CSS - Howto: Scroll Bar Add To Elements Width Rather Than Subtract From It?

Hi there!

I've been diving into trying to make mobile web pages and though a lot of my former CSS experience helps me a great deal I get a bit perplexed about forms.

I'd like to have all my form elements at the width of a 100% except for checkboxes and radiobuttons.
Now, this almost works out all the way but I have a problem with how the strict rendering handles form elements.

I've tried using both XHTML Mobile 1.2 and XHTML Mobile 1.0 but the same problems arise;
Apart from wanting the elements to go 100% in width, I also would like them to respect margins. If I simply set the width to a 100% and my right and left margins to, say, 5px, I get the field pushed in 5 pixels from the left but I cannot get the 5 pixel indent from the right.

I have tried using a wrapper div but it suffers the same result. I have figured out that this can have something to do with the rules of mobile pages provided by the XHTML mobile rendering specification but I'm now wondering if there's anything I can do to accomplish this. I've found out that mobile pages that have full width elements look (in almost all cases) very good on most handsets I've tested.

Thanks in advance!

Okay, so I want to get an image (left) and a div container (right) positioned on the same line.

The image is 225x225, and I want 15px of space between the image and div container; the div container should also fill in the rest of the width on that page.

HTML =

<img id="logo" src="logo.gif" width="225" height="225"><!- insert 15px spacing --><div id="navbox"><!-- 100% width? --></div>

and, CSS = ?

Thanks!

Code:

	
	#pics {
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		background:#fff;
	}
	#pics ul{
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		list-style:none;
	}
	#pics ul img{
		 margin:0;
		 padding:0;
         border-style: solid;
		 border-color: #27076A;
		 border-width: thin;
	}	
	#pics li{
		display:inline;
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
	}

  <div id="pics"> 
    <ul>
      <li><img src="images/1.jpg"></li>
      <li><img src="images/2.jpg"></li>
      <li><img src="images/3.jpg"></li>
      <li><img src="images/4.jpg"></li>
      <li><img src="images/5.jpg"></li>
      <li><img src="images/6.jpg"></li>
    </ul>
	</div>

The code above puts pics next to each other but width spaces inbetween them. I got margin and padding set to 0 and cant see why there spaces inbetween them. Am I missing something?

I would like to have the background-color of a complete table row changed when I move the mouse over it.

Any ideas how to realize this within a CSS file (not with javascript)

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I Have an div of an sertain width.
And there is some text like.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Which is wider then the div itself.
Now the tekst overlaps the div borders.

How can i fix this without getting a scrollbar.

Thx in advance.

Hello all,

I'm having a bit of trouble with a list of relative, floated <li> elements, each containing a single absolutely positioned div that appears on hover. I'm using the :hover pseudo-class currently but I will use JavaScript for IE6 once it displays correctly.

The code is below. The problem is that the <div> appears on top of it's parent element but behind all other elements.

Code:

		#wrapper-body ul.staff-list{
			list-style-type:none;
			padding-top:10px;
			position:relative;
		}
	
		#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-team{ width:313px; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:15px; margin-bottom:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #d7e3a9; }
	
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li{
				float:left;
				width:230px;
				position:relative;
				padding:8px 0 8px 15px;
				z-index:1;
			}
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-team li{ width:151px; padding-left:0; padding-left:5px; }
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-team li.right{ padding-left:5px; }
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li{ float:none; width:310px; padding-left:5px; }
			#wrapper-body ul li.highlight{ background-color:#f4f6ec; }
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li p{
					padding:0 0 9px 0;
					margin-left:91px;
				}
	
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li small{
					padding:0 0 5px 0;
					margin-left:91px;
				}
		
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li span{
					color:#A6302B;
					display:block;
					float:left;
				}
		
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li span.clerk-name{ width:140px; }
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li span.clerk-phone{ width:120px; background:url(../img/structure/clerks-phone.gif) 0 2px no-repeat; padding-left:23px; }
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li a.clerk-email{ display:block; float:left; height:16px; width:16px; background:url(../img/structure/clerks-mail.gif) 0 3px no-repeat; }
		
		
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li div.staff-list-detail{
					display:none;
					background:url(../img/structure/staff-list-bottom.gif) left bottom repeat-x;
					padding-bottom:3px;
					margin-top:-15px;
					left:4px;
					z-index:10;
					top:15px;
					position:absolute;
				}

				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li div.staff-list-detail a{ background:url(../img/structure/staff-list-bullet.gif) no-repeat 0 4px; padding-left:8px; }

				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li:hover div.staff-list-detail{
					display:block;
}

An image of what is happening below:


Thanks for reading!

Hi There -

Am converting another design from tables, working with a CMS (Drupal) and an existing CSS / table combination that I didn't write and have no choice about.

Think of the header as having three sections. The top section has logo on the left, search box on the right. Rounded corners. I'm cool with that section.

Then there's a space. Created a div for the space. Love the space. Problems with the space in IE. Will go into it later.

Then there's the next section. Rounded corners. Contains the entire page.

On the left is a pulldown menu, about 1 cm from the top. On the right is a tabbed menu. This menu has flexible height. It needs to be right up against the bottom with the menu below it. Call this section the tabbed menu section.

Third section. Immediately below that is a bar menu like the one Apple's got. Looks like a metal bar with divisions. Call this primary links.

----------

First, the space between. In IE, when you roll over the bar menu, the space disappears. Won't come back.

