CSS - Basic Positioning Question...

I am new to this stuff started php about a month ago

now i started with this css nav menu last week and can not figure out how to get the thing in the center of the page
also
in FF the nav menu is fine just not in the right location
in IE the bottom half of the nav menu sticks out one inch past the top half

here is my css

PHP Code:
#divNav {
    background: transparent url(../images/bk-nav.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    height: 80px;
    width: 800px;
}

#nav {
    position: relative;
    top: 55px;
    height: 80px;
    width: 800px;
}

#nav li ul, #nav li ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

#nav a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

#nav li { /*float the main list items*/
    margin: 0;
    float: left;
    display: block;
    padding-right: 15px;
}

#nav li ul {
    display: none;
}

#nav li.off ul, #nav li.on ul  { /*put the subnav below*/
    position: absolute;
    top: 25px;
    left: 0;
    padding-top: 15px;
    background: #224d6f;
    height: 28px;
    width: 740px;
    padding-left: 60px;
}

#nav li.on ul {
    background: #f90;
}

#nav li.on:hover ul, #nav li.over ul { /*for ie*/
    background: #224d6f;
}

#nav li a {
    color: #224d6f;
    font-weight: bold;
    display: block;
    width: 93px;
    padding: 0;
}

#nav li.on a {
    color: #f90;
}

#nav li.on ul a, #nav li.off ul a {
    border: 0;
    float: left; /*ie doesn't inherit the float*/
    color: #f90;
    width: auto;
    margin-right: 15px;
}

#nav li.on:hover ul a, #nav li.over ul li a { /*for ie - the specificity is necessary*/
    background: #224d6f;
}

#nav li.on ul {
    display: block;
}

#nav li.off:hover ul, #nav li.over ul {
    display: block;
    z-index: 6000;
}

#nav li.off a:hover, #nav li.on a:hover { 
    color: #f90;
}

/*do the image replacement*/

#nav li span {
    position: absolute;
    left: -9384px;
}

#liRenaissance a, #liArtNouveau a, #liModern a, #liPostModern a, #liDigital a {
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    height: 26px;
    background: url(../images/bk-dropdownMap.gif) no-repeat; /*contains all hover states*/
}

/*first, put the initial states in place*/

#liRenaissance a {
background-position: 0 0;
}

#liArtNouveau a {
background-position: -102px 0;
}

#liModern a {
background-position: -204px 0;
}

#liPostModern a {
background-position: -306px 0;
}

#liDigital a {
background-position: -408px 0;
}

/*active area - for this demo - the code could be based on a body class, and probably work better.*/

#liModern.on a {
background-position: -204px -37px;
} /*add selectors for the other li's and background-positions*/

/*hover states*/

#liRenaissance a:hover, #liRenaissance:hover a, #liRenaissance.over a {
background-position: 0 -73px;
}

#liArtNouveau a:hover, #liArtNouveau:hover a, #liArtNouveau.over a {
background-position: -102px -73px;
}

#liModern a:hover, #liModern:hover a, #liModern.over a {
background-position: -204px -73px;
}

#liPostModern a:hover, #liPostModern:hover a, #liPostModern.over a {
background-position: -306px -73px;
}

#liDigital a:hover, #liDigital:hover a, #liDigital.over a {
background-position: -408px -73px;
}

/*subnav formatting*/

#nav li.off ul a, #nav li.on ul a {
display: block;
background: #224d6f;
color: #fff;
font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
}        

#nav li.on ul a {
background: #f90;
} 

I have a CSS call for all p, like this

p {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;
}

now I want headings to be ital, so I add

p.ital {
font-style: italic;
}

and set the class for some p to ital, and they inherit font family and font size. Now I want further inherit, italBold

p.italBold {
font-weight: bold;
}

That is, I want p.italBold to inherit from p.ital, which inherits from p. How can I do this?

