CSS - Link Styling Help

Hi Guys,

Hope you are all well. My page layout is in CSS, however in the middle I have a selection of images and text, based in a standard HTML table.

All the images are 300px wide. It works fine on all nice small browsers, but it doesn't look nice on screens with a high resolution, because the images have lots of ****e space round them, and adjusting the background colour looks just as bad.

I have tried to apply width: 300px; (as well as max-width: 300px; ) to the td element, but neither FF or IE seems to accept this? Should they accept this?

Has anyone got a better more practical layout model for this type of display? either using a fix to the above or 'pure' CSS and ditch the table?

Charlie

I see that layout on my site is completely broken in IE7...
funnyfurniture.net

Could anybody help me to fix my css...

I am styling my <pre> on my template document and have some questions. First, I tend to gravitate to semantic correct CSS and xHTML. Thus chose xHTML strict for my template document and have been extensively styling the CSS style sheet.

The <pre> tag presents the latest dilemma. Basically, I came across this link where the developer presented CODE in a <textarea> tag. The code did not require entities, < or &rt; in the markup. These styling attributes appealed to me; inset design and overflow with scrollbars for extending text beyond the page.

Bottom of the Page
http://www.evolt.org/article/HTML_is_not_an_acronym/17/35750/

The developer also used presentational styling in the markup. HTML strict does not allow one to use style attributes in the HMTL; besides the style sheet. But my sensibilities gravitate toward using semantically correct markup. Most people, including myself, use div containers with classes or ID for presentational styling. But for this exercise, the <pre> or <code> tag are preferable since these classes serve to present (you guess it) code.

One annoyance about the <pre> relates to indenting the markup (the actual text file). By default (and by design), <pre> tag incorporates any indents or white space in the browser. My thoughts revolved around changing the wrapping property to account for line breaks and disregard white space. Then, in theory, one could indent the markup for readability. This document is for personal use and semantically organized and indented for readability. The correct markup will help me understand or edit the document two years from now. In addition, it forms my quick reference to copy & paste tags.

The following class style did not produce the <textarea> desired attributes.

Code:

pre.CodeExample {
	/*background-color: transparent;*/
	border: medium inset #CCCCCC;
	font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	margin: 1em 2em 1em 2em;
	overflow: auto;
	padding: .5em .5em .5em .5em;
	white-space: nowrap;
}

Please let me know what are the default CSS attributes for the <pre> and <textarea> tags.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions about styling the <pre> tag or links to cool implementations. You may review my markup at the following link.

http://www.geocities.com/robert_neville310/Template_Sample.html#blockquote

The Blockquote section has several methods for displaying code. I am looking to consolidate and standardize my classes. Suggestions are welcomed.

div.ExampleOutput
pre.CodeExample

I set up a class (named "emphasized") to be bold, italic and color #087112. The color is being applied but for some reason the font is not appearing bold or italicized. (See "Introduction to EFT" text.)

The bullets (set up in css as id selector "li") are not being styled either (same thing, the color is applied but not the list styling).

Since I'm a new user I'm not allowed to put links in my post but you can see the pages he

HTML page can be found at tinyurl dot com /da97nb
CSS can be found at tinyurl dot com /de9tqe

Help! And thank you!

Forgive me if this is a very obvious thing, but does such a thing exisit like:

input:focused

(based upon a:hover, a:visited etc.) I want to have an effect like you have an Mac OS where you get a coloured ring round the currently selected box. Using google is useless because I don't know what this feature of CSS is called!

Thanks for your help,

Tom

Hi all

I just want to change the colour of the dot on a ul/li list. Can anybody tell me how I can do that in CSS?

Cheers.

how can i create a halo shadow around the textbox on focus?
an example can be seen at http://www.macromedia.com when you click on the search box, it changes its style. thanks for the help in advance.

i have the following to change the background but not the outlines
<input type="text" name="textfield" onblur="toggleColor(this)"
onfocus="toggleColor(this)" class="normal">

function toggleColor(objElement)
{
if (objElement.className=='normal')
objElement.className='focus';
else
objElement.className='normal';
}

.normal { background-color: #cccccc; color: #000000; }

I'm reading around, wondering how I get form fields to change style and the text that is inserted in the form fields to change style (font/size)..

