CSS - Container Not Filling Background Color

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I have a container in which I have a link. I would like to change the color of the container when the user hovers over the link.

Can I do that? I can make the background of the text change, but the container is wider than the text.

HTML:
Code:

<div id="LinkBox" class="LB1"><a class="LinkBoxLink" href="#">Link #1</a></div>

CSS:
Code:

#LinkBox {
float: right;
height: 20px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
border-color: gainsboro;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
text-align: center;
}


.LB1 {
width: 241px;
}


a.LinkBoxLink:link {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
}

a.LinkBoxLink:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
}

a.LinkBoxLink:hover {
background-color: red;
color: yellow;
}

a.LinkBoxLink:active {
text-decoration: none;
}

Thanks again for your help.

Brad

Hey guys, I've recently started working on my css and for some reason my background image isn't showing up in my container. Any idea why?

CSS Code:
Original - CSS Code /* CSS Document */ * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { font-size: 62.5%; background: #344149; } p, li { font: 1.2em/1.8em Tahoma, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; } h1 { font: 2.0em Tahoma, sans-serif; color: white; height: 0px; } h2 { font: 1.8em Tahoma, sans-serif; color: green; margin-bottom: 10px; } ul { margin-left: 25px; } img { border: none; } #page-wrap { background: black; min-width: 780px; max-width: 1260px; margin: 10px auto; width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 782? "780px" : document.body.clientWidth > 1262? "1260px" : "auto"); } #page-wrap #inside { margin: 10px 10px 0px 10px 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; } #main-content { background: transparent url(/Images/Background_Content.jpg) no-repeat top right; padding-left: 180px; padding-right: 180px; padding-top: 20px; } #header { background: #000000; text-align: center; } #left-sidebar { background: transparent url(/Images/Background_Content.jpg) no-repeat top right; width: 150px; float: left; padding-left: 15px; padding-top: 20px; } #right-sidebar { background: transparent url(/Images/Background_Content.jpg) no-repeat top right; width: 150px; float: right; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px; } #footer { background: #267f23; text-align: center; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; color: white; }

  

 /* CSS Document */


 * {


     margin: 0;


     padding: 0;


 }


  


 body {


     font-size: 62.5%;


     background: #344149;


 }


  


 p, li {


     font: 1.2em/1.8em Tahoma, sans-serif;


     margin-bottom: 10px;


 }


  


 h1 {


     font: 2.0em Tahoma, sans-serif;


     color: white;


     height: 0px;


 }


  


 h2 {


     font: 1.8em Tahoma, sans-serif;


     color: green;


     margin-bottom: 10px;


 }


  


 ul {


     margin-left: 25px;


 }


  


 img {


     border: none;


 }


  


 #page-wrap {


     background: black;


     min-width: 780px;


     max-width: 1260px;


     margin: 10px auto;


     width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 782? "780px" : document.body.clientWidth > 1262? "1260px" : "auto");


     }


     #page-wrap #inside {


         margin: 10px 10px 0px 10px 10px;


         padding-top: 10px;


         padding-bottom: 10px;


     }


     


 #main-content {


     background: transparent url(/Images/Background_Content.jpg) no-repeat top right;


     padding-left: 180px;


     padding-right: 180px;


     padding-top: 20px;


 }


     


 #header {


     background: #000000;


     text-align: center;


 }


     


 #left-sidebar {


     background: transparent url(/Images/Background_Content.jpg) no-repeat top right;


     width: 150px;


     float: left;


     padding-left: 15px;


     padding-top: 20px;


 }


  


 #right-sidebar {


     background: transparent url(/Images/Background_Content.jpg) no-repeat top right;


     width: 150px;


     float: right;


     padding-right: 15px;


     padding-top: 20px;


 }


  


 #footer {


     background: #267f23;


     text-align: center;


     padding-top: 20px;


     padding-bottom: 20px;


     color: white;


 } 

It's the Background_Content.jpg that isn't loading for some reason. It resides in the Image folder located in the same directory as the html file.

Oh and the reason I had it included so much was to test to see if it was just the main-content that wouldn't load it.

The main content should include the left-sidebar and right-sidebar right?

Please help!

Hi

I have searched on this subject, and found the Faux Column articles, but I have failed to make use of these.

The following page shows the problem

LINK
And
CSS

The text in the container div leads off the bottom of the page.

The CSS is a bit of a mess at the moment because I have been messing with it trying to get this to work. I need the background of the container div to extend to the bottom of the content div.

