CSS - Centreing A Div Inside A 100% Width Div.

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;">


     <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> 

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 have seen a design which I find pretty interesting where in the main site is aligned left and fixed width at say 700px wide. Yet the footer seems to span the entire screen.

The header also seems to use the entire screen width but that is beign accomplished with the background image, but this footer goes all the way to end of the screen and naturally adjusts itself under all the content.

Is there a way to get this effect?

Hello,

(please also see attached/uploaded style sheet)

I'm puzzled why (in the following code) the TEST #2 table renders as required (i.e. 2 rows in 1 column, all with the same cell WIDTH) but the table in TEST #1 seems to render the table cells (i.e. 2 columns in 1 row) without a common cell WIDTH.

How can I get all the cells (there are plenty more!) in table TEST #1 to all be exactly the same width (preferably 85px)?

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://thinet/cgi-bin/thinetStyleSheet.css">

TEST #1
<table class="menu" border=1 CELLPADDING=2>
<tr>
<td class="pinkButtons"><a title="Treats menu" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=82'>Treats</a></td>
<td class="pinkButtons"><a title="New Starters, Leavers and Transfers" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41'>Joiners etc.</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

<P>

TEST #2
<table class="menu" border=1 CELLPADDING=2>
<tr><td class="pinkButtons"><a title="Treats menu" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=82'>Treats</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="pinkButtons"><a title="New Starters, Leavers and Transfers" href='http://thinet/theread/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41'>Joiners etc.</a></td></tr>
</table>

I don't think I've quite grasped the idea of CSS yet?!?!

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy

Ok. Here's the problem:

I have a asp.net 1.x datagrid inside a floated div and I want the datagrid to stretch the width of the div. This div is in the center of two other floated divs. Is there a way to make a table go 100% the width of its container div?

Css code:
Code:

/* left bar: */
#navBar{
	width: 185px;
	float: left;
}

/* right bar: */
#rightModulesContainer {
	width: 130px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
	float: right;
}

/* center content: */
#content{
	padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:0;
	margin-left:4px;
	margin-right:0px;
	float: left;
	text-align:left;
	/*display: inline;*/
}

/* contained in #container: */

#dataGridContainer{
	margin: 0;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	min-width:360px;
}

.categoryGridStyle {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-style: normal;
	color: #000000;
        width:100%;
}

and here is the layout of the divs:
Code:

<div id="navBar">left navigation bar here (tree view)</div>

<div id="rightModulesContainer">right side bar here</div>

<div id="content"><div id="dataGridContainer">datagrid here</div></div>

Thanks for your help in advance. I've been messing with this for a while - trying to get it to work cross browser is driving me nuts. I've tried placing the divs in containers and floating the containers, I've tried everything I can think of...

I'm at the very very very begaining of a table-less design (my first, actually). The problem is, since I have decided to have a non-fixed width, when the browser is minimized, at a certain point the design breaks.

See it here (please don't make fun! it's just the start): SiliconSatan.com/test.php

I'd like to set a minimum width, probably on the container <div>, so at a certain point it sort of becomes like a fixed width? No smaller than a set width?

[EDIT]

Also, I have a question about background color mismatch, but it was not quite OT for the CSS forum:

http://forums.devshed.com/web-desig...e7t-403266.html

I have a page with an ASP.NET Gridview on it...this Gridview is located in a child DIV inside a parent DIV. That Gridview can often go wider than the parent DIV width set. In IE6 the MAINDIV (Parent DIV) would expand to fit the expanded Gridview contained within the child DIV. In IE7 the DIV will not expand so it overlaps the DIV and looks bad. I want that MainDiv to dynamically grow with the child DIV width, like it did in IE6.

Please see my code below. I want the MainDiv to remain ~800px unless it is pushed out further.

Thanks for any ideas on a fix for this. Whenever I try min-width it just blows the parent DIV out to 100% screen size.

