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CSS - Using Divs And Spans For Data Management
In the interest of tableless design, I'm trying to organize columns and rows of data with divs and spans, but they aren't conforming to the static width I've set for them.
First let me ask, since tables were originally designed to organize data, is it still considered acceptable to use them in this way since the concept of tableless design has taken hold? Also, is it acceptable to use divs and spans to organize data since they were designed only for layout purposes? If it is acceptable, what's going on here? I'm specifying a width for the spans, but they aren't taking that width, they are only as wide as the text, which doesn't wrap. See, nothing here about width: Code: .alt0{ /* Alternating cells for search and management list */
background-color: #eeeeee;
}
.alt1{ /* Alternating cells for search and management list */
background-color: #dddddd;
}
.default { /* Default Text */
color: #222222;
text-decoration: none;
font-color: #222222;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}
Two rows: Code: <div class="alt0" style="width: 800px;"> <div class="default" style="width:600px;"> <a href="index.cgi">test post</a> </div> <div class="default" style="width:200px;"> 1 March 2006, 01:36 pm </div> </div> <div class="alt1" style="width: 800px;"> <div class="default" style="width:600px;"> <a href="index.cgi">aaaaatest post</a> </div> <div class="default" style="width:200px;"> 1 March 2006, 01:36 pm </div> </div> Similar TutorialsHallo, i have a problem with CSS and tables defining the styles by automatically builded <spans>. The problem occurs at the time, if the table is broken by the span, e.g: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head><link href="layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head> <body> <span class="CONTENTLIST"> <table width="75%" border="1"> <tr><td>CONTENTLIST</td></tr> <span class="CONTENTLIST_ROW"> <tr><td>CONTENTLIST_ROW</td></tr> </span> </table> </span> </body> </html> I use the following style-sheet: .CONTENTLIST { font-weight: bold; } .CONTENTLIST_ROW { background-color: #999999; } All texts are formatted bold, but the CONTENTLIST_ROW has no background color. If i use the following .CONTENTLIST_ROW * { background-color: #999999; } ... it works, but only in IE, not in Mozilla Firefox. Does anyone know a solution to inherit all style definitions defined by a span (and the spans that enclose this span) that are enclosed by this span? THX4help so i got theese spans you see he < | Detail Panel | Detail Panel | > theese spans are in the div with a border now i want to position theese spans vertically centered on the top border like image below can someone show me how to acheive this. i have a cheap method but it gets messed up if the user changes font size. i used position and top but if the user changes the text size via the browser it throws it off. i was hoping for a way that keeps them vertically centered no matter what the font size, at least on page load. img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/noitidart/cssfloat.gif thanks very much its urgent i've got two spans nested within a containing div. currently they have no border. I want the two spans contained within the span to have a border on hover, but not the container itself. my code's like this: <span class="button" onmouseover="this.style.class = '1px solid black'" > <span class="subbut"><u>T</u>ools</span> <span class="subbut"><img src="images/menu_down.gif" width="9" height="9"></span> </span> which will obviously not work. I thought a cool approch would be to sub the class on the entire outer span. Say it has the class button - if i can switch it for buttonover and then button over has something like this: .buttonover SPAN { then the border stuff } that might work - but i don't think you can totally switch the class of an object. Please help - SP!KE So i just wrapped up some initial styling for a personal website i'm working on, http://www.sociospatial.com/ Looks fine in firefox. Has some minor issues in chrome/webkit, which I'll iron out later. Haven't dared to load it up in IE yet. In Opera, though, I'm having a problem that I don't know where to start. So without having to paste alot of code, I have a wrapper div and a footer div, just so that I can have the footer hug either the bottom of the viewport or the bottom of the page, whichever is lower. I also wanted some background elements to the page, but I wanted them to hug the bottom as well (load up the page in firefox and resize to viewport to see), so I ended up with something like this: Code: <div id="footer"> <span id="left-bg"></span> <span id="right-bg"></span> </div> and the styling for these is something like (I can post the actual/more if need be) Code:
div#footer {
position: relative;
height: 25px;
width: 100%;
}
span#left-bg {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 400px;
height: 600px;
background: transparent url(some-url.png) no-repeat 0 0;
z-index: -1;
}
span#left-bg {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 400px;
height: 600px;
background: transparent url(some-url.png) no-repeat -400px 0;
z-index: -1;
}
in firefox/webkit at least, these function as i want, so I have 2 spans that spill up through the top of the containing footer div, but still hides behind normal content. If my wrapper content is minimal, it appropriately hugs the bottom of the viewport and i don't have any vertical scrollbar. If I have a lot of content in the wrapper, I have a vertical scrollbar, but the footer and the spillout background elements are all waiting for me at the bottom of the page. in opera (9), the two spans hug the bottom of the (initial) viewport as I would hope, but I *do* have a vertical scrollbar (even when the content in the wrapper does not necessitate it), and scrolling down reveals that I have a *huge* amount of space that's just empty body background below the footer. This empty space seems vaguely correlated with the "height" values of the spans (the lower the height value, the smaller the empty black background space under the footer), and the vertical scrollbar goes away completely under one of these conditions: a) i add "overflow:hidden" to the div#footer styling (but of course this stops the span elements from spilling through the top) b) using the W3-dev opera tools, if I disable both spans c) after I disable both spans, I enable only one or the other (if I just disable one after both have been enabled, the vertical scrollbar stays, so I have to disable both first). i'm not quite sure what exactly is going on here, nor really what issue I'm trying to track down (I don't know what to enter for a google search, for example) - I'm kind of new at this. Anyone have any clues to contribute? I'll add more information if needed. So I'm trying to pull info from a mysql DB and display the contents to a page. Basically, the database has 35 products which I want to display in rows of 5 with the image showing, and right beneath, the title of the product. I'm trying to use divs to display these items one after another, until it counts to 5 and then starts a new line. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong (or missing), but on the 1st row (and various other rows, there are 5 per row.. However, there are other rows that will show any other number of items... mostly right justified. I'm sure this will be simple enough of a solution, but here's what I've been using: PHP Code: $sql = "SELECT * FROM `products`"; $result = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die(mysql_error()); $i == 0; while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { extract($row); $i ++; $image_loc = "images/products/" . $image; $j = $i/5; $display .= "<div style=\"width:150px; float:left; padding-bottom:60px; padding-left:15px; padding-right:15px;\"><img src=\"".$image_loc . "\" style=\"width:100px;\"><br />" . $item_name . "</div>"; if (is_int($j)) { $display .= "<div clear:both;></div>"; } else { } } I have tried with and without the if statement, and with/without the clear:both. The if statement is there to determine if the count has gotten to 5 so that it can start a new line. Thanks. This might not be the best place in the forum for this question, but here it goes... I am looking to start using a CMS and wanted to see what you use, why you like it, etc? Right now, I am looking into WordPress, CMS Made Simple, and a few others... Thanks in advance... Hi, I plan to use CSS with CMS on my website. I would like to use CSS content management system for the inherent benefits of managing my website myself. I have seen a few websites developed by Imageworksstudio.com using CSS CMS together in a very correct manner. Can any of you please guide me what CSS content management system they have used? Can you point me to any online resources that help in using CMS and CSS to develop a website and make it SEO friendly. Thank You, Rheanna Francis Ok, so I've learned to stay away from tables when you don't need them, and I have an instance where this is the case. I have a container div that has a header, content and a footer. On my home page, I have to divs next to each other with the same height and a div below them towards the right. To simplify my problem, look at this example. Code:
<html>
<body>
<div style="float:right">
Hello there!
