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CSS - Newbie - Rendering Tabular Data By Columns Rather Than Rows?
UPDATED! - please see my post below
Hi all, A bit of a newbie to CSS. I understand the syntax, and some basics. I've run into an issue where I need to render tabular data (from coldfusion) as columns rather than rows. That is to say - the data coming from CF is sorted to be written out one column at a time, rather than one row at a time, and still be lnied up correctly. Is there an easy way to set this up using CSS? I even have rowspan info, just not sure how to implement this. Similar TutorialsI'm mostly a PHP developer, & use CSS only intermittently, so forgive this hopefully simple problem: I want to put a series of boxes(with fixed width, but not fixed height) inside a bigger box. The inner boxes should proceed from left to right, from the top left of the containing box. When the width of the containing/outer box is reached, the next inner box should start the next row at the left inner border of the containing box, below the tallest of the boxes in the first row, and begin the second row. No different from ordinary text, where letters are like the inner boxes. If I set float: left; for the inner boxes, this works fine if all the boxes are the same height. However, if the last inner box in the row is shorter than the previous box, the next box that should start the next row at the far left will be placed immediately under the last box in the first row, then the second row will be started after that, under that. One point: these inner blocks will be generated by php, and only the data will be different between them; otherwise, they should all have the same style attributes. I can easily get around this using a table layout, but I'd rather not. I'm sure the solution is quite simple; much more simple than my explanation. To illustrate the problem, I attach some code below -- you can just copy it & paste it into an empty tst.html file and go. Thanks for any help on this seemingly simple problem. Regards, Paul vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv 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"/>
<style type="text/css">
.outerblock {
width: 300px;
border: 3px solid blue;
}
.innerblock {
width: 90px;
border: 2px solid green;
color: red;
float: left;
}
</style>
<title>TestFloatingBlocks</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Testing Blocks </h1>
<div class="outerblock">
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
<div class="innerblock">
<p> Hi. This is some text. This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text. And some more.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have a page that I am generating that I would like to have the images (in a box) placed in 3 columns. I generate the code via a simple php script but it only creates a single column. I have a #pagePane selector around a #bodyPane selector and have a number of selectors of the form #appDivXY where X and Y are the column and row I want to put them in. #pagePane { width : 800px; position : relative; table-layout : fixed; text-align : center; margin-left : auto; margin-right : auto; } #bodyPane { width : 800px; position : inherit; margin : 5% auto; } and a series like the following: #apDiv00 { position : absolute; width : 250px; height : 250px; top : 100px; left : 25px; border : thin; border-color : #000000; border-style : solid; } #apDiv10 { position : absolute; width : 250px; height : 250px; top : 100px; left : 275px; border : thin; border-color : #000000; border-style : solid; } I have validated the code and only get some minor warnings about colors. The full page can be generated at mandp dot lamster dot org slash french40sx.php I am sure (or I hope anyway) that I am doing something trivialy wrong but I have no idea what it could be. I have been playing with this for hours. Thanks for any help. Hal Hello, I'm working now on div layout that contains 3 sections (header, body, footer) in one centered wrapper with border (divs with background imgs). My problem is: - divs that are in fact borders (id="l_outerborder_b" and id="r_outerborder_b") don't stretch when main container (id="body_content_text") grows. Here is a html code: Code: <!--BEGIN TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!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>
<link href="template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="template.js" />
</head>
<body onload="onloadprocedures()">
<div id="main_container">
<div id="template_header">
<div id="tl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="t_outerborder"></div>
<div id="tr_outerborder"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_h"></div>
<div id="header_content">
<div id="logo"><img src="img/logo.png" alt="" /></div>
<div id="slogan"><img src="img/slogan.png" alt="Centrum zdrowia" /></div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_h"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE BODY -->
<div id="template_body">
<div id="l_outerborder_b"></div>
<div id="body_content">
<div id="body_content_text">
<p>TEST</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_b"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE BODY -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
<div id="template_footer">
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="footer_content"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="bl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="b_outerborder"></div>
<div id="br_outerborder"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!-- END TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
