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CSS - Fluid Background Colors, Fixed Width Content?
I've noticed a trend in recent CSS sites with a header, content and perhaps double footer. Each of these sections has a fixed width for the content but the backgrounds for each section are liquid and each has a unique colour.
I've been trying to replicate this effect on a clients site but I just can't seem to make it work. Does anyone have any ideas? This is the technique I've been using: Code: <div id="header-fluid"> <div id="header-fixed"> <div id="header"></div> <div id="nav"></div> </div><!-- head-fixed --> </div><!-- head-fluid --> Code: <div id="content-fluid"> <div id="content-fixed"> <div id="content"></div> </div><!-- content-fixed --> </div><!-- content-fluid --> Code: <div id="footer1-fluid"> <div id="footer1-fixed"> <div id="sponsors"></div> </div><!-- footer1-fixed --> </div><!-- footer1-fluid --> Code: <div id="footer2-fluid"> <div id="footer2-fixed"> <div id="copyright"></div> </div><!-- footer2-fixed --> </div><!-- footer2-fluid --> Thanks for your time on this!! Hanek Similar TutorialsHi All - I've edited the post to try and define my problem a little better. I've also updated the code so it validates. I'm trying to convert a horrendous table layout into CSS. What I need to have is the logo on the left, and the text on the right. The text needs to move with the browser resize - but it needs to stop moving when it gets to be 425px from the left margin. Currently, it keeps moving with the browser but it doesn't stop at the 425px mark. It drops to the bottom, and eventually if you make the window REALLY small, it drops below the logo. I'm sure that I have just got the code all wrong. I guess what I need to know is how do I put a fixed element next to a fluid element and eliminate the drop from happening. What am I missing. This is my current code: Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<title>Argh</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {margin: 0px; padding: 0; background-color:#ffffff;}
#header {height: 80px; width: 100%; background-image: url(icon_bg_grad.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment:fixed;}
#nav {clear: both; height: 25px; background-image: url(icon_grad2.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<div style="width: 425px; float: left;">
<img src="logo.jpg" width="220" height="66" alt="logo">
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
<p>This is annoying</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="nav">
</div>
</body>
</html>
I need a combination of this: http://bonrouge.com/3c-hf-fixed.php and this: http://bonrouge.com/3c-hf-fluid.php I need the middle column to be a fixed width and the outer two to be fluid. I also need to maintain the 100% with header and footer at top and bottom respectively. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks. Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the following: <div id="left">This column is of blue background, and stretches all the way to the left.</div> <div id="center"> THIS COLUMN IS FIXED WIDTH, 760px </div> <div id="right">This column is of red background, and stretches all the way to the right.</div> Hope that is self explanatory.. I've Googled all this but can only find solutions for fluid "center" columns with fixed width right/left columns. I'm trying to do the opposite. Could anyone let me know how I can do this? I've got some messy CSS that definitely needs to be corrected, I'm trying out different things so here's my 'trial& error' code: Code:
#left {
background-color: blue;
float: left;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
}
#center {
background: #DFDFEB url(../images/body/top.jpg) no-repeat;
width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#right {
background-color: red;
}
Thanks in advance! I'd like to make a 2-column layout where each column fills the height of the container div, and the container div's height is determined by the longest div within it... this is getting a bit confusing, because I can't have one being determined by the other one with that one being determined by the first, if that makes sense? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help. My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off... The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view! My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance.... i ve been playing with my page and been trying to modify the width of the page (divs) according to the browswer's width. The problem is i want the navigation menu on left to be fixed width (say 200px) and the center div and the right column to be variable width. Also, i want to set a minimum width , so that the floating divs dont roll below the navigation menu. here s the link to the page. try reducing ur browser windows size . the content div rolls down under theleft nav menu. http://ccc.1asphost.com/pacemakerpr...r/cicuitlab.htm Also , i get wierd result in netscape navigator. please help Hi, I have a background image that I want to incorporate into the header div of a fixed width layout. The header is of a gradient style - on the left it is a solid color and as you move along towards the right it fades to white. The image is 981x76. If I bring it into Gimp, I can scale it to 1920 x 76 and it looks the same. I would like to be able to do that in a div tag, with the image as a background. I would like the image to scale horizontally just like I can do using Gimp. Is this possible? Basically, I want the browser to manage the scaling of the image. Link he rpisolution dot com/test/ Ok, the fixed-fluid-fixed part of the layout seems to work ok in the latest firefox and IE7 but it's broken in IE6 and possibly other versions. Could you guys take a look at the css? rpisolution dot com/test/css/style.css and see if you see what is breaking it in IE6, i thought I had put a hack that was supposed to fix the issues. btw, i know the CSS is probably ugly. sorry about that. thanks I'm trying to construct a complex 3-column CSS layout. I would like the center column to be fixed-width, and the outer columns to split the remainder of the document's width. All 3 columns should be able to contain centered or floated block elements and accept mouse events. Currently, I have approached this problem two nearly-successful ways. The first was to float the outer columns, but then I have no way to make them fill out. The second was to float the outer columns, then set them both to 50% with the appropriate margin set to half the width of the center column, but then I lose mouse event support in the center column because of the margins. The relevant CSS follows: Code: html { height: 100%; width: 100%; }
