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CSS - Simple Layout Question
I am working on this website : http://five-art.com
and the code for the nav bar is : Code: <div class="content"> <table><tr><td><h1>[5]Art</h1></td><td class="navtop"> :: <a href="index.php">Call for Submissions</a> :: <a href="ms.php">Mission Statement</a> :: <a href="past.php">Event Archive</a> :: <a href="members.php">Members</a> :: <a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a>.</td></tr></table> </div> I added the table so that I could have two different font sizes without the text going to the next line. What would be the best way to do this with css. Thanks! Similar TutorialsHi really nw to using css just starting out today lol. So i was wondering how i can get the two divs mod1 and mod2 to sit side by side and expand the advBar div height when more and more content gets added to both divs, rather than me specifying a height and floating the two divs inside the advbar div ? any ideas would be great. unless ive lost yas. Code:
<body>
<div id="level0">
<div id="level1">
<div id="topBar">This is the top navigation bar.</div>
<div id="advBar">
<div id="mod1">2323 frwef sdf</div>
<div id="mod2">s dfs dfsd fsd fsd f</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Code:
body {
margin:0px 0px 0 0px;
padding:0;
background:#FFF;
}
#level0 {
background:#FC0;
}
#level1 {
padding-left:9px;
padding-right:9px;
margin-left:300px;
margin-right:300px;
background:#FFF;
}
#main {
background:#CCC;
}
#topBar {
padding: 10px;
background:#FC0;
}
#advBar {
padding: 10px;
height: 90px;
background:#FFF3AC;
}
#mod1 {
border: 1px solid red;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
background:#FFF3AC;
width: 45%;
}
#mod2 {
border: 1px solid red;
float: right;
padding: 10px;
background:#FFF3AC;
width: 45%;
}
Quote: I just started working with CSS again, and I'm having problems coding my layout. The problem is he I'm testing on Firefox. div#wrapper is the problem. EDIT well, after playing with it some more, I have found out that this has no pattern to it at all, its pretty much just producing random results, so infinitely STUPID!!! Seriously. This is something that is so simple, and yet these idiots who come up with this crap make it so difficult. If you want to pad left and right, it shouldn't be this goddamn difficult. Sorry, I'm VERY pissed now, after working on something so basic for so long. I can only get a padding on the right for so far, and then it skips over to completely aligning to the right, while the left is so much farther over, even if it has smaller padding... what the hell. Heres the full code: index.html Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <head> <title>Elemental Concepts</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="upperwrapper"> <div id="banner"></div> <div id="memberswrapper"> <div id="members"> </div> <div id="membersfooter"></div> </div> </div> </div> </body> style.css Code:
body {
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-color: #E8E8E8;
}
div#wrapper {
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0px 50px 0px 25px;
text-align: left;
background-image: url('mainbg.jpg');
height: 100%;
}
div#upperwrapper {
width: 741px;
margin: 0;
height: 105px;
}
div#banner {
float: left;
width: 471px;
height: 105px;
background-image: url('banner.jpg');
}
div#memberswrapper {
float: right;
width: 249px;
height: 105px;
}
div#members {
width: 249px;
height: 98px;
background-image: url('membersbg.jpg');
}
div#membersfooter {
width: 249px;
height: 7px;
background-image: url('membersfooter.jpg');
}
div#wrapper, is the main div, which has a background. I need the insides spaced about 15 px from the left, and 15 px from the right. But for whatever reason, it usually ends up spacing 25 px from the left, and 5 from the right, the more I play with the numbers though, to get the results I want, the more obscure it becomes... it just WILL NOT do what I want, and WILL NOT follow any logical pattern with how it display. Help is really appreciated. I am completely and utterly lost... EDIT 2: Still working on it, and no progress, except the background image keeps disappearing every time I even think about touching the background attribute! I'm about to say **** it, and use tables. This is ridiculous. I just opened up IE6, and it looked even more obscure than it does in Firefox. This makes no sense. I just read a few tutorials on div padding, doesn't mention anything about this. Maybe its the floats causing the problem... but I don't see why elements on the inside could stretch the containing element, if it has fixed size and padding, and that still doesn't explain the IE6 problem's, which I'm not even going to get into now... since I have probably confused you enough already. I seriously think I could write an entire HTML/ CSS parsing engine, in any language, in less time than it would take me to code this layout properly in HTML/ CSS. Ridiculous. Well, I got the top working in Firefox, instead of floating left and right, the banner and memberswrapper, I floated one left, and the other had a left-margin. Though, I am almost 100% sure, the text, and other divs below are not going to align properly, with the edges of the above [banner and memberswrapper]. I am also afraid to see what this looks like in IE6. style.css Code: body {
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-color: #E8E8E8;
}
div {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div#wrapper {
