CSS - Center Nav Diff In Ff And Ie

Hi,

As you no doubt can tell from the title of this thread I'm a newb. I'm familiar with html but moving into learning css. Self taught, I no doubt have a lot to learn but I'm attempting to alter a template and would really appreciate some assistance.

The site is www . inspirationz . info.

I look at the site on my main monitor which is a large one and all looks fine. The two boxes in the main content area sit side by side, however when I look at it on my laptop or on a smaller monitor the navigation box on the right appears to sit still to the right, but beneath the box on the left.

It didn't appear this way in firefox browser at first on my laptop, only Internet Explorer, but it appears that way on my other pc monitor in firefox so I assume it's likely to be a coding error. I have included some of the stylesheet coding below.

Is anyone able to help me work out what's causing this?
Thank you in advance.

/*================================================================
Typography and links
==================================================================*/

a:link, a:visited {
color: #999999;
text-decoration: none;
}

h1 a:link, h1 a:visited, h2 a:link, h2 a:visited, .sidebar_nav a {
text-decoration: none;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: .16em;
}

.featured h2 {
font-size: 1.8em;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

.post_header h2 {font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px;}

.post_header_page h1, .post_header_single h1 {
font-size: 2em;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

#footer h3 {margin-bottom: 25px; border-bottom: 1px dotted gray; padding: 5px;}

.featured p {
font-size: .8em;
font-style: italic;
}

p {
margin: 15px 0px;
}

.post_body_page p, .post_body_single p {margin: 0; padding: 15px 0px;}

small {
font-size: 0.8em;
font-style: italic;
}

strong {font-weight: bold;}

.post_body p {
font-size: 1em;
margin: 10px 0px;
}

.more {
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: -10px;
float: right;
}

.more_big {
margin-top: -20px;
margin-right: 20px;
float: right;
width: 139px;
height: 73px;
}

.footer_comments {
float: left;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
}

.comment_count {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.8em;
}

.featured_datetime {margin: 6px 0px}

.featured_more {
float: right;
font-weight: bold;
margin-right: 20px;
text-decoration: underline;
}

.post_body_page ol, .post_body_single ol {
list-style-type: upper-roman;
margin: 30px 0px;
}

.post_body_page ol li, .post_body_single ol li {
list-style-type: upper-roman;
margin-left: 60px;
}

.post_body_page ul, .post_body_single ul {
list-style-type: upper-roman;
margin: 30px 0px;
}

.post_body_page ul li, .post_body_single ul li {
list-style-type: disc;
margin-left: 60px;
}

blockquote {
margin: 0px 30px;
padding: 20px;
border: 1px dotted gray;
font-style: italic;
}


/*================================================================
Site Structure
==================================================================*/

body {
font-size:100%;
line-height:1.125em;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
background-color: #f0f0f0;
background-image: url(images/index/body.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
color: #7C7C7C;
}

#page_wrapper {
width: 976px;
margin: 0px auto;
position: relative;
}

#featured {
height: 230px;
margin-right: 3px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
border: 0px solid red;
padding: 15px;
background-image: url(images/index/featured.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#header {
width: 667px;
margin: auto;
height: 109px;
background-image: url(images/index/header.jpg);
}

#container {
width: 990px;
margin: 140px auto;
font-size:0.875em;
}

#main_content_left_index {
width: 600px;
float: left;
}

#main_content_left {
width: 600px;
float: left;
}

#main_content_right {
width: 343px;
float: right;
}



#footer {
height: 250px;
padding: 130px 130px 50px 130px;
margin: auto;
clear: both;
background-color: #eeefef;
background-image: url(images/index/footer.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: top;
}

#footer_contents {width: 990px; margin: auto;}

#footer_left {width: 460px; margin: auto; float: left;}

#footer_right {width: 460px; margin: auto; float: right;}

/*================================================================
The columns
==================================================================*/

#first_column {
float: left;
width: 280px;
}

#second_column {
float: right;
width: 280px;
}

/*================================================================
The posts
==================================================================*/

.posts {
background-image: url(images/index/posts.jpg);
height: 333px;
width: 275px;
margin-bottom: 60px;
}

.post_header {
height: 38px;
width: 255px;
padding: 10px;
border: 0px solid red;
}

