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CSS - Mixing Percents And Ems With Floats
I have 2 columns. I have a very tall, narrow column on the left that needs to be exactly 22em wide. I also have a short, fat column on the right that I want to take up the rest of the screen's width.
The problem is that I have to contian my code so that after all of the formatting syntax is done, I can put in a whole ton of text and the text will stay in the right column, and then when the text gets past bttom of the left column it will take the entire width of the screen. The way I'm doing it right now is by floating to the left both columns and using 29% width for the thin left column and 70% width for the fat right column. This adds up to less than 100% so the browser places them paralell. But if I were to absolutely size the left column (as I want to), 22em + 100% is definately more than 100%. I can't constrain it so it thinks 100% is 100% of the space available to the right column because the text has to be in that "corner" between the right side of the left column and the bottom of the right column. Any ideas on how I could solve this? If you can do it without floats, that would be even better- it might solve another of my problems. The page in question is here by the way. All of the formatting code is transcluded in, you probably won't be able to see it unless you're familiar with wikipeida. Please don't edit the page directly Thanks, froth Similar TutorialsCommon scenario: A floated div that is set to have width:100% to fill up the entire horizontal space. Here's the problem: I want to bump the div 45px from the left (i.e. adding a 45px left margin). Having both the width: 100% and margin-left: 45px declaration in the CSS expands the div way too far (100% of the screen + 45px for the margin). Because of the design, I cannot use a 45px left padding instead. A constraint: I don't want to touch the HTML. I know an easy way would be to add a div within the floated div and use a 45px left padding on the floated div. Almost makes me pine for the IE5.0 broken box model... p.s. any one have any general advice when mixing 100% widths with absolute values for padding/margins for both floated and non-floated elements? I have floating items inside of floating items. The problem is I cannot clear my floating items in the middle column because that ruins the other columns. How can I clear floats in the middle column? Do you have any better ideas to make my layout work? I have attached in image of how the layout should work. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
#content {
display: block;
margin: 0 5px;
padding: 0 10px;
border-top: 1px solid #0B4867;
}
.content100 {
width: 100%;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
display: inline;
background: #ffeeee;
}
.content50 {
width: 48.75%;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
padding: 0px;
background: #eeffee;
}
.content33 {
width: 32.25%;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
padding: 0px;
background: #eeeeff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<div style="margin: 0px 215px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: block;">
<div class="content100">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vivamus viverra malesuada turpis. Sed iaculis justo sed turpis. Nulla malesuada turpis sed nibh. Mauris dui quam, cursus at, sollicitudin a, auctor quis, ligula. Vivamus varius blandit velit. Sed eu nibh. Vestibulum sit amet massa. Maecenas elementum massa ac ligula. In vitae massa ut dui facilisis lacinia. Maecenas tristique pede in elit. Duis ultricies aliquam metus. Mauris neque. Nunc nec lectus eu metus rhoncus imperdiet. Etiam egestas semper nunc. Nunc pretium tincidunt felis.
</div>
<div class="content50">
<h2>Row 1, Column 1</h2>
In nec est pretium elit eleifend semper. Suspendisse potenti. Nunc bibendum sollicitudin ante. Aliquam facilisis mi quis turpis. Nullam aliquet. Sed eget urna in metus mattis luctus. Sed nunc. Maecenas est. Morbi ullamcorper eros non magna. Donec auctor, orci pretium rutrum eleifend, pede arcu pretium dui, vitae vestibulum ante odio sit amet dui. Aliquam fringilla velit sit amet magna. Proin cursus, elit quis faucibus fermentum, diam tellus rhoncus nulla, ut iaculis orci velit id metus. Pellentesque diam metus, dapibus eu, vestibulum quis, elementum id, turpis. Morbi elementum, quam non rhoncus hendrerit, metus lacus bibendum ante, vitae sodales velit est eu neque.
</div>
<div class="content50">
<h2>Row 1, Column 2</h2>
This column is not very high.
