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CSS - Parent Element Vs. Containing Element
Can anyone explain the difference between the two? For example, what is the difference between:
this: element element {} div p { } and this: element > element { } div > p { } I don't understand it and have not found an explanation in tireless searching. Thx! Similar TutorialsI have an navigation menu that I am building as an unordered list. What I have is an image rollover that appears at the bottom of the navigation menu when the cursor hovers over one of the first level links by using a span within the link that has its display set to none, and then set to absolute positioned directly below the navigation menu on a:hover. Here is an example: Code:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="link1.html" id="link1">Link<span></span></a>
</li>
</ul>
.link a { some link height }
.link a span { display: none; }
.link a:hover span {
position: abolute;
top: (some link height * the number of links);
background-image: (some image url)
width: (image width)
height: (image height)
}
Appearance: ------ Link1 Link2 Link3 Link4 ------- ------- Rollover Image to appear here ------- The problem that I have is that since the rollover image is positioned absolutely, if the size of the list of links changes (IE with sub-links in the list) it slides under or over where I have the rollover image placed. IE ------ Link1 sublink1 sublink2 Link2 Link3 Link4 ------- will break my scheme. Is there a way to get the span within the link to show up relative to the bottom of the <ul> element, or at the bottom of an element that contains the whole shebang? If I cant get this to work, I'm going to be forced to adopt the existing tables/javascript based template for our site, and I'd hate hate hate to do that. thanks. Please look at this page - http://hometown.tmhdesign.com/ask.asp?faq=9 See how the <p> exceeds the containing box at the bottom? I put a border-bottom on the containing div to show you where the issue occurs. It does not happen in IE7 I just noticed it does it also on this page http://hometown.tmhdesign.com/staff.asp Is there a way to style an element's parent with css? I know something like .div1 p { stuff here } takes care of p's that are inside div1 but is there a way to style say any div1 with a div2 inside? Or a ul with a ul inside? i have a block that i have the opacity set to .80. within this block i have text. The reason i have the opacity set at .80 is to help increase contrast between the background and text. the heading of the page is within the the block and is inheriting the opacity behaviour. Is there a way to turn this off? like a no-inherit? heres the block: #content { width: 470px; height: 380px; background: #fff; padding: 0px 5px 10px 10px; border: 0px solid yellow; overflow: scroll; float: clear; filter:alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity:0.8; opacity: 0.8; } page titles a .pagetitles { font-size: .8em; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana, Georgia, Times, serif; color: #ffcc00; line-height: .4em ; } Please look at this page - http://www.soarminden.com/glider-soaring-gallery.asp I put a red border on parent element. The children divs appear outside the parent at page bottom? Can someone shed some light please? I think the issue is with the styling of the div(s) innerLeftColumn or LeftColumn Code: <div style='width:670px;margin:0;border:1px solid red;min-height:500px;position:relative;'> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;clear:left;'> <img src='images/gallery/1/tom6.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=1' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Tom Hall Soaring</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;'> <img src='images/gallery/12/phil-jones2.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=12' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Phil Jones Goes Gold & Diamond!</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;'> <img src='images/gallery/13/wedding1.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=13' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Wolfram and Lydia's Wedding</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;clear:left;'> <img src='images/gallery/15/DSC_6547.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=15' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Brennan Hall Soaring Lake Tahoe</a></h4> </div> <div style='width:175px;height:150px;float:left;margin:20px 0 20px 10px;'> <img src='images/gallery/16/teresa.jpg' style='width:175px;height:150px;margin-bottom:3px;'/><br /> <h4 style='text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0;padding-bottom:10px'><a href='glider-soaring-gallery2.asp?subject=16' style='color:#00f;line-height:1;text-decoration:undeline !important;'>Teresa Luther</a></h4> </div> </div> My css is at CSS. The site is at site The problem I am having is that on the .maintextdiv or the .subtextdiv if I add any left or right margin values IE6 in strict mode is adding that value to the parent element, #rightbox. I should clarify that if I add margin values to just one of them it displays fine, but if I add margin values to both of them then I end up with the problem of extra space added to the parent element. More wierdness, if those (maintextdiv and subtextdiv) are not floated then the problem doesn't show up at all. It's only once they got floated did I have problems. This behavior doesn't show up in FF or Safari. Anyone with any ideas? Hi, Is it possible to change the css properties of a parent element without changing the properties of its childreen? That is, in the following code: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>ccc</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Hello
<ul>
<li>World</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Is it possible to modify the root UL to have font set to 200% without the child UL also being effected?? Thansk and Regards, Sim085 The goal of the following code is to have a search box with several tabs above it to narrow down the search. The issue is that the design calls for a little upside down triangle to appear below the tab and bleed into the text box. The code works great in Firefox and even in IE6 where the Doctype was switched to HTML 3.2. I'm using 4.01 Transitional and noticing that the arrow doesn't center itself below the tab, rather it centers itself in the entire page. If I take out the width: 100% from .searchbox li.active .downarrow, then both browsers behave the same, although the downarrow now appears in the left bottom corner of the tab rather than the center. Note that I've stripped most of the code away to narrow down the issue. Code:
<style>
.searchbox ul { float: left; padding-left: 10px; list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 10px 0 0 0; }
.searchbox li { float: left; }
.searchbox li .downarrow { display: none; }
.searchbox li a { display: block; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px; color: #213327; }
.searchbox li.active { position: relative; }
.searchbox li.active a { color: #fff; border: 1px solid #b3b2b0; background: #266d1e url('/c2footsearchbg.jpg') repeat-x scroll top left; }
.searchbox li.active a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
.searchbox li.active .downarrow { display: block; position: absolute; bottom: -9px; width: 100%; height: 10px; text-align: center; margin: auto; }
