CSS - Css Width And Height Commands Don't Work In Firefox?

Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help.

My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off...

The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view!

My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance....

basically i want to span an absolute div 100% height and width to cover the whole browser window.. IE fails at this..

what are some methods used to get around this?

Hey all,

I need an area of content, defined by a div element.
I would like it to have a minimum width of 550px, and a minimum height of 500px. However occasionally not everything will fit inside the box. Occasionally the box will contain a picture or word or flash file that exceeds 550px wide. When this happens, I'd like the box to be able to stretch to become wide enough to fit the big word/picture. Likewise when there is too much text, or a picture that is too long, I'd like the box to become tall enough to contain everything.

My first attempt was using min-width and min-height. The height worked great, but since divs are block elements, the width would always be 100% instead of 550px. So I then tried adding "display: inline-block;". This made the width work, but now the text didn't automatically go to the next line when it reached the right of the box; instead, the box just increased in width.

So to sum it up, I need something like this to have a width and height of 550/500:

<div id="test">This sentence is small</div>

But this one to stretch to the size required to contain the long word:

<div id="test">adsfasdfasdfadfadfasdfasdfasdfasdfadsfasdfasdfadsfasdfasdfasdfasdfad sfasdfasdfadsfasdfasdfadsfasdfasdfadsfasdfasdfasdf</div>

Hi,

I have a layout to build and I want to make it as accessibile as possible to the user. I therefore want to allow the user to be able to determine the site font sizes while also keeping the layout look as good as possible.

The only way I have done this so far is by setting the width and height of other elements (div's mostly) using the em type.

Is this ok? Or I am doing this totally wrong?

Regards,
Sim085

Hi there

Has anyone encountered a bug in IE (6) of extra width, when applying css height property to a div?

I set the width of div, via margin
Code:

div#footer {
  margin: 0px 9%;
  height: 40px;
}

When height is specified, the width of the footer is 1px bigger on either side, then other elements with same margin, but no height.

This does not happen in other (gecko) browsers!

Anyone know a solution, (tantek won't be precise enough with %)
??

Hey all,
I'm playing with an idea to include a 100% width/height log_in iframe to be displayed only if $_SESSION[uid]==''; (user not logged in) utilizing the following in a remote style.css to "show" the home page behind the iframe via opacity of 10%, while the iframe blocks access to it untill user logs in.
My problem is that width:100%; height:100%; doesn't work, while pixel width & height does in the following: Code:

iframe {
position:absolute;
	top: 0px;
	left: 0px;
	width:800px;/*works*/
	height:800px;/*works*/
	/*width:100%; doesn't work*/
	/*height:100%; doesn't work*/
	z-index: 100;
	filter:alpha(opacity=10);
	-moz-opacity:.10;
	opacity:.10;
}

I'm new to css web design and am attempting my first full layout. What I would like to do is have a hanging picture in the upper-righthand corner of the page that overlaps the header and content sections.

All is well, until I specify a width or height on the content section.

Although it looks fine in Firefox, IE either:
a) moves the content section down or
b) squishes the content to the side (if <!--<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>--> is in the html)

Here's some much-simplified code to illustrate the problem:

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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
    <link href="images/style_test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <title>Sandbox</title>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
	#header {
		background-color: #cccccc;
		border: 1px solid #564b47;
	}

	#content {
		background-color: #c6dedf;
		border: 1px solid #564b47;
		width: 100%;
		height: 400px;
	}
	
	#hanging {
		float: right;
		background-color: #ccff99;
		border: 1px solid #564b47;
		margin: 20px;
		padding: 0;
		width: 300px;
		height: 300px;
		clear: right;
	}
	
	#footer {
		background-color: #cccccc;
		border: 1px solid #564b47;
		clear: both;
	}
</style>
<body>
    <div id="hanging"><code>#hanging {<br>
		float: right;<br>
		background-color: #ccff99;<br>
		border: 1px solid #564b47;<br>
		margin: 20px;<br>
		padding: 0;<br>
		width: 300px;<br>
		height: 300px;<br>
		clear: right;<br>
	}</code><p>This SHOULD overlap header & content.</p></div>
    <div id="header"><code>#header {<br>
		background-color: #cccccc;<br>
		border: 1px solid #564b47;<br>
	}</code></div>
    <div id="content"><code>#content {<br>
		background-color: #c6dedf;<br>
		border: 1px solid #564b47;<br>
		width: 100%;  /* hanging doesn't like this */<br>
		height: 400px;  /* or this in IE*/<br>
	}</code></div>
    <div id="footer"><code>#footer {<br>
		background-color: #cccccc;<br>
		border: 1px solid #564b47;<br>
		clear: both;
	}</code></div>
  </body>
</html>

Anyone know a work-around or how to fix this? Thanks!

Hi to all, and thanks a million in advance for help.

I have developed a simple online cms and everything is setup correctly but i am stuck at one place.

I am unable to make width to 100% when b div is empty

i mean

a div = 50% width,
b div = 50% width,

how set it up that when a div is empty then b div goes to 100%width and when b div is empty then a div is 100% width.

i hope got my question.

because currently i have set in this way.

wrapper div = 980px width,
a div = 50% width,
b div = 50% width,
wrapper div end

so when a div is empty then b div is still present and that area is empty it destroy the whole look.

thanks arsslan

Is there a way to expand the height and width of a DIV to the height and width of the document, not the browser window? When I set it too 100%, and scroll, the div remains the size of the original window. The DIV is for a background grey out screen, and I want it to encompass the height and width of the document and persist when scrolling. Explicitly setting height and width with pixels doesn't work, because that depends on the user's screen resolution.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks...

