CSS - Nested Divs And Backgrounds?

Hi All,

I have the following html:

Code:

            <div class="businessItem">
                <div class="bizIcon">
                    <img src="GetImage.axd?type=1&business=3" alt="My Biz" />
                </div>
                <div class="bizInfo">
                    <a href="business.aspx?business=3">
                        My Biz
                    </a>
                    <p>

                        my biz
                    </p>
                </div>
                <div class="bizContact">
                    <a href="www.myweb.com">www.myweb.com</a><br />
                    <a href="mailto:roman.rodov@gmail.com">roman.rodov@gmail.com</a><br />
                    90294767
                </div>
            </div>

        
            <div class="businessItem">
                <div class="bizIcon">
                    <img src="GetImage.axd?type=1&business=4" alt="My Second Business" />
                </div>
                <div class="bizInfo">
                    <a href="business.aspx?business=4">
                        My Second Business
                    </a>
                    <p>

                        My second business
                    </p>
                </div>
                <div class="bizContact">
                    <a href="www.myweb.com">www.myweb.com</a><br />
                    <a href="mailto:roman.rodov@gmail.com">roman.rodov@gmail.com</a><br />
                    90294767
                </div>
            </div>

And the following CSS that applies:

Code:

div.businessItem
{ 
	background-color: #66cc66;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	width: 100%;
	padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

div.bizIcon
{
	float: left;
	width: 64px;
	margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
}

div.bizInfo
{
	float: left;
	width: 256px;
}

div.bizContact
{
	float: left;
	width: 256px;
}

now the problem is that it looks like crap in FF2 and looks ok in IE7 (haven't tested IE6 yet). The idea is to have a full width div with 3 divs inside side by side. It looks *completely* different in FF2. Does anyone have any ideas? (I'm pretty new to CSS, just learning).

I am having a problem using nested hidden divs. I'd like to know if what I am doing is even possible.

I have one div that is set to "display: none". Inside this div I have another set to "display: none". When I change the style of the outer div to "display: block", the inner div appears as well.

Is there a way to keep the inner div hidden??

Hey everyone. Ran into a little snafu with CSS in firefox and NN last night. What I had, basically, was:

Code:

<DIV style='position:relative; margin-top:90px;'>
  <DIV style='position:relative; margin-top:14px;'>
    <img src='someimage.gif'>
  </DIV>
  <DIV style='position:relative; margin-top:8px;'>
    <img src='someimage2.gif'>
  </DIV>
</DIV>

the margin-top:14px was having absolutely no effect. The 8px one worked, but the 14px one only moved when I set it to over 90px, which would be more like absolute positioning, no?
Now of course this could be rectified by just setting the top margin of the outter div to 104px and getting rid of the 14px one alltogether, but I'm sure there'd be instances where I'm using a php include for the inner divs or somthing and that wouldn't be an option. Can anyone offer me any thoughts or clarity on this? It worked fine in IE.
Thanks.

if i create a div box with some transparency and then create another div insde it then the second div takes on the opacity of the containing one. how can i stop this?

<div class = "f">
<div class = "s">
hello
</ div>
</div>


the css code:


.f{
background: 669999;
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
position: absolute; top: 15px; left: 80px;
z-index:1;
/* for IE */
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
/* CSS3 standard */
opacity:0.6;
}

.s{
background: 55ffcc;
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
position: absolute; top: 15px; left: 20px;
padding: 40px;
}

Not sure about this one- maybe someone can help shed some light on it?

I have a <div> that contains a form. This div is dynamically-sized and floated left. What I want to do is place a nested <div> inside it so that it will cover the form below it.

What's happening is that if I add the nested <div>, it pushes the form in it's container <div> down, which is obviously not what I want. I have tried using z-index on this nested <div> but with no success.

