CSS - Float Cut Off As Soon As Regular Body Text Ends

I have a site construced of divs run off css. If I have a lot of content, Firefox will cut off the div at a certain point stopping the text and background color from displaying. IE looks fine. I don't have height set up. Does anyone know of this bug and how to stop it? I'm not finding an answer through google.

I have a row of icons (for navigation, with a text description underneath them) I am trying to break out of table design so I want these divs aligned next to each other, with the image/text centered.

Everything looks pretty peachy... but in FF the text such as "Candidates" underneath the icon floats to the left because of the parent float.. it ignores the text-align: center. In other browsers it works but not in FF any help? Also if anyone has a better way of writing this code I would be open to suggestions since I am slowly breaking away from table design.

Thanks!


Code:

.main #header {
	background: #FFFFFF;
	padding: 0 10px 0 10px;  
	border-bottom: 1px solid black;
	border-top: 1px solid black;
}
.icon_nav{
	font-size: 12px;
	float: left;
	text-align: center;
	margin-right: 12px;
	border: 1px solid black;
}

Code:

<div id="header">
    <div style="float: left">
        <img src="images/logo.png"  align="left" style="margin-right: 4px"/>
        <div style="color: #992204; font-size: 18px">XYZ Company</div>
        <div style="color: #992204; font-size: 14px">Professional Company</div>
        <div style="color: #992204; font-size: 12px">481-555-5555</div>
    </div>
    
<div style="float: right;">
    <div class="icon_nav"><img src="images/icons/home.png" /><br />Home</div>
    <div class="icon_nav"><img src="images/icons/employers.png" /><br />Employers</div>
    <div class="icon_nav"><img src="images/icons/candidates.png" /><br />Candidates</div>
    <div class="icon_nav"><img src="images/icons/directions.png" /><br />Directions</div>
    <div class="icon_nav"><img src="images/icons/event_planning.png" /><br />Event Planning</div>
    <div class="icon_nav"><img src="images/icons/contactus.png" /><br />Contact Us</div>
</div>
    
    <br style="clear: both;" />
    <!-- end #header -->
</div>

Firstly, excuse my title, I couldn't think of a better way to put it .

Now to the problem. In my layout I have a floated object, and text that flows around it, I can pad the text away from this floated object by using margins on the floated object. But I have created a class for <p> that I want to be padded further, and if I add padding-left to p.quote (the class) it makes no difference because the padding is simply going behind the float...

As rubbish as that explanation was, I expect someone will pick up on what I'm going on about. How can I have some text indented (padded) further away from the float than other ?

Thanks in advance.

I am intergating my forum software into my main page. I have created a 100% non-table front page, but there is one table that is stuck at the bottom of the page by the forum software.

So my DIV tag ends and a TABLE begins and they overlap. I placed a clear:both DIV tag after my last DIV tag, but that didn't seem to help.

I don't think I can convert the TABLE to DIV since it's part of the software. I was just thinking of adding a height:20px to my "clearit" DIV to pad the bottom enough to push the table down but that seems hokey.

When i float my div to the left, i cant seem to get the text to align right, can someone show me a way out of this horriable predicament i have found my self in!!

okay I don't know why my text will not wrap in any of my "float:rights" My quicklink section I don't care about as much as the feature student section I'm building. The text spills out of the paragrah block and keeps running.

http://www.mgan.net/form-honors/main(2).htm

Any thoughts on how to fix it or a link to a site that would explain it's just as good

Hello,

I'm new to css layouts.

I had to float:left every element so the heights stretch

problem is if the image in "page_c_left" is wider than 45% then "page_c_right" will automatically go on the next line. (in Firefox, IE seems to wrap the text without moving the element).


also, i wanted to have the content displayed first for non-css browsers, but the examples used position:absolute. when the impression i got was that float is preferable to position.

i'm very confused on which method to use for layouts.

what method would you use for complex css layouts? float, position or other?

this is code with the text wrap problem
Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">

#main_c {
  float:left;
  width:770px;
  padding: 10px;
  border: 1px solid black
}

#header_c {
  float:left;
  border:1px solid brown
}

#page_c {
  float:left;
  width:100%;
  border:1px solid red
}

#page_c_left {
  float:left;
  padding:10px;
  border:1px solid blue
}

#page_c_right {
  float:left;
  width:55%;
  padding:10px;
  border:1px solid green

}

#footer_c {
  float:left;
  border:1px solid yellow
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="main_c">
<div id="header_c">
THIS IS THE HEADER
</div>
<div id="page_c">
     <div id="page_c_left"><img src="../../photos/image.jpg" alt="image" /></div>
     <div id="page_c_right">RIGHT SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
     ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh  toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
     ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br /> SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
     ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh  toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
     ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br />RIGHT SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
     ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh  toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
     ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br /> SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
     ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh  toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
     ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br /></div>
</div>

<div id="footer_c">
THIS IS THE FOOTER
</div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

if you could help,
thank you

this is kind of a crude copy/paste of my current code, but it shows the problem.