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
 
</head>
  <body style="width:100%;text-align:center;background-color:#68838B" onload="loadpage();">
      <form id="frmMain" runat="server"> 
          <div id="mainDiv" style="position:relative;top:10px;width:800px;height:auto; background-color:white;border:solid 1px #666666">        
                      <div id="contentDiv" style="text-align:left;width:797px; padding:3px 3px 3px 3px;">
                  <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="contentBody" runat="server"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
                  </div> 
          </div>
      </form>
  </body>
</html>

I have a header div with a background image - it's basically a pair of hands holding a banner - the arms extending to the sides of the window.

I'm trying to work it so that, no matter how wide or thin the window, the arms will always extend to the sides. So when you make it smaller, the image will disappear beyond the viewing window. This happens automatically on the right-hand side, but the image is stopping it on the left.

Is there a way to set a min-width, which is smaller then the image itself, so that when the window is shrunk the image starts to disappear on either side until it reaches the min-width? I'm trying to get it so the arms will disappear and stop at the hands.

Or can anyone suggest an alternative solution? I tried to do it with background and header image, with the arms on the background, so when the top image moves it looks like the arms move with it. That worked great until I started using a patterned background.


Full width:
|---------------------------------------|
|AAAAAAAAHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHAAAAAAAAA|
|---------------------------------------|

Shrunk width:
------- |------------------------| --------
AAAAAAA |AHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHA| AAAAAAAA
------- |------------------------| --------

Grey bit outside window edge.
| Window side
A Arms
H Hands
B Banner


I hope that makes sense. I expect there's an easy solution but I've been trying to figure it out for several hours and could do with someone else's perspective. Thanks.

I'm writing a modification for a bulletin board. One of the beta testers had a problem with their template...

My modification uses a left & right float, with a clearing div at the bottom with a copy right.

I know the problem, but my question is, why is it a problem:

width="75%" will sometimes, in certain templates, make the right floating table drop down beneath the left floating menu, and it's width is 100%. When I change it to inline styling, style="width: 75%;", it works as it should.

I'd really like to know why it's doing this, because I've never ran into this before.

Here's a slimmed version of the HTML/CSS:

Code:

<div id="st0re_wrapper" style="float: left; width: 24%; clear: both;">
	<table class="borderwrap iptable" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="100%">
		<tr>
			<td colspan="" class="maintitle"><p>Your Menu</p></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td style="padding-left: 5px;" valign="middle">
				<div style="margin-left: 5px;">
					Sample menu item.
				</div>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</div>
<table class="borderwrap iptable" style="float: right;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="75%">
	<tr>
		<td colspan="" class="maintitle"><p>Sample</p></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row2">
		<td valign="top" width="100%">
			Sample content.
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

The used CSS classes a

Code:

.ipbtable
{
	width: 100%;
}

table.ipbtable,
tr.ipbtable,
td.ipbtable
{
	background: transparent;
	color: #222;
	font-size: 10px;
	line-height: 135%;
}

.ipbtable td,
.divpad
{
	padding: 5px;
}
.borderwrap,
.borderwrapm
{
	background: #edede7; 
	border: 1px solid #91908B; 
	color: #55554F;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}

.borderwrapm
{
	margin: 5px;
}

.borderwrap h3,
.maintitle,
.maintitlecollapse
{
	background: url(style_images/convention/maintitle.gif);
	color: #f6f4ef;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin: -1px;
	padding: 7px 7px 7px 12px;
}

.maintitle td
{
	color: #EEEDE8;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	vertical-align: bottom;
}

.maintitlecollapse
{
	border: 1px solid #FFF;
}

.maintitle p,
.maintitlecollapse p,
.formsubtitle p
{
	background: transparent !important;
	border: 0 !important;
	margin: 0 !important;
	padding: 0 !important;
}

st0re_wrapper is just an unused id, besides the inline styling.

Internet Explorer always presents me with a challenge (partial repost). The current issue involves emulating max-width in IE using the technique described by Svend Tofte.

http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/

The CSS code uses JavaScript expressions and feeds the browser's width to the style. The CSS code follows.

