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CSS - Trying To Get Floated Divs To Extend Height:100%
I have a 3 column layout. Each column may contain one or two articles with a border at the bottom of each article. The There are two borders between the three columns.
I'm trying to use floated divs as containers for each of the columns, with a left-hand border in the center and right columns. You can see a non-css example at: http://www.sananselmopreschool.org/pilot/ Well, no matter what I do, I haven't been able to get the column containers to extend to the bottom of the page in IE. If I set them to height:100%, they seem to shoot out to 150% or so. body { height:100%; padding:0; margin:0; background-color:#ECF6DD; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11px; color: #707070; text-align:center; border: 1px solid purple; } .body_container { position: relative; height:100%; width:100%; left: 0px; border: 1px groove darkred; } .body_position_center { height:100%; position:relative; width:780px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border: 1px solid #999 ; } .header { padding:0; margin:0; position:relative; width:766px; height:195px; } .leftblock { position: relative; height:100%; border-left:3px dotted #228B22; float:left; width:250px; } .centerblock { position: relative; height:100%; border-left:3px dotted #228B22; float:left; width:250px; } .rightblock { position: relative; height:100%; border-left:3px dotted #228B22; float:left; width:250px; } .blockcontents { padding-top:14px; padding-bottom:14px; border-bottom : 3px dotted #228B22; text-align:left; } Any suggestions would be appreciated. I haven't used much javascript, so unless I can see an example, it might be tough to work out a javascript solution. Similar TutorialsHere's the site in Question: http://www.winchps.vic.edu.au It's a standard fixed width floated DIV columns with a wrapper. One thing it does have is a second DIV inside both columns to display the Gradient background over the top of the repeated background. It works perfect in Firefox & IE7 (with a tweak) but IE6 mkes the sidebar nested div drop below the original sidebar DIV click here for a screenshot for those lucky enough not to have IE6. Here's the CSS code for the basic layout: Code:
body {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 0px 60px 0px;
padding:0px;
border: 0;
line-height: 2;
}
#header {
width: 802px;
}
#wrapper {
width: 802px;
margin:0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 auto;
background: url(images/bodybg.jpg) center repeat-y;
}
#content {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#maingrad {
background: url(images/winchcontentgrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
padding: 10px;
}
#main {
width: 589px;
float: right;
background: url(images/winchcontentbg.jpg) repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
}
#mainstop {
width: 589px;
float: right;
background: url(images/winchcontentbg.jpg) repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
border-bottom: solid 1px #000;
font-size: 10px;
}
#sidebargrad {
background: url(images/winchsidebargrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
padding: 10px 5px 0px 10px;
}
#sidebar {
width: 200px;
float: left;
background: url(images/winchsidebg.jpg) repeat;
line-height: 2;
font-size: 14px;
border-left: solid 1px #000;
border-right: solid 1px #000;
}
I obviously need to put a conditional comment in there, same for what I did for the minor IE7 tweak, but I'm struggling to suss out what's causing it, I haven't found the specific issue on any of the regular sites (PIE etc). Anyone got any ideas? Hello, I have been working on this for over 2 days and learning plenty in the process. Yet, I have come to a roadblock. I need the footer, which is outside the main container, to extend to the height of the page. The problem is that the page height changes with each page, and will change in the future, as the info for the pages will be pulled from a database. Please have a look at the footer on my site and tell me what might be a good solution. Here's the site: http://www.caillouette.com/FriendsCSS2/index.php thanks -Sean Hello, In CSS is there a way to tell an object to extend the full height and width of its parameters without specifying height and using absolute positioning? Thanks, Andy Well, I'm trying to make a comments-page for a certain thing, and I can't get the image to stop going over the bottom of the div, without using the min-height property. Can someone help?