Here is the code I'm using:
Code:

<div id="formdiv" style="display:block; padding-right:15px; padding-top:10px; border-right:#A0A0A0 1px dotted; float:left; width:auto; height:100%;">

    <div id="overlaydiv" style="top:0px; left:0px; width:100%; height:100%; background-color:#FF0000; z-index:500;"></div>

    <form>
       ...
    </form>

</div>

There is other <div> tags before and after the 'formdiv', which are part of the page layout, but do not need to be covered by the 'overlaydiv'. I should note that 'formdiv' is itself inside a container <div>.

I have tried various combination of CSS settings, but they don't give the same result. position:absolute; covers EVERYTHING within the uppermost container <div>, obviously not what I want. I've tried putting the form into it's own <div>, but I get the same result- the form just gets pushed below the 'overlaydiv'.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

- skubik

So, I have a div for content that contains three other divs for a three column display, like this:
Code:

<div id="content">
       <div id="col1" class="column">filler filler filler</div>
       <div id="col2" class="column">filler filler filler</div>
       <div id="col3" class="column">filler filler filler</div>
</div>

now my CSS looks like this:
Code:

#content { 
top:10%; 
height: auto; 
background:#009999; 
border-width:thin; 
border-style:solid; 
border-color:#003333; 
overflow:hidden; 
}

.column { 
position:absolute; 
top: 0%; 
width: 30.66%; 
display:block;
}

the problem is that the content div isn't resizing to fit the column divs. It's just a tiny thin strip at the top. It is also not hiding any of the column divs, it shows all of them. If I change height to, say, 200px it resizes to that value, and if I put text directly into that div (as opposed to the text in the column divs) it resizes to fit that. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

This could be argued that it belongs in a JavaScript forum but I think the core of the problem lies in where the information should go so I shall post it here.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>My site</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
    <style type="text/css">
      #base { 
        clear: both;
        padding-top: 1px;
        border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;
        width: 100%; 
        background: #0f0f0f;  } /* end #base */
      #main_block { 
        background: #0000ff;
        margin: auto;
        text-align: left;
        width: 955px; } /* end #main_block */
      #main_content { 
        background: #ffffff;
        border-left: 1px solid #0000ff;
        border-right: 1px solid #0000ff; } /* end #main_content */

      #top_main_content { padding-top: 1em; } 
      #top_main_content ul {
        float: left;
        list-style-type: none;
        border-spacing: 0;
        border: 0;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        text-align: right;
        border-top: 1px solid #ff0000;
        height: 243px;
        width: 266px; } /* end #top_main_content ul */
      #top_main_content ul li {
        color: #00ff00;
        width: 266px;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ff0000; } /* end #top_main_content ul li */
      #top_main_content ul li a { 
        line-height: 26px;
        display: block;
        color: #00ff00;
        width: 266px; } /* end #top_main_content ul li a */
      .indent { padding-right: 1.5em; }
      #top_main_content ul li a:hover {
        background: #cfcf00; 
        color: #000000; } /* end #top_main_content ul li a:hover */
      #top_main_content #rotating { 
        z-index: 0;
        float: right;
        width: 687px;
        height: 242px;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ff0000;
        border-top: 1px solid #ff0000; } /* end #top_main_content #rotating */
      #default { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: visible; } /* end #default */
      #a { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #a */
      #b { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #b */
      #c { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #c */
      #d { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #d */
      #e { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #e */
      #f { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #f */
      #g { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #g */
      #h { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #h */
      #i { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #i */
    </style>
    <script language="javascript">
	  function change_graphic(to_visible) {
 	   var num_elements = 10;
	    var elements = new Array(num_elements);
	    var i = 0;
	    elements[i++] = "default";
	    elements[i++] = "a";
	    elements[i++] = "b";
	    elements[i++] = "c";
	    elements[i++] = "d";
	    elements[i++] = "e";
	    elements[i++] = "f";
	    elements[i++] = "g";
	    elements[i++] = "h";
	    elements[i++] = "i";
	    var temp = "";
	    for(i = 0; i < num_elements; i++) { 
	  	  document.getElementById(elements[i]).style.visibility = "hidden"; }
	    document.getElementById(to_visible).style.visibility = "visible"; } // end function change_graphic(path)
	</script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="base">
      <div id="main_block">
        <div id="main_content">
          <div id="top_main_content" onmouseout="change_graphic('default');">
            <ul>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('a');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link A</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('b');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link B</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('c');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link C</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('d');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link D</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('e');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link E</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('f');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link F</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('g');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link G</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('h');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link H</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('i');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link I</span></a></li>
            </ul>
            <div id="rotating">
              <div id="default"><img src="images/default.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="a"><img src="images/test_image_a.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="b"><img src="images/test_image_b.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="c"><img src="images/test_image_c.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="d"><img src="images/test_image_d.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="e"><img src="images/test_image_e.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="f"><img src="images/test_image_f.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="g"><img src="images/test_image_g.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="h"><img src="images/test_image_h.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="i"><img src="images/test_image_i.gif" alt="" /></div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

