AllSeoHelp.com
Search the Entire Site
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • HTML
Learn VBA & Macros in 1 Week!

CSS - When I Write Text, I Want Box To Expand
Full Excel VBA Course - Beginner to Expert

When I Write Text, I Want Box To Expand

 View Content
hi...

if you look here - http://www.outlawz.frihost.net/fula/test2.php

you can see i have written to much text...

here is my code

Quote:
<?php require("header.php"); ?>

<div id="content">
<br><br>
<b>Welcome to Kadafi Legacy.</b><br><br>

<img src="image/yaki1.jpg" alt="Yaki Kadafi" align="left">

Here at Kadafi Legacy we aim to bring you the latest and most in depth information on Yaki Kadafi, such information will include the family and friends of Yaki Kadafi, Kadafi's childhood years, the records Kadafi featured upon and all this and much more can be found in our <a href="/history.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi History">Kadafi history</a> section.<br><br>

The latest news and information regarding projects from the official Kadafi site - <a href="http://www.yakikadafi.com" target="_blank" alt="YakiKadafi.com">YakiKadafi.com</a>, will also be reported and updated daily in our <a href="/news.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi News">Kadafi News</a> section.<br><br>

Also available on Kadafi Legacy is the <a href="/music.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi Music">music</a> section, you will find information, images and lyrics about previous releases such as 'Son Rize: Volume 1'.<br><br>

In our <a href="/links.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi Links">links</a> section you will be able to find direct links to official sites that are related to Yaki Kadafi in one way or another also in our links section is a 'support the real' area of links which will link to sites we support, i.e - Sekou Odinga, Assata Shakur.<br><br>

Our ultimate goal is to honour Yaki Kadafi, his family and his music in the correct way, this means there will be no illegal downloads available on this site and nothing will be used without permission from Yaasmyn Fula.<br><br>

Last and not least, Kadafi Legacy would like to thank the following people -<br><br>

Yaasmyn Fula<br>
Cory Caudill<br><br>



content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content
content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content
</div>

<br>

<div id="foot">Graphics & Design by "NO NAMED DESIGNS" - Copyright 2006 "KLSOON2BE"</div>

</body>
</html>


and heres the css -

Quote:
a:link {color:white}
a:visited {color:white}
a:hover {color:black}
a:active {color:white}

body {background-color: #666666}

#head img { display: block; }

#head{

position: relative;
top: 7px;
left: 140px;
width: 707px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 12px;
color:white;
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url(wavy.jpg);

}

#box1{

position: relative;
top: 7px;
left: 140px;
width: 345px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 12px;
color:white;
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url(wavy.jpg);

}

#content {

position: relative;
top: 7px;
left: 140px;
width: 697px;
height: 500px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 12px;
color:white;
text-aligh: justify;
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url(image/back.jpg);
padding: 5px;

}


#foot{

position: relative;
left: 140px;
width: 707px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 9px;
text-align: center;
color:white;
background-color: 666666;
background-image: url(wavy.jpg);

}



on the page the text goes out side the blue box.. how do i make it so the when it does that the blue box stretches down... thanks!

also it works in IE but not in FIREFOX!
Full Excel VBA Course - Beginner to Expert

Similar Tutorials

How To Write Text With \t Between Words.
Getting One Div To Expand Max
Set Height Div That Can Expand?
Need A Div To Dynamically Expand
How Do I Get The Box To Height Expand?
Css: How To Auto Expand
Outerdiv To Expand To Inner Div's Height
Css: Expand Parent Beyond Viewport?
Get Body To Expand Beyond Viewport
Div Not Extending Though Contents Expand
Div Won't Expand Width Of Content
Container Does Not Expand For Image
How To Expand Wrapper To Fit Content?
Two Divs Next To Each Other That Expand Their Container?
Trying To Make Div Expand As Div Within Expands
Expand Div Height With Content
Expand To Fit Div Working In All Browsers Except Ie8!
Making A Div Have A Minimal Size Or Expand
Help With 2 Column Layout That Doesn't Expand
Expand Container On Width Overflow


Learn VBA & Macros for Excel in 1 Week!


