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CSS - Floating Text Around A Centered Div - Boss Wants Me To Do The Impossible
Hi,
Okay my boss wants me to do this: Have a rectangualr div that has another div in it that is smaller and is in the (vertically and horizontally) center. No probs, but the one in the middle has to have text floating around it, thats above left right and bottom. Me thinks this is impossible! Does anyone have any idea??? Cheers, Similar TutorialsI 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? This is my rendition of Claire Campbell's "Vertical Buttons". Why is my text "Quick Links" not centered in IE? All the other text is centered? Thanks in advance. 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" >
<style type="text/css">
#quikcontainer
{
position: absolute;
top: 120px;
left: 30px;
height: 650px;
width: 143px;
background: white;
border: orange 2px solid;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top: 20px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
text-align: center;
color: #1E599F;
}
ul#quiklist
{
text-align: center;
color: #1E599F;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
}
ul#quiklist li
{
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul#quiklist li a
{
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;
color: #1E599F;
text-decoration: none;
background: white;
}
#quikcontainer>ul#quiklist li a { width: auto; }
ul#quiklist li a:hover, ul#quiklist li#active a:hover
{
color: white;
background: #1E599F;
border-color: orange;
border-bottom: 2px solid;
border-top: 2px solid;
}
</style>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="quikcontainer">
<p><strong>Quick Links</strong></p>
<ul id="quiklist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" target="_blank">Aaaaaaa A-A</a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank">AA Aaaa aa Aaaaaa Aaaaaaaa</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Aaaaaaa A-A Aaaaaaa</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Aaa A-A Aaaa</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Aaaaaa A-A Aaaaaa Aaaaaaa</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
hi, i'm wondering whether anyone here knows something that i don't about this... here's some code: Code: <div style="position:absolute; left:30px; top:90px; width:380px; height:80px; border: 3px double #000000; padding:10px; padding-top:5px; line-height:150%"> <table width="380" height="80" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td valign="middle"> <div align="center" style="width:380px;"> <span style="font-size:11px; text-align:left;"> aligned to the left.<BR> but is it centered?<BR> i think not.<BR> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> i'm able to achieve vertically centered text in the table cell, and i can center it or align it to the left, but so far in my experimenting i haven't found a way to have text that is aligned to the left, centered in the div. i could always just add a bunch of padding-left on the div so that the text is pushed over and looks nicer although it is not centered, but i'm wondering whether there's a way to do it the way i originally planned to.. thanks very much for looking at this. Usiing ONLY CSS, is it possible to "justify" a block of text and have the last line centered? For example: Code:
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CSS seems to only offer one or the other text-align:justify; or text-align:center; Thanks. I have a 4 column div layout using floats. When I resize the browser the text in the columns goes outside of the div, and over everything below it. Is there any way to insure that as the browser is resized the text will stay inside it's div? Here's an example of my code: CSS: Code:
div#middle {
line-height: 130%;
text-align: left;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
min-width: 800px;
}
div#featured {
background-color: #666;
color: #333;
border-right: 1px solid gray;
width: 30%;
float: left;
padding: 1em;
font-size: 14px;
}
div#snippets {
background-color: #444;
color: #333;
width: 20%;
float: left;
padding: 2em;
font-size: 12px;
}
div#tools {
color: #333;
background-color: grey;
width: 150px;
float: left;
padding: 1em;
}
div#ads {
background-color: #444;
color: #333;
width: 100px;
float: left;
padding: 1em;
}
HTML: Code: <div id="middle" class="minmax"> <!-- Main Articles --> <div id="featured" class="vsize"> <h1>Featured Header</h1> <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.</p> </div> <!-- Short Articles --> <div id="snippets" class="vsize"> <h1>Snippets Header</h1> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.</p> </div> <!-- Search, other tools, event calendar --> <div id="tools" class="vsize">Tools</div> <!-- Ads --> <div id="ads" class="vsize">Ads</div> </div> Following on from an earlier thread I've split one problem off into the code below which can also be found at http://alphaworks.co.uk/test/float.htm The problem should be obvious from the text but just to confirm I want the left boundary of the text to be straight and not to flow back under the image as it is currently doing. I can do that with a margin-left:110px on the .description class but I'd rather have a solution which didn't depend on knowing the width of the image as this may well vary. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Geoff Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.image
{
border : solid black 1px;
margin : 5px;
padding : 5px;
float : left;
}
.description
{
}
</style>
</head>
<div class="image">
<img src="" width="100" height="100"/>
</div>
<div class="description">
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
This should be to the right of the image and should not flow underneath the image.