width: 725px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0 25px 0 25px;
text-align: left;
background: url('mainbg.jpg');
}
div#upperwrapper {
width: 741px;
margin: 0;
height: 105px;
}
div#banner {
float: left;
width: 471px;
height: 105px;
background: url('banner.jpg');
}
div#memberswrapper {
margin-left: 477px;
width: 249px;
height: 105px;
}
div#members {
width: 249px;
height: 98px;
background: url('membersbg.jpg');
}
div#membersfooter {
width: 249px;
height: 7px;
background-image: url('membersfooter.jpg');
}
Edit Again: Looks just as bad as it did before, in IE6. The background image repeats horizontally, which it should have absolutely no reason to do so, the width is 50 pixels less than the images width, and the padding on the left and the right, are each 25 pixels, accounting for the full image size... and yet the full image and then some is displayed. If screen shots would help, I can take some. Or if you want to see what an impossible layout to code looks like, I can send you a zip of everything. Theres 2 options left, tables or absolute positioning. Okay I am trying my best to let go of HTML tables and move to the wonderful world of using CSS for layout. I continue to find that, although it may be an archaic way of doing things, most of the time using tables for layout is the quickest and most accurate way for me to get the job done. Please don't hate, because I want to become more knowledgeable at using CSS! So in my latest project I have a problem. I have a navigation bar that stretches always accross my page. In that navigation bar I have two primary things: on the left I have a menu section, and on the right I have a login section. In the past I would have easily implemented the layout with tables, using something like this... <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr style="background-color: black;"> <td align="left">[stuff for my menu section]</td> <td align="right">[stuff for my login section]</td> </tr> </table> The end result would be a solid black navigation bar that would contain the stuff for the menu section on the left and the stuff for the login section on the right. Each would sit inside and flush against its respective side of the containing solid black navigation bar. Also, this navigation bar would automatically adjust its height to contain both sections, no matter how tall. Pretty simple stuff, right? So now I am trying my best to figure out how to do this with CSS. At this point I have only a very crude understanding of how CSS and divs work in layouts. I started out by making a container div... <div id="NavigationBar" style="background-color:black;"> </div> ...then I embedded a div for each section... <div id="NavigationBar" style="background-color:black;"> <div id="MenuSection"> [stuff for menu section] </div> <div id="LoginSection"> [stuff for login section] </div> </div> ...When I ran the page I quickly noticed the output was quite different than what I expected. It showed my black navigation bar, but it stacked the login section along the left side and just under the menu section. So after some reading I discovered I should be able to solve the problem by assigning 'float:left' to the menu section div and 'float:right' to the login section div. And so I did. While this did cause each to appear in the correct location (menu section on the left, login section on the right), it also had an undesirable effect. Each section, after attachment of the 'float' styles, was no longer contained in the parent div. As a result each no longer contained the background color of the parent. And so now, while I have a partial solution, I am still left wondering what I should do to continue on and solve this issue. What I really need is for each section to be *contained* within the parent div and also use its background color, while also aligning properly to the left or right sides of the parent div. In other words, I want the black background color of the navigation bar to be shown behind my menu and login sections. And if my menu should render at 40 pixels high, 300 pixels high...whatever, the containing parent div should adjust to contain it, just like an HTML table would. For me, setting 'height' values for the parent div (essentialy in the background) and then using 'float' styles is not a good solution. What if the menu is rendered using a different font and thus changes heights? And even more important, what if a user does not view the page in standard 96DPI mode? In either case the rendered heights of the menu and login sections could change. If I were using tables this would not be a problem; the table would simply adjust to the needed height, no matter what. How can I get the same effect when using CSS and divs? Hi, I'm trying to constuct what, in real terms, is a simplistic page layout using CSS-P. Maybe I'm being stupid - but here goes... I am trying to constuct a page as follows: header (viewport width) leftMenu (width 150px) content (as wide as necessary) - top aligned with top of leftMenu footer (viewport width) - underneath the "tallest" of "Left Menu" and "Content" Easy huh? But, as soon as any content is greater than [viewportWidth - 150] (150=width of leftMenu), the content (depending, of course, on the CSS implementation) either slips below the leftMenu, disappears altogether(?), or has the footer right underneath the header with everything else below. I could do this with a simple table construct in under a