CSS - Print Wide Table: Repeat Columns?

Hey all, a fairly simple situation which is driving me crazy! =p

I have a table row which has two columns.
Now using css I have set the row to have a background image like so:
Code:

background-image:url(images/newsmiddle.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-y; }

Now in firefox this works fine ( he content box has the image run through both columns as intended ). But in Internet Explorer on the second column the bg image starts again as if I had set the background image for that cell which is not what I want.

Anyone able to help for an IE solution?
Thanks

ok...This is driving me slightly bonkers.

I'm trying to do forms without tables. The issue is, I need a description sometimes, and I'd like to have multiple descriptions line up properly, as if they were in a table.

Here's the stylesheet:

Code:

/*
  CSS Style sheet for BES OOP Forms
*/

.Form fieldset
{
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	border: 0px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: .5em;
}

.Form > fieldset
{
	border: 1px solid #009;
}

.Form legend
{
	background: #BBB;
	border: #009 solid 1px;
	padding: 2px 10px;
	font-weight: bolder;
	margin:0;
}

.Form .Form_Row
{
	border-bottom: 1px dotted #009;
	margin: 0;
	padding: .25em;
	clear: left;
}

.Form .Form_Footer
{
	text-align: center;
	border: 1px solid #009;
	margin: -1px 0 0;
	background-color: #EEE;
	clear: left;
}

.Form label
{
	width: 13em;
	display: block;
	float: left;
}

.Form .Form_Input
{
	display: block;
	float: left;
	width: 20em;
}

.Form .Form_Desc
{
	display: block;
	float: left;
}

The issue is one of flexibility: as you can see in the attached images, it works fine as long as the .Form_Input is narrower than the 20em allotted. However, when the .Form_Input is wider than that, the description is placed over the end of the input itself, which stinks. IE does it "right", sorta, and just bumps the description over further than it really should.

Any ideas? display:table, etc are out, because that doesn't work at all in IE. min-width solves the problem for Mozilla and company, but is ignored completely by IE.

I really want to do this without tables...but damn.

MPEDrummer

Help!

Could someone please have a look at the website I'm making at brandnewcommunicatie.nl/mall?

Problem is: I've created a simple table to display text and an image next to eachother. However, the textcolumn is under the image. I'm posting it here, because I'm fairly certain it's a CSS related problem. Probably some value in my CSS that isn't right. I just don't see it, after staring at the code for hours.

I'd really appreciate it if someone can figure this one out

hello,

i have a few tables with different background-image (style attribute) in my page.
how can i print the page with the background images
i know @media print should help, but i don't know how.

* does the css have to be external, or can i use the tag <style>

PLEASE HELP

I am developing a PHP/CSS database application built for Safari and have run into a very nasty bug.

(Aside: the web application I am building is sort of browser-specific... we are an all-Mac company, so we want people to use Safari. [I'm not even trying to make it work with IE5/Mac. Screw that.] But having said that, I'd also like it to work in IE6/Win and Firefox [Mac/PC] to give people at least a few more options, like if they're on their PC at home... whatever. Just thought I would explain that before I get flamed by those who think I'm crazy for going that route.)

Anyway, I'd like to have tables with cells/columns that are hidden on the screen but visible on printouts and vice versa. But I've discovered that using display:none for table cells in the print style sheet crashes Safari. It does not affect span tags within table cells.

This will crash Safari.
Code:

td { display: none; }

This is okay.
Code:

td span.printhide { display: none; }

This is also okay, but why do this if it's still going to take up the space on the page? Might as well just leave it.
Code:

td { visibility: hidden; }

Now, I've found a workaround that works, but it's a pain. Basically, instead of setting it up like a normal table, like this:

Code:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Cell</td>
</tr>
</table>

You have to set it up like this:

Code:

<span class="table">
<span class="row">
<span class="cell">Cell</span>
</span>
</span>

As long as you give those span tags their respective display attributes, this works when you set this in your print stylesheet, for example:

Code:

span.cell { display: none; }

But the big problem with doing it this way is that you're now completely handcuffed to the stylesheet. At least if the style sheet bonks the old way, you still have a table with tabular data in it. Plus, say if the next version of Safari fixes this problem, then you'd have to go back and fix it on every page that uses these span tags in order to "unlock" the handcuffs, which kind of nullifies the purpose of style sheets in the first place.

