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CSS - Problem Clearing Nested Containers With Floating Elements
Hello all.
I've got a layout with three columns. The first column contains the navigation and the second two are variable content. All the columns can be any length, and consist of any number of divs; each div is a bordered block of variable-sized content. The problem is if I want to float an image around some text in the second or third column. Since the image is floating, its container doesn't extend fully, and the image overlaps the border and the block below it. However, if I put a "clear: both" spacer within the block, then the container clears elements in the left or right columns, and extends way too far down! What I really need is a way to just clear a single level of nesting, but "clear" seems to be pretty much all or nothing. I've also tried the pseudoclass :after trick to extend the box, but that didn't appear to do any good. It just added the content inside the border of each block, but doesn't enclose the image at all. I hope somebody has suggestions - I actually haven't found anything about this problem, but perhaps I'm just looking for the wrong terms. It seems like a fairly fundamental thing to do... Thanks! Similar TutorialsHi everybody I'm having a problem (only in IE) with the following layout http://www.ruthwhiteyoga.com/shop/test2/list.htm The left fixed width column, right fixed width column and centre stretchy column all sit inside a holding div (100% wide) The left column is floated left, the right column is floated right and the centre column has margin left and margin right values that clear the two floated columns The problem is that in IE the floated product divs (in the centre column) ignore the margin-right. As soon as the content ends in the right column the product divs spill into the area that the margin should be keeping them out of (you might need to alter the width of your window to see this happening) I think the problem is that I can't give the centre column a width (100%) because it also needs a margin to force the content in - 100% plus 230px for the left column plus 230px for the right column will totally screw up the page Beyond sticking these three columns into a table (something I really really don't want to do) or using percentage for all three columns (so I can give the centre column a width value) is there anything I can do about this. Really appreciate any help 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; }
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. 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 the site is versionfest.org, my problem is very simple but I have never really understood floating and clearing as you see in the side I have a sidebar, a little calendar on the left side, main content in the center, when I apply divs to the calendar so that the links will show up with the correct styles - it makes it so that the sidebar on the other side dips below to the level of the calendar, also happens to the div.box taged boxes. Thanks for helping div.calcon { float: left; width: 175px; clear: both; } <div id="calcon" style="float: left; clear:left; width:100;"> #sidebar { float: right; width: 175px; } <div id="sidebar" style="float:right;"> div.box { width:188px; padding:10px; float: left; border:1px solid gray; margin:4px; text-align:center; } <div class="box" style="float: left; width: 160px;"> I am building a page that uses PHP and does a MySQL select to display content on the page. The page uses nested divs. I had not realised this at my design phase, but items that it displays below the side-menu do not display properly. I have tried using float:left but it doesn't seem to do the trick. Here is the page and code in question (view in internet explorer only): http://tweedledee.dyc.edu/~tpx/test/tpx7c/index.php PHP Code: <div id="NewsOuter"> <div id="NewsTitle"><a href="viewArticle.php?id=4">News Test</a></div> <div id="NewsInner"><img src="http://tweedledee.dyc.edu/~tpx/test/tpx7c/images/site/notavail100.jpg" align="left">this is the news and stuff</div> The above is the generated code for each item it pulls from the database. This should be a sufficient model to base it on. Here is the CSS code. Content is the name of the Div that the News sections and the menu sit inside. I left out the menu CSS, please inform me if it is also needed. PHP Code: #content { background:#eee; width:750px; border:1px solid #000; text-align:left; } #Content #NewsOuter { display: block; float: left; height: 162px; width: 602px; } #NewsTitle { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; float:left; } #NewsTitle a { display: block; border:1px solid; background: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; height:20px; font-weight: bold; text-align:left; text-decoration: none; padding: 1px 10px; } #NewsTitle a:hover { color: #999999; text-decoration: none; } #NewsInner { display: block; float: left; width: 600px; height: 102px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: top; } #NewsBottom { display: block; float: left; width: 600px; height: 20px; padding: 1px 10px; Font-Family: Arial; Font-Size: 9px; } Any idea what I can do to #NewsTitle to make it always align to the left? It SHOULD appear as it does next to the menu. Unfortunately the menu is also in a div so there is no hard edge along its left border for the div to stop. And yes, I am attempting to build a CMS from the ground up. No pre-built CMS that I have tried meet my requirements. Boy is it hard/fun! Hello all, sorry if this is a "newb" question, but I am having trouble with the code on my site. The element "#arrival" is not displaying the proper height unless I literally type code in to fill it up the full 400px. I haven't implemented any paragraph styles, I just want to get the basic elements done for this landing page. How would I go about fixing this? Also, do I have to "float" the "#arrival" element? I would like to have the dog house overlap the first div element of the dog jumping (#dog) like in the jpg. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what it should like: http://i33.tinypic.com/2uh7evm.jpg But this is actually what is happening: http://www.amandambruce.com/DROH/index.html Thanks in advance, Amanda p.s. here is the code directly from the source: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
<html xmlns="html://(URL address blocked: See forum rules)/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>The Dachsund Rescue of Houston</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{
background: url(images/background.jpg) no-repeat top center;}
#contain{
width: 800px;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#menu{ width: 466px;
height: 98px;
float: right;
margin-top: 15px;
}
#dog{ width: 491px;
heigth: 257px;
margin-top: 19px;
margin-left: 22px;
float: left; }
/* margin-top is the menu plus the remaining pixels (19) so,
from the very TOP of the page. I guess you keep "adding"
*/
#community{ float: right;
background: url(images/community_spot.jpg) no-
repeat;
width: 231px;
height: 259px;
margin-top: 19px;
margin-right: 22px;
}
#arrival{
clear: right;
background: url(images/arrivals.png) no-repeat;
width: 800 px;
height: 400 px;
}
p{
font-family: helvetica;
font-size: 12pt;
color: #000000;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contain">
<div id="menu">
<a href="about.html"><img src="images/about_btn.png" alt="About
button" title="About" border="0"/></a>
<a href="adopt.html"><img src="images/adopt_btn.png" alt="Adopt
button" title="Adopt" border="0"/></a>
<a href="help.html"><img src="images/help_btn.png" alt="Help
button" title="Help DROH" border="0"/></a>
<a href="resources.html"><img src="images/resources_btn.png"
alt="Resources button" title="Resources" border="0"/></a>
<a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact_btn.png"
alt="Contact button" title="Contact" border="0"/></a>
</div>
<div id="dog">
<img src="images/jumping.jpg" border="0"/> </div>
<div id="community"> </div>
<div id="arrival"> lll
</div></div>
</body>
</html>
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Hi! Does floating an inline element automatically converts it to a block-level element? If yes, what does this give for an inline element: float: left; display: inline; ? Is it bad practice to float inline elements directly? (img, span, input, and so on). Thanks I am using a <dl> list to render dates and titles for a press release page. I want to display the date first and then display the title on the same line next to the date. If the title needs to wrap to more than 1 line, it should not wrap below the date - its left margin should be consistent. Simple example: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
dl {
width: 100%;
}
dt, dd {
float: left;
margin: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<dl>
<dt>12.24.2006</dt>
<dd>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi consectetuer cursus lacus. Nullam imperdiet diam sit amet dui. Suspendisse nonummy, ante ut pharetra vehicula, augue neque porta arcu, vel adipiscing lorem augue eu purus. Aenean vulputate pellentesque arcu.</dd>
</dl>
<body>
</body>
</html>
