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CSS - Weird Margin Problem
Hi guys,
I'm at the end of my rope about this. I have a three-column layout which is behaving fine in mozilla. IE, as usual, is causing problems. I've given the troublesome column a background color of yellow to emphasize the problem. There's a right padding sort of thing going on that's forcing the right-most column out of its place; might be easier if you just look at it: http://www.teamsnowvalley.com/home.php (still a work in progress. just sayin) the css behind the column: #content .left { float:left; padding-right:9px; background:yellow; width:179px; voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family:inherit } html>body #content .left { width: 179px; } Can anyone tell what i'm doing wrong? Many thanks, M Similar TutorialsHey guys, I was wondering if you can help me out with something. On my blog I couldn't figure out how to get the page to align to the top, so I had to use a negative margin on the header. Well now it's fine in firefox, but looks all botched in IE. What a surprise, right? Can you take a look at help me figure out what I need to fix? www.illuminatedmind.net Thanks! Hello, I'm about to go absolutely crazy; I just can't seem to get a grasp on laying out a simple webpage with css. So I have this div container, #main, and in it I want two more div's left and right. I set the margin-top:20px on the left div and that works fine. Then I set the margin-top:20px on the right div and I get a 40px margin-top on the left and 20px margin-top on the right. The frustrating thing is that dreamweaver displays it the way I want to but chrome, IE, and opera do not. html4strict Code: Original - html4strict 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>Untitled Document</title> <link href="global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="banner"></div> <div id="nav"> </div> <!-- #main is a wrapper for the page content --> <div id="main"> <div id="maincontent">this is a test </div> <div id="sideright"></div> </div> </div> </body> </html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> css Code: Original - css Code @charset "utf-8"; /* CSS Document */ body { background-color:#063; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center; } #wrapper { text-align: left; width: 860px; height: 600px; border: solid #000 3px; background-color:#693; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; } #banner { width: 860px; height: 120px; background-image: url(images/banner860120.jpg); } #nav { width: 860px; height: 34px; background-color:#663; } #main { width: 860px; height: 446px; } #maincontent { margin-top: 20px; float: left; margin-left: 20px; background-color:#663; width: 500px; height: 380px; border: 4px double #FFF; color: #FFF; } #sideright { margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 540px; width: 300px; height: 380px; background-color: #663; } @charset "utf-8"; I know this code is likely sloppy, but apparently it passed the css validation . I would be very grateful if someone could help me out. title doesnt really explain it, but i cant really explain it well in 1 line. code I use is at bottom of the post but using the below code. If I take out the border-top declaration in #bodycontainer, it seems to lose the margin-top that is declared in the flashcontainer. when i say lose, the background-color of the bodycontainer no longer exists above the flashcontainer. it seems as the flashcontainer overlays the parent and moves up or whatever, if that makes any sense. this is in Firefox 3.0.3 code validates as transitional (and even strict if i change the doctype) i cannot figure out why either. i've used firebug to see if any CSS was overriding, but it doesnt seem to be any 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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#bodycontainer {
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 10px;
background-color: #000;
border-top: 1px solid yellow; /* remove this line */
}
.flashcontainer {
width: 950px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 5px;
border-top: 1px solid red;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="bodycontainer">
<div class="flashcontainer">
<img src="images/home_flash_area.jpg" width="950" height="240" alt="flash container" title="flash container" />
</div>
<h2>Some Title</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed doamet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So I have the following website: http://www.itmustbecollege.com/ and it has a problem SOMEWHERE that I can't seem to figure out. The problem is that all of my pages now have a big "space" on the far right, forcing a huge horizontal size. I have tried to debug but can't seem to find out the exact problem. It is weird, because certain parts of the website have a "width: 100%" yet ENDS at the correct look, yet there is still that huge space! Hey guys, First post here. I've scoured the web for answers, searched this forum, and visited many CSS sites (alistapart, maxdesign.com.au, positioniseverything, htmldog, etc.) and haven't seen a problem like this. I'm learning CSS as we speak (or more correctly, as I type), and here's the issue. I have a space between my #header and #page. I can't get rid of it unless I put a border around the #page. I've posted four screens here so you can see what's going on in Safari and Firefox (the two browsers I use). #1 is what the site looks like now (as the code is below). #2 is with the #header removed, #3 is with the #header removed and a 1px border put around the #page, and #4 is with the #header there and the #page has a 1px border. It seems to me that the #page has a top margin, and I've tried margin-top: 0px; and tons of other combos, but I can't get that space to go away unless I put a border around #page. Here's my css: Code: /* basic elements */
