CSS - Em-width Images
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I am putting together a design based almost entirely on ems, so that if text-size is altered, line-length will remain consistent. Obviously, images are by definition of pixel dimension, so they would not enlarge or contract in the same way when the text size is changed. How about enclosing images in DIVs of em dimensions, clipped. Would that mean that, as the text size is increased, the DIV would keep its relative size in the design, and more of it would be revealed? Has anyone tried this? Thanks Tom Similar TutorialsHi everyone, I'm interested in making the ads in the rightmost sidebar stay within the 900px of the layout. How can I alter this page so that: 1. The images stay inside the container div 2. If the images are larger than the rightmost column, the column expands to the left and will make the main content feed smaller. I'm still kind of rusty with how fluid width works. Site is h**p://www.topofferspage.com I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this unless there is a trick or hack....Can u set a background images height & width in a tag? I have a logo'd masthead that I need to reduce when the user wants to print the page. I know I can just create a print-specific image but, I thought I'd ask to see if there was a way to reduce the image thru .css??? thanks! Stephen There are very few things which are just impossible to do using HTML and CSS, but I'm wondering if I've finally hit something that is. First, some background: I'm trying to do some code for a wordpress image gallery on my blog. I have a plugin that allows me to code the gallery however I want, so that's not a problem. However, I'm redesigning my site, and I want to keep both galleries I have already posted and new galleries that I'm going to post to all look the same. The problem is this: the old galleries all have 2 images in a row, while the new ones will have 3 images in a row (and perhaps even 4 in some situations). All images in any given gallery will have the same heights and widths, but height and width of images between galleries can change. What I've been trying to accomplish is the following: A box, which creates a border around the entire gallery. Images stack horizontally as wide as they can go on the page, then drop down to the next line. As I said, sometimes this will be 2 and sometimes 3 images. However, the border should always be "skin tight" (give or take a few pixels of padding) around the gallery. I've tried just about every combination of tags, floating, and display options, and nothing seems to work. Either the containing element is either full width of it's container (if container is display block or inline-block with no width) constrains the widths of the images (if it does have a width), or the box doesn't fully contain the top row of images (if the container is display inline with non-floated content). I can usually either get the right width, but not the right height, or the right height, but not the right width. Getting both the right height and width appear to be the problem. As of right now, my code for the gallery looks something like the following (it is ever changing, so it's kind of pointless to post what it is at this exact moment): Code: <div class="outer"> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> <span class="inner"><a href="whatever"><img /></a></span> </div> However, I'm just running out of ideas, and I'm about ready to either say "screw the look of the old galleries" or use wordpress's built in options for how many rows there are (the problem with this is I have to set it for each gallery - something that I'm trying to avoid if possible, as resorting to that also presents issues with galleries I've already posted) I've been restyling a legacy web app. the old app had height and width attributes for every image. So when you modernize you can create classes that chunk a whole bunch of stuff, one of which is height and width. In order for SEO analysis to like you do you have to keep the old fashioned height and width attributes on every single image tag? Is it OK to have both a style from a class AND height and width attributes? I assume if they conflict the local ones will win, even though strictly speaking they are not styles. Thanks, just curious. 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! I have a titlebar for an article for my site and i'm trying to achieve rounded corners with transparency. The problem is that my transparent images (toprightcorner and blobs) are showing the background of the div i've used to tile the background image across the bar (it's variable width). How can I prevent this? i know there is background-position but i need a fixed size that the background won't tile across at either end while the width is variable. Is the only solution to make 3 divs and use 2 as columns to hold the corner images and have the background tile across it or is there an easier way? Here is the relevant code Thanks --James Code: <div class="articlebox"> <div class="articletitle"><img class="left" src="blobs.jpg" border="0" /></div> </div> css Code: Original - css Code div.articlebox{ width:100%; /*attach it to the top of the box so we can layer the corner on top of it*/ background:rgb(249,249,249) url('topbg2.png') repeat-x fixed; padding:0px; margin:0px; } div.articletitle{ text-align:left; width:100%; height:21px; background:url('toprightcorner2.png') no-repeat right top; border-bottom:1px solid #888; padding:0px; margin:0px; } div.articletitle img{ float:left; } * html div.articletitle img{ margin-left:-3px; }
The layout I have going is a bit difficult to explain. Here's a diagram.. The area of importance is the header. The content and main head area are centered. The area to the left and right of the header are a <div>. However, as you can see, the background image on the left is different than the one on the right. I'm having difficulty making this work. the images can be stretched horizontally without a problem, but the two sides must meet in the middle beneath the header. I hope this makes sense. What I've got to do, I think, is tell the background image of the underlying <div> to stretch to 100%, and make this image 300px wide or so including both sides of the image and a split. The split would hide behind the header. I can't find a method to stretch the background image, though. Does anybody know of a better way, or a way to achieve this method at all without getting into completely different layouts? Thanks in advance for any assistance/suggestions. 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;"> 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? 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 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... 