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CSS - Can You Position An Element Outside Its Parent Element, Relative To Something Else?
I have an navigation menu that I am building as an unordered list. What I have is an image rollover that appears at the bottom of the navigation menu when the cursor hovers over one of the first level links by using a span within the link that has its display set to none, and then set to absolute positioned directly below the navigation menu on a:hover.
Here is an example: Code:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="link1.html" id="link1">Link<span></span></a>
</li>
</ul>
.link a { some link height }
.link a span { display: none; }
.link a:hover span {
position: abolute;
top: (some link height * the number of links);
background-image: (some image url)
width: (image width)
height: (image height)
}
Appearance: ------ Link1 Link2 Link3 Link4 ------- ------- Rollover Image to appear here ------- The problem that I have is that since the rollover image is positioned absolutely, if the size of the list of links changes (IE with sub-links in the list) it slides under or over where I have the rollover image placed. IE ------ Link1 sublink1 sublink2 Link2 Link3 Link4 ------- will break my scheme. Is there a way to get the span within the link to show up relative to the bottom of the <ul> element, or at the bottom of an element that contains the whole shebang? If I cant get this to work, I'm going to be forced to adopt the existing tables/javascript based template for our site, and I'd hate hate hate to do that. thanks. Similar TutorialsThe goal of the following code is to have a search box with several tabs above it to narrow down the search. The issue is that the design calls for a little upside down triangle to appear below the tab and bleed into the text box. The code works great in Firefox and even in IE6 where the Doctype was switched to HTML 3.2. I'm using 4.01 Transitional and noticing that the arrow doesn't center itself below the tab, rather it centers itself in the entire page. If I take out the width: 100% from .searchbox li.active .downarrow, then both browsers behave the same, although the downarrow now appears in the left bottom corner of the tab rather than the center. Note that I've stripped most of the code away to narrow down the issue. Code:
<style>
.searchbox ul { float: left; padding-left: 10px; list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 10px 0 0 0; }
.searchbox li { float: left; }
.searchbox li .downarrow { display: none; }
.searchbox li a { display: block; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px; color: #213327; }
.searchbox li.active { position: relative; }
.searchbox li.active a { color: #fff; border: 1px solid #b3b2b0; background: #266d1e url('/c2footsearchbg.jpg') repeat-x scroll top left; }
.searchbox li.active a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
.searchbox li.active .downarrow { display: block; position: absolute; bottom: -9px; width: 100%; height: 10px; text-align: center; margin: auto; }
.searchbox div { clear: both; display: inline-block; }
.searchbox input.txt { border: 2px solid #999; padding: 5px 0 0 3px; width: 305px; height: 30px; }
.searchbox input.submit { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #fff; width: 71px; height: 30px; border: 0; background: transparent url('/c2searchbutton.jpg') no-repeat scroll top left; vertical-align: top; cursor: pointer; }
.searchbox input.submit:hover { background-position: 0 -30px; }
</style>
<div class="searchbox">
<h3>Search</h3>
<ul id="c2FootSearch">
<li class="active"><a href="/index.php">Main</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/groups/">Groups</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/people/">People</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/petitions/">Petitions</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/news/">News</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
</ul>
<div>
<form action="/searchall.html" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="search" value="main" />
<input type="text" name="q" class="txt" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
Can anyone explain the difference between the two? For example, what is the difference between: this: element element {} div p { } and this: element > element { } div > p { } I don't understand it and have not found an explanation in tireless searching. Thx! How can I position several elements, relative to the position of another element? I tried this: <div> Test <span style="position:relative;top:40;left:40">Foo</span> <span style="position:relative;top:40;left:40">Bar</span> </div> I want both Foo and Bar to be 40 pixels to the right and below of Test. But they appear next to eachother instead of stacking on top of eachother. How can I position them "relative" to the div tag? I was under the understanding that an element positioned absolutely is positioned in context to the closest parent object that has positioning of absolute or relative, and barring that, the body. I have quite simple code: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <div style="position:relative; height:50px; width:250px; background:#69c;"> <input type="text" style="position:absolute; top:5px; left:0; right:0;"> </div>
