CSS - Firefox And Floating Blocks Side By Side

Alright, I run a joomla site and im working on making a 100% tableless xhtml compliant template. I'm very new at this so im trying my best to learn.

I used the Lean version of skidoo's layout as the base and then added all the appropriate php tags needed to make it a joomla template. For the one part I need two modules to load right next to each other near the top of the page to mimic the table version of the Latest News and Popular Modules. I'll show you code snipits of how I did it.

Code:

 
html:
      <div id="contentColumn">
        <div class="inside">
          <!-- middle column content begin -->
          <p class="blocktext">
            <?php mosLoadModules( 'banner', -1 ); ?>
          </p>
          <div id="users">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?>
          </div>
          <div id="users">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user2' ); ?>
          </div>
          <p>
          <div id="nofloat">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'top' ); ?>
            <?php mosMainBody(); ?>
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'bottom' ); ?>
          </div>

css:

/*top users */
#users {
    float:left;
	width: 300px;

}
#nofloat {
	float: none;
	
}

So anyways this does indeed put each div tag side by side but my problem is that I need the following PHP code ( <?php mosLoadModules ( 'top' ); ?> <?php mosMainBody(); ?> <?php mosLoadModules ( 'bottom' ); ?>) to return to the next line after the div's, but instead it jumps everything to the right and breaks the template. So I added the nofloat css and that fixed it and put the rest of the content below the side by side div's but now it doesn't work in FireFox. Now I tried padding-top and that worked in both browsers, but its not flexible as the side by side div modules are not always there and I don't want 200px of white space on the pages that don't show it. Also as a side note I tried putting <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?> and user2 into separate div tags that that floated left and right but it had the same outcome, so I stuck with one float left that seems to work the same.

My question is what can I do to make this content show after the side by side div's and not beside it in both browsers?

You can see what I mean by looking at this test site in both IE 6 and FireFox.
http://www.wii-volution.com/testbed/

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

Hi!

I want to have let's say 4 divs of width:25% horizontally side-by-side.

Ex: (I'll ry to draw it )

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Thank you.

Hi. I'm a design student working on a website for my boss, and I've come across a problem and was wondering if someone could help me out. It might be a simple fix, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a body wrapper div (subtitle, body text, etc) on the left that's approx. 705 px wide and a vertical navigation bar div on the right that's about 240 px wide. I've tried floating the body wrapper left and the navigation buttons right, but one always ends up sitting below the end of the other. When I use the "clear right" or "clear left" commands, it doesn't help. Any ideas what I could do to get them to line up on the top? I want them to sit next to one another.

Thank you very much for any ideas!

Britta

Hey guys! Usually if you make a table and then make another table, the other table will be located below the table before. I want them to be side by side.

So I tried this CSS value :

table {
display : inline;
}

then it worked, but the problem is, that if the tables have different sizes, the smaller one is not aligned to the top and looks smaller than the table before it. I want them all to be aligned to the top. I tried vertical-align:top and valign="top", but they still don't work...

Is there any other way to make tables have no line breaks before and after the table? Is there any other property that controls the line breaks of the table? I tried display:table-cell , but the problem is still the same. thanks

I'm working on a site which has a header and footer div, and in the main section in between, it has a narrow left div and main content to the right.

I've got the overall width centered at 90%, and I want the left div to be 250px wide, and then the right main content div to be the remaining width of the 90%. I also want to make sure it doesn't resize below about 600px when the screen is resized.

Am I better off setting a fixed width of the overall width instead of a percentage? That way I can make the page about 800px wide, left pane 250px, and main content 550px? Any other thoughts?

Thanks.

Hey,

I'm not entirely sure why this is happening, you can see it here

and the css

i have two divs that are side by side and i want them to have the same height, but i will not know the height ahead of time as the content for at least one of the divs is dynamic (calendar list) and can contain no items up to as many items as there are time intervals in a day.

the html for the section in question is Code:

<div id="spotlight-wrapper">
	<div class="spotlight">
		<h3>Currently...</h3>

		<div id="training" class="spotlight-sub">
			<ul>
				<li><strong>Running</strong> 3mi/4mi/3mi</li>
				<li><strong>Bench Press</strong> 175lbs</li>
				<li><strong>Deadlift</strong> 205lbs</li>
				<li><strong>Squats</strong> 275lbs</li>
			</ul>
		</div>