I have set min-height and heights for the body and html tags, and then for the container, as I know that the height is only taken into account if the parent has a height too. This does not work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Jake

Hoping someone can help me out as I'm still pretty new to the whole web design thing. I'm using CSS to create a container wrapper. As you can see from the code I have a bottom, top and center image. When I was using JPEG images everything lined up correctly, however I needed to switch to PNG image files (to take advantage of transparency) and now the top and bottom sections of the wrapper are offset.

Here is a live link: storrepictures.weebly.com/projects.html


-Please find an image of the resulting problem he http://i.imgur.com/YnTS8.png
-This is how it looks when I use JPEGs instead of PNGs: http://i.imgur.com/2WMFN.png


Here is my CSS wrapper code:

Code:

#wrapper {
    background: url(containerbg.png) center repeat-y;
    }

#wrappertop{
    background: url(containertop.png) top center no-repeat;
}

#wrappertbtm{
    background: url(containerbtm.png) bottom center no-repeat;
    padding-bottom: 65px;
}

And here is the HTML:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<title>{title}</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<style>
#content
{
    height:400px !important;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body class="wsite-theme-light">

        <div id="wrappertop">
            <div id="wrapper">

            
            <div id="header">
                <div id="headerleft">{logo max-height="60"}</div>
                <div id="navigation">{menu}</div>        
            </div>      
            
            <div id="content">{content}
                <div id="footer">{footer}
                                <div id="wrappertbtm">
               
                </div>
                </div>
                </div>
                </div>
    </div> 
    </div>
</body>
</html>

i wanted usersto choose their own style sheet by giving them different links like red, green, blue which will take them to different layouts or background color page. the problem was that worked only for that particular page but if they click on any link or menu from that page it will take them back to the default color.
is there any way that i can set so that their choice will stay throught their surfing ?
any thoughts ?

hanks

Having an issue with the background color in a div.

The color shows up in I.E. but not in Firefox.

I have a div with a width of 100%. Inside the div is an unordered list with two list items.

Here is the css:

div#nav {
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
background-color: #EAE9E4;
}

#nav ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; }

#nav li {
list-style: none;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 15%;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 20px;
white-space: nowrap;
}

Essentially this will be a navigation aid below the banner of the webpage. The list items will contain anchors which will appear as "buttons". The containing div extends to the end and I want it to have a background color.

Any help appreciated.

Hi,

I have made a page using <div> tags.

<div id="page">
<div id="leftmenu">
</div>
<div id="mainarea">
</div>
</div>

My problem is that sometimes, the leftmenu is longer than the main area(1) and sometimes its the opposite- the main area is longer than the leftmenu(2). I want them both to be of the same height. (3)

How can I do this? Plz Help!

I have pasted the style codes for the 3 tags below.


(1)


(2)



(3)

#mainarea {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
float:left;
position:relative;
right:0pt;
width:630px;
}

#leftmenu {
background-color:#EEEEEE;
float:left;
left:0pt;
position:relative;
width:140px;
}

#page {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
position:relative;
width:770px;
}

Hi there people,

I have a question about CSS but before I start off asking this question I'll introduce myself.

I'm a new user of this great forum, my name is Dwight and I'm a student on the "Graphical Lyceum Amsterdam" where I follow the education for "Multimedia Designer".

Ok so now you know me a little, I'll start off asking my question.

Question: I have to change the layout for a html page that askes for information from different asp pages, but that's not my problem . The problem is that I have to make some td's a different color -the background that is- but the problem is that I can't change the html page itself (it is automaticly generated and I don't have permission to change it).
So my question is can someone tell me how I can change the color of some (not all!) td's with CSS without making classes?

Tnx, Dwight

Hey Guys!

I'm going absolutely bonkers trying to find out how to change the color of the background of a certain element on my site. I installed Vanilla forums on my site and am trying to customize the css script.