.post_body {
width: 255px;
height: 180px;
padding: 10px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: .9em;
}


.post_footer {
height: 58px;
width: 275px;
margin-top: 15px;
}

.post_header_page, .post_header_single {
background-image: url(images/index/PostHeaderPage.jpg);
height: 38px;
width: 547px;
padding: 25px;
text-align: center;
}

.post_body_page, .post_body_single {
background-image: url(images/index/PostBodyPage.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
width: 547px;
padding: 0px 25px;
}

.post_footer_page, .post_footer_single{
clear: both;
background-image: url(images/index/PostFooterPage.jpg);
height: 90px;
width: 477px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding: 0px 60px;
font-style: italic;
}


.next_prev {
border: 0px dotted gray;
height: 29px;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 20px;
background-image: url(images/index/next_prev_posts.jpg);
width: 577px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}

.next_prev_comments {
border: 0px dotted gray;
height: 29px;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 20px;
background-image: url(images/index/next_prev_comments.jpg);
width: 535px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}



/*================================================================
The sidebars
==================================================================*/

.sidebar_header {
background-image: url(images/index/sidebar_header.jpg);
height: 91px;
width: 340px;
}

.sidebar_body {
display: block;
float: left;
margin:0 0 0px 0;
width: 290px;
padding: 25px;
background: url(images/index/sidebar_body.jpg) repeat-y;
}

.sidebar_bottom {
background-image: url(images/index/sidebar_footer.jpg);
height: 56px;
width: 340px;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}



/*================================================================
Sidebar Navigation
==================================================================*/

.sidebar_nav ul {}
.sidebar_nav li {}

.sidebar_nav ul li {
display: block;
padding: 4px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #515151;
font-size: .8em;
}

.sidebar_nav ul ul li {margin-left: 10px; border-bottom: none; font-size: 1em;}
.sidebar_nav ul ul ul li {margin-left: 10px;}

.sidebar_nav {
margin-bottom: 20px;
}

.sidebar_nav ul {

}

.sidebar_nav a {display: block;
padding: 4px;
}

.sidebar_nav a:link, #navlist a:visited {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}

.sidebar_nav a:hover {
background: #d8d8d8
}


/*================================================================
Top navigation
==================================================================*/

#top_nav_menu {
position: absolute;
top: 132px;
left: 0;
width: 950px;
}

/***** drop menu *****/

#dropmenu, #dropmenu ul {
list-style-positionutside;
position:relative;
line-height:1.5em;
z-index:300;
width:100%;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: .18em;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#dropmenu a {
display:block;
padding: 5px 15px;
text-decoration:none;
color: #666666;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
letter-spacing: .18em;
}

#dropmenu a:hover {
color:#000;
text-decoration: underline;
}

#dropmenu li {
float:left;
position:relative;

}

#dropmenu ul {
position: absolute;
display: none;
width: 18em;
top: 1.9em;
left: 0px;
}

#dropmenu ul a {
background: url(images/index/dropmenu_bg.png)
}

#dropmenu ul a:hover {

}

#dropmenu li ul {
width:14.1em;
margin-top: 4px;
}

#dropmenu li ul a {
width: 250px;
height: auto;
float: left;
}


#dropmenu ul ul {
top:auto;
}

#dropmenu li ul ul {
left: 265px;
margin:0px 0 0 10px;
}

#dropmenu li:hover ul ul, #dropmenu li:hover ul ul ul, #dropmenu li:hover ul ul ul ul {
display:none;
}
#dropmenu li:hover ul, #dropmenu li li:hover ul, #dropmenu li li li:hover ul, #dropmenu li li li li:hover ul {
display:block;
}


/*================================================================
Categories Navigation
==================================================================*/

#main_categories {
margin: auto;
height: 20px;
width: 976px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}

/* Horizontal Category List (frontpage) */

ul.horizontal_categories {
clear: both;
}

.horizontal_categories li {
display: inline;
background: url(images/index/cat_bullet.png) no-repeat right center;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: .08em;
}

.horizontal_categories a {
padding: 0px 25px;
}

.horizontal_categories a:link, .horizontal_categories a:visited {

}

.horizontal_categories a:hover {

}

Is there a cleaner way to achieve what I'm doing below? I read a bit about pseudo-selectors, not sure if they can be applied to this.

