CSS - Background Color Idea.
I've been trying to figure out how I can use css to make one side of the body one color and the other side another color. For example: if I want the entire left 70% of the page to be white and the right 30% to be black. no margins. it needs to stretch the entire length of the page regardless if there's any content in a div or not. And it need to be fluid. I've been trying everything I know and apparently that's not very much because I can't figure it out.
The link below is what I've tried using a bg image. Hopefull this will illustrate the idea. But I don't want to use a bg image if I don't have to plus the division where the color changes needs to be fluid with the text and I haven't figured out how to do it with the offset percentages. Basically the left side needs to be white as wide or wider as the left column and the right side color can go from that point all th eway right regardless of how wide the browser is. Does that make sense? I think I could do it if it were 50/50 but that's not what I'm after. http://sonicparke.com Has anybody done this or know how it should be done? Similar TutorialsHi there people, I have a question about CSS but before I start off asking this question I'll introduce myself. I'm a new user of this great forum, my name is Dwight and I'm a student on the "Graphical Lyceum Amsterdam" where I follow the education for "Multimedia Designer". Ok so now you know me a little, I'll start off asking my question. Question: I have to change the layout for a html page that askes for information from different asp pages, but that's not my problem . The problem is that I have to make some td's a different color -the background that is- but the problem is that I can't change the html page itself (it is automaticly generated and I don't have permission to change it). So my question is can someone tell me how I can change the color of some (not all!) td's with CSS without making classes? Tnx, Dwight i wanted usersto choose their own style sheet by giving them different links like red, green, blue which will take them to different layouts or background color page. the problem was that worked only for that particular page but if they click on any link or menu from that page it will take them back to the default color. is there any way that i can set so that their choice will stay throught their surfing ? any thoughts ? hanks Hi, I am trying to apply a background color to an item other than the body but I cannot make it display in IE 6 or 5.5. I have tried applying it to both <div>'s and <p>'s. Does IE not support the background-color property outside of the page background? Hey Guys! I'm going absolutely bonkers trying to find out how to change the color of the background of a certain element on my site. I installed Vanilla forums on my site and am trying to customize the css script. If you look at the page, you will see an annoying white in the body. I am trying to make the background of that #F6F6F2. Could you guys possibly put me in the right direction? Thanks! Here is a link to my page: shipswatchdotcom/forum/vanilla/aaa.html Here is the css script: Code: #Body { margin: 0; width: 99.9%; position: relative; background: #F6F6F2; } #Head { background: #B8D4B8; padding:0; margin: 20px 20px 0; text-align: left; position: relative; } div.Popup h1, div.Popup h2, div.Connect h1, div.Connect h2 { background: #F6F6F2; border-bottom: 1px solid #3b5998; } .Banner { padding: 10px; text-align: left; position: relative; background: #F6F6F2; } .Banner ul { background: #B8D4B8; padding: 0; margin: 0; } .Banner ul li { display: inline; padding: 0; margin: 0; } .Banner ul li a { font-weight: bold; padding: 3px 6px; font-size: 11px; color: #336633; display: inline-block; } .Banner ul li a:hover { background: #E5F0E5; } .Banner ul li a.SignOut { font-weight: normal; position: absolute; top: 10px; right: 10px; } .Banner ul li a span { border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; padding: 1px 2px 0 1px; background: #F6F6F2; border-right: 1px solid #F6F6F2; border-bottom: 1px solid #F6F6F2; color: #F6F6F2; font-size: 9px; position: relative; top: -3px; } #Content { float: none; width: auto; margin: 0 280px 0 10px; background: #F6F6F2; } #Panel { float: right; margin-right: 10px; background: #F6F6F2; } #Panel div.SearchBox input.InputBox { width: 200px; margin-right: 4px; background: #F6F6F2; } div.SearchBox { margin-bottom: 6px; } body.Profile div.SearchBox { display: none; } body.Profile #Content { float:none; width: auto; margin: 0 10px 0 280px; background: #F6F6F2; } body.Profile #Panel { margin: 0 0 0 10px; background: #F6F6F2; } form.Activity textarea { width:99%; background: #F6F6F2; } #Foot div { width: auto; background: #F6F6F2; } body.Post #Content { width: auto; margin:0 20px; background: #F6F6F2; } #ConversationForm