* html #Content {
height: 1%;
width:expression(
document.body.clientWidth > (500/12) *
parseInt(document.body.currentStyle.fontSize)?
"30em":
"auto" );
}
This implementation resizes and displays the fluid width in IE. But it does not emulate the max-width property. Basically, I need help fixing the max-width implementation on #Content. Since max-width remains a challenge in IE, the min-width remains a greater mystery. Min-width would be nice as well. The page is complex with several wrappers for other IE display issues and JavaScript functionality. Presently, these workarounds and hacks have my head spinning.

The page has an overall wrapper #Container. #Content div has the max-width expression. It encases #div.bgWh, so the page could have true transparent round corners. One issue relates to how div.bgWh expands beyond #Content when the client's browser width approaches 260 pixels. These containers serve a purpose; but IE does not deal with their width in a predictable manner. Fortunately, Firefox does not have these issues. These scenarios leave me scratching my head more often than not. Overflow hidden property has worked for me in the past, but did not provide the magic bullet this time around.

Please load the page and shrink you browser to around 260 pixels. Keep your eye on the round corners around the main content area. The container, div.bgWh, expands beyond #Content. Please let me know if you see any relevant patterns and if you have any useful suggestions on implementing max-width. Somebody may suggest better approaches to the IE max-width conundrum.

http://neville.f2o.org/nifty_TEMP1.html

Styles in Question
#Content
div.bgWh
#Container

Code:

		<tr class='firstrow'>
			<th width=10%><strong>Rank</strong></th>
			<th width=40%><strong>Site</strong></th>
			<th width=25%><strong>In</strong></th>
			<th width=25%><strong>Out</strong></th>
		</tr>

that makes it exactly the way i want, but when i switch to
Code:

		<tr class='firstrow'>
			<th style='width=10%'><strong>Rank</strong></th>
			<th style='width=40%'><strong>Site</strong></th>
			<th style='width=25%'><strong>In</strong></th>
			<th style='width=25%'><strong>Out</strong></th>
		</tr>

it is sized naturally.

Hi Guys,

Consider the following box:

PHP Code:
<div style=border: 1mm black Solid;
 width: 148mm; 
height: 98mm;'>
</div> 





148mm + 1mm + 1mm = width of 150mm
98mm + 1mm + 1mm = width of 100mm

Now why does neither firefox or ie manage to get it? Firefox is about 2mm out and ie is about 3mm out?

Any ideas or is it some quirk?

Charlie

Hello,
This look good on IE not on FF, why?

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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
div#username {
	position:relative;
	width:508px;
	height:72px;
	margin:2px;
	padding:4px;
	border:1px #CCCCCC solid;
	border-bottom-width: 20px;	
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="username" >div<br />div<br />div<br />div<br />div<br />div<br />div<br />div<br />
</div>
</body>
</html>

I need several div's inside each other, to be padded 10px. I use the code bellow and the result is in image here , I also drawn what I want to accomplish. Can you help me ?


PHP Code:
.class-help_section_method {

    border: solid 1px #D9D9D9;
    -moz-border-radius: 7px 7px 7px 7px;
    background-color:#E1F9FF;
    padding:10px;
    width:100%;

}

.class-help_section_method_sub {

    border: solid 1px #D9D9D9;
    -moz-border-radius: 7px 7px 7px 7px;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    padding:10px;
    width:100%;
    

}

.class-help_section_niv {

    border: solid 1px #D9D9D9;
    -moz-border-radius: 7px 7px 7px 7px;    
    background-color:#F3F3F3;
    padding:10px;
    width:100%;

} 

hey all. i have a div that has a width of 100%. is there a way of setting a min width? why you ask!! if the window is resized then the div is too! and therefore i get some overlapp from some static elements!!

any ideas??

thanks

RF

when i use a (for example)

Code:

div.top
 {
  border-style: solid;
  border-width: thin;
  border-color: black;
  position: absolute
  height: 20px;
  top:0px;
  width:100%;
  left:0px;
  right:0px;
  margin-left: 0px;
  margin-right: 0px;
  margin-top: 0px;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
}

and then use

Code:

<div class="top"></div>

when i view the page it doesnt go all the way across, it only goes about 90%, and if i change the width to something like 110% where it will go all the way across, if i change my display to a lower/higher setting it is either too long or too short, is there any way to change this and make it "actually" 100%?