CSS - Basic Layout Question - Containing Div Doesn't Grow

I have a CSS call for all p, like this

p {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;
}

now I want headings to be ital, so I add

p.ital {
font-style: italic;
}

and set the class for some p to ital, and they inherit font family and font size. Now I want further inherit, italBold

p.italBold {
font-weight: bold;
}

That is, I want p.italBold to inherit from p.ital, which inherits from p. How can I do this?

Thanks for your help

CJB

I am new to this stuff started php about a month ago

now i started with this css nav menu last week and can not figure out how to get the thing in the center of the page
also
in FF the nav menu is fine just not in the right location
in IE the bottom half of the nav menu sticks out one inch past the top half

here is my css

PHP Code:
#divNav {
    background: transparent url(../images/bk-nav.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    height: 80px;
    width: 800px;
}

#nav {
    position: relative;
    top: 55px;
    height: 80px;
    width: 800px;
}

#nav li ul, #nav li ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

#nav a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

#nav li { /*float the main list items*/
    margin: 0;
    float: left;
    display: block;
    padding-right: 15px;
}

#nav li ul {
    display: none;
}

#nav li.off ul, #nav li.on ul  { /*put the subnav below*/
    position: absolute;
    top: 25px;
    left: 0;
    padding-top: 15px;
    background: #224d6f;
    height: 28px;
    width: 740px;
    padding-left: 60px;
}

#nav li.on ul {
    background: #f90;
}

#nav li.on:hover ul, #nav li.over ul { /*for ie*/
    background: #224d6f;
}

#nav li a {
    color: #224d6f;
    font-weight: bold;
    display: block;
    width: 93px;
    padding: 0;
}

#nav li.on a {
    color: #f90;
}

#nav li.on ul a, #nav li.off ul a {
    border: 0;
    float: left; /*ie doesn't inherit the float*/
    color: #f90;
    width: auto;
    margin-right: 15px;
}

#nav li.on:hover ul a, #nav li.over ul li a { /*for ie - the specificity is necessary*/
    background: #224d6f;
}

#nav li.on ul {
    display: block;
}

#nav li.off:hover ul, #nav li.over ul {
    display: block;
    z-index: 6000;
}

#nav li.off a:hover, #nav li.on a:hover { 
    color: #f90;
}

/*do the image replacement*/

#nav li span {
    position: absolute;
    left: -9384px;
}

#liRenaissance a, #liArtNouveau a, #liModern a, #liPostModern a, #liDigital a {
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    height: 26px;
    background: url(../images/bk-dropdownMap.gif) no-repeat; /*contains all hover states*/
}

/*first, put the initial states in place*/

#liRenaissance a {
background-position: 0 0;
}

#liArtNouveau a {
background-position: -102px 0;
}

#liModern a {
background-position: -204px 0;
}

#liPostModern a {
background-position: -306px 0;
}

#liDigital a {
background-position: -408px 0;
}

/*active area - for this demo - the code could be based on a body class, and probably work better.*/

#liModern.on a {
background-position: -204px -37px;
} /*add selectors for the other li's and background-positions*/

/*hover states*/

#liRenaissance a:hover, #liRenaissance:hover a, #liRenaissance.over a {
background-position: 0 -73px;
}

#liArtNouveau a:hover, #liArtNouveau:hover a, #liArtNouveau.over a {
background-position: -102px -73px;
}

#liModern a:hover, #liModern:hover a, #liModern.over a {
background-position: -204px -73px;
}

#liPostModern a:hover, #liPostModern:hover a, #liPostModern.over a {
background-position: -306px -73px;
}

#liDigital a:hover, #liDigital:hover a, #liDigital.over a {
background-position: -408px -73px;
}

/*subnav formatting*/

#nav li.off ul a, #nav li.on ul a {
display: block;
background: #224d6f;
color: #fff;
font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
}        

#nav li.on ul a {
background: #f90;
} 

Hey guys,

I am brand new to these forums, this seems like a good place to ask for help. So I am a novice web designer, I use AdobE Dreamweaver CS3. I have designed and coded some websites quite successfully, but now I keep running to the same problem. I have made my layout and turned it into different divs on Dreamweaver. This is in a very basic early stage. Next I want to add content, and I know how to do that, but every time I have done that and I add more content downward outside of the original "content" div's borders, the whole layout sometimes gets screwed up. Here is the address to the basic website that only looks to be alright: vivanidesign.com/newvivani/design.html. Then as I add content, to this particular page, it overflows, as shown in this website: vivanidesign.com/newvivani/designfail.html. How can I fix this? How can I make the background content image follow the text, so it will move down with it? Not just the content div, but the sidebar div also.

Any help would be really great, I've tried to find out the answer to this for a while!

Thanks!

