CSS - Div Collapsing Around Float In Mozilla

Hi there,

I'm back again I'm afriad with another minor problem with my new site design.

Have a look at the test version of my website he
http://www.eveythingfree.buildtolearn.net/classifieds/

If you are looking at it in Internet Explorer it should look fine, but if you try it in Mozilla Firefox or Netscape it looks badly messed up.

The problem is with the 2 boxes near the top of the page, the "latest forum posts" one and the "search box". The whole page (from bellow the navbar) is laid out by the php script that generates most of the content of the site. Thus I am limited in what I can adjust but I can use .css to layout these two boxes. Here is the css that controls the forum and search boxes:


Code:

.forums { 
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
font-size: 10px; 
color: #666666; 
text-decoration: none; 
border: 1px solid #666666; 
padding: 5px 10px 10px; 
background-color: #F9F9F9; 
position: relative; 
width: 453px; 
height: 100px; 
left: 10px; 
top: 10px;  
vertical-align: top; 
margin-bottom: 10px;
float: left;
}

.searchbox {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
	text-decoration: none;
	border: 1px solid #666666;
	background-color: #F9F9F9;
	width: 230px;
	height: 100px;
	left: 20px;
	vertical-align: top;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	padding-top: 15px;
	top: 10px;
	position: relative;
  
} 

.listings {
	position: relative;
	top: 10px;
}

Now I'm pretty sure that the problem lies with the "float" property in .forums. I seem to recall Mozilla and Netscape don't recognise this in the same way IE does.

Is there a way of making the site look the same in other browsers as it does in IE? Without the "float" property I have failed to get it to look right, but there must be some way around this problem.

I'd really appreciate any help, as this one thing has been holding me back for ages!


Thanks,
Robert

subject isn't too good

anyhow.. i have 4 cells

__ __
|1 | |2 |
--- ---
__ __
|3| |4 |
--- ---

2 and 4 are said to float right, such that 1 and 3 define the height of the page..

but.. when the contents of 2 go LONGER than the contents of 1, number 4 doesn't float right properly.. instead this happens

__ __
|1 | |2 |
--- | |
--- | |
|4| ---
---
__
|3|
---


do you see that? 4 tries to float right, but since it's called underneath 1, and 2 is extended, floating right relative to the page doesn't make it ACTUALLY float right

any thoughts that will render this properly? (namely that cells 1 and 3 will inherit the height of 2 and 4 somehow?)

Hi There -

Am converting another design from tables, working with a CMS (Drupal) and an existing CSS / table combination that I didn't write and have no choice about.

Think of the header as having three sections. The top section has logo on the left, search box on the right. Rounded corners. I'm cool with that section.

Then there's a space. Created a div for the space. Love the space. Problems with the space in IE. Will go into it later.

Then there's the next section. Rounded corners. Contains the entire page.

On the left is a pulldown menu, about 1 cm from the top. On the right is a tabbed menu. This menu has flexible height. It needs to be right up against the bottom with the menu below it. Call this section the tabbed menu section.

Third section. Immediately below that is a bar menu like the one Apple's got. Looks like a metal bar with divisions. Call this primary links.

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First, the space between. In IE, when you roll over the bar menu, the space disappears. Won't come back.

Initially, in the second section, floated the pulldown menu left and the tabbed menu right. That worked fine, except that the tabbed menu had a width of 100% and pushed up the pulldown menu so the section was too wide. When I put it to 65%, all hell broke loose with the bar menu in the third section below it and bits of it snuck up into the second section.

If I left it alone, and left the tabbed menu at 100%, when I checked over its container with firebug, it said that it was being affected by the primary links. I figured that out also because the background for that container was a really weird color that I finally found in the background of the navigation id and changed to white. Primary was overlapping it so I couldn't see it with firebug.

So after fiddling with several clearing methods, I gave up and decided to try a table. Table worked fine, and the second section looks good except that there's a one pixel space between the tabbed menu and the bar menu.

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It is my greatest wish right now to be able to float the pulldown to the left, the tabbed menu to the right and have the primary links stay below. I wish I could get the space to work and I wish for a clear understanding of it all so I can then figure out where to put the corners.

Anyone who can enlighten me on this would have my undying gratitude. I've been working on this all day and the deadline's tomorrow.

Code:

<div id="top part"
logo and searchbox
</div>

<div>
that pesky space that disappears in IE when roll over primary links
</div>

<div id=navcontainer>
dropdown and tabbed menu
</div>

<div id="navigation" class="menu> <!-- couldn't find the menu class in the css -->
<div id="primary" class="clear-block">
contains barmenu - very fussy
</div>
</div>

Here's the relevant CSS:

Code:

div#navigation {
  background: #fff url(../images/blue/menu-bg.png) 100% 100% repeat-x;
}


#primary {
  line-height: 30px;
}

#primary ul {
  padding:0;
  margin:0;
  list-style:none;
}

#primary li {
  display:inline;
}

#primary a {
  font-weight:bold;
  display:block;
  float:left;
  padding:0px 14px 0px 14px;
  margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
  font-size: 95%;
}

#primary a {
  background-position:0% 0px;
}

#primary a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-position:0% -42px;
}

#primary a.active {
  background-position: 0% -84px;
}

#primary a {
  background: url(../images/blue/menu-div.png) 100% 0 repeat-y;
  color:#666666;
  font-size: 120%;
  font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}

#primary a:hover {
  color: 666666;
  background: #B8B8B8;
}

#primary a.active {
  color: 666666;
  background: #B8B8B8;
}

This is the first site I have attempted to layout using CSS and have ran into a slight problem that I can't figure out so I am looking to the expertise of others.

I have a layout that contains a sidebar (used for sub-nav) and a content area all inside of a wrapper. When there is content in the sidebar all is fine in IE and Firefox; however when I include no content in the sidebar IE looks fine but Firefox collapses the space where the sidebar was and begins the content there.

Here are some of the links;
Appearing correctly due to content in sidebar:
http://www.jaycutler.com/Eumyotheria/the_program/the_program_index.html

Appearing incorrectly due to no content in sidebar:
http://www.jaycutler.com/Eumyotheria/contact/contact.html

The CSS file can be found he
http://www.jaycutler.com/Eumyotheria/css/stylesheet.css

Any advice that can be offered would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Brian