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>
  <title> new document </title>
  <style>
  #contentstylesubheader {
	float: left;
	padding-left: 16px;
	height: 53px;
	padding-right: 30px;
	padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentstylesubheaderleft {
	float: left;
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#contentstylesubheaderright {
	text-align: right;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 100;
	float: right;
}

	</style>
 </head>

 <body>
  				<div id="contentstylesubheader">
					<div id="contentstylesubheaderleft">blahblah</div>
					<div id="contentstylesubheaderright">
						<span id="item_price">blah</span> <a href="#"><img src="../images/buynowbutton.gif" class="imgvalignmiddle padleftmedium padbottomsmall" alt="Add to Cart" /></a><br/>
						<a href="#"><img src="images/review_sm.png" alt="Review Our Payment Plan" /></a>
					</div>
				</div>

 </body>
</html>

I have a css layout I'm working, that is all divs (my first time doing this without tables).

My page consists of all divs, and then the body is a table for displaying date from a database.

My problem is that I have the footer positioned absolutely at the bottom of the page, which is what I want, EXCEPT when the table extends longer and the user needs to scroll down.

If the table does not extend the full height of the screen, then I want the footer at the bottom of the screen, but if the table extends past the bottom of the screen, I need to footer to be at the end of the table.

I hope that makes sense.

CSS Tags -- Just a portion of them:

Code:

body {
  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
  background-color: #E7F1FD;
  font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
  height: 100%;
}
/*This is the main body of the page and contains the db data*/
#pwdb_body {  
  background-color: #E7F1FD;
  border: 2px solid #FFF;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 165px;
}
/*Footer */
#left_footer {
  background-image:url(images/bar_header2.jpg);
  width:100%;
  height:36px;
  position:absolute;
  bottom: 0px;
}

My DIVS (partial):

Code:

<!-- START BODY -->
<div id="pwdb_body">
<table width=100% border=1 name="main_body" bordercolor="#000000" style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1>
<tr>
  <td>...table data...</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div id="left_footer"><img src="images/index_02.gif"/></div>

I have attached a screenshot of what I'm talking about. The footer bar is highlighted in a red box, and the table bottom is pointed out by a red arrow.

Gday CSS PPL,

Im still yet to test on other browers, but im using IE 6.0

while the explorer is full screen the width of my div is 100%

But when i resize the browser on the horizontal untill a horizontal scroll bar appear, and scroll to the right, the div cuts off where the scrolling begins,

div.banner {
background-image: url(../images/banner_repeat.gif);
width:100%;
height:163px;
text-align:center;
}

and yeah, the background image 'banner_repeat' stops repeating at that point.

any help would be great,

Thx in advance,

James

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.

I'm mostly a PHP developer, & use CSS only intermittently, so forgive this hopefully simple problem:

I want to put a series of boxes(with fixed width, but not fixed height) inside a bigger box. The inner boxes should proceed from left to right, from the top left of the containing box.

When the width of the containing/outer box is reached, the next inner box should start the next row at the left inner border of the containing box, below the tallest of the boxes in the first row, and begin the second row. No different from ordinary text, where letters are like the inner boxes.

If I set float: left; for the inner boxes, this works fine if all the boxes are the same height. However, if the last inner box in the row is shorter than the previous box, the next box that should start the next row at the far left will be placed immediately under the last box in the first row, then the second row will be started after that, under that.

One point: these inner blocks will be generated by php, and only the data will be different between them; otherwise, they should all have the same style attributes. I can easily get around this using a table layout, but I'd rather not. I'm sure the solution is quite simple; much more simple than my explanation. To illustrate the problem, I attach some code below -- you can just copy it & paste it into an empty tst.html file and go. Thanks for any help on this seemingly simple problem.

Regards,

Paul

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


<style type="text/css">

.outerblock {
  width: 300px;
  border: 3px solid blue;
}

.innerblock {
  width: 90px;
  border: 2px solid green;
  color: red;
  float: left;
}
</style>



<title>TestFloatingBlocks</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1> Testing Blocks </h1>
<div class="outerblock">
  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>

  <div class="innerblock">
     <p> Hi.  This is some text.  This is a lot of text</p> <p>This is additional text.  And some more.</p>
  </div>


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