textarea.MultiComplete, #ConversationForm .TextBox, #MessageForm textarea, div.Comment div.CommentForm, div.Comment div.CommentForm textarea, div.CommentForm textarea, #DiscussionForm input.InputBox, #DiscussionForm textarea { width:99%; background: #F6F6F2; } #ConversationForm form { border: none; } div.Preview div.Message, ul.MessageList div.Message { clear: none; } #DiscussionForm form { background: #F6F6F2; border: 1px solid #ccc; } div.MessageForm, div.Tabs { background: #F6F6F2; border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; } /* Tabs */ div.Tabs { background: #F6F6F2; padding: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; } div.Tabs ul { padding: 0 8px; white-space: nowrap; } div.MessageForm { padding: 8px 8px 5px; } div.MessageForm div.Tabs { padding: 0 8px; } div.Tabs li a, div.Tabs li a:link, div.Tabs li a:hover, div.Tabs li a:active, div.Tabs li a:visited { font-size: 11px; margin: 0; border: none; border-radius: 0; -moz-border-radius: 0; -webkit-border-radius: 0; background: #F6F6F2; color: #336633; text-decoration: none; padding: 8px 10px; line-height: 11px; } div.Tabs li a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } a.Active, div.Tabs li.Active a { background: #F6F6F2; color: #336633; margin: 0; border: 1px solid #aaa; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0; -moz-border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0; -webkit-border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding: 6px 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; } div.Tabs li a span { line-height: 1; font-size: 80%; padding: 0 3px; border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; font-weight: normal; background: #F6F6F2; color: #4A7023; margin: 0 0 0 4px; } div.DiscussionsTabs div.SubTab { font-size: 11px; border-radius: 0; -moz-border-radius: 0; -webkit-border-radius: 0; border-top: 1px solid #aaa; background: #F6F6F2; margin:0; padding:4px 8px; } div.HeadingTabs ul { margin: 8px 0 0; } body.Discussion a.Bookmark { margin: 6px 2px; } div.Preview { border: 1px solid #aaa; background: #F6F6F2; margin:0 0 8px; padding: 8px; } .Foot { background: #F6F6F2; border: none; } div.MorePager a, div.MorePager a:link, div.MorePager a:visited, div.MorePager a:active, div.MorePager a:hover { border-radius: 0; -moz-border-radius: 0; -webkit-border-radius: 0; background: #F6F6F2; border: none; color: #4A7023; line-height: 1; padding: 0; text-decoration: none; } div.MorePager a:hover { color: #4A7023; text-decoration: underline; } body.add #Content { margin: 0 10px; background: #F6F6F2; } /* Panel Boxes */ #Panel div.Box { border-radius: 0; -moz-border-radius: 0; -webkit-border-radius: 0; box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background: #F6F6F2; padding: 0; } div.Box h4 { color: #4A7023; } ul.PanelActivity, ul.PanelInfo { border-top:1px solid #ccc; } ul.PanelActivity li, ul.PanelInfo li, ul.PanelInfo li.Active { background: #F6F6F2; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; } ul.PanelInfo li.Active { background: #F6F6F2; } #Status { border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; background: #eee; color: #000; line-height: 1.6; padding: 3px 6px; margin: 0 0 8px; } body.Profile ul.PanelInfo { border: #F6F6F2; } body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li { margin: 0; padding: 0; } body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li a { font-size: 12px; display: block; padding: 0 6px; background: #F6F6F2; } body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li a:hover { background: #F6F6F2; } /* Sign In Page */ body.Entry #Content { text-align: center; margin: 0 auto !important; } body.Entry #Content div.Box { background: #F6F6F2; border: 0; } div.Methods { border-left: 1px solid #ccc; } /* Messages */ div.DismissMessage { background: #F6F6F2; border: 1px solid #ccc; padding:6px 8px; border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; } div.DismissMessage a.Dismiss:hover { color: #000; } div.Warning { background: #d00; border: 1px solid #b00; color: #F6F6F2; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #444; } div.Warning a.Dismiss { color: #F6F6F2; } #Content div.Box { color: #000; background: #F6F6F2; border: 1px solid #F6F6F2; } body#dashboard_entrycontroller_signin div.Box { border: none; } /* Autocomplete */ .ac_results { border: 1px solid #d7d8da; color: #000; border-top: 0; background-color: #F6F6F2; } .ac_results li { border-bottom: 1px solid #d7d8da; } .ac_lastitem { border-bottom: 0 !important; } .ac_results strong { background: #F6F6F2; } .ac_over strong { background: #F6F6F2; } .ac_over { background: #3b5998; color: #fff; } Having an issue with the background color in a div. The color shows up in I.E. but not in Firefox. I have a div with a width of 100%. Inside the div is an unordered list with two