CSS - Replacement For I-frames?

Hi,

I have a menu of made of images, each one is a link to a certain page.
I want to replace the current image with a new slightly different image when the user hovers on it. I have 5 menu items so 10 images.

My question is, can I do this in CSS without having to make a CSS rule for each image?

Thanks in advance

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to convert a jscript rollover setup to using CSS sprites.

I have setup the following sprite:

[IMG]eagleonedims.com/images/navmap.jpg[/IMG]

I cannot figure out how to have the <li> sections replace the entire ba6nner with a shifted-down sprite upon rollover. The shifted sprite just appears within the boundaries of the respective<li> section. The reason for needing this is to include the cloud effect which overlap the other li sections. Basically, upon rollover I need the ENTIRE navmap.jpg image to be shifted by 88px down. The image is 1000px wide and each sprite is 88px tall.

Thanks for any help!

CSS:
Code:

#navmap {
	width: 1000px;
	height: 88px;
	background: url("images/navmap.jpg");
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	position: relative;
}

#navmap li {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
}

#navmap li, #navmap a {
	height: 88px;
	display: block;
}

#home {left: 141px; width: 110px;}
#about {left: 251px; width: 120px;}
#pricing {left: 371px; width: 120px;}
#quote {left: 491px; width: 120px;}
#contact {left: 611px; width: 120px;}
#login {left: 731px; width: 128px;}

#home a:hover {background: url("images/navmap.jpg") 0px -88px no-repeat;}
#about a:hover {background: url("images/navmap.jpg") 0 -176px no-repeat;}

HTML:
Code:

<ul id="navmap">
  <li id="home"><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
  <li id="about"><a href="about.php">About</a></li>
  <li id="pricing"><a href="pricing.php">Pricing</a></li>
  <li id="quote"><a href="quote.php">Quote</a></li>
  <li id="contact"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
  <li id="login"><a href="login.php">Login</a></li>
</ul>    

So I'm a student working on my first real project. I've done Suckerfish drop-downs before, but I'm having trouble doing them with graphic text instead of system text. The image replacement works fine on the first level, but the nested li's just repeat the image of the main li.

For example, the main nav item with the drop-down is "Our Coffee". In the drop-down menu instead of having the different images for the corresponding links, "Our Coffee" is repeated.

Here's a selection of my code where I think the problem is happening:

Code:

<div id="nav">
   	<ul id="dd">
       	<li id="hm"><a href="menu.html">Menu</a></li>
        <li id="au"><a href="about_us.html">About Us</a></li>
        <li id="oc"><a href="#">Our Coffee</a>
        	<ul>
            	<li id="oc_dd_ko"><a href="oc_kona.html">Kona</a></li>
            	<li id="oc_dd_ma"><a href="oc_maui.html">Maui</a></li>
            	<li id="oc_dd_ka"><a href="oc_kauai.html">Kauai</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li id="os"><a href="os_hy.html">Our Stores</a></li>
        <li id="ols"><a href="online_store.html">Online Store</a></li>
        <li id="oct"><a href="our_culture.html">Our Culture</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>  

Code:

#nav ul li ul li a {
	display: block;
	height: 0px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

#dd li#oc a {
	display: block;
	width: 95px;
}

#dd li#oc {
	float: left;
	width: 95px;
}

#dd li#oc ul {
	position: absolute;
	width: 95px;
	left: -9999px;
}

#dd li#oc:hover ul {
	left: auto;
}


#dd li#oc:hover ul, #dd li.sfhover ul {
	left: auto;
}

li#oc ul li a {
	height: 0px;
	display: block;
	overflow: hidden;
}

#oc_dd_ko a {
	background: url(../images/oc_ddnav-01_lo.gif) no-repeat;
	padding-top: 13px;
	width: 58px;
}

#oc_dd_ko a:hover {
	background: url(../images/oc_ddnav-01_hi.gif) no-repeat;
	padding-top: 13px;
	width: 58px;
}

#oc_dd_ma a {
	background: url(../images/oc_ddnav-02_lo.gif) no-repeat;
	padding-top: 15px;
	width: 58px;
}

#oc_dd_ma a:hover {
	background: url(../images/oc_ddnav-02_hi.gif) no-repeat;
	padding-top: 15px;
	width: 58px;
}

