CSS - Floating Text Side By Side

Alright, I run a joomla site and im working on making a 100% tableless xhtml compliant template. I'm very new at this so im trying my best to learn.

I used the Lean version of skidoo's layout as the base and then added all the appropriate php tags needed to make it a joomla template. For the one part I need two modules to load right next to each other near the top of the page to mimic the table version of the Latest News and Popular Modules. I'll show you code snipits of how I did it.

Code:

 
html:
      <div id="contentColumn">
        <div class="inside">
          <!-- middle column content begin -->
          <p class="blocktext">
            <?php mosLoadModules( 'banner', -1 ); ?>
          </p>
          <div id="users">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?>
          </div>
          <div id="users">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user2' ); ?>
          </div>
          <p>
          <div id="nofloat">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'top' ); ?>
            <?php mosMainBody(); ?>
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'bottom' ); ?>
          </div>

css:

/*top users */
#users {
    float:left;
	width: 300px;

}
#nofloat {
	float: none;
	
}

So anyways this does indeed put each div tag side by side but my problem is that I need the following PHP code ( <?php mosLoadModules ( 'top' ); ?> <?php mosMainBody(); ?> <?php mosLoadModules ( 'bottom' ); ?>) to return to the next line after the div's, but instead it jumps everything to the right and breaks the template. So I added the nofloat css and that fixed it and put the rest of the content below the side by side div's but now it doesn't work in FireFox. Now I tried padding-top and that worked in both browsers, but its not flexible as the side by side div modules are not always there and I don't want 200px of white space on the pages that don't show it. Also as a side note I tried putting <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?> and user2 into separate div tags that that floated left and right but it had the same outcome, so I stuck with one float left that seems to work the same.

My question is what can I do to make this content show after the side by side div's and not beside it in both browsers?

You can see what I mean by looking at this test site in both IE 6 and FireFox.
http://www.wii-volution.com/testbed/

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

Hi. I've a div container with a gray bg color then inside I've two DIV (left & right). It works on IE but on firefox the bg color the the two DIV is white and if I add bg color=GRAY for the 2 DIV the middle is white.

And I don't want to put bg color on the class = left and right because if I want to reuse these with other stuff then the color won't match to other things.

How can I fix this problem?

Please take a look at the following link with IE & firefox and u know what I mean. Please take a look at source code or in here. Thank you!!!

http://yourbestproduct.com/test.html

CSS CODE:
body { text-align: center; }
#container {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#sub_title {
background-color: #E6E6E6;
background-repeat: repeat;
padding: 2px;
width: 796px;
color: #848484;
}

.left {
float : left;
margin-left: 10px;
}
.right {
float : right;
margin-right: 10px;
}

HTML CODE:
<div id="container">
<div id="sub_title">
<div class="left">Left Message</div>
<div class="right">Right Message</div>
</div>
</div>

Hi. I'm a design student working on a website for my boss, and I've come across a problem and was wondering if someone could help me out. It might be a simple fix, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a body wrapper div (subtitle, body text, etc) on the left that's approx. 705 px wide and a vertical navigation bar div on the right that's about 240 px wide. I've tried floating the body wrapper left and the navigation buttons right, but one always ends up sitting below the end of the other. When I use the "clear right" or "clear left" commands, it doesn't help. Any ideas what I could do to get them to line up on the top? I want them to sit next to one another.

Thank you very much for any ideas!

Britta

Hey,

I'm not entirely sure why this is happening, you can see it here

and the css

Hi Guys,

I'm working on a form, and for the life of me, I can't get these divs to sit side by side.

You can see the test page at www.details.at/search_test.cfm

It's a small form with a few fields and selects

I want each element to sit side by side in a single row.

Here is the code. I thought display:inline; would do the trick, but it's not working.
Code:

<style>
	#control_panel 
		{
		padding:0 0 1em 2em;
		width:600px;
		float:left;
		}

	.smalltext 	
		{ 
		font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	   	color: #000000;
	   	font-size: .7em;
		}
		
	.input 
		{ 
	 	font: .9em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	 	background-color: #FFFFFF; 
		color: #146eb4; 
	 	border: 1px solid #146eb4; 
		}
		
	label
		{
		text-align: left;
		display: block;
		}

		
	div.search_cell 
		{
		display: inline;
		}
		

</style>


<div id="control_panel">

	<form action="http://test.at" METHOD="post">

		<div class="search_cell">
			<INPUT class="input" NAME="search_box" value="" size="25" maxlength="200"> 
			<label for="search_box"><span class="smalltext">search</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<select class="input" name="range">
				<option value="50">50</option>
				<option value="Any">Any</option>
				<option value="1" >1</option>
			</select>
			<label for="search_box"><span class="smalltext">within</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<select class="input" name="range_measure">
				<option value="Miles">Miles</option>
				<option value="kilometers">Kilometers</option>
			</select> 
			<label for="search_box"><span class="smalltext">range</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<span class="smalltext">of</span>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<INPUT class="input" value="" type="Text" name="location" size="10">
			<label for="location"><span class="smalltext">city & state or postal</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<INPUT class="input" type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go">
		</div>

	</form> 	

	</div>

</div>

Hey guys! Usually if you make a table and then make another table, the other table will be located below the table before. I want them to be side by side.