How To Write Text With \t Between Words.

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I am trying to write a Header line for a <div> like this:

This -tab- is \t a \\t tabular........line........of.........text + "\t" + used &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; as a header.

The good book says you can use \t but that doesn't work. ( I should say I can't make it work)

I don't want to use a gazillion &nbsp; tags.

Thanks for your help in advance.

R P

Getting One Div To Expand Max

 Similar Tutorials View Content

Set Height Div That Can Expand?

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hi,

Is there any way to set a DIV that starts at 500px height but can grow if the content inside is longer than that? Thanks.

Need A Div To Dynamically Expand

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I'm trying to get the footer to dynamically expand with the content in the box 1, 2, 3. How can i do this?

The HTML
Code:
<div id="footer">
    <div id="box1">Content</div>
    <div id="box2">Content</div>
    <div id="box3">Content</div>
</div>



The CSS
Code:
#footer {
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}
#box1 {
 float:left; 
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}
#box2 {
 float:left; 
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}
#box3 {
 float:left; 
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}


How Do I Get The Box To Height Expand?

 Similar Tutorials View Content
God, this is really simple but I have forgotten how to get the containing box to expand

Basically the text div expands but the containing div doesn't

PHP Code:
<div style="width: 300px; min-height: 200px; border: 1px dashed red;">

    <div style="border: 0; width: 110px; height: 110px; float: left;">
        <img src="#" width="100" height="80" border="0" align="left" />
    </div>
    <div style="border: 0; width: 190px; min-height: 200px; float: right;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In odio nibh, interdum eget, mollis quis, imperdiet non, risus. Curabitur laoreet vehicula massa. Curabitur consequat dui vitae lectus. Nam rutrum sapien id quam. Pellentesque aliquet nulla dignissim ante. Fusce metus libero, vehicula hendrerit, condimentum id, malesuada in, elit. Nam fermentum, metus in varius scelerisque, diam purus tristique tortor, vitae suscipit elit ipsum eu dolor. Ut dictum porttitor velit. Pellentesque cursus purus elementum dui. Phasellus aliquet ante vitae pede. 

</div>

</div> 




Css: How To Auto Expand

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I have a page that uses CSS to handle layout. I also use a combination of CSS and javascript to create an expandable menu. I have a simplified version of this page he

http://www.stringersites.com/csstest/index.htm

Users of Dreamweaver will recognize this as being based on the HaloNavLeft template.

As you can see, the page displays fine until you start expanding the menu items contained in <div id="mainMenu">. If you expand enough, the mainMenu box extends beyond the borders of the <div id="pagecell1"> in which it's contained.

My primary question to the group is how to get the pagecell div to autoexpand along with the mainMenu div.

My secondary question is how to stretch a vertical column to the height of the containing div. Specifically, this is <div class="relatedLinks">, which is contained in pageNav, which, in turn, is contained in pagecell1.

The relevant pieces of CSS are included below, but you can link to the entire CSS sheet from the test doc above.

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Steve Stringer


Code:
#pagecell1{
 position:absolute;
 top: 112px;
 left: 2%;
 right: 2%;
 width:95.6%;
 background-color: #ffffff;
}
 
#mainMenu {
 background-color: #EEE;
 border: 1px solid #CCC;
 color: #000;
 width: 350px;
 position: absolute;
 margin-left: 10px;
 margin-top: 20px;
}

#pageNav{
 float: left;
 width:178px;
 padding: 0px;
 background-color: #F5f7f7;
 border-right: 1px solid #cccccc;
 border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
 font: small Verdana,sans-serif;
}

.relatedLinks{
 margin: 0px;
 padding: 0px 0px 10px 10px;
 border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
}


Outerdiv To Expand To Inner Div's Height

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I have an absolutely position <div> with some content positioned within it. I do not always know the size of the inner content so my problem is getting the outer div to expand to the height of the inner div. Is there a solution for this with absolutely positioned items that wil work in IE/Firefox/Safari?