and CSS: Code: @charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, "Times New Roman", Arial;
font-size:12px;
}
a:link {text-decoration: none} /* unvisited link */
a:visited {text-decoration: none} /* visited link */
a:hover {text-decoration: none} /* mouse over link */
a:active {text-decoration: none} /* selected link */
#main_container {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
width:960px;
height:auto;
}
#template_header {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
height:300px;
}
#header_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
height:270px;
}
#logo {
width:310px;
height:130px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#slogan {
width:580px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#tl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#t_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/t_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#tr_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tr_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#l_outerborder_h {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#r_outerborder_h {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#body_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#body_content_text {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:600px;
margin: auto;
overflow:hidden;
}
#l_outerborder_b {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_b {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#l_outerborder_f {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_f {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#template_body {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#bl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/bl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#b_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/b_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#br_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/br_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
Thanks in advance for info how to stretch those doomed divs EDIT: Here is layout concept. URL hTTp://qsrc.pl/layout.jpg Hello, I am using ASP.NET to create a web application. I HAVE to use a master page which means that I do not have complete control over the rendering. The trick is, the master page defines a menu at the top of the page. I need to create a table that dynamically fills the contents of the REMAINDER of the screen. If there is any overflow, I want to scroll the contents. Does anyone know how I can have the table fill the REMAINDER of the screen? I can nest DIVs and such once I have that outer table. Thank you! Crystal Hi guys, pretty new to CSS layout, and recently created a site for my girlfriend. I used 960 grid system to handle my layout css, and it renders perfectly in safari/FF/IE7+... after I installed IE Tester, i realized that IE6 wasnt rendering properly. The menu and z-index stuff arent appearing correctly. If anyone can have a quick look and let me know where my code is causing issues it would be a great help. I'm not allowed to post the URL, as im a new user, but I guess I can send through PM if you want to have a look? Thanks a bunch. Greetings everyone! I've been working on the following page for a couple of days now, and it looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but all my CSS fail in IE. I don't know what the problem is. Feel free to view the page at the following url http://www.netunification.com/demo/ I spoke with a friend and he speculates IE is having problems with the float command. I'm not so sure of this because I used the same CSS techniques while building the following site (http://www.the904.com/demo/). The904 page renders perfectly in IE and I can't figure out what the difference is between the pages. I thought I used the same concept with both pages. I've been trouble shooting the problem for a couple of days now, but I haven't had any luck. Can please someone take a look at my net u page (http://www.netunification.com/demo/) and suggest a solution Thanks in advance for any/all assistance. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated! Walt Hi, Trying to get my website to work in IE7. Got to collumns. Side bar and main content. It works fine in firefox, opera and chrome but not in IE7. In IE7 the main content doesn't appear next to the side bar, instead its at the bottom the pade. The site is at accentibrass dot com If anyone has any ideas they'd be much appreciated! thanks http://www.rich-carey.com/rc-alpha/index.php?c=files&content=misc A problem with my CSS means the columns arent equal, any ideas? ive tried several things, and JUST got colour on the right side now. Someone said something about problems with floats but i didnt quite udnerstand it Ive noticed this is only a problem in IE6(and probably some more older browsers)...Firefox 3 and IE 7 it works fine. Visit this site: (you will have to do it twice because you need to login first.) http://ronnieswietek.com/flashden/newsletter/newsletter.php?do=preview&id=2 u: admin p: testadmin I put a blue background on the div so you can understand what I am talking about. If you look at it in firefox, the blue covers the whole newsletter, text and images, but if you look at it in IE, it only does a small portion of it...Can anyone figure out this mystery??? CSS for that section: Code:
#newsletter_subject
{
padding: 5px;
font-size: 18px;
color: #ffffff;
background-color:#999999;
}
#newsletter_preview
{
overflow: auto;
background-color:#000066;
}
#recipients
{
padding: 5px;
font-size: 18px;
color: #ffffff;
background-color:#999999;
}