minute. So please - CSS gurus, can you advise me how to achieve this in CSS, as it seems impossible (10 hours+)? I thought CSS was supposed to make design easy; If I'm not missing something and CSS can't achieve this (common) basic layout - what hope is there? All comments truly appreciated, HEX. Need a bit of CSS guidance I would like somefeed back on what is a good way to structure a page template using CSS I would like the page content to be displayed 780 px width, Centered Header image at top 780 px wide Horzontal Nav below 780 px wide also 2 columns of content below footer at bottom Im sure this is a common layout as I have seen it on many sites. Im just not sure what the optimal way to set it up using divs. SEO being my primary concern Here is the layout: Code: <body> <div id="main"> <div id="header"> headet stuff here </div> <div id="nav"> the nav </div> <div class="content"> <div id="left_content"> left content </div> </cfif> <div id="right_content"> right </div> </div> <div id="footer"> footer </div> </div> </body> STYLE SHEET: Code: #main{
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 780px;
}
#header {
position: relative;
width: 780px;
height: 100px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color:#8787d5;
}
#nav {
position: relative;
width: 780px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
background-color:#8787d5;
background-image:url(../images/nav_bg.png);
}
.content {
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
border-left: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-right: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-top: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-bottom: 1px solid #8787d5;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-color:#e9e9f5;
}
#left_content {
position: relative;
border-left: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-right: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-top: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-bottom: 1px solid #8787d5;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
left: 5px;
top: 5px;
width: 325px;
padding: 0;
}
#right_content {
position: relative;
border-left: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-right: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-top: 1px solid #8787d5;
border-bottom: 1px solid #8787d5;
top: 5px;
left:335px;
width: 440px;
padding: 0;
}
#footer {
position: relative;
padding: 20px 10px 10px 10px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: xx-small;
color: #993300;
text-align: center;
}
THe problem I am having is when I use relative position for left-content and right_content the right content is positioned to right of but at the bottom of the left_contetn div. I can get them to line up correctly using absolute positioning but then the content div that contains them and that also has the border and backgrond color does not expand vertically to to contain the left_content and right_content divs. any help is greatly appreciated thankya Hi. I'm making a registration and login pages with some additional information, and I'm wondering how to make them tableless? What I'd do with tables is put table in a table, because I want to do something like this: A 640px (or any other value) width box in the center of the screen, in which there is another box under some text, which is borderless login box. Same would go for the registration box. And without tables - I have no idea how to do it. Not sure if this is the right section, sorry if it isn't. Thanks. Hi all, This is my first post here so go easy on me. Firstly, please look at this: h ttp://digitalformula.net/temp/layout.jpg - I can't post a proper URL since I'm a new user ... sorry for the space at the start of the address. Anyway, the top part is what I have now and the bottom part is what I'm trying to get to. Can someone please assist with the CSS for this? I know just enough CSS to be dangerous but I can't seem to find the right way to put the captions under the images without the image on the right dropping below the image and caption on the left. I've tried all different types of float etc but nothing seems to work - I know it's something I'm doing wrong as this is probably one of the more basic questions posted here. ANY help would be much appreciated! Thanks, digitalformula hey all, i am new to using CSS. (Yes i am very much behind the times). But i am trying to rectify that! Now the problem i am having is that i have a flash object that i simply want to align centered horizontally and it stays centered no matter what. but i would also like to position it y = 100 (x and y positioning) any ideas! I've been working in CSS, man, is it tiresome for a beginner! After much trail and error, I've come up with my first CSS page. Where I'm stuck, is in the area where all the text is. When I put more text into that page, none of the surrounding styles/boxes[?] adjust to the text format (also shown in a link below), and I can't seem to figure out how to center the entire page itself. Sorry, for the stupid questions, I'm a total novice, and can barely understand most of the CSS postings in this forum. Text extending instead of expanding layout: http://rafia.info/css/layers.bad.htm Thanks sincerely, rups27 'ello question, right.. a table sumthing like dis.. <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <td style="width: 200px;"></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> gives ya a nice two column layout, where