CSS - Float Not Clearing...

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;
	}

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.

Hi all,

I have a problem with clearing my CSS in IE and opera.
My website is b-artdesign.
I know no links are allowed but couldnt explain it different.
its a com

Seems to work fine in firefox...
worked just perfect in IE.. but when adding some CSS code it all went wrong..

dono what happened... cant figure it out.

thanks in advance..
Bart

hi,

i have some divs within my container div. I cant get the container to wrap around the content in #contentMain (which is inside of #content.

in IE, the container wraps after the #leftNav (inside the #conent) but FF wraps after the #nav div

does anyone know how I cant sort it? thanks

html PHP Code:
<div id="container">

<div id="header"></div>

<div id="nav">
//topNav
</div>

<div id="content">

<div id="leftNav">
//leftNav
</div>
    
<div id="contentMain">

//content, links, images and stuff

</div>

</div>
</div> 





css PHP Code:
#container {
        margin:0px auto;
        padding: 0;
        width: 760px;
        /*border: 1px solid #666;*/
        background: url(../images/bodyImg.gif) no-repeat top left;
    }

    #header {
        margin:0px auto;
        padding: 0;
        width: 760px;
        height: 100px;
        background: url(../images/header.gif) no-repeat top left;
    }
    
    #nav {
        width:760px;
        height: 25px;
        padding: 0;
        margin:0;
        background-color: #eee;
     }
    
    #content {
        margin:0px auto;
        padding: 0;
        width: 760px;
    }
    
    #contentMain {
        padding: 0;
        margin: 0;
        float: right;
        width: 630px;
    }

    #leftNav {
        color: #000;
        float: left;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        width: 128px;
    }

    .imgMap1 {
        width: 220px;
        position: relative;
        top: 200px;
        left: 30px;
    } 

I need some help with aligning a top of a div with another div. My web site is just a screw around hobby thing but here is the web address for it www.penguin.lhup.edu/~ewhite2

the two divs that I am focusing on are .link and #content

here is the css code for them

css Code:
Original - css Code .link{ float: left; width: 115px; background-color: #000000; text-align: center; margin: 10px 0 0px 13px; clear: both; } #content{ margin: 10px 17px 4px 0; width: 625px; float: right; }

  

  


 .link{


   float: left;  


   width: 115px;


   background-color: #000000;


   text-align: center;


   margin: 10px 0 0px 13px;


   clear: both;


 }


  


 #content{


   margin: 10px 17px 4px 0;


   width: 625px;


   float: right;


 } 

any help would be awesome and a head of time thank for all who take the time to read this post and for responding to it if you do.

I'm pretty sure there isn't a way to do this, but i am curious..
I know that i could answer the first question if i had a printer that wasn't out of ink .. but here goes.

First: Are CSS attributes that are assigned to the media Screen inherently assigned to Print even if you point the Print media a different stylesheet?

Second: Is there a way to clear a stylesheet values? basically making the stylesheet null or empty?

http://abodycars.homelinux.net/forums/login.php - HTML
http://abodycars.homelinux.net/themes/default.css.php - CSS

It's a site I'm starting to build. For whatever reason, in firefox, the navigation menu is on the left side of the screen and the form is on the right side. In IE, the desired behavior I want (nav bar on top, form underneath) is there.

Although I know how IE is and there might be something wrong with my code. Everything validates...

The navigation menu is wrapped in a div, so I would expect the div to auto-clear since it should be expanding to 100% width. But that doesn't seem to be happening for some reason...can anyone tell me what I did wrong? Thanks.

I am working on a new page and have got things working in firefox, but the footer and a couple of other things are not working very well in IE7, can anyone point me in the right direction on where I need to look for the problem, thanks:

the page is at: tinybrandsrock [dot] com

thank you.

Is this a display glitch or is it meant to be like this...

for example, let's say you have a picture in a div that had text floating to one side. If the text beside the picture doesn't fill the space the heading will be displayed inline beside the floating picture, even if it's in it's own containing div...

EDIT: I've found a general fix for this using <div style="clear:both;"> but it's a PITA, and I think I'm doing something improperly. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the use of a floating frame... but, I can't help but think it's a possible display error with the different browsers

Hi

Could someone explain to me why my floats are not clearing at http://www.sussexfind.co.uk/test/

I added a div class at the end of the header div called <div class="clr"> but this does not seem to clear the div in FF.

I tried Pauls technique of adding overflow:auto; to the header div but when viewed in IE5 the grey bar at the top does not butt up with the right hand side of the page, http://www.sussexfind.co.uk/test/index-IE5.htm

I would prefer to use this technique but need assistance in fixing the IE5 problem.!

Thanks for any help!

I have some tabular data that I would like displayed in two columns within a div. The div has some basic styling on it to create a block around the tables. The tables should appear side by side at the top of the div, so I floated the tables. I then found that the width of the div was always 100% unless I floated the div as well. This made the div wrap around the tables nicely, but caused the next element to appear to the right of the div, not on the next line as it normally would.

Here is the basic code I have so far: Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.box1 { 
	border: 1px solid red;
	background: #afafaf;
	padding: 2px;
	float: left;
}
div.box1 table { 
	float: left;
	border: 1px solid blue;
	margin-right: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Div</h1>
<div class="box1">
   <table>
    <tr>
     <td>Field1:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>Field1:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>Field1:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>Field1:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
   </table>
   <table>
    <tr>
     <td>Field2:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>Field2:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>Field2:</td>
     <td>Value</td>
    </tr>
   </table>
 </div>
</div>
<h1>Next Text</h1>
</body>
</html>

I would like for the "Next Text" to appear on a new line after the div. After reading this page, I added the following to my css: Code:

div.box1:after {
	content: 'clear me';
	clear: both;
	display: block;
	height: 0px;
	visibility: hidden;
}

However, this had no effect on the results in Firefox or Safari. The only way I have found to clear the div is to add style="clear: both" to the h1 tag following the div. I would prefer to not do this because it will be problematic for our graphics guys down the road. Any advice on how to clear the div and keep it wrapping around the tables?