I'm attaching a simple html file which mimics what i am trying to accomplish and the code is below:

Code:
<div id="detailBlock" style="position: absolute; width: 250px; height: 35px; z-index: 3;  border: 1px solid #000; overflow: visible; background-color: #fff5d9; font-size: 8pt; top: 50px; left: 100px;">
<div id="closeBlock" style="position: absolute; width: 40px; height: 8px; left: 210px; top: 3px; font-size: 7pt;"><a href="javascript: closeDetail();">CLOSE</a></div>
<div id="detailContent" style="position: relative; width: 240px; top: 15px; left: 5px; border: 1px solid #F00;">Content whose size i do not know...So if I write anything substantial in here it will go over the edge</div>



Thanks in advance for your help.

Css: Expand Parent Beyond Viewport?

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I've been searching for a few days, but I haven't found a solution to my problem. How do I get my parent DIV to expand to contain all of my content beyond the viewport?

CSS:
Code:
html {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
	min-height: 100%;
}
body {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
	min-height: 100%;
}
.page {
	background-color: #dddddd;
	margin-left: -390px;
	border-top-width: thin;
	border-right-width: thin;
	border-bottom-width: thin;
	border-left-width: thin;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-left-style: solid;
	border-top-color: #9CB0C0;
	border-right-color: #9CB0C0;
	border-bottom-color: #9CB0C0;
	border-left-color: #9CB0C0;
	position: absolute;
	height: 100%;
	min-height: 100%;
	width: 780px;
	left: 50%;
	top: 0;

}
.header {
	position: absolute;
	height: 158px;
	width: 764px;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	left: 7px;
	top: 0px;
}
.content {
	position: absolute;
	left: 7px;
	top: 159px;
	background-color: #9CB0C0;
	height: 821px;
	width: 764px;
	margin-bottom: 34px;

}
.footer {
	background-color: #415569;
	height: 34px;
	width: 764px;
	left: 7px;
	bottom: 0px;
}



And the HTML:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!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>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="/test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_reloadPage(init) {  //reloads the window if Nav4 resized
  if (init==true) with (navigator) {if ((appName=="Netscape")&&(parseInt(appVersion)==4)) {
    document.MM_pgW=innerWidth; document.MM_pgH=innerHeight; onresize=MM_reloadPage; }}
  else if (innerWidth!=document.MM_pgW || innerHeight!=document.MM_pgH) location.reload();
}
MM_reloadPage(true);
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>
<div id="lPage" style="position:absolute; z-index:1" class="page"> 
  <div id="lContent" style="position:absolute; z-index:2;" class="content"></div>
  <div id="lHeader" style="position:absolute; z-index:1" class="header"></div>
  <div id="lfooter" style="position:absolute; z-index:3" class="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>



I've searched through a few of the threads here, but haven't been able to find an answer either.

Thanks,

Brent

Get Body To Expand Beyond Viewport

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I have some tables that contain a lot of columns, so the table goes beyond the users viewport. I would like the body of the page to expand to the table, anyone know of a way to get the body to expand horizontally. Below is some code, I would like the red outline to expand to the black.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body style="border:1px solid red;">
<table style="border:1px solid green;width:2500px;">
<tr>
<td style="">slkfdj</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>


Div Not Extending Though Contents Expand

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I have a div that has a table inside of it. Even though the table expands with content added, the div does not.

It's important to me that the div extend with the table because this div in question has a background shadow border for the table.