list items. Here is the css: div#nav { width: 100%; margin: 0; background-color: #EAE9E4; } #nav ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; } #nav li { list-style: none; float: left; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 15%; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; white-space: nowrap; } Essentially this will be a navigation aid below the banner of the webpage. The list items will contain anchors which will appear as "buttons". The containing div extends to the end and I want it to have a background color. Any help appreciated. Hi, I have made a page using <div> tags. <div id="page"> <div id="leftmenu"> </div> <div id="mainarea"> </div> </div> My problem is that sometimes, the leftmenu is longer than the main area(1) and sometimes its the opposite- the main area is longer than the leftmenu(2). I want them both to be of the same height. (3) How can I do this? Plz Help! I have pasted the style codes for the 3 tags below. (1) (2) (3) #mainarea { background-color:#FFFFFF; float:left; position:relative; right:0pt; width:630px; } #leftmenu { background-color:#EEEEEE; float:left; left:0pt; position:relative; width:140px; } #page { background-color:#FFFFFF; position:relative; width:770px; } Hello, I can't seem to figure out how to get the body of this page to be white... you can see the page at: www.brandontutmarc.com/vlr and the attached CSS is at: www.brandontutmarc.com/vlr/viva.css Here is what I'd like it to look like: http://www.brandontutmarc.com/vlr/vlr1.jpg Any help is GREATLY appreciated... Here is my code: Code: body { background-color: yellow; margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%; border: 1px dotted gray; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; font-family: sans-serif; } None of the attributes such as background color, margins, border, padding are showing up when I test it out. Can someone help me? Take a look at the main menu on this site: http://www.infund.net Why doesn't the grey stretch across the entire table? Here's the code I have: Code: a.mainlevel:link, a.mainlevel:visited { width: 100%; background: url(../images/bluebug.png) no-repeat; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px; background-color: #c2c2c2; margin-bottom: 1px; white-space: nowrap; text-align:left; } a.mainlevel:hover, a.mainlevel:hover { text-decoration: underline; background: url(../images/redbug.png) no-repeat; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, serif; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: #8B1414; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px; background-color: #c2c2c2; width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1px; text-align:left; } I have a horizontal ul: Code: <ul> <li>blah</li> <li>loooooooooooooooooooooong blah blah blah</li> </ul> If I set the background color: Code: li { background-color: yellow; } It works fine, but If the long line gets wrapped, the height of the background of that li is higher, and it looks very funny. I want the background to be equally height, independent on the other li:s height. Is that possible? I don't want to have a fixed value for the height i have a problem dynamically setting the html background color when i initially set it with css. if i have a javascript function: function changeColor() { document.bgColor = '#FFFF00'; } and call it when i click a button the background color changes like you'd expect. but if i initialize the background color like this: body{background-color: #FF0000;} and then later call my javascript function to change the background color like before, it doesn't do anything. what's going on here? and how can i initialize the background color and still be able to dynamically change it? thanks My page works great in firefox, but in IE the top navigation div (top_navigation) SHOULD have a background color of red for testing perposes, but the color doesn't change! It looks like its inheriting the background color #e4dfd7 from the css body tag. I've tried using an inline style, or using !important, nothing works, and I have to make this available in at least IE6 and up. Thanks in advance for any help! html code -> cosmosristorante dot com / ox / index.asp Hi there, Is it possible to start a background-color a certain amount frm the top, like you can with background images? I have a background image which uses rounded corners, but when I set the background-color, it overlaps the background image so you cannot see it anymore. What I want to do is to start the background color, say, 20px from the top. Is that possible? I have the following code, in the sidebar DIV in Firefox the background does not show up, it does in IE7. What have I done wrong? CSS code: Code: #content { margin-left: 25px; background: #fff; width: 990px; padding: 15px 20px 20px 20px; } #blog { padding: 