CSS - My <ul> Is Stuck Centered In A World Of Css

Hi there, sorry to bother y'all, but I've been fighting with this css for hours now and I can't seem to get it quite right. I'm trying to center a search box and button skinned with an image, which I think should be fairly simple, but I'm not very good with css yet and it's being more evil than usual.

I will try my best to provide all the pertinent information, and thank you very much in advance for any assistance you might provide.

My top bar is as such, at the moment (the current issue being that I can't get the text to not be on the edges with the image border while keeping the text field and the button flush against each other), although I've tried a number of other solutions, this is the closest as of yet that I have gotten.

Code:

<div class="header">
	<div class="leftAlign"><a href="/Controller?pageRequest=home"><img src="/img/spinner.png"></img></a></div>
	<div class="rightAlign" id="topRight">
		<jsp:include page="AccountLinks.jsp"></jsp:include>
	</div><br />
	<form id="searchForm" action="/SearchServlet">
		<input type="text" id="searchText"></input><input type="image" src="/img/searchButton.gif" alt="Search" id="searchButton"></input>
	</form>
</div>

and the relevant css is

Code:

div.header{
	width: 1000px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	min-height: 60px;
	display: block;
	text-align:center;
}

div.leftAlign{
	 float: left;
	 text-align: left;	
}

div.rightAlign{
	float: right;
	text-align: right;
}

#searchForm{
 vertical-align: top;
    margin: 0;
    line-height: 1;
    outline:0;
}

#searchText{
	background:url(/img/searchText.gif) no-repeat top center;
	padding:0px;
	margin:0;
	display:inline;
	border:0;
	width:159px;
	height: 31px;
}

#searchButton {
	background:url(/img/searchButton.gif) no-repeat top center;
	padding-top:0px;
	margin:0;
	display:inline;
	border:0;
	width:42px;
	vertical-align: top;
    line-height: 1;
	height:31px;
}

Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

http://www.lightblu.com/

(It speaks for itself)

how come on my test page, http://www.lightblu.com/test.php works fine (ie. the menu is centered correctly), but not on the homepage? What did I do wrong?

How can i accomplish this with CSS?

See image he
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(replace x with t)

As a CSS beginner I want to change my few table based web sites to CSS based. Currently I may have a table with a border exactly fitting a graphic image... looks nice. Now I want that same image to fit perfectly in a CSS box in order to take advantage of all the extra features of color and border that comes with CSS.
The problem is... nothing that I do will exactly fit the rectangular image in the CSS box. I have fooled with the dimensions of the box and image but somehow there is ALWAYS about a 4px edge of background at the bottom edge of the image. The left,top,right borders are exactly bordering the image as should be. Is this possible in CSS, I would like to follow the CSS way.

#bottom_center {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: #ccc;
width: 470px;
height: 90px;
border-style: ridge;
}
---- then in the body ----
<div align="center">
<div id="bottom_center">
<img border="1" src="able_appraisal_web_logo.jpg" alt="Able Appraisal, Inc."
width="470" height="90">
</div>
</div>

Hey guys,

I know that this is a well covered topic. but I am trying to get a container div to sit centered and 100% of the page.

my css reads:

* {
margin:0;
padding: 0;
}

html, body {
height: 100%;
}

#container {
position: relative;
width: 900px;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
background: url("imgs/backgroundmain.gif");
}

It works fine for the required browsers until the contents of the page goes beyond the size of the screen then the background stops. it literally stops at 100% of window rather than 100% of content. Any ideas???

James MacLeod

Hello,

I know basic css and html, but not much more than that. However, the site I am attempting to build is very simple, so hopefully someone here can help me stumble my way through the process.

Here is an example of what I want:
URL

...and when I add new content:
URL

I want a css grid of identical square containers, with a thumbnail in each one. The tricky part is getting the differently-sized thumbnails to be vertically centered in the containers without having to set each one by hand.

