CSS - Css Expert Help Needed. Cannot Use Float...
I need to have a div that behaves like a table with two columns
Code: <table> <tr><td rowspan=3><img></td>row 1<td></tr> <tr><td>row 2</td></tr> <tr><td>rpw 3</td></tr> </table> so far i have been using floating divs to achieve this. Code: <div onclick="foo();"> <div style="float:left;"><img></div> <div style="float:left;"> <div>row 1</div> <div>row 2</div> <div>row 3</div> </div> </div> however there is a problem in IE only. my main div has an onclick handler. when floating divs are used, the onclick only works when you click text or image inside the div. is there a way i can avoid using floats and achieve the same result? Similar TutorialsHello. I really need some help with this problem. If you are willing to help, check out the site with my problem: http://www.test.cos.ucf.edu/content/deans/staff.html (this link may expire within a few months of post date) I'm a student, but I'm getting paid to develop this site (not enough payment of course ). Hopefully you don't mind helping anyways. Looking at this page in Firefox shows no problems, yet in IE 7, it looks much worse. There is a problem which I am not aware of. Is it like anything you have heard of? Thank you for the help --------------------- FIXED --------------------- The problem was with a contained div with overflow set for vertical scrolling. However, there was a ul with li's floating within it within the div to make a grid. Each li had an image within it with position:relative. This relative positioning screwed up the scrolling for the div. So I added padding to each li element to make up for the top and left properties. If you want a better explanation please ask. Since I could not quickly figure out how to delete this post, I figured I would explain the solution. Thanks! Hi there...First post in this forum cause Firefox (and mozilla / netscape) are driving me mad! Please consider the following code: Code: <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> @media print { p {font-size:11px;text-align:justify;} table {width:100%;} } </style> </head> <body> <table width="770" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <tr> <td> <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nullam molestie, tortor id tempor fringilla, ante massa consequat dui, eget fermentum ante dolor sed felis. Curabitur mollis, velit sit amet lobortis pulvinar, mi lorem condimentum metus, cursus malesuada lectus leo in purus. Suspendisse vehicula, nisl ac varius iaculis, purus felis sodales lorem, in porttitor massa risus a odio. Cras urna felis, sagittis bibendum, ultrices vel, accumsan ac, pede. Maecenas felis nisl, rhoncus non, imperdiet in, tincidunt vitae, ante. Vestibulum cursus, elit non rutrum eleifend, arcu ligula bibendum velit, eget pharetra dui ipsum et tortor. Praesent lectus felis, consectetuer a, varius fringilla, elementum quis, diam. Morbi posuere sem eget odio. Pellentesque imperdiet tellus eget augue. Aliquam et tortor et libero nonummy tristique. Sed feugiat pellentesque sem. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Vivamus a ipsum eu odio fringilla scelerisque. Ut et neque. Sed fermentum neque nec pede. Morbi enim erat, tempor nec, porttitor eu, tempus ut, nunc. Pellentesque lacinia dapibus urna. Curabitur leo tortor, cursus quis, semper quis, luctus ac, quam. Phasellus sit amet nisl. Nullam molestie nonummy lorem. Etiam consectetuer, ante in lacinia molestie, tellus nisl tincidunt dui, in commodo lectus elit ut elit. In ornare fermentum ante. Nullam felis. Maecenas tempor, lectus vel dignissim tincidunt, metus erat feugiat odio, eu dapibus mauris orci vitae enim. Etiam quis quam vitae risus aliquam iaculis. Ut nunc nulla, hendrerit ut, auctor id, ullamcorper a, risus. Integer fringilla, erat eu interdum imperdiet, lorem purus fermentum wisi, at mattis lectus nisl sit amet ante. Cras dolor. Nunc elementum quam at ligula. Maecenas ut mi ornare neque suscipit vulputate. Praesent ornare. Pellentesque nonummy posuere massa. Morbi sed risus et purus eleifend pulvinar. Proin suscipit ultricies enim. Morbi luctus. Nam quis sem. Quisque mattis. In laoreet velit eu nunc. </p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> This is basically a reconstruction of an existing problem of a far more complex design...in any case, if you try to print->Preview from Opera or IE 5+ everything is sweet...However, Firefox (and the other Gecko browsers) will not properly justify the text when previewing. More precisiely: Firefox will wrap text over 12px correctly yet for small text, the p block will not wrap properly and some text will be cropped. I'm not fussy about justification but even when I removed it I would get the same problem. I'm