Argh - I am not very good with CSS (uhm, obviously) and all I am trying to do is change the color of some list items in a blog menu. It's Wordpress, and, it's not as if the blog is important - but this is driving me insane. I've installed Firebug in an effort to figure out what is making these items red - or #333. I can alter the code in Firebug and it gives a visual representation of what the edit would look like. But when I actually make the edit, nothing happens. And I've deleted my browsing history, used every browser, etc. - and I can change everything else! I am trying to change the text color in the right hand menu from red to, well, something else.

The pages is at: http://www.webputzer.com

The .css file looks like this:

Code:

/*
Theme Name: alibi
Theme URI: http://www.blogchemistry.com/
Description: 2 column, with RHS widget sidebar
Version: 1.2
Author: BlogChemistry
Author URI: http://www.blogchemistry.com/
*/



body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;  
color: #333;
text-align:center;
font-family:Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100.1%;
background: #fff;
}


#wrapper2{
border-left: 1px solid #fff;
border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

#wrapper3{
border-left: 1px solid #666;
border-right: 1px solid #666;
}

#wrapper4{

}


#wrapper{
width: 770px;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
text-align:left;
font-size: 85%;
line-height:20px;
background: #fff;
border-left: 3px solid #333;
border-right: 3px solid #333;
}


#header{
padding: 1px 0px;
margin: 0;
background: #ccc;
}	


#header-inner{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}


		
#content{
clear:both;
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px;
background:#fff;
}	

#content-inner{

}

#main {
width: 550px; 
float:left;
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 0 10px 0;
overflow:hidden;
}


#sidebar {
padding: 0;
margin: 0 0 0 560px;
background: #fff;
}


#footer {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 16px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 85%;

}


#footer-inner{
background: #f2f2f2;
height: 50px;
}

#footer p{
margin:0;
padding:15px 0;
}

#navigation{
padding: 5px 15px;

}

#navigation div.fleft{
float:left;
}

#navigation div.fright{ 
float:right;
}

#credit{
text-align:right;
padding: 0 15px;
}

#credit p{
margin:0;
color:#777;
font-size:85%;
}

#credit p a, #credit p a:hover{
color:#999;
font-weight:100;
}

/*  ********** default styles *********** */

p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6{
margin: 10px 0;
padding: 0;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;
}

h1{
	font-size: 190%;
}
h2{
	font-size: 160%;
}
h3{
	font-size: 120%;
}
h4{
	font-size: 130%;
}
h5{
	font-size: 100%;
}
h6{
	font-size: 70%;
}


a{
color:red;
font-weight:800;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover{
color:red;
text-decoration:underline;
}

a img{
border:0px;
}

hr{
height:2px;
margin:5px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}

blockquote{
background: #f4f4f4;
padding: 5px 15px;
margin: 3px 30px;
}

form{
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}

fieldset{
padding:10px;
margin:0;
border:none;
}

legend{
font-weight:800;
}

code{
	font-size: 90%;
	font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	white-space: pre;
}

td{
 vertical-align:top;
}



#tabs {
  float:left;
  width:100%;
  font-size:90%;
	background:#000;
  line-height:18px;
	
	border-top: 1px solid white;
}


    #tabs ul {
	  margin:0;
	  padding:4px 10px 0 10px;
	  list-style:none;
      }
    #tabs li {
      display:inline;
      margin:0;
      padding:0;
      }
    #tabs a {
      float:left;
      margin:0;
      padding:0 0 0 4px;
      text-decoration:none;
      }
    #tabs a span {
      float:left;
      display:block;
      padding:5px 15px 3px 6px;
      color:#FFF;
      }
    /* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
    #tabs a span {float:none;}
    /* End IE5-Mac hack */
    #tabs a:hover span {
      color:#FFF;
      }
    #tabs a:hover {
      background-position:0% -42px;
      }
    #tabs a:hover span {
      background-position:100% -42px;
      }  
	
	


/* Headings */ 

form#searchform2{
display: block;
float:right;
margin: 55px 10px 0px 5px;
}

#header h3{
margin:  0;
padding: 30px 0 0 10px;
}

#header h3 a{
font-weight:100;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 220%;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

#header h2{
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0 5px 10px;
font-weight:100;
font-style:italic;
color: #fff;
font-size: 130%;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

h2#sectiontitle{
font-size:100%;
font-weight: 800;
font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
padding:6px 6px 6px 10px;
margin:8px 10px 5px 10px;
background: #f2f2f2;
color: #444;

}

/* post styles */

.post{
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
padding: 0 5px 5px 5px;
}

.entry{
margin: 0;
padding: 0px 10px 3px 10px;
}

.post h2 {
color: #333;
font-size: 150%;
font-weight:100;
padding: 7px 0 2px 2px;
margin: 10px 0 15px 0;
}


.post h2 a{
color: #333;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:100;
}