</div>
</html>
Hi Guys, Thanks to some incredible pointing me in the right direction yesterday, i have finally got to my 3-col layout that I want. The only issue is now my news box will let content role behind it, but really i want it to push down as with the footer bar! Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Stylesheet below and output at www.generating-sets.com/index.new2.php PHP Code: html {height:100%;} body { margin:0; padding:0; height:100%; background-image:url(bgs.gif); background-position:top right; background-repeat:repeat-y; background-color:#ffffff; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; } #wrap { background-image:url(bg.gif); background-position:top left; background-repeat:repeat-y; min-height:100%; } * html #wrap {height:100%} #header { background-image:url(label2.gif); background-position:right; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-color: #000066; border-bottom: 2px #ffffff solid; color: #ffffff; margin:0; padding:0; height:80px; } p {margin:5px; padding:0;} h1 { position:relative; line-height:80px; margin:0; padding-left:20px; } #left { float:left; width:150px; color: #ffffff; text-align:center; background-color: #000066; } #main { position:relative; margin-left:200px; } #right { float:right; width:10px; text-align:center; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000066; } #content { padding:5px; margin-right:200px; text-align:left; } #clearfooter { clear:both; height:80px; overflow:hidden; } #footer { height:40px; background-color: #000066; border-top: 2px #ffffff solid; margin:0; padding:0; margin-top:-0px; color: #ffffff; text-align:center; } div#newsbar {padding: 1%; text-align: center; height:150px; background-color: #000066; color: #ffffff; margin-left: +150px; margin-right: +10px; margin-top: -190px; border: 2px #ffffff solid; width: auto;} code { font-size:0.8em; border:1px solid navy; background-color:white; color:#333333; padding:10px; display:block; width:80%; margin:10px auto; overflow:auto; } There must be a reason why it works like it does, but i don't know!! Charlie I am a bit lost as to how to accomplish the following: I have two divs of unequal width, let's say 300 and 100 for example. I need to float both of these divs to the right and have them stacked on top of each other. That's easy enough on it's own, but I need text to wrap around them properly. ie if the wide one is on top the text should flow to it's left edge, then flow underneath it it the narrow divs left edge, then underneath the narrow one. I tried doing this with relaitve positioning, but have had no luck. If I simply float them both to the right, they line up side by side as expected. If I wrap them both in one container div, the text will flow to the left edge of the wide div but obviously not wrap underneath it to the left edge of the narrow div. Any ideas? See the image at http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x205/vitainf/IEhelp.png - having trouble to get it showing the image with the bbcodes :S As you can see the menu to the right, which is known as '.sidebar' in the css followed below, is sort of pushing the main content, which is known as .content in the css below, down. Anyone has any idea how to fix this? Style Sheets Code: body
{
text-align: center;
background: #800000;
color: #fff;
}
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
div#container
{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 700px;
text-align: left;
}
#spacer {
height: 50px;
}
#header {
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
background: url(ctfiles/logo.png) no-repeat top center #000;
}
#container {
background: #fff;
padding: 10px;
}
#main {
background: #000;
color: #fff;
width: 700px;
}
.sidebar {
float: right;
text-align: right;
background: #000;
color: #fff;
width: 30%;
padding-left: 8px
padding-right: 12px
}
.content {
color: #fff;
background: #000;
width: 70%;
margin-left: 2px;
margin-right: 2px
}
HTML/Template/PHP w/e Note: It's a template for the MODx CMS, which explains some of the calls like [(site_name)]. The lorum ipsum is in the [*content*] call, the menu in the [[wayfinder...]] one. PHP 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> <title>[(site_name)] | [*pagetitle*]</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="[(base_url)]chinatown.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <base href="[(site_url)]" /> <!--[if lte IE 6]> <style type="text/css" media="screen, tv, projection"> body { behavior: url(assets/js/csshover.htc); } /* hover:anything support */ #content { margin-left: 22px; } /* to avoid the BMH */ a, a:link { border-bottom-style: solid } /* becuase IE just doesn't dot */ </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="assets/js/sleight.js"></script> <![endif]--> </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div id="spacer"> </div> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> </div> <div id="main"> <div class="sidebar"> [[Wayfinder? &startId=`0`]] </div> <div class="content"> <h4>[*longtitle*]</h4> [*#content*] </div> </div> <div id="footer"> [(site_name)] is powered by <a href="http://modxcms.com/" title="Powered by MODx"><strong>MOD</strong>x Content Management System</a> <br /><a href="[~11~]" title="Link to our Blog RSS Feeds">Blog Entries (RSS)</a><br /> MySQL: [^qt^], [^q^] request(s), PHP: [^p^], total: [^t^], document retrieved from [^s^]. </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> Trying to achieve this: I'm having trouble figuring out how to float the right ad space correctly. This is what i've got so far: http://gatehouse.graffetto.com/floating_divs.html Code: Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.mainDiv {margin: 0; border: 1px solid black; padding: 10px; width: 600px; float: left;}