Thanks for your help

CJB

I have this:

all my css files in one subdomain, html.website.com
all my iamges in another subdomain, images.website.com

i link my stylesheet:
<link href="http://html.website.com/html/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and in the CSS:

background:#333 url("../images/bodybg.png") repeat-x fixed top center;

does not work. i have to put the whole domain in there? as far as relative paths, since the image is relative from the path of the location of the stylesheet? so I would think ../images/ should work?

how do you set the width with CSS?

i'd like to have a table with two columns, 70% and 30% with text-align left on the 70%, and text-align right on the 30%. any ideas? thanks.

Argh - I am not very good with CSS (uhm, obviously) and all I am trying to do is change the color of some list items in a blog menu. It's Wordpress, and, it's not as if the blog is important - but this is driving me insane. I've installed Firebug in an effort to figure out what is making these items red - or #333. I can alter the code in Firebug and it gives a visual representation of what the edit would look like. But when I actually make the edit, nothing happens. And I've deleted my browsing history, used every browser, etc. - and I can change everything else! I am trying to change the text color in the right hand menu from red to, well, something else.

The pages is at: http://www.webputzer.com

The .css file looks like this:

Code:

/*
Theme Name: alibi
Theme URI: http://www.blogchemistry.com/
Description: 2 column, with RHS widget sidebar
Version: 1.2
Author: BlogChemistry
Author URI: http://www.blogchemistry.com/
*/



body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;  
color: #333;
text-align:center;
font-family:Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100.1%;
background: #fff;
}


#wrapper2{
border-left: 1px solid #fff;
border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

#wrapper3{
border-left: 1px solid #666;
border-right: 1px solid #666;
}

#wrapper4{

}


#wrapper{
width: 770px;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
text-align:left;
font-size: 85%;
line-height:20px;
background: #fff;
border-left: 3px solid #333;
border-right: 3px solid #333;
}


#header{
padding: 1px 0px;
margin: 0;
background: #ccc;
}	


#header-inner{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}


		
#content{
clear:both;
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px;
background:#fff;
}	

#content-inner{

}

#main {
width: 550px; 
float:left;
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 0 10px 0;
overflow:hidden;
}


#sidebar {
padding: 0;
margin: 0 0 0 560px;
background: #fff;
}


#footer {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 16px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 85%;

}


#footer-inner{
background: #f2f2f2;
height: 50px;
}

#footer p{
margin:0;
padding:15px 0;
}

#navigation{
padding: 5px 15px;

}

#navigation div.fleft{
float:left;
}

#navigation div.fright{ 
float:right;
}

#credit{
text-align:right;
padding: 0 15px;
}

#credit p{
margin:0;
color:#777;
font-size:85%;
}

#credit p a, #credit p a:hover{
color:#999;
font-weight:100;
}

/*  ********** default styles *********** */

p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6{
margin: 10px 0;
padding: 0;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;
}

h1{
	font-size: 190%;
}
h2{
	font-size: 160%;
}
h3{
	font-size: 120%;
}
h4{
	font-size: 130%;
}
h5{
	font-size: 100%;
}
h6{
	font-size: 70%;
}


a{
color:red;
font-weight:800;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover{
color:red;
text-decoration:underline;
}

a img{
border:0px;
}

hr{
height:2px;
margin:5px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}

blockquote{
background: #f4f4f4;
padding: 5px 15px;
margin: 3px 30px;
}

form{
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}

fieldset{
padding:10px;
margin:0;
border:none;
}

legend{
font-weight:800;
}

code{
	font-size: 90%;
	font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	white-space: pre;
}

td{
 vertical-align:top;
}



#tabs {
  float:left;
  width:100%;
  font-size:90%;
	background:#000;
  line-height:18px;
	
	border-top: 1px solid white;
}


    #tabs ul {
	  margin:0;
	  padding:4px 10px 0 10px;
	  list-style:none;
      }
    #tabs li {
      display:inline;
      margin:0;
      padding:0;
      }
    #tabs a {
      float:left;
      margin:0;
      padding:0 0 0 4px;
      text-decoration:none;
      }
    #tabs a span {
      float:left;
      display:block;
      padding:5px 15px 3px 6px;
      color:#FFF;
      }
    /* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
    #tabs a span {float:none;}
    /* End IE5-Mac hack */
    #tabs a:hover span {
      color:#FFF;
      }
    #tabs a:hover {
      background-position:0% -42px;
      }
    #tabs a:hover span {
      background-position:100% -42px;
      }  
	
