="1">
                         </td>

                        <td align="left">
                            <p class="customHeading">aaaa</p>
                        </td>

                        <td>
                            <p align="right">
                            <a class="importantLink" href="">aaa</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                            <a class="importantLink" href="">aaa</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                            <a class="importantLink" href="">aaa</a>
                            </p>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    
                    <tr>
                        <td colspan="3" valign="top">

<table class="content"
                                           cellspacing="0"
                                           cellpadding="0"
                                           border="0">
                                        <tr>
                                            <td align="left">aaa:</td>

                                            <td><input type="text"
                                                   name="aaa"
                                                   size="22"
                                                   class="formField">
                                            </td>

                                            <td><a href="#">
                                                   <input type="submit"
                                                   value="SEARCH"
                                                   class="formButton">
                                                 </a>  
                                            </td>
                                        </tr>
                                    </table>

</td></tr></table>

.middle {
    width: 760px;
    height: 360px;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

.content {
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  font: 13px Arial, sans-serif;
  padding: 2px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  
} 





The issue I'm having is that I can't seem to control the height of the outside tables first row. It seems to just take on a size depending on how I set the height in the element. Can I not place a height tag in the <td>'s for that row to set it at a fixed height?

I'm trying to determine the best way to design a UI for a PHP application. There is a header portion with menu choices and a footer portion. There is also a background image 'picture frame' that sits in between the header menu and footer and gets loaded depending on the user's preferences. None of these three scroll. Within that picture frame, there is a center screen with a scrolling application. This portion would load different screens based on what was picked as a menu choice, and the user would scroll in the application if the particular screen were longer.

Is the best way to do this using frames, or is there a better choice in terms of speed, browser compatibility, etc.?

Thanks for your suggestions.

Hello:

I'm building a website for a broad audience. I need there to be an option for text to be resized for those who have trouble with reading screens. I am trying to have the text on HTML pages be changeable through CSS.

Two examples I offer are

1. wired.com
2. 1and1.com

On the top right corner of the screen, there are options to change the text size without switching to a new HTML page. I believe this is done using CSS (perhaps Live StyleSheet Selector). I'm not really sure.

I would like for the user the have the option to change the font-size by clicking, not by repositioning the window (then the size changing relative to window size).


If anyone can help me, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Deanna

Hi,

I am using a javascript drop down that does include CSS to control the font style, size etc. It works great in IE. Mozilla is ignoring all CSS, both in the js code and my style sheet, when I change the text size via View/Text Size in the top menu bar of the Mozilla browser). How do I get Mozilla to bow down and take it (the code, that is )

Just to note, I have tried adding the CSS info from the javascript to my style sheet. No different results.

Thanks!

hi guys, silly question

i want to make a certain portion of my text smaller, but when i put a span like this around it: <span style="font-size: 10px;">
then only the plain text, and not the links, decrease in size...

what should i add?

thanks
glog

When a Text Input is disabled, is there a way to control the visual characteristics such that it's not as subdued, or use different colors for the text / background?

In a simple vertical list, the bullets are offset to the right of the container. Is it possible to control the amount of offset?

I want to know how I could possible control all the elements inside a table that is inside a div with an id. This is possible correct?

So if I have:

Code:

#header { width: 900px; }

And then something like this:

Code:

<div id="header">

<table>
<tr>
<td>

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

I'd like to then have something like:

Code:

#header.table,td {padding-left: 10px;}

Which I am hoping would put a 10px padding on all the td's in the table and nothing else. Is my syntax right?

Hi all,

I am trying to automate everything on my test website and I have one more angle to cover.

In effect, I want to adjust the line-height property (which I can do) based on the number of files within a specific folder (PHP and already done). The more files in the folder, the lower the line-height value must be. This is to ensure if I copy additional files into the folder, then the navigation menu (which is PHP reading files in this particular folder) will alter the CSS line-height property accordingly to ensure it can never exceed a certain height.

Sounds wierd? go to www.re3.org.uk (next to the RE3 image, I have a list of hyperlinks which are obtained from files within the folder)

My problem, when adjusting the CSS property (which is set as cm in *.css file) in javascript, it doesn't correspond correctly, the line-height property in javascript doesn't appear to be work in cm but some other measurement.

Does anyone know how to change what unit of measurement Javascript works in? Or does anyone know what unit of measurement javascript uses when adjusting line-height / line-width values?

I want to create a mini-algorithm that works out the appropriate line-height based on the image height (got that already) and the number of files in the folder (got that too) so the menu automatically adjusts to fit.

Whew!

It seem that everytime I added the image tag, the div'x area get bigger in IE but not in Mozilla/Firefox browser. So, I thought by added the "margin-bottom:-360px;" to the div would fix it but it had an opposite effect. Meaning it worked in IE but Mozilla show a vertical scrollbar.

So, does anyone know how can I make the <img> overlap one another without being stacked on one after another in height for IE if I take out the "margin-bottom: -360px;"? Thanks...

Code:

 
 div.divBox1
 {
   width: 286px;
   height: 359px;
   float: left;
 }
 div.divClearFloat
 {
   clear: both;
   height: 0px;  /* For IE Stupidity (it added some spaces after clearing the float) */
   font-size: 1pt;  /* For IE Stupidity (minimum height only work with current font-size somewhere) */
 }
 div.divDottedLineAdvertisementSeperator1
 {
   width: 575px;
   height: 3px;
   background-color: #ff0000;
   font-size: 1pt;  /* For IE Stupidity (minimum height only work with current font-size somewhere) */
 }

Code:

<div class="divBox1">
 <div style="margin-bottom:-360px;">
  <img src="images/doctor.jpg" style="position:relative;top:0px;left:0px;z-index:2;">
  <img src="images/we_help.jpg" style="position:relative;top:-360px;left:0px;z-index:1;">
 </div>
</div>

<div class="divClearFloat"></div>

<div class="divDottedLineAdvertisementSeperator1"></div>

Hello everybody!

