CSS - Problem With Floats?
I'm trying to construct a simple navigation bar that looks like the attached image. It's a simple bar with rounded corners on the ends.
If I where going to use tables, I would make one row with three cells. But I hear that these days, tables for positioning are out... I'm thinking two sets of DIVs where one contained the left end, and one the right. What's confusing me is how to get the images to line up right rather than looking "stacked". I imagine it has to do with the "float" attribute, but I can't seem to find the combination that does what I need. Code: <div> <div> Nav | Bar | Content </div> </div> As well, how to make the full height of the end images show? My experiments seem to truncate the image height at the height of the text. Pointers? Thanks... Similar TutorialsHi Guys, I am having a problem with floats. Here is the code I am using: Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> </head> <body> <div style="width:900px; border: 1px black solid; float:left;"> <div style="width:400px; height:100px; border: 1px black solid; float:left; display:inline; background-color:blue;"></div> <div style="width:400px; height:300px; border: 1px black solid; float:left; display:block; background-color:green;"></div> <div style="width:400px; height:100px; border: 1px black solid; float:left;display:inline; background-color:red;"></div> </div> </body> </html> I am trying to get the red box to appear right under the blue box. I don't want to use a 2 column layout. Is this possible? Thanks! Elad I've got two columns set-up using floats. They work fine in Firefox, Opera and Konqueror on my machine, but a friend with Windows informs me that it doesn't work properly in Internet Explorer. The code is as follows: Code: div.get_content_voc_left { width: 50%; float: left; clear: both; } div.get_content_voc_right { width: 50%; float: right; clear: none; } The results in IE can be seen in this screenshot and this screenshot. Those with IE can have a look at a live copy of the HTML here and the CSS here. Any help is appreciated Hey, I use floats in my page to position some div's. The page validates for both css and html-strict. When i run the code below in firefox, everything works fine. When i run it in Internet explorer, it does not. It looks messed up then. PHP Code: echo '<form name="contact_action" id="contact_action" method="post" action="process/contact_action.php?act=del">'; while($contact = mysql_fetch_array($query_result,MYSQL_ASSOC)){ echo '<div style="float: left; width: 25%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;">'; echo '<input type="checkbox" name="selected_contacts[]" value="'.$contact['contact_id'].'"> '; echo $contact['first_name'] . ' ' . $contact['last_name']; echo '</div>'; echo '<div style="float: left; width: 75%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;">'; echo '<a href="contact_info.php?contact_id='.$contact["contact_id"].'&act=edi">view</a>'; echo '<a href="process/contact_action.php?contact_id='.$contact["contact_id"].'&act=edi">edit</a>'; echo '<a href="process/contact_action.php?contact_id='.$contact["contact_id"].'&act=del">delete</a>'; echo '</div>'; } echo '<div style="float: left; width: 100%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;">'; echo '<br>'; echo '<input type="submit" name="delete_selected" id="delete_selected" value="Delete Selected">'; echo '<br><br>'; echo 'Total '.$nr_of_rows.' Contacts'; echo '</div>'; echo '</form>'; hope you can help me. thanks in advance I know this is probably something very simple I'm overlooking, but I can't seem to get this page to display corrrectly in IE. The portion I'm talking about is the footer div: although the CSS clears both, in Firefox I see the footer correctly but in IE there is some encroachment of the footer background color on the right side of the screen. URL is: http://www.readaloudproject.org/about/ Please disregard all of the other aspects of the page... this is very much still under construction and a lot more styling needs to be done. But this footer is driving me crazy because I copied working code from other sites that is now no longer working. Help! Thanks! Well I am having serious problems with CSS floats. I created a design in Photoshop, sliced it and imported everything in Dreamweaver. So far, so good. However when you slice with Photoshop, you get a CSS with "position: absolute", which I am trying to avoid. However I managed to get the header partially correctly floated, but for some reason, it doesn't display correctly in Firefox. Not to mention Internet Explorer 8, which shows (empty) spaces