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<h2>Posting on 2005-02-10: February 10, 2005 in <a href="refresh.php" id="title">XMLBlog</a></h2>
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<p class="dream">I can only remember two things... That there were a whole bunch of people from my school playing baritones, which was kind of creepy in this case <em class="entry">and</em> that my section from school in real life and I played this freaky, nonexistent Zelda games. One was for a calculator I had only owned in the dream, and it was spectacular!
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<p class="normal">I brought my "newphonium" to school today.</p>
<p class="normal">We had a pretty normal session in Jazz. <em class="entry">Someone actually got a trombone solo.</em></p>
<p class="normal">Our teacher was back. The entire first half of the period going over our homework. <em class="entry">We learned that dropping a penny off of the <strong class="entry">Space Needle</strong> is very dangerous, since even a baseball would get going at 120 MPH.</em> Later, we began how to calculate things dealing with gravity with a position other than 0 and a velocity over 0.</p>
<p class="happy">We didn't do much in Japanese. All we really did was read Katakana and finish our puzzle. <em class="entry">A few of us found new words.</em> I also told our sensei that my real Japanese same from my ancestors is <ruby><rb>たけした</rb><rt>take****a</rt></ruby>. During resource, I looked over this book with a couple of friends of mine and their friend. <em class="entry">It was so funny, too!</em></p>
<p class="normal">In Health, we continued our lecture on alcohol. <em class="entry">There were some inspiring articles and poems on the subject.</em></p>
<p class="happy"><span class="normal">Class started off with a lock-down. <em class="entry">I used this time to complete a gravity-based program for physics.</em></span> to Due to my premature completion of the paragraph that was due at the end of the period, I just listened to music and read for the majority of English. <em class="entry">A big guy in the <info popup="State of Fear">book I'm reading</info> died.</em></p>
<p class="sad">Before actually eating, I wandered a bit. <em class="entry">It made it so I didn't have to carry my backpack around wherever I went.</em></p>
<p class="normal">We continued on proofs. <em class="entry">It took a bit of effort to do.</em> <span class="happy">Still, we finished the investigation.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span class="happy">I got my new euphonium for class.<em class="entry">It sounded very nice.</em></span> Though, for a majority of the time I didn't do anything with my section, due to his preoccupation with a couple of other kids.</p>
<p class="happy">I got a ride home</p>
<p class="normal">I had a practice session with my mom, which wasn't the most successful.</p>
<p class="happy">Once done with my homework, I took a two-hour nap.</p>
<p class="dream">The entire thing revolved around this country area that had tiny roads and a <info popup="The salmon eggs would get bigger, then would grow spikes and split apart before returning to their grating to mature more">freaky salmon farm</info>. Also, I remember psychically communicating with my section from Band. <span class="hider">I actually cried over the idea of losing him, but I didn't have tears when I awoke.</span> Also, my old friend, who is a freshman now, was mentioned.</p>
<p class="happy">The dream gave me the idea to call him up. <em class="entry">Apparently, the call woke him up.</em> We talked about how our lives were going, along with school. <em class="entry">Apparently, the school banned people from using their calculators. How could they!? He also told me that some kids were goofing around during Breakout library time.</em> We scheduled a time to meet and talk about some more things. <em class="entry">I could show him Linux.</em></p>
<p class="happy"><strong class="entry">I fixed the comments system!!</strong> <em class="entry">Have fun posting.</em></p>
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I am new to css, and am eager to build the equivalent of a work-week calendar using only css. Basically, a five item table without using table tags. I have succeeded with firefox, but for some reason I am getting an odd reordering of the div elements in IE. I will post the html and the css below, and could really use some pointers. I am sure it has something to do with the float commands, but am not even sure what to call this problem to search for it! Here's the html page <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="killmer.css"> <title>Killmer's Science Page - Chemistry Assignments</title> </head> <body > <div class="left"> <h1><a href="chemcalendar.html" class="one">Chemistry Calendar</a></h1> </div> <div class="left"> <h1>Chemistry Textbook Online</h1> </div> <div class="left"> <h1>Chemistry Today