CSS - Padding In Div Affects Div Size?

I could see this as potentially being really easy to do or really hard to do. I'm hoping for the former. Suppose I have 3 divs, A, B, C and that I want the total width of A + B + C to equal the width of the screen. Suppose also that I want them to be inline. How can I have B to be a fixed width while A and C expand depending on the screen width (such that the width of A = the width of C)?

So when using Netscape 7.2 & Opera 7.5 and MSIE 6.0,


How do you get a simple tag like

body {
font-size:small;
}

to be equal in all browsers?

Setting IE Text Size to Medium, and Opera's Zoom to 100% (both defaults) and Netscape 7.2 to 120% (not the default) is one way, but is there a CSS way?

By the way, the child element hack "body>div {property}" wasn't working no matter what I tried, by not working I mean to say Netscape never would read it or apply it.

It appeared to be that Opera & IE need to read the same value while Netscape needs to apply a larger size to be equal to IE's and Opera's rendering.

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Hey everyone, I am working on a new template:

http://4xp.net/temp.html

The colors are there just so I can see the divs, so don't worry.

If you look at the page in IE, it looks fine, with some padding between the green and orange div, and to the right of the orange div. When you look at it in Firefox, there is a bunch of white padding to the top and bottom of both the orange and green divs, and I can't seem to get it to go away. The weird thing is, if I add a 1px border to the orange div, the green div aligns to the top, and the orange background expands to fill in the white area above and below the orange div.

Does anyone know how to remove this padding?

Thanks!

Hi there,

I have 2 main divs.. one which holds a small ammount of content on the right hand side.. like a 'related links' box which is located at the top right of the page. The other div holds the content. It wraps around the top right div, but there is no padding to the right of the content area, so the text goes right the way up to the right hand div. How can I add some padding to the right of this area? I have added padding, but it adds it to the text where it wraps below the top right div.

This is the code I am using:

PHP Code:
#related_links{
width: 165px;
height: 237px;
background-image:  url('images/related_bg.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
float:right;
padding-right: 10px;

}

#related_inside{
padding: 10px;
}


#content{
padding-right: 10px;
}

#content_inside{
padding: 10px;

} 





PHP Code:
<div id="related_links"><div id="related_inside">right hand text</div></div>
    
    
    <div id="content">
    <div id="content_inside" >is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <strong>Lorem Ipsum</strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <strong>Lorem Ipsum</strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. </div></div> 

I don't know exactly what to call what's going on, but i'm asuming that there is a padding issue with my menu.

I have a ul that contains my menu list. The CSS and xhtml are as follows: Code:

/* Menu */
li {
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	border-bottom: 0px none;
	display: inline;
	line-height: 14px;
	margin: 0px;
	margin-left: 1px;
	margin-right: 1px;
	padding: 0px;
	padding-left: 3px;
	padding-right: 3px;
}
ul#menu {
	background-image: url(img/menu.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 9px;
	list-style-position: inside;
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align: center;
	background-position: left bottom;
	vertical-align: text-bottom;
}
/* End Menu */


<ul id="menu"><li>Menu 1</li><li>Items 2</li>
<li>Will 3</li><li>Go 4</li><li>Here 5</li></ul>

(the menu is on one line, thanks to IE's whitespace issue, i broke it here for easier readablity.)

the problem is: i have it nestled on top of a div, and for some reason the ul has a 1px bit of padding on the bottom. I have searched the forum and may have missed some one posting a resolution for this, but i tried every one ov the voice-family/carrage return fixes i've seen, but none work.

to see what i'm talking about if my words are il formed (as they often are) click here.
to view the CSS click here.

Around this dropdown image?
http://199.134.225.62/NW_PORTAL/sliding_menu/sliding_menu.cfm

I have padding and margins all set to 0...

I am noticing that padding changes the width/height of an object. For example, if I have a div element with a width of 100% and padding at 10px, it will actually cause the horizontal scrollbar on the browser to appear because it takes the 100% width into account, plus 20px for the padding on the left and right side. I thought padding was suppose to push elements inward.