everywhere (tried padding/margin 0px, but didn't do anything). Can someone take a quick peek and see what I am doing wrong here? And if possible correct the errors or tell me what I am doing wrong? Cause I am really hitting a brick wall at the moment. Here is the page: link Thanks in advance. //edit Okay I fixed the empty space problem in IE, I seem to have forgotten to set the doctype up correctly; my bad. But I am still having a problem with the floats. Hey, I got a webpage that looks like it should in both IE 6.0 and firefox 2.0. Now i went testing it in opera and it has a problem with some div positions. Here is how it looks in firefox and IE: Internet explorer:http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8176/iexz2.jpg firefox:http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/5503/firefoxqc0.jpg And this is how it looks in Opera 9.10:http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5125/operauw7.jpg The buttons signout, new contact and contact list are shifted to the low. I use this code on every page do display the header with the buttons ( the red part is the div with the buttons in it. Code: <body> <div class="containingTitles"> <div class="titleNavDiv"> <b>Hello, stefan.</b> </div> <div class="titleContentDiv"> <form action="search_contact.php" name="search" id="search" method="get"> <div style="float: left; width: 35%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;"> <input type="text" style="width: 50%" name="sq" value="" id="sq"> <input type="submit" name="s" value="Search" id="s"> </div> </form> <form name="new_contact" id="new_contact" method="get" action="new_contact.php"> <div style="float: left; width: 22%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%; text-align: right;"> <input type="submit" name="nc" value="New Contact" id="nc"> </div> </form> <form name="contact_list" id="contact_list" method="get" action="contact_list.php"> <div style="float: left; width: 22%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;"> <input type="submit" name="cl" value="Contact List" id="cl"> </div> </form> <form name="logout" id="logout" method="get" action="logout.php"> <div style="float: left; width: 20%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%; text-align: right;"> <input type="submit" name="lo" id="lo" value="Sign out"> </div> </form> </div> </div> <div class="navigationDiv"> <div class="unselectedContact"><a href="contact_info.php?contact_id=102">Username1</a></div> <div class="unselectedContact"><a href="contact_info.php?contact_id=102">Username2</a></div> <div class="selectedContact"><a href="contact_info.php?contact_id=102">Username3</a></div> etc. </div> <div class="contentDiv"> ----- contents of the page ----- </div> </div> And belowis the css code i use to float the divs into position. And here you can see the division of the pages and which class belongs to which div: http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/1503/layoutai3.jpg css Code: Original - css Code body{ margin: 0; padding-left: 0%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 0%; padding-bottom: 0%; background: url(background.jpg) 22% 0; } .containingTitles{ float: left; width: 100%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%; background-color: #4D3D4D; color: white; overflow: hidden; } .titleNavDiv{ float: left; width: 20%; margin: 0%; padding-left: 2%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 1%; padding-bottom: 1%; overflow: hidden; } .titleContentDiv{ float: left; width: 77%; margin: 0; padding-left: 0%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 1%; padding-bottom: 1%; overflow: hidden; } .navigationDiv{ float: left; width: 22%; margin: 0; padding-left: 0%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 0%; padding-bottom: 0%; overflow: hidden; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #4D3D4D; } .contentDiv{ float: left; width: 76%; margin: 0; padding-left: 2%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 0%; padding-bottom: 0%; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #BFACBF; }
