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CSS - Making A Paragraph A Given Width
I think this is a very basic quesiton, but I am stumped with it. How can I make a paragraph that will be a specific width in the middle of the page for example regardless of the size of the monitor or browser window - that is, the paragraph will stay the same width even though it is on a page that will stretch to fill the entire window? This can be done of course with tables, but I would like to know how to do it with CSS. The margin property seems of no help because you must assume a given size of the page or parent element.
Similar TutorialsHi, I want to make an Iframe elastic, according to the div it is in. Is this possible? If so, can you tell me how? thanks - I found this code online and I'm trying to alter it slightly for what I need. Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body,html {
padding: 0;
margin: 10;
}
#navcontainer ul {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
}
#navcontainer ul li {
display: inline;
}
#navcontainer ul li a {
text-decoration: none;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #fff;
background-color: #036;
}
#navcontainer ul li a:hover {
color: #fff;
background-color: #acf;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Content</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Photographs</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Events</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Estate</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
It gives a nice center-aligned horizontal CSS menu. What I'm wondering is: How do I make it so that the width of each of the blue boxes the links are in are the same width? Say I want them all width: 180px; Where do I put that style so that it applies to all the links? [On a related issue, the style sheet has 4 things related to #navcontainer. How does one know which one of these to put additional styles in?] Thanks Much. j 9 I don't know why I'm having such a hard time with this. I'm trying to build a "message box" for an application that I'm working on. Box requirements: Fixed width Variable height (fit to content) Centered on page Floating over other elements (I don't want the rest of the elements on the page to move when the box is displayed) Must work in IE/FF/Safari Here's what I tried: css Code: Original - css Code #message_box{ border: 1px solid #AAA; background-color: #DDD; width: 400px; display: none; /* This gets changed to block by javascript */ position: absolute; top: 0px; text-align: center; margin: 20px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 20px; font-size: 12px; z-index: 20; }
That creates a box that I'm happy with, but I'm having problems figuring out how to center it on the page. Do I have to put another div element around my #message_box element? Is there a way to center it with margins? Examples would be appreciated... Also, in IE, form drop downs "bleed through" the box. The box covers up everything except <select>s. Is there any fix for that? My "sidebar" div isn't appearing, and neither is my paragraph inside my "mainContent" div. I have looked online and proofed it over and over, but can't seem to find the problem. Any help will be appreciated. CSS: Code: /*
Designed by: Derrick Zavarella
Date: 10/19/2010
Primary Colors:
#ffffff
#cbe86b (light green)
#f2e9e1 (light gray)
#1c140d (light black)
#cbe86b (lime green)
*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
}
body{
font-size: 10px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}
#container{
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
}
#header{
width: 960px;
height: 135px;
background-image: url(images/header.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin-top: 20px;
}
#header h3, p{
display: none;
}
#nav{
width: 960px;
height: 20px;
background-color: #1c140d;
}
#nav ul{
float: left;
list-style: none;
margin-top: 3px;
}
#nav ul li{
display: inline;
margin-left: 5px;
}
#nav ul li a{
color: #f2e9e1;
text-decoration: none;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 10px;
}
#nav ul li a:hover{
color: #cbe86b;
}
#mainContent{
float: right;
width: 760px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#mainContent h2{
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 16px;
margin-top: 15px;
}
#mainContent p{
color: #f2e9e1;
}
#sidebar{
float: left;
width: 200px;
background-color: #e7e6e6;
}
HTML: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content=
"text/html; charset=windows-1250">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
<title>deBuhrs Seed & Feed</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--container begins here-->
<div id="container">
<!--header begins-->
<div id="header">
<h3>deBuhrs</h3>
<p>seed&feed</p>
</div>
<!--end header-->
<!--navigation begins-->
<div id="nav">
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="index.html">home</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">about</a></li>
<li><a href="products.html">products</a></li>
<li><a href="staff.html">staff</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">contact us</a></li>