Calendar</h1> </div> <div class="left"> <h1>Chemistry Today Textbook Online</h1> </div> <div class="right"> <img src="./images/logo.jpg" ></img> </div> <div class="right"> <h2>Chemistry Daily Assignments</h2>. </div> <div class="right"> <div class="monday"> <h1>MONDAY</h1> </div> <div class="tuesday"> <h1>TUESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="wednesday"> <h1>WEDNESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="thursday"> <h1>THURSDAY</h1> </div> <div class="friday"> <h1>FRIDAY</h1> </div> <div class="monday"> <h1>MONDAY</h1> </div> <div class="tuesday"> <h1>TUESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="wednesday"> <h1>WEDNESDAY</h1> </div> <div class="thursday"> <h1>THURSDAY</h1> </div> <div class="friday"> <h1>FRIDAY</h1> </div> </div> </body> </html> And here's the css a.one:link {color:black; text-decoration: none;} a.one:visited {color:black; text-decoration: none;} a.one:hover {color:red; text-decoration: none;} a.one:active {color:black; text-decoration: none;} body { background: url(./images/backgroundblend.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-color:black; } h1 { color:black; font-family:"times new roman",serif; font-size:100%; } h2 { color:silver; font-family:"times new roman",serif; } div.left { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:150px; font-family:courier, monospace; float:left; clear:left; margin:5px; } div.right { margin-left:250px; margin-top:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-botton:0px; padding:0px; } div.monday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px; float:left; clear:left; } div.tuesday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left;} div.wednesday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left; } div.thursday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left; } div.friday { border:black; padding:3px; border-style:outset; border-width:2px; background-color:silver; width:15%; font-family:courier, monospace; margin:1px 1px 1px 1px; float:left; } Thanks for the time! Hey all, please check this page: http://www.trshady.com/eminemdownloads/ You'll see for floated grev divs. These are working well but the red sentence underneath is not adding margin like it should and it seems the block element is starting in line with the 1st floated div when it shouldn't as the width is too large. I'm unable to use clear as that would place the red sentence below the left hand menu which is floated.Any idea what I could do here? The only solution I see is to wrap the four boxes within a div and add a height larger then all boxes, but there must be a straight forward method. Cheers The problem is that I have a wrapper div that will contain two "boxes", one that has a white background one that has a black background. I want the white background box to be to the left of the black background box, but inside the wrapper div which has a red background. It works just fine in IE (which surprised me) but Firefox is doing something really strange. The black background box starts all the way to the left of the wrapper with the white background box on top of it. Not only that, but the text for the black background box starts below the white background box. I'm new to inserting code, but I'll give it a try: 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>linking to style sheets 2</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #ccccff;
}
h1 {
font: bold 20px arial, tahoma, verdana;
color: #6633ff;
border-bottom: 1px solid #444444;
margin: 25px 0;
padding: 5px;
}
p {
font: 15px verdana;
line-height: 1.5em;
color: #000077;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.leftbox {
width: 300px;
background-color: #ffffff;
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px 10px;
float: left;
}
.rightbox {
width: 300px;
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px 10px;
background-color: #000000;
}
.wrapper {
width: 800px;
background-color: #ff0000;
}
.end {
clear: both;
}
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</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="leftbox">
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Cras pede sem, lobortis tempus, sodales sed, vehicula vitae,
lorem. Fusce nec massa id erat lobortis semper. Vestibulum
dignissim orci et orci. Fusce quis tortor eu sapien gravida
pretium. Sed vel lacus. Aliquam erat volutpat. Pellentesque
suscipit imperdiet nibh. Vivamus ut turpis. In leo. Quisque
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</div>
<div class="rightbox">
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Cras pede sem, lobortis tempus, sodales sed, vehicula vitae,
lorem. Fusce nec massa id erat lobortis semper. Vestibulum
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pretium. Sed vel lacus. Aliquam erat volutpat. Pellentesque
suscipit imperdiet nibh. Vivamus ut turpis. In leo. Quisque
augue. </p>
