CSS - Reduce Paragraph Spacing

Hey,

i've got a contact form , and to the right of it i want the contact information.

it's showing up in FF, but won't sit next to the form, it's going to the top, and doesn't even show up in IE...it's in the source, but not visible on the page.

Here's the CSS;
Code:

#formbox {
margin:10px 15px;
padding:15px;
border:1px solid #333;
width:40%;
font-size:8pt;
color:white;
}
.inputareas {
width:60%;
border:1px solid white;
background-color:#FBAB2B;
color:#333;
padding:1px;
margin:2px;
}

.submit {
border:1px solid white;
background-color:#FBAB2B;
color:#333;
margin:2px;
}

textarea {
font-size:8pt;
color:#333;
}

/* contact form paragraph */

.contactform {
border:1px solid #333;
width:35%;
font-size:8pt;
color:white;
position:relative;
left:55%;
z-index:20;
}

and the html;
Code:

		  <p class="contactform"> <strong>Jack Rosenberg</strong><br> phone - 734-536-6088<br> 
			fax - 734-943-6039<br> email - jrosen@canamdesign.com<br><br> <strong>Pete 
			Komsic</strong><br> phone - 519-996-4673<br> email - pkomsic@canamdesign.com<br><br> 
			<strong>Scott Stein</strong><br> phone - 519-564-7175<br> email - sstein@canamdesign.com<br>	
		  </p>
		  <div id="formbox"> 
			<p>Please complete the following form, ensuring <b>ALL</b> fields are 
			  complete.</p>
			<!-- DISPLAYS ERRORS IF FORM IS INCOMPLETE -->
			<?php 
					// Check to see if there has been any errors...
					if(!empty($errors)) {
									
					echo '<h3>Sorry there has been the following errors with your form :</h3>';
					// Print the errors 
					echo "<div class=\"reglist\">";
					echo "<ul>"; 
					foreach($errors as $error) { 
					echo "<li>$error</li>"; 
					} 
					echo "</ul>";
					echo "</div>"; 
					}							
			?>
			<!-- DISPLAYS INFO IF FORM IS PROPERLY COMPLETED -->
			<?php 
									
					// We only want to show the form if there has been no sucessful post
					if(isset($post_sucess)) {
			
			?>
			<h3>The following information was sent to us by you:</h3>
			<p><b>Contact Name:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['name']); ?></p>
			<p><b>Email:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['email']); ?></p>
			<p><b>Phone Number:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['Phone']); ?></p>
			<p><b>Inquiry:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['inquiry']); ?></p>
			<?php
									
					} else { // Else show the form
								
				?>
			<form method="post" name="contactform" action="<?php $_POST['PHP_SELF'];?>">
			  <fieldset>
			  <legend>Name:<br></legend>
			  <input type="text" name="name" class="inputareas">
			  </fieldset>
			  <fieldset>
			  <legend>Email:<br></legend>
			  <input type="text" name="email" class="inputareas">
			  </fieldset>
			  <fieldset>
			  <legend>Phone Number:<br></legend>
			  <input type="text" name="phone" class="inputareas">
			  </fieldset>
			  <fieldset>
			  <legend>Inquiry:<br></legend>
			  <textarea rows="4" cols="30" class="inputareas" name="inquiry"></textarea>
			  </fieldset>
			  <fieldset>
			  <legend> 
			  <input type="submit" value=".:Submit:." class="submit" name="submit">
			  </legend>
			  </fieldset>
			</form>
			<?php } ?>
		  </div>
		  <!-- CLOSES FORM BOX -->

thanks!

Ok, I know IE is buggy, but this one has been driving me nuts for a while now... I'm applying borders to the edges of a div as shown by A list apart. Pretty simple stuff and I have it working perfectly under Mozilla Firefox. IE on the other hand isn't taking it so well (imagine that). The thing is, it's like nothing I've ever seen. I changed some positioning on the page one night and ever since then it's been doing it. The lower right hand image is just not rendering. What's worse, is if I add a border to the element it will displace things as a border should but the border itself doesn't show up! I don't know how I managed to muck things up this way, but I would appreciate a hand with it if anyone has any ideas.

Here is the IE Screenshot and the Firefox Screenshot

Also...
The CSS and The HTML

Hey folks,

i'm just doing some experimenting with css right now, and hit a snag.

if you look at the page, you'll see 'howdy' inside the top negative. i'm trying to format the text to fit inside the middle section of the negatives...one negative per paragraph. Whenever i try formatting it, it shifts the image downward, and i don't know what to do to fix it.