Initially, in the second section, floated the pulldown menu left and the tabbed menu right. That worked fine, except that the tabbed menu had a width of 100% and pushed up the pulldown menu so the section was too wide. When I put it to 65%, all hell broke loose with the bar menu in the third section below it and bits of it snuck up into the second section.

If I left it alone, and left the tabbed menu at 100%, when I checked over its container with firebug, it said that it was being affected by the primary links. I figured that out also because the background for that container was a really weird color that I finally found in the background of the navigation id and changed to white. Primary was overlapping it so I couldn't see it with firebug.

So after fiddling with several clearing methods, I gave up and decided to try a table. Table worked fine, and the second section looks good except that there's a one pixel space between the tabbed menu and the bar menu.

---------

It is my greatest wish right now to be able to float the pulldown to the left, the tabbed menu to the right and have the primary links stay below. I wish I could get the space to work and I wish for a clear understanding of it all so I can then figure out where to put the corners.

Anyone who can enlighten me on this would have my undying gratitude. I've been working on this all day and the deadline's tomorrow.

Code:

<div id="top part"
logo and searchbox
</div>

<div>
that pesky space that disappears in IE when roll over primary links
</div>

<div id=navcontainer>
dropdown and tabbed menu
</div>

<div id="navigation" class="menu> <!-- couldn't find the menu class in the css -->
<div id="primary" class="clear-block">
contains barmenu - very fussy
</div>
</div>

Here's the relevant CSS:

Code:

div#navigation {
  background: #fff url(../images/blue/menu-bg.png) 100% 100% repeat-x;
}


#primary {
  line-height: 30px;
}

#primary ul {
  padding:0;
  margin:0;
  list-style:none;
}

#primary li {
  display:inline;
}

#primary a {
  font-weight:bold;
  display:block;
  float:left;
  padding:0px 14px 0px 14px;
  margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
  font-size: 95%;
}

#primary a {
  background-position:0% 0px;
}

#primary a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-position:0% -42px;
}

#primary a.active {
  background-position: 0% -84px;
}

#primary a {
  background: url(../images/blue/menu-div.png) 100% 0 repeat-y;
  color:#666666;
  font-size: 120%;
  font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}

#primary a:hover {
  color: 666666;
  background: #B8B8B8;
}

#primary a.active {
  color: 666666;
  background: #B8B8B8;
}

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

I have an absolutely positioned <div> containing a block of text. I have not specified a width for this <div>.

This <div> is nested within another <div> for which I have specified a width of 200px.

So something like:
html4strict Code:
Original - html4strict Code <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 20px; z-index: 100;"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur eu purus a tellus mollis consequat. Phasellus aliquam sapien quis mauris. </div> </div>

  

 <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;">


     <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 20px; z-index: 100;">


         Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur eu purus a tellus mollis consequat. Phasellus aliquam sapien quis mauris.


     </div>


 </div> 

Since the absolutely positioned <div> is not part of the page's normal flow, I would expect that its width would expand according to its contents (and the browser window's boundries).

Instead, in Firefox only, the width of the absolutely positioned <div> expands only to the width of its parent - in this case 200px.

Am I doing something wrong? or is there a workaround for this?

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?

Ok. Here's the problem:

I have a asp.net 1.x datagrid inside a floated div and I want the datagrid to stretch the width of the div. This div is in the center of two other floated divs. Is there a way to make a table go 100% the width of its container div?

Css code:
Code:

/* left bar: */
#navBar{
	width: 185px;
	float: left;
}

/* right bar: */
#rightModulesContainer {
	width: 130px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
	float: right;
}

/* center content: */
#content{
	padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:0;
	margin-left:4px;
	margin-right:0px;
	float: left;
	text-align:left;
	/*display: inline;*/
}

/* contained in #container: */

#dataGridContainer{
	margin: 0;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	min-width:360px;
}

.categoryGridStyle {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-style: normal;
	color: #000000;
        width:100%;
}

and here is the layout of the divs:
Code:

<div id="navBar">left navigation bar here (tree view)</div>

<div id="rightModulesContainer">right side bar here</div>

<div id="content"><div id="dataGridContainer">datagrid here</div></div>

Thanks for your help in advance. I've been messing with this for a while - trying to get it to work cross browser is driving me nuts. I've tried placing the divs in containers and floating the containers, I've tried everything I can think of...

Hello,

(please also see attached/uploaded style sheet)

I'm puzzled why (in the following code) the TEST #2 table renders as required (i.e. 2 rows in 1 column, all with the same cell WIDTH) but the table in TEST #1 seems to render the table cells (i.e. 2 columns in 1 row) without a common cell WIDTH.

How can I get all the cells (there are plenty more!) in table TEST #1 to all be exactly the same width (preferably 85px)?

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://thinet/cgi-bin/thinetStyleSheet.css">

TEST #1
<table class="menu" border=1 CELLPADDING=2>
<tr>
<td class="pinkButtons"><a title="Treats menu" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=82'>Treats</a></td>
<td class="pinkButtons"><a title="New Starters, Leavers and Transfers" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41'>Joiners etc.</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

<P>

TEST #2
<table class="menu" border=1 CELLPADDING=2>
<tr><td class="pinkButtons"><a title="Treats menu" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=82'>Treats</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="pinkButtons"><a title="New Starters, Leavers and Transfers" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41'>Joiners etc.</a></td></tr>
</table>

I don't think I've quite grasped the idea of CSS yet?!?!

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy

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

I've defined three classes in this page but now I can't scroll down to the end of the page. the vertical scroll bars are missing. why is that?