Code:

<style>
.class1 {float:left;width:100px;background:first_tab.jpg }
.class2 {float:left;width:100px;background:tab.jpg }
.class3 {float:left;width:100px;background:last_tab.jpg }
</style>

<div class="clearfix">
  <div class="class1">
    Home
  </div>
  <div class="class2">
    About Us
  </div>
  <div class="class3">
    Privacy
  </div>
</div>

i was able to have the image button links hover and change colors using 2 different image buttons, however i came to realize that i want to have the hovered image stay active once the button is clicked. can someone assist me with this?

this is what my code looks like:

Code:

a:hover#index {
	background: url("./images/home-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#howto {
    background: url("./images/howtobuild-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#installation {
    background: url("./images/installation-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#design {
    background: url("./images/dande-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#dean {
    background: url("./images/deansblog-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#forum {
    background: url("./images/userforum-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#plan {
    background: url("./images/planbike-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}
a:hover#search {
    background: url("./images/search-red.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
}

a#index, a#design, a#howto, a#installation, a#dean, a#forum, a#plan, a#search   {
	width: 86px;
	height: 27px;
	float: left;
	margin-top:6px;
	position:relative;
	left: 115px;

}

a#index {
	background: url("./images/home-grey.png");
}
a#design {
	background: url("./images/dande-grey.png");
}
a#howto {
	background: url("./images/howtobuild-grey.png");
}
a#installation {
    background: url("./images/installation-grey.png");
}
a#dean {
    background: url("./images/deansblog-grey.png");
}
a#forum {
    background: url("./images/userforum-grey.png");
}
a#plan {
    background: url("./images/planbike-grey.png");
}
a#search {
    background: url("./images/search-grey.png");
}

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<div style="background-color: red;"><input type="radio" id="radio"></div>
</body>
</html>

Viewing this simple test page in a broswer shows that IE and Mozilla both vertically align the radio button differently within its "box" as well as giving it a different number of pixels of padding and/or margin on all 4 sides.

Are there any tricks to getting consistency?

Hello, I'm working on some really simple CSS and it's giving me wildly different results in Firefox and in IE.

Here is the stylesheet:

PHP Code:
 body {
    background-color: #DECFEF;
}

.example
{
    background-image: url("images/example.gif"); 
    border-width: thin;
    border-color: white;
    border-style: solid;
    padding: 35px 35px 35px 35px;
} 





And here is the HTML file:

PHP Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Chatterbox</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/teststyle.css">
</head>
<body>
<table class='example'><tr><td>
  hello
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html> 





All of this works (the image in the background, the white border, etc.) except the padding! In IE there is no padding at all, but in Firefox there is 35px padding, as specified in the stylesheet.

You may see this yourself if you go to this URL in the two different browsers: http://www.chatterboxletters.com/test3.html


Any help is greatly appreciated

~j.

I am using the following code how do I change it so that it would show up in the center of the brower window?

Thanks
Tim
PHP Code:
<div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; z-index: 1; top: 0px; align: center\">
<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" 

codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0

,0\" width=\"544\" height=\"396\" id=\"cardio\" align=\"middle\">
<param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" />
<param name=\"movie\" value=\"ads/cardio3.swf\" />
<param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" />
<param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" />
<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" />
<param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" />
<embed src=\"ads/cardio3.swf\" loop=\"false\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" 

bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"544\" height=\"396\" name=\"cardio\" align=\"middle\" 

allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" 

pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\" />
</object>
</div> 

Hello again CSS experts!

I know this question gets asked a lot but I have had a search on here and google and can't seem to get it working for me.

My page has a sidebar div which contains a UL menu (SpryMenuBar from Dreamweaver) I would like to center the menu within the div.

I have tried putting it within a child div and playing with auto margins and left 50%, etc. but no joy.

If anyone could point out what I'm doing wrong I'd would be very grateful.

Another small issue (which I suspect is related) is the <p> in between the two menus wraps around the right of the first menu when viewed in IE.