body {
font: 8pt/16pt georgia;
color: #000000;
background: #AEAEAE url(images/butterflybg.gif) no-repeat top center;
}
p {
font: 8pt/16pt georgia;
margin-top: 0px;
text-align: justify;
}
h1 {
font: italic bold 14pt georgia;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
color: #000000;
}
h2 {
font: normal bold 12pt georgia;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
color: #000000;
}
h3 {
font: normal 12pt georgia;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
color: #000000;
}
a:link {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:visited {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
color: #D4CDDC;
}
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #9685BA;
}
/* divs */
#header {
background: url(images/2006_Header.png) no-repeat;
width: 697px;
height: 127px;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#page {
width: 697px;
background: url(images/2006_WideExt.png) repeat-y center;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
}
#nav {
background: url(images/2006_LNav.png) no-repeat left;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
width: 175px;
height: 306px;
float: left;
}
#content {
background: none transparent;
margin-top: 0px;
}
#text {
}
#footer {
text-align: center;
}
And my html: 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" xml:lang="en" > <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="header"> </div> <div id="page"> <div id="nav"> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="text"> <p>put text here</p> </div> <div id="footer"> <a href="http://devshed.com" title="Forums">xhtml</a> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> Am I overlooking something simple? So, I have my CSS, works wonderfully (well, as expected) in FF2. Unfortunately, IE7, Safari 3, and Opera 9 all seem to ignore the whole stylesheet. UNLESS! Any one of the properties in the sheet is declared !important. Then, it applies the entire sheet the way I expect. What gives? The way I understand (understood?) specificity, the !important flag should only effect the specific line it's applied to, not the entire sheet. Right? I'm really confused. The stylesheet is included last, so all else being equal, should cascade properly and override the other sheets. Any ideas? I'm just going to use the !important for now, but I really don't like that. MPEDrummer Hi, I have developed a page using only CSS with html. That means I have two files at the moment, layout.css and default.html. When I test it on my computer it works fine on IE6.0, Firefox, Netscape and Opera. I then decided to give it a go on the live internet. I created an account with geocities and uploaded all the required files. Now, when I loaded the page from IE6.0 the website is broken. Which means it is not displaying as it was when I was loading it from my computer. However Firefox and Opera are loading it fine. For me this is just weird, since if I download the html from the page (right click, view source), save it on my pc, and load it again from my computer (locally), it works fine on IE6.0 again. I know how I could solve this problem, however should I try solving this problem if my page is displaying fine on my computer (on the three browsers) but incorrectly on geocities? Ps: I am only using geocities for testing. Regards, Sim085 Hello. I've got a header div that my banner is in, below that, another div called "welcome". The background-color I set on the welcome div is somehow appearing at the very top of the container, right above my banner... I've tried adding a height to it but that just makes it worse. Not sure what else to do... The site is LeetWebmasters. My css: Code: p {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
color:#006699;
line-height:20px;
}
h2 {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
font-size:24px;
color:#006699;
font-weight:100;
border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;
}
h3 {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
color:#006699;
color:#006699;
}
html,body {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
background-image:url(main-bg.gif);
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
}
#container {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 922px;
}
#header {
width: 922px;
float: left;
height: 130px;
margin: 10px 0px 5px 0px;
}
#leftcolumn {
border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
background-image:url(col_gradient.jpg);
margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
padding: 10px;
height: 900px;
width: 195px;
float: left;
}
#welcome {
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
background:#EAEAEA;
color:#006699;
}
#latest_tuts {
color:#006699;
}
#latest_tuts h3 {
border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;
}
#who_online h3 {
border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;
}
#search {
position:absolute;
margin-top:0px;
margin-left:0px;
}
#newsletter {
position:absolute;
margin-top:0px;
margin-left:0px;
}
#welcome a:link {
color:#0066CC;
}
#content {
color: #333;
margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
padding: 10px;
width: 456px;
display: inline;
float:left;
background-image:url(content_gradient.jpg);
}
#content a:link, a:visited {
color:#0066CC;
}
#rightcolumn {
color: #333;
border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
background-image:url(col_gradient.jpg);
margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
padding: 10px;
height: 900px;
width: 196px;
float: left;
}
#footer {
text-align:center;
width: 900px;
clear: both;