sure there's a perfectly logical solution to this problem. Maybe the width:100% gets inherited by the td and p but that should not affect the layout...Despite my various experiements of chaging the width and the wrapping properties, I could not solve this. I'm still learning the intricasies of block elements in CSS2 so I would definitely appreciate any help! Thanks in advance, Angelos subject isn't too good anyhow.. i have 4 cells __ __ |1 | |2 | --- --- __ __ |3| |4 | --- --- 2 and 4 are said to float right, such that 1 and 3 define the height of the page.. but.. when the contents of 2 go LONGER than the contents of 1, number 4 doesn't float right properly.. instead this happens __ __ |1 | |2 | --- | | --- | | |4| --- --- __ |3| --- do you see that? 4 tries to float right, but since it's called underneath 1, and 2 is extended, floating right relative to the page doesn't make it ACTUALLY float right any thoughts that will render this properly? (namely that cells 1 and 3 will inherit the height of 2 and 4 somehow?) Hi There - Am converting another design from tables, working with a CMS (Drupal) and an existing CSS / table combination that I didn't write and have no choice about. Think of the header as having three sections. The top section has logo on the left, search box on the right. Rounded corners. I'm cool with that section. Then there's a space. Created a div for the space. Love the space. Problems with the space in IE. Will go into it later. Then there's the next section. Rounded corners. Contains the entire page. On the left is a pulldown menu, about 1 cm from the top. On the right is a tabbed menu. This menu has flexible height. It needs to be right up against the bottom with the menu below it. Call this section the tabbed menu section. Third section. Immediately below that is a bar menu like the one Apple's got. Looks like a metal bar with divisions. Call this primary links. ---------- First, the space between. In IE, when you roll over the bar menu, the space disappears. Won't come back. Initially, in the second section, floated the pulldown menu left and the tabbed menu right. That worked fine, except that the tabbed menu had a width of 100% and pushed up the pulldown menu so the section was too wide. When I put it to 65%, all hell broke loose with the bar menu in the third section below it and bits of it snuck up into the second section. If I left it alone, and left the tabbed menu at 100%, when I checked over its container with firebug, it said that it was being affected by the primary links. I figured that out also because the background for that container was a really weird color that I finally found in the background of the navigation id and changed to white. Primary was overlapping it so I couldn't see it with firebug. So after fiddling with several clearing methods, I gave up and decided to try a table. Table worked fine, and the second section looks good except that there's a one pixel space between the tabbed menu and the bar menu. --------- It is my greatest wish right now to be able to float the pulldown to the left, the tabbed menu to the right and have the primary links stay below. I wish I could get the space to work and I wish for a clear understanding of it all so I can then figure out where to put the corners. Anyone who can enlighten me on this would have my undying gratitude. I've been working on this all day and the deadline's tomorrow. Code: <div id="top part" logo and searchbox </div> <div> that pesky space that disappears in IE when roll over primary links </div> <div id=navcontainer> dropdown and tabbed menu </div> <div id="navigation" class="menu> <!-- couldn't find the menu class in the css --> <div id="primary" class="clear-block"> contains barmenu - very fussy </div> </div> Here's the relevant CSS: Code: div#navigation { background: #fff url(../images/blue/menu-bg.png) 100% 100% repeat-x; } #primary { line-height: 30px; } #primary ul { padding:0; margin:0; list-style:none; } #primary li { display:inline; } #primary a { font-weight:bold; display:block; float:left; padding:0px 14px 0px 14px; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; font-size: 95%; } #primary a { background-position:0% 0px; } #primary a:hover { text-decoration: none; background-position:0% -42px; } #primary a.active { background-position: 0% -84px; } #primary a { background: url(../images/blue/menu-div.png) 100% 0 repeat-y; color:#666666; font-size: 120%; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; } #primary a:hover { color: 666666; background: #B8B8B8; } #primary a.active { color: 666666; background: #B8B8B8; } This is my first try at css and i have been at it about a week on and off. I have tried to use examples