body { margin: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; }
#left {
float: left;
height: 100%;
/* 2nd attempt
width: 50%;
margin-right: 305px; */
}
#right {
float: right;
height: 100%;
/* 2nd attempt
width: 50%;
margin-left: 305px; */
}
#center {
margin: auto;
height: 100%;
width: 610px;
}
HTML-wise, the div order is #left, #right, #center. Does anyone know of a way to work around this? Hello, How can i create a fixed-width menu to the left with content to the right that fills up the rest of the page. ie, no auto-width, it needs to fill up all the way to the right edge. So if you create a horizontal line <hr> in the content it will draw all the way to the right (except for some padding of course) Like this pictu tinyurl.com/ydsr2ov 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. Hello I'm kinda new to css. (PHP programmer by day) and would like some help making something like this. stevenbarre dot com / sample.jpg I want the whole thing to stay in the browser (100% width and height) so you never get scroll bars. The top orange part should have a height in px as well as the bottom purple part. The green should have a width in px and the blue should be whatever is left over. I've done some googleing but haven't been able to find much on 100% height designs. Your help is much appreciated as well as links. Hello, I came to this forum for help a couple months ago and was very impressed with how my questions were answered, so I hope nobody minds me coming around again. I've begun to create a stylesheet for my website that is completely fluid, rather than the 500px wide container my old stylesheet has. I've run into a couple problems that may or may not be related: 1) In my header div, I have an <h1> element and a <ul> that I'd like to be on the same line, but they're on different ones. 2) Both Firefox and Safari draw unnecessary scroll bars (both vertical and horizontal). 3) Sometimes my footer div will inch up from the bottom of the screen, where I'd hoped to leave it anchored. Here is a test html: http://www.bsuto.com/test.html and here is the css: http://www.bsuto.com/fluid.css Thanks! -Brian I'm attempting to get a page that has a header, footer, left navigation bar with a fixed width, with a right "fluid" content section. I can get it to work by giving the main content a "margin-left" of the width of the navigation panel, and absolutely positioning the navigation. Problem is, with the navigation being absolutely positioned, it takes it out of the flow and doesn't push the container to fit its contents. I've trying playing with using floated divs, which is I'm sure the way I'll have to go, but I want the navigation bar to always be a fixed width of 175px, and I want the content section to stretch to fill the remaining space. I'd also like to make sure the content portion appears BEFORE the navigation panel in the order it appears on the HTML for SEO purposes. I'm sure it's easy using Javascript, but I'd like to do a pure CSS solution, if possible. How do I do that? Here is the link if you want to have a look: http://www.chcs-ut.com/support.php?section=technical Hi guys, need some help for my layout. What I am trying to do is set a div to: When screen width is <1024 x 768 width should be fluid When screen width is >1024 x 768 width should stay at within 1024 (viz. 970) to avoid the long hard-to-read paragraphs. Any ideas? Preferbably no javascript as I want it to change as the browser resizes without refreshing, like when the width is set to 100%. Is it possible to set a maximum width that a fluid design can expand to? I have a regisration form that needs to work from 640x480 upwards but I don't want the form to infintely get wider and wider. I would like it to cap out at 1280x1024 resolution. thanks. I have seen a design which I find pretty interesting where in the main site is aligned left and fixed width at say 700px wide. Yet the footer seems to span the entire screen. The header also seems to use the entire screen width but that is beign accomplished with the background image, but this footer goes all the way to end of the screen and naturally adjusts itself under all the content. Is there a way to get this effect? Whenever I work on a liquid layout, I have been setting the Max-Width to 1280px. Is this still the normal setting? Or designers do go wider these days? Thank you I'm at the very very very begaining of a table-less design (my first, actually). The problem is, since I have decided to have a non-fixed width, when the browser is minimized, at a certain point the design breaks. See it here (please don't make fun! it's just the start): SiliconSatan.com/test.php I'd like to set a minimum width, probably on the container <div>, so at a certain point it sort of becomes like a fixed width? No smaller than a set width? [EDIT] Also, I have a question about background color mismatch, but it was not quite OT for the CSS forum: http://forums.devshed.com/web-desig...e7t-403266.html Hi, I'm attempting to apply a left and right image to a tab when hovered. The images aren't simply curved corners, but rather curved inwards corners at the top and outwards at the bottom. The tabs are all of different widths and I'd like to avoid using a class for each tab obviously. here's an image depicting what I mean: So the issue is essentially that I need the a:hover class to apply two background images - one on the left, one on the right - as one image can't deal with different sized tabs. I know that won't be possible until CSS3, but I know there must be a way to do this with today's standards. The image is of the tab on hover. Without hover, it's just the plain gray background to the left and right of it. There's probably a method for these sort of issues on A List Apart or something, but I can't find one. Anybody have anything on hand, or any suggestions? Your help is appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
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