0; margin-right: 40px; background: #fff; width: 660px; color: #545454; float: left; padding-top: 5px !important; } #sidebar { width: 250px; padding: 8px; background: #ccc; } XHTML/HTML code: Code: <div id="content"> <div id="blog"> blah blah blah </div> <div id="sidebar"> <h2>blah</h2> blah blah blah </div> </div> I've been looking it at for a while, and while it's probably something minor I'm just simple over looking, I can't figure it out. Everything works, is in the correct place, except the grey background (#ccc) isn't showing up on the sidebar. I have this transparent png image and it looks great on a web page when you put a background color on it. the only transparent part is the border, the rest is white, so the bg color is really for border. When you go to print it, however, printers dont normally show bg colors Is there some way how I can force printing the the bg color when the user prints the page? (I know some times u can configure that on their printer but I don't want them to have to do anything. ) OK - I know all about the media="print" attribute. But I don't know how to force a background color (styled in a div tag; ie "background-color: black;") to print when the webpage is printed. I would think this would be a fairly common requirement but have not stumbled upon it. Also, it probably doesn't matter but I have been using Javascript to add the divs to the page dynamically, so I don't know if that would have any effect. Probably not. Any help would be appreciated. I've been trying various fixes with my template, so that the grey background color in the sidebar, extends beyond the content to the bottom of the page. Alas... nothing is working. Here's my code: Code: #l_sidebar { color: #cccccc; background-color: #3a3a3a; width: 160px; float: left; float: left; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0 15px 15px 15px; } #l_sidebar p{ margin: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; } #l_sidebar h2 { color: #ffbfea; font-size: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-weight: bold; list-style: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; } #l_sidebar ul { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px; } #l_sidebar li { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #l_sidebar ul li { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 5px 0px; } #l_sidebar ul li a { color: #c04080; text-decoration: none; } #l_sidebar ul li a:hover { color: #c04080; text-decoration: underline; } #r_sidebar { color: #c04080; background-color: #3a3a3a; width: 160px; float: right; position:relative; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0 15px 15px 15px; } #r_sidebar p{ margin: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 10px 0px; } #r_sidebar h2 { color: #ffbfea; font-size: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-weight: bold; list-style: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; } #r_sidebar ul { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px; } #r_sidebar li { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #r_sidebar ul li { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 5px 0px; } #r_sidebar ul li a { color: #c04080; text-decoration: none; } #r_sidebar ul li a:hover { color: #c04080; text-decoration: underline; } Hi all, I haven't been working with CSS that long and I've searched for a fix but couldn't get anything to work. I can't get a background color to display in Firefox but it does in IE. Inside my "mainwrap" I have two columns and for some reason when I set my background to white for the "mainwrap" it just doesn't show up in Firefox. Here's xhtml code: xhtml Code: Original - xhtml Code <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ""> <html xmlns=""> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="toparea"> <div id="header"></div> <!--end header--> <div id="menuarea"> <div id="menubox"> </div> <!--end menubox--> </div> <!-- end menuarea--> </div> <!--end toparea--> <div id="middlearea"> <div id="mainwrap"> <div id="topwrap"></div> <!--end topwrap--> <div id="leftcolumn"> <div id="content"></div> <!--end content--> <div id="recentwork"></div> <!--end webwork--> </div><!--end leftcolumn--> <div id="rightcolumn"></div> <!--end rightcolumn--> <div id="bottomwrap"></div> <!--end bottomwrap--> </div> <!--end mainwrap--> </div> <!--end middlearea--> <div id="bottomarea"></div> <!--end bottomarea--> </body> </html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ""> <html xmlns=""> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="toparea"> <div id="header"></div> <!--end header--> <div id="menuarea"> <div id="menubox"> </div> <!--end menubox--> </div> <!-- end menuarea--> </div> <!--end toparea--> <div id="middlearea"> <div id="mainwrap"> <div id="topwrap"></div> <!--end topwrap--> <div id="leftcolumn"> <div id="content"></div> <!