</div>
<div class="content100">
Donec sed velit mollis erat consequat ornare. Donec accumsan, sapien a posuere tristique, felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 1</h2>
Felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 2</h2>
This column is not as high as the previous one.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 3</h2>
</div>
<div class="content100">
Nunc vel arcu. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nam luctus tellus luctus magna. Aenean tellus sapien, venenatis id, hendrerit sit amet, lacinia sed, ante. Nullam metus. Sed cursus lobortis orci. Etiam suscipit, tellus ut rutrum mollis, urna libero ultrices lectus, non hendrerit quam elit id leo. Quisque sollicitudin, mi id imperdiet sollicitudin, orci enim rutrum nibh, non adipiscing diam augue commodo nunc. Maecenas erat massa, sagittis eu, sagittis at, commodo nec, dolor. Aliquam erat volutpat. Donec nisl erat, vulputate id, dictum non, vulputate egestas, sapien. Fusce non justo eu felis imperdiet placerat. Suspendisse mattis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut ac tellus eget risus varius vehicula. In ante.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So I have a body div which has a left and right div(columns). I need to add 2 more divs inside the left div. But, these 2 divs have to unordered lists in them. I know my CSS is pretty average if not worse. My layout looks fine except for when I add 2 divs.. I have the float:left with %50 widths.. Screen shot of how my layout looks. img209.imageshack.us/img209/2913/idear.gif I did not add any clear tags to my css.. which I think might be what's causing the issue. Side note: In IE compatibility view the top of the page has a gap and so does the right of the page.. the logo and footer are both 100% width and the top div has a -negative margin to close the gap, it looks fine without compatibility view, and fine in firefox, and chrome. XHTML passed validation and so did CSS. This is before even messing with the columns. I didn't do anything with the unordered lists. Maybe i should ask how to correctly make my layout first.. Because what I've been doing is just adding new divs where I see fit, and then going back to edit the CSS till it works. Thanks for helping me out! BTW: what book would you recommend me getting.. I understand basics of CSS and I think I'm good with XHTML, I just need to get a better definition of CSS than w3schools has to offer. Thanks again. --edit 2 SORRY FOR CONFUSING YOU ALL ---- it works but everytime i click on the link i get extra space underneath the <tr with id>??? http://plumstead-mosque.co.uk/test/admin/outofStock.php here is the revised code: PHP Code: $res = mysql_query($q);?> <table> <tr> <td>Product Id</td> <td>Name</td> <td>Stock Left</td> <td></td> </tr><?php while($ro = mysql_fetch_array($res)){ echo "<tr><td><a href=\"javascript:toggle('$ro[0]');\">$ro[0]</a></td><td>$ro[1]</td><td>$ro[2]</td></tr>"; $q2 = "select * from productsizes where productid = '{$ro[0]}'"; $res2 = mysql_query($q2); while($ro2 = mysql_fetch_array($res2)){ //if echo "<tr style=\"display:none; font-size:smaller; color:grey;\" id=\"$ro[0]\">"; echo "<td>$ro2[1]</td><td>$ro2[2]</td><td>$ro2[3]</td></tr>"; } } echo "</table>"; ?> ----edit 2 is it possible to do this: <table> <div><tr><td></td></tr></table ?? because i have a link that hides/unhides this div. and it doesnt seem to be working? but if i remove all the tables then it works? basically i do know the solution (i think) currently i have id and style on div that says "display:none" and change it using JS. so i THINK i can move them to the tr? the only problem with this would be if there are more than one tr as i cant have two tr with same id.. --edit never mind got this to work, each tr will have "unique" id so there is no point using class. HOWEVER when i used class as var m = document.getElementByClass("name") it didnt work --- PHP Code: $res = mysql_query($q);?> <table> <tr> <td>Product Id</td> <td>Name</td> <td>Stock Left</td> <td></td> </tr><?php while($ro = mysql_fetch_array($res)){ echo "<tr><td><a href=\"javascript:toggle('$ro[0]');\">$ro[0]</a></td><td>$ro[1]</td><td>$ro[2]</td></tr>"; echo "<div style=\"display:none; font-size:smaller; color:grey;\" id=\"$ro[0]\">"; $q2 = "select * from productsizes where productid = '{$ro[0]}'"; $res2 = mysql_query($q2); while($ro2 = mysql_fetch_array($res2)){ echo "$ro2[1] $ro2[2] $ro2[3]"; } echo "</div>"; } echo "</table>"; Hi guys, thanks for reading my thread (once again!) I have the code below that is my first ever "play" with CSS. The site is nothing serious yet but I am learning how to lay things out in a clear fashion and get used to CSS syntax. Code:
<HTML>
<TITLE>My Page</TITLE>
<HEAD>
<STYLE type="text/css">
body {background-color:#ffffff; font: 13px;}
div {border: 0px}
#main {margin: 0px auto; width=800px; position: absolute; left: 0%;}
#headerlogo {float: left; width: 200px; height: 55px; background-color: #7EC0EE; text-align: center;}
#headertext {float: left; width: 350px; height: 55px; background-color: #7EC0EE; text-align: left; font: 13px;}
#blankspace {float: left; width: 25px; height: 55px; background-color: #F5F5F5;}
#headerlogin {float: left; width: 225px; height: 55px; background-color: #7EC0EE;}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<div id="main">
<div id="headerlogo">
<h3>Site Logo</H3>
</div>
<div id="headertext">
Site text goes here. This sentence is a test to see how much text I can fit in this div before things start to go out of line. It appears that there can be quite a lot
</div>
<div id="blankspace">
</div>
<div id="headerlogin">
<table width="220" border="0"><FORM NAME="login" ACTION="dologin.asp">
<tr><td width="70" STYLE="font: 13px">Login:</td><td width="80"><INPUT STYLE="width:70px; height:20px; font: 12px;" TYPE="text" NAME="loginname" SIZE="4"></td><td width="70" rowspan="2"><INPUT STYLE="width: 70px; height: 20px; font: 12px;" TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Login"></td></tr>
<tr><td width="70" STYLE="font: 13px">Password:</td><td width="80"><INPUT STYLE="width:70px; height:20px; font: 12px;" TYPE="password" NAME="Password" SIZE="4"></td></tr>
</FORM>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>
The result can be seen by pasting the above into a notepad file. I have got a mock "login form" on the right panel, and the only way that I could get the fields to display how I wanted was to put them in a small table. I get the impression (from reading other peoples threads) that mixing tables with CSS is bad practice as it is mixing style and structure. Other posts have said that a small amount of tables is ok. Should the tables above be replaced with CSS? I tried to set it up myself, but all I could do was get the elements to line up under each other! : Login: <text field> Password: <pass field> <submit button> Also, is there any way to get the two text fields (as in, rows of the table) closer together when using CSS? In a table sense I guess it is the opposite of "cell top and bottom padding?" Thanks for any help anyone can offer me. Regards, Porky 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. I'm using a PHP script from A List Apart to generate a random image for my header whenever it is called. While the script is great, my image sizes need drastic reduction. These header images are composed of two parts - 1)The title text 2)A background photograph. I can increase the compression of the background photograph to get it down from 120kb to about 20kb with little notice in quality - a great improvement! However, when I do this, the text suffers a great loss of quality. Since I can save the text as a .gif which would only register about 6kb, I was wondering if there was a way I could combine the script to get the random photograph and have the text lay on top. Ive tried putting both img codes in the same div and giving the text a higher z-index, but that does not work. I know that the best-case scenario would be to just use actual styled text in the div to go on top of the photograph. But I can't get the stroked look I'd want by doing this. Any suggestions? Hello, I am trying to absolute position two elements within a relatively positioned DIV. My relatively positioned DIV is necessary to center my content on the page. The elements within this DIV must be placed in the upper left corner of the DIV. The reason why is because I want them to be placed on top of one another. Here is the code I have thus far: <div> <div id="elem1Container" style="height:400px; width:400px; position:relative; top:0px; left:0px;"> <img