I would expect this to be top-aligned with 5 pixels of blue showing, and stretched the width of the containing div, but it's not. It's the correct height from the div but not the sides of the container - can anyone tell me why that is, or what should be done ( short of width:100%; )? Thanks, Brett Please look at this page - http://hometown.tmhdesign.com/ask.asp?faq=9 See how the <p> exceeds the containing box at the bottom? I put a border-bottom on the containing div to show you where the issue occurs. It does not happen in IE7 I just noticed it does it also on this page http://hometown.tmhdesign.com/staff.asp Is there a way to style an element's parent with css? I know something like .div1 p { stuff here } takes care of p's that are inside div1 but is there a way to style say any div1 with a div2 inside? Or a ul with a ul inside? Hi, Is it possible to change the css properties of a parent element without changing the properties of its childreen? That is, in the following code: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>ccc</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Hello
<ul>
<li>World</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Is it possible to modify the root UL to have font set to 200% without the child UL also being effected?? Thansk and Regards, Sim085 Please look at this page - http://www.soarminden.com/glider-soaring-gallery.asp I put a red border on parent element. The children divs appear outside the parent at page bottom? Can someone shed some light please? I think the issue is with the styling of the div(s) innerLeftColumn or LeftColumn Code: <div style='width:670px;margin:0;border:1px solid red;min-height:500px;position:relative;'> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;clear:left;'> <img src='images/gallery/1/tom6.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=1' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Tom Hall Soaring</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;'> <img src='images/gallery/12/phil-jones2.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=12' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Phil Jones Goes Gold & Diamond!</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;'> <img src='images/gallery/13/wedding1.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=13' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Wolfram and Lydia's Wedding</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;clear:left;'> <img src='images/gallery/15/DSC_6547.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=15' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Brennan Hall Soaring Lake Tahoe</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;'> <img src='images/gallery/16/teresa.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=16' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Teresa Luther</a></h4> </div> </div> i have a block that i have the opacity set to .80. within this block i have text. The reason i have the opacity set at .80 is to help increase contrast between the background and text. the heading of the page is within the the block and is inheriting the opacity behaviour. Is there a way to turn this off? like a no-inherit? heres the block: #content { width: 470px; height: 380px; background: #fff; padding: 0px 5px 10px 10px; border: 0px solid yellow; overflow: scroll; float: clear; filter:alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity:0.8; opacity: 0.8; } page titles a .pagetitles { font-size: .8em; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana, Georgia, Times, serif; color: #ffcc00; line-height: .4em ; } My css is at CSS. The site is at site The problem I am having is that on the .maintextdiv or the .subtextdiv if I add any left or right margin values IE6 in strict mode is adding that value to the parent element, #rightbox. I should clarify that if I add margin values to just one of them it displays fine, but if I add margin values to both of them then I end up with the problem of extra space added to the parent element. More wierdness, if those (maintextdiv and subtextdiv) are not floated then the problem doesn't show up at all. It's only once they got floated did I have problems. This behavior doesn't show up in FF or Safari. Anyone with any ideas? Hi guys, I'm changing a simple page from a table style layout to CSS Positioning style. Here's a common line...it's working fine in IE, but not in Firefox (which immediately tells me there's something wrong with my coding). The code is: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Overflowing Box</title>
<style type="text/css">
div.row{
padding-top : 10px;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 10px;
}
.image{
float : left;
font-weight : bold;
width : 210px;
}
.description{
float : right;
width : 235px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 450px; background-color: #cc9;
border: 1px dotted #333; padding: 5px;
margin: 0px auto">
<div class="row">
<div class="image">An image will go here</div>
<div class="description">
<strong>Heading:</strong> Text <br>
<a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">http://www.somesite.com</a><br>
<br>
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<br>