hope you can tell me why this happens. Thanks in advance. Hello, not sure I know how to explain this. I have a page that I want to divide in two parts. To do so I am using floats. The problem is that the content in one div is not the same as the content in the other div and therefore the height of the two floated div is different from one another. However, I want that the div's have a border that seperates them and I would like this border to be from top to bottom of the containing div regardless of which of the two floated div is the highest. I could do this with javascript but I would like to know if there is some pure html/css option. Here is my example; Code: <html> <head> <style> .main { margin: 0px auto; width: 800px; border: 2px solid red; } .wrap:after{ content: "."; display: block; position:relative; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; } .wrap{ display: inline-block; } /* Hides from IE-mac \*/ * html .wrap{height: 1%;} div.wrap{display: block;} /* End hide from IE-mac */ .left { float: left; width: 100px; } .right { float: left; width: 680px; border: 10px solid blue; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="main"> <div class="wrap"> <div class="left">My left div has more.<br/>more..<br /><br />more...<br /><br /><br />lines then the right one</div> <div class="right">My Right div has only one line but need border till down there ...</div> </div> </div> </body> </html> As you can see in the example the border of the right div does not go down till the bottom border of the main div. So... I've got a page I'm working on where I can't seem to get to floats to clear without compromising the layout of the divs that are floating. http://www1.romenews-tribune.com/multimedia2/ http://www1.romenews-tribune.com/multimedia2/style.css If I try the clear:after class fix, it doesn't work. If I try the overflow: hidden fix, it looks fine until the page is resized - and the overflowing content is hidden. What I want is for the right and left div is to stretch to the bottom of the page regardless of the page height, and clear to the div they are floating in. Any suggestions? Let me know if I need to provide better examples or more info, as I'm stumped on this one and feel like I've been doing this for far too long. So I have a body div which has a left and right div(columns). I need to add 2 more divs inside the left div. But, these 2 divs have to unordered lists in them. I know my CSS is pretty average if not worse. My layout looks fine except for when I add 2 divs.. I have the float:left with %50 widths.. Screen shot of how my layout looks. img209.imageshack.us/img209/2913/idear.gif I did not add any clear tags to my css.. which I think might be what's causing the issue. Side note: In IE compatibility view the top of the page has a gap and so does the right of the page.. the logo and footer are both 100% width and the top div has a -negative margin to close the gap, it looks fine without compatibility view, and fine in firefox, and chrome. XHTML passed validation and so did CSS. This is before even messing with the columns. I didn't do anything with the unordered lists. Maybe i should ask how to correctly make my layout first.. Because what I've been doing is just adding new divs where I see fit, and then going back to edit the CSS till it works. Thanks for helping me out! BTW: what book would you recommend me getting.. I understand basics of CSS and I think I'm good with XHTML, I just need to get a better definition of CSS than w3schools has to offer. Thanks again. I have floating items inside of floating items. The problem is I cannot clear my floating items in the middle column because that ruins the other columns. How can I clear floats in the middle column? Do you have any better ideas to make my layout work? I have attached in image of how the layout should work. 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> <title>Title</title> <style type="text/css"> #content { display: block; margin: 0 5px; padding: 0 10px; border-top: 1px solid #0B4867; } .content100 { width: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%; display: inline; background: #ffeeee; } .content50 { width: 48.75%; display: block; float: left; margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%; padding: 0px; background: #eeffee; } .content33 { width: 32.25%; display: block; float: left; margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%; padding: 0px; background: #eeeeff; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="content"> <div style="margin: 0px 215px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: block;"> <div class="content100"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vivamus viverra malesuada turpis. Sed iaculis justo sed turpis. Nulla malesuada turpis sed nibh. Mauris dui quam, cursus at, sollicitudin a, auctor quis, ligula. Vivamus varius blandit velit. Sed eu nibh. Vestibulum sit amet massa. Maecenas elementum massa ac ligula. In vitae massa ut dui facilisis lacinia. Maecenas tristique pede in elit. Duis ultricies aliquam metus. Mauris neque. Nunc nec lectus eu metus rhoncus imperdiet. Etiam egestas semper nunc. Nunc pretium