CSS - Positioning Background Image In Bulletted List

Hi there,

I'm trying to position a background image (starting 756 pixels from the left) which is repeating horizontally - but of course am running into problems because as soon as you repeat-x an image repeats the whole screen, not taking into account background positions.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can possibly avoid this?!

The only thing I can think of is to create a huge image to factor in for all screen solutions, and just not repeat it at all. I'd prefer not to do it this way as firstly it's not very clean, and secondly it will result in a large file size.

Here is a link to the background image to show you what I'm talking about:
http://joshsphotos.com/images/bg.jpg

I've also put in the CSS that would show what I'm trying to achieve.

Code:

body {
background-image: url(../images/bg_repeat.jpg);
background-position: 756px 0px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

Any help would be most appreciated.

I have successfully added a background image to the page but it does not center how I want it to. Right now it is positioned at top center. I would like to move it to Center center of entire page. Using this code instead of center for background-position did not do anything. Neither did 50%, 50%. What can I do to move this over.
I have the same problem with a picture file to go above the background file and web links which are all placed at top left of page. It would be nice to move them to top center of page.
How is this possible through html code?

Here is the code for the background image:
<style type="text/css">
body { background-image: url(picture/bamboo.jpg) }
body { background-position: center }
body {background-repeat: no-repeat }
</style>

Thank you for your help,

Hi all,

Okay, so I've got a page with a central column which has a drop-shadow and a background image... The obvious problem is that the repeated background image doesn't always line-up with the background image in the dropshadow. Plus, The backround image changes position whenever the page is resized.

So I was looking here, to see if I could find the code to center the background image in the screen, and make it a fixed position, but even then, when you resize the page, the background image seems to move with it.

Does anyone know how to fix a background image so that it will stay aligned with the central content/dropshadow of the page?

Thanks.

I have worked out a section banner. There is one for each section in a column of 4 or 5. The buttons on the left call a JavaScript that move DIVs up and down, reordering the content as the user wishes.

Anyway, I'm having trouble figuring out how to make the center section where the Title is, non-fixed (expand to fit the space). I'd like it to spread out to as wide as the container allows, minus the width of the left and right ends, of course.

See the actual thingy on a test page he Siliconsatan

Here's the styles:
Code:

<style type="text/css" media="all">
.col_tab_left {
position: relative;
width: 36px;
height: 30px;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
background-image: url(./images/col_tab_left.gif);
}
.col_tab_middle {
width: 430px;
height: 30px;
position: absolute;
left: 36px;
top: 0px;
background-image: url(./images/col_tab_bg.gif);
text-align: center;
}
.col_tab_right {
width: 26px;
height: 30px;
position: absolute;
left: 466px;
top: 0px;
background-image: url(./images/col_tab_right.gif);
text-align: center;
}
.col_tab_title {
font-family: tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
letter-spacing:  .05em;
color: #003366;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 30px
}
.col_block_up {
width: 36px;
height: 30px;
border: 0px solid #003366;
left: 5px;
}
.col_block_down {
width: 36px;
height: 30px;
border: 0px solid #003366;
position: absolute;
left: 13px;
top: 0px;
}
.col_image {
position: relative;
display:block;
left: 6px;
top: 12px;
}	
</style>

Here's the html:
Code:

<div class="col_tab_left">
<div class="col_block_up">
<img onclick="MoveBlock('ys101','bizJournalCity','Up');" class="col_image" src="images/block_up2.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="" alt="Move section up" title="Move section up" style="cursor:pointer;" />
</div>	
<div class="col_block_down">
<img onclick="MoveBlock('ys101','bizJournalCity','Down');" class="col_image" src="images/block_down2.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="" alt="Move section down" title="Move section down" style="cursor:pointer;" />
</div>	
<div class="col_tab_middle"><span class="col_tab_title">Business Journal News</span></div>
<div class="col_tab_right"></div>
</div>

It looks like this:

Hi,

I have an inline menu list.
I want the background to be the image, with the text in the html list. However I cant seem to do this.

http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=linkfd4.png

I tried using:
Code:

#leftnav li 
{
display:inline;
background-image:url(images/menu.png);
}

But the width of the list item is just the width of the text.
It doesn't show the ull background image.

I hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance.

Hey folks, here's an odd problem that's got me totally stumped.

I've got a nine item unordered list, each of which is a link that contains both text and a background image. The background image is a large spritebox. I'm using background-position to shift the spritebox to display the sprite specific to the a:link and also to display a separate a:hover version.

Looks great in Safari and CSSEdit, but in Firefox four of the links are misplaced and the sprite is incorrect. The hover state is correct, however.

This is hard to explain, but the example should help illustrate the problem. My thought was that it was related the psuedo class of a:link, but nothing I've tried seems to help. Any thoughts?

The example file contains both the HTML and the CSS (just to simplify this problem for this forum). The full background image and the file containing the sprites is at my website, artmeetsearth dot org slash 2011 slash codetest dot html. To get the image type socialmediaicons.jpg instead of codetest.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Hello,

I recently started creating websites again and I have been pulling my hair out on this Firefox compatibility issue. The site navigation looks great in IE but in Firefox a couple of the background images are skewed down and to the left.

Since all my tricks from years ago are so outdated now, I decided to try CSS for a simplified navigation setup. The code is probably pretty messy since I chopped it together from numerous sources and still am not completely sure how it works.

Background:
I created a large 794x1200 PNG image that contains two complete border and navigation sets. I am using CSS to both position the appropriate portion in each table/cell as well as switching to a slice on the 2nd image set for rollover purposes.

An example of the current test is he (URL address blocked: See forum rules)
*not sure if this is okay but would be best to see the example. If it is not allowed as a non-clickable then feel free to delete.

It is here - classtime . org / test6 . htm

and the navigation image is he
(URL address blocked: See forum rules)
*classtime . org / navigate . png

I would be eternally grateful to anyone that can help me figure out why the site works great in IE but is coming up skewed in Firefox.

As a side note, when I pull up the site in Frontpage, it shows the left-most cell as being larger than it is supposed to be even though it is hardcoded. To get my left image bar to show up in the correct place I had to use a value of "left: -40px;" I'm not sure why that is but I suspect it has something to do with the problem.

Thank you very much for taking a look. My jumbled code is as follows:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

<title>Ultrasonic Blind Company - Elk Grove Village, Illinois</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">

a:link {color: #FFF4D1;}
a:visited {color: #FFF4D1;}
a:hover {color: #74060c;}
a:active {color: #FFF4D1;}


.top a
{
display: block;
width: 794px;
height: 120px;
background-image: url('navigate.png');
}

.top a:hover { 
background-position: 0px -601px; 
}



#left {
 left: -40px;
 width: 150px;
 height: 460px;
 display: block;
 background: url('navigate.png');
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: 0px -120px;
 position: relative;
 }

#left li {margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; position: absolute;
text-align: center;
font: bold 18px Batang;
line-height: 50px;
}


#left li, #left a {height: 50px; width: 146px; display: block;}
#panel1b {top: 10px;}
#panel2b {top: 63px;}
#panel3b {top: 116px;}
#panel4b {top: 169px;}
#panel5b {top: 223px;}

#panel1b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -730px no-repeat}
#panel2b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -785px no-repeat}
#panel3b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -839px no-repeat}
#panel4b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -890px no-repeat}
#panel5b a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') 0px -945px no-repeat}

#right {
 width: 154px;
 height: 460px;
 display: block;
 background: url('navigate.png');
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: -640px -120px;
 position: relative;
 }

#right li {margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; position: absolute;
text-align: right;
font: bold 18px Batang;
}

#right li, #right a {height: 85px; width: 154px; display: block;}
#panel1r {top: 0px;}
#panel2r {top: 100px;}
#panel3r {top: 200px;}
#panel4r {top: 300px;}

#panel1r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -721px no-repeat}
#panel2r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -821px no-repeat}
#panel3r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -921px no-repeat}
#panel4r a:hover {background: transparent url('navigate.png') -640px -1021px no-repeat}