		<ul class="inline-list">
			<li>
				<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/crichton/airframe/" title="Random House Publishing: Airframe">
					<img src="/images/reading.png" alt="Airframe by Michael Crichton" />
				</a>
			</li>
			<li>
				<a href="http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=HnJbFL6nobL&aid=lqUKIAaw6tN&sa=X&oi=musiamp;c&ct=result" title="Google Music: Hinder - Extreme Behavior">
					<img src="/images/listening.png" alt="Extreme Behavior by Hinder" />
				</a>
			</li>
			<li>
				<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)" title="300 the movie on Wikipedia">
					<img src="/images/movie.png" alt="300 - Tonight We Dine In Hell" />
				</a>
			</li>
			<li>
				<a href="http://www.fox.com/house/" title="Fox's House M.D. starring Hugh Laurie">
					<img src="/images/television.png" alt="House M.D. on Fox" />
				</a>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</div>

	<div class="spotlight">
		<h3>In the public...</h3>
		<div id="calendar">
			<ul id="events">
				<li>
		   		<strong>09/25 20:00 - 09/25 21:00</strong>
		   		<br />House MD
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/26 16:00 - 09/26 17:00</strong>
		   		<br />Weekly Tempo Run
		    	</li>

		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/26 17:30 - 09/26 18:30</strong>
		   		<br />RPM (Christi)
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/27 06:00 - 09/27 07:30</strong>
		   		<br />Weight Training
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
               <strong>09/28 06:00 - 09/28 07:30</strong>
		   		<br />Weight Training
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/28 08:30 - 09/28 09:30</strong>
		   		<br />RPM (Lauren)
		    	</li>
		    	<li>
		   		<strong>09/29 07:30 - 09/29 09:30</strong>
               <br />Long Run
		    	</li>
			</ul>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

and my unsuccessful attempt at the necessary css Code:

div#spotlight-wrapper {
	min-height: 317px;
}

div.spotlight {
	width: 471px;
	height: 100%;
	float: left;
	margin: 19px 12px 7px 0;
	background: #373737;
	overflow: hidden;
}
	div.spotlight h3 { background: #555555; margin: 0; padding: 7px; }

here is a live sample

Hi Guys,

I'm working on a form, and for the life of me, I can't get these divs to sit side by side.

You can see the test page at www.details.at/search_test.cfm

It's a small form with a few fields and selects

I want each element to sit side by side in a single row.

Here is the code. I thought display:inline; would do the trick, but it's not working.
Code:

<style>
	#control_panel 
		{
		padding:0 0 1em 2em;
		width:600px;
		float:left;
		}

	.smalltext 	
		{ 
		font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	   	color: #000000;
	   	font-size: .7em;
		}
		
	.input 
		{ 
	 	font: .9em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	 	background-color: #FFFFFF; 
		color: #146eb4; 
	 	border: 1px solid #146eb4; 
		}
		
	label
		{
		text-align: left;
		display: block;
		}

		
	div.search_cell 
		{
		display: inline;
		}
		

</style>


<div id="control_panel">

	<form action="http://test.at" METHOD="post">

		<div class="search_cell">
			<INPUT class="input" NAME="search_box" value="" size="25" maxlength="200"> 
			<label for="search_box"><span class="smalltext">search</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<select class="input" name="range">
				<option value="50">50</option>
				<option value="Any">Any</option>
				<option value="1" >1</option>
			</select>
			<label for="search_box"><span class="smalltext">within</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<select class="input" name="range_measure">
				<option value="Miles">Miles</option>
				<option value="kilometers">Kilometers</option>
			</select> 
			<label for="search_box"><span class="smalltext">range</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<span class="smalltext">of</span>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<INPUT class="input" value="" type="Text" name="location" size="10">
			<label for="location"><span class="smalltext">city & state or postal</span></label>
		</div>

		<div class="search_cell">
			<INPUT class="input" type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go">
		</div>

	</form> 	

	</div>

</div>

I've been having some issues getting a design for a site I'm co-authoring to display correctly using CSS. I know that what I'm trying to do should be possible, but I haven't been able to figure it out and am getting pretty damn frustrated with the whole thing. I could probably do it with tables, and right now I have it set up with some javascript that I threw together, but css+divs would be the ideal solution.

Anyways, this is basically what I want to try and do (that's the javascript version). Just resize the window a bit to see what i'm getting at.