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You'll see that I've floated the white background div, but again, this is making that div sit on top of the black background div. Can anybody help? P.S. I know this isn't really pleasing to the eye, but it's just for demonstration purposes Hi, I'm trying to redesign my website to be CSS and XHTML compliant. While I've managed it and everything is almost perfect, IE has one very minor glitch. The page is http://hiveworldterra.ibboard.co.uk/HWTv2.html My 3-col design is based on (and modified from) a 3 col layout I found on the net (there is a credit in the CSS of the page).IE displays everything perfectly and even resizes horizontally without a problem, but as soon as you try to resize vertically, the left column will often overlay the center column. Refreshing the page without resizing the window fixes it and resizing the page horizontally fixes it. As per usual, Firefox is perfectly fine, no matter how you resize the page (until you get down to rediculously small, at which point its to be expected!) It doesn't seem to be a width issue, as I've got a 1280x1024 monitor at work and at full width on one monitor or down at 500px wide there are only a handful of vertical sizes where the left column doesn't overlap, but every time it does overlap then if you resize horizontally by a single pixel then it fixes itself. Anyone have any ideas or IE only hacks (preferably neat ones!) to stop this minorly annoying behaviour? From problems I had while modifying the original layout, it almost seems as if IE is losing the float on the left column. Thanks I've been unable to replicate this issue in IE, but it's plaguing all other "free" browsers I use (Firefox, Galeon, etc.). Take a look at http://www.skudd.com/blog/view/1370 for example. The bar on the left is floated left, as are the label elements in my comment form. In the li of each form item, I have a br with the clear property set to "left". What I'm trying to accomplish is I want to clear the previous label, so as to prevent the "stair step" effect. Why would "clear: left;" in this case cause the element to clear everything that has been floated left? What should I try in place of it? i have 2 divs one is a navigation bar, the other is the pages main contents. the contents and navigation links changes from page to page so i need a method so if the content is long, the navigation will stretch down long too to be the same height of the content, and the same thing vice versa. how do i go about doing this? Hi all! After trying more then a few things I'm about to give up, so I hope someone here has the answer. The problem is the following: * A website contains 3 DIV columns and an header at the top, this is all inside a single wrapper DIV which centers the webpage. * All three columns should have the same length as the longest column. * When the content in the 3 DIV columns is shorter then the height of your browser window, the DIV elements should fill-out until the bottom of the screen. Point 2 is doable. Point 3 is doable. But the combination of point 2 and 3 seems quite hard. Hope someone has an idea . Thanks! Here's the template I'm working on: http://dhost.info/justusvizslas/template.php Here's my problem: I'm trying to create a centered, two-column layout with a header and a footer, sort of like the tutorial he http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=7 I've got everything working correctly and it looks fine in IE. However, in FireFox, the container div doesn't automatically adjust its height to be the same as the height of the divs inside. Instead, I have to set the height at a certain number of pixils to even get the container div to show up. When I do that, in IE the container div defaults to the same height as the larger of the two inner divs, but in FireFox the container div just stays at whatever pixil height I specified. That becomes problematic because I don't plan on having all my pagecontent divs with the same height. Any insight will be greatly appreciated. I've been looking at this for hours and haven't gotten it to work like it should. Here's the relevant code too: CSS Code: #container {
width:792px;
height:50px;
margin: auto auto;
color:#000000;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:url(design/menuimage.gif);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
#navigation {
width:125px;
height:auto;
padding:0px;
float:left;
margin-top:auto;
vertical-align:top
}
#pagecontent {
width:667px;
height:auto;
padding:0px;
float:left;
margin-top:auto;
color:#000000;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
text-align:center
}