</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor=#74060c>
<div align=center>
<table id="Table_01" width=794px height=600px border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
		<td colspan="3" height="120" width="794" bgcolor="#FFF4D1">
			<div class="top"> 
			<a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"></a> 
			</div>
		</td>
</tr>
<tr>
		<td align=left valign=top height=674px width=150px bgcolor="#FFF4D1">
		 	<ul id="left">
  			<li id="panel1b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Contact</a></li>
 		 	<li id="panel2b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Residential</a></li>
  			<li id="panel3b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Commercial</a></li>
  			<li id="panel4b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Coupons</a></li>
  			<li id="panel5b"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none">Questions</a></li>
 			</ul>
		</td>
		<td align=left valign=top width=490px height=674px bgcolor="#FFF4D1">
		aaa</td>
		<td align=left valign=top width=154px height=674px bgcolor="#FFF4D1">
			<p align=right> <ul id="right">
  			<li id="panel1r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li>
  			<li id="panel2r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li>
  			<li id="panel3r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li>
  			<li id="panel4r"><a href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" style="text-decoration: none"></a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</td>
</tr>
	
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I have a problem I can't resolve as I'm out of my depth with this CSS positioning issue on a joomla site with a bespoke template I have customised.

The problem is that the client (a graphic designer) created a menu design where the top level menu buttons overlap with a curve. I have assigned a background image on hover and it works well. You can see it he

I can't post an image of the menu as it won't let me, being a new poster, which is a pain...
Code:

#horiz-menu a:hover {
            display: block;
            z-index: 100;
            line-height: 22px;
            left:-53px;
            position: relative;
            background: url("../images/style9/menu-bar-hover.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
            padding-left:63px;
            height:27px;
            width:162px;
            border-bottom:1px solid #fff;
            margin-bottom:-3px;
}

To achieve the overlap, the background has to sit behind the button to its left and that is achieved by moving it a fixed amount of pixels leftward. The menu text is then put back in place with the padding.

However the client now wants the hovered image to stick in the parent position when the submenu items are hovered over.

I've achieved this with:
Code:

#horiz-menu li.parent.active a {
            background: url("../images/style9/menu-bar-hover.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
            z-index: 100;      
            line-height: 22px;      
            left:-53px;             
            position: relative;      
            padding-left:63px;      
            height:27px;     
            width:162px;      
            border-bottom:1px solid #fff; 
 }

The trouble is that although the background image is positioned correctly, it has a knock-on effect on all the submenu list items which are being positioned to the beginning of the background image, 53 pixels to the left...

I cannot pad the submenu items over to the right as it causes all the other submenus items under the other parents to move to the right too.

I suppose my question is twofold: is there any way of setting the active parent list item background image position without the children items inheriting the position change? ; is there a better way of doing what I am attempting to do?

If the client had not specified overlapping buttons I would be in the clear but my client was a graphic designer who designed without any thought as to the css implications. The requirements have been signed off and I have to find a way of implementing it.

Please, any thoughts? I am not a css coder and I find css to be impenetrable, arcane whilst being slow and difficult to debug. All help really appreciated.

Hey Guys,

I designed a header logo in the top left corner of my psd document. I am now slicing my design up and I can't seem to be able to position the header into the top left hand corner. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my CSS Code:

ul#nav {
height: 91px; width: 271px;
margin:30 auto;
background: url(images/logo.jpg) no-repeat;


}

Hello,

I'm trying to create an list menu like the one in attached image and I have 2 problems.

1. In IE 6,IE 7 the list is ordered verticaly and not horizontaly (in Opera and FF it is ok)

2. I need to align the text on the bottom of the list like inattached image.

Here is what I manage to do till now : http://www.sibiul.net/test/list-align.php

Anyone knows what I must do ?

10x

Hey all,

can't seem to figure out what the deal is with this menu...looks fine in FF, but I can't seem to get the menu to line up with the background image in IE6.