So I guess what I'm asking is if anyone knows of a workaround that I can use that does NOT involve converting my <table><tr><td> to <span><span><span>? Thanks for reading.

Hello,

I'm working now on div layout that contains 3 sections (header, body, footer) in one centered wrapper with border (divs with background imgs).

My problem is:

- divs that are in fact borders (id="l_outerborder_b" and id="r_outerborder_b") don't stretch when main container (id="body_content_text") grows.

Here is a html code:

Code:

<!--BEGIN TEMPLATE HEADER -->

<!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>
   	
<link href="template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="template.js" />
</head>
<body onload="onloadprocedures()">
<div id="main_container">
	<div id="template_header">
		<div id="tl_outerborder"></div>
		<div id="t_outerborder"></div>
		<div id="tr_outerborder"></div>
		<div id="l_outerborder_h"></div>
		<div id="header_content">
			<div id="logo"><img src="img/logo.png" alt="" /></div>
			<div id="slogan"><img src="img/slogan.png" alt="Centrum zdrowia" /></div>
		</div>
		<div id="r_outerborder_h"></div>
	</div>
  
  <!-- END TEMPLATE HEADER -->
  <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE BODY -->
	  <div id="template_body">
		<div id="l_outerborder_b"></div>
		<div id="body_content">
			<div id="body_content_text">
			  <p>TEST</p>
			</div>
		</div>
		<div id="r_outerborder_b"></div>
		
	  </div>
  <!-- END TEMPLATE BODY -->
  <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
	<div id="template_footer">
		<div style="clear:both"></div>
		<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
		<div id="footer_content"></div>
		<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
		<div id="bl_outerborder"></div>
		<div id="b_outerborder"></div>
		<div id="br_outerborder"></div>
	</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!-- END TEMPLATE FOOTER -->

and CSS:

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, "Times New Roman", Arial;
	font-size:12px;
}
a:link {text-decoration: none}      /* unvisited link */
a:visited {text-decoration: none}  /* visited link */
a:hover {text-decoration: none}  /* mouse over link */
a:active {text-decoration: none}  /* selected link */
#main_container {
	position:relative;
	margin:auto;
	width:960px;
	height:auto;
}
#template_header {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	width:960px;
	height:300px;
}
#header_content {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	width:900px;
	height:270px;
}
#logo {
	width:310px;
	height:130px;
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	top:0px;
	left:0px;
}
#slogan {
	width:580px;
	height:100px;
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	top:0px;
	left:0px;
}
#tl_outerborder {
	float:left;
	position:relative;	
	background-image:url(img/tl_outerborder.png);
	width:30px;
	height:30px;
}
#t_outerborder {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/t_outerborder.png);
	width:900px;
	height:30px;
}
#tr_outerborder {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/tr_outerborder.png);
	width:30px;
	height:30px;
}
#l_outerborder_h {
	float:left;
	position:relative;	
	background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	width:30px;
	height:270px;
}
#r_outerborder_h {
	float:right;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	width:30px;
	height:270px;
}
#body_content {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	width:900px;
	
	overflow:hidden;
}
#body_content_text {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	width:600px;
	
	margin: auto;
	overflow:hidden;
}
#l_outerborder_b {
	float:left;
	position:relative;	
	background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	width:30px;
	height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_b {
	float:right;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	width:30px;
	height:inherit;
}
#l_outerborder_f {
	float:left;
	position:relative;	
	background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	width:30px;
	height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_f {
	float:right;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	width:30px;
	height:inherit;
}
#template_body {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	width:960px;
	
	overflow:hidden;
}
#bl_outerborder {
	float:left;
	position:relative;	
	background-image:url(img/bl_outerborder.png);
	width:30px;
	height:30px;
	
}
#b_outerborder {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/b_outerborder.png);
	width:900px;
	height:30px;
}
#br_outerborder {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	background-image:url(img/br_outerborder.png);
	width:30px;
	height:30px;
}

Thanks in advance for info how to stretch those doomed divs

EDIT: Here is layout concept.