Is there an easy way to do this?

for example

http://member.classifieds.com/userjoin.php

the entry boxes are smaller, and the text is smaller.. I looked at their code and I'm not quite sure how they achieved this.

Hello,

I am trying to style my form inputs, textareas and selects as follows:


input, select, textarea {
border: solid 6px #ECF0F9;
color: #252525;
font: normal 0.75em Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
padding: 0.25em;
width: 520px;
}


I am having a few problems:


Firefox 3:


1. The select is narrow than the inputs and textareas;
2. When I click the select the dropdown borders look different ...
some are thinner than others.


IE 7:


1. The select is narrow than the inputs and textareas;
2. The border of the select is not changed.


What am I doing wrong and how can I make the appearance of a Select
look the same across various browsers?

Can I do this with JQuery?

Thanks,
Miguel

Hi is there anyway of making the height of the textbox smaller. I know you an change the width of it

Thanks

I am trying to add sub navigation to my footer area. I tried codes below but didnt work. http://www.pearl.ru/isdunyasi/

#footer {
width:800px;
font-size:10px;
color:#aaaaaa;
}
#footer .navigation{
width:800px;
background:#aaaaaa;
}
#footer .navigation li{
float:left;
list-style-type:none;
border-right:1px solid #ffffff;
white-space:nowrap;
}
#footer .navigation li a{
display:block;
padding:0 5px;
font-size:12px;
text-transform:uppercase;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
#footer p {
padding:0;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
}

Hello,

I am applying a style to a anchor tag. This anchor is created by an
ASP.NET page and is inside a list item.
I know the style is working because I applied it to the anchor in a
page that has only this.

.Test
{
background-color: #101010;
color: #E2E2E2;
padding: 4px 10px 6px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
font: normal 1.2em Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
}

<a href="Test.aspx" class="Test">Testing</a>

However, when I apply it to the anchor inside the list item I don't
get the bottom margin unless I add "display: block" to the style! But
then the background is extended 100%.

I don't know what is going on. I tried everything I could think off.
Here is the code where the Test style is giving me problems:
...
<li>
<label for="tbMessage" id="lMessage">Mensagem<span
class="Required">*</span></label>
<textarea name="tbMessage" rows="4" cols="20" id="tbMessage"></
textarea>
</li>
<li>
<a id="lbSubmit" class="Test"
href='javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ctl00$cphSite$cfSendContact$lbSubmit",
"", true, "ContactForm", "", false, true))'>
Send
</a>
</li>
</ul>

Any idea why this is happening?

All I am trying to do is to make my anchor look as a simple button.

Thank You,
Miguel

I am displaying a Google feed on my site through an asp script that converts RSS to HTML. There is no room for images where the feed is, so we just take them out by setting display: none;. That solves one issue, but then the text is way off. I'm having trouble acessing the text after the picture so I can use absolute positioning and keep it left justified. See http://www.lsuhospitals.org/Hospitals/Bogalusa_Med_Center.htm for an example.

Here's the RSS to HTML source tabbed out as best I could. This conversion isn't perfect and still needs some work. What's in red is what I need CSS access to, but only when an image is present. Whew!

Code:

<html><head><title></title><LINK REL="StyleSheet" HREF="../../StyleSheets/HCSD.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="screen"><style>body{margin: 0px; padding:0px; background-color:white;}</style></head><body>

<table width="140px" class="BodyTextHeading1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	<tr>
		<td>
			BMC IN THE NEWS
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

<table>
	<tr>
		<td class="rsscontainer">
		<br>

		<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7>
			<tr>
				<td valign=top>
					<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.edailynews.info/articles/2007/01/04/news/news04.txt&cid=0&ei=RKemRfDvO8qMsgGgwJmXDQ">
					Two perish in accidents  as 2006 comes to close
					</a>

					<br>
					<font size=-1>
					<font color=#6f6f6f>
					Bogalusa Daily News,&nbsp;LA&nbsp;-
					</font>
					<nobr>
					Jan 4, 2007
					</nobr>
					</font>
					<br>