PHP Code: <div id="container"> <div id="navigation"><?php include "nav.php"; ?></div> <div id="pagecontent"> <br />Some more content here<br /> </div> </div> Again, thank you in advance for any help with this. If you're stumped and think it should work as-is, go ahead and go to the actual template I'm working on (first http link in this post) and look at it in IE and in FireFox to note the difference. What I have: I have a <div id="content"> that contains the main content of the site. In this <div> I have two other <div>s that are arranged in columns, using float. The left column forms the Navigation for the site and is surrounded by a black border. Here is the problem: If the content on the right is small, the border on the left stretches from top to bottom (since the left div controls the height). However, when there is a lot of content on the right, the border on the left only surrounds the content of the left div and leaves space underneath the bottom border-line. My question: Is there a way to "stretch" the left div so the border touches the top of its parent div on top and the bottom of its parent div on the bottom? Or in other words: Can I force the left div to have the same height as the right div? Here is an example of what I have right now (before tackling the problem): CSS: Code:
#content {
width: 800px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#contentNav {
width: 140px;
float: left;
border: thin solid black;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#contentMain {
width: 600px;
float: right;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
HTML: Code: <div id="content"> <div id="contentNav"> <a href="">Link1</a><br /> <a href="">Link2</a><br /> <a href="">Link3</a><br /> </div> <div id="contentMain"> <p>Here comes a lot of text that spans over many lines. </div> </div> Hey guys, so I've cleaned up my code a bit. Read up on semantic coding. I think it's a bit better. Anyways, I'm trying to make my right and left content div's the same height. I've tried the faux technique, and it doesn't seem to work. Anyways, I was wondering if it's worth the 5 hours of headache to avoid using tables to setup the layout? I think it would be nice to have it in DIV's, that way if I want to switch left to right, and vice versa, it would be a breeze. Also, for the content, I'd like the left (main) side to be the remainder of the page width, and I'd like the right side to be 260px. If it works better, I wouldn't mind having the main part 77% of the width and the right side be 23%. Anyways, here's my code: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict 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> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Beta</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @import url("layout.css"); --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <!-- Site Head --> <div id="header"> <div id="banner"></div> <div id="head_user_container"> <div id="head_avatar"><img src="img/layout/avatar_test.jpg" alt="User Avatar" /></div> <div id="head_user_info">Welcome <a href="">Mike Jensen</a> (<a href="">Sign Out</a>)<br /><a href="">Edit Profile</a><br /><a href="">Message Center</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- End Site Head --> <!-- Menu --> <div id="menu"> </div> <!-- End Menu --> <!-- Start Top Ad Banner --> <div id="top_ad"> </div> <!-- End Top Ad Banner --> <!-- Main Content Container --> <div id="content_container"> <div id="main_content"> eh... </div> <div id="right_content">right content <br />yes sir</div> </div> <!-- End Main Content Container --> </div> </body> </html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> and heres my css: Code:
/*Basic Elements*/
body {
font-family: "trebuchet MS", calibri, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #303030;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding: 0 20px;
background-color: #d8d8d8;
}
p {
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: justify;
font-family: "trebuchet MS", calibri, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13pt;
line-height: 10pt;
}
a:link {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #417cb3;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #417cb3;
}
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #5e9cd5;
}
acronym {
font-weight: bold;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #417cb3;
}
/*Specific DIVs*/
#container {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
padding: 0px;
max-width: 1204px;
min-width: 950px;
height: 100%;
clear: both;
text-align: left;
position: relative;
}
/*- Banner -*/
#header{
background-color: #417cb3;
height: 74px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
float: left;
border-left: solid 1px #496986;
border-right: solid 1px #496986;
}
#banner{
background-image: url(img/layout/not_yet.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
float: left;
width: 284px;
height: 74px;
}
/*End Banner*/
/*Head User Info*/
#head_user_container{
background-image: url(img/layout/logged_info_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
clear: both;
height: 66px;
position: absolute;
right: 4px;
top: 4px;
}
#head_avatar{
background-image: url(img/layout/ban_avatar_bg.jpg);
height: 66px;
width: 64px;
float: left;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-top: 1px;
padding-left: 1px;
}
#head_user_info {