Jez

index.php:
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" />

<title>Mseis</title>

<link href="includes/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>

<div id="container">
  <div id="header">
<?php include("includes/header.php"); ?>
  <!-- end #header --></div>
  <div id="sidebar1">
<?php include("includes/menu.php"); ?>
    <!-- end #sidebar1 -->
  </div>
  <div id="mainContent">
  <div id="navbar">
  <a href="index.php">Home</a>
      <!-- end #navbar --></div>
      
      <div id="pageContent">
        <h1> Main Content </h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam,  justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam  ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo  porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis  ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean  sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at,  odio. Donec et ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce  varius urna id quam. Sed neque mi, varius eget, tincidunt nec, suscipit id,  libero. In eget purus. Vestibulum ut nisl. Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat  feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut,  sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh.  Donec nec libero.</p>
        <h2>H2 level heading </h2>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam,  justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam  ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo  porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis  ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean  sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
        <h3>H3 level heading </h3>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam,  justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam  ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo  porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis  ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean  sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam,  justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam  ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo  porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis  ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean  sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
    	  <!-- end #pageContent --></div>
	<!-- end #mainContent --></div>
	<!-- This clearing element should immediately follow the #mainContent div in order to force the #container div to contain all child floats -->
	<br class="clearfloat" />
	<div id="footer">
<?php include("includes/footer.php"); ?>
  <!-- end #footer --></div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
</html>

menu.php:
Code:

<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<div class="menu">
<p>
<ul id="RootMenu" class="MenuBarVertical">
  <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="about.php">About Us</a></li>
  <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Services</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Passive Acoustic Monitoring</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Training</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Personnel</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Mseis</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">3rd Party</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
The menu should be centered like this text, but looks odd in IE
</p>
<p>
<ul id="StaffMenu" class="MenuBarVertical">
  <li><a href="webmail.php">Webmail</a> </li>
  <?php
  if (strpos($_SESSION["permissions"], "upload") !== false)
  {
	  echo "<li><a href=\"resources.php\" class=\"MenuBarItemSubmenu\">Operator Resources</a>
			<ul>
			<li><a href=\"upload.php\">Upload A File</a></li>
			<li><a href=\"uploads.php\">View Uploaded Files</a></li>
			</ul></li>";
  }
  else
  {
  	echo "<li><a href=\"resources.php\">Operator Resources</a></li>";
  }
  ?>
  <li><a href="client.php">Client Resources</a></li>
  <?php
  if ($_SESSION['loggedin'] == true)
  {
  echo "<li><a href='logout.php'>Logout</a></li>";
  }
  ?>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("RootMenu", {imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
var MenuBar2 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("StaffMenu", {imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
//-->
</script>

layout.css:
Code:

@charset "utf-8";
@import url("reset.css");

html, body  {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background-color: #666666;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #633C91;
}

#container { 
	width: 80%;  /* this will create a container 80% of the browser width */
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 1px auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	min-width: 800px;
} 

#header {
	margin: 0; 
	background-color: #DDDDDD; 
	padding: 5px 20px;
} 


#header img {
vertical-align: middle;
}


/* Tips for sidebar1:
1. Since we are working in relative units, it's best not to use padding on the sidebar. It will be added to the overall width for standards compliant browsers creating an unknown actual width. 
2. Since em units are used for the sidebar value, be aware that its width will vary with different default text sizes.
3. Space between the side of the div and the elements within it can be created by placing a left and right margin on those elements as seen in the ".twoColHybLtHdr #sidebar1 p" rule.
*/

#sidebar1 {
	float: left; 
	width: 15%; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	background-color: #EBEBEB; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 0; /* top and bottom padding create visual space within this div  */
	margin: 0;
	text-align: center;
}

#menu {
	margin: 0 auto;
 }

/* Tips for mainContent:
1. The space between the mainContent and sidebar1 is created with the left margin on the mainContent div.  No matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this left margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends.
2. Be aware it is possible to cause float drop (the dropping of the non-floated mainContent area below the sidebar) if an element wider than it can contain is placed within the mainContent div. WIth a hybrid layout (percentage-based overall width with em-based sidebar), it may not be possible to calculate the exact width available. If the user's text size is larger than average, you will have a wider sidebar div and thus, less room in the mainContent div. You should be aware of this limitation - especially if the client is adding content with Contribute.
3. In the Internet Explorer Conditional Comment below, the zoom property is used to give the mainContent "hasLayout." This may help avoid several IE-specific bugs.
*/