</div>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
If there's a "float:right" on that div, the hr tag below doesn't get pushed down. But if I use relative positioning and don't use the floats, I can't put the two top divs next to each other. The other option is to use absolute positioning, but again content below doesn't get pushed down correctly. It seems that using "clear:both" works, but it seems weird that this has to be done. For example if I have floating divs in a container, I can get them to stretch out the container like so: Code:
<html>
<body>
<div style="border: 1px solid #000; ">
<div style="float:right">
Hello there!<br />
Hello there!<br />
Hello there!<br />
Hello there!<br />
Hello there!<br />
Hello there!<br />
Hello there!<br />
</div>
<div style="clear: both"></div>
</div>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
Am I missing something fundamental here? Is there a better solution? Thanks in advance. Here's the site in Question: http://www.winchps.vic.edu.au It's a standard fixed width floated DIV columns with a wrapper. One thing it does have is a second DIV inside both columns to display the Gradient background over the top of the repeated background. It works perfect in Firefox & IE7 (with a tweak) but IE6 mkes the sidebar nested div drop below the original sidebar DIV click here for a screenshot for those lucky enough not to have IE6. Here's the CSS code for the basic layout: Code:
body {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 0px 60px 0px;
padding:0px;
border: 0;
line-height: 2;
}
#header {
width: 802px;
}
#wrapper {
width: 802px;
margin:0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 auto;
background: url(images/bodybg.jpg) center repeat-y;
}
#content {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#maingrad {
background: url(images/winchcontentgrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
padding: 10px;
}
#main {
width: 589px;
float: right;
background: url(images/winchcontentbg.jpg) repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
}
#mainstop {
width: 589px;
float: right;
background: url(images/winchcontentbg.jpg) repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
border-bottom: solid 1px #000;
font-size: 10px;
}
#sidebargrad {
background: url(images/winchsidebargrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
padding: 10px 5px 0px 10px;
}
#sidebar {
width: 200px;
float: left;
background: url(images/winchsidebg.jpg) repeat;
line-height: 2;
font-size: 14px;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
}
I obviously need to put a conditional comment in there, same for what I did for the minor IE7 tweak, but I'm struggling to suss out what's causing it, I haven't found the specific issue on any of the regular sites (PIE etc). Anyone got any ideas? Centering DIVs inside other DIVs in Firefox? Can it be done in a straight forward way? Setting the inner DIVs float to none seemed to work for IE but not FF. The Example I've read a bunch about how div's won't stretch to accomidate div's inside of them if they overrun the height/min-height set for the container div. How do I get around this? You can see the skeleton of the site above. It's fine unless you resize the window smaller than the content. Alright, I've been working on my own custom border box for a while and I've almost got it, but it has a few problems still. How I do it is I have one div that contains it all (.box) that defines the height and width of the whole box. Then I have three boxRows to lay out the images, and then I define how three cells in each of those rows should behave, very much like how custom borders used to be done with tables. Here are the problems: In both firefox and internet explorer, the bottom row and the far right column actually appear OUTSIDE the .box containing box. There are two additional problems in internet explorer. First, the middle row handles the auto height differently and only expands about 10px instead of the height of the containing box. The second is that the whole middle row for some reason appears to be pushed to the right by about 16px. Any help would be appreciated. Here's the code: HTML: Code: <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="reset.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="testBox.css"> </head> <body> <div class="box"> <div class="boxRowTop"> <div class="boxCellLeft"></div> <div class="boxCellMiddle"></div> <div class="boxCellRight"></div> </div> <div class="boxRowMiddle"> <div class="boxCellLeft"></div> <div class="boxCellMiddle"></div> <div class="boxCellRight"></div> </div> <div class="boxRowBottom"> <div class="boxCellLeft"></div> <div class="boxCellMiddle"></div> <div class="boxCellRight"></div> </div> </body> </html> And here is the layout css file: Code: /* Box classes */
.box {
background: rgb(120,120,120);
height: 200px;
width: 500px;
}
.boxRowTop {
height: 16px;
position: relative;
width:%100;
}
.boxRowMiddle {
height: auto;
width:%100;