URL
hTTp://qsrc.pl/layout.jpg

We're having a weird problem with a print stylesheet - a little bit of the javascript menu appear on the printed over the top of the content.

eg: (http://www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au/ch10.php ) - Print Preview this page and you will see "Chapters A-Z" in the middle.
This seems to happen in all browsers.


We've looked into many css solutions to the issue - but to no avail - we cant make the damn thing disappear.
One long winded solution is to change the stylesheet to be built dynamically - so a call to ch10.php=true would build the page differently.
But this seems to defeat the purpose of using a print stylesheet in the first place.
Another long winded soltuion is to change the (Rather old) menu script - but that not really an option in this case either.

So my question is - What happens when a browser prints a page?
Does it send anything back to the server indicating it is loading the print stylesheet instead? (eg: Some sort of request variable)
Or does the client's browser simple request the CSS file and reformat the page it has already downloaded?

If so I could detect this event with PHP or Javascript to not load the offending menus when the print css had been loaded

Hi guys .... I've been all over google looking for the answer and nothing I've tried works. I'm trying to make a print-friendly css page but my browsers (FF and IE7) both ignore the CSS and apply their own standards to it no matter what I do, it's driving me positively INSANE because it feels like I've done everything according to the instructions I found online for print CSS. Could you please take a look at my code and make some suggestions? You'd be saving my sanity.

Code:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
<html xmlns="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

<head>
<title>CLOColors3</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mainstyle.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mainstyleprint.css" media="print" type="text/css" />

the print css:
Code:

	  @media print {
		 html{
			height:auto;}
		body{
			background-color:#FFF;}
		#header{
			display:none;}
		#body{
			position:relative;
			background-color:#FFF;
			background-image:none;
			height:auto;
			width:auto;
			left:0px;
			top:0px;
			z-index:0;
			padding-bottom:0px;}
		#textbox{
			position:relative;
			overflow:visible;
			float:none;
			margin-left: 0px;
			top: 0px;
			width:auto;
			bottom:0px;
			background-color:#FFF;
			border:hidden;
			border-color:#FFF;
			z-index:0;
			padding:0px;}
		#textbox img{
			display:none;}
		.searchbar{
			display:none;}
		#linkbar{
			display:none;}
		.map{
			display:none;}
		.video{
			display:none;}
		#linktext{
			display:none;}
		#clear_both{
			display:none;}
		#menu{
			display:none;}
		#footer{
			display:none;}
		}
	

Currently the main CSS is being used and none of the elements I set to be "hidden" are hidden. Help!!!


UPDATE: Ok, so IE seems to be PARTIALLY responding to the print CSS. It responds to all the "display:none;" commands but refuses to format the #textbox div according to my instructions, a border persists and the div has an overflow scrollbar for some reason. Firefox is still unresponsive.

I have pages the when viewed for print in Firefox, show the page going below the page margin and not continuing to the next logical printed page.

This image below, shows better than I can explain. Has anyone ever seen this before?...Any ideas how to make it preview and print correctly?

imagine this set up, div floated left, div floated right, div in between. the middle div has text that wraps and expands the page to the required height. however in firefox, because it expands to the width of the entire page before wrapping, the middle div drops below the two floated divs. i cant fix it's width as it needs to expand to fill the middle width depending on the size of the browser (the left/rigtht floats have fixed width)

if i put one or both of the floated divs within the middle div the text then wraps around the floats and doesnt remain in a column, setting each floats height to 100% is unsatisfactory, adding a further text container div only reproduces the original problem.

so it's a 3 column problem, but also it isnt. going to have a sandwich and try to attack it again, looking for fresh ideas. ultimatley i might have to go back and use a big table. ouch!

edit: just to clarify, the left and right floats are fixed width and height, the middle div can change width to accomodate the browser width, and height to accomodate the text.