#oc_dd_ka a {
	background: url(../images/oc_ddnav-03_lo.gif) no-repeat;
	padding-top: 16px;
	width: 58px;
}

#oc_dd_ka a:hover {
	background: url(../images/oc_ddnav-03_hi.gif) no-repeat;
	padding-top: 16px;
	width: 58px;
}

#dd, #dd ul {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	list-style: none;
}

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ok, so it's not exactly image swapping, but i'm trying to get this thing to work in Firefox (works in IE). My xhtml is as follows: Code:

<div class="foot">
	<img src="images/menubase.jpg" alt="see | hear | speak" />
		<a href="#" id="menu_see"> </a>
		<a href="#" id="menu_speak"> </a>
		<a href="#" id="menu_hear"> </a>

And the CSS: Code:

a#menu_see {
	position: absolute;
	left: 50%;
	top: 0px;
	width: 66px;
	height: 44px;
	margin-left: -105px;
	background: url(../images/holderMenuSee.gif) no-repeat fixed right top;
}
a#menu_see:hover {
	background: url(../images/menuSee.jpg) no-repeat fixed right top;
}
a#menu_speak {
	position: absolute;
	left: 50%;
	top: 0px;
	width: 74px;
	height: 44px;
	margin-left: -37px;
	background: url(../images/holderMenuSpeak.gif) no-repeat fixed right top;
}
a#menu_speak:hover {
	background: url(../images/menuSpeak.jpg) no-repeat fixed right top;
}
a#menu_hear {
	position: absolute;
	left: 50%;
	top:0px;
	width:61px;
	height: 44px;
	margin-left: 40px;
	background: url(../images/holderMenuHear.gif) no-repeat fixed right top;
}
a#menu_hear:hover {
	background: url(../images/menuHear.jpg) no-repeat fixed right top;
}

the page is located [ here ]

Hi, i wonder how to get a table behav like this (example: http://help.live.com) what is this layout called??? css frames? or something else? only css can do the job or we will need javascript as well??? You got link to ne tutorial or ne working example?? please help

thnx

Having issues with this. I need this page & cross browser

--------------------
- W-100% H-121px - <--- non-Scrolling
--------------------
-#############- <--- W - 100px
-#############- <--- H - auto
-#############- <--- Scrolling
-#############-
--------------------

Im using frames now, it was a quick fix. for what I needed. now I got to get away from from them.

I need this to be full screen and resizeable

Thanks for any help you can offer

Thanks

Hi:

What I need to do is to have a 3 column design, left column should contain the navigation and the center main content. When the user clicks on the navigation boutton it should bring a set of thumnails of images in the right column. And clicking on any thumbnail should bring a larger image and detail of that image in the center column. I could do this using frames but I want to avoid using frames. I never used CSS before and read lot about positioning layers but couldn't quite figure out how I can target the links to open in the same page as I wanted. The way I have it opens in a new window which is not what I wanted. I want the navigation, center and right column to be visible all the time. What should I do in the following html or CSS to achieve that.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title> Testing</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./test.css">

<script language="javascript">
new Image().src="./QTimages/image2b.jpg";
</script>

</head>

<body>

<div id="header">

<img src="../QTimages/banner8.jpg"
 width="300" height="50" alt="header image">
</div>

<div id="menu">
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<a href="./images.html"><img name="imagebutton" id="imagebutton" src="../QTimages/image2.jpg" onMouseOver="document.images['imagebutton'].src='../QTimages/image2b.jpg'" onMouseOut="document.images['imagebutton'].src='../QTimages/image2.jpg'" border="0"background="transparent"></a>
</div>

<div id="content">
<h1>Welcome to my site...</h1>
</div>

<div id="thumbnail">
Testing
</div>

</body>
</html>

CSS code:

Code:

#header { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 350px; }
#menu {  position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 10px;
  width: 0px; height: 100%;}


#content { position: relative; top: 60px; left: 180px;
  width: 80%; height: 100%; background-color: #FFFAAA;
  color: #000EED"}

#thumbnail { position: absolute; top:50px; right:0px;
  height: 100%;
  background-image: url("../QTimages/background.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat-y
z-index: 3;
}

And also the right column is not positioning right.. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

mayflower

SO I am using overflow : auto; in my content div. While my header div is a fixed height.