color: #878787;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
padding: 10px;
height:35px;
font-size:12px;
background-image:url(footer_gradient.jpg);
}
#footer a:link {
color:#0066CC;
text-decoration:none;
}
#footer a:visited {
color:#0066CC;
text-decoration:none;
}
#footer a:hover {
color:#006699;
}
#menu3 {
width: 200px;
border:1px solid #BCD2E6;
border-style: solid solid none solid;
}
#menu3 li a {
height: 24px;
text-decoration: none;
}
#menu3 li a:link, #menu3 li a:visited {
color: #8BADCF;
display: block;
background: url(menu3.gif);
padding: 8px 0 0 10px;
}
#menu3 li a:hover {
color: #627EB7;
background: url(menu3.gif) 0 -32px;
padding: 8px 0 0 10px;
}
#menu3 li {
list-style:none;
}
#menu3 ul {
padding-top:0px;
margin-top:0px;
padding-left:0px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}
#description {
font-size:10px;
color:#006699;
}
I'm having a slight problem with the appearance of the border for the DIV below the navigation bar. Firefox runs the border through the entire width of the DIV, but IE stops the bottom border as soon as the last <LI> is reached.. Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance. http://www.manliusvillage.org/test/index.html The related CSS is below: Code:
#navigation{
height:2.2em;
line-height:2.2em;
width:758px;
margin:0 1px;
background:#578bb8;
color:#ffffff;
}
#navigation li{
float:left;
list-style-type:none;
border-right:1px solid #ffffff;
border-bottom:1px solid #ffffff;
white-space:nowrap;
}
#navigation li a{
display:block;
padding:0 10px;
font-size:0.8em;
font-weight:normal;
text-transform:uppercase;
text-decoration:none;
background-color:inherit;
color: #ffffff;
}
* html #navigation a {width:1%;}
#navigation .selected,#navigation a:hover{
background:#80b0da;
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration:none;
}
#sublinks{
float:left;
height:1.4em;
line-height:1.4em;
width:758px;
margin:0 1px;
background:#578bb8;
color:#ffffff;
}
#sublinks li{
float:left;
list-style-type:none;
white-space:nowrap;
border-right:1px solid #578bb8;
}
#sublinks li a{
display:block;
padding:0 5px;
font-size:0.8em;
font-weight:normal;
text-transform:uppercase;
text-decoration:none;
background-color:inherit;
color: #ffffff;
}
* html #sublinks a {width:1%;}
#sublinks .selected,#sublinks a:hover{
color:#000000;
text-decoration:none;
}
Hi there! Please have a look here. As you can see there's a scrolling box with a overflow:auto propriety set. All works well either in Firefox and Internet Explorer, but I had to use a hack to made it work with IE: Code:
#content {
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-right: 25px;
padding-left: 25px;
font-family: Verdana,Arial,helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: justify;
overflow: auto;
width: 543px;
height: 225px;
background-image: url(img/centerblank.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
_background-attachment: fixed;
}
FF doesn't read the _background-attachment so all works fine.. problem is, this way the css code is no w3c compliant. Any ideas? I changed over all my CSS flyout menus from the CSSPlay method to the whatever:hover method. It's working great. I've just got a minor, but annoying, problem that occurs in IE (6 & 7 tested). URL 1 URL 2 Check out the left-side navigation menus on those two pages. Obviously they're different files, but the code is exactly the same for the menus (except the path for the links, of course). The pages even use the same stylesheet. So why, then, does the menu flutter when you hover over the "Our Dogs" <li> on the base level menu, but not move a pixel on the /dogs/ level menu? Here's the path to the stylesheet: Stylesheet 1 hey, i have a page that includes several flash files.. since its a translation company i have made a page in Russian but the upper flash menu refuses to appear in firefox but displays in internet explorer.. other flash files appear.. and i don't know if its related but in order to make the Russian appear correctly i had to save the php page as utf-8 with no BOM... appreciate any help since i am clueless as to this weird problem here is the page address : bit.ly/4SqdNw sorry new in the forums could not link it but copy and pase Hello, First off, if you know of a way to make round cornered boxes (that stretch hor and vert) in css using less than 6 divs, please be my guest. Now the problem I'm having is IE specific, when i load up the IE DOM inspector, i see that all the divs before the bottomleft div have a height that too big. i don't know what this could be from because i never set a height attribute for any of the divs. http://72.29.74.19/~majdkgf/tangerine/ NOTE: this doesn't happen to the last box The site is question is: http:// w ww.stolen-bikes.org/index4.php The CSS is: http:// w ww.stolen-bikes.org/css/non_ie.css Basically I want the sidebar (blue div), to line up on the side as it is but up flush against the top as you would expect a floated content area with a floated sidebar next to it. If I take out the #sidebar in the css it DOES align right up at the top as I want it to. The minute you as a float:left or width or anything it jumps down to the end of the #masthead div and beginning of the #content div. Im pretty sure I have everything lined up correctly I just cant figure out why this is doing that! Please help! Hi fowks, Normally I'm able to solve CSS issues relatively easily, well with some experimentation at least. However, this one has really got me stumped. Basically, I'm developing a menu for a weblication which is based on the famous Suckerfish menus. Everything works ok in IE and Mozilla when in an Left-to-Right (LTR) environment, but it doesn't work quite so well when the direction is flipped to RTL. IE copes fine, but FF