the first has a fixed width, and the second column fill the rest of the parent container. Also, heres the kicker.. when u get loads of content in the second column, and it get extended vertically, the second container is as well.. and thats nice and all.. So, question.. how do i do this with divisions and CSS? i tried a ton of different stuff, and the closest thing i came was using height: 100% and like, scrollbars in the second column. But i dont really want that.. I think like, min-height is the solution, but a cant tame it, when i start using it.. things goes weird :P the table model works, but i really want to lean to do this "right" so, lill' help please? cheers, I'm building a simple gallery site for my old man, who wants a place to upload his artwork. I've made all the slices in ImageReady for the images around the edge of the screen, and customised the code so that they fit to any resolution. I'm having a problem with the DIV tag that I would like to contain the main section of the site. I would like it to fit the gap in the middle - whatever size that may be - so it can scroll if necessary later on. As it is though, it just wraps around whatever content I put there. Here's the stylesheet code for that particular DIV: Code:
#vg-09 {
position:absolute;
margin-top:183px;
margin-left:49px;
margin-right:56px;
margin-bottom:97px;
background-image: url(images/vg_09.gif);
}
I thought those margins would make it meet the surrounding images, but it doesnt work. I've also tried setting the height and width to 100%, but then it extends beyond the size of the screen and looks ugly after scrolling. Here's the Page: http://vic.retina-designs.com Does anyone know how I can get that DIV layer to sit flush against all the surrounding images? Thanks for any help! EDIT: Added the link hi at my workplace they have asked me to create a simple html page which will be used as a small widget in a website. as per the requirement in the html file. i should not use an external stylesheet and also no embedded style however i should write the page completely using inline css. all this is fine. however my question and issue i am facing is with adjusting height as the content increasing when i give for example margin or padding. please check out this link where i have created an image of what i am creating as html page using inline css. http://www.sudhakargolakaram.co.in/form.html as per the image there is an outer div which has the light blue background color which i have created like a container div with the background color the dark blue rectangles are 3 images and the white color on the right with the rounded rectangle at the top and bottom is where content like header tag, img tag, forms etc will be used. lets say for example i divide the images and content as 2 divs floating left with images div as 100px and content on the right as 300px width so a total of 400px and a total height of 300px based on the design that i have the total width is 400px (left div with images=100px and right div with content=400px) and total height is 300px for example. i am ok with the left div as the images have a fixed width and height, the problem i am facing with is the content div. as the content div contains header tags, a small paragraph information within p tag, a small form with about 2 to 3 form fields, in order to add all these elements as per the design i am using padding top, padding bottom and if needed margin top and margin bottom. so due to this the content may go beyond the bottom div which has the rounded rectangle at the bottom, and this is not how it should appear the entire content should sit inside the 300px height in the right div so do i have to keep subtracting the amount of padding and margin i am using from the height value of the right div so that the content sits inside within the total 300px height. how do i go about this height aspect which i am having issue with and also is there something specific that i have to keep in mind for ie6 browser. for the left and right div do i have to use #left{ float: left; width: 100px; height: auto; } #right{ float: left; width: 300px; height: auto; } or do i have to specify the fixed height which is 300px for #left and #right divs also in the #right div i am using 3 inner divs 1 for top rounded rectangle background = { background: url(topbg.jpg no-repeat; width:300px; height: 10px; } 2nd div with white background color no background image= do i have to specify a fixed height for this 2nd div = { width:300px; height: ; } 3rd for bottom rounded rectangle background image = { background: url(bottombg.jpg no-repeat; width:300px; height: 10px; } any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks. I have a layout question for which I will reference Dan Cederholm's site, http://www.simplebits.com. He has a two column layout, div#content on the left and div#sidebar on the right, both are contained by div#main-body. #content is floated to the left and #sidebar is floated to the right. How is he #main-body to extend the entire length of the page without containing some normal flow elements? Hello All, I've had great luck with this site helping out in the past. My main question I want to ask today is just to see if others think that I have layed out this page as efficiently, and as easy to work with cross-platform as I can. Because I'm having problems with IE on XP looking good with it, whereas it looks good on Mac. If you have suggestions of how to lay