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<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It's a very simple example, but for some reason, the container doesn't "expand" in Firefox as I'd expect. I've hunted around the web, played around and tried some of my other code to no avail. Am I missing the simplest of attributes? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance! Hi all, The easiest way to see the problem is to look at this demo in firefox. (I haven't patched it to work in IE yet.) The menu items in the 1st 2 menu's don't expand to fill the available area. Any ideas? Hoping someone can help. I'm trying to figure out a way to align something to the left of an existing element within a container of variable height. The existing element is already aligned to the left edge of the container. To be more specific, I am trying to place a helper graphic to the left of the email text-field in the "Leave a Comment" form (not the "Email this Zing" form) on this page: http://www.zingfu.com/?zing=4419693e9e98f If it's possible to the place the helper graphic right next to the text field in the code, but then to break it out of the container div to move to the left of the text field, that would be great. Or if I could apply positioning to the helper graphic based on the positioning of the text field, that'd be fine too. But I'm not sure if either is possible. Little help? I have a "see details" link over in the bottom right of a table cell - exactly were I want it. But when I resize the browser window to make it smaller and squish it together the link does not stay in its cell but goes left crashing into content. How do I keep it wrapping but still hugging the right wall of the rightmost cell? Using Mozilla. I have the code below - you'll see. Thanks <html> <table border 1px> <tr> <td>Configuration Management System</td> <td><ahref=http://ms.fc.na.bz/>http://ms.fc.na.bz/</a></td> <td>Source for configuration management documents and drawings from many projects. These are primarily engineering design documents. Each Directorate must be searched separately... <a STYLE="position: absolute; right: 20px; color:red;" href=details. php?id=3&Type_view= detail&Type_Submit=&key_word= > see details</a> </td> </tr> </table> <html> For most of my webpages, I use a few element templates for body, div, etc. I'm using more positioning in my pages, and so for the sake of nested div's, I want to add some standardized positioning to my template:
Code: div{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border: 0 #000000 solid;
/*** added positioning atributes ***/
position: relative;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 0;
}
I know that some of this is "standard", but I want to be absolutely sure the browser is going to render my page as I want it. My question is, will/should adding this positioning increase the processing/rendering time of the page (as using table-less design uses a lot of divs)? It's probably a silly thing to worry about, but I'm also interested in what atributes are more processing intensive. Please look at this page - http://www.mts-diesel.com/index.php?cPath=20_23_42 The breadcrumb trail links on the main page in FF are higher up than the same element in Chrome and IE. If anyone can shed some light it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, Tom I don't know why but for some reason I thought if you give an element a position of absolute the margin is irrelevant. Not so in FF huh? Tom I have a sad feeling that its not possible, but I thought I'd ask anyway... I have a box element that is 150px x 400px with overflow: scroll; The box contains a large list of links. Now, the user can scroll down and click on a link in the box, which causes the page to refresh. Is there a way of making the scroll bar in the box "drop down" to the element that was clicked when the page is refreshed? It would be very similar to how named anchors work to force a whole page to scroll to a certain position.... *** After posting I have been playing with other options, but would still love to know why the bg position on .container_12 does not work. Please look at this page http://www.mts-diesel.com/index.php?cPath=20_24_56 There is an element w/ an class of container_12 that I have put an inline style declaration of style="background:transparent url(images/container_12_bg.jpg) 0 1000px !important;" I am trying to push the background down below the navigation but for some reason I can only move the background image to the right, and not down as needed. Thank you for any help. Tom Hi, My page has 3 elements: one at the top(header banner), one in the middle (a middle content area) and one at the bottom (footer banner). Now I want those positions to remain intact regardless of the number of lines output in the middle element. The content is going to be determined at runtime by a server-side routine so I don't want to use a fixed positioning for the footer banner. I want it to be displayed at the bottom - after the middle content is displayed. And I want the middle content to be visible in the page i.e. I don't want a scroll area within the page. I have tried various approaches and read up on positioning but so far have not been able to do it using css. Any help is much appreciated. Jim |
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