So I tried this CSS value :

table {
display : inline;
}

then it worked, but the problem is, that if the tables have different sizes, the smaller one is not aligned to the top and looks smaller than the table before it. I want them all to be aligned to the top. I tried vertical-align:top and valign="top", but they still don't work...

Is there any other way to make tables have no line breaks before and after the table? Is there any other property that controls the line breaks of the table? I tried display:table-cell , but the problem is still the same. thanks

i have two divs that are side by side and i want them to have the same height, but i will not know the height ahead of time as the content for at least one of the divs is dynamic (calendar list) and can contain no items up to as many items as there are time intervals in a day.

the html for the section in question is Code:

<div id="spotlight-wrapper">
	<div class="spotlight">
		<h3>Currently...</h3>

		<div id="training" class="spotlight-sub">
			<ul>
				<li><strong>Running</strong> 3mi/4mi/3mi</li>
				<li><strong>Bench Press</strong> 175lbs</li>
				<li><strong>Deadlift</strong> 205lbs</li>
				<li><strong>Squats</strong> 275lbs</li>
			</ul>
		</div>

		<ul class="inline-list">
			<li>
				<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/crichton/airframe/" title="Random House Publishing: Airframe">
					<img src="/images/reading.png" alt="Airframe by Michael Crichton" />
				</a>
			</li>
			<li>
				<a href="http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=HnJbFL6nobL&aid=lqUKIAaw6tN&sa=X&oi=musiamp;c&ct=result" title="Google Music: Hinder - Extreme Behavior">
					<img src="/images/listening.png" alt="Extreme Behavior by Hinder" />
				</a>
			</li>
			<li>
				<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)" title="300 the movie on Wikipedia">
					<img src="/images/movie.png" alt="300 - Tonight We Dine In Hell" />
				</a>
			</li>
			<li>
				<a href="http://www.fox.com/house/" title="Fox's House M.D. starring Hugh Laurie">
					<img src="/images/television.png" alt="House M.D. on Fox" />
				</a>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</div>

	<div class="spotlight">
		<h3>In the public...</h3>
		<div id="calendar">
			<ul id="events">
				<li>
		   		<strong>09/25 20:00 - 09/25 21:00</strong>
		   		<br />House MD
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/26 16:00 - 09/26 17:00</strong>
		   		<br />Weekly Tempo Run
		    	</li>

		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/26 17:30 - 09/26 18:30</strong>
		   		<br />RPM (Christi)
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/27 06:00 - 09/27 07:30</strong>
		   		<br />Weight Training
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
               <strong>09/28 06:00 - 09/28 07:30</strong>
		   		<br />Weight Training
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/28 08:30 - 09/28 09:30</strong>
		   		<br />RPM (Lauren)
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/29 07:30 - 09/29 09:30</strong>
               <br />Long Run
		    	</li>
			</ul>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

and my unsuccessful attempt at the necessary css Code:

div#spotlight-wrapper {
	min-height: 317px;
}

div.spotlight {
	width: 471px;
	height: 100%;
	float: left;
	margin: 19px 12px 7px 0;
	background: #373737;
	overflow: hidden;
}
	div.spotlight h3 { background: #555555; margin: 0; padding: 7px; }

here is a live sample

I'm working on a site which has a header and footer div, and in the main section in between, it has a narrow left div and main content to the right.

I've got the overall width centered at 90%, and I want the left div to be 250px wide, and then the right main content div to be the remaining width of the 90%. I also want to make sure it doesn't resize below about 600px when the screen is resized.

Am I better off setting a fixed width of the overall width instead of a percentage? That way I can make the page about 800px wide, left pane 250px, and main content 550px? Any other thoughts?

Thanks.

I've been having some issues getting a design for a site I'm co-authoring to display correctly using CSS. I know that what I'm trying to do should be possible, but I haven't been able to figure it out and am getting pretty damn frustrated with the whole thing. I could probably do it with tables, and right now I have it set up with some javascript that I threw together, but css+divs would be the ideal solution.

Anyways, this is basically what I want to try and do (that's the javascript version). Just resize the window a bit to see what i'm getting at.