CSS
Code:

.ptext {
font:10px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:white;
padding:50px 60px;
width:350px;
height:375px;
}

p {
background:black url(images/negative.gif) no-repeat left;
height:375px;
width:350px;
}

HTML

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>black/white - some kinda website</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="35mm_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

<body>
	
<div id="container"> 
<h1></h1>
<p>
	<span class="ptext">howdy.</span>
</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

any help'd be greatly appreciated.

I read somewhere that we can format the first letter of each paragraph separately from the rest of it by CSS. Is possible and how?

I think this is a very basic quesiton, but I am stumped with it. How can I make a paragraph that will be a specific width in the middle of the page for example regardless of the size of the monitor or browser window - that is, the paragraph will stay the same width even though it is on a page that will stretch to fill the entire window? This can be done of course with tables, but I would like to know how to do it with CSS. The margin property seems of no help because you must assume a given size of the page or parent element.

Hi,

I'm getting a weird problem when viewing my client's site with IE6, however, it works fine in IE7 and FF.

Here's the link:
http://www.groundedgroup.com/client...or-sale/554421/

As you'll notice, the middle area containing the description of the home is messed up. Basically, the background resizes as you move the browser scroll bar up and down. Never seen this before. Does the same with the comment area below, too.

Any ideas what's causing this?

Thanks in advance.

I'm a CSS newbie and this is my very first page that I have to make for a class. I can't figure out how to move my text below/center my headline. Every time it gets close (when I use margins) it jumps right to the bottom.

P.S. If my code seems strange it's because I'm not really sure what I'm doing yet, so if you have any advice/better ways to achieve the same effect, please let me know

HTML:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Welcome to Jolie Manor Bed and Breakfast</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style3.css"/>
</head>
<body id="body" onload="">
<div id="wrap">
<img src="manor.jpeg" alt="Manor" class="floatleft" />
<h1> Jolie Manor <br />
<span class="smaller">Bed and Breakfast</span></h1>
<p class="blocktext"> Escape to Jolie Manor, a luxury waterfront bed and breakfast on the eastern shore, where the Chesapeake Bay is aglow in warm sunsets, where towering oaks gently kiss the skyline and where you can let your body rest and your mind wander.</p>

<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Home Page</a></li>
<li><a href="assignment32.html">Amenities</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Rates</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Local Features</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>


CSS:


body
{
width: 800px;
height: 620px;
background-color: rgb(171,214,212);
}

#wrap
{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-image:url(book2.tif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: center;
}

h1
{
color: rgb(69,38,26);
font-family: serif;
margin-right: 150px;
margin-top: 100px;
margin-left: 0px;
float: right;
font-size: 2em;


}

.blocktext

{
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 0px;
width: 10em;
float: right;
margin-top: 170px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

p

{
color: rgb(69,38,26);
font-family: serif;

}


.floatleft
{
margin-left: 60px;
margin-top: 145px;

}
.smaller {
font-size: .75em;
}

#navcontainer
{
background: #f0e7d7;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 1em 0 0 0;
font-family: georgia, serif;
text-transform: lowercase;
position:fixed; top:5px;

}
#navcontainer ul
{
padding: .2em 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
background-color: rgb(69,38,26);
color: #FFF;
width: 100%;
font: normal 90% arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
position:fixed; top:5px;
}

li { display: inline; }

li a
{
text-decoration: none;
background-color: rgb(69,38,26);
color: #FFF;
padding: .2em 1em;
border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

li a:hover
{
background-color: #369;
color: #fff;
}

I have used this in my CSS:

p { margin-top: 0.5em;}

But it renders differently in IE6 and Netscape 7.

Is there a method to get this equal in both ?

Thanks.

i have a page where i float a block of text to the right. at the bottom of that text, there is a graphic that creates a footer for that block.

in ie, it looks fine. but in firefox it's got 12px of space below the text (as opposed to ABOVE the graphic.) because it looks incorrect in ff and ok in ie, my hunch is that i've done something wrong - since ff is so much more reliable than ie.

two last things. when i place a 1px border at the bottom of the text, the bottom margin disappears. but if i use a 0px border, the space remains. also, if i remove the <p> tags from within the text, the problem resolves itself. i do not address p formatting within the css document.

this is my html: Code:

<div id=outerwrapper>

<div class=sidebar>

<div id=sidebartext style="background: #acba6e url(images/sidebarbg.gif) 0px 0px repeat-y;">
<img src="images/image1.jpg" align=right>
Some text.
<p>
<em>Some text</em>
</div>

<div class=sidebarbottom>
<img src="images/image2.png">
</div>

</div>

<div class="maincontent">
<h1 style="text-align: right; line-height:120%; border-right: 30px solid #ffffff;">Some text</h1>
More text
<p>
123 Main Street, Your City, USA 512.555.1212
</div>