#mainContent { 
	margin: 0; /* the right margin can be given in percentages or pixels. It creates the space down the right side of the page. */
	padding: 0;
	width: 85%;
	float: left;
} 

#pageContent {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 10px;
}

#navbar { 
	background-color: #AAAAAA;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 1px 10px;
} 

#navbar, #navbar a {
	color:#FF0000;
	font-size: small;	
} 

#navbar a:link, #navbar a:visited {
	text-decoration:none;
}

#navbar a:hover, #navbar a:active { 
	text-decoration:underline;
}

#footer { 
	padding: 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD;
} 

#footer p {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}

/* Miscellaneous classes for reuse */
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}

.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}

.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
	clear: both;
    height: 0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
}

/* Custom CSS */

.msgreen {
	color: #BEDA57;
}

.msblue {
	color: #81C4E2;
}

.mspurple {
	color: #633C91;
}

.failed {
	color: #FF0000;
}


h1 {
	color: #BEDA57;
	font-size: 150%;
	font-weight: bolder;
	margin-top: 5px;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
}

h2 {
	color: #81C4E2;
	font-size: 140%;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-top: 3px;
	margin-bottom: 3px;
}

h3 {
	color: #633C91;
	font-size: 140%;
	margin-top: 2px;
	margin-bottom: 2px;
}

p {
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}

small {
	font-size: 60%;
}

fieldset {  
	margin: 1.5em 0 0 0;  
	padding: 0; 
	background-color: #81C4E2;
}
 
legend {  
	margin-left: 1em;  
	color: #633C91;  
	font-weight: bold;  
} 
 
fieldset ol {  
	padding: 1em 1em 0 1em;  
	list-style: none;  
}  

fieldset li {  
	padding-bottom: 1em;  
}  

fieldset.submit {  
	border-style: none; 
	background-color: transparent;
}

label {    
	display: block;
	color: #633C91;
}

input.btn {
	border: 1px solid;
	background-color: #81C4E2;
	color: #633C91;
	font: bold 80%;
}

input.btnhov{
	border-color: #FF0000;
}

SpryMenuBarVertical.css
Code:

@charset "UTF-8";

/* SpryMenuBarVertical.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */

/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */

/*******************************************************************************

 LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order

 *******************************************************************************/

/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarVertical
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 100%;
	cursor: default;
	width: 8em;
}
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
{
	z-index: 1000;
}
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical li
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 100%;
	position: relative;
	text-align: left;
	cursor: pointer;
	width: 8em;
}
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
{
	margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 100%;
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 1020;
	cursor: default;
	width: 8.2em;
	left: -1000em;
	top: 0;
}
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
	left: 0;
}
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
{
	width: 8.2em;
}

/*******************************************************************************

 DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts

 *******************************************************************************/

/* Outermost menu container has borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical
{
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
{
	border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarVertical a
{
	display: block;
	cursor: pointer;
	background-color: #EEE;
	padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
	color: #333;
	text-decoration: none;
}
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus
{
	background-color: #33C;
	color: #FFF;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
	background-color: #33C;
	color: #FFF;
}

/*******************************************************************************

 SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item

 *******************************************************************************/

/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
{
	background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 95% 50%;
}

/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
{
	background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 95% 50%;
}

/*******************************************************************************

 BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert

 *******************************************************************************/

/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarVertical iframe
{
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 1010;
	filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
}
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
{
	ul.MenuBarVertical li.MenuBarItemIE
	{
		display: inline;
		f\loat: left;
		background: #FFF;
	}
}

reset.css
Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	outline: 0;
	font-weight: inherit;
	font-style: inherit;
	font-size: 100%;
	font-family: inherit;
	vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* remember to define focus styles! */
:focus {
	outline: 0;
}
body {
	line-height: 1;
	color: black;
	background: white;
}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
}
/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table {
	border-collapse: separate;
	border-spacing: 0;
}
caption, th, td {
	text-align: left;
	font-weight: normal;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
	content: "";
}
blockquote, q {
	quotes: "" "";
}

Thanks for reading my question

Why does this not center the contents of my page in Firefox but it does in IE?

This code is in my linked CSS file.