position: relative;
}
.boxRowBottom {
height: 16px;
width:%100;
position: relative;
}
.boxCellLeft {
height: 100%;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 16px;
}
.boxCellMiddle {
height: 100%;
margin-left: 16px;
margin-right: 16px;
width: auto;
}
.boxCellRight {
height: 100%;
left: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 16px;
}
/* Define Cell Backgrounds/Images */
.boxRowTop .boxCellLeft {
background: url(../LandingImages/topleft_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
.boxRowTop .boxCellMiddle {
background: url(../LandingImages/top_border.png) repeat-x;
}
.boxRowTop .boxCellRight {
background: url(../LandingImages/topright_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
.boxRowMiddle .boxCellLeft {
background: url(../LandingImages/left_border.png) repeat-y;
}
.boxRowMiddle .boxCellMiddle {
background: rgb(255,255,255);
}
.boxRowMiddle .boxCellRight {
background: url(../LandingImages/right_border.png) repeat-y;
}
.boxRowBottom .boxCellLeft {
background: url(../LandingImages/bottomleft_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
.boxRowBottom .boxCellMiddle {
background: url(../LandingImages/bottom_border.png) repeat-x;
}
.boxRowBottom .boxCellRight {
background: url(../LandingImages/bottomright_circ_corner.png) no-repeat;
}
And last, the reset CSS, which I don't think has anything to do with the problems because if I take it out it still has them. Code: 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, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend, caption
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
vertical-align:baseline;
}
* {font-size:1em; font-family: inherit;}
:focus {outline:none;}
body { font-size: 62.5%; line-height:normal; font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif; color:Black; } /* 62.5% (10px), 75% (12px), 87.5% (14px), 100% (16px) */
p { margin: 0 0 1.2em 0; }
a { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:none; }
a:link { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:nonee; }
a:visited { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:none; }
a:active { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:none; }
a:hover { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:none; }
a.h1,a.h2,a.h3,a.h4,a.h5,a.h6,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6
{
font-weight:bold;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
color:Black;
}
h1, a.h1, a:link.h1, a:visited.h1, a:active.h1, a:hover.h1 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 2.00em; }
h2, a.h2, a:link.h2, a:visited.h2, a:active.h2, a:hover.h2 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.75em; } /* this is normally skipped? 1.50em */
h3, a.h3, a:link.h3, a:visited.h3, a:active.h3, a:hover.h3 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.50em; } /* 1.25em */
h4, a.h4, a:link.h4, a:visited.h4, a:active.h4, a:hover.h4 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.25em; } /* 1.00em */
h5, a.h5, a:link.h5, a:visited.h5, a:active.h5, a:hover.h5 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 1.00em; } /* 0.75em */
h6, a.h6, a:link.h6, a:visited.h6, a:active.h6, a:hover.h6 { color:Black; text-decoration:none; font-size: 0.75em; } /* 0.66em WTF? */
fieldset { border:solid 1px; padding:0.25em 0.5em 0.75em; margin: 0 0 1.5em; }
legend { margin:0 0 0 2em; padding:0 1em; }
textarea, input, select { border:solid 1px #ccc; margin:0; padding:0; }
textarea, input { padding:0 .2em; }
input:focus,textarea:focus,select:focus { border:solid 1px black; }
small { font-size:.9em; }
ul, ol, dl { position: relative; padding:0 0 0 1.5em; margin:1.5em 0; }
dir, menu { margin:1.5em 0; }
/* nested lists have no top/bottom margins */
ul ul, ul ol, ul dir, ul menu, ul dl,
ol ul, ol ol, ol dir, ol menu, ol dl,
dl ul, dl ol, dl dir, dl menu, dl dl,
dir ul, dir ol, dir dir, dir menu, dir dl,
menu ul, menu ol, menu dir, menu menu, menu dl
{
margin:0;
padding: 0 0 0 1.5em;
}
hr { margin:0.75em 0; padding:0; }
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as I've been working on this for a while! Thanks! Hi All, I am trying to get to grips with css positioning and am hitting problems. The code below is my complete page (inc css). I am trying to get the 3 divs - leftbox, middlebox and rightbox to sit alongside each other with 5px gaps and all 3 being vertically aligned 5px below the frontsplash div. 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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
#header {
background-color: #80724d;
height: 70px;
width: 790px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
}
#navbar {
background-color: #d5c8a4;
height: 25px;
width: 790px;
top: 70px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
}
#frontsplash {
background-color: #fbf8ef;
width: 500px;
margin: 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
#frontboxcontainer {
}
#threeboxes {
display: block;
}
#leftbox {
float: left;
background-color: #d5c8a4;