<li><a href="affiliate.html">affiliate</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<!--navigation ends--><!--mainContent begins-->
<div id="mainContent">
<h2>welcome to our new website!</h2>
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nibh. Donec sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat,
leo eget bibendum sodales, augue velit cursus
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</p>
<hr align="center" width="450" noshade="noshade" color="#e7e6e6">
<h2>welcome to our new website!</h2>
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nibh. Donec sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat,
leo eget bibendum sodales, augue velit cursus
nunc.</p>
</div>
<!--end mainContent-->
<!--sidebar begins-->
<div id="sidebar">
</div>
<!--sidebar ends-->
<!--footer begins-->
<div id="footer">
</div>
<!--footer ends-->
</div>
<!--end container-->
</body>
</html>
Hey, i've got a contact form , and to the right of it i want the contact information. it's showing up in FF, but won't sit next to the form, it's going to the top, and doesn't even show up in IE...it's in the source, but not visible on the page. Here's the CSS; Code:
#formbox {
margin:10px 15px;
padding:15px;
border:1px solid #333;
width:40%;
font-size:8pt;
color:white;
}
.inputareas {
width:60%;
border:1px solid white;
background-color:#FBAB2B;
color:#333;
padding:1px;
margin:2px;
}
.submit {
border:1px solid white;
background-color:#FBAB2B;
color:#333;
margin:2px;
}
textarea {
font-size:8pt;
color:#333;
}
/* contact form paragraph */
.contactform {
border:1px solid #333;
width:35%;
font-size:8pt;
color:white;
position:relative;
left:55%;
z-index:20;
}
and the html; Code:
<p class="contactform"> <strong>Jack Rosenberg</strong><br> phone - 734-536-6088<br>
fax - 734-943-6039<br> email - jrosen@canamdesign.com<br><br> <strong>Pete
Komsic</strong><br> phone - 519-996-4673<br> email - pkomsic@canamdesign.com<br><br>
<strong>Scott Stein</strong><br> phone - 519-564-7175<br> email - sstein@canamdesign.com<br>
</p>
<div id="formbox">
<p>Please complete the following form, ensuring <b>ALL</b> fields are
complete.</p>
<!-- DISPLAYS ERRORS IF FORM IS INCOMPLETE -->
<?php
// Check to see if there has been any errors...
if(!empty($errors)) {
echo '<h3>Sorry there has been the following errors with your form :</h3>';
// Print the errors
echo "<div class=\"reglist\">";
echo "<ul>";
foreach($errors as $error) {
echo "<li>$error</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
echo "</div>";
}
?>
<!-- DISPLAYS INFO IF FORM IS PROPERLY COMPLETED -->
<?php
// We only want to show the form if there has been no sucessful post
if(isset($post_sucess)) {
?>
<h3>The following information was sent to us by you:</h3>
<p><b>Contact Name:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['name']); ?></p>
<p><b>Email:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['email']); ?></p>
<p><b>Phone Number:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['Phone']); ?></p>
<p><b>Inquiry:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['inquiry']); ?></p>
<?php
} else { // Else show the form
?>
<form method="post" name="contactform" action="<?php $_POST['PHP_SELF'];?>">
<fieldset>
<legend>Name:<br></legend>
<input type="text" name="name" class="inputareas">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Email:<br></legend>
<input type="text" name="email" class="inputareas">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Phone Number:<br></legend>
<input type="text" name="phone" class="inputareas">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Inquiry:<br></legend>
<textarea rows="4" cols="30" class="inputareas" name="inquiry"></textarea>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>
<input type="submit" value=".:Submit:." class="submit" name="submit">
</legend>
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php } ?>
</div>
<!-- CLOSES FORM BOX -->
thanks! I read somewhere that we can format the first letter of each paragraph separately from the rest of it by CSS. Is possible and how? Hey folks, i'm just doing some experimenting with css right now, and hit a snag. if you look at the page, you'll see 'howdy' inside the top negative. i'm trying to format the text to fit inside the middle section of the negatives...one negative per paragraph. Whenever i try formatting it, it shifts the image downward, and i don't know what to do to fix it. CSS Code:
.ptext {
font:10px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:white;
padding:50px 60px;
width:350px;
height:375px;
}
p {
background:black url(images/negative.gif) no-repeat left;
height:375px;
width:350px;
}
HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>black/white - some kinda website</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="35mm_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <h1></h1> <p> <span class="ptext">howdy.</span> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </body> </html> any help'd be greatly appreciated. Hi, I'm getting a weird problem when viewing my client's site with IE6, however, it works fine in IE7 and FF. Here's the link: http://www.groundedgroup.com/client...or-sale/554421/ As you'll notice, the middle area containing the description of the home is messed up. Basically, the background resizes as you move the browser scroll bar up and down. Never seen this before. Does the same with the comment area below, too. Any ideas what's causing this? Thanks in advance. Hi everyone, I am having a problem where my text is resonably small and the paragraph spaces between them look silly because they seem much too big for the font size. Please have a look at my example below: CSS: Code:
div.orange{
background-color: #993400;
color: #FFFFFF;
width: 174px;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: none;
text-align: justify;
padding: 3px
}
.orangeHilight{
color: #000000;
font-weight: bold;
}
HTML: Code: <div class="orange"><p>DO YOU KNOW?</p> <p class="orangeHilight">Suppliers are shown per your choice of category:</p> <p>PLATINUM suppliers are shown first, with details of their companies and hospitality experience, contact details and a link to their own web sites for a closer look at their products. They also have pictures in the listing.<br> GOLD suppliers are shown next, but without pictures.<br> SILVER suppliers are listed with limited information and contact details.</p> <p>We also have a number of free listings for suppliers not currently registered with Hotelstuff. These are suppliers who may be of interest to you. Our toll free desk can help you with current contact information.</p></div> See what I mean. So is there anyway to reduce the space between paragraphs? Thanks to anyone who can help me out! Kenneth Ok, I know IE is buggy, but this one has been driving me nuts for a while now... I'm applying borders to the edges of a div as shown by A list apart. Pretty simple stuff and I have it working perfectly under Mozilla Firefox. IE on the other hand isn't taking it so well (imagine that). The thing is, it's like nothing I've ever seen. I changed some positioning on the page one night and ever since then it's been doing it. The lower right hand image is just not rendering. What's worse, is if I add a border to the element it will displace things as a border should but the border itself doesn't show up! I don't know how I managed to muck things up this way, but I would appreciate a hand with it if anyone has any ideas. Here is the IE Screenshot and the Firefox Screenshot Also... The CSS and The HTML I have a bunch of text with nice formatting using paragraphs and I want to have a spacing between the paragraphs. I could easily do that by: Code: p { margin-bottom: 25px; }
But that will make it so the last paragraph to also have a margin like that, how can I make it so that the last paragraph have a bottom margin of 0? Just the last one in that bunch of text. Now that, this is dynamic content generated by WordPress. WordPress text is place using paragraphs but the last paragraph on each post also has a margin that shouldn't be there, or my current design of course. Is there a way around this? I have used this in my CSS: p { margin-top: 0.5em;} But it renders differently in IE6 and Netscape 7. Is there a method to get this equal in both ? Thanks. Finally nearing completion of my site upgrade and fixing some minor visual problems. One of them being that the spacing between paragraphs is off. In that paragraphs are flushed against one another. After googling this for some time I found a fix that works perfect in opera and firefox but ie just refuses to go along. So my question is what do I do for it to work in IE? The code that works for FF and Opera is: Code:
p.normTxt + p.normTxt {
margin-top: 1em;
}
In IE the above code doesnt' work and acts like it's not even there. I really don't want to do margin-top, margin-bottom b/c that introduces another problem of only spacing if it's a middle paragraph. Thanks. I'm a CSS newbie and this is my very first page that I have to make for a class. I can't figure out how to move my text below/center my headline. Every time it gets close (when I use margins) it jumps right to the bottom. P.S. If my code seems strange it's because I'm not really sure what I'm doing yet, so if you have any advice/better ways to achieve the same effect, please let me know HTML: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <title>Welcome to Jolie Manor Bed and Breakfast</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style3.css"/> </head> <body id="body" onload=""> <div id="wrap"> <img src="manor.jpeg" alt="Manor" class="floatleft" /> <h1> Jolie Manor <br /> <span class="smaller">Bed and Breakfast</span></h1> <p class="blocktext"> Escape to Jolie Manor, a luxury waterfront bed and breakfast on the eastern shore, where the Chesapeake Bay is aglow in warm sunsets, where towering oaks gently kiss the skyline and where you can let your body rest and your mind wander.