doesn't. The menu works itself, but the viewport doubles in size and scrolls off to the right, even though there are no elements there. Anyone got an idea as to what could be doing this? I've included the relevant files for you to trial. Thanks for having a look. Hope you can help. It's driving me nuts. Cheers, John I have a question about the behavior of the margins for contents of a container div. Basically what I have done is created a container div that has a specified width but no margin, so it should be slammed up against the top, left, and bottom of the page. However, when I put divs inside the container div, their margins seem to be applying to the container as well - at least their top and bottom margins seem to be. I've included the code below, which can easily be copied and pasted. Basically what's happening is that if the first div inside the container has a top margin, that margin is then being applied to the container div, meaning the container div is then pushed down from the top of the page by the amount of top margin specified. The same thing is happening at the bottom of the container div when I've included a bottom margin on the last element inside the container. To my surprise, this problem is only happening in Firefox. It is showing exactly how I want it to in IE6. Here is the code. This is just a very simple page to demonstrate the problem, so I used an embedded style sheet. I am using the transitional doctype (couldn't include it here because it contains a URL). The height of the first div inside the container is so big so that the page must be scrolled down to see the entire thing on any normal screen resolution: <html> <head> <title>box test</title> <style type="text/css"> body {margin: 0; padding: 0;} #bgbox {width: 500px; background-color: #aaaaaa; margin: 0; padding: 0;} #boxone {height: 700px; border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 20px; padding: 20px; color: #000000;} #boxtwo {border: 1px solid #000000; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 20px; padding: 20px; color: #000000;} </style> </head> <body> <div id="bgbox"> <div id="boxone">This is box one</div> <div id="boxtwo">this is box two</div> </div> </body> </html> Any thoughts? Thanks! Hi. Can anyone tell me why Internet Explorer doubles the margin width on the left side in this example? http://www.dirtybbq.com/test/ This works fine in FireFox. Thanks for your help. Here is my style sheet... Code:
body {
background-color: #E0E0E0;
text-align: center;
}
p, input, select, th, td, h1, h2, textarea {
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 11px;
}
#container {
border: 1px solid #000000;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: url('../images/bg.gif');
background-position: right;
background-repeat: repeat-y;
border: 1px solid #666666;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 641px;
}
#header {
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url('../images/hd.gif');
background-position: bottom left;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 64px;
width: 641px;
}
#footer {
background-color: #666666;
padding-bottom: 0px;
text-align: left;
width: 641px;
}
#footer p {
color: #FFCC00;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 4px;
}
#footer a {
color: #FFCC00;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}
#footer a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#left {
background-color: #FF6600;
float: left;
margin: 10px;
margin-right: 11px;
text-align: left;
width: 400px;
}
#side_bar {
background-color: #FFFF00;
float: right;
text-align: left;
width: 220px;
}
Hi to all !! check out this little piece of example code: Code: <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div style="width: 720px; height: 850px; background-color: gray"> <div id="leftcolumn" style="float: left; width: 500px; height: 780px; text-align: left; background-color: #F4F4F4"> </div> <div id="rightcolumn" style="height: 780px; text-align: left; background-color: red"> </div> </div> </body> In IE, between the left and right columns, there is an empty space of 5 px, that has to me no explanation. In Netscape everything is fine, the left column is next to the right one. Setting the padding and margin to 0 won't correct the problem. You can set the right margin of the left column to "- 5px". This will solve in IE, but will mess everything up in Netscape. Question: is this an IE bug I just have to live with, or am I missing out on something...? Thanks for your help and bye If I have 2 tables in a div, does margin-top position the bottom table in relation to the top of the div or the bottom of the top table? My top table is absolute positioned top 0px, with a margin-bottom of 50px. The bottom table is positioned relative and has a top-margin of 50px, but is positioned relative to top of the div. Should it be positioned relative to the top table or do I need to put both tables in seperate divs to achieve the margin? I have two divs on a page. Neither div has a set height. I want to maintain a 50px vertical gap between them, regardless of the height of the top div. Can I achieve this with margins? I've tried using a bottom margin on the top div and a top margin on the bottom div, but the top margin of the bottom div seems to be positioning relative to the top of the top div, not the bottom of it. Can someone point out where I'm going wrong with this? Thanks Hi, My site looks fine in Dreamweaver, but when I upload it to my server and view it, there is a big margin at the top. I am using one of Dreamweaver's templates. All my CSS is currently in the header. the site is here How do I get rid of the spacing above the header? thanks |
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