If you look at the page, you will see an annoying white in the body. I am trying to make the background of that #F6F6F2. Could you guys possibly put me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Here is a link to my page:
shipswatchdotcom/forum/vanilla/aaa.html

Here is the css script:
Code:

#Body {
	margin: 0;
	width: 99.9%;
	position: relative;
	background: #F6F6F2;

}
#Head {
	background: #B8D4B8;
	padding:0;
	margin: 20px 20px 0;
	text-align: left;
	position: relative;
}
div.Popup h1,
div.Popup h2,
div.Connect h1,
div.Connect h2 {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #3b5998;
}
.Banner {
	padding: 10px;
	text-align: left;
	position: relative;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
.Banner ul {
	background: #B8D4B8;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}
.Banner ul li {
	display: inline;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}
.Banner ul li a {
	font-weight: bold;
	padding: 3px 6px;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #336633;
	display: inline-block;
}
.Banner ul li a:hover {
	background: #E5F0E5;
}
.Banner ul li a.SignOut {
	font-weight: normal;
	position: absolute;
	top: 10px;
	right: 10px;
}
.Banner ul li a span {
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	padding: 1px 2px 0 1px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-right: 1px solid #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #F6F6F2;
	color: #F6F6F2;
	font-size: 9px;
	position: relative;
	top: -3px;
}
#Content {
	float: none;
	width: auto;
	margin: 0 280px 0 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Panel {
	float: right;
	margin-right: 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Panel div.SearchBox input.InputBox {
	width: 200px;
	margin-right: 4px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
div.SearchBox {
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}
body.Profile div.SearchBox {
	display: none;
}
body.Profile #Content {
	float:none;
	width: auto;
	margin: 0 10px 0 280px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Profile #Panel {
	margin: 0 0 0 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
form.Activity textarea {
	width:99%;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Foot div {
	width: auto;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Post #Content {
	width: auto;
	margin:0 20px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#ConversationForm textarea.MultiComplete,
#ConversationForm .TextBox,
#MessageForm textarea,
div.Comment div.CommentForm,
div.Comment div.CommentForm textarea,
div.CommentForm textarea,
#DiscussionForm input.InputBox,
#DiscussionForm textarea {
	width:99%;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#ConversationForm form {
	border: none;
}
div.Preview div.Message,
ul.MessageList div.Message {
	clear: none;
}
#DiscussionForm form {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
div.MessageForm,
div.Tabs {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
}

/* Tabs */
div.Tabs {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	padding: 0;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
}
div.Tabs ul {
	padding: 0 8px;
	white-space: nowrap;
}
div.MessageForm {
	padding: 8px 8px 5px;
}
div.MessageForm div.Tabs {
	padding: 0 8px;
}
div.Tabs li a,
div.Tabs li a:link,
div.Tabs li a:hover,
div.Tabs li a:active,
div.Tabs li a:visited {
	font-size: 11px;
   margin: 0;
   border: none;
   border-radius: 0;
   -moz-border-radius: 0;
   -webkit-border-radius: 0;
   background: #F6F6F2;
   color: #336633;
   text-decoration: none;
   padding: 8px 10px;
	line-height: 11px;
}
div.Tabs li a:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
}
a.Active,
div.Tabs li.Active a {
   background: #F6F6F2;
   color: #336633;
   margin: 0;
   border: 1px solid #aaa;
	border-bottom: none;
   border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
   -moz-border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
   -webkit-border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
   display: inline-block;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 12px;
   font-weight: bold;
   text-decoration: none;
   padding: 6px 10px;
	position: relative;
	top: 1px;
}
div.Tabs li a span {
   line-height: 1;
   font-size: 80%;
   padding: 0 3px;
   border-radius: 3px;
   -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
   -moz-border-radius: 3px;
   font-weight: normal;
	background: #F6F6F2;
   color: #4A7023;
   margin: 0 0 0 4px;
}
div.DiscussionsTabs div.SubTab {
	font-size: 11px;
	border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 0;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	margin:0;
	padding:4px 8px;
}
div.HeadingTabs ul {
	margin: 8px 0 0;
}
body.Discussion a.Bookmark {
	margin: 6px 2px;
}
div.Preview {
	border: 1px solid #aaa;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	margin:0 0 8px;
	padding: 8px;
}
.Foot {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: none;
}
div.MorePager a,
div.MorePager a:link,
div.MorePager a:visited,
div.MorePager a:active,
div.MorePager a:hover {
	border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 0;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: none;
	color: #4A7023;
	line-height: 1;
	padding: 0;
	text-decoration: none;	
}
div.MorePager a:hover {
	color: #4A7023;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
body.add #Content {
	margin: 0 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}