	


/* Headings */ 

form#searchform2{
display: block;
float:right;
margin: 55px 10px 0px 5px;
}

#header h3{
margin:  0;
padding: 30px 0 0 10px;
}

#header h3 a{
font-weight:100;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 220%;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

#header h2{
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0 5px 10px;
font-weight:100;
font-style:italic;
color: #fff;
font-size: 130%;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

h2#sectiontitle{
font-size:100%;
font-weight: 800;
font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
padding:6px 6px 6px 10px;
margin:8px 10px 5px 10px;
background: #f2f2f2;
color: #444;

}

/* post styles */

.post{
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
padding: 0 5px 5px 5px;
}

.entry{
margin: 0;
padding: 0px 10px 3px 10px;
}

.post h2 {
color: #333;
font-size: 150%;
font-weight:100;
padding: 7px 0 2px 2px;
margin: 10px 0 15px 0;
}


.post h2 a{
color: #333;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:100;
}

.post h2 a:hover{
text-decoration:none;
color: #333;
}

.postmetadata{
font-size:80%;
padding: 1px 8px 1px 5px;
margin: 0;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.postmetadata p{
line-height: 18px;
padding: 0;
margin: 2px 0;
}


.date{
float:left;
text-align:center;
font-weight:800;
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
padding: 0 10px;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
color: #444;
}


.dateDay{
display:block;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 16px;
text-align:center;
}
.dateMonth, .dateYear{
display:block;
font-size: 11px;
padding:0;
line-height: 12px;
}




/*  Comments   */

h3#comments, h3#postcomment{
	font-size: 100%;
	font-family:verdana, sans-serif;
}	

ol#commentlist{
padding: 0 0 0 20px;
font-size: 90%;
list-style-type: none;
}

ol#commentlist li{
	padding: 0px 3px;
	margin: 0;
}

ol#commentlist li p.commentheader{
margin: 0px 0 0px 0;
display: block;
padding: 1px 5px;
}



ul#commentlist{
padding: 0;
margin:0;
list-style-type:none;
}

ul#commentlist li{
	display: block;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0 15px 5px 15px;
	font-size:90%;
	background: #f2f2f2;
}

ul#commentlist p{
margin: 6px 0;
}

ul#commentlist li div.comm{
margin: 1px;
padding: 1px;
}

ul#commentlist li div.gravatar {
	width:50px;
	float:left;
	padding: 10px 0 0 10px;
}

ul#commentlist li div.gravatar img{
border: 2px solid #ccc;
}




ul#commentlist li div.commenttext{
padding: 0;
margin:5px 10px 5px 65px;
}

ul#commentlist li div.commenttext div.commentwrapper{
margin:0 0 0 5px;
padding: 3px 8px;
}


/*  sidebar styles */


#subscribe p{
font-size: 85%;
margin: 3px 0 10px 0;
}



.menu{
padding:0;
font-size:90%;
}

.menu a{
font-weight: 100;
}

.menu a:hover{
text-decoration:none;
}

.menu ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style-type:none;
}

.menu ul li.widget{
padding:2px;
margin:0 0 0px 0px;
}

.menu ul li.widget ul{
	margin: 0;
	padding:0;
}

.menu ul li.widget ul li{
border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;
background: #f2f2f2;
padding: 2px 0 2px 15px;
margin:0;
}

.menu ul li.widget ul li ul{
}

.menu ul li.widget ul li ul li{
border-top: 1px dotted #ccc;
border-bottom: none !important;
padding: 2px 0 2px 15px;
}