.searchbox div { clear: both; display: inline-block; }
.searchbox input.txt { border: 2px solid #999; padding: 5px 0 0 3px; width: 305px; height: 30px; }
.searchbox input.submit { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #fff; width: 71px; height: 30px; border: 0; background: transparent url('/c2searchbutton.jpg') no-repeat scroll top left; vertical-align: top; cursor: pointer; }
.searchbox input.submit:hover { background-position: 0 -30px; }
</style>
<div class="searchbox">
<h3>Search</h3>
<ul id="c2FootSearch">
<li class="active"><a href="/index.php">Main</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/groups/">Groups</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/people/">People</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/petitions/">Petitions</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="/news/">News</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a><div class="downarrow">↓</div></li>
</ul>
<div>
<form action="/searchall.html" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="search" value="main" />
<input type="text" name="q" class="txt" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
Hi all, The easiest way to see the problem is to look at this demo in firefox. (I haven't patched it to work in IE yet.) The menu items in the 1st 2 menu's don't expand to fill the available area. Any ideas? Hi guys, I'm changing a simple page from a table style layout to CSS Positioning style. Here's a common line...it's working fine in IE, but not in Firefox (which immediately tells me there's something wrong with my coding). The code is: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Overflowing Box</title>
<style type="text/css">
div.row{
padding-top : 10px;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 10px;
}
.image{
float : left;
font-weight : bold;
width : 210px;
}
.description{
float : right;
width : 235px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 450px; background-color: #cc9;
border: 1px dotted #333; padding: 5px;
margin: 0px auto">
<div class="row">
<div class="image">An image will go here</div>
<div class="description">
<strong>Heading:</strong> Text <br>
<a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">http://www.somesite.com</a><br>
<br>
This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text.<br>
<br>
This is some meaningless text.
This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text.<br>
<br>
This is some meaningless text.
This is some meaningless text. This is some meaningless text. <br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It's a very simple example, but for some reason, the container doesn't "expand" in Firefox as I'd expect. I've hunted around the web, played around and tried some of my other code to no avail. Am I missing the simplest of attributes? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance! Hi, My page has 3 elements: one at the top(header banner), one in the middle (a middle content area) and one at the bottom (footer banner). Now I want those positions to remain intact regardless of the number of lines output in the middle element. The content is going to be determined at runtime by a server-side routine so I don't want to use a fixed positioning for the footer banner. I want it to be displayed at the bottom - after the middle content is displayed. And I want the middle content to be visible in the page i.e. I don't want a scroll area within the page. I have tried various approaches and read up on positioning but so far have not been able to do it using css. Any help is much appreciated. Jim I want to change this: LIST-STYLE-TYPE: square; I want to show a picture in the place of that square. Can this be possible? Hi How do I center element <ul id="buttons"> in <div id="alertbox" ? Code:
<div id="alertbox" style="background-color:#99CC99">
<h3 id="alerttitle"><span>DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE ?</span></h3>
<div id="alertcontent">
<ul id="buttons">
<li><a href="yes.php">YES</a></li> <li><a href="no.php">NO</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
#alertbox {
text-align: center;
list-style-type: none;
padding: .2em 0;
}
#alertbox li { display: inline; }
#alertbox a {
padding: 5px 20px .3em 20px;
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
}
</style>
Thank you. is it possible to use two classes for one element. I want to use two classes for one element I thought perhaps it is possible not to create another class to combine both of them. perhaps there is a form of superclass and subclass in css. I have been trying to work a lot with CSS3 to rotate, scale, etc. One effect I've been trying to figure out is how to stretch something. I could scale it along the y axis but that's not really stretching. A stretch would mean the top and bottom (or left and right) sides would curve inward. How can I distort an element in this fashion? Hi there, Need some CSS guru help. If you visit my link: http://www.gabbr.com/js/viewer/cmedata/index1.html and hover over the years (top middles, 2008, 2009, 2010, etc) you will notice an orange bar extending from the top to the bottom of the page. I am trying to get the same effect on the left (month and day) but am unable to do so. The problem I am having is that I cannot get the orange hover bar to extend off the left of the screen for either #dayleft or for #monthleft. It extends all the way to the right margin of the screen but not the left. The problem is the margin-left: 15px; in #monthleft and margin-left: 80px; in #dayleft. But I cannot get rid of these since I require them for the letter spacing. Any advice? Hi, I've been designing a page that is basically made of a box that sits dead center on the page (horizontally and vertically centered). The only way I have come up with doing this is by using the following code: Code: <table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<div id="centeredDiv">
This text will sit right in the middle of the page
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I was thinking that there must be a way of doing this with CSS (without using tables) to make it a bit more tidy and standards compliant as I am laying out everything within the centeredDiv with CSS positioning. Thanks in advance, Matthew Dingley Hi; How i can display elements from left to right and the first element stat from the left of 20px, and the distance between each element is 20px. Could any one help me, please, thanks my code does not work for the distance between each element is 20px. PHP Code: <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> .number{ position: relative; left: 20px; float: left; } </style> </head> <body> <span class="number">1</span> <span class="number">2</span> <span class="number">3</span> <span class="number">4</span> </body> </html> hey guys, I just have a short question about css: How to center an element? greetings and thx in advance PS: I tried to use auto but this does not function... This is hopefully a very easy question... I have a table which has 4 <td> elements to adhere to. My problem is that I want to put some text into the 3rd <td> which is wider than I want the <td> to be allowed. I know that there isn't any text it will overlap in the 2nd. Is there a command that will overextend the width to the left and fill there? Currently as is the text goes upward. Here is an image of my problem, any suggestions? *** Solved, All i needed was a |
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