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CSS - 3 Cols Layout With Equally High Columns + Dynamic Width, How?
I've run into a problem with a 3-column layout I'm making. The problem is to get the columns equally high. Previously I've just made the "illusion" of equally high columns by making a background image and repeating it in the y-direction (like this). This works fine as long as the page has a fixed with - in this case the left and right column have a fixed width but the center column is dynamic.
So, how can I make all the columns look equally high? (without using tables, obviously) Btw, I can't show you an example of the page, but hopefully you'll get the picture and could point me to an article or something about the subject. EDIT: Never mind! I found an example and it worked! http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/ <-- thats the one. Similar TutorialsHello, I am defining a Text Area where I set it to 20 Rows and Width of 40em in my CSS code. Do I need to define the cols? In this case what is the difference between cols and width? I suppose I cannot define the cols in CSS. Thanks, Miguel Hi, I have a multi-column layout where I want every column to always be the same height. Any one of the columns may be the longest on any given page, so the other columns have to automatically adjust to match that height. Usually I'd just use the faux column technique where you repeat a background image, but that won't work because of two elements on this page: 1. each column has a border all the way around it. 2. one column resizes with the page. I've read the articles on liquid layouts with faux columns, but as far as I can tell those techniques won't work if your columns have borders. Does anyone know any technique that would work here? Thanks. Hello, im trying to make Fixed width 3 columns (each column have fixed width) layout 100% height with header and footer. -Well I see alot of examples around the web, but i dont see complete one and im really tired of searching, i made the Fixed width 3 comlumns layout, left and right are absolute position, and center is relative to the header -the problem is that all columns dont fill the whole height of the browser windows, the footer doesnot work good. so the whole thing is missed up, so please show 100% working example of what i need. Thanks in Advanced Samer Hello, I'm working now on div layout that contains 3 sections (header, body, footer) in one centered wrapper with border (divs with background imgs). My problem is: - divs that are in fact borders (id="l_outerborder_b" and id="r_outerborder_b") don't stretch when main container (id="body_content_text") grows. Here is a html code: Code: <!--BEGIN TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!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>
<link href="template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="template.js" />
</head>
<body onload="onloadprocedures()">
<div id="main_container">
<div id="template_header">
<div id="tl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="t_outerborder"></div>
<div id="tr_outerborder"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_h"></div>
<div id="header_content">
<div id="logo"><img src="img/logo.png" alt="" /></div>
<div id="slogan"><img src="img/slogan.png" alt="Centrum zdrowia" /></div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_h"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE BODY -->
<div id="template_body">
<div id="l_outerborder_b"></div>
<div id="body_content">
<div id="body_content_text">
<p>TEST</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_b"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE BODY -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
<div id="template_footer">
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="footer_content"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="bl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="b_outerborder"></div>
<div id="br_outerborder"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!-- END TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
and CSS: Code: @charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, "Times New Roman", Arial;
font-size:12px;
}
a:link {text-decoration: none} /* unvisited link */
a:visited {text-decoration: none} /* visited link */
a:hover {text-decoration: none} /* mouse over link */
a:active {text-decoration: none} /* selected link */
#main_container {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
width:960px;
height:auto;
}
#template_header {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
height:300px;
}
#header_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
height:270px;
}
#logo {
width:310px;
height:130px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#slogan {
width:580px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#tl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#t_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/t_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#tr_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tr_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#l_outerborder_h {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#r_outerborder_h {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#body_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#body_content_text {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:600px;