??? Any help will be greatly appriciated.

Right now, there is nothing about padding located in css file. And I was told I should add a bit because my page is a headache to read. I was told:

"Basically you want to add more white space between the vertical line and the text"

How would I go about doing this? The site Im talking about is:
www.ohiocichlids.com

Hello,

I am having problems sorting out my css. It all looks good but when i look at the css it has 21 browser errors in different browsers. Mainly it is padding errors for netscape 4.0. Is there a way round this please? Cheers

Okay,

So here is the situation and it has had me stumped for 2 days.

I have a site that was displaying perfectly on my local server - I have xampp installed to test site locally. I have a site that is displaying perfectly in Opera, Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox....and locally on IE8.

Now here is the kicker. Once I upload it to my server online the layout is thrown out of whack in IE.

Why would there be a difference between a local view and an online view in IE?

Hi guys,

Im building a DNN site for a client, and have used a menu system theyve specified.

Ive got it looking how I want, however in IE I have a couple pixels of padding below the UL container.. in FF its perfect (the butt up against each other)...

Any hints? Im stumped.

Cant post URL's, so if you're bored and feel like making someones day, feel free to PM me

Cheers!!!!

The line "between" the columns is actually a background image in the second column.

I'd like to reduce the area between the top of the text and the top of the div (so the text is about even with the line).

I've tried setting the padding to 0, but that has no effect.

Any ideas?



Code:

#inner_wrap_2_col {
margin:0 auto;
width:690px;
}
#news_col_left {
float:left;
width:345px;
color: #330;
line-height: 1.5em;
	
padding: 0;	
}
#news_col_right {
float:right;
width:345px;
color: #330;
line-height: 1.5em;
background:url("./images/news_bg.gif");
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

I am having a problem..
The site am working on looks great in FF but in IE breaks when you click on a the link to view a larger picture and then mouse off the link. The padding on the bottom of the body (#main) disappears. i have a Javascript that switches the image out for another one. i am not sure if this is the problem.

can someone please take a look i have been racking my brain on this for days.

http://www.avallo.com/test/fatcatweb/phototest.shtml

(Problem occurs when thumbnail is clicked and then moused off in IE 5.5 and IE 6)

i have a border on the #main div so you can see what i am talking about.

* Update *
it isnt the javascript.

here is the css and html.

Code:

#main {
border:#333 dotted 1px;
	float:right;
	display:inline;
	position:relative;
	width: 610px;
	padding-bottom:30px;
	background:url(images/body-top.gif) no-repeat;
}
#mainbody {
	margin: 30px 20px 20px 15px;
}
a.thumb {
	float:left;
	margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
	padding: 2px;
	border: #fff 2px solid;
}
a.thumb:hover {border: #895FA5 2px solid;}

					<div id="mainbody">
						<h1>Photo Portfolio</h1>
						<p>Fat Cat Art Studio is proud to provide our clients with images of their business, area, or workers. This portfolio is a SMALL representation of recent photos.</p>
						<div class="photos">
							<h2>The Shore Photos</h2>
							<div class="floatR" id="change1"><img src="images/photos/photo-01.jpg" alt="Enlargment" width="350" height="245" border="0" /></div>
							<p>Taking a stroll on the shore leads to inspiration and some unique perspectives.</p>
							<a class="thumb" href="javascript:change('change1','photo-01',350,245)"><img src="images/photos/photo-01x.jpg" alt="Thumb" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a>
							<a class="thumb" href="javascript:change('change1','photo-02',350,263)"><img src="images/photos/photo-02x.jpg" alt="Thumb" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a>
							<a class="thumb" href="javascript:change('change1','photo-03',350,264)"><img src="images/photos/photo-03x.jpg" alt="Thumb" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a>
						</div>
					</div>

thanks,
weston

I'm having trouble adding padding to a text area without affecting the scrollbar. I would like the padding:10px to only be around text in the textarea without making the scrollbar have padding around it. Is this possible?

Thanks