Code:

body {
text-align: center;
margin-top: 10px;
background-image: url(images/fall-leaves.jpeg);
background-attachment: fixed;
/*background-color: #d8d8d8;*/
}

I'm strugling with this code. The homepage is http://thebeadingsite.com and I can't get this to line up properly. Here's my code, any suggestions??

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>The Beading Site</title>
  
<style type='text/css'>
body {
background-color: black;
}
#bg-right {
    background-color: white;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 50%;
    right: 0;
    z-index: -1;
}

#content {
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 25%;
    right: 0;
    z-index: 0;
}
  </style>
  
</head>
<body>
  <div id="bg-right"></div>

<div id="content"><table id="Table_01" width="800" height="601" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
	<tr>
		<td colspan="5">
			<img src="images/bnt-site-final_01.jpg" width="800" height="158" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td colspan="2" rowspan="2">
			<img src="images/bnt-site-final_02.jpg" width="623" height="421" alt=""></td>
		<td><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/mixaleena" target="_blank">
				<img src="images/bnt-site-final_03.jpg" width="72" height="38" border="0" alt="Click here to order online at Etsy!"></a></td>
		<td colspan="2" rowspan="2">
			<img src="images/bnt-site-final_04.jpg" width="105" height="421" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<img src="images/bnt-site-final_05.jpg" width="72" height="383" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<img src="images/bnt-site-final_06.jpg" width="526" height="21" alt=""></td>
		<td colspan="3">
			<a href="mailto:mixaleena@thebeadingsite.com?subject=Comments from the front page">
				<img src="images/bnt-site-final_07.jpg" width="247" height="21" alt="" border="0"></a></td>
		<td>
			<img src="images/bnt-site-final_08.jpg" width="27" height="21" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="526" height="1" alt=""></td>
		<td>
			<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="97" height="1" alt=""></td>
		<td>
			<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="72" height="1" alt=""></td>
		<td>
			<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="78" height="1" alt=""></td>
		<td>
			<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="27" height="1" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
</table>

</div>
  
</body>


</html>

Hello,

I have a container div and i want to put some fixed-width left-floated divs inside it. The problem is i want to make them appear in the center of the container, instead of left. The problem is i don't know how many of them there's going to be, therefore i can't just put them inside of another fixed-width container and set it's margin to auto. I could probably do it with tables easily, but how would i do it in css?

I am having a small problem with centering a main container div..

The main div is 700 pixels wide .. I have numerous divs inside this container div. Everything is peachy, but I cant seem for the life of me to get the container div centered in the browser window...

I tried <div align="center">

even tried text-align:center;

any thoughts?

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I have a 19 in CRT and a 22 in wide screen LCD monitor. I am trying to make my content center on the page, regardless of the monitor.

As it stands, it looks to be centered on teh 19 in, but on the 22 in, it is very much to the left side of the screen. I just got the 22 in. Is there something different you have to do for wide screen monitors?

I'm using

margin: auto 0px;

I have margin and padding off for my Body {} and have set marging and padding on all appropreate elements so that they work the same in IE and FF.

In my html page, I'm using xhtml strict.

Thanks,

Brad

I have a div that I am using as a pop up layer. I just set the visible attribute on mouseover and mouseout. I want to have that dic pop up in the center of the screen vertically and horizontally. I have not had much luck with other examples but this is what I have:


Div
Code:

<div class="popbox" id="1" onMouseover="showpop('1');" onMouseout="hidepop('1');">
<p class="popboxheader">HEADER</p>
<p class="popboxcontent">
<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="popboxcontentleft" valign="top"><p>some content here</p></td>
    <td class="popboxcontentright" valign="top"><p>more content</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</p>
</div>

CSS
Code:

div.popbox {
  text-align: left;
  background-color:#ffffff;
  border: 1px solid black;
  padding: 5px;
  width: 570px;
  visibility: hidden;
  margin:0 auto;
}
.popboxheader { 
  padding: 5px;
  color: white; 
  letter-spacing: 2pt;
  background-color: #003399;
  font-family: Verdana, san-serif;
  font-size:16px;
  color:#ffffff;
  color:#ffffff;
  font-weight:bold;
  text-align:left; 
}
.popboxcontent { 
  font-size: 10pt; 
  font-weight: normal; 
  text-align: left;
  font-family: Verdana, san-serif;
  color:#4074b7;
  color:#0349A3;
}
.popboxright { 
  font-size: 9pt; 
  font-weight: normal; 
  text-align: left;  
  width:200px;
  font-family: Verdana, san-serif;
  color:#4074b7;
  color:#0349A3;
}