Hi. What's em, pt, pc, px, ex, % when declaring width, height or position in CSS? It seems people use different measurement. What exactly are those?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this unless there is a trick or hack....Can u set a background images height & width in a tag?

I have a logo'd masthead that I need to reduce when the user wants to print the page. I know I can just create a print-specific image but, I thought I'd ask to see if there was a way to reduce the image thru .css???

thanks!
Stephen

Hi guys,

I am building a page with CSS and I'm running into some problems with the CSS buttons I'm trying to use. Right now I have a large box along the top of the page and want two rows of buttons inside of it. These text on these buttons will likely be changing on a semi-regular basis. So instead of using gif buttons made in a graphics program, I'm using CSS to create the buttons. Since each row will have multiple buttons, I first used the display:inline; item and it worked fine in IE. In FF however, the buttons lost their height and width. If I also used the float:left; it worked right, but the buttons were not centered. In looking for a solution, I discovered that inline items cannot use the height and width properties. Any ideas on how to get what I'm looking for?

I can't post a link, because this is an intranet page, but here is my relevant code...

CSS Code:
Original - CSS Code /*the main box which will contain the buttons*/ div#Main-buttons { width:96%; margin:2%; margin-top:10px; height:100px; padding-top:10px; background-color:#84C394; border:ridge medium #004500; } /*adjustments for FireFox*/ html>body div#Main-buttons { width:90%; margin:5%; margin-top:10px; height:100px; padding-top:0px; background-color:#84C394; border:ridge medium #004500; } /*class for individual buttons*/ div#buttons { width:100px; height:30px; margin:3px; float:left; background-color:#F7F3B5; border-style:solid; border-width:2px; border-color:#ffffff; line-height:1.6; display:inline; } a.buttonLinks:link {color:#000000; text-decoration:none;} a.buttonLinks:active {color:#000000; text-decoration:none;} a.buttonLinks:visited {color:#000000; text-decoration:none;}

  

  


 /*the main box which will contain the buttons*/


 div#Main-buttons {


     width:96%;


     margin:2%;


     margin-top:10px;


     height:100px;


     padding-top:10px;


     background-color:#84C394;


     border:ridge medium #004500;


     }


 /*adjustments for FireFox*/


 html>body div#Main-buttons {


     width:90%;


     margin:5%;


     margin-top:10px;


     height:100px;


     padding-top:0px;


     background-color:#84C394;


     border:ridge medium #004500;


     }


     


 /*class for individual buttons*/


 div#buttons {


     width:100px;


     height:30px;


     margin:3px;


     float:left;


     background-color:#F7F3B5;


     border-style:solid;


     border-width:2px;


     border-color:#ffffff;


     line-height:1.6;


         display:inline;


     }


  


 a.buttonLinks:link {color:#000000; text-decoration:none;}


 a.buttonLinks:active {color:#000000; text-decoration:none;}


 a.buttonLinks:visited {color:#000000; text-decoration:none;} 

HTML Code:
Original - HTML Code <div id="Main-buttons"> <a href="#" class="buttonLinks"><div id="buttons">Testing</div></a><a href="#" class="buttonLinks"><div id="buttons">Testing</div></a></div>

  
<div id="Main-buttons">
      <a href="#" class="buttonLinks"><div id="buttons">Testing</div></a><a href="#" class="buttonLinks"><div id="buttons">Testing</div></a></div>

Thanks in advance guys!

Layout Page

I know. It's not too great yet. But I've just started and it's still in the baby stages.

whenever I add a width or height paramater to "navBar" the background image NEVER shows up, even with content!

Why is that?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Coast Guard</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">


<style type="text/css">

body {
background: url(Images/bgClouds2.jpg);
height: 100%;
}

html {
height: 100%;
}

.navigationBar {
width: 150px;
height: 1000px;
background-image: url(Images/navBarImage.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
border-style: dotted;
overflow: none;

}

#section {
padding-left: 57px;
overflow: none;
font-size: 15px;
text-align: left;
}

#top {
width: 901px;
height: 1000px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-color: white;
border-style: groove;
border-color: darkblue;

}

#navBar {
background-image: url(Images/navBG.jpg)
height: 73px;

border-style: dotted;


}


</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

// -->
</script>
</head>


<body>

<div id="top">
<center>
<img src="Images/CircleBanner.png" style= "border-style: none;" align="center">
</center>

<div id="navBar">

alex wait




</div>

I've been restyling a legacy web app. the old app had
height and width attributes for every image. So when you modernize you can create classes that chunk a whole bunch of stuff, one of which is height and width.

In order for SEO analysis to like you do you have to keep the old fashioned height and width attributes on every single image tag? Is it OK to have both a style from a class AND height and width attributes? I assume if they conflict the local ones will win, even though strictly speaking they are not styles.

Thanks, just curious.

Hi,

My client very much likes a website that belongs to their competition. The thing she likes the most is the fact that the content is centered horizontally and vertically in the browser window.

The way they (her competition) have constructed the site is to to place all the content inside a table 100% wide and 100% high with the content centered horizontally and vertically using the table's valign and align attributes.

However, this isn't very "standards", is it . . . so, does anyone know of a way this same effect (content centered horizontally and vertically in browser window) can be acheived using CSS?

Thanks!