What I have is a set of links that when hovered will change the contents of the rotating div to reflect information about that particular link. As the code stands now, whenever any other item is moused over, the div will reset to the default div.

What I would like to happen is whenever the top_content div is mousedoff (new word?), the content resets to the default.

Thus I should be able to hover over a link, change the content of the rotating div, and move from that link directly to the content and mouse around over there all I want without changing back to the default div.

To me, what I have should work in that I am thinking of nested divs as a parent/child relationship but that is obviously not how the browser is interpreting it. Any ideas on how I can achieve this? The JavaScript portion has been tested and works correctly.

Edited: This code also pushes the side menu into the border in Opera. This problem was addressed and fixed in a previous thread but I broke it again.

Hi,

I've a problem designing with CSS.

This is the html code:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="structure-yellow.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<div id="main"> 
  
  <div id="headimage">test</div>
  
  <div id="greybar">test</div>
  
</div>
</center>
</body>
</html>

And the attached css file is:
Code:

div#main {
	border: solid #000000 1px;
	padding: 3px;
	width: 780px;
	margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
	}
	
#headimage {	
	vertical-align: middle;
	height: 100px;
	background: #FFFF00;
	}
	
#greybar {	
	position: relative;
	top: 3px;
	background: #CCCCCC;
	}

Since the headimage and the greybar are nested within the main div, the 3px padding of the "main" div should be respected, however it's not.

What I think is happenning is that the 3px padding of the main div is respected for the expected greybar position, and it is not updated after setting the "#greybar" position property on the CSS file.
How can I solve this problem?

I know that I could achieve the same effect adding a 3px white bottom border on the "#headimage" class, but I'm looking for more elegant solution based on block positioning.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Caste

I have a container div which includes a #header div, a left-floated #content div, a #right div, and a #footer div. The #content div has a background image that does not want to extend all the way down within the div to snuggly join the footer in any IE browser. I've tried the Holly hack, adding a line-height, relative positioning but to no avail. The stylesheet is embedded in the html file. Here's the link:

http://www.emaycreations.net/BuildWebsiteIII/Week6/finalexamPractice.html

It looks great in NN, FF and Opera but neither IE 5 nor 6 displays the page correctly. Can anyone help?

Mari-Anne in Montana

I have a menu system that I'm triyng to nest in my navbar div. The problem is that the absolute postioning of the nested divs are causing them to bust out of the navbar div. What can I do to remedy the problem. Here is my CSS

Code:

#header {
          width: 100%;
          height:145px;
          background-image: url(images/topbackground2.jpg);
          background-repeat: repeat;
}
#navbar {
          width: 122px;
          background-color:#3f79a1;
          position: relative;
          float: left;
          border;
         }
#content {
          
          height:100%;
          background-color:#3f79a1;
          position: relative;
          float: right;
}
#footer {
          background-image: url(images/gradientsmaller2.gif);
          font: 10pt;
          background-color: #ccffcc;
          width: 100%; 
          text-align: center;
          padding: 0 15%;
          clear:both;
}