.menu ul li.widget h3{
font-family: arial;
font-size:120%;
padding:2px 0 1px 4px;
margin:0;
border-top: 3px solid red;
border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;
color: #333;
font-weight: 800;
font-variant:small-caps;
}

.menu ul li h3 a{
color: #333;
font-weight: 800;
}
.menu ul li h3 a:hover{
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
}

.menu form{
display:block;
margin:0px;
padding:4px;
}

.menu input{
margin:3px 0;
font-size:90%;
}

li.widget .textwidget, li.widget #search {
padding: 2px 5px;
}

/* Calendar styles */
#wp-calendar {
empty-cells: show;
margin: 10px auto 0;
width: 155px;
}

#wp-calendar #next a {
padding-right: 10px;
text-align: right;
}

#wp-calendar #prev a {
padding-left: 10px;
text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar a {
display: block;
}

#wp-calendar caption {
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}

#wp-calendar td {
padding: 3px 0;
text-align: center;
}


#footer a{
font-weight: 100;
}

If anyone could tell me what the heck is making this uneditable - man...I'd sure like to know...

Hey guys,

I am brand new to these forums, this seems like a good place to ask for help. So I am a novice web designer, I use AdobE Dreamweaver CS3. I have designed and coded some websites quite successfully, but now I keep running to the same problem. I have made my layout and turned it into different divs on Dreamweaver. This is in a very basic early stage. Next I want to add content, and I know how to do that, but every time I have done that and I add more content downward outside of the original "content" div's borders, the whole layout sometimes gets screwed up. Here is the address to the basic website that only looks to be alright: vivanidesign.com/newvivani/design.html. Then as I add content, to this particular page, it overflows, as shown in this website: vivanidesign.com/newvivani/designfail.html. How can I fix this? How can I make the background content image follow the text, so it will move down with it? Not just the content div, but the sidebar div also.

Any help would be really great, I've tried to find out the answer to this for a while!

Thanks!

Really basic question. I've created a CSS text class. How do I reference it to apply to a text sample?

I've been using this page as my guide:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3470231
But they only reference commands such as <I class="name"> and <U class="name">. I don't want to add any Italics or Underlines, so how do I only reference the class?

I've got limited experience with CSS and I've never done anything with divs, only tables. So my question is really, really, really basic:

Not being as adept at CSS as I could be, especially positioning, I'm sort of at a loss as to how to best structure my page using divs.

Looking at the comp at http://homework.describe.org/esdcar_home.jpg, would it be best to make everything from the top to the start of the brown bar at the bottom and from the left to the start of the picture one "column" (with nested divs), with everything to the right of the picture's edge a second "main content" column with nested divs inside it?

Or should I make one header div that runs from left to right until either above or below the navigation (?), and everything below that point be a 2-column layout (until the brown bar at the bottom)?

Does it matter one way or the other? Will it one day be clear to me immediately exactly how best to divide up and structure a page from a comp? Am I just a confused soul, or does everyone kind of struggle with this at the beginning?

Sorry to ask such basic questions, but...

Thanks in advance.

T.

Good Day All,

I have a basic layout question. In this page, any many others, I have my image element floated to the left of a table. This seems to work well in big resolutions but when I view the page on smaller resolutions, the table gets pushed down below the image. In some cases, this is ok... but if I want to prevent this from happening and keep the img and table together to prevent the dropping, how can I do this? What is the cleanest/easiest way? In the example below, the 4th table from the top is the one that will drop first. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Also, I would like to keep my liquid layout other than grouping these two items together - and I only need to apply this to a few of them, not all.

http://029c92a.netsolhost.com/abrasives/cutmetalm.html

Colin

I need the following with this simple example

1) Horizontal Tabs: the <dt> appears along the top in one horizontal line,
and when you click on the name, it'll display the <dd> content below. As you
click on other tabs, the content area will be replaced by the corresponding tab
content. If you click on a tab that's already opened, it'll close the display
of its content.