Script
Code:

function showpopp(cid){
	  var obj = document.getElementById(cid);
	  obj.style.visibility = "visible";
}
function hidepop(cid){
  		var obj = document.getElementById(cid);
  		obj.style.visibility = "hidden";
}

I am not sure, but I am writingthe div at the end of the content that is always shown on the screen, just for some info. Any help is appreciated.

Hi all,

I've got a table here and can't seem to get text-align:center in the cells that have colspan='2' (f1s, f2s...) as an attribute. HTML Code:
Original - HTML Code <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Game</title> <style type='text/css'> table { border: 1px solid black; } tr.top { font-size:10px; } tr.tall { height:50px; } td { width:20px; border: 1px solid black; text-align:center; } td.name { font-size:18px; width:100px; height:50px; } td.finalscore { color:red; font-size:18px; width:40px; } </style> </head> <body> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr class='top'> <td rowspan='2' colspan='2' class='name'>Name </td> <td> f1a </td> <td> f1b </td> <td> f2a </td> <td> f2b </td> <td> f3a </td> <td> f3b </td> <td> f4a </td> <td> f4b </td> <td> f5a </td> <td> f5b </td> <td> f6a </td> <td> f6b </td> <td> f7a </td> <td> f7b </td> <td> f8a </td> <td> f8b </td> <td> f9a </td> <td> f9b </td> <td> f10a </td> <td> f10b </td> <td> f10c </td> <td style="background-color:black">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr class='tall'> <td colspan='2'>f1s</td> <td colspan='2'>f2s</td> <td colspan='2'>f3s</td> <td colspan='2'>f4s</td> <td colspan='2'>f5s</td> <td colspan='2'>f6s</td> <td colspan='2'>f7s</td> <td colspan='2'>f8s</td> <td colspan='2'>f9s</td> <td colspan='2'>f10s</td> <td colspan='2'>Score</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

  
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title>Game</title>
    <style type='text/css'>
        table { border: 1px solid black; }
        tr.top { font-size:10px; }
        tr.tall { height:50px; }
        td { width:20px; border: 1px solid black; text-align:center; }
        td.name { font-size:18px; width:100px; height:50px; }
        td.finalscore { color:red; font-size:18px; width:40px; }
    </style>
</head>

<body>      
    <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> 
        <tr class='top'> 
            <td rowspan='2' colspan='2' class='name'>Name </td> 
            <td> f1a </td> 
            <td> f1b </td> 
            <td> f2a </td> 
            <td> f2b </td> 
            <td> f3a </td> 
            <td> f3b </td> 
            <td> f4a </td> 
            <td> f4b </td> 
            <td> f5a </td> 
            <td> f5b </td> 
            <td> f6a </td> 
            <td> f6b </td> 
            <td> f7a </td> 
            <td> f7b </td> 
            <td> f8a </td> 
            <td> f8b </td> 
            <td> f9a </td> 
            <td> f9b </td> 
            <td> f10a </td> 
            <td> f10b </td> 
            <td> f10c </td> 
            <td style="background-color:black">&nbsp;</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr class='tall'> 
            <td colspan='2'>f1s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f2s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f3s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f4s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f5s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f6s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f7s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f8s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f9s</td> 
            <td colspan='2'>f10s</td>
            <td colspan='2'>Score</td>
        </tr> 
    </table>

</body>

</html>

Any pointers?

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I have a div that has a specified width, and if I put margin-left: auto; and margin-right: auto; the div centers with in the parent div. I have another div that I don't want to have a specified width, and as a result the auto's don't center the div. How can I center my div? I've tried display: block; and that just makes it as wide as the parent div. If I remove display and put float: left, it sizes properly (shrinks to fit the contents), but floats left and doesn't heed the margin auto's.

The colors are there to see the containers... I don't plan on keeping them..

please see http://www.scopicdesigns.com/LisaCl..._Portfolio1.htm for example.

Thanks,

Brad