This is where I have gotten so far-
http://jimtierneyart.com/test/test.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
        
<html>
	<head>
		<style type="text/css"> 
		
		body {
			margin : auto;
		}
		
		.wrapper {
			width: 900px;
			border: 1px solid #bbbbbb;
			margin: 50 auto;
		}
		
		.item {
			
			line-height: 223;
    		text-align: center;
    		float: left;
			width: 223px;
			height: 223px;
			border: 1px solid #dddddd;
			background: #EBEBEB;
		}
		
		img.a {
			margin: auto; 
			max-width:120px;  
			border:0; 
			max-height:175px; 
		}
		
		

</style>

		
		
		
	</head>

	<body>
		<div class="wrapper">

			header

			<BR>
			<BR>




			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>
			
				<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>
			
			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>

			<div class="item">
			<img class="a" src="image.gif">
			</div>


		</div>
	</body>
</html>

I need 2 things to happen:

1. The parent container must be centered on the page (this worked fine until I added the Doctype tags.
2. the thumbnails must be vertically centered within the child containers.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I would really appreciate some help.

Hi, there.

Having looked around the forum for a CSS method of vertically centering an IMG within a DIV, I found the following code which works perfectly in IE but not FF :

#full-image {
float: right;
width: 380px;
height: 380px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 0px;
background-color: #F0F5F7;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
}

#full-image img {
margin-top: expression(( 380 - this.height ) / 2);
}

That's right - works in IE but not FF, which is most unusual! Any ideas how to make this work cross-browser? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Hello everyone. I would like to thank anyone who attempts to solve this in advance.

I have a css page here . If you need me to post the code let me know, but I temporarily have embedded styles so I figured you could view source easily enough. The entire content of the page centers just fine in Firefox2, but unfortunately is aligned to the left in IE7 on PC. Does anyone know why this might be?

Thanks again for your expertise and time,
phpkata.

Hello I hope this isnt a stupid questions but here goes.

I have a page designed with vertically centered content It works fine but if you view the page in a smaller screen size some of the content disapears in to the menu area of the browser. Its hard to explain but if you use the sorce code below and view it in any broswer. Make it so the browser is not maximized and then change the height of the window until the scroll bar appears ... you will notice that some of the conent goes into neverland before the srollbar appears. Line 1 disapears and can not be reads. This will be an issue for people viewing my site in 800x600

Thoughts?


Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style> 
#horizon {
	background-color: transparent;
	position: absolute;
	top: 50%;
	left: 0px;
	width: 100%;
	margin-top: -200px;
	text-align: center;
	min-width: 900px; 
}
#wrapper {
	background-color: #fff;
	position: relative;
	text-align: left;
	width: 900px;
	height: 380px;
	margin: 0px auto;
	}

	
</style>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<div id="horizon">
<div id="wrapper">
  Line 1<br />
    Line 2<br />
  Line 3<br />
  Line 4
  
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Trying to build a CSS Page Centered Template, where content autostretches containers height, as opposed to setting absolute heights. If one column is longer than the others the others should auto stretch to same height.

Also trying to work in a Footer that sits automatically at the bottom. Heres where I am at...as usual different story in every browser.

page
----
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"><table><tbody ><tr><td><div class="container">
<!--*******page content start*******-->
<div class="top">top</div>
<div class="main1">main1</div>
<div class="main2">main2</div>
<div class="main3">main3</div>
<!--*******page content end*******-->
</div></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>

CSS Sheet
----------
table {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
td {
text-align: center;
vertical-align: top;
}
div.container {
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 780px;
text-align: left;
height: 100%;
}
div.top {
position: absolute;
top: -3px;
left: 0px;
width: 780px;
height: 203px;
background-color: #CCC;
}
div.main1 {
position: absolute;
top: 200px;
left: 0px;
width: 200px;
height: 100%;
background-color: #BBB;
}
div.main2 {
position: absolute;
top: 200px;
left: 200px;
width: 200px;
height: 100%;
background-color: #DDD;
}
div.main3 {
position: absolute;
top: 200px;
left: 400px;
width: 380px;
height: 100%;
background-color: #AAA;
}

This is my rendition of Claire Campbell's "Vertical Buttons". Why is my text "Quick Links" not centered in IE? All the other text is centered? Thanks in advance.