from here and the o'reilly CSS cookbook. I want to create a two column row of pictures with a caption. I selected DIV as the tool (my css is below). The container DIV looks great. I want the div.float, however, to start a second row when a third picture is added and to continue thereafter with successive two column rows. Unfortunately, each of my rows contain only one picture. here is my css style sheet. A demonstration of the problem can be seen at: http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/?How_to_create_pages Code: div.float { float: left; BORDER-RIGHT: #808080 2px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 2px; BORDER-TOP: #808080 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 2px; FONT-WEIGHT: lighter; FONT-SIZE: medium; PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; MARGIN: 16px 2%; BORDER-LEFT: #808080 2px solid; COLOR: #000000; PADDING-TOP: 2px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #808080 2px solid; HEIGHT: 200px; WIDTH: 150px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-DECORATION: none } div.float p { text-align: center; } div.container { border: 2px dashed #333; background-color: #ffe; } div.spacer { clear: both; } MY HTML is like this: Code: H1>How to create pages</H1> <P>The headings are used for splitting up the content file. An H1, H2 or H3 heading will dynamically split the document into new pages in the table of contents. An H4-heading is used as a heading within a page. See the following pages...<BR></P> <P></P> <DIV class=container> <DIV class=spacer></DIV> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 1" src="image1.gif" width=100> <P>caption 1</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer></DIV> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 2" src="image2.gif" width=100> <P>caption 2</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 3" src="http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/image3.gif" width=100> <P>caption 3</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer></DIV></DIV></DIV> Hi, I have over 7 years of programming experience. For demonstration of my development skills (or just to see something cool) visit the following link: URL I am experienced teleworker with solid knowledge of computers and Internet. If interested feel free to send me e-mail: theitf @t theitf | net Regards, Lubo I have been developing an intranet app which is to use a number of CSS/Javascript features for the required interactivity. The page I am having trouble with will eventually be integrated in an iframe. That said, I believe the conflict is coming from the top horizontal bar which has a fixed position. When the green bar (which will represent Gantt data) is clicked I have a small "hover" note which will display a brief summary. I had tested each of the page components individually, and had them working, and am now integrating the various pieces. The problem is that in IE when the bar is clicked, the note seems to display correctly, but the top of the #content div blacks out (or sometimes distorts strangely) and requires a page refresh to right the display. There is too much code to place here, so the page is available at: http://www.brianwurster.com/layout/test.php Any help with this problem would be GREATLY appreciated as I am having a terrible time disgnosing the problem. Hi all, I have a bit of an odd situation (prob not odd if you seen it before but I have no clue why its doing it!).... I have my webpage: http://www.houseofhawkins.com/index.html which works great in IE. the part in question is the menu tabs at the top. Within IE they keep the width I have given them.. In firefox they only go to the width of the text. They are links with the following CSS attached: div#Header #MenuSection a.MenuTab { PHP Code: filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#A8DBA8', startColorstr='#A4B7A4', gradientType='0'); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-size: 1.3em; background-color: #BCD6BC; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #A5BEA5 #BCD6BC #BCD6BC #A5BEA5; margin: 0 5px 0 2px; height: 1.5em; width: 140px; padding: 5px 1px 1px 1px; } div#Header #MenuSection { float:left; margin-top: 30px; } here is the HTML code for that part of the page. PHP Code: <div ID="MenuSection"> <a Class="SelectedMenuTab" Title="You are currently viewing the Home page">Home</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Curriculum Vitae for Jonathan Hawkins, Author of House of Hawkins">CV</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/projects/index.html" title="Portfolio of Work created by Jon Hawkins">Portfolio</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Online Photo Gallery of Jon, friends