Here is the CSS:

Code:
#right {
  float: right;
  width: 80%;
  height: 100%;
}

#rt_brdr {
 height: 100%;
 width: 100%;
 padding-bottom:5px;
 padding-right: 10px;
 margin-bottom: 5px;
 vertical-align: bottom;
 background: url(img/r_brdr.gif) repeat-y right;
}



My HTML:

Code:
<div id="right">
   <div id="rt_brdr">
    <table border="0" align="left" width="100%" style="height: 93%; margin-top: 2px;"  cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
       <tr>
         <td class="top" style="background: url(img/w_tl.jpg) no-repeat top left #FFFFFF;"></td>
         <td class="white_fill"></td>
         <td class="top" style="background: url(img/w_tr.jpg) no-repeat top right #FFFFFF;"></td>
       </tr>
       <tr class="white_fill">
         <td></td>
         <td></td>
         <td></td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td class="bottom" style="background: url(img/w_bl.jpg) no-repeat bottom left #FFFFFF;"></td>
         <td class="white_fill"></td>
         <td class="bottom" style="background: url(img/w_br.jpg) no-repeat bottom right #FFFFFF;"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>
  </div>



I have attached a screenshot. Note that I took the content out of the table in the post so that the code doesn't extend forever. I have put a black border around the right border to make it stand out in the screenshot.

Div Won't Expand Width Of Content

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hey guys. I've gotten awesome help here before, so I decided to come back.

Here is the web page I am trying to change (note-far from done. Don't laugh too hard): http://metroairvirtual.org/pilot_profile.php?pilot=1645

If you scroll down to "My Career History," you'll notice that (for example, the very first row of the table), it says "Email address updated from," and doesn't continue with the rest of the statement (gets cut off).

I want to make it so I can scroll horizontally to view the whole statement by scrolling. I was successful by using the white-space: nowrap and then overflow-x: scroll. While that allowed me to do what I wanted, the actual DIV doesn't continue with the content, as shown in the shots below.





Do you guys have any idea on how I can make the div style fill the scroll space? I can't really do a fixed width because history content varies from member to member and it is shorter/longer than others.

Thanks for any help you can offer! If you need used code below that's fine, but I assume you can just use FireBug to inspect it.

Thanks again!

Container Does Not Expand For Image

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hello,

i'm trying to make a tableless image gallery,

each image is inside <span></span> (i don't know the dimensions of the image, it's resized by server side)

while the div container expands fine,
the span container does not expand to fit the image, and i also don't know how to vertically center it.
i can't use <div> because images can be in the same row.

Code:
body {
	margin:0px
	padding:10px;
	background-color: #ffffff
}

body, div,span {
	font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000
}

a {
	color:#000099
}
a:hover {
	color:#0000ff
}


div.paging {
	padding:10px;
	border:1px solid red;
}

div.paging span {
	padding-left:10px;
	border:1px solid red
}

div.gallery {
	padding:10px;
	border:1px solid red
}

div.gallery span {
	margin:20px;
	border:1px solid green;
}

div.gallery img {
	border:1px solid black
}



this is the result
http://addf.net/tests/m_g/gallery.php

is float the only option? must i float every element on the page? what if it's a module for another not floated website?

i'd rather not use float or a table.

if you could help
thank you

How To Expand Wrapper To Fit Content?

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hey guys,

I have been working on this for weeks and it is driving me nuts. I am trying to get the wrapper to expand to accomodate the content, but for some reason it wont expand. Any ideas?

Here is the link: h$$p://digitallife.us/tutorials-t.html

Thanks,
Daniel

Two Divs Next To Each Other That Expand Their Container?

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hi, what I'm trying to do is get two divs next to each other. That much I can do if I give them both a style of 'float:left;', but the problem with that is that they will overflow out of the div that they both sit in. Is there anyway to get two divs to sit next to each other, but to also expand the parent div if necessary? Thanks!

Trying To Make Div Expand As Div Within Expands

 Similar Tutorials View Content
So probably my topic title explains my problem pretty clearly, but basically I've got this div and I'd like it to expand downward as I fill a div contained within with content. Can anyone explain how I can do this?

I tried placing a fairly tall picture in my inner div and right now it extends past the bottom of the outer div and looks really weird.

Actually if there was even just a way I could tell the outer div exactly how tall the inner div is, that would also be fine, but I can't find a way to do this. I've tried the height: 253px; tag, but it hasn't changed anything. My outer div still doesn't go as far down the page as the inner one, so I'm left with an image thats halfway sticking out my content box.

Any help would be great, thanks!