Here's the source:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<title>Title</title>

	<style type="text/css">
		<!--
 
		#leftpane {
			float: left;
			height: 100%;
		 	border: 1px solid black;
		}


		#rightpane {
			float: right;
			height: 100%;
		 	border: 1px solid black;
		}

		-->
	</style>

	<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
	
		// get rid of all this javascript and figure out a way to do this with css
		
		var windowWidth = 800;
		
		window.onload = function() {
			getWindowSize();
			resizeLeftPane();
		}
		
		window.onresize = function() { 
			getWindowSize();
			resizeLeftPane();
		}
	
		function getWindowSize() {
			if(window.innerWidth) {
				windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			} else if(document.documentElement.clientWidth) {
				windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
			} else if(document.body.clientWidth) {
				windowWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
			}	
		}
		
		function resizeLeftPane() {
			var rightpaneWidth = document.getElementById('rightpane').offsetWidth;
			var margin = 10;
			
			document.getElementById('leftpane').style.width = String(windowWidth - rightpaneWidth - margin * 3) +'px';
		}
		
		//-->
	</script>
</head>

<body>
	<div id="leftpane">
		<p>this pane needs to stretch as wide as it can while leaving room for the image at right, whose width is arbitrary</p>
	</div>
	<div id="rightpane">
		<img src="http://movingboxstudios.com/testz0rz/images/box.jpg" height="100%" alt="image" />
	</div>

</body>
</html>

Basically I need a way to have 2 elements next to eachother, 1 of which is an arbitrary size and the other be wide enough to fill the rest of the containing block. Any help would be much appreciated.



EDIT: Here's a link to the actual working design, maybe that'll help in understanding my question (don't open it in IE unless you want a facefull of ugly).

Hi,
So I know this is a common problem but my attempts at following past suggested advice did not help my page. I want to display two divs (sidebar and content) side by side on the page. Unfortunately, rather than display side by side, the two elements are placing one on top of the other.

I've tried float: left/right, position: relative and display in line. Never the less, the elements still won't stay next to each other.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

My head has been hurting all week trying to figure this out. I'm trying to have two divs set side by side, both of them inside a parent div block. I've tried a bunch of methods, but each one fell short for one reason or another. Here's the partial code.

Code:
CSS

	div.base { margin: 10px; text-align: left;}
	div.left { float:left; width: 120px; min-height:100px; border: 1px dashed purple; }
	div.center { border: 1px dashed blue; margin-left: 135px; min-height:200px; }

Code:
HTML

		<div class="base">
			<div class="left">test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br>test<br></div>
			<div class="center">test2</div>
			<div></div>
		</div>

For the most part, the layout is fine. However, if the left side exceeds the height of the right side, it bleeds out of the parent div block because it's floating.

Positioning doesn't work because the parent block is centered on the page by the body tag and scales to 80% window width. Setting them inline doesn't allow me to set a fixed width on either block. Inline-Block sounds like it should work perfectly, but it's not fully supported by most main browsers. Any help would be appreciated

hi all...

i been having some trouble with this one, perhaps someone can guide me in the right direction...

Code:

.left_top{
	width:10px;
	height:100px;
	border:1px solid white;
	background-color:red;
	margin:0px;
	padding:0px;
	float:left;
	overflow:scroll;
}

.middle_top{
	width:10px;
	height:100px;
	border:1px solid blue;
	background-color:red;
	margin:0px;
	padding:0px;
	overflow:scroll;
}

.right_top{
	width:10px;
	height:100px;
	border:1px solid pink;
	background-color:red;
	margin:0px;
	padding:0px;
	overflow:scroll;
	float:right;
}

thats the code, it should be pretty clear as to what i'm trying, but here goes anyway...

i want the 3 divs to align side by side, in this order left/middle/right.
they are inside a <td> but it makes no difference if i make that a <div>... please help me out...

frank/

Hi-

I am having a challenge. I have two divs side by side, and I need them both to stretch to the same height. So if there is extra content in div#2, div #1 stretches down with it and fills with a background color.

I have them both set to height: 100%, with a wrapper div set to 100% height around them, but I am definetly doing something wrong.

thanks in advance
S

I've created a couple of links that I've styled as buttons.

Code:

a {
display:block;
width: 6em;
padding: 0.2em;
line-height:1.4;
background-color: pink;
color:black;
}

The problem is that I have two that should site side by side but becasue they are block elements they sit one over the other. Any suggestions on how to make them site side by side?

TIA