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CSS - Auto Size But With Floats
Say i have the following code
[code] <div id="container"> <div id="left"> <div id="right"> </div> if both the left and right divs are floats then the container will not increase is length. What do i need to add to make it do so? Similar TutorialsI have floating items inside of floating items. The problem is I cannot clear my floating items in the middle column because that ruins the other columns. How can I clear floats in the middle column? Do you have any better ideas to make my layout work? I have attached in image of how the layout should work. 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>Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
#content {
display: block;
margin: 0 5px;
padding: 0 10px;
border-top: 1px solid #0B4867;
}
.content100 {
width: 100%;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
display: inline;
background: #ffeeee;
}
.content50 {
width: 48.75%;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
padding: 0px;
background: #eeffee;
}
.content33 {
width: 32.25%;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 .5% 0 .25%;
padding: 0px;
background: #eeeeff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<div style="margin: 0px 215px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: block;">
<div class="content100">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vivamus viverra malesuada turpis. Sed iaculis justo sed turpis. Nulla malesuada turpis sed nibh. Mauris dui quam, cursus at, sollicitudin a, auctor quis, ligula. Vivamus varius blandit velit. Sed eu nibh. Vestibulum sit amet massa. Maecenas elementum massa ac ligula. In vitae massa ut dui facilisis lacinia. Maecenas tristique pede in elit. Duis ultricies aliquam metus. Mauris neque. Nunc nec lectus eu metus rhoncus imperdiet. Etiam egestas semper nunc. Nunc pretium tincidunt felis.
</div>
<div class="content50">
<h2>Row 1, Column 1</h2>
In nec est pretium elit eleifend semper. Suspendisse potenti. Nunc bibendum sollicitudin ante. Aliquam facilisis mi quis turpis. Nullam aliquet. Sed eget urna in metus mattis luctus. Sed nunc. Maecenas est. Morbi ullamcorper eros non magna. Donec auctor, orci pretium rutrum eleifend, pede arcu pretium dui, vitae vestibulum ante odio sit amet dui. Aliquam fringilla velit sit amet magna. Proin cursus, elit quis faucibus fermentum, diam tellus rhoncus nulla, ut iaculis orci velit id metus. Pellentesque diam metus, dapibus eu, vestibulum quis, elementum id, turpis. Morbi elementum, quam non rhoncus hendrerit, metus lacus bibendum ante, vitae sodales velit est eu neque.
</div>
<div class="content50">
<h2>Row 1, Column 2</h2>
This column is not very high.
</div>
<div class="content100">
Donec sed velit mollis erat consequat ornare. Donec accumsan, sapien a posuere tristique, felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 1</h2>
Felis turpis tristique odio, nec accumsan velit ipsum eu tellus. Duis vel felis. Maecenas in arcu nec nisi cursus consectetuer. Ut ac felis. Mauris aliquet lectus quis nisl. Aliquam quis urna quis diam facilisis imperdiet. Curabitur sit amet eros. Curabitur purus. In arcu magna, bibendum varius, elementum non, cursus eget, nulla. Etiam vulputate velit. Sed interdum leo in ligula. Sed non justo id odio bibendum tincidunt. Sed dictum, ipsum eget blandit luctus, nisi felis rhoncus nisl, sodales imperdiet neque quam id mauris.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 2</h2>
This column is not as high as the previous one.