I have been having a big problem with my webpage for a long time now and hope I can find an answer to my problem with your help. I want a div that contains the content of my pages (which varies in length depending on the individual page) to stretch the length of my page, but it only stretches the length of the window. Here's the HTML and CSS:

HTML (I only included the very basic structure):

<html>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div id="content">
<div id="..."></div>
<div id="..."></div>
<div id="..."></div>
<div id="..."></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>`

CSS:

html, body {
height: 100%;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 10px;
color: #000000;
background: #FFF url(../../images/body.png) no-repeat center 40px;
margin: 0;
position: relative;}

.container {
height: 100%;
width: 960px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;}

#content {
width: 939px;
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
top: 210px;
left: 6px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #666;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #666;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #666;
background-color: #FFF;}

I tried to set the content div to overflow: auto, but that includes a scroll bar for the content div that I do not want. It does, however, create the desired effect of the shadow and background of the #content div all the way to the end of the page. Am I missing anything? I thought min-height would work, but it doesn't! It only stretches the content div to page height and everything else is overflow, but without the content div's background color and shadow. Does anybody maybe see where the problem lies?

Thank you so much in advance for your help.

I've never done much CSS work, but I know this has to be an easy fix. Each DIV appears to be 10px higher when viewed in IE. I want them to be 8px high and they end up being 18px high. In Firefox, Netscape, and Opera it works fine.

Anyone mind correcting this imbarrassing little problem?

Code:

<!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" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<title>IE 10px Padding Problem</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin:0px; }

#container {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
width:730px; }

#header {
height:110px; }

.textualtop {
border:1px solid #000000;
height:8px; }

.textualbottom {
border:1px solid #000000;
height:8px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div class="textualtop"></div>
<div class="textualbottom"></div>
<div class="textualtop"></div>
<div class="textualbottom"></div>
<p>Notice how in IE6 each DIV is 10px higher then in FF. Why is it doing this?</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Hello

Just recently I had an idea for a page I wanted to make, the design is basically a 3-column layout with no traditional header or footer, the height of all three columns should run the length of the window/page height
the left and rightmost column would have a fixed width or a width in em, the center column width should fill the space in between.

If the content is short all columns should extend to the height of the page window, but if the content in any of the columns is longer than the window height they should all extend to reach the bottom of the page and accommodate the content length

In my first attempt things didn't go so well, results varied wildly across browsers so I decided to start from scratch bit by bit

Bellow is the point at which I reach consistent but undesired behaviour, I have validated and tested the code in Firefox 3/Pale Moon, Internet Explorer 8, Chromium 9, and Opera 11
I would like the end result to work in the above browsers as well as IE7 if possible
I should point out now that im not interested in using faux-columns, the layout should not require images, I also wish to have absolute-positioned elements in the columns some time later
Code:

<!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">
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
		<title>Three Columns</title>
		<style type="text/css">
			*, html, body {
				margin: 0;
				padding: 0;
				font-size: 100%;
			}
			html, body {
				width: 100%;
				height: 100%;
			}
			#maincontainer {
				position: relative;
				height: 100%;
				background: #eee;

			}
			#left {
				position: absolute;
				top: 0px;
				left: 0px;
				width: 200px;
				background: #fbb;
				height: 100%;
			}
			#mid {
				position: relative;
				margin: 0 200px 0 200px;
				background: #efe;
				height: 100%;
			}
			#right {
				position: absolute;
				top: 0px;
				right: 0px;
				width: 200px;
				background: #bbf;
				height: 100%;
			}
		</style>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id="maincontainer">
			<div id="left">
				left start<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left end<br />
			</div>
			<div id="mid">
				mid start<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid end<br />
			</div>
			<div id="right">
				right start<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right end<br />
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

In the above example it works as long as the content within the columns is shorter than the window height, but if you re-size the window so that the text in the right or left column goes beyond the page, and then scroll to the bottom, the columns do not extend to the bottom of the page so there is a large gap where the content overflows beyond the column

What I would like to do from this point is make the columns extend to the bottom of the page when this happens, but I'm not sure how best to proceed

I also have a version of the above code which uses floated left and right columns instead of absolute positioned ones, would it be better to work from that? or does it not really matter

Thanks in advance

If you look at the bottom of the page at www.res-technologies_DOT_com/index.php?jos_change_template=restech2 in both IE and FF, you will see that it looks fine in IE, but in FF the page length is extended by exactly the height of the header image at the top of the page. Trying to figure out what's causing this is driving me nuts! Can anyone help?

thx

dh

I am having a problem trying to get one column match the height of another.

Within a large DIV box, I created two columns separated by about 20 px. I floated one to the left, then pushed one over to the right. Both boxes will expand depending on the amount of content, but I would like them to match the same height. The boxes will be used throughout the entire website, so it would not make sense to create a background image to try and trick it into being the same height.. or actually specifying the height. Is there any way to tell the left box to be the same height as the right box??

I tried to link to my site but it won't let a new member link to a website.