</p> <div id="navcontainer"> <ul id="navlist"> <li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="assignment32.html">Amenities</a></li> <li><a href="#">Rates</a></li> <li><a href="#">Local Features</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html> CSS: body { width: 800px; height: 620px; background-color: rgb(171,214,212); } #wrap { width: 100%; height: 100%; background-image:url(book2.tif); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: center; } h1 { color: rgb(69,38,26); font-family: serif; margin-right: 150px; margin-top: 100px; margin-left: 0px; float: right; font-size: 2em; } .blocktext { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; width: 10em; float: right; margin-top: 170px; margin-bottom: 0px; } p { color: rgb(69,38,26); font-family: serif; } .floatleft { margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 145px; } .smaller { font-size: .75em; } #navcontainer { background: #f0e7d7; margin: 0 auto; padding: 1em 0 0 0; font-family: georgia, serif; text-transform: lowercase; position:fixed; top:5px; } #navcontainer ul { padding: .2em 0; margin: 0; list-style-type: none; background-color: rgb(69,38,26); color: #FFF; width: 100%; font: normal 90% arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; position:fixed; top:5px; } li { display: inline; } li a { text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(69,38,26); color: #FFF; padding: .2em 1em; border-right: 1px solid #fff; } li a:hover { background-color: #369; color: #fff; } Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help. My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off... The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view! My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance.... i ve been playing with my page and been trying to modify the width of the page (divs) according to the browswer's width. The problem is i want the navigation menu on left to be fixed width (say 200px) and the center div and the right column to be variable width. Also, i want to set a minimum width , so that the floating divs dont roll below the navigation menu. here s the link to the page. try reducing ur browser windows size . the content div rolls down under theleft nav menu. http://ccc.1asphost.com/pacemakerpr...r/cicuitlab.htm Also , i get wierd result in netscape navigator. please help I have an absolutely positioned <div> containing a block of text. I have not specified a width for this <div>. This <div> is nested within another <div> for which I have specified a width of 200px. So something like: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 20px; z-index: 100;"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur eu purus a tellus mollis consequat. Phasellus aliquam sapien quis mauris. </div> </div> <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;"> Since the absolutely positioned <div> is not part of the page's normal flow, I would expect that its width would expand according to its contents (and the browser window's boundries). Instead, in Firefox only, the width of the absolutely positioned <div> expands only to the width of its parent - in this case 200px. Am I doing something wrong? or is there a workaround for this? I'm trying to get something that looks like this: Here is the xhtml: Code: <div id="container">
<div class="design_box">
<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
<h1>Header goes here</h1>
<p>Paragraph goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="design_box">
<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
<h1>Header goes here</h1>
<p>Paragraph goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="design_box">
<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
<h1>Header goes here</h1>
<p>Paragraph goes here</p>
</div>
</div>
Here is the relevant css: Code: .design_box {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 17px;
}
#row_a_right_web_design img {
float: left;
}
.design_box h1 {
color: #fbfbfb;
font: bold .9em Tahoma, arial, sans;
margin-bottom: 4px;
}
.design_box p {
color: #c4c2c2;
}
Needless to say, the above css does not produce the desired outcome. I'm having a serious brain-fart as to what the best way is to tackle this. Thanks in advance. CSS: Code:
.news {
background-color:#eaeaea;
border: solid 1px #999;
width: 500px;
margin-top: 10px;
}
.news img {
float: left;
padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;
}
.news p {
float: right;
width: 350px;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 0;
}
HTML: Code: <div class="news"> <img src="http://album-images.lala.com/servlet/ArtWorkServlet/432627039265781052/l" width="120" height="180" /> <p>One of the most impressive flights ever has to be landing at Male airport in the Maldives. As the plane descends, stretching before you is a sea of azure blue reefs and atolls. The engines ease off and the plane gently floats down, almost skimming the water before finally touching down. Male airport sits on it's own private Atoll so transfers to your hotel are either by speedboat or, if you're lucky, by sea plane. Beats descending into Heathrow airport and then fighting your way to the train or bus station any day.</p> </div> Logically, a grey box should wrap around it. Can anyone explain to a CSS newbie why this doesn't work? |
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