.post h2 a:hover{
text-decoration:none;
color: #333;
}

.postmetadata{
font-size:80%;
padding: 1px 8px 1px 5px;
margin: 0;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.postmetadata p{
line-height: 18px;
padding: 0;
margin: 2px 0;
}


.date{
float:left;
text-align:center;
font-weight:800;
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
padding: 0 10px;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
color: #444;
}


.dateDay{
display:block;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 16px;
text-align:center;
}
.dateMonth, .dateYear{
display:block;
font-size: 11px;
padding:0;
line-height: 12px;
}




/*  Comments   */

h3#comments, h3#postcomment{
	font-size: 100%;
	font-family:verdana, sans-serif;
}	

ol#commentlist{
padding: 0 0 0 20px;
font-size: 90%;
list-style-type: none;
}

ol#commentlist li{
	padding: 0px 3px;
	margin: 0;
}

ol#commentlist li p.commentheader{
margin: 0px 0 0px 0;
display: block;
padding: 1px 5px;
}



ul#commentlist{
padding: 0;
margin:0;
list-style-type:none;
}

ul#commentlist li{
	display: block;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0 15px 5px 15px;
	font-size:90%;
	background: #f2f2f2;
}

ul#commentlist p{
margin: 6px 0;
}

ul#commentlist li div.comm{
margin: 1px;
padding: 1px;
}

ul#commentlist li div.gravatar {
	width:50px;
	float:left;
	padding: 10px 0 0 10px;
}

ul#commentlist li div.gravatar img{
border: 2px solid #ccc;
}




ul#commentlist li div.commenttext{
padding: 0;
margin:5px 10px 5px 65px;
}

ul#commentlist li div.commenttext div.commentwrapper{
margin:0 0 0 5px;
padding: 3px 8px;
}


/*  sidebar styles */


#subscribe p{
font-size: 85%;
margin: 3px 0 10px 0;
}



.menu{
padding:0;
font-size:90%;
}

.menu a{
font-weight: 100;
}

.menu a:hover{
text-decoration:none;
}

.menu ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style-type:none;
}

.menu ul li.widget{
padding:2px;
margin:0 0 0px 0px;
}

.menu ul li.widget ul{
	margin: 0;
	padding:0;
}

.menu ul li.widget ul li{
border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;
background: #f2f2f2;
padding: 2px 0 2px 15px;
margin:0;
}

.menu ul li.widget ul li ul{
}

.menu ul li.widget ul li ul li{
border-top: 1px dotted #ccc;
border-bottom: none !important;
padding: 2px 0 2px 15px;
}



.menu ul li.widget h3{
font-family: arial;
font-size:120%;
padding:2px 0 1px 4px;
margin:0;
border-top: 3px solid red;
border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;
color: #333;
font-weight: 800;
font-variant:small-caps;
}

.menu ul li h3 a{
color: #333;
font-weight: 800;
}
.menu ul li h3 a:hover{
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
}

.menu form{
display:block;
margin:0px;
padding:4px;
}

.menu input{
margin:3px 0;
font-size:90%;
}

li.widget .textwidget, li.widget #search {
padding: 2px 5px;
}

/* Calendar styles */
#wp-calendar {
empty-cells: show;
margin: 10px auto 0;
width: 155px;
}

#wp-calendar #next a {
padding-right: 10px;
text-align: right;
}

#wp-calendar #prev a {
padding-left: 10px;
text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar a {
display: block;
}

#wp-calendar caption {
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}

#wp-calendar td {
padding: 3px 0;
text-align: center;
}


#footer a{
font-weight: 100;
}

If anyone could tell me what the heck is making this uneditable - man...I'd sure like to know...

I have this:

all my css files in one subdomain, html.website.com
all my iamges in another subdomain, images.website.com

i link my stylesheet:
<link href="http://html.website.com/html/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and in the CSS:

background:#333 url("../images/bodybg.png") repeat-x fixed top center;

does not work. i have to put the whole domain in there? as far as relative paths, since the image is relative from the path of the location of the stylesheet? so I would think ../images/ should work?

how do you set the width with CSS?

i'd like to have a table with two columns, 70% and 30% with text-align left on the 70%, and text-align right on the 30%. any ideas? thanks.

I am trying to figure out the best way to right justify an element in relation to other elements within a div. Here is an example:

<head>
<title>right position</title>
<style type="text/css">
#maindiv {width: 600px; background: #cccccc; padding: 10px; border: solid 1px black;}
.left {font-size: 2em;}
.right {padding-left: 350px}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="maindiv">
<span class="left">hello world</span>
<span class="right">hi there</span>
</div>

</body>

This can't be the best way to right position something, can it? The only alternatives I can think of are absolute positioning or possibly floating, which seems unnecessarily complicated for something so simple. Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this? Ideally, the element would stay pinned to the right even if the left element changes widths.

Thanks in advance,

CSS Newbie!