My problem is that with a long title that wraps to more than 1 line, Firefox is putting the <dd> on its own line - it will not float it next to the <dt> as it should. If you change the title to something shoter like Code: <dd>A ShortTitle</dd> It displays as it should. Any ideas why this is happening? I have a floating div with a solid background and a z-index set to 20. I have a form "behind" the div. For some weird reason, the drop down elements on the form "bleed through" the div. Is there any way to fix this? Hi folks, I guess this is a fairly straightforward question, so apologies if it has been asked before (I couldn't find anything while searching). I'm trying to implement this excellent tabbing interface however I'm running into problems attempting to display a Google maps image in one of the tabs, where the map will no cover the area it is supposed to. If you can see the images below you'll that the map does not extend over the grey area. I think the issue is down to the style applied, but of course removing it means the tabs will not work. The map is contained within its own div inside the tab, is there any method can I use to remove the inherited style of a nested element that specifically displays the map? Any help appreciated. 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 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? Hey all, Here is my page: tri-m.com/ENGINEERINGSITE/test.html The page looks what I want it to look like in IE... but if you open it up in FF you will see what I mean. If I add my clear float <div class="clear"></div> after .Iimage and .Ifeatures, a large space is placed between .imageFeatures and .IfeatureTEXT. If I do not add the clear (as in my example... than the floats are not cleared in FF obviously). I'm not quite sure what to do with this case. I'm not really able to find a similar problem. If someone could help me out that would be AMAZING! Thanks everyone. - Jacenta I know this is probably something very simple I'm overlooking, but I can't seem to get this page to display corrrectly in IE. The portion I'm talking about is the footer div: although the CSS clears both, in Firefox I see the footer correctly but in IE there is some encroachment of the footer background color on the right side of the screen. URL is: http://www.readaloudproject.org/about/ Please disregard all of the other aspects of the page... this is very much still under construction and a lot more styling needs to be done. But this footer is driving me crazy because I copied working code from other sites that is now no longer working. Help! Thanks! So... I've got a page I'm working on where I can't seem to get to floats to clear without compromising the layout of the divs that are floating. http://www1.romenews-tribune.com/multimedia2/ http://www1.romenews-tribune.com/multimedia2/style.css If I try the clear:after class fix, it doesn't work. If I try the overflow: hidden fix, it looks fine until the page is resized - and the overflowing content is hidden. What I want is for the right and left div is to stretch to the bottom of the page regardless of the page height, and clear to the div they are floating in. Any suggestions? Let me know if I need to provide better examples or more info, as I'm stumped on this one and feel like I've been doing this for far too long. Hi All I seem to have an issue with floating an element in IE6&7. All other browsers (including IE8) are fine. When using a right float element, IE7 seems to push the elements to the left of it below the right-floated element, instead of to the left where they are suppose to be. Is there a work-a-round and/or hack for this? Cheers! Russ I use form field hints on my sign up page. I am trying to float it to right with the codes below but its not happening. .hint { float:right; display: none; position:absolute; width: 150px; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background: #d7d7d7; } www.pearl.ru/isdunyasi/signup.asp Hi I use DIV to display image thumbnails in a row from php loop. for each div containing image I have set the attribute float: left; so that multiple images can be displayed in parallel. Now the problem is that if I have a single image then there is no need to show it on the extreme left of the page but in the center, but the thumbnail is displayed on the extreme left, here is my code till now, PHP Code: echo "<div style=' text-align: center; border: solid 1px #993333; padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: left; margin-left: 6%; '>"; echo "<div style=' text-align: center; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;'> <a href='/$path' rel=\"lightbox\"><img src='/print_resize_image.php?image=$path&type=$extension' width=200 height=150 border=0 ></a> </div></div>"; Hi.. I have a problem with ie rendering floaring dd's. What happens is the dd stay next to each other even if i had cleared it. It works fine in FF. Can anyone share some light? ... here is the code... Code:
<dl>
<dt>Email:</dt>
<dd><input type="text" /></dd>
<dt>State:</dt>
<dd>
<select>
<option>option1</option>
<option>option2</option>
<option>option3</option>
</select>
</dd>
<dt>Year of Birth:</dt>
<dd>
<select>
<option>option1</option>
<option>option2</option>
<option>option3</option>
</select>
</dd>
</dl>
and the css: Code:
dl{
}
dl dt{
clear:both;
width:80px;
text-align:right;
margin:10px 0;
}
dl dd{
margin:8px 0 0 5px;
}
dl dt,dl dd{
float:left;
}
thank you in advance |
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