Here's what i've got;
Code:

<div id="header_bg">
<ul id="header_top">
	<li><a href="index.php"><img src="images/menu_top.gif" alt="Windsor Harley Owners Group header image"></a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="menu_top">
	<li id="leftspc"></li>
	<li id="links"><a href="links.php"></a></li>
	<li id="contact"><a href="contact.php"></a></li>
	<li id="news"><a href="newsletter.php"></a></li>
	<li id="home"><a href="index.php"></a></li>
	<li id="about"><a href="about.php"></a></li>
	<li id="events"><a href="events.php"></a></li>
	<li id="join"><a href="join.php"></a></li>
	<li id="pix"><a href="pix.php"></a></li>
	<li id="rightspc"></li>
</ul>
<ul id="header_bottom">
	<li><img src="images/menu_bottomleft.gif" alt="Bottom Left spacer image"></li>
	<li id="admin"><a href="admin_login.php"></a></li>
	<li id="members"><a href="members.php"></a></li>
	<li><img src="images/menu_bottomright.gif" alt="Bottom right spacer image"></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>

and the CSS;
Code:

#header_bg {
width:100%;
position:relative;
background:black url(images/header_bg.gif) repeat-x bottom;
height:166px;
}

/*
* html #header_bg {
height:156px;
}
*/
#header_top {
width:800px;
height:59px;
margin:auto;
list-style:none;
background-color:black;
}

/*#header_top li#logo {
width:800px;
height:59px;
margin:auto;
}*/

#menu_top {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
list-style:none;
height:71px;
width:800px;
background-color:transparent;
margin-top:-5px;
}

* html #menu_top {
padding-left:18px;
margin-top:-8px;
}

#menu_top li {
height:71px;
float:left;
}

#menu_top a {
text-decoration:none;
display:block;
height:71px;
}

#menu_top li#leftspc {
width:100px;
background:black url(images/menu_leftspc.gif) no-repeat;
}

#menu_top li#rightspc {
width:100px;
background:black url(images/menu_rtspc.gif) no-repeat;
}


/* LINK BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#links a { background-image:url(images/linksbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#links a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#links { background-image:url(images/linksbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* CONTACT BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#contact a { background-image:url(images/contactbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#contact a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#contact { background-image:url(images/contactbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* NEWS BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#news a { background-image:url(images/newsbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#news a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#news { background-image:url(images/newsbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* HOME BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#home a { background-image:url(images/homebut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#home a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#home { background-image:url(images/homebut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* ABOUT BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#about a { background-image:url(images/aboutbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#about a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#about { background-image:url(images/aboutbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* EVENTS BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#events a { background-image:url(images/eventsbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#events a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#events { background-image:url(images/eventsbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* JOIN BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#join a { background-image:url(images/joinbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#join a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#join { background-image:url(images/joinbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

/* PIX BUTTONS */
#menu_top li#pix a { background-image:url(images/pixbut_off.jpg); }
#menu_top li#pix a:hover { background:transparent; }
#menu_top li#pix { background-image:url(images/pixbut_roll.jpg); width:75px; }

#header_bottom {
width:600px;
height:35px;
margin:auto;
margin-top:-5px;
background-color:transparent;
}

* html #header_bottom {
padding-left:18px;
margin-top:-4px;
}

#header_bottom li {
float:left;
height:35px;
list-style:none;
}

#header_bottom a {
text-decoration:none;
display:block;
height:35px;
}

/* admin BUTTONS */
#header_bottom li#admin a{
background-image:url(images/admin_button_off.gif);
}
#header_bottom li#admin a:hover {
background:transparent;
}
#header_bottom li#admin {
background-image:url(images/admin_button_roll.gif);
width:150px;
}

/* members BUTTONS */
#header_bottom li#members a{
background-image:url(images/members_button_off.gif);
}
#header_bottom li#members a:hover {
background:transparent;
}
#header_bottom li#members {
background-image:url(images/members_button_roll.gif);
width:150px;
}

Hi guys,

I have a small list positioning problem in IE 6/7 which I was hoping someone might be able to advise me on!

List Positioning is fine in Firefox, but for some reason is adding about 50px on the left margin in IE...

I know my page isn't quite valid because of the sIFR bits I have on it, but I'm working on this too!