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" >
<style type="text/css">
#quikcontainer
{
position:         absolute;
top:              120px;
	left:             30px;
	height:           650px;
	width: 143px;
background: white;
border:           orange 2px solid;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top:    20px;
font-family:      Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
text-align: center;
color: #1E599F;

}

ul#quiklist
{
text-align: center;
color:     #1E599F;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
}

ul#quiklist li
{
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

ul#quiklist li a
{
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;
color: #1E599F;
text-decoration: none;
background: white;
}

#quikcontainer>ul#quiklist li a { width: auto; }


ul#quiklist li a:hover, ul#quiklist li#active a:hover
{
color: white;
background: #1E599F;
border-color: orange;
border-bottom: 2px solid;
border-top:    2px solid;
}
</style>

<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>

<div id="quikcontainer">
<p><strong>Quick Links</strong></p>

<ul id="quiklist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" target="_blank">Aaaaaaa A-A</a></li>

<li><a href="#" target="_blank">AA Aaaa aa Aaaaaa Aaaaaaaa</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Aaaaaaa A-A Aaaaaaa</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Aaa A-A Aaaa</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Aaaaaa A-A Aaaaaa Aaaaaaa</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

</body>
</html>

having trouble centering a web site

what i want to precisely position elements in my site and i thought that i could put all the elements in to one div tag and make that centered. i can center it but the problem is when the browser is resized smaller that the content the site remains centered and center starts diserpering off the left edge. what i want it to do once resized smaller is for a horizontal scroll bar to appear and for content not to disappear on the left edge of the screen. i have half achieved this but now my content dose not stay in the main div

check out my example the "center1" div should appear inside the top light gray box but it dose not!
http://www.thehopeandanchor.net/nypd/layertest.htm

the 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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>redeem file</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
div#center1 {
/*position:absolute;*/
margin:0px auto;
top:10px;
width:600px;
height:47px;
background-color: #cccccc;
}
div#center2 {
position:absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -300px;
top:80px;
width:600px;
height:47px;
background-color: #cccccc;
}
div#insidebit {
position:absolute;
left:50px; top:10px;
width:64px;
height:26px;
background-color: #eeeeee;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="center1">
<div id="insidebit">center1</div>
</div>

<div id="center2">
<div id="insidebit">center2</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a horizontal navigation near the top of my website. But I can't seem to make it center but AND horizontal, i've only been able to center it but not horizontal... or have it horizontal but not center.

This is my CSS so far.

Quote:
ul#nav li {
display:inline;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
text-align:center;
}

ul#nav li a {
display:block;
height:48px;
width:113px;
background: transparent url(images/nav.png);
margin: 0 auto;
text-indent:-9009px;
}
ul#nav li a:hover {background-position:0 -48px}

ul#nav li#photos a {
width:139px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-position:-113px 0;
}
ul#nav li#photos a:hover {background-position:-113px -48px}




My home link and photo link are currently centered and on top of each other in a vertical fashion with this code.

Please help!

Hello, guys im new, i need help. i have this website. i can pm the URL.

and i am having problems outting ad bars down the sides. i have three bars on the left side, the 3rd one is supposed to float to the other side. the right side has one that is being pushed down. im so lost and really out-of-my-mind lol, i usually have no problems, but wordpress is kicking my butt with this css. any and all help would be greatly appreciated. because i need the layout done by the 1st. so i have less than a week. thank you guys. hope to recieve good answers thank you.

Hello,

i am currently makeing a website that uses CSS to handle the font colors for the menu, page titles and general text.

my problem is this (i hopt this is in the right area)

i have a page where the admin can chose the text colors for the different areas, when its selected its saved in a database.

is there a way i can set it up so that the CSS file i have pulls the code out of the db and places it in the right place?

here is an example


---Menu---

(title) <- class name = mtitle
home <- class name = nav


in the site.css file which has all my style code in it i need where you put the color code to pull it from the db instead.

thank you