CSS - Forcing Tables To Top Right Side

Hi!

I want to have let's say 4 divs of width:25% horizontally side-by-side.

Ex: (I'll ry to draw it )

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Thank you.

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!

Hey,

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

and the css

Hello,
I have a problem that is making me crazy!
I have a simple page with some news on it. Every news is a <div> and contains two floating blocks: Image(floating left) and the text(also floating left). These blocks must stay side by side and NOT one over the other.
The width of the news <div> can be 500-550px max for layout reasons. If the text is longer than the space available Firefox moves the entire text block under the image, while IE resize correctly the text block.

I have tried to apply diplay:inline; to both blocks with no effect.

Here is the test page Link
(I have limited the width to 500px to simulate the real layout.)

CSS:
Code:

.news {
	float: left;
	clear:left;
	margin: 0 0 1em 0;
	width: 100%;
}
.img_hl {
	float:left;
	margin-right: 10px;
}
.newstext {
	padding-top: 1em;
	float:left;
}

Please help me!!

--
Bye
Redhawk

So I'm not really new to CSS or HTML though I might as well be considering the last time I did anything in either that had much substance was a class back in high school, about 6 years ago.

This is what I want...

DIV1 --------------- DIV2 --------------- DIV 3

2 would be in the center with 1 and 3 floating left and right respectively.

Instead I'm getting this...

DIV1 --- DIV2

----------------------------------------- DIV 3

or

DIV1
DIV2
DIV3




...I hope you guys get the idea. I'm having trouble figuring it out.

My ext CSS sheet, if you care to look, is he
http:// livingway.110mb. com/mainstyle.css

the frame in question, he
http:// livingway.110mb. com/main.htm

I'm hoping it'll let you all look at them. It's nothing professional yet because I'm only trying to give an update idea to our "webmaster". Anywho, let me know what I'm doing wrong. My brain hurts right now.

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

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>

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).

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.

http://www.rocksolidhq.com/anmar/index.php

I'm having trouble with getting the popout menu to display on top of the content. Does anyone have any idea how to force it to display on top of the content. I also want it to display under the flash animations but I'm sure that it will be forced to do that because of the way Flash works anyway.

the stylesheet for this is
http://www.rocksolidhq.com/anmar/styles/anmar.css

So I'm not sure how to search for what I'm trying to do so I figured I'd just ask.

On my test website: http://www.temple-of-lore.com/siege911 I noticed on the front screen, the image that I have on the bottom doesn't go to the bottom of the page which breaks the effect I'm trying to do. You can see what I'm trying to do on other pages.

Anyways, I know I'm going to be putting more content eventually on that front page, but I'm sure there will be someone out there with a huge Apple monitor with amazing resolution that's going to break my page. I'd prefer a way to just force the image to go to the bottom and fill any black above it if the screen is taller than the content on the screen. But on pages where it's not taller, I'd like it to be below the content and let it scroll down.

Anybody know how to do this?

Hello all,

I'm trying to find a solution for the problem hereafter :

I'm building a css2 based website where all thelayout is controlled in the CSS.
I have in my website a main "body" box identifier by a CSS ID. This "body" is a container for various articles. It has a background and borders.

I would like this "body" box to have a minimum heigth so that even if the content (ie the article) is made of two lines, the background and the borders have this minimum size.

The problem is that if i use the "heigth" attribute in my CSS id, when the content is longer for that heigth, the box is not extended, only the text, going out of the box.

To summarize, i'm looking how to fix a minimum height to a DIV or any block component of a css, without limitating this block to this only height.

I hope i have beel clear, if any of you have an idea for this, it would be very helpfull to me, as this is a very recurrent problem.

Thanks by advance

never mind.

i tried searching for this and wasn't able to find any threads.

i have a container div with my content, and then i have a footer div that i want to always be at the bottom of the page. i've got it to work in FireFox, but IE is a pain as usual. can anyone look at this and tell me if i'm doing it right and/or what i'm doing wrong? thx.

css
Code:

#container {min-height: 87%; width:620px; margin: 30px auto; position:relative; text-align: center; clear: both; background-image: url(images/backgroundCol.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y;}

#container_footer { margin:auto; height:50px; width:620px; text-align:center; background:#FF0000; clear:both; position:relative; margin-top: -80px; clear: both; background-image: url(images/footerBackground.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y;}

html
Code:

<div id="container">
container
<br class="clearall" />
</div>

<div id="container_footer">		
			this is the footer		
	<br class="clearall" />
</div>

here is the page in action so far
http://www.photography139.com/index.html

given the following structu

#container
{
width:775px;
margin:0px auto;
background-color:#fff;
border-left:2px solid #424242;
border-right:2px solid #424242;
border-bottom:2px solid #424242;
border-top:2px solid #424242;
background-image:url(cont_bg.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}

#nav
{
padding:0px;
height:100px;
background-color:#4E7395;
background-image:url(nav.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top left;
}

#masthead
{
padding:0px;
height:200px;
background-image:url(header.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top left;
background-color:#E6E6E6;
border-bottom:4px solid #4e7395;
}




#leftnav
{
float: left;
width: 375px;
margin-left:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color:transparent;


}


#rightnav
{
clear:right;
float: right;
width:392px;
margin-right:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color:transparent;

}

Would it be possible to put text paragraphs side by side inside the rightnav <div>

Floating the text in that manner, it would appear that there were two mini-columns, instead of just the one. Is that possible?

thanks a million

jon