I am trying to create a page to be printed out as a letter but I cannot for the life of me make the footers stick to the bottom when printed.

Here is the code:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
		<title>Header Test</title>
		<style type="text/css">
body {
	font-family:arial;
	font-size:10pt;
}
h1 {
	text-align:center;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
div.letter {
	page-break-after:always;
}
.from {
	text-align:center;
}
.to {
	font-style:normal;
	margin-top:30px;
}
.date {

}
.footer {
	position:absolute;
	bottom:0;
}
		</style>
		<!-- compliance patch for microsoft browsers -->
		<!--[if lt IE 7]>
		<script src="/ie7/ie7-standard-p.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
		<![endif]-->
	</head>
	<body>
		<div class="letter">
			<h1>Stanley Road Baptist Church</h1>
			<address class="from">
				Stanley Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA3 1UP
			</address>
			<address class="to">
				Joe Bloggs
			</address>
			<p class="date">
				Friday 27th August 2004
			</p>
			<p>
				Dear Joe,<br />
				Blah blah blah.
			</p>
			<p>
				Yours sincerely,
			</p>
			<p>
				Matt Fletcher
			</p>
			<div class="footer">
				The Footer In Question
			</div>
		</div>
		<div class="letter">
                 ...
		</div>
		<div class="letter">
                 ...
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

I can get it to stick to the bottom of only the first page, but it doesn't appear on any others.

Really basic question. I've created a CSS text class. How do I reference it to apply to a text sample?

I've been using this page as my guide:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3470231
But they only reference commands such as <I class="name"> and <U class="name">. I don't want to add any Italics or Underlines, so how do I only reference the class?

I've got limited experience with CSS and I've never done anything with divs, only tables. So my question is really, really, really basic:

Not being as adept at CSS as I could be, especially positioning, I'm sort of at a loss as to how to best structure my page using divs.

Looking at the comp at http://homework.describe.org/esdcar_home.jpg, would it be best to make everything from the top to the start of the brown bar at the bottom and from the left to the start of the picture one "column" (with nested divs), with everything to the right of the picture's edge a second "main content" column with nested divs inside it?

Or should I make one header div that runs from left to right until either above or below the navigation (?), and everything below that point be a 2-column layout (until the brown bar at the bottom)?

Does it matter one way or the other? Will it one day be clear to me immediately exactly how best to divide up and structure a page from a comp? Am I just a confused soul, or does everyone kind of struggle with this at the beginning?

Sorry to ask such basic questions, but...

Thanks in advance.

T.

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help. I've been trying to tidy up the layout of my home page, and I'm pretty confused by the way that the header is behaving in both Firefox and Safari - the browsers I use on my Mac.

I've got screen shots which show it looking good on most Windows browsers, but for some reason, all the text is bunched up at the top when I look at it on the Mac.

This is a link to the page:

http://www.independentliving.co.uk/index1.shtml

And this is the relevant bit of the stylesheet:

div#header {
background-image: url("header.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top: 0;
width:780px;
height: 200px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-size: 0.8em;

}

#header .welcome {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
padding-top: 90px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

p.welcome {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
padding-top: 90px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

#header .slogan {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

p.slogan {
text-align: left;
width: 700px
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
}

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be really grateful. I know Mac is a minority platform, but as it's the one I use, I'm pretty keen to get it working!

Thanks

Frances

I need the following with this simple example

1) Horizontal Tabs: the <dt> appears along the top in one horizontal line,
and when you click on the name, it'll display the <dd> content below. As you
click on other tabs, the content area will be replaced by the corresponding tab
content. If you click on a tab that's already opened, it'll close the display
of its content.

2) Vertial Tabs: the <dt> appears long the left side of the page, each tab
taking up one line. When you click on the name, the <dd> content will display
to the right of the tabs. Same as above, as you click on other tabs, the
content area will be replaced by the corresponding tab content.


[php]
<dl>
<dt>Tab 1</dt>
<dd>Content 1<br>Content 1<br>Content 1<br></dd>
<dt>Tab 2</dt>
<dd>Content 2<br>Content 2<br>Content 2<br></dd>
</dl>
[/php

hope someone can help

Hello,

I've found many threads on making your sidebar appear as if it is growing with tiling backgrounds, but my situation is a tad more unique. My project can be found he
http://tinyurl.com/ygq22wa

If you are on the home page and click "About Us", the content behaves as I want it. The problem is, I want the sidebar to grow with the content, but only underneath the links. I want the bolts image to always be at the lower left of the page, and the "middle" of the sidebar to grow (so that the links stay put, but the sidebar grows underneath to match the content div). That way, I won't have undesired empty space next to the content when the page grows more than the min-height I have defined for the sidebar.

I've seen some Javascript solutions, but I really would like to accomplish this with CSS.

Big thanks to anyone who can help.