things out differently, I'd really appreciate it. Here's the site: http://www.genius-creative.com/index2.html Here's the attached CSS: http://www.genius-creative.com/geniusall.css Thanks a million! -Brandon So I just started working on my first complete website in a couple years and needless to say i'm behind the times in regards to layouts. I want to use CSS, more specifically DIVs to layout my site. I created a background in Photoshop that will serve as a guide for where I want the various boxes/text. I've done extensive searching and reading on the different kinds of positioning you can do with DIVs. Whether it be absolute or relative or float. But I have yet to figure out the proper way to code in the various DIVs so that they remain in the same spot no matter the resolution of the screen or if someone resizes the window. I just want to be able to tell them where I want them and not have to worry about them moving. The way I have it coded now, the DIV moves around when I resize the window - something I don't want. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Like I said I'm just getting back on my feet when it comes to HTML/CSS and i'm a bit rusty. Thanks!! 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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
margin: 0;
background: #0C0 url(landscaping1.jpg) no-repeat center top;
}
#leftcontent
{
border:1px solid #a1a1a1;
padding:10px 40px;
background:#dddddd;
width:300px;
height:300px;
border-radius:12px;
-moz-border-radius:25px; /* Firefox 3.6 and earlier */
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
float:left;
position:relative;
top:450px;
left:80px;
}
</style>
<title>Mueller Lawn and Lanscape 2012</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="leftcontent">
Some text goes here.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Also, here is what the site looks like with the above code. Obviously i'm still working on the visual aspects of the site, so disregard that part for now. http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n120/infantryclothing/0cb6b676.png Hello all. I have implemented a sort of 3 column layout on part of a site I'm working on: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>My site</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
#content {
line-height: 130%;
padding: 1em;
clear: both; } /* end #content */
#column_1 {
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
float: left;
background: red;
width: 33%; } /* end #column_1 */
#column_2 {
margin-left: 36%;
background: green;
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
width: 25%; } /* end #column_2 */
#column_3 {
float: right;
background: blue;
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
width: 33%; } /* end #column_3 */
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
font-size: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden; } /* end .clearfix:after */
.clearfix {display: block;}
/* Hides from IE5/Mac \*/
* html .clearfix {height: 1px;}
.clearfix {display: block;}
/* End hide from IE5/Mac */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<div class="clearfix">
<div id="column_1">
<p>Column 1</p>
<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
</div>
<div id="column_3">
<p>Column 3</p>
<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
<p>Line 4</p>
<p>Line 5</p>
<p>Line 6</p>
<p>Line 7</p>
</div>
<div id="column_2">
<p>Column 2</p>
<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In FireFox and Safari, the colors line up but the text does not and in Opera the text lines up but the color does not. There's a rendering problem with IE that I will address later. The solution I would like to achieve would be to have the text and the colors lining up. What would be the best way to achieve this? I would like to create a 2-column layout with a content area on the left and a "sidebar" area on the right. Pretty standard, right? Now the trick: on some pages, the sidebar will be absent, and I want the content area to then overflow the whole page width. I tried the following: Code: <div style="background-color: red; float: left;">content area text</div> <div style="background-color: blue; width: 200px; float: right;">sidebar text</div> When div #2 is excluded, div #1 of course expands to take up the whole page width. So that works. The problem is that when they're both present, and div #1 has a lot of text, it just pushes div #2 down a line. Note: The reason div #2 will sometimes not be present is that Drupal is generating the page, and plain leaves out div #2 if there's no content in it. It's not just empty -- it's not even included in the page. Can anyone help me accomplish this? I've looked at a lot of liquid layouts, but none seem to do quite this. I'm working on www.wirelessguy.net and I'm trying to add something to my layout. I want to have an outer box that surrounds the content and then add left and right borders to it so I can change the outside background color. I'm currently using 10% left/right margins to get the material in the middle of the page. Here is my css for the outerbox: Code:
div#outerBox
{
margin-left:-5%;
margin-right:-5%;
border-left: 1px dotted red;
border-right: 1px dotted red;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
When I do this I get the following result: www.wirelessguy.net/index2.php Any ideas on how to get the box to be made with negative margins? |
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