Expand Div Height With Content

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I searched for something I want but I didn't find exactly that, or maibe something is wrong but in IE the page does not look ok.

What I want is to have my page looks identical in IE as in FF or OPERA.

I will explain here how I done the code

PHP Code:
<td rowspan="2" width="600" align="left" height="100%" valign="top" >  
<div class="brand_list_big">      
<div class="box_header" style="background-color:#79B602;">CARS LISTED BY BRANDS</div>      
<div class="box_content" style="width:560px;">          
          <div class="brand_list_header"><span style="float:left;"><strong>Audi</strong></span><span style="float: right;">Total Cars : 2</span></div>
          <div class="car_list">
              <span class="fleft"><a href="#">audi tt</a></span><span class="fright"><img 1><img 2></span><br>
              <span class="fleft"><a href="#">Saturn Sky Roadster</a></span><span class="fright"><img 1><img 2></span><br>
          </div>
          ...
          <div class="brand_list_header"><span style="float:left;"><strong>Alfa-Romeo</strong></span><span style="float: right;">Total Cars : 0</span></div>
          ... 


div.box_header
{
    width: 99,5%;
    margin: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
    font-weight:bold;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

div.box_content
{
    margin: 0 1px 1px 1px;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    height: 100%;
    scrollbar-face-color:#7098DF;
    scrollbar-highlight-color:#7098DF;
    scrollbar-3dlight-color:#FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-shadow-color:#919AA4;
    scrollbar-arrow-color:#FFCC00;
    scrollbar-track-color:#FFFFFF;
}

.brand_list_header
{
    width: 99,5%;
    padding: 2px 0 2px 5px;
    background-color:#E3FEB1;
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    border-bottom: 0 solid #CCCCCC;
    margin-top: 10px;
    overflow:auto; /* I added this now and in ff and Opera everithing is ok, but not in IE*/
}

.car_list
{
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    clear:both;
    overflow:auto;
}

.fleft
{
    float: left;
    margin: 2px 2px 2px 10px;
    clear:left;
}

.fright
{
    float: right;
}

img.new_img
{
    margin: 2px 10px 0 0 ;
/*the img from my code( <img 1>, <img 2> ) have this class*/
} 






Any Ideea why in IE the divs are not ok ?

First I tried to list the cars from a brand using <li> elements but I didn't know how to align the images ( icons ) at the right side, like are now.

10x in advance, waiting for a response

see ya

Expand To Fit Div Working In All Browsers Except Ie8!

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hey all, the test page is here. Notice when you expand the "view more details" in IE8 to the point where it is supposed to push the page down, it doesn't! But it does in FF/Safari.

HTML

CSS

Potentially relevant CSS:

Code:
body {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	min-height:0;
}
div.container {
	width:100px;
	
}
div.outerBody {
	width:100%;
	min-height:0;
}
div.innerBody {
	width:100%;
	background-image:url("../../images/artist_center/body_bg.jpg");
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	min-height:0px;
 	height:auto !important;
	
	background-color:#cedce5;
	text-align:center;
	margin: 0;
	position:absolute;
}

div.tabContent {
	width:945px;
	min-height:596px;
	border:solid 1px #cccccc;
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	margin-left:14px;
	padding-bottom:14px;
	margin-bottom:14px;
	
}



I'm using clearfix to make things work in IE7, but clearly there's some kind of other problem going on.

Thanks for any help!

Making A Div Have A Minimal Size Or Expand

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hi

Trying to make a box (with a div and css to control it) that will fit around an image and some text. The image is 90 x 90 pixels and should have a margin of 10 pixels around it so I want my box to be a minimum of 110 pixels high - heres the catch, the text is never the same length its actually printed into the page from some php so the box needs to never go smaller than the image and its margins however if the text is of greater height than those the box needs to expand. This is what I have so far...


