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CSS - Two Column Design W/ Varying Content
I've been wracking my brain without success over the following problem:
I want to create a div block (which is included in other div blocks - but that doesn't really matter) that includes a list of links. However, I want to display the list of links in two columns, side by side. So far it's a piece of cake. But here is the tricky part: The links come from a database and therefore I do not know how many there are at any given time. How can I use CSS to seperate the list of links in two columns with each containing exactly half the links? I do want to keep the list of links as one chunk of HTML, without inserting 'class=""' or 'id=""' into the HTML. Any ideas?? Thanks Steve PS: I have one alternative: Count the number of links coming out of the database and enclose the first half in some sort of .leftColumn div and the rest in a .rightColumn div. But as I said, I want to avoid adding divs into the HTML that contains the links... Similar TutorialsI'm converting a site from a table layout to a css layout. I've got a basic 3 column layout and it seems to work just fine except for one problem. my left and middle columns will never be set heights and they are different colors. So, is there anyway to make the two divs be the same height so that the colors go all the way down regardless of which column is longer? here are 2 examples, the first is the left column longer(teal) and the second is the middle column longer(white). first example left column longer second example middle column longer thx! A website generally has a header/footerand then a left column and main column. The left column contains links and the main column contains the content. Years ago I saw a design that was validated and used CSS to achieve a tableless design that actually had the main column content BEFORE the left column links in the sourcecode, but on the site itself, it was like a normal site (left column was on the left and main content was on the right or center). Does this achieve better search engine results by having the main content first in the eyes of the search engines, but in reality, to the people, the left links actually shows up first. Also, can someone provide a link to this or show some coding on what you have seen done to achieve this? Howdy. Disclaimer: I've been working on a redesign of my homepage, and I decided to go 100% CSS. I'm still learning CSS, so if this has a braindead easy solution, just laugh and point it out to me. The problem: Here is the design I have for my website (forgive the ascii art): Code: +------------------------------------------------------+ | Header | +--------------+---------------------------------------+ | Stuff Bar | Content : :Google | | | : : Ad | | Navigation | : : | | | : : | | Firefox | : : | | Info Box | : +.......| | | : | | Affiliates | : | | | : | +--------------+---------------------------------------+ | Footer | +------------------------------------------------------+ The Content has been artificially "width"ed to be no more than 400px wide. The Google Ad should float all the way to the right on a separate layer to keep out of the way on large monitors. Now, what I want to do is also float every IMAGE from the content all the way to the right on large monitors: Code: +------------------------------------------------------+ | Header | +--------------+---------------------------------------+ | Stuff Bar | Content : :Google | | | : : Ad | | Navigation | : : | | | : : | | Firefox | : : | | Info Box | : +.......| | | : | | Affiliates | : | | | : ------------------------ | | | : +---------------------+ | | | : | IMAGE from Content | | | | : +---------------------+ | | | : ------------------------ | | | : | | | : | +--------------+---------------------------------------+ | Footer | +------------------------------------------------------+ I havn't a clue how to do that correctly. I want the Content to wrap around the image callout. I'd appreciate the pointer. I have a website that using AJAX with PHP to display a Flash slideshow. The slideshow is generated dynamically based on MySQL queries and PHP-generated XML. However, this is all above the scope of my problem. I made a static version of the page to remove all PHP and AJAX variables, and the problem persists. Basically, I have a content column DIV that contains a DIV for "story" (i.e. whatever the content happens to be, in this case a variety of links and a flash slideshow). Inside that DIV is another DIV for "picview". This is where the OBJECT tags are included that show the Flash file. When the picview DIV is populated with the code, the entire content column DIV shifts down to below the vnav. When the code is removed, the page looks as expected (with the content column just under the header, lining up with the vnav). gatewaylatin.com/scrapbook/test1.htm The above URL is a link to a static page showing what the page SHOULD look like. gatewaylatin.com/scrapbook/test.htm The above URL is a link to another page, using the exact same static code with the one exception that the PICVIEW DIV is populated with the appropriate tags to include the Flash object. In Firefox, IE7, and other modern browsers, both of these pages look the same (with the obvious exception of the Flash object on the second page). However, on IE6/Win, the second page is completely malformed. I would appreciate any help in this matter. For easy reference, the CSS files used by the above page a gatewaylatin.com/style/base.css gatewaylatin.com/style/base_v4.css Thanks in advance and let me know if you need further information or want me to try anything. I hope this is a quick fix and someone with more expertise than myself can easily spot the problem. I need to create a layout that is 100% width. 