--end content--> <div id="recentwork"></div> <!--end webwork--> </div><!--end leftcolumn--> <div id="rightcolumn"></div> <!--end rightcolumn--> <div id="bottomwrap"></div> <!--end bottomwrap--> </div> <!--end mainwrap--> </div> <!--end middlearea--> <div id="bottomarea"></div> <!--end bottomarea--> </body> </html> Heres the CSS: css Code: Original - css Code /* CSS Document */ body { background-image: url(../images/bottombg.jpg); background-repeat: repeat; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0; } /* Begin top area */ div#toparea { width: 100%; height: 128px; background-image: url(../images/topareabg.jpg); background-position: top; background-repeat: repeat-x; float: left; } div#header { width: 800px; height: 100px; background-image: url(../images/headerbg.jpg); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } div#logo { float: left; margin-top: 25px; margin-left: 5px; } div#tagline { margin-top: 37px; margin-left: 5px; float: left; } div#menuarea { width: 800px; height: 25px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } div#menubox { float: right; } .buttonbox { float: left; } .buttonbox img { border: none; } /* Begin middle area */ div#middlearea { width: 100%; background-image: url(../images/middleareabg.jpg); background-repeat: repeat; float: left; } div#mainwrap { width: 800px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; background-color: #FFFFFF; } div#topwrap { width: 800px; height: 20px; background-image: url(../images/topNavbg.jpg); float: left; } div#leftcolumn { width: 550px; background-color: #FFF; float: left; } div#content { width: 500px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; } div#content p { font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; } div#recentwork { width: 540px; height: 250px; background-color: #666666; margin-left: 10px; } div#rightcolumn { width: 250px; background-color: #FFF; float: left; } div#bottomwrap { width: 800px; height: 25px; background-image: url(../images/bottombgNav.jpg); float: left; } /* Begin bottom area */ div#bottomarea { width: 100%; height: 200px; background-image: url(../images/bottombg.jpg); background-repeat: repeat; float: left; } /* Text styles */ h1 { font: 100 normal 22px/normal Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: none; color: #999999; } .tagline { font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #999; } /* CSS Document */ Thanks for your time! Hi, My code validates apart from some Mozilla specific stuff at the bottom. Basically, in the socialbes-hover' part towards the end i have the background-color set to #F9F7ED which works fine in Firefox however in IE it always reverts back to the earlier code of a:hover { color: #F9F7ED; background-color: #006E2E and i cant seem to get it right whatever it try! please help me its driving me mad arghh lol thanks Code: .style1 a:active { color: #FFCC00; font-size: 8px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .style1 a:link { color: #FFCC00; font-size: 8px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .style1 a:visited { color: #FFCC00; font-size: 8px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .style1 a:hover { color: #FFCC00; font-size: 8px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } a:link { color: #D15600; text-decoration:none } a:visited { color: #D15600; text-decoration:none } a:hover { color: #F9F7ED; background-color: #006E2E } .style1 {color: #D15600} .style2 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif} .style4 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; } .style9 {color: #D15600; font-size: larger; } /************Main Menu******************/ .menu a:link { color: #36393D; text-decoration:none } .menu a:visited { color: #36393D; text-decoration:none } .menu a:hover { color: #D15600; background-color: #F9F7ED } /************Comments******************/ .comments :link { color: #D15600; text-decoration:none } .comments :visited { color: #D15600; text-decoration:none; } .comments :hover { color: #36393D; background-color: #F9F7ED /************Sociables******************/ } .sociable-hovers { opacity: .4; -moz-opacity: .4; filter: alpha(opacity=40); background-color: #F9F7ED; } .sociable-hovers:hover { opacity: 1; -moz-opacity: 1; filter: alpha(opacity=100); color: #36393D; background-color: #F9F7ED; } Hi, I am trying to set background color on hover for a single table of links, rather than the entire document like the below example shows. http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pseudoclasses/ I have tried various ways, I do not want to use javascript for this and I am aware of the way to apply background color to the .td field but this also applys to the normal text not just links. So my question is how do I apply the background hover color to one table of links instead of the body. Thanks! |