The page in question is here

Here's my list css code;

#services_home_container {
width: 265px;
height: 274px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
float: left;
color: #666666;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.7em;
line-height: 130%;
}


#services_home ul {
list-style-type: none;
width: 235px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#services_home li {
margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#services_home li a {
color: #4f2f9c;
display: block;
font: bold 120% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
text-decoration: none;
}

* html #services_home li a { /* make hover effect work in IE */
width: 235px;
}

#services_home li a:hover {
background: #bcfbc6;
}

#services_home a em {
color: #666666;
display: block;
font: normal 85% Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 125%;
width: 235px;
padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
}

#services_home a span {
color: #125F15;
font: normal 70% Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 150%;
}


#services_home img {
float: left;
padding:2px 0px 2px 0px;
margin: 0px 5px 0px 2px;
border: none;
}


If anyone has a moment to take a look and help me, it would be very much appreciated!

Best regards

Jon

Hi,

I'm using a list for a navigation bar where I have all the links with background images to give a rollover effect with images. However I want all the links to be inline and not on separate lines. Here is the problem page: http://www.mckr.ie/test.html (the blue navigation bar)

Here is the HTML code on the page:

Code:

<div id="topnavdiv">    
<ul>      
<li><a href="/" id="buttonhome"><b>Home</b></a></li>
<li><a href="../about.html" id="buttonabout"><b>About Us</b></a></li>      
<li><a href="../location.html" id="buttonlocation"><b>Location</b></a></li>      
<li><a href="../contact.html" id="buttoncontact"><b>Contact Us</b></a></li>      
<li><a href="../news.html" id="buttonnews"><b>News</b></a></li>      
<li><a href="../people.html" id="buttonpeople"><b>People</b></a></li>      
<li><a href="../recruitment.html" id="buttonrecruitment"><b>Recruitment</b></a></li>    
</ul>  
</div>

Here is my CSS code for the nav bar and the first 2 links:

Code:

#topnavdiv {  	position:absolute;  	left:0px;  	top:120px;  	width:100%;  	z-index:3;  	background-color: #3366CC;  	border-top-width: 1px;  	border-right-width: 0px;  	border-bottom-width: 1px;  	border-left-width: 0px;  	border-top-color: #f8c015;  	border-bottom-color: #f8c015;  	border-right-color: #f8c015;  	border-left-color: #f8c015;  	border-top-style: solid;  	border-right-style: solid;  	border-bottom-style: solid;  	border-left-style: solid;  }  

#topnavdiv ul {  	margin: 0px;  	padding: 0px;  	list-style-type: none;  }  

#topnavdiv li {  	margin: 0px;  	padding: 0px;  	list-style-type: none;  	display: inline;  }  

#topnavdiv b {  	display: none;  }  

a#buttonhome {  	background-color: #3366CC;  	background-image: url(images/nav.home.gif);  	height: 24px;  	width: 65px;  	display: block;  	background-repeat: no-repeat;  	cursor: hand;  }  

a#buttonhome:hover {  	background-color: #3366CC;  	background-image: url(images/nav.home.on.gif);  	height: 24px;  	width: 65px;  	display: block;  	background-repeat: no-repeat;  	cursor: hand;  }  

a#buttonabout {    	background-color: #3366CC;  	background-image: url(images/nav.about.gif);  	height: 24px;  	width: 85px;  	display: block;  	background-repeat: no-repeat;  	cursor: hand;  }  

a#buttonabout:hover {      	background-color: #3366CC;  	background-image: url(images/nav.about.on.gif);  	height: 24px;  	width: 85px;  	display: block;  	background-repeat: no-repeat;  	cursor: hand;  }  

Please can someone help me get them inline? Thanks in advance

I have a list that I've created with the list-style-type being an image.

For some reason, the space between the list-style-image and the list text differs in IE and Firefox. Has this happened to anyone else, or am I doing something incorrectly?

Below is the code. The cell that these lists sit in has has an id of 'cellid'.

Code:

#cellid {
margin: 0 0;
padding: 0 0;
}

#cellid ul {
margin: 10px 0 0 20px;
padding: 0 0;
}

#cellid li {
margin: 0 0;
padding: 0 0;
list-style-image: url(images/idxyellowlist.gif);
}

The ul has a margin of 20px on the left to line up with an element above it. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get around this space?

Thanks,

Brian