and family">Photo Gallery</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/games.html" title="Games created by House of Hawkins">Games</a> </div> <div style="clear:left"> </div> I just dont get why firefox wont be nice and give me the width I ask for... the oddest bit is if I put float:left into the menutab part they do work! I wish to understand why its like this... I have attached the CSS and the file if that helps anyone. Thanks for the help and advice. I almost feel guilty about posting this question, as it has probably been answered in some form before and i just need to figure it out myself, but this is giving me some difficulty. My page displays just how I want it right now to display in Firefox. However, in IE6, it does not display correctly. The XHTML and CSS are both validated and it works perfectly in the more "standard-compliant" browser. But I'm sure there is a way to get this to work in IE as well. the site is fusiondesign.awardspace.com (new user policy will not let me use links ) the relevant XHTML: Code: <div id="container"> <div id="nav"> <a href="#" onclick="changeTab('Home','hcontent');" id="Home">Home</a> <a href="#" onclick="changeTab('About','acontent');" id="About">About</a> <a href="#" onclick="changeTab('Services','scontent');" id="Services">Services</a> <a href="#" onclick="changeTab('Order','ocontent');" id="Order">Order</a> <a href="#" onclick="changeTab('Contact','ccontent');" id="Contact">Contact</a> <a href="#" onclick="changeTab('Links','lcontent');" id="Links">Links</a> </div> <div id="content"> <noscript> I noticed you have Javascript disabled. This site will not work correctly unless you have Javascript enabled. Please enable Javascript now. </noscript> </div> ... </div> and the relevant CSS: Code: div#container { position:absolute; left:50%; top:50%; width:760px; height:332px; margin-left:-380px; margin-top:-186px; border:#FFFFFF 1px solid; } div#nav { float:left; width:170px; padding:0; } div#content { text-align:justify; width:558px; padding:1em; color:#000000; height:300px; overflow:auto; /*border:#FFFFFF 1px solid;*/ } Any direct help or a link to a solution would be greatly appreciated I always have trouble with floats. I'm just trying to get these two bulleted lists to display next to each other so that the page is shorter. It isn't exactly working. Close but not quite. Changing the left margin hasn't helped (even bumped it to 55, but it had no effect.) <span style="float:left;"><h4>New Listings</h4> <p>Be prepared with:</p> <ul> <li>Sales Price</li> <li>Property particulars</li> <li>Company</li> <li>Address</li> <li>Your name</li> <li>Phone number</li> </ul></span> <span style="margin-left: 15em;"><h4>Price and Property Changes</h4> <p>Please state:</p> <ul> <li>Price change or any changes</li> <li>Address</li> <li>Company</li> <li>Name</li> <li>Phone number</li> </ul></span> <span style="float:clear;"><h4>Buyer Wants</h4><span> <p>Describe your buyer's wants and needs. You will have 30 seconds to present your buyer wants.</p> Hi, this bug is driving me nuts. I don't know why it happens. All I know is that it is not even consistent. Here's a screenshot of the problem: http://www.argsoccertours.com/float-problem.jpg And here's the code for that part: Code: <p>The bus will take you to your hotel, where you can leave your luggage and take a shower.</p> <p>This day we suggest the Buenos Aires City Tour. Discover one of the most amazing cities in the world. Buenos Aires is a thoroughly modern city with more than 400 years of history. Visit Florida street, one of the most surprising pedestrian streets in South America. You don't want to miss Palermo Soho, the trendiest neighborhood in Argentina, where you will find tourists from all over the Globe;<img src="images/caption10.jpg" alt="Caminito" width="300" height="300" class="floatright" /> visit Puerto Madero, the preferred area for luxury offices and restaurants; and also check out San Isidro, the most exclusive neighborhood in Buenos Aires.</p> <p>You will also get to see Argentina's historic buildings, the <em>Casa Rosada</em> (which means "Pink House" and is the President's office), the <em>Obelisco</em> (a huge tower with a lot of history), and some of the oldest, yet best mantained museums and theaters in the world.</p> <p>Finish the day with a short visit to Recoleta, the neighborhood of choice for expats in Buenos Aires to have a good time and eat at the best restaurants.</p> <h2>Thursday, March 4 - <span class="redsubtitle">Practice + Palermo Soho + Recoleta</span></h2> <p>Your team will have a practice in the morning. A complimentary transfer will be available for you and your Tour Manager will help you with any arrangements that you need.