**** EDIT PROBLEM FIXED

Hey guys I'm turning a psd I got from a designer into an html template, but I'm having a little trouble with ie7. It's giving me a ton of space on the right side. I also have a body background set to center and with the space on the right, it's not lining up right.

I've spent way too much time trying to figure out what it is, any help would be awesome.

http://www.bryanlbuchanan.com/sierra/

css: http://www.bryanlbuchanan.com/sierra/includes/style.css


**** EDIT Problem fixed. I had a div nested inside another div that had a defined width. I thought div's inherited the width of it's parent when there was no width defined, but apparently ie7 was rendering the nested div 100% of the screen width while it was offset to the right by about 600px by it's parent. I defined the nested div's width and it all seems to be working fine now.

Hi,

I'm trying to set a box to be offset over a table that contains a jpg. My code is:

Code:

.holder {
    position: relative;
}


.offset {
	position: absolute;
    top: 60px;
    left: 50px;
	height: 140px;
	width: 203px;
	padding: 8px;
	background-color: #FE9900;
	color: #003366;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 9px;
}



<div class="holder">
			
				<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
				<tr>
					<td><img src="images/homepage_flyerdeals_pic.jpg" alt="" width="71" height="71" border="0"></td>
					<td><img src="images/homepage_flyerdeals_header.gif" alt="" width="127" height="31" border="0"></td>
				</tr>
				</table>
		
				<div class="offset">
				text here				</div>
			
			</div>

My problem is, the offset box is too high and wide in Netscape. It looks fine and lines up perfectly in IE. How can I get it to look the same in Netscape??

I have a div like this:

Code:

<div class="image_box">
<img src="">
</div>

I have a border and background-color going on w/the div, but I want it to only be as wide as the image. It is stretching as wide as the screen. How do I force it shrink down and only be as big as the image that is inside of it?

This should be simple, I just don't know how to do it. Thanks.

Hi everyone

I have a 3 column layout with a footer. If the content ends up being too wide for the middle column (ie a large data table) I can't get the middle column to push the right hand column beyond the width of the screen. If the right column is absolutely positioned, the middle column just continues underneath the right column (overlaps). If the right column is floated right, it just drops down below the middle column. What I want it to do is bring up a horizontal scroll bar in the browser and let people scroll across for the right column.

Based on the code below, if anyone has any ideas I would be unbelievably greatful. I've been pulling my hair out all day...

My HTML is as follows:

Code:

<div id="content_container"> 
  <div id="lft"> 
   ... 
  </div> 
  <div id="mainbody"> 
   .... 
  </div> 
  <div id="rght"> 
   ... 
  </div> 
  <div id="footer"> 
   ... 
  </div> 
</div>

My relevant CSS is as follows:

Code:

#content_container { 
   position: relative; 
   min-height: 100%; 
   top: 0; 
   left: 0; 
   width: auto; 
   height: auto; 
   border: 1px solid red; 
} 

#lft { 
   float: left; 
   left: 0; 
   top: 0; 
   width: 24%; 
   visibility: visible; 
} 

#mainbody { 
   position: relative; 
   left: 0; 
   top: 0; 
   width: 50%; 
   height: auto; 
   visibility: visible; 
} 

#rght { 
   position: absolute; 
   right: 0; 
   top: 0; 
   width: 22%; 
   visibility: visible; 
   padding-right: 10px; 
} 

#footer { 
   float: left; 
   bottom: 0; 
   left: 0; 
   top: 0; 
   clear: both; 
   width: 100%; 
   margin-top: 40px; 
   padding-top: 15px; 
   padding-bottom: 15px; 
   visibility: visible; 
}