</div>

and this is my css: Code:

html, body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
font-family: "arial";
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 210%;
color: #847c69;
letter-spacing: .05em;
}

body {
text-align: center;
}

#outerwrapper {
position: relative;
top: 192px; 
left: 0px;
margin-left: 45px;
margin-right: 45px;
display: block;
overflow: visible;
zoom: 1;
z-index: 1;
}

.sidebar {
margin-right: -27px;
float: right;
width: 305px;
display: block;
z-index: 1;
}

#sidebartext {
width: 265px;
padding: 0px 20px 0 20px;
font-family: "arial";
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 130%;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: left;
letter-spacing: .05em;
z-index: 1;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.sidebarbottom {
margin-top: 0;
width: 305px;
z-index: 1;
}

.maincontent {
padding: 10px 30px 30px 30px;
background: #ffffff;
text-align: left;
border-right: solid 1px #666688;
border-bottom: solid 1px #666688;
z-index: 1;
color: #6c6b5e;
}

i would appreciate any help you can provide. this has stolen hours from my day.

Do you guys know if there is any way to change the style of only the first letter in a paragraph? For example:

"The duck is dead and it can't come back to life."

The letter T would get an effect such as switch of baseline, color, bgcolor and indentation. How is this possible without having to add a class to that particular first letter all the time. I am using this in a weblog system so it would need to be added in a template. Any help? Thanks!

I'm trying to get something that looks like this:



Here is the xhtml:

Code:

<div id="container">
                <div class="design_box">
			<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
                        <h1>Header goes here</h1>
                        <p>Paragraph goes here</p>
		</div>
		<div class="design_box">
			<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
                        <h1>Header goes here</h1>
                        <p>Paragraph goes here</p>
		</div>
		<div class="design_box">
			<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
                        <h1>Header goes here</h1>
                        <p>Paragraph goes here</p>
		</div>
</div>

Here is the relevant css:

Code:

.design_box {
	display: block;
	margin-bottom: 17px;
}

#row_a_right_web_design img {
	float: left;
}

.design_box h1 {
	color: #fbfbfb;
	font: bold .9em Tahoma, arial, sans;
	margin-bottom: 4px;
}

.design_box p {
	color: #c4c2c2;
}

Needless to say, the above css does not produce the desired outcome. I'm having a serious brain-fart as to what the best way is to tackle this.

Thanks in advance.

Here's the code.

Code:

<div class="entry">
<p>Blah blah blah</p>
<div class="postmetadata">

<div class="hide">
Blah blah blah
</div>

Blah blah blah
</div>

And the CSS.

Code:

#content div.post div.entry {
float:left;
margin:-5px auto auto 6px;
width:570px;
font-size:12px;
line-height:20px;
}

#content div.post div.entry p {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background:white;
}

#content div.post div.entry div.postmetadata {
margin:10px auto 20px auto;
font-size:11px;
line-height:19px;
border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;
}

#content div.post div.entry div.postmetadata div.hide {
display:none;
}

Apparently I have to set background:white; to the #content div.post div.entry p for div.postmetadata's border-top to appear in IE7. Firefox and IE8 displays this correctly.

Any ideas?

CSS:

Code:

.news {
  background-color:#eaeaea;
  border: solid 1px #999;
  width: 500px;
  margin-top: 10px;
}

.news img {
  float: left;
  padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;
}

.news p {
  float: right;
  width: 350px;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 10px 10px 10px 0;
}

HTML:
Code:

<div class="news">
<img src="http://album-images.lala.com/servlet/ArtWorkServlet/432627039265781052/l" width="120" height="180" />
<p>One of the most impressive flights ever has to be landing at Male airport in the Maldives. As the plane descends, stretching before you is a sea of azure blue reefs and atolls. The engines ease off and the plane gently floats down, almost skimming the water before finally touching down. Male airport sits on it's own private Atoll so transfers to your hotel are either by speedboat or, if you're lucky, by sea plane. Beats descending into Heathrow airport and then fighting your way to the train or bus station any day.</p>
</div>

Logically, a grey box should wrap around it. Can anyone explain to a CSS newbie why this doesn't work?

I have two easy questions about CSS...

1. Can two font-size settings interfere with each other if the they overlap? For example, suppose I have a page set to have the font at size 14px. Then within that page, I do a <p> tag that sets the font size to 10px. Is the font size relative (do they add, multiply, whatever), or is 10px absolute? It seems like 32px is a lot for a heading I'm making, but that's how big I needed to set it for it to look like a heading... It wouldn't show up super-big on another computer with a different browser, would it?

2. Is there any way in CSS to change the amount of space before and after a <p> tag? I have one paragraph right after another, and I want to get rid of some of the space that is between them.

Thanks in advance.