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 have a header div with a background image - it's basically a pair of hands holding a banner - the arms extending to the sides of the window. I'm trying to work it so that, no matter how wide or thin the window, the arms will always extend to the sides. So when you make it smaller, the image will disappear beyond the viewing window. This happens automatically on the right-hand side, but the image is stopping it on the left. Is there a way to set a min-width, which is smaller then the image itself, so that when the window is shrunk the image starts to disappear on either side until it reaches the min-width? I'm trying to get it so the arms will disappear and stop at the hands. Or can anyone suggest an alternative solution? I tried to do it with background and header image, with the arms on the background, so when the top image moves it looks like the arms move with it. That worked great until I started using a patterned background. Full width: |---------------------------------------| |AAAAAAAAHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHAAAAAAAAA| |---------------------------------------| Shrunk width: ------- |------------------------| -------- AAAAAAA |AHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHA| AAAAAAAA ------- |------------------------| -------- Grey bit outside window edge. | Window side A Arms H Hands B Banner I hope that makes sense. I expect there's an easy solution but I've been trying to figure it out for several hours and could do with someone else's perspective. Thanks. I have a page with an ASP.NET Gridview on it...this Gridview is located in a child DIV inside a parent DIV. That Gridview can often go wider than the parent DIV width set. In IE6 the MAINDIV (Parent DIV) would expand to fit the expanded Gridview contained within the child DIV. In IE7 the DIV will not expand so it overlaps the DIV and looks bad. I want that MainDiv to dynamically grow with the child DIV width, like it did in IE6. Please see my code below. I want the MainDiv to remain ~800px unless it is pushed out further. Thanks for any ideas on a fix for this. Whenever I try min-width it just blows the parent DIV out to 100% screen size. Code: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head id="Head1" runat="server"> </head> <body style="width:100%;text-align:center;background-color:#68838B" onload="loadpage();"> <form id="frmMain" runat="server"> <div id="mainDiv" style="position:relative;top:10px;width:800px;height:auto; background-color:white;border:solid 1px #666666"> <div id="contentDiv" style="text-align:left;width:797px; padding:3px 3px 3px 3px;"> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="contentBody" runat="server"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder> </div> </div> </form> </body> </html> I'm writing a modification for a bulletin board. One of the beta testers had a problem with their template... My modification uses a left & right float, with a clearing div at the bottom with a copy right. I know the problem, but my question is, why is it a problem: width="75%" will sometimes, in certain templates, make the right floating table drop down beneath the left floating menu, and it's width is 100%. When I change it to inline styling, style="width: 75%;", it works as it should. I'd really like to know why it's doing this, because I've never ran into this before. Here's a slimmed version of the HTML/CSS: Code: <div id="st0re_wrapper" style="float: left; width: 24%; clear: both;"> <table class="borderwrap iptable" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="" class="maintitle"><p>Your Menu</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-left: 5px;" valign="middle"> <div style="margin-left: 5px;"> Sample menu item. </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <table class="borderwrap iptable" style="float: right;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="75%"> <tr> <td colspan="" class="maintitle"><p>Sample</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row2"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> Sample content. </td> </tr> </table> The used CSS classes a Code: .ipbtable { width: 100%; } table.ipbtable, tr.ipbtable, td.ipbtable { background: transparent; color: #222; font-size: 10px; line-height: 135%; } .ipbtable td, .divpad { padding: 5px; } .borderwrap, .borderwrapm { background: #edede7; border: 1px solid #91908B; color: #55554F; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .borderwrapm { margin: 5px; } .borderwrap h3, .maintitle, .maintitlecollapse { background: url(style_images/convention/maintitle.gif); color: #f6f4ef; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: -1px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 12px; } .maintitle td { color: #EEEDE8; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: bottom; } .maintitlecollapse { border: 1px solid #FFF; } .maintitle p, .maintitlecollapse p, .formsubtitle p { background: transparent !important; border: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; } st0re_wrapper is just an unused id, besides the inline styling. Internet Explorer always presents me with a challenge (partial repost). The current issue involves emulating max-width in IE using the technique described by Svend Tofte. http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/ The CSS code uses JavaScript expressions and feeds the browser's width to the style. The CSS code follows. * html #Content { height: 1%; width:expression( document.body.clientWidth > (500/12) * parseInt(document.body.currentStyle.fontSize)? "30em": "auto" ); } This implementation resizes and displays the fluid width in IE. But it does not emulate the max-width property. Basically, I need help fixing the max-width implementation on #Content. Since max-width remains a challenge in IE, the min-width remains a greater mystery. Min-width would be nice as well. The page is complex with several wrappers for other IE display issues and JavaScript functionality. Presently, these workarounds and hacks have my head spinning. The page has an overall wrapper #Container. #Content div has the max-width expression. It encases #div.bgWh, so the page could have true transparent round corners. One issue relates to how div.bgWh expands beyond #Content when the client's browser width approaches 260 pixels. These containers serve a purpose; but IE does not deal with their width in a predictable manner. Fortunately, Firefox does not have these issues. These scenarios leave me scratching my head more often than not. Overflow hidden property has worked for me in the past, but did not provide the magic bullet this time around. Please load the page and shrink you browser to around 260 pixels. Keep your eye on the round corners around the main content area. The container, div.bgWh, expands beyond #Content. Please let me know if you see any relevant patterns and if you have any useful suggestions on implementing max-width. Somebody may suggest better approaches to the IE max-width conundrum. http://neville.f2o.org/nifty_TEMP1.html Styles in Question #Content div.bgWh #Container Code: <tr class='firstrow'> <th width=10%><strong>Rank</strong></th> <th width=40%><strong>Site</strong></th> <th width=25%><strong>In</strong></th> <th width=25%><strong>Out</strong></th> </tr> that makes it exactly the way i want, but when i switch to Code: <tr class='firstrow'> <th style='width=10%'><strong>Rank</strong></th> <th style='width=40%'><strong>Site</strong></th> <th style='width=25%'><strong>In</strong></th> <th style='width=25%'><strong>Out</strong></th> </tr> it is sized naturally. Hi Guys, Consider the following box: PHP Code: <div style=border: 1mm black Solid; width: 148mm; height: 98mm;'> </div> 148mm + 1mm + 1mm = width of 150mm 98mm + 1mm + 1mm = width of 100mm Now why does neither firefox or ie manage to get it? Firefox is about 2mm out and ie is about 3mm out? Any ideas or is it some quirk? Charlie |