margin: auto;
overflow:hidden;
}
#l_outerborder_b {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_b {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#l_outerborder_f {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_f {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#template_body {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#bl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/bl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#b_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/b_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#br_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/br_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
Thanks in advance for info how to stretch those doomed divs EDIT: Here is layout concept. URL hTTp://qsrc.pl/layout.jpg Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help. My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off... The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view! My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance.... Is it possible to to set up two divisions that display next to each other and take up the entire width of page? Neither of the divisions would be static. In my example, the one division would contain an image of variable size and the second division would take up the remainder of the width of the page with text. Is this possible with CSS? I can make this work with tables, but haven't been able to manage it with CSS. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Anne. hi, I have 2columns with varying heights. and then I have a div below which spans the width of both. If the right column is taller than the left there is no problem. The underneath div falls under it by 5px. But when the left columns is taller than the right. The column underneath still falls 5px below the right column, but the div below is underneath the left column. anyone know how to get the div below to go 5px below whichever div is tallest? heres the css: PHP Code: #leftColumn { float: left; margin: 10px;; width: 300px; padding: 0; } #register { margin: 20px 0 10px 330px; border: 1px solid #ccc; width: 396px; background: #fff; } #prodBreak { margin: 0 10px; padding: 0; border-top: dashed #666 1px; border-right: solid #ccc 1px; border-bottom: none; border-left: solid #ccc 1px; background: #fff url(../images/break.gif) repeat-x; width: 720px; height: 50px; } ta, if you dont understand the explanation please let me know and ill draw a picture Hi all, I have a mysql database with a list of milkshake flavors. I want to pull those out and display them into 4 columns. No problem there. The hangup is that the width of these columns isn't going to be the same (because the list of milkshake flavors is going to be updated regularly and the display of them is dynamic as well). So, I can have it kick out 4 columns no problem and the width of these columns is based on the longest name in that column (which is what I want, so everything is OK there). The problem is that I want these 4 columns to be grouped together and centered on the page. I got it working in Firefox by making a container div and giving it a {display: table} value... works perfectly. However, that's not the case in IE. In IE, the container div is the width of the entire page and the columns are all left-aligned. Here's the page in question and my code is below. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<style type="text/css">
.mcontainer {
border: 2px solid black;
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.mcol {
border: 1px solid blue;
float: left;
padding: 0 5px;
font-size: .75em;
text-align: center;
font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
}
.emptyspacer {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mcontainer">
<div class="emptyspacer"></div>
<div class="mcol">
Almond<br>
Almond Joy<br>
Amaretto<br>
Apple<br>
Apple Pie<br>
Banana<br>
Banana Pineapple<br>
Banana Split<br>
Black & White<br>
Blackberry<br>
Blueberry<br>
Butterfinger<br>
Butterscotch<br>
California Blend<br>
Caramel<br>
<strike>Caramel Apple</strike><br>
Caribbean Rum<br>
Cheesecake<br>
Cherry<br>
Chocolate<br>
Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter<br>
</div>
<div class="mcol">
Chocolate Cherry<br>
Chocolate Covered Banana<br>
Chocolate Mint<br>
Chocolate Raspberry<br>
Cinnamon<br>
Coconut<br>
Coffee<br>
Cookie Dough<br>
Creamsicle<br>
Creme De Menthe<br>
Double Chocolate<br>
Egg Nog<br>
Grape<br>
Grapefruit<br>
Hazelnut<br>
Heath Bar<br>
Irish Cream<br>
Island Breeze<br>
Key Lime<br>
Kiwi<br>
Kiwi Strawberry<br>
</div>
<div class="mcol">
M&M<br>
Macadamia Nut<br>
Mango<br>
Mango Kiwi<br>
Mango Peach<br>
Maple Walnut<br>
Mocha<br>
Mounds<br>
<strike>Mud Pie</strike><br>
Neapolitan<br>
Nerds<br>
Orange Pineapple<br>
Oreo<br>
<strike>Oreo Green Mint</strike><br>
Peach<br>
Peanut Butter<br>
Peanut Butter & Jelly<br>
Peanut Butter Cup<br>
Pear<br>
Peppermint<br>
<strike>Peppermint Oreo</strike><br>
</div>
<div class="mcol">
Pina Colada<br>
Pineapple<br>
Pistachio<br>
Raspberry<br>
<strike>Raspberry Cheesecake</strike><br>
Reese's Pieces<br>
Root Beer<br>
Rum<br>
<strike>S'mores</strike><br>
Snickers<br>
Strawberry<br>
Strawberry Banana<br>
Strawberry Orange<br>
Swiss Chocolate<br>
Three Musketeers<br>
Toffee<br>
Vanilla<br>
Watermelon<br>
</div>
