CSS - Css - Is It Possible To Do A Right & Left <span> In A <div>?

Hi

I'm struggeling with the following:

I have some span elements inside a td.

If I apply padding to a span then the padding is flowing outside the td (above and below the borders of the td).

Why does that happen and is there a way to make the td to autogrow to fit all the span's inside?

Se example code below

Code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="width:300px; margin-top:50px;">
<tr>
<td style="background-color:gray; text-align:center; border:1px solid black;">
<span style="margin-right:20px;">First</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">1</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">2</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px; background-color:orange; padding:10px;">3</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">4</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">5</span>
<span style="">Last</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

******* UPDATE *******
I found this link today:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FormattingContexts

which says (among other things):
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Only one thing impacts the vertical space between inline elements: the line height. Normally, the line height is based upon the line height for the text in that line, or the height/padding/border/margin of any replaced items. The element on a line with the largest line height or replaced height is the one to define the vertical space that line takes up.

Height, padding, border or margins on text do not impact the line height or the container height. Instead, borders, padding and margins overlap from line to line. If you want to give an inline text element some padding and border, make sure you give it some extra line height, too, or else it will overlap with whatever else is above or below it.
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So does that rule mean that I have no way to make my TD autogrow in relation to the padding applied to the SPAN in the example above?
Is there any working workarounds for this...?

Hello,

I have two columns, one is on the left and another in the middle (center). Left column is where I want it to be, central column is also aligned properly, however, it is below left column. I want it to be on the same level as left.

See here

see how it got below ?

It is XHTML validated and CSS is fine too (some background color warnings).

Plz help me to make central column go up. Thanks.

I've been unable to replicate this issue in IE, but it's plaguing all other "free" browsers I use (Firefox, Galeon, etc.).

Take a look at http://www.skudd.com/blog/view/1370 for example. The bar on the left is floated left, as are the label elements in my comment form. In the li of each form item, I have a br with the clear property set to "left".

What I'm trying to accomplish is I want to clear the previous label, so as to prevent the "stair step" effect. Why would "clear: left;" in this case cause the element to clear everything that has been floated left? What should I try in place of it?

I always seem to run into this problem and somehow get it fixed but this time I am stuck.

I have a main wrapper and 2 footers that line up together and are all floated to the left. I'm trying to put in a column to their right that runs vertical called "right", to be spaced out about 110 px from the top of the page so it sits vertically below the banner and the navs. I tried giving it a left margin to clear the floated DIV's but to no avail. You can see the page he http://yourthreshold.com/playground/ It seems to clear in Firefox but not in IE ..

The main CSS:

Code:

* {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
}

body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background-color:#e5e5e5;
}

#wrapper {
width: 640px;
height: 720px;
margin-left:0;
margin-top:0;
border: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 0px solid gray;
background-image:url(../images/banner.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#c0c0c0;
float:left;
}

	#navigation {
	width: 640px;
	height: 22px;
	background-color:#c9c9c9;
	margin-top: 88px;
	}
	
	#insidewrapper {
	height:auto;
	width:99%;
	margin: 6px 1px 4px 1px;
	}

		/* Begin Left Side Info Boxes */
		#sidebar {
		width:150px;
		height:600px;
		margin-left:2px;
		float:left;
		border:1px solid #666666;
		border-bottom:0px;
		font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:9px;
		color:#666666;
		background-color:#ffffff;
		}
		
			.infobox {
			height:123px;
			font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
			font-size:9px;
			padding:3px;
			border-top:0px;
			border-left:0px;
			border-right:0px;
			}
				.infopic {
				margin-top:9px;
				}
				
			.infobutton {
			height:20px;
			border-bottom:1px solid #666666;
			padding-left:3px;
			}
				
		/* Begin Main Content */
		#maincontent {
		width:465px;
		height:593px;
		margin-left:158px;
		border:1px solid;
		border-color:#666666;
		font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:12px;
		color:#333333;
		padding:3px;
		background-image:url(../images/background_trans2.gif);
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		background-position:center;
		background-color:#ffffff;
		}
			/* Main Content for pages with textual content */
			#content {
			width:97%;
			height:auto;
			padding:5px;
			}

			/* Main Content for pages with products */
			#productWrapper {
			height:auto;
			width:100%;
			margin-top:10px;
			}
			
			#productLeft {
			height:auto;
			width:115px;
			float:left;
			}
			
			#productMiddle {
			height:auto;
			width:200px;
			margin-left:1px;
			float:left;
			}
			
			#productRight {
			height:auto;
			width:auto;
			}
	
	/* Begin Footer */
	#footerlinks, #footer {
	width:640px;
	height:auto;
	text-align:center;
	float:left;
	}
	
	#footerlinks {
	border-right: 2px solid gray;
	border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
	border-left: 2px solid gray;
	background-color:#c0c0c0;
	font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:9px;
	letter-spacing:1px;
	color:#555555;
	padding-bottom:4px;
	}
	
	#footer {
	margin-left:0;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:15px;
	padding-top:8px;
	border-top: 0px;
	border-right: 2px solid gray;
	border-bottom: 2px solid gray;
	border-left: 2px solid gray;
	font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:9px;
	color:#555555;
	background-color:#a9a9a9;
	}
	
	/* Begin Rightside Column */
	#right {
	border: 1px solid orange;
	width:195px;
	margin-left:650px;
	padding-top:111px;
	}

OK, so I have this nice clean form that I wanted to style up like the table-forms of old. I did it by floating the labels and form elements left, then clearing the labels left so they use their own lines. This works beautifully in Firefox and Safari, but IE (Win, at least) seems to think everything not cleared left should go on the same line! Is this a known IE bug/discrepancy? If so, is there a way to combat it without introducing meaningless elements to the markup (such as encasing each label/element pair in a div)?
Here's some example HTML:
html4strict Code:
Original - html4strict Code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> @import url("style.css"); </style> </head> <body> <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="name" /> <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label> <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea> <label for="fun">Having fun?</label> <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" /> </form> </body> </html>

  

  


 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>


 <!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">


 <head>


 <title>Test</title>


 <style type="text/css">


     @import url("style.css");


 </style>


 </head>


 <body>


  


 <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post">


     <label for="name">Name:</label>


         <input type="text" name="name" />


     <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label>


         <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea>


     <label for="fun">Having fun?</label>


         <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" />


 </form>


  


 </body>


 </html> 

And the CSS:
css Code:
Original - css Code label { display: block; float: left; clear: left; width: 8em; margin-right: .5em; text-align: right; } input, textarea { display: block; float: left; }

  

  


 label {


     display: block;


     float: left;


     clear: left;


     width: 8em;


     margin-right: .5em;


     text-align: right;


 }


 input,


 textarea {


     display: block;


     float: left;


 }