<style>
.floatimage
{
float: left;
padding: 1px;
margin-right: 10px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}

.floatbox
{
width: 380px;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #ff0000;
height: 112px;
}
</style>

<div class="floatbox">
<div class="floatimage"><img alt="" src="image/icons/icon.php" /></div>
<p>
The float property allows other text to fit itself around a box. This is
particularly useful with images, but it can be used in any way.
</p>
<p>
I've created this example with enough text that it should wrap around
the above floated paragraph. Let's keep going to see what happens.
Does it really do what I think it should do?
</p>
</div>


but when i give the box a height its fixed and when i don't it can go smaller than the image - is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance

a+
gar

Help With 2 Column Layout That Doesn't Expand

 Similar Tutorials View Content
Hi,
I need a 2 column layout where the left column is for the menu (vertically stacked) and the right side has the content.

Specifically I need a 2 column layout that is:
1) Cross browser (FireFox and IE 6)
2) BOTH columns to be at least 500px in height, but if the content in the right column expands beyond that height... .then I want both columns to expand, not just the right or content containing column, but BOTH columns to expand

Here's where I'm at now: http://www.alexwenttochina.info/template.php
you can see that when the content overflows... neither the left nor right column expand. Arrrrrgggghhhhh

My current CSS for the sample site is:
body{
background: #32331c;
}

#wrapper
{
width: 790px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 100%;

}

#left
{
width: 220px;
float: left;
height: 500px;
background: #a2c4ca;
background-image: url(images/peace.gif);
/*height: 100%;*/
}

.left-container
{
margin: 10px;
margin-bottom: 0; /* IE6 pushes footer down without this */
/* height: 100%; */
}

#right
{
width: 680px;
/*width: 80%;*/
background:#cae688;
float: left;
height: 500px;
/*height: 100%;*/
}

.right-container
{
margin: 20px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 0; /* IE6 pushes footer down without this */
}

.clear
{
clear: left;
}


Any help would GREATLY be appreciated!!

I can't tell you how frustrating CSS is. Every piece of code I see has as many work-arounds as it does actual style coding. Tags mean nothing because you never know if it works or doesn't, or how it works. It shouldn't be this difficult, you can tell it was piece-mealed together and every browser has it's own way of doing things.

Thanks
Vmuisc

Expand Container On Width Overflow

 Similar Tutorials View Content
I have a site with a fixed width, but a few pages on the site are reports with wide tables that overflow that fixed width. Per the spec, they overflow their containers instead of expanding the containers (as happened in the old table layout). Is there a way to get the old table behavior out of the styled div tags?

This is a short example of what the site uses for layout. The first block is normal content. The second has content overflowing and I would like all containers to expand (Main expands for the content, Page expands b/c Main expanded, Header* and Footer expand b/c their container (Page) expanded). The third is what it'd look like after that expansion (table rendered).
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 
	Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<style type="text/css">
	<!--
	body { background-color: green }
	.Page {
		width: 200px;
		margin: 50px auto;
	}
	.Header1 {
	}
	.Header2 {
		background-color: red;
		border: 1px solid Black;
		border-width: 1px 1px 0;
	}
	.Footer {
		background-color: blue;
		border: 1px solid Black;
		border-width: 0 1px 1px;
	}
	.Main {
		background-color: white;
		border: 1px solid Black;
		border-width: 0 1px;
	}
	-->
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="Page">
	<div class="Header1">Header1</div>
	<div class="Header2">Header2</div>
	<div class="Main">
		Main
	</div>
	<div class="Footer">Footer</div>
</div>
<div class="Page">
	<div class="Header1">Header1</div>
	<div class="Header2">Header2</div>
	<div class="Main">
		MainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMain
	</div>
	<div class="Footer">Footer</div>
</div>
<table class="Page" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
	<tr><td class="Header1">Header1</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="Header2">Header2</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="Main">MainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMainMain</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="Footer">Footer</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>



I won't go back to tables, but I'd really like a general solution that can be applied to all pages, instead of doctoring widths and margins on the pages in question to get tolerable results. The page should be the set fixed width unless the content demands otherwise, then the entire page should stretch to flow. Any ideas?

A screenshot for viewing sans personal test file.
Privacy