</div>
<div class="content33">
<h2>Row 2 Column 3</h2>
</div>
<div class="content100">
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So I have a body div which has a left and right div(columns). I need to add 2 more divs inside the left div. But, these 2 divs have to unordered lists in them. I know my CSS is pretty average if not worse. My layout looks fine except for when I add 2 divs.. I have the float:left with %50 widths.. Screen shot of how my layout looks. img209.imageshack.us/img209/2913/idear.gif I did not add any clear tags to my css.. which I think might be what's causing the issue. Side note: In IE compatibility view the top of the page has a gap and so does the right of the page.. the logo and footer are both 100% width and the top div has a -negative margin to close the gap, it looks fine without compatibility view, and fine in firefox, and chrome. XHTML passed validation and so did CSS. This is before even messing with the columns. I didn't do anything with the unordered lists. Maybe i should ask how to correctly make my layout first.. Because what I've been doing is just adding new divs where I see fit, and then going back to edit the CSS till it works. Thanks for helping me out! BTW: what book would you recommend me getting.. I understand basics of CSS and I think I'm good with XHTML, I just need to get a better definition of CSS than w3schools has to offer. Thanks again. Hi there, I'm completely new to CSS. I'm trying to do this more than one hour but can't get it right. Code: <font color='white'><font size='1' face=verdana size=1> I couldn't find the equivalent of this in CSS This is my last experiment but it doesn't seem to work either Code: fontstyle { color : #FFFFFF; font-family : verdana ; font-size :1;}
Thanks I am building a custom form control that behaves more or less like a <select> menu. For the dropdown portion of the menu, I need to set a max-height. If the dropdown contains enough options to go beyond the max-height a vertical scrollbar should appear. 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>Custom Auto-Complete</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function initPage()
{
}
-->
</script>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 76%;
}
input {
width: 200px;
background: #f4f4f4;
border: 1px solid #999;
font-size: .9em;
/*
*/
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}
.clearfix:after {
content:".";
display:block;
height:0;
clear:both;
visibility:hidden;
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl {
position: relative;
/*
border: 3px solid red;
*/
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl input {
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
display: block;
float: left;
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl a.dwnarrow {
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
border: 1px solid #999;
background: url(images/downarrow.gif)
no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-color: #efefef;
float: left;
display: block;
font-size: 1px;
text-decoration: none;
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl .acCtlDropdwn {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 0px;
z-index: 100;
visibility: visible;
min-width: 300px;
max-width: 600px;
height: auto;
max-height: 200px;
background: #fff;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #999;
overflow: auto;
/*
width: 400px;
*/
}
* html .cAutoCompleteCtl .acCtlDropdwn {
width: expression( this.scrollWidth < 330 ? "300px" : ( this.scrollWidth > 620 ? "600px" : "auto" ) );
height: expression( this.scrollHeight < 20 ? "200px" : ( this.scrollHeight > 301 ? "300px" : "auto" ) );
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl .acCtlDropdwn a {
white-space: nowrap;
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 2px 5px;
color: #000;
border: 1px solid #fff;
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl .acCtlDropdwn a.lastOption {
}
.cAutoCompleteCtl .acCtlDropdwn a:hover {
background: #f5f5f5;
border: 1px solid #b3b3b3;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body onload="initPage();">
<div class="cAutoCompleteCtl clearfix">
<input type="text" /><a href="" class="dwnarrow"> </a>
<div class="acCtlDropdwn">
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<a href="#">options here</a>
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</div>
</body>
</html>