id="myItem1" src="image1.png" /> </div> <div id="elem2Container" style="height:400px; width:400px; position:relative; top:0px; left:0px;"> <img id="myItem2" src="image2.png" /> </div> </div> Can anyone help me accomplish my goal? For some reason, the second image is always below the first image. In reality I need it right on top of the first image. At the same time, these two images centered in relation to my page. That is why I placed them in a general div element. Thank you! Crystal I am using style sheet for fonts etc. I was wondering is it OK to use style sheet and <Font> tags at the same time on a page. I mean if you are using certain font only once. Why bother creating a class in style sheet and then calling using that class .. I'm trying to create a header bar with some navigational links. The basic idea is that I have a little banner image about 400 pixels wide on the left. To the right of it, I have 5 navigational links listed horizontally. I want them to be evenly spaced across the rest of the page, regardless of its width. I could do this with percentages if I had them in a parent element equal to the width of the page minus the width of the image to the left. So basically, I know this isn't actual CSS syntax, but I'm looking for the functional equivalent of saying: #linkContainer{width:100%-400px;} Anybody know a good way to do something like this? This would be easy with a table, but I'm trying to stick to CSS for layout and tables only for tabular data. Hey, k, as per usual, all's well in FF with this site. The list to the right is forcing the paragraphs below in IE tho...I've tried a bunch of different 'clears' and what not, but can't seem to figure it out. Here's the html; Code:
<div id="homelistbox"><b>Upcoming Tradeshows:</b>
<ul class="homelist">
<li><a href="http://www.torontoinwaterboatshow.com">Toronto In-Water
Boat Show,</a> Sept 14-17 2006</li>
<li><a href="http://www.torontoboatshow.com">Toronto International Boat
Show,</a> Jan. 12-21 2007</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sportsmensshows.com/Ottawa/">Ottawa Boat, Sportsman
and Cottage Show,</a> Feb. 22-25 2007</li>
<li>See the various models of Custom Weld Boats at all these shows.
<a href="contact.php">Contact us</a> for more information about locations
at the shows.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p> Freedom Boat Sales is committed to bringing Canadian recreational enthusiasts
exciting new and pre-owned products for the water, trail, and road.</p>
<p>Flexibility, great pricing, and innovative products will keep you coming
back for all your recreational needs!</p>
<p>Please be advised that we are currently working to improve your online
experience, so your patience is greatly appreciated!</p>
<div class="clear"></div>
and the CSS; Code:
.clear {
clear:both;
margin-top:-1px;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
}
p {
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:8pt;
line-height:11pt;
color:#555;
text-decoration:none;
width:650px;
margin-top:5px;
padding:10px;
}
#homelistbox {
width:180px;
padding:5px;
margin:2px 10px;
border-top:1px dotted #CCC;
border-left:1px dotted #CCC;
min-height:120px;
float:right;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:8pt;
color:#255CB8;
}
.homelist li {
margin-top:5px;
padding-left:10px;
list-style:none;
}
.homelist a {
color:#FF0000;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.homelist a:hover {
color:#255CBE;
text-decoration:none;
}
i'm also having similar issues with simple image floats, as seen here. It forces the paragraph underneath in IE...boourns. Anyways, any guidance'd be greatly appreciated. Cheers. Hi All, I am almost tearing he little hair I have left out! I can't get the div in the middle to clear the floats. Works just lovely in FF, but that IE thing won't work!!! Grrree http://www.tuxdiscs.com/sscp7b/ Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks Hello everyone, Newbie here Can anyone show me how to CSS objects or text inline horizontally in the banner/header such as at the top of this forum? My banner/header uses large text for a logo on the left, and I would like to put a search form or something on the right side of the header. Do I have to declare the width of each? See how much newbie I am? Thanks for any help. Ken Hey, yet again I am having issues with some floated elements in IE (6 + 7). Have a look here. The product details start under the bottom of the photo of the product, and I've tried a bunch of different things to get it lined up with no joy. Here's the CSS: Code:
#features {
position:relative;
float:right;
margin:0 20px 20px 20px;
width:350px;
border:1px solid #E1DCC6;
border-top:0;
}
* html #features {
margin:0 10px 0 10px;
}
#features p, #features p strong {
font-size:10px;
margin:4px;
padding:2px;
}
#picbox {
width:350px;
height:350px;
margin:0 20px 0 20px;
float:right;
border:1px solid #E1DCC6;
border-bottom:1px dashed #E1DCC6;
}
* html #picbox {
margin:0 10px 0 10px;
}
#detail-list {
margin:10px 60px;
}
#detail-list li {
list-style:square inside;
margin:2px;
}
#buynow {
margin:5px 10px 5px 30px;
}
#priceTable {
margin:10px 40px;
border:1px solid #E1DCC6;
}
#priceTable td {
padding:4px;
}
#priceTable td.priceRight {
background-color:#E1DCC6;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
color:red;
}
#priceTable td.priceLeft {
text-align:right;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
background-color:#B8A488;
}
.liner {
text-decoration:line-through;
}
Any insight, as per usual, is greatly appreciated. Can you guys tell me why code below does not show properly in firefox 2 when it shows up right in IE7? If I add clear:both to footer then it displays right, but should not it show it alongside the div #2 anyways? 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" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style>
body {
margin:0px;
}
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
height:500px;
width:500px;
border-width:thin;
border-style:dotted;
}
.leftcontent {
float:left;
width:100px;
height:100px;
border-width:thin;
border-style:dotted;
}
.rightcontent {
float:left;
width:100px;
height:100px;
border-width:thin;
border-style:dotted;
}
.footer {
border-style:dotted;
border-width:thin;
height:100px;
width:100px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="leftcontent">
1
</div>
<div class="rightcontent">
2
</div>
<div class="footer">
3
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This may be a stupid question, but I recently noticed something with floats and side by side elements that confuses me. I thought you always had to specify a width when it came to floating elements along side each other, as block level elements inherit 100% width usually. But on the last 2 sites I coded, I was able to float divs without specifying a fixed width. The div boxes only took up the width of there content. Worked in FF, Chrome, Safari, IE7/8. This is great, as it saves time, but makes no sense. Am I confused? After fighting with JS to get scrolling content to work, I now have a problem with IE8/9, where a wide div bleeds outside of containing div. Works fine in FF and Chrome code and css are in http://rentz.phi.co.uk/testanimate.html Any ideas? Hello, I'm currently working on a website layout that uses CSS for everything. I have a header, and two columns below that. The header works perfectly. I used float:left on both of my two columns, and they both appear side-by-side as intended. However, I want the right column to fill up the entire right side of the screen. When I try to use CSS's width: 100%; the entire right column jumps down below the left column, which is not what I want. I made a little screenshot: http://img282.echo.cx/img282/6555/tms1od.png I believe it can be done, but I'm stumped. Help is appreciated Hi Guys, I am having a problem with floats. Here is the code I am using: Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> </head> <body> <div style="width:900px; border: 1px black solid; float:left;"> <div style="width:400px; height:100px; border: 1px black solid; float:left; display:inline; background-color:blue;"></div> <div style="width:400px; height:300px; border: 1px black solid; float:left; display:block; background-color:green;"></div> <div style="width:400px; height:100px; border: 1px black solid; float:left;display:inline; background-color:red;"></div> </div> </body> </html> I am trying to get the red box to appear right under the blue box. I don't want to use a 2 column layout. Is this possible? Thanks! Elad |
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