Here is the html for the navbar div
Code:

<div id="navbar">

<div id="p7menu1" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:15px; width:122px; z-index:106"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="P7_trigMenuMagic1('p7menu1',1);return false" onMouseOver="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu1',0)" onMouseOut="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu1',0)" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"><img src="images/Login.gif" width="122" height="20" name="p7mbut1" border="0" alt="menu 1"></a></div>
<div id="p7menu2" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:35px; width:122px; z-index:107"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="P7_trigMenuMagic1('p7menu2',1);return false" onMouseOver="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu2',0)" onMouseOut="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu2',0)" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"><img src="images/EditProfile.gif" width="122" height="20" name="p7mbut2" border="0" alt="menu 2"></a></div>
<div id="p7menu3" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:55px; width:122px; z-index:108"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="P7_trigMenuMagic1('p7menu3',1);return false" onMouseOver="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu3',0)" onMouseOut="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu3',0)" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"><img src="images/InstructorInfo.gif" width="122" height="20" name="p7mbut3" border="0" alt="menu 3"></a></div>
<div id="p7menu4" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:75px; width:122px; z-index:109"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="P7_trigMenuMagic1('p7menu4',1);return false" onMouseOver="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu4',0)" onMouseOut="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu4',0)" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"><img src="images/MyCourses.gif" width="122" height="20" name="p7mbut4" border="0" alt="menu 4"></a></div>
<div id="p7menu5" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:95px; width:122px; z-index:110"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="P7_trigMenuMagic1('p7menu5',1);return false" onMouseOver="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu5',0)" onMouseOut="P7_rollCMenu1(event,'p7menu5',0)" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"><img src="images/GradeBook.gif" width="122" height="20" name="p7mbut5" border="0" alt="menu 5"></a></div>
<div id="p7submenu1" class="pviimenudiv" style="position:absolute; left:142px; top:35px; width:102px; visibility: hidden; z-index:101">
  <table width="108" border="0" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="0">
  <tr><td>stuff</td></tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="p7submenu2" class="pviimenudiv" style="position:absolute; left:142px; top:55px; width:102px; visibility: hidden; z-index:102">
  <table width="108" border="0" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="0">
  <tr><td>stuff</td></tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="p7submenu3" class="pviimenudiv" style="position:absolute; left:142px; top:75px; width:102px; visibility: hidden; z-index:103">
  <table width="108" border="0" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="0">
  <tr><td>stuff</td></tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="p7menubottom" class="pviimenudiv" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:115px; width:102px; visibility: visible; z-index:111">
 <table width="108" border="0" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="0">
  <tr><td>stuff</td></tr>
  </table>
  
</div>
</div>

Sorry for so much code. I'm completely frustrated! I can't seem to get this layout to work at all. I was using frames which was fine but I have to make this work without frames now. Thanks for any help.

I'm aiming to have a flash navigation console nested inside a div which extends outside the left boundary of it's parent div.

It's very hard to explain exactly so I've drawn some diagrams.

Here's what I'm trying to acheive:
URL

Here's the actual result i've come up with so far:
http://www.advancedschoolyearbooks.com/divtest.html
The results differ depending on the browser. In IE the horizontal positioning of the "NavInner" DIV is spot on but vertically it is hugging the top of the "Wrapper" table when it should be hugging the top of the "Navigation" DIV
In firefox I can not see the image contained in the "NavInner" DIV at all.