<div class="emptyspacer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Layout problem that works in IE but not in Firefox I have watered down the layout I intend to achieve, which is 2 columns that are dynamic, 33% and 67% of available width, and a third column that is 200 pixels. www[dot]cs[dot]lewisu[dot]edu/~ongni/usjournal/redesign/test3.htm The structure holds in IE, but totally breaks down in Firefox. Thanks in advance for the help. Hi i want to have a site with 3 columns a header and a footer where the height of the content and both the columns spreads to fill the page even if there is only a few lines of content. Also i wanted to have a margin round the page so that the page doesnt fill the screen horizontal. i cant seem to get it to work correctly does anyone have an example i can look at? cheers Andy Hello, I am looking for a CSS two fixed width columns centered layout with header and footer. Could someone recommend me a good one? Thank You, Miguel Hi ya My goal is to get this page: portfolio.modernmusicians.com/portfolio.html to have the layout like this: portfolio.modernmusicians.com/port_goal.gif Notice how "description" is squared up in the image. I'm not sure if I should make nested div's or use margins or padding or what. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I've converted my site to a css layout http://www.mrhodges.net and it woks well for the browsers I've checked except ie5 for mac. On this browser it drops the center column below the two floated side columns. Now I know that the browser is no longer supported and all that but wouldn't you know... I work for a school board where almost all of the machines are macs and they are running os9 and you guessed it mac ie5. So of the miniscule number of people running this browser I'm smack dab in the middle of most of them. Consequently I need to figure out how to get my page to display properly as I'd like to use the template to put together the schools's web site. What is the best solution for this problem? I'd rather not have to write two sets of pages and redirect using javascript. Hello, To make my columns have equal lengths in fixed layouts, I have employed the Faux technique successfully. What would be the best technique for liquid layouts? I know of a js that suppose to equal the columns, and someone told there is a CSS method also. Can you still use the Faux? Any suggestions? Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the following: <div id="left">This column is of blue background, and stretches all the way to the left.</div> <div id="center"> THIS COLUMN IS FIXED WIDTH, 760px </div> <div id="right">This column is of red background, and stretches all the way to the right.</div> Hope that is self explanatory.. I've Googled all this but can only find solutions for fluid "center" columns with fixed width right/left columns. I'm trying to do the opposite. Could anyone let me know how I can do this? I've got some messy CSS that definitely needs to be corrected, I'm trying out different things so here's my 'trial& error' code: Code:
#left {
background-color: blue;
float: left;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
}
#center {
background: #DFDFEB url(../images/body/top.jpg) no-repeat;
width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#right {
background-color: red;
}
Thanks in advance! Hello, Below is css I am trying to get to work and use as a template for a two column , header, and footer layout. I can get by with css, but an not a designer so can't figure out the exact specifics on how to do this. I've looked at many sites, make examples, javascripts included, but either they are to hard to fit into what I am looking for or just cause me to hit my head against the wall. I'm trying to get the left columns background to fill height 100% to the footer. The content's doesn't need it because the wrapper's background act's as its color. Also, if either column's height changes past the screen's height. I need the footer to move down too. Currently, I tested if the left-column and the main content goes past the screen's height it will just go past the footer. This works beacuse the css I have currently is making sure that the footer is always at the bottom. Code: <html >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
html {
overflow-y: scroll; /* forces firefox scrollbar on */
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: #F2F2F2;
font: 100% Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
height: 100%;
}
/* text-align: center; is so that the content will float in the center*/
div.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: left;
margin-bottom: 42px;
}
div.header {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
font-size: 1.5em;
height: 42px;
}
div.footer {
position: absolute; bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
font-size: 1.5em;
height: 42px;
}
div.wrapper .left {
width: 215px;
float: left;
background: yellow;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
div.wrapper .right {
width:auto;
margin-left: 215px;
}
div.wrapper .tabs {
background: green;
height: 35px;
}
div.wrapper .mainContent {
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header" class="header">header</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="leftColumn" class="left">left content</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="tabs">Tabs go here</div>