background-image: url(img/layout/logged_info_end.jpg);
background-position: right 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
min-width: 225px;
max-width: 500px;
float: left;
height: 66px;
margin-left: -1px;
font-family: "trebuchet MS", calibri, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #FFFFFF;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 3px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
#head_user_info a:link {
text-decoration: none;
color: #5dbdfa;
}
#head_user_info a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #5dbdfa;
}
#head_user_info a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #7fc9f8;
}
#head_user_end {
float: left;
background-image: url(img/layout/logged_info_end.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 66px;
width: 3px;
}
/*End Head User Info*/
/*Menu*/
#menu{
background-color: #417cb3;
background-image: url(img/layout/menu_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
height: 34px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #94aec5;
border-right: solid 1px #94aec5;
}
/*End Menu*/
/* Top Ad Banner*/
#top_ad{
background-color: #ededed;
height: 109px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #94aec5;
border-right: solid 1px #94aec5;
}
/*End Top Ad Banner*/
/* Main Content */
#content_container{
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #94aec5;
border-right: solid 1px #94aec5;
}
#main_content{
background-color: #fff;
clear: both;
margin-right: 260px;
}
#right_content{
width: 260px;
background-color: #ffead1;
position: absolute;
right: -1px;
top: 217px;
}
/* End Main Content */
Here's the site, and what it looks like right now: http://24.16.238.252/sd_beta/working/layout2/ Anyways, thanks for all your help guys! If you need more info, let me know! Hey everyone, I'm having troubles with some DIVs. I'm trying to divide a page into 4 equal sections. If I remove the doctype declaration, it looks right in Firefox 3.5.2 In ie it is all sorts of crazy. 100% height of the inner objects seems to be referencing the window height and not the parent elements height. I'm more concerned about Firefox anyway. I expect IE to require some hacks. If I set an absolute size to the body, in px, everything works fine. But if I have the body set to %, things shrink. I tried creating a wrapper div and setting it's height/width to 50% but that didn't work either. I tried to find a solution on kravvitz and bon rouge's sites but I didn't find anything that was 100% fluid. Any ideas? HTML4Strict Code: Original - HTML4Strict Code <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <style> body{ width:100%; height:100%; padding:0; margin:0; color:#ffffff; background-color:#000000; } object{ float:left; clear:both; width:80%; height:100%; background-color:#cccccc; } .section{ float:left; clear:none; width:48%; height:48%; margin:1%; background-color:#333333; display:block; position:relative; } .panel{ float:left; clear:none; width: 16%; height:96%; margin:2% 2%; background-color:#cccccc; } #container{ float:left; clear:both; width:100%; height:100%; min-height:100%; background } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>
I had my css working fine and then I decided to change the layout and I almost have the new style sheet finished. However, I am trying to divide my header field into 2 columns (each 50% of the width), the left most column will have my banner and the right most column will be split in half (each half being 50% of total height), with 2 rows, one for a search field and the other for my main site navigation. However, the 2 rows are not taking up the 50% of the height that I would like for them to take up. Any ideas as to why? I tried defining min and max height, but that didn't work... Here's my css: Code:
/* CSS Document */
h1 {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
color:#000000;
}
h2{
font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
color:#000000;
}
h4{
font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color:#000000;
}
/*============================ Begin Layout Structure ============================*/
#wrapper { /* main container for everything */
width: 1024px;
min-height: 748px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #ffffff;
overflow: hidden; /* contain inner floats */
position: relative; /* establish the containing block */
}
#accounttypeselector { /* select personal or business to affect page display */
height: 25px;
background: #0000FF;
}
#servicesbar { /* container for user services */
height: 30px; /* 30px should be adequate height */
width: 100%;
}
#servicesbar-services { /* container for user services once logged in */
float: left; /* push this to left side */
width: 75%; /* want it to be 75% of the servicesbar width */
height: 100%; /* since servicesbar container height is 30px should be 100% of this */
background: #ff00ff;
}
#servicesbar-login { /* for user login and logout - contained inside servicesbar */
float: left; /* should push this just beside services */