tincidunt felis. </div> <div class="content50"> <h2>Row 1, Column 1</h2> In nec est pretium elit eleifend semper. Suspendisse potenti. Nunc bibendum sollicitudin ante. Aliquam facilisis mi quis turpis. Nullam aliquet. Sed eget urna in metus mattis luctus. Sed nunc. Maecenas est. Morbi ullamcorper eros non magna. Donec auctor, orci pretium rutrum eleifend, pede arcu pretium dui, vitae vestibulum ante odio sit amet dui. Aliquam fringilla velit sit amet magna. Proin cursus, elit quis faucibus fermentum, diam tellus rhoncus nulla, ut iaculis orci velit id metus. Pellentesque diam metus, dapibus eu, vestibulum quis, elementum id, turpis. Morbi elementum, quam non rhoncus hendrerit, metus lacus bibendum ante, vitae sodales velit est eu neque. </div> <div class="content50"> <h2>Row 1, Column 2</h2> This column is not very high. </div> <div class="content100"> Donec sed velit mollis erat consequat ornare. Donec accumsan, sapien a posuere tristique, felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris. </div> <div class="content33"> <h2>Row 2 Column 1</h2> Felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris. </div> <div class="content33"> <h2>Row 2 Column 2</h2> This column is not as high as the previous one. </div> <div class="content33"> <h2>Row 2 Column 3</h2> </div> <div class="content100"> Nunc vel arcu. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nam luctus tellus luctus magna. Aenean tellus sapien, venenatis id, hendrerit sit amet, lacinia sed, ante. Nullam metus. Sed cursus lobortis orci. Etiam suscipit, tellus ut rutrum mollis, urna libero ultrices lectus, non hendrerit quam elit id leo. Quisque sollicitudin, mi id imperdiet sollicitudin, orci enim rutrum nibh, non adipiscing diam augue commodo nunc. Maecenas erat massa, sagittis eu, sagittis at, commodo nec, dolor. Aliquam erat volutpat. Donec nisl erat, vulputate id, dictum non, vulputate egestas, sapien. Fusce non justo eu felis imperdiet placerat. Suspendisse mattis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut ac tellus eget risus varius vehicula. In ante. </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> Hi All, I am almost tearing he little hair I have left out! I can't get the div in the middle to clear the floats. Works just lovely in FF, but that IE thing won't work!!! Grrree http://www.tuxdiscs.com/sscp7b/ Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks Can you guys tell me why code below does not show properly in firefox 2 when it shows up right in IE7? If I add clear:both to footer then it displays right, but should not it show it alongside the div #2 anyways? Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"> <head> <title>Test</title> <style> body { margin:0px; } .container { margin: 0 auto; height:500px; width:500px; border-width:thin; border-style:dotted; } .leftcontent { float:left; width:100px; height:100px; border-width:thin; border-style:dotted; } .rightcontent { float:left; width:100px; height:100px; border-width:thin; border-style:dotted; } .footer { border-style:dotted; border-width:thin; height:100px; width:100px; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <div class="leftcontent"> 1 </div> <div class="rightcontent"> 2 </div> <div class="footer"> 3 </div> </div> </body> </html> Hello everyone, Newbie here Can anyone show me how to CSS objects or text inline horizontally in the banner/header such as at the top of this forum? My banner/header uses large text for a logo on the left, and I would like to put a search form or something on the right side of the header. Do I have to declare the width of each? See how much newbie I am? Thanks for any help. Ken Hello, I'm currently working on a website layout that uses CSS for everything. I have a header, and two columns below that. The header works perfectly. I used float:left on both of my two columns, and they both appear side-by-side as intended. However, I want the right column to fill up the entire right side of the screen. When I try to use CSS's width: 100%; the entire right column jumps down below the left column, which is not what I want. I made a little screenshot: http://img282.echo.cx/img282/6555/tms1od.png I believe it can be done, but I'm stumped. Help is appreciated Hey, k, as per usual, all's well in FF with this site. The list to the right is forcing the paragraphs below in IE tho...I've tried a bunch of different 'clears' and what not, but can't seem to figure it out. Here's the html; Code: <div id="homelistbox"><b>Upcoming Tradeshows:</b> <ul class="homelist"> <li><a href="http://www.torontoinwaterboatshow.com">Toronto In-Water Boat Show,</a> Sept 14-17 2006</li> <li><a href="http://www.torontoboatshow.com">Toronto International Boat Show,</a> Jan. 12-21 2007</li> <li><a href="http://www.sportsmensshows.com/Ottawa/">Ottawa Boat, Sportsman and Cottage Show,</a> Feb. 22-25 2007</li> <li>See the various models of Custom Weld Boats at all these shows. <a href="contact.php">Contact us</a> for more information about locations at the shows.