<div class="mainContent">Main content goes here</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer" class="footer">footer</div>
</body>
</html>
Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance. Risso Hi, Creating a Wordpress theme. I need help to clear:left JPG thumbnails in my 2nd-column div, but WITHOUT clearing the 1st-column div that is floated:left. In other words, I want these two columns to work independently, just like <TD> in html. Here is my setup -- it is a 2-column layout, with the left column being a navigational sidebar (navigation content automatically generated by wordpress), and the Right Column is the "real content" div. Wordpress generates the content in the right column, also. And since Wordpress generates the content based upon what the reader selects, I cannot assign any HEIGHT attributes to the Divs, because I do not know whether the selections have a lot of content, or very little. ----------------- HEADER DIV------------------------------------------ -- Sidebar Div-- __________ --- RIGHT DIV (not floated) ----------------- FOOTER DIV ---------------------------------------- (property of footer is set to clear:both) SIDEBAR DIV is float:left; width 160px RIGHT DIV is not floated, and contains all the content. 600px; Problem I need to solve: In column #2 -- the right div, I want to float-left small thumbnail jpgs, and write text flowing along the right side of the thumbnail. If the text does not naturally drop below the jpg, I want to clear:left to drop down to a new line and start the process over (new thumbnail, new text beside it). *** The problem is that when I clear:left on the jpg, it NOT ONLY clears the JPG, but also clears:left on the whole Sidebar DIV, thereby dropping the next line WAY DOWN on the page. So it looks like this: ___ HEADER ____ Sidebar __________________ Thumbnail #1: Text text text (clear:left clears everything....) __________________________ Thumbnail #2: Text ---- FOOTER --- Attempted solution: If I set the sidebar div to position:absolute, it works ok EXCEPT (and big except) that if there is not much content in the RIGHT DIV, then the FOOTER DIV is not low enough on the page, thereby overlapping the Sidebar Div. Obviously, this whole design could be EASILY accomplished with TABLES, but those are blasphemy these days, so I would like a more "modern" solution. I have googled this all day, and have not seen a solution. Help is appreciated. I have a calendar on my website. Its in an area where witdh is set at 200px. How can I fit all 7 weekdays equally into this area? You can check it he http://www.pearl.ru/isdunyasi/calendar.asp Codes: PHP Code: #calendar { float:left; width:200px; height:200px; background:#FFFFFF url(images/button_bg.gif) top repeat-x; } #calendar h1{ margin-left:5px; margin-bottom:5px; font-size:16px; font-weight:bold; color:#000000; } #calendar p { padding:2px; margin:0; font-size:12px; } #calendar .month { background: #d7d7d7; text-align:center; } #calendar .wkday { float:left; background:#ebebeb; width:28px; height:20px; text-align:center; } #calendar .days { float:left; width:28px; height:20px; text-align:center; } #calendar .today,#calendar .days a:hover,#calendar .days a:active{ display:block; background: #ebebeb; } Hey All, I'm playing with elastic design for the first time--trying to use ems for all of my lengths, but I'm having a problem with my ems not converting to pixels consistently and I keep running into this using Firebug. For example: Code:
<body>
<div id="page-wrap" class="clearfix">
<div id="left-container"></div>
<div id="center-container"></div>
<div id="right-container"></div>
</div>
<body>
body {
font-size: 62.5%;
}
#page-wrap {
max-width: 96em;
}
#left-container {
position: relative;
float: left;
margin: 1.5em 0 1.5em 1em;
border: 0.1em solid red;
width: 22.8em;
height: 6em;
}
#center-container {
position: relative;
float: left;
margin: 1.5em 0;
border: 0.1em solid red;
padding: 0 1.5em;
width: 44.8em;
height: 6em;
}
#right-container {
position: relative;
float: left;
margin: 1.5em 0 1.5em 1em;
border: 0.1em solid red;
width: 22.8em;
height: 6em;
}
In firebug, the values are computing consistently and thus the right container is getting pushed down because of 3 pxs. In firebug, the computed values a page-wrap = 960px left-container margin-right = 10px border = 1px width = 229 px center-container border = 1px padding (left and right) = 15px width = 449 px right-container margin-left= 10px border = 1px width = 229 px Can anyone help me understand why the widths aren't converting consistently? Why they're adding a pixel? Hi all, I've got a problem with CSS, and while I usually can fix them myself, I can't seem to find a solution to this one. I want to create a centered block with a dynamic width using almost nothing but CSS (except for the div in the HTML code). Not specified by percentages, but instead specified by the distance from both the left and the right border of the block to the body. So what I want is to specify the left and right properties of the DIV, so my first attempt was: Code: #block {
position: absolute;
top: 40px;
right: 40px;
left: 40px;
height: 40px;
}
In Opera and FireFox it worked fine, but in Internet Explorer the block had no width. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? |
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