CSS - Trouble Centering Next To A Float

I created our site's home page using strictly presentational mark-up and am now trying to lay it out strictly using css. Here is my attempt:

jalc.org/index_css.html

The graphic on the right-hand side with the word Jazz and the musicians should align with the large center image (just under the drop-down nav). Here is how the page is supposed to look:

jalc.org

I can't get that image to float right and align with the top of the large image. If anyone has any suggestions I would be most appreciative if you could share. I have spent too much time on this already. I'm going mad.

Thanks,
Andy

I hope someone can help me with this, I've been messing with it for hours, and it /seems/ like it should be simple.

Take a look at this page.

I am trying to extend the green background of the nav bar over to the black line on the right hand side, and to center the css buttons so that the whole nav is centered within the containing div (the black lines on the web page.)

Here is the relevant page code:
PHP Code:
<div id="navbar" class="nav">
<ul>
        <li class="first"><a href="/admin/events/">SUBSCRIBE</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/photos/">ISSUES</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/content/">PURCHASE CATALOG</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/press/">SELLERS GUIDE</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/resources/">PRODUCTS</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/resources/">NEWSLETTERS</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/resources/">EVENTS</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/resources/">BLOGS</a></li>
        <li><a href="/admin/resources/">ABOUT US</a></li>
</ul>

</div> 




and here is the CSS for the nav bar:
PHP Code:
#navbar {
    width: 768px;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #098E00;
    margin-top: 35px;
}

.nav ul {
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 11px;
}

/* any li element within .nav container */
.nav li {
    float: left;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
    border-left: 1px solid #fff;
}

/* any anchor in a .nav list item element */
.nav li a {
    display: block;         /* expand to fill parent li */
    margin: 0;              /* no space between anchors */
    padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; 
    text-decoration: none;  /* no underline */
    color: #fff;         /* override default link color */
    background-color: #098E00;
}

/* 1st list item has no left border */
.nav li.first {
    border-left: 0 none;
}

/* rollover effect */
.nav li a:hover {
    background-color: #ccc;
} 





How do I center the nav bar, and make it so that the CSS buttons are centered on a green background that goes from the left hand black line to the right hand black line?

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.

I am having trouble with my navigation. it works fine in safari and firefox, but when i try it in IE for the PC the main navigational elements don't move. does anyone know why?

www.iconiqdesigner.com


thanks!

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.

----------

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.

---------

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 my first try at css and i have been at it about a week on and off. I have tried to use examples from here and the o'reilly CSS cookbook. I want to create a two column row of pictures with a caption. I selected DIV as the tool (my css is below). The container DIV looks great. I want the div.float, however, to start a second row when a third picture is added and to continue thereafter with successive two column rows. Unfortunately, each of my rows contain only one picture.

here is my css style sheet. A demonstration of the problem can be seen at:

http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/?How_to_create_pages
Code:

div.float {
    float: left;
    BORDER-RIGHT: #808080 2px solid;
    PADDING-RIGHT: 2px;
    BORDER-TOP: #808080 2px solid;
    PADDING-LEFT: 2px;
    FONT-WEIGHT: lighter;
    FONT-SIZE: medium;
    PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px;
    MARGIN: 16px 2%;
    BORDER-LEFT: #808080 2px solid;
    COLOR: #000000;
    PADDING-TOP: 2px;
    BORDER-BOTTOM: #808080 2px solid;
    HEIGHT: 200px;
    WIDTH: 150px;
    BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;
    TEXT-DECORATION: none
  }
  
div.float p {
   text-align: center;
   }
div.container {
  border: 2px dashed #333;
  background-color: #ffe;
  }
div.spacer {
  clear: both;
  }

MY HTML is like this:
Code:

H1>How to create pages</H1>
<P>The headings are used for splitting up the content file. An H1, H2 or H3 heading will dynamically split the document into new pages in the table of contents. An H4-heading is used as a heading within a page. See the following pages...<BR></P>
<P></P>
<DIV class=container>
<DIV class=spacer></DIV>
<DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 1" src="image1.gif" width=100> 
<P>caption 1</P></DIV>
<DIV class=spacer></DIV>
<DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 2" src="image2.gif" width=100>
<P>caption 2</P></DIV>
<DIV class=spacer>
<DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 3" src="http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/image3.gif" width=100>
<P>caption 3</P></DIV>
<DIV class=spacer></DIV></DIV></DIV>

Hi all,

I have a bit of an odd situation (prob not odd if you seen it before but I have no clue why its doing it!).... I have my webpage:

http://www.houseofhawkins.com/index.html

which works great in IE. the part in question is the menu tabs at the top. Within IE they keep the width I have given them.. In firefox they only go to the width of the text.