2) Vertial Tabs: the <dt> appears long the left side of the page, each tab
taking up one line. When you click on the name, the <dd> content will display
to the right of the tabs. Same as above, as you click on other tabs, the
content area will be replaced by the corresponding tab content.


[php]
<dl>
<dt>Tab 1</dt>
<dd>Content 1<br>Content 1<br>Content 1<br></dd>
<dt>Tab 2</dt>
<dd>Content 2<br>Content 2<br>Content 2<br></dd>
</dl>
[/php

hope someone can help

Hi all,
I've been struggling with a basic layout question for a while and I could use some direction as a recent CSS convert. Basically I have a two column layout contained within another div (for borders and colors). What is happening is that my container only grows vertically to the size of the right column regardless of the size of the the left. Is there a way to "attach" the containing div to which ever column is the tallest?

I've setup a test page to show the problem. This occurs in I.E. 6.0 and Firefox 1.5.x (Windows and Unix).

Thanks very much for any pointers.

I have a simple layout done all in CSS. The code is below. With the right boxes that are there, is there a way to make them stretch based on the content that's in them? Right now I'm using absolute positioning but if the content stretches the top box, then as you can see it stretches it into the next box. I tried changing it from absolute to relative and floating it to the right but the box just disappears then.

Also, is there another way to achieve the look I want (simple 3 column layout) by using CSS just in a different manner? I'd like it to adapt to any resolution that a user may have and I'm not quite sure how to do that.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">

.BODY{
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #000000;
}

.left{
position: absolute;
left: 10px;
width: 150px;
border: 1px solid;
height: 100%;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
color: #000000;
}

.center{
margin-left: 159px;
margin-right: 400px;
border: 1px dashed;
height: 25px;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}

.right{
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
top: 85px;
width: 150px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid;
}

.right2{
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
top: 195px;
width: 150px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid;
}

.banner{
border: 1px solid;
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
}

.nav{
border: 1px solid;
height: 15px;
width: 100%;
background-color: black;
</style>

<div class="banner">Banner</div>
<div class="nav"></div>

<div class="left">
Nav
</div>

<div class="center">Center contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter contentCenter content</div>

<p><div class="center">test</div></p>

<div class="right">
<b>Featured Article:</b>
<br />
<i><small>Featured article link goes here...</small></i>
<br /><br />

<b>Recent Articles:</b>
<br />
<i><small>Recent article links go here...
</div>

<div class="right2">
Test 2
</div>

hi,

I have a div that holds everything in called #bgcontain. This is just viewable in 800x600. An would center if the browser res is higher.

I would like to place an advert on the right of this div that 'appears' if some has a higher res. So this advert would be off center. I have tried to put the advert div inside #bgcontain and relatively position it but I cant seem to get there, can any help point me in the right direction

thanks

Relatively new to CSS, never done anything sans tables. Yes, it all looks fubared right now, but as this is sort of a learning experience, I'd like to tackle one thing at a time. Positioning is...I'm not getting it.

Right now, the big thing is getting the "content" div to line up at the top. I've tried various combinations, and the one that works best so far (in Firefox and Safari, at least, IE is totally awful) is what I've got (relative, 25% in from the left) -- at least I get the thing lined up where I want it on the right. But I can't seem to get it to scoot up to the top. I played with the top margin, but that didn't do anything either.

The page is he http://www.describe.org/homework/esdcar/ (scroll down to see the problem)

The css is he http://www.describe.org/homework/esdcar/esdcar.css

And eventually, hopefully, it should look like this: http://www.describe.org/homework/esdcar_home.jpg

Yes, there's lots more to fix (the navigation, the announcements box, and so on) and I will be back with more questions, but I think if I can at least get this one fixed I can try fixing the other things on my own before giving up and seeking help again.

Is there a way to do an absolute position, and then position other things off of that?

For instance if you look at www.thechristianparent.com/test/ you will see a menu section on the left hand side. I want the place for links where you see test twice to be and auto height, so it adjusts accordingly. I then want to place a seporator div right below that and then have another link area. How do I position the dive below that?