width: 200px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
#middlebox {
top: 0px;
background-color: #d5c8a4;
margin: 210px;
width: 100px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
#rightbox {
top 0px;
background: #d5c8a4;
width: 100px;
margin: 310px;
}
h1 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 24px;
color: #80724d;
padding: 0px;
}
h2 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #80724d;
padding: 0px;
}
p {
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #323232;
}
#navbar ul {
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
}
#navbar li {
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:0;
border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}
#navbar a {
display:block;
padding:0px 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
Site Name
</div>
<div id="navbar">
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Home</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">About</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Downloads</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Documentation</a> </li>
<li> <a href="#">Contributing</a> </li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="frontboxcontainer">
<div id="frontsplash">
<h1>This is the title ... </h1>
<p>This is the introductory text This is the introductory text This is the introductory text
This is the introductory text This is the introductory text This is the introductory text
</p>
</div>
<div id="threeboxes">
<div id="leftbox">
<h2>DEMONSTRATION</h2>
<p> A fully functional demo of the
application is available online
</p>
</div>
<div id="middlebox">
<h2>SUPPORT US</h2>
<p>Why not donate to help keep
the project alive?
</p>
</div>
<div id="rightbox">
<h2>SERVICES</h2>
<p>Professional services available
with the application.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It has all gone pear shaped..... any ideas? Thanks. Apologies for my crude code. I'm attempting to learn css on the fly. My design is looking right on Macs (Firefox, Safari) but the image gallery I've cobbled together is all wrong on pretty much any browser on a PC. Any ideas? (and also - the menu keeps shifting down about 125px more than it should on IE 6.0, any thought there would be equally appreciated!!) many, many thanks. I'm at a roadblock. charlie Hiya, this is my first time posting here; tia for helping me out with my problem. I am trying to center a 784 wide page, cut up into multiple divs. It's working, but I am getting a problem which I cannot get rid of. I'm using position:relative, and this is making the page scroll as if the images were below each other. They are showing up in the correct spots, but once the page is finished, I end up with another page worth of white space to scroll through (which I do not want.) I hope this explained it correctly. Below is an example of the html and css I am using. Notice the red drops below the final picture then length of the picture itself. Once the entire page is done, it is about 1500px longer than needed. ******************************* HTML ******************************* <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="new.css"> </head> <body> <div class="begin"> <div class="header_piece_01"><img src="images/picture_01.jpg"></div> <div class="rocket_logo"><img src="images/picture_02.jpg"><br><img src="images/picture_03.jpg"><br><img src="images/picture_04.jpg"></div> </div> </body> </html> ******************************* new.css ******************************* body { font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size : 11px; text-align : justify; line-height : 150%; color : #000000; margin : 0px; border : 0px; padding : 0px; background-color : #FFFFFF; } a { text-decoration : none; } a:hover { text-decoration : none; } .begin { width : 784px; background-color : red; margin-left : auto; margin-right : auto; } .header_piece_01 { width : 31px; height : 118px; } .rocket_logo { position : relative; top : -118px; left : 31px; width : 289px; } Please have a look at http://www.root.lamtha2.co.uk/cssproblem/ why is there a gap between #header and #maincontent in both IE and FF how do I resolve? thanks In IE my center div is even with the rest of the columns. in ff it is not. why? My style sheet does not specify a top-margin to be anything other than default ... http://www.nevertap.com/event.php Any ideas as to why i'm getting these 2 gaps where the white background is clearly visible? It's under the header div and above the footer div, which surrounds my content/container div. There also seems to be a margin or padding around the text in the leftSide and mainText divs, but none around the text in the rightSide div. Hmmm? This problem can be reproduced in FF. http://www.indusmultifoods.com/test/indus.php Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Amit p.s. there is no php code as of now, i just have a habit of starting off my webpages with php extensions. |
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