<img src="images/caption11.jpg" alt="Rugby practice" class="floatright" /></p> <p>In the afternoon you can have <em>Tapas</em> -a Spanish typical dish- in Palermo Soho, a place that is so cool you will never forget it.</p> The CSS for floatright is: Code: .floatright { float: right; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; } As you can see in the code, in both cases I insert the image the same way, but the first one looks OK and the second one doesn't. This happens on IE7 (not sure about other versions of IE), but for sure it doesn't happen on FF. Anybody has any clue on what could cause this? can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? I am trying to float just a side column and a main together, but no matter what I try I cannot get the main to go up next to the sidebar. It works if I put the sidebar to the left, but not the right. I cleared 'both' after the main window, supposedly to make them float together in a container, but nothing I do works. test site at mycomputerpro dot com dot au thanks Wayne My home page at mypricesavings.com I would like to have the twitter banner under the headline to be in its own div. if you look at my style.css I have this code Code: #twitter { width:590px; float:left; background:#fff; padding:10px; font-size:1.05em; line-height:1.5em; margin: 10px 0; } Which in fact does what I need it to do when I then add the div to the index.php however, the store deals and matchups which is the featured div no longer floats to the right of the headline, it will drop all the way down and float next to the twitter. I do not understand how CSS exactly works and would like to know how to make the twitter be the way I would like it and have the featured work corectly too. thank you in advance for helping Derrick I am trying to put a float to the right side of a layer and then have it go over the right side of the layer. But when I do this the part that is moved over is not visible in IE. I have included an example to make it easier to explain. The green layer should be partially outside the blue layer by 100px. I would appreciate any help getting this done. Thanks Code: <style type="text/css"> .main { position: relative; top: 100px; width: 700px; background-color: #5577cc; height: 500px; } .floatright{ margin-right: -100px; float: right; width: 300px; height: 300px; background-color:#339900; } </style> </head> <body> <div class = "main"> Main <div class = "floatright"> Float </div> </div> </body> Hey all, I'm wanting to create something like this: HEADER TITLE ___________________ TEXT HERE + - _______________________________ TEX HERE + - _______________________________ TEX HERE + - Ignore the underscores. Now I'm trying this code: Code: <div> <h2 style="display:inline;">HEADER TITLE</h2> <div style="float:right; padding:0; margin:0;"> TEXT HERE + - <br /> etc.. </div> </div> But no matter what I try the 'TEXT HERE' does not appear on the same inline and the floated div appears one line down like so: HEADER TITLE _______________________________ TEXT HERE + - _______________________________ TEXT HERE + - _______________________________ TEXT HERE + - Any suggestions on how to correct this? Thanks Basically, following link: www.projectfinalfantasy.com Works fine in FF but IE, it piles the divs under eachother, whether the float tag is applied or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Joe. arg arg arg and you all know the rest. anyway to the problem in firefox the layout is all good but in IE things are realy starting to annoy me. http://217.68.23.6/~themodem.co.uk/index.php i think its my float stuff but im not sure, could someone please take a look at it for me heres my css Code: body { margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color:#000000; } #leftcontent { float:left; width: 236px; } #mainmenu { width: 170px; } #stats { margin-top:inherit; width: 205px; background-color:#000000; } #centercontent { voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family: inherit; margin-left: 245px; background-image:url(images/wow/bg.gif); background-repeat:repeat; } #rightcontent { float:right; margin-right:5px; width: 236px; margin-top:20px; } #login { margin-top:inherit; width: 205px; background-color:#000000; } #submenu { width: 200px; } #banner { voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family: inherit; } thanks Lee Thanks for taking the time to read my question. If I use float: none; in my css the result in IE is perfect. However in Firefox it doesn't work. Is there a workaround for this? see "Past Pierced Shows" bottom left corner of page in IE the images and text line up, in Firefox, they are one under another. www.pierced.ca/pierced-events.htm Thanks for the help, Brad |