/* Panel Boxes */
#Panel div.Box {
	border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 0;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	box-shadow: none;
	-moz-box-shadow: none;
	-webkit-box-shadow: none;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	padding: 0;
}
div.Box h4 {
	color: #4A7023;
}
ul.PanelActivity,
ul.PanelInfo {
	border-top:1px solid #ccc;
}
ul.PanelActivity li,
ul.PanelInfo li,
ul.PanelInfo li.Active {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
ul.PanelInfo li.Active {
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Status {
	border-radius: 2px;
	-moz-border-radius: 2px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
	background: #eee;
	color: #000;
	line-height: 1.6;
	padding: 3px 6px;
	margin: 0 0 8px;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo {
	border: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li a {
	font-size: 12px;
	display: block;
	padding: 0 6px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li a:hover {
	background: #F6F6F2;
}

/* Sign In Page */
body.Entry #Content {
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 auto !important;
}
body.Entry #Content div.Box {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 0;
}
div.Methods {
	border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
}

/* Messages */
div.DismissMessage {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	padding:6px 8px;
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}
div.DismissMessage a.Dismiss:hover {
	color: #000;
}
div.Warning {
	background: #d00;
	border: 1px solid #b00;
	color: #F6F6F2;
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #444;
}
div.Warning a.Dismiss {
	color: #F6F6F2;
}
#Content div.Box {
	color: #000;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 1px solid #F6F6F2;
}
body#dashboard_entrycontroller_signin div.Box {
	border: none;
}
/* Autocomplete */
.ac_results {
   border: 1px solid #d7d8da;
	color: #000;
   border-top: 0;
   background-color: #F6F6F2;
}
.ac_results li {
   border-bottom: 1px solid #d7d8da;
}
.ac_lastitem {
   border-bottom: 0 !important;
}
.ac_results strong {
   background: #F6F6F2;
}
.ac_over strong {
   background: #F6F6F2;
}
.ac_over {
   background: #3b5998;
   color: #fff;

}

Hi,

I am trying to apply a background color to an item other than the body but I cannot make it display in IE 6 or 5.5. I have tried applying it to both <div>'s and <p>'s. Does IE not support the background-color property outside of the page background?

On the main page of my site, I have a "slogan box" with a width set to 40%. This is outlined and has a background color. In IE, it outlines and colors in the blank space up to 40%, the desired effect. But in Firefox and Mozilla, it outlines only up to where the text stops.

Here's the main css behind it:
#slogan
{
border-bottom:2px solid black;
border-right:2px solid black;
border-left:2px solid black;
background-color:#ABAABB;
font-family:comic sans ms;
width:40%;
}

Attactched is the screenshot from IE and firefox.

How can I make it look like it does in IE for all browsers (i.e., what is the correct code?)

The full code can be seen here.

I have this transparent png image and it looks great on a web page when you put a background color on it. the only transparent part is the border, the rest is white, so the bg color is really for border.

When you go to print it, however, printers dont normally show bg colors
Is there some way how I can force printing the the bg color when the user prints the page? (I know some times u can configure that on their printer but I don't want them to have to do anything. )

Hi,

I am trying to set background color on hover for a single table of links, rather than the entire document like the below example shows.

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pseudoclasses/

I have tried various ways, I do not want to use javascript for this and I am aware of the way to apply background color to the .td field but this also applys to the normal text not just links.

So my question is how do I apply the background hover color to one table of links instead of the body. Thanks!

Hi,

I have a simple table

<table id="sometable">
<tr>
<td>
<a href="link1">link1</a>
<td>
<a href="link2">link2</a>
</table>

with a style sheet
table#sometable {width: 100%;}
table#sometable a:hover{background-color: #A9A9A9;}

What I want is on a hover the whole cell changes color, not just the link. How can I do this? Also should I be using a table in the first place?

Thanks

Colin

I have the following code, in the sidebar DIV in Firefox the background does not show up, it does in IE7. What have I done wrong?

CSS code:
Code:

#content {
	margin-left: 25px;
	background: #fff;
	width: 990px;
	padding: 15px 20px 20px 20px;
}

#blog {
	padding: 0;
	margin-right: 40px;
	background: #fff;
	width: 660px;
	color: #545454;
	float: left;
	padding-top: 5px !important;
}
#sidebar {
	width: 250px;
	padding: 8px;
	background: #ccc;
}

XHTML/HTML code:
Code:

 
<div id="content">
	
	<div id="blog">
    	 blah blah blah
	</div>
	
	<div id="sidebar">
		<h2>blah</h2>
		blah blah blah
	</div>
	
</div>

I've been looking it at for a while, and while it's probably something minor I'm just simple over looking, I can't figure it out.

Everything works, is in the correct place, except the grey background (#ccc) isn't showing up on the sidebar.