.image {height: 100px; width: 100px; background-color: red; float: left;}
.rightAd {float: right; background-color: blue; height: 250px; width: 300px; clear:right; margin-top: 300px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mainDiv">
<div class="image">test</div>
<div class="rightAd">test</div>
<div class="textDiv">
Text content
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I know this is simple i just can't figure it out for some reason.. thanks for any help. I am stuck using a tool in asp by now choice of my own. I am also stuck with a layout that is impossible with the tool, I think. The tool generates a table like so: Row 1 Row 2 Row 3 Row 4 The html looks like: <table> <tr><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>3</td></tr> <tr><td>4</td></tr> </table> I would love to find a way in css to get this to layout like Row 1 Row 2 Row 3 Row 4 Or Even better would be Row 1 Row 2 Row 3 Row 4 I tried everything I could think of to get this to happen. I read the specifications and I was under the impression that if you run position on a table row it turns into a block box. Any help? http://www.hostnet.nl/bestelmodule/...er_gegevens.php can something like this be done with or without CSS? and without everything beeing a fixed width i think its not possible but im having very much trouble with that idea so thats why i ask for your opinion I want my page to have 3 columns spread over 100% of the page. the 2 outer columns are just for backgroundcolors (they should differ) and the center one is the actual content of the page. Everything should be 100% height en the center div also contains 2 divs besides eachother! like this: http:/ /www.benkhard nl/sites/divs/divs.jpg just go to index.html for the page/css view. I can't seem to get it right, any help? Thanks! Hi again , I've got one more question: when you've used a 2 or 3-col layout for your webpage (the right, possibly the middle col holds the actual content, the others are floating divs used as menus), you can no more use the clear property for the actual content? Because it clears the space until all floating elements ends - including menus , so it finally looks like here. Here are CSS used for this page: CSS_1 (used for the fotogallery only) and CSS_2 (used mainly for layout of the web). I think there is a solution, I've already thought it can be found on BonRouge's pages (very useful pages by the way), but he made the menu using absolute positioning . So has anyone any idea how to solve this? And maybe one more detail: can be pictures in this fotogallery centered in their parent <div> (red bordered)? They're all floating, so it's not so easy, if possible. Oh man, rebuild these pages without tables, it really drives me mad... my site is totally based on tables. there is one huge table, which outlines the area for the header, left panel menus, right panel boxes, and the footer. inside those, the header is another table, the left panels are another table, each panel being a new row, the right panel boxes are the same thing, and the footer is a table just like the header. that is what every page is like. where on earth do i start? here is what i'm thinking so far, but i need confirmation because i have never done this befo header is just a regular div left panel menus are a div that floats left right content panels is a div that floats right footer is just a regular div will that work? can any1 specify if i need any other css that the float to make this work? given the following structu #container { width:775px; margin:0px auto; background-color:#fff; border-left:2px solid #424242; border-right:2px solid #424242; border-bottom:2px solid #424242; border-top:2px solid #424242; background-image:url(cont_bg.jpg); background-repeat:repeat-y; } #nav { padding:0px; height:100px; background-color:#4E7395; background-image:url(nav.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:top left; } #masthead { padding:0px; height:200px; background-image:url(header.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:top left; background-color:#E6E6E6; border-bottom:4px solid #4e7395; } #leftnav { float: left; width: 375px; margin-left:0px; padding:0px; background-color:transparent; } #rightnav { clear:right; float: right; width:392px; margin-right:0px; padding:0px; background-color:transparent; } Would it be possible to put text paragraphs side by side inside the rightnav <div> Floating the text in that manner, it would appear that there were two mini-columns, instead of just the one. Is that possible? thanks a million jon I have a site that I am working on: test dot choupique dot com The #subpage class is centered in internet explorer 9, but not firefox 5. I can't figure out why for the life of me. Can anyone see why? Thanks How can i accomplish this with CSS? See image he hxxp://g.imagehost.org/0398/css.png (replace x with t) |
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