</li> </ul> </div> <p> Freedom Boat Sales is committed to bringing Canadian recreational enthusiasts exciting new and pre-owned products for the water, trail, and road.</p> <p>Flexibility, great pricing, and innovative products will keep you coming back for all your recreational needs!</p> <p>Please be advised that we are currently working to improve your online experience, so your patience is greatly appreciated!</p> <div class="clear"></div> and the CSS; Code: .clear { clear:both; margin-top:-1px; height:1px; overflow:hidden; } p { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt; line-height:11pt; color:#555; text-decoration:none; width:650px; margin-top:5px; padding:10px; } #homelistbox { width:180px; padding:5px; margin:2px 10px; border-top:1px dotted #CCC; border-left:1px dotted #CCC; min-height:120px; float:right; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt; color:#255CB8; } .homelist li { margin-top:5px; padding-left:10px; list-style:none; } .homelist a { color:#FF0000; text-decoration:underline; } .homelist a:hover { color:#255CBE; text-decoration:none; } i'm also having similar issues with simple image floats, as seen here. It forces the paragraph underneath in IE...boourns. Anyways, any guidance'd be greatly appreciated. Cheers. After fighting with JS to get scrolling content to work, I now have a problem with IE8/9, where a wide div bleeds outside of containing div. Works fine in FF and Chrome code and css are in http://rentz.phi.co.uk/testanimate.html Any ideas? This may be a stupid question, but I recently noticed something with floats and side by side elements that confuses me. I thought you always had to specify a width when it came to floating elements along side each other, as block level elements inherit 100% width usually. But on the last 2 sites I coded, I was able to float divs without specifying a fixed width. The div boxes only took up the width of there content. Worked in FF, Chrome, Safari, IE7/8. This is great, as it saves time, but makes no sense. Am I confused? Hey, yet again I am having issues with some floated elements in IE (6 + 7). Have a look here. The product details start under the bottom of the photo of the product, and I've tried a bunch of different things to get it lined up with no joy. Here's the CSS: Code: #features { position:relative; float:right; margin:0 20px 20px 20px; width:350px; border:1px solid #E1DCC6; border-top:0; } * html #features { margin:0 10px 0 10px; } #features p, #features p strong { font-size:10px; margin:4px; padding:2px; } #picbox { width:350px; height:350px; margin:0 20px 0 20px; float:right; border:1px solid #E1DCC6; border-bottom:1px dashed #E1DCC6; } * html #picbox { margin:0 10px 0 10px; } #detail-list { margin:10px 60px; } #detail-list li { list-style:square inside; margin:2px; } #buynow { margin:5px 10px 5px 30px; } #priceTable { margin:10px 40px; border:1px solid #E1DCC6; } #priceTable td { padding:4px; } #priceTable td.priceRight { background-color:#E1DCC6; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; color:red; } #priceTable td.priceLeft { text-align:right; color:white; font-weight:bold; background-color:#B8A488; } .liner { text-decoration:line-through; } Any insight, as per usual, is greatly appreciated. I'm having some issues with my images showing up properly in IE6. They look fine in Safari & Firefox. Basically there is a container div and then individual divs that display an album cover along with a description. In IE6, the images aren't in the divs, but are at the top. Anyone know what the fix is? #container { padding: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; background: #333; border: 0px; text-align:center; width: 635px; } #center { padding: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; background: #666; border: 2px solid #000000; text-align:left; width: 610px; } #container p.album-cover { float:left; padding:0; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 0px; } #container .album-info { ... just font properties; } Code: <?php loop through albums to display each one; ?> <div id="center"> <p class="album-cover"> <?php <a href="..."><img src="..." ></a> ?> </p> <p class="album-info"> <?php ..description... ?> </p> </div> ?> |