Here's the source:
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>Title</title>

	<style type="text/css">
		<!--
 
		#leftpane {
			float: left;
			height: 100%;
		 	border: 1px solid black;
		}


		#rightpane {
			float: right;
			height: 100%;
		 	border: 1px solid black;
		}

		-->
	</style>

	<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
	
		// get rid of all this javascript and figure out a way to do this with css
		
		var windowWidth = 800;
		
		window.onload = function() {
			getWindowSize();
			resizeLeftPane();
		}
		
		window.onresize = function() { 
			getWindowSize();
			resizeLeftPane();
		}
	
		function getWindowSize() {
			if(window.innerWidth) {
				windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			} else if(document.documentElement.clientWidth) {
				windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
			} else if(document.body.clientWidth) {
				windowWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
			}	
		}
		
		function resizeLeftPane() {
			var rightpaneWidth = document.getElementById('rightpane').offsetWidth;
			var margin = 10;
			
			document.getElementById('leftpane').style.width = String(windowWidth - rightpaneWidth - margin * 3) +'px';
		}
		
		//-->
	</script>
</head>

<body>
	<div id="leftpane">
		<p>this pane needs to stretch as wide as it can while leaving room for the image at right, whose width is arbitrary</p>
	</div>
	<div id="rightpane">
		<img src="http://movingboxstudios.com/testz0rz/images/box.jpg" height="100%" alt="image" />
	</div>

</body>
</html>

Basically I need a way to have 2 elements next to eachother, 1 of which is an arbitrary size and the other be wide enough to fill the rest of the containing block. Any help would be much appreciated.



EDIT: Here's a link to the actual working design, maybe that'll help in understanding my question (don't open it in IE unless you want a facefull of ugly).

Hello all,

Im a bit of a novice when it comes to CSS but im learning, bear with.

the site in question is http://mgilbert.co.cc/testing

I already have the left menu and the #maincontent div perfectly aligned side by side, but i cant for the life of me align the #left and #right divs side by side, instead the right one sits underneath the left as you can see on the site.

if i float the right column, the text flows out of the maincontent div.

CSS Code

Code:

body 	{ 	
background: #23232F;  	
color: #F7CF8A; 
text-align: center; 	
}
 
a 	{ color: #F7CF8A; } 

a:hover 	{color: #07CF8A; }

#page 	{ 	
width: 80%; 	
border-style: solid; 	
margin: 0 auto; 	
background: #494949;  	
color: #F7CF8A; 	
padding: 15px; 	
}
 
#header 	{ 	
background: #23232F;  	
color: #F7CF8A; 	
}
 
#lmenu 	{ 	
width: 19%; 	
padding: 3px; 	
border-style: solid; 	
float: left; 	
}
 
#maincontent 	{ 	
margin-left: 20%; 	
border-style: solid; 	
}
 
#left 	{ 	
width: 49%; 	
border-style: solid; 	
}
#right 	{ 	
margin-left: 50%; 	
border-style: solid; 	
}

any help would be appreciated.

thanks

Hey there,

I'm having issues lining up information side by side with ul and li tags.

If you look at the link below, then scroll down a bit, you'll see some brief info for that property, such as Price, Bedrooms, Baths, etc., then below that the rest of the brief bits, such as City, Locale, Subdivision, etc. Ideally, I these two blocks of info to be on the same line, parallel with each other. Any ideas?

http://www.groundedgroup.com/client...or-sale/554421/

Thank you.

I've created a couple of links that I've styled as buttons.

Code:

a {
display:block;
width: 6em;
padding: 0.2em;
line-height:1.4;
background-color: pink;
color:black;
}

The problem is that I have two that should site side by side but becasue they are block elements they sit one over the other. Any suggestions on how to make them site side by side?

TIA

Hi-

I am having a challenge. I have two divs side by side, and I need them both to stretch to the same height. So if there is extra content in div#2, div #1 stretches down with it and fills with a background color.

I have them both set to height: 100%, with a wrapper div set to 100% height around them, but I am definetly doing something wrong.

thanks in advance
S

I should preface this by stating that I'm hopelessly bad at CSS!

I have a bit of ajax-enabled html like this:

Code:

<div class="demo">
  <div class="demo-description">
    <p>Vault</p>
  </div>
  <ul id="sortable1" class="connectedSortable">
    <li id="entry_1"  class="ui-state-default ui-state-disabled"><img src = "img/1.jpg"></li>
  </ul>
  <div class="demo-description">
    <p>Gallery One</p>
  </div>
  <ul id="sortable2" class="connectedSortable">
    <li id="entry_4"  class="ui-state-default"><img src = "img/4.jpg"></li>
    <li id="entry_2"  class="ui-state-default"><img src = "img/2.jpg"></li>
  </ul>
  <div class="demo-description">
    <p>Gallery Two</p>
  </div>
  <ul id="sortable3" class="connectedSortable">
    <li id="entry_3"  class="ui-state-default"><img src = "img/3.jpg"></li>
    <li id="entry_5"  class="ui-state-default"><img src = "img/5.jpg"></li>
  </ul>
</div><!-- End demo -->

I want to format it such that while images [<li></li>] within galleries [<ul></ul>] appear side by side, the actual galleries appear one below the other.

Just can't seem to figure it out.

Edit: Nevermind. As soon as I posted, I discovered what I needed was "overflow: auto;"

Isn't it always the way.

Hello,

Having a bit of trouble with a <div>. I am trying to have an <img> and a <p> displayed side by side.

I have tried to have two child <div> elements displayed inline, that didn't work, floating <div> elements didn't seem to do it either and then i removed the child elements and just had an <img> and a <p> with the <img style="float:left"> but, again, no joy.

Does anyone have any suggestions?