Here's a snip of my CSS:
Code:

body, html, #wrapper {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	background-color: #000000;
	height: 100%;
}

#wrapper {
	margin: 0 auto;
	text-align: left;
	vertical-align: middle;
	width: 100%;
}

#OuterFull {
	width: 100%;
	text-align: center;
	display: block;
}

#OuterBoxed {
	width: 969px;
	height: 650px;
	display: block;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

#LeftCol {
	width: 485px;
	height:650px;
	float: left;
}

#RightCol {
	width: 484px;
	height: 650px;
	float: left;
	background: url(bg.jpg) bottom left no-repeat;
}

#Navigation {
	width: 484px;
	height: 180px;
	float: right;
	overflow: hidden;
	text-align: right;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

#NavInner {
	width: 969px;
	height: 180px;
	float: right;
	text-align: right;
	position: relative;
	left: -485px;
}

#Content {
	width: 484px;
	height: 470px;
	float: right;
	overflow-y: auto;
	overflow-x: hidden;
}

Here's my HTML:
Code:

<body>
    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="wrapper">
        <tr>
            <td align="center" valign="middle">
                <div id="OuterFull" align="center">
                    <div id="OuterBoxed">
                        <div id="LeftCol">LeftCol</div>
                        <div id="RightCol">
                            <div id="Navigation">
                                <div id="NavInner"><img src="nav.jpg" /></div>
                            </div>
                            <div id="Content">Content</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>

Hi, I think this might requiere an IE hack buti have nested divs inside a div on http://gohedonist.com/mempage.php?id=19 but for some reason instead of the divs bein constainted inide the larger div they go all the way down the screen. This is works fine in FF. The problem is located at http://gohedonist.com/mempage.php?id=19 (select Submissions from the dropdown box on the right). Thanks for any help in advance.

I'm trying to create a gallery, composed of an image and description divs (like so);

pic1


What I want is to wrap these divs with a bordered div, that will accomodate as many of them per row as will fit the width of the browser, but also centering the wrapper like thus examples:

pic2



This is what I have so far:
Code:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style>
html, body
{
margin: 0px;
}

div#item_container_box
{
position: relative;
width: 100%;
left: 0;
top: 0px;
}

#item_container
{
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px #000;
padding: 2px 0px 2px 0px;
}
html>body #item_container
{
padding: 2px;
}

div.spacer
{
width: 200px;
background-color: #333;
clear: both;
}

div.center
{
width: 50%;
}

div.item
{
float: left;
text-align: center;
/* float: left; */
width: 200px;
height: auto;
margin: 2px;
}

div.data
{
float: left;
width: 200px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
</style>

</head>

<body>
<div align=center>


<div id="item_container_box">
<div id="item_container" align="center">
<div class="spacer">.</div>

<div class="center"></div>

<div class="item"><img src="_data/images/records/1.jpg"><div class="data">Item 1</div></div>
<div class="item"><img src="_data/images/records/2.jpg"><div class="data">Item 2</div></div>
<div class="item"><img src="_data/images/records/3.jpg"><div class="data">Item 3</div></div>
<div class="item"><img src="_data/images/records/4.jpg"><div class="data">Item 4</div></div>
<div class="item"><img src="_data/images/records/5.jpg"><div class="data">Item 5</div></div>
<div class="item"><img src="_data/images/records/6.jpg"><div class="data">Item 6</div></div>

<div class="center"></div>

<div class="spacer">.</div>
</div>
</div>


</div>
</body>
</html>

Some help on this, would be very much appreciated.

I want to have one main div that is horizontally centered on the page. Inside of it I want two nested divs, located right next to each other. It seems that the top property of the second nested div is being ignored, as it is being placed directly below the first nested div. Here is a sample that demonstrates what is happening.

Am I doing something wrong or is what I'm trying to do fundamentally the wrong way to do it?

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#a
{
   width: 800px;
   height: 800px;

   margin: 0 auto;
   text-align: center;

   background-color: #ff0000;
}

#b
{
   position: relative;

   top: 50px;
   left: 50px;

   width: 300px;
   height: 300px;

   background-color: #0000ff;
}

#c
{
   position: relative;

   top: 50px;
   left: 350px;

   width: 300px;
   height: 300px;

   background-color: #00ff00;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<div id=a>
   <div id=b>test</div>
   <div id=c>test</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>