The goal - a header that is static (positionally) and only the rest of the page under this header being scrollable.

Easy to do with frames.
Seemingly easy to do with CSS unless, you resize the browser window! Then boink* theres that outside scrollbar again!
Or maybe my user has a 15'' monitor w/ 600x400.... Again 2 scrollbars. I hate that outside scrollbar and want to it to just go away!
I have tried playing with the body element to no avail.
Must I use javascript to detect the screen size, detect resizes and dynamically alter my height values to make this play nicely.?

Any input or direction to a nice tute would be great!!!!



thanks devshed-people.

I need an emulation of two frames. The left is for menu and is fixed and always visible and the right is for content. I intended to use this http://soiland.no/frames_with_css/scroll page as an example but I'm puzzled by one thing: when browsers load this page from the above server everything is OK, but when I open downloaded (by IE5) page with Opera 7.54u1 I have a gap of about 16px between the right window edge and the scrollbar of the right block. Could anyone open this page from HDD and tell about the result here?

Does anyone have a handy snippet I could slip into my stylesheet to make a particular (named) frame print by default? I've heard that using CSS in this way can solve the 'printing every frame' problem in IE, but my CSS knowledge is very, very rudimentary....

Thanks in advance!

I need to create a page that has a header that takes up 20% of the page and the other 80% of the page will be tables. The issue is that the header must not move and the other 80% will be scrollable.

I know how to implement this with frames but I understand that frames are looked down upon now in proper html/xhtml design. Can this be accomplished using css? If so how?

Thanks in advance.

I'm pretty new to CSS - I muddle through it. But I've started on a personal project outside of work and picked up Eric Meyer's CSS book as my main resource. I'm also using SiteMesh as my page decorator.

I'm not quite sure how to do the layout for the web application as envisioned. The design is to have a header with tabs, a side panel with a tree, a main contents panel, a bottom panel with a set of icons, and a basic footer. The contents panel would need a scroll wheel if the contents was to long for display. In addition, it would be wise to have a scroll wheel appear if the user expanded the tree too long as well.
______________
|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
|---------------
|x |................|
|x |................|
|x |................|
|x |................|
|--------------|
|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
|--------------|
|--------------|

With CSS layering & positions, I've been able to get most of a rough UI. However, it seems that to have proper scrolling I'll need to break the pages up with frames. At the same time, it sounds as if frames have become as much of a no-no as the infamous goto statement has for application developers.

So what do people advise?

Thanks!

P.S. I'm sure this can be done with CSS <div> tags, but I better mention it. I'll need to update the panels (tree, main, bottom) if an action occurs in another one - just like how a file browser will update the tree if you open a directory through the main window (and vise versa).

I've seen several examples of how to emulate frames using CSS, but I haven't seen anywhere explain how to create "frames" without having to add the entire frame code to every page in which it appears. With frames, I used to be able to create a menu which would appear throughout my site. I would modify the one, single menu.html file, and the changes would be visible throughout the site. How can I do this using the CSS-emulated frames?

Thanks

Hi everyone,

I am in the midst of converting my fathers website from an old frames based version into a CSS version, and I have had some trouble getting it working properly in both firefox and ie explorer. I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some advice!

The original page is he
http://www.qualspec.com.au

I have started by just trying to replicate the frames look with css, and have come up with this single page:

http://www.qualspec.com.au/test/testid.html

It seems to work well in internet explorer, but as soon as I load up firefox, it looks ugly as hell (I was using topstyle which uses IE as the internal css and html preview). Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Thomas.

Got a quick question from a newbie. Thanks to a kind member, I've just been assisted in creating my first HTML5/CSS 3.0 page. It has a footer that extends vertically with content.

I have several pages that will be updated that will be changed frequently. In my world of tables, I would simply create an inline frame to display them, and have ease of quick editing. The questions I have are

1) is there a CSS alternative to have mulitlple links display different content in a particular frame or div?

2) With either that alternative OR inline frames, is there a way to make it dynamic, meaning instead of scrolling, it extends downward and pushes the footer down as content grows?

3) if so, how would I accomplish this?