and then the corresponding html: Code: <div id="newsletter_subject">flashden newsletter!</div> <br> <div id="newsletter_preview"><font size="6"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-family: georgia;">flashden <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">is</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">awesome</span> <span style="font-family: impact; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(153, 255, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 51, 204);">I</span>!</span></font><br> <br> <img style="width: 202px; height: 261px;" alt="" src="http://flashden.net/new/site_flashden.net/interface/logo_top.gif" align="left"><br> </div> <br> <div id="recipients">This Newsletter WILL be sent to the following users:</div> etc..... I'm helping my cousin with a design he's doing for a college class. Everything renders out a-OK in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer, the "content" gets pushed way down. The URL is http://jordanmeeter.com/captcalstudios/ . Any theories as to what is causing this? On my website IE6 is rendering a menu bar with side blocks (the 2nd green bar down in the header area). See it here. Can anyone advise a work-around? Thanks This is a bit of a weird one as its thrown me completely! I have a very simple collection of styled divs which when viewed in IE look rubbish as they have added a few extra pixels in height to the bottom. I've realized that this looks like a rendering issue as when you scroll the window down and back up the extra image thats appearing sometimes changes according to the speed you scroll at!!! (sometimes the line disappears and then re-appears if you scroll faster) I'm using IE 7 (emulated through IE8 as the real IE7 doesn't work on my vista machine????) also the IE tab mod for firefox and my brothers old xp machine with a working IE7 and the issue is occurring on all 3. However when put in IE8 mode it works Here is a lovely images to show whats going on... css + html... Code: <div style="padding:10px;"> <div style="background:url(/images/forums/middle.jpg) repeat-x left top;"> <div style="background:url(/images/forums/left.jpg) no-repeat left top;"> <div style="background:url(/images/forums/right.jpg) no-repeat right top; padding-bottom:10px;"> <div style="padding:18px; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:18px; padding-bottom:30px;">Catagories</div> <div style="padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px;"> <div style="font-size:14px;">Help and support with the Site</div> <div style="font-size:10px;">Need help with something on the site?</div> </div> <hr size="1" color="#999999" style="margin:10px 40px 10px 40px;"> <div style="padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px;"> <div style="font-size:14px;">Help and support with the Site</div> <div style="font-size:10px;">Need help with something on the site?</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="background:url(/images/forums/middle_bottom.jpg) repeat-x left top; height:4px;"> <div style="background:url(/images/forums/left_bottom.jpg) no-repeat left top; height:4px;"> <div style="background:url(/images/forums/right_bottom.jpg) no-repeat right top; height:4px;"></div> </div> </div> </div> thanks in advance for any reply Hi, I have a problem with a menu i made: http://www.kbskameleon.nl/kameleon2/ In internet explorer the red dots apear and disapear... how can i fix this? Code:
body {
background: #EBEBEB;
behavior:url("csshover.htc");
}
#menu * {
font-family: Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ;
font-size:12px;
color:white;
}
/* the menu */
#menu ul,#menu li,#menu a {
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
}
#menu ul {
width:150px;
background:#5B3C66;
list-style:none;
}
#menu li {
position:relative;
padding:1px;
padding-left:10px;
background:url("menuicoon.gif") no-repeat;
z-index:9;
}
#menu li.folder { background:url("menuicoon.gif") no-repeat; }
#menu li.folder ul {
position:absolute;
left:120px; /* IE */
top:5px;
border:1px solid #9d9da1;
}
#menu li.folder>ul { left:140px; } /* others */
#menu a {
padding:2px;
border:0;
text-decoration:none;
color:white;
font-weight:normal;
width:100%; /* IE */
}
#menu li>a { width:auto; } /* others */
#menu li a.submenu {
}
/* regular hovers */
#menu a:hover {
border-color:gray;
background-color:#8F8FCB;
color:black;
}
#menu li.folder a:hover {
background-color:#8F8FCB;
}
/* hovers with specificity */
#menu li.folder:hover { z-index:10; }
#menu ul ul,#menu li:hover ul ul {
display:none;
}
#menu li:hover ul,#menu li:hover li:hover ul {
display:block;
}
Hi I am completely stumped by this. My CSS is not rendering in FF, I am running FF on a mac. Two pages, they are nearly the same, but show one display Css and the other does not - No CSS and With CSS I have been going crazy trying to find out what is wrong. The CSS link is here Thanks Jake I have a onMouseOver event that draws a top border over text. This works fine with Mozilla/Firefox, but it doesn't render in IE. I think I know why -- it's because I used CSS to position the text beforehand, and in IE it doesn't bother drawing the top border because it's out of the text's bounding box, right? So, how do I fix this so it works in IE? I've posted a sample page with the problem he http://aaron.verge-rpg.com/vergebrd/test.html Any help would be appreciated. My navigation displays correctly in IE 7+ and Mozilla Firefox, however in IE Under 7 the navigation places a double line and adds additional padding to the navigation. Does anyone have a remedy for this problem? Hi guys, I am in the process of refreshing my site however cannot seem to figure out a specific iOS rendering issue. On iOS devices (I have tested on an iPad and a iPhone 4), the menu on my website displays on the first visit, but then disappears. I cannot reproduce this on a regular desktop browser, but can reproduce the rendering issue on the iOS simulator. The CSS file is located here and the corresponding validator result link is here. This is what it looks like on first visit: And this is what happens when I refresh the page: I'm really at a loss to understand where I might be going wrong, and would be grateful for any assistance. The CSS rules for the menu specifically a Code:
/* !Navigation */
#menu {background: #393 url(../images/menu.png) no-repeat !important; width: 744px; height: 40px; position: relative; margin: 170px 0 0 0; padding: 0;}
#menu li {float: left;}
#menu li a, #help li a {position: absolute; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: block; text-indent: -9999px; overflow: hidden;}
#menu li a {height: 40px;}
/* Normal State */
li#home a {left: 0; width: 79px;}
li#about a {left: 84px; width: 75px;}
li#journal a {left: 164px; width: 89px;}
li#origami a {left: 258px; width: 97px;}
li#stuff a {left: 360px; width: 65px;}
li#links a {left: 430px; width: 65px;}
li#contact a {left: 500px; width: 93px;}
/* Hover & Current State */
li#home a:hover, #snkhan_home li#home a {background: url(../images/menu.png) 0 -40px;}
li#about a:hover, #snkhan_about li#about a {background: url(../images/menu.png) -84px -40px;}
li#journal a:hover, #snkhan_journal li#journal a {background: url(../images/menu.png) -164px -40px;}
li#origami a:hover, #snkhan_origami li#origami a {background: url(../images/menu.png) -258px -40px;}
li#stuff a:hover,#snkhan_stuff li#stuff a {background: url(../images/menu.png) -360px -40px;}
li#links a:hover, #snkhan_links li#links a {background: url(../images/menu.png) -430px -40px;}
li#contact a:hover, #snkhan_contact li#contact a {background: url(../images/menu.png) -500px -40px;}
Any suggestions welcome! Saj Hi, Does anyone have any Ideas how to fix the two rendering bugs shown in the screenshots below? In IE5.5 The two top bars that stretch across the screen stretch too far distorting the page slightly. (Circled in red). http://www.explosiveracing.net/test/render_bugs/ie55.jpg In NN6 the backgrounds on the table cells do not fill correctly looking unsightly. (Circled in red). If you compare this to viewing the site in FF then you can see what I mean http://www.explosiveracing.net/test/render_bugs/nn6.jpg Site: http://www.explosiveracing.net/test/ I have run into a problem in 2 of my pages in IE they Render fine in Firefox but in IE you cannot see the top part of the text and in some you don't incounter this problem. but when you refresh page the Title and author and the top text will not show in IE just disapper and it will show up when you Scroll or Highlight the text. I been trying to figure out this problem for quite sometime now. The First Page Second Page Code:
.top_article_pic {
float:left;
margin: 0 9px 0 0;
}
div#articles_bg {
width:850px;
background:#2A475F;
padding:24px;
}
div#articles_page {
background:#FFF;
border:1px solid #000;
padding:12px;
}
div#articles_page2 {
height:800px;
background:#FFF;
border:1px solid #000;
padding:12px;
}
span.h1 {
font-family:Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
font-size:2em;
color:#2A475F;
font-weight:bold;
}
span.author {
font-family:Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
font-size:.9em;
font-style:italic;
color:#2A475F;
}
div#articles_page p.main_article {
margin:18px 0 0 0;
font-family:Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
font-size:.8em;
color:#000;
}
div#articles_page p.main_article_p{
width:500px;
margin:18px 17px 0 0;
font-family:Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
font-size:.8em;
color:#000;
float:left;
background:#FFF;
}
img.right_thumb {
border:1px solid;
}
p.click_enlarge {
font:.8em Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
color:#2A475F;
}
div#articles_page p.main_article_p2{
margin:12px 0 0 0;
font-family:Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
font-size:.8em;
color:#000;
background:#FFF;
}
img.right_float {
float:right;
margin:0 0 0 15px;
border:1px solid #000;
}
p#left_article {
margin:10px 0 0 0;
color:#000;
font:.8em Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
}
p.article2 {
margin:9px 0 0 0;
text-align:justify;
font:.8 Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
width:530px;
font:.8em Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
}
div.right_pic {
width:161px;
padding:10px;
font:.8em Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
color:#2A475F;
margin:0 10px 0 0;
float:left;
background:#ccc;
border:1px solid #000;
}
Thanks in Advance Here's my page: dev.papatime.rewards.openi.com/rewards09/ NOTE: As new member I am not allowed to post a link, so please add h-t-t-p:// Looks great in FF, Chrome, and Safari. In IE8 the grey box at the top of the right hand column is not aligned to the top, throwing off the whole page. You can see the HTML by viewing source of the page, and I will include the relative CSS below. CSS of the container: .twoColFixRtHdr #container { width: 801px; background: #FFFFFF; margin: 0 auto; border: 0px solid #FFFFFF; text-align: left; } CSS of the main column: .twoColFixRtHdr #mainContent { margin: 0 274px 0 0; padding: 0; width:527px; } CSS of the sidebar: .twoColFixRtHdr #sidebar1 { float: right; width: 261px; padding-top: 0px; text-align:center; vertical-align:top; position:relative; } Been banging my head against a wall for hours on this, any help would be GREATLY appreciated! |
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