I'm seeing some unexpected behaviour ihn Firefox. When the page is loaded for the 1st time, the height of the dropdown portion of the menu is only large enough to see 1 option and no scrollbars are displayed. If I hit refresh (without holding the Shift key), the menu's height goes to its max-height and displays as expected. The only property I could find that has any effect on this behaviour is overflow. If I remove it all together or set it to scroll, it displays at the correct height. Unfortunately, neither of these are an option since they will not produce the desired scrolling behaviour. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong? I could see this as potentially being really easy to do or really hard to do. I'm hoping for the former. Suppose I have 3 divs, A, B, C and that I want the total width of A + B + C to equal the width of the screen. Suppose also that I want them to be inline. How can I have B to be a fixed width while A and C expand depending on the screen width (such that the width of A = the width of C)? So when using Netscape 7.2 & Opera 7.5 and MSIE 6.0, How do you get a simple tag like body { font-size:small; } to be equal in all browsers? Setting IE Text Size to Medium, and Opera's Zoom to 100% (both defaults) and Netscape 7.2 to 120% (not the default) is one way, but is there a CSS way? By the way, the child element hack "body>div {property}" wasn't working no matter what I tried, by not working I mean to say Netscape never would read it or apply it. It appeared to be that Opera & IE need to read the same value while Netscape needs to apply a larger size to be equal to IE's and Opera's rendering. B Hello everyone, Newbie here Can anyone show me how to CSS objects or text inline horizontally in the banner/header such as at the top of this forum? My banner/header uses large text for a logo on the left, and I would like to put a search form or something on the right side of the header. Do I have to declare the width of each? See how much newbie I am? Thanks for any help. Ken Can you guys tell me why code below does not show properly in firefox 2 when it shows up right in IE7? If I add clear:both to footer then it displays right, but should not it show it alongside the div #2 anyways? 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" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style>
body {
margin:0px;
}
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
height:500px;
width:500px;
border-width:thin;
border-style:dotted;
}
.leftcontent {
float:left;
width:100px;
height:100px;
border-width:thin;
border-style:dotted;
}
.rightcontent {
float:left;
width:100px;
height:100px;
border-width:thin;
border-style:dotted;
}
.footer {
border-style:dotted;
border-width:thin;
height:100px;
width:100px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="leftcontent">
1
</div>
<div class="rightcontent">
2
</div>
<div class="footer">
3
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hi All, I am almost tearing he little hair I have left out! I can't get the div in the middle to clear the floats. Works just lovely in FF, but that IE thing won't work!!! Grrree http://www.tuxdiscs.com/sscp7b/ Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks Hey, yet again I am having issues with some floated elements in IE (6 + 7). Have a look here. The product details start under the bottom of the photo of the product, and I've tried a bunch of different things to get it lined up with no joy. Here's the CSS: Code:
#features {
position:relative;
float:right;
margin:0 20px 20px 20px;
width:350px;
border:1px solid #E1DCC6;
border-top:0;
}
* html #features {
margin:0 10px 0 10px;
}
#features p, #features p strong {
font-size:10px;
margin:4px;
padding:2px;
}
#picbox {
width:350px;
height:350px;
margin:0 20px 0 20px;
float:right;
border:1px solid #E1DCC6;
border-bottom:1px dashed #E1DCC6;
}
* html #picbox {
margin:0 10px 0 10px;
}
#detail-list {
margin:10px 60px;
}
#detail-list li {
list-style:square inside;
margin:2px;
}
#buynow {
margin:5px 10px 5px 30px;
}
#priceTable {
margin:10px 40px;
border:1px solid #E1DCC6;
}
#priceTable td {
padding:4px;
}
#priceTable td.priceRight {
background-color:#E1DCC6;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
color:red;
}
#priceTable td.priceLeft {
text-align:right;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
background-color:#B8A488;
}
.liner {
text-decoration:line-through;
}
Any insight, as per usual, is greatly appreciated. This may be a stupid question, but I recently noticed something with floats and side by side elements that confuses me. I thought you always had to specify a width when it came to floating elements along side each other, as block level elements inherit 100% width usually. But on the last 2 sites I coded, I was able to float divs without specifying a fixed width. The div boxes only took up the width of there content. Worked in FF, Chrome, Safari, IE7/8. This is great, as it saves time, but makes no sense. Am I confused? Hey, k, as per usual, all's well in FF with this site. The list to the right is forcing the paragraphs below in IE tho...I've tried a bunch of different 'clears' and what not, but can't seem to figure it out. Here's the html; Code:
<div id="homelistbox"><b>Upcoming Tradeshows:</b>
<ul class="homelist">
<li><a href="http://www.torontoinwaterboatshow.com">Toronto In-Water
Boat Show,</a> Sept 14-17 2006</li>
<li><a href="http://www.torontoboatshow.com">Toronto International Boat
Show,</a> Jan. 12-21 2007</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sportsmensshows.com/Ottawa/">Ottawa Boat, Sportsman
and Cottage Show,</a> Feb. 22-25 2007</li>
<li>See the various models of Custom Weld Boats at all these shows.