width: 25%;
height: 100%; /* since servicesbar container height is 30px should be 100% of this */
background: #8B2323;
}
#header { /*header for the site - will contain logo, search, and main navigation */
float: left;
width: 1024px;
height: 100px;
}
#header-logo { /* will include site banner/logo - will be located on left side */
background: #ff0000;
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
#header-rightcol { /* column for search and main nav */
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
#header-rightcol-search {
min-height: 50%;
max-height: 50%;
background: #7FFFD4;
}
#header-rightcol-navmain { /* navbar that will be located below header */
min-height: 50%;
max-height:-50%;
background: #21ee00;
}
#bodywrapper { /* wrapper for main content - will have 3 columns here */
width: 1024px;
height: 100%;
padding-top: 10;
}
#bodywrapper-navleft { /* sub nav to be lcoated in left column of bodywrapper */
width: 15%;
background: #8B8378;
float: left;
}
#bodywrapper-main { /* main content to be located in middle column of bodywrapper */
width: 60%;
background: #66CDAA;
float: left;
}
#bodywrapper-news { /* news column to be located in right column of bodywrapper */
width: 25%;
background: #8A2BE2;
float: left;
}
#footer { /* footer to be located at bottom of wrapper */
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: 1014px; /* will be 1024 with padding */
height: 20px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
and here's my basic html Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="test2.css" /> </head> <body> <div id= "wrapper" > <div id= "accounttypeselector" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet </div> <div id= "servicesbar" > <div id= "servicesbar-services" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</div> <div id= "servicesbar-login" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div> </div> <div id= "header" > <div id= "header-logo" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.</div> <div id= "header-rightcol" > <div id= "header-rightcol-search" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> <div id= "header-rightcol-navmain" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> </div> </div> <div id= "bodywrapper" > <div id= "bodywrapper-navleft" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem. </div> <div id= "bodywrapper-main" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem. </div> <div id= "bodywrapper-news" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem. </div> </div> </div> <div id= "footer" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> </body> </html> Thanks in advance and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I was experimenting this weekend with some CSS 'page-sculpting', using small divs to make shapes, etc. I used FireFox as my testbed and of course everything went smoothly. I switched over to IE6 and saw that every div had a minimum height-it looked like 1em. I specified height and width on all <div>. Some used borders, some did not. An example would be: PHP Code: <div style="height:2px; width:3px; background:green" ></div> Has anyone else come across this or know of a fix? I haven't tried <span> or other tags (I will...just thought of that), tho I suspect they'll behave the same. Any help appreciated. NotGoddess Hello, not sure I know how to explain this. I have a page that I want to divide in two parts. To do so I am using floats. The problem is that the content in one div is not the same as the content in the other div and therefore the height of the two floated div is different from one another. However, I want that the div's have a border that seperates them and I would like this border to be from top to bottom of the containing div regardless of which of the two floated div is the highest. I could do this with javascript but I would like to know if there is some pure html/css option. Here is my example; Code:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.main {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 800px;
border: 2px solid red;
}
.wrap:after{
content: ".";
display: block;
position:relative;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
.wrap{
display: inline-block;
}
/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
* html .wrap{height: 1%;}
div.wrap{display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */
.left {
float: left;
width: 100px;
}
.right {
float: left;
width: 680px;
border: 10px solid blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="main">
<div class="wrap">
<div class="left">My left div has more.<br/>more..<br /><br />more...<br /><br /><br />lines then the right one</div>
<div class="right">My Right div has only one line but need border till down there ...</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As you can see in the example the border of the right div does not go down till the bottom border of the main div. |
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