They are links with the following CSS attached:

div#Header #MenuSection a.MenuTab {

PHP Code:
 filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#A8DBA8', startColorstr='#A4B7A4', gradientType='0');
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 1.3em;
    background-color: #BCD6BC;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #A5BEA5 #BCD6BC #BCD6BC #A5BEA5;
    margin: 0 5px 0 2px;
    height: 1.5em;
    width: 140px;    
    padding: 5px 1px 1px 1px;
}

div#Header #MenuSection {
    float:left;
    margin-top: 30px;
} 





here is the HTML code for that part of the page.

PHP Code:
<div ID="MenuSection">
                    <a Class="SelectedMenuTab" Title="You are currently viewing the Home page">Home</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Curriculum Vitae for Jonathan Hawkins, Author of House of Hawkins">CV</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/projects/index.html" title="Portfolio of Work created by Jon Hawkins">Portfolio</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Online Photo Gallery of Jon, friends and family">Photo Gallery</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/games.html" title="Games created by House of Hawkins">Games</a>
                </div>
            <div style="clear:left"> </div> 





I just dont get why firefox wont be nice and give me the width I ask for... the oddest bit is if I put float:left into the menutab part they do work!

I wish to understand why its like this... I have attached the CSS and the file if that helps anyone.

Thanks for the help and advice.

My home page at mypricesavings.com

I would like to have the twitter banner under the headline to be in its own div. if you look at my style.css I have this code

Code:

#twitter {
	width:590px;
        float:left;        
        background:#fff;
	padding:10px;
	font-size:1.05em;
	line-height:1.5em;
	margin: 10px 0;
	}

Which in fact does what I need it to do when I then add the div to the index.php

however, the store deals and matchups which is the featured div no longer floats to the right of the headline, it will drop all the way down and float next to the twitter.

I do not understand how CSS exactly works and would like to know how to make the twitter be the way I would like it and have the featured work corectly too.

thank you in advance for helping

Derrick

I always have trouble with floats. I'm just trying to get these two bulleted lists to display next to each other so that the page is shorter.

It isn't exactly working. Close but not quite. Changing the left margin hasn't helped (even bumped it to 55, but it had no effect.)

<span style="float:left;"><h4>New Listings</h4>
<p>Be prepared with:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sales Price</li>
<li>Property particulars</li>
<li>Company</li>
<li>Address</li>
<li>Your name</li>
<li>Phone number</li>
</ul></span>

<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><h4>Price and Property Changes</h4>
<p>Please state:</p>
<ul>
<li>Price change or any changes</li>
<li>Address</li>
<li>Company</li>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Phone number</li>
</ul></span>

<span style="float:clear;"><h4>Buyer Wants</h4><span>
<p>Describe your buyer's wants and needs. You will have 30 seconds to present your buyer wants.</p>

can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? I am trying to float just a side column and a main together, but no matter what I try I cannot get the main to go up next to the sidebar. It works if I put the sidebar to the left, but not the right. I cleared 'both' after the main window, supposedly to make them float together in a container, but nothing I do works.
test site at mycomputerpro dot com dot au
thanks
Wayne

Basically, following link:
www.projectfinalfantasy.com

Works fine in FF but IE, it piles the divs under eachother, whether the float tag is applied or not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Joe.

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

If I use float: none; in my css the result in IE is perfect. However in Firefox it doesn't work.

Is there a workaround for this?

see "Past Pierced Shows" bottom left corner of page

in IE the images and text line up, in Firefox, they are one under another.

www.pierced.ca/pierced-events.htm

Thanks for the help,

Brad

arg arg arg and you all know the rest.

anyway to the problem in firefox the layout is all good but in IE things are realy starting to annoy me.

http://217.68.23.6/~themodem.co.uk/index.php

i think its my float stuff but im not sure, could someone please take a look at it for me

heres my css
Code:

body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	background-color:#000000;
}

#leftcontent {
	float:left;
	width: 236px;
}

#mainmenu {
	width: 170px;
}

#stats {
	margin-top:inherit;
	width: 205px;
	background-color:#000000;
}

#centercontent {
	voice-family: "\"}\"";
	voice-family: inherit;
	margin-left: 245px;
	background-image:url(images/wow/bg.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat;
}

#rightcontent {
	float:right;
	margin-right:5px;
	width: 236px;
	margin-top:20px;
}

#login {
	margin-top:inherit;
	width: 205px;
	background-color:#000000;
}

#submenu {
	width: 200px;
}
	
#banner {
	voice-family: "\"}\"";
	voice-family: inherit;
}

thanks Lee