<a href="contact.php">Contact us</a> for more information about locations
at the shows.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p> Freedom Boat Sales is committed to bringing Canadian recreational enthusiasts
exciting new and pre-owned products for the water, trail, and road.</p>
<p>Flexibility, great pricing, and innovative products will keep you coming
back for all your recreational needs!</p>
<p>Please be advised that we are currently working to improve your online
experience, so your patience is greatly appreciated!</p>
<div class="clear"></div>
and the CSS; Code:
.clear {
clear:both;
margin-top:-1px;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
}
p {
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:8pt;
line-height:11pt;
color:#555;
text-decoration:none;
width:650px;
margin-top:5px;
padding:10px;
}
#homelistbox {
width:180px;
padding:5px;
margin:2px 10px;
border-top:1px dotted #CCC;
border-left:1px dotted #CCC;
min-height:120px;
float:right;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:8pt;
color:#255CB8;
}
.homelist li {
margin-top:5px;
padding-left:10px;
list-style:none;
}
.homelist a {
color:#FF0000;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.homelist a:hover {
color:#255CBE;
text-decoration:none;
}
i'm also having similar issues with simple image floats, as seen here. It forces the paragraph underneath in IE...boourns. Anyways, any guidance'd be greatly appreciated. Cheers. After fighting with JS to get scrolling content to work, I now have a problem with IE8/9, where a wide div bleeds outside of containing div. Works fine in FF and Chrome code and css are in http://rentz.phi.co.uk/testanimate.html Any ideas? Hello, I'm currently working on a website layout that uses CSS for everything. I have a header, and two columns below that. The header works perfectly. I used float:left on both of my two columns, and they both appear side-by-side as intended. However, I want the right column to fill up the entire right side of the screen. When I try to use CSS's width: 100%; the entire right column jumps down below the left column, which is not what I want. I made a little screenshot: http://img282.echo.cx/img282/6555/tms1od.png I believe it can be done, but I'm stumped. Help is appreciated Hi, My current code is designed to have a flexible number of columns depending on the width of the screen. It is just divs with a left and right margin: HTML 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"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.css" /> </head> <body> <div><img src="1.jpg" alt="Angry face" title="Angry face" /></div> <div><img src="1.jpg" alt="Angry face" title="Angry face" /></div> <div><img src="1.jpg" alt="Angry face" title="Angry face" /></div> <div><img src="1.jpg" alt="Angry face" title="Angry face" /></div> <div><img src="1.jpg" alt="Angry face" title="Angry face" /></div> </body> </html> CSS: Code: div{
width:120px;
height:90px;
float:left;
background:#999999;
margin-left:3%;
margin-right:3%;
margin-bottom:13px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#e2e2e2;
}
The trouble is, the right column isnt spaced correctly to the right side of the browser. Ive included an image to show more accuratly what im hoping to achieve. Can anyone help me with this? I'm having a problem where my submit button isn't floating over to the right inside of the div. It's supposed to be inside of the "test" div, but it's just below it. I thought that if I floated an element it would expand the parent element when necessary. What am I missing? This is just a test snippet I was working with to get this functionality to work correctly. Is there a different way I should be trying to achieve this? I've got a form that I'm floating the labels to the left so they lineup properly with their related input. I then want to float the submit button over to the right of the form, but that's when it jumps outside of the div just below it. Code: html <div id="mainT"> <div id="test"> <h4>Enter New Values and Submit</h4> <label>ID: </label>#URL.system# <input class="submitT" type="Submit" value="Submit"> </div> </div> Code: css
div#mainT{
border:1px solid #CCC;
margin-bottom:25px;
width:600px;
padding:10px;
font-size:10px;
color:#000;
background-color:#EEE;
}
div#mainT input.submitT{
/*margin:0 0 0 15px;*/
float:right;
}
div#mainT label{
width:120px;
float:left;
/*margin:0 0 0 15px;*/
}
div#test{
border:1px solid red;
}
I'm using float:left for my left nav bar, and then clear:both for my footer. Trouble is, I need to use some content boxes that will be using floats and then clears, however, when I use clear:both in my content box, it clears EVERYTHING (meaning it pushes below my navbar, because the navbar is quite long). Is there a workaround or am I using floats/clear wrong? TIA Javashackgirl I've got two columns set-up using floats. They work fine in Firefox, Opera and Konqueror on my machine, but a friend with Windows informs me that it doesn't work properly in Internet Explorer. The code is as follows: Code:
div.get_content_voc_left {
width: 50%;
float: left;
clear: both;
}
div.get_content_voc_right {
width: 50%;
float: right;
clear: none;
}
The results in IE can be seen in this screenshot and this screenshot. Those with IE can have a look at a live copy of the HTML here and the CSS here. Any help is appreciated I'm trying to construct a simple navigation bar that looks like the attached image. It's a simple bar with rounded corners on the ends. If I where going to use tables, I would make one row with three cells. But I hear that these days, tables for positioning are out... I'm thinking two sets of DIVs where one contained the left end, and one the right. What's confusing me is how to get the images to line up right rather than looking "stacked". I imagine it has to do with the "float" attribute, but I can't seem to find the combination that does what I need. Code:
<div>
<div>
Nav | Bar | Content
</div>
</div>
As well, how to make the full height of the end images show? My experiments seem to truncate the image height at the height of the text. Pointers? Thanks... |
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