					<font size=-1>
					Bonnett said the incident is still being investigated and 					oxicology tests are still being conducted. The initial  911 call 					was made to WPSO and came from the LSU-<b>Bogalusa Medical 					Center</b> where Johnson had been brought by private vehicle.
					</font>
					<br>
		</table>
				</td>
			</tr>

	<tr>

		<td class="rsscontainer"><br>

		<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7>

		<tr>

			<td width=80 align=center valign=top>

				<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1i-0&fd=R&url=http://www.edailynews.info/articles/2007/01/02/news/news04.txt&cid=0&ei=RKemRfDvO8qMsgGgwJmXDQ">

				<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=lpU8D0_YzTEJ&imgurl=www.edailynews.info/content/articles/2007/01/02/news/news04.jpg width=79 height=37 alt="" border=1>

				</a>

			</td>

			<td valign=top>

				<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://www.edailynews.info/articles/2007/01/02/news/news04.txt&cid=0&ei=RKemRfDvO8qMsgGgwJmXDQ">Tim Augustine, Regina Runfalo to reign over MCCA XXVII festivities</a>

				<br>
				<font size=-1>
				<font color=#6f6f6f>
				Bogalusa Daily News,&nbsp;LA&nbsp;-
				</font> <nobr>Jan 2, 2007
				</nobr>
				</font>
				<br>
				<font size=-1>Runfalo, a registered nurse, serves as assistant 				administrator of LSU <b>Bogalusa Medical Center</b>, where she has been 				employed 26 years.
				</font>
				<br>
		</table>
			</td>
				</tr>
</table>

And here are the relavent styles that I created. I have consulted my book "The Web Professional's Handbook" by glasshaus publishing. They have a decent CSS section (selectors on pgs. 96-97), but to no avail.

Code:

.rsscontainer {
	font-family: Verdana;
	color: black;
	width: 140px;
	background-color: white;
	padding: 0 0 0 0;
	margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

.rsscontainer table tr td font{
	font-size: 10px;
	line-height: 1.3;
	}

.rsscontainer table tr td a img {
	display:none;
	}

.rsscontainer table tr td a {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #461D7C;
	text-decoration: underline;
	}
	
.rsscontainer table tr td a:hover {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #7549B1;
	}
.rsscontainer table tr td a:visitied {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #7549B1;
	text-decoration: underline;
	}

Hello,

I am creating a simple navigation bar using a list.
My anchor tags inside each list item have a background and margin. The problem is they are overlapping.
I then added to the li tag margin-top: 20px.
The problem is that the bottom background of the last element disappears.

I think I might doing something wrong on my styling because when I fix something, something else gets wrong.

Could someone, please, help me out?

HTML:

<ul id="wmNavigation" class="Bar">
<li>
<a title="Page1" href="http://www.name.com/page1">Page1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a title="Page2" href="http://www.name.com/page1">Page2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a title="Page3" href="http://www.name.com/page1">Page3</a>
</li>
<li>
<a title="Page4" href="http://www.name.com/page1">Page4</a>
</li>
</ul>

CSS:

ul.Bar {}

ul.Bar li
{
font: normal 1.2em Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 0.1em;
margin-top: 20px;
}

ul.Bar li a
{
background-color: #202020;
color: #E2E2E2;
padding: 4px 10px 6px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
}

ul.Bar li a:link , ul.Bar li a:visited {}
ul.Bar li a:hover, ul.Bar li a:active, ul.Bar li a:focus
{
background-color: #303030;
}

Thanks,
Miguel

Hi All,

I have 2 questions, 1st one is I have a caption above my table, which sits on the extreme left. I also want to have the word 'Download' in the caption but want this to sit on the extreme right any ideas?

Also I have lots of data to display so have designed up my css so all the table look the same. The only issue is that because some of the headings aren't very long some of the data is moving onto the next line, do I have to manually set a column width in pixels/percent inside every single table? Or can I add something to my css?

This is how my caption looks...

[code]
<table width="700" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<caption>MEMBERS - SEARCH Download Details</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col" class="left">NAME</th>
<th scope="col">DOB</th>
<th scope="col">ADDRESS</th>
<th scope="col">PHONE</th>
<th scope="col" class="right">MOBILE</th>
</tr>
</thead>