2 columns. The right column is 300px and and left column (content) takes up the rest. I need content to be first in the code because of float clearing. Thanks for any help! Hello everyone, I am pretty new to css but have code from various css sites that have used to get the layout i wanted. I am having an issue with IE7. In IE8 and Chrome everything is working like intended. The link to the page in question is philadler.com/dance09.html I have validated the CSS and xhmtl and the page passed both. Can anyone tell my why in IE7 the content is overflowing into the right column, but in the other 2 browsers i have tested it works fine. Also, does anyone know of a good photo gallery. Some of the events i will be putting have hundreds of pictures is there an auto formating or auto coding gallery that will look at the folder of the pictures and at it to the gallery? Thanks for any help Phil So far my site appears somewhat like this Header Menu Main Content Footer Now what I wish to do for the Main Content, is create boxes, 2 top boxes and 2 lower boxes: Box 1 Box 2 Box 3 Box 4 So I've been playing around, trying to get them to float, ya de da, I can manage to get 2 columns, but when I attempt to put in the 2 lower columns, the footer ghosts over top of all the main content and all you can see is the header, menu and footer. If attempted to wrap them in container's but have failed miserably, any help would be appreciated. Hello, My first CSS site was going fine; I was learning as I went and drawing from different resources. My code and CSS probably isn't very pretty ( I validated it, I know it needs to be cleaned up) but things were working. Then I went back and made some adjustments concerning the widths of my column divs. Now I find that Firefox is respecting the rightcolumn div (specifically: <div id="contentright">)but IE keeps kicking it to the bottom left. I've tried messing with the column lengths so everything fits accordingly as specified in the frame div width. Can anyone please take a look and offer a suggestion? thanks. http://www.brinjac.com/test/binnspark.html hi, i'm trying to create a horizontal navigation bar using Div's and css. So what i have is a background image for the background of the navigation bar, and then the links as images. i want to give varying widths to each link. i.e. if we were talking tables, i'd give the first cell with the first link a 10% width, the second a 8% the third a 15% etc... my question is, how do i do that with Divs? do i have to create a separate id (#) for each link? or can i specify a width in the div tag in the html (<div width=10%>) for example? Thanks, Heidi Alrighty, I'm trying to produce a layout similar to that of what is shown in the attached image. Please ignore the image being the rainbox colors, but I had to differentiate sections. I can get the banner/search line to appear properly, but the rest will not. Left menu gets positioned fine, the content does as well (more or less), but the right column is displaced, and shifted down to the very bottom of the window -- far right, though. I can't explain much better than that, so without further ado: CSS: Code: .columns-float{
float : left;
width : 80%;
}
.column-one
{
width : 75%; /* NOTE: This needs to be dynamic! THIS is what I'm
inquiring about. The above problem assumes this attribute
is set to "auto". */
float : right;
}
.column-two
{
width : 25%;
float : left;
}
.column-three{
width : 20%;
float : right;
}
.box-footer{
clear : both;
}
.column-one-content{
margin-left: 1px;
margin-right: 1px;
}
/*Hack below:*/
.box-wrap, .columns-float, .column-one, .column-two, .column-three, h2{
p\osition: relative;
}
(Above was borrowed from here, albeit with modifications.) HTML: Code: ... <div class="columns-float"> <div class="column-one"> <div class="column-one-content"> <h2>column 1</h2> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p><a href="#" title="fake link for testing">test link</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="column-two"> <div class="column-two-content"> <h2>column 2</h2> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p><a href="#" title="fake link for testing">test link</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="box-clear"> </div><!-- # needed to make sure column 3 is cleared || but IE5(PC) and OmniWeb don't like it --> </div><!-- close boxbody --> <div class="column-three"> <div class="column-three-content"> <h2>column 3</h2> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p>column filler</p> <p><a href="#" title="fake link for testing">test link</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="box-clear"> </div><!-- # needed to make sure column 3 is cleared || but IE5(PC) and OmniWeb don't like it --> <div class="box-footer">Footer </div> Do not link me to Position Is Everything. Been there already, and it wasn't helpful; the used terminology was too abstruse for me. Any help would be appreciated, and I thank you very much for your time. This is driving me batty. Hi, I'm working on a website for a church and we're near completion, but I'm having trouble getting the site to display properly in IE7 on Windows XP and a few other browsers according to browsershots.org. CSS and XHTML both validate at w3c.org. I've ripped this thing apart and put it back together with no luck. The really weird thing is the Home page looks fine, but in the rest of the pages the body content gets pushed below the left and right navigation bars. Is it a CSS float problem? Margins or paddings??? Home page: Looks OK in IE7, at least on my machine - http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/index_temp.php Ministry page: Content is pushed to bottom of page - http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/mini...ns_ministry.php The CSS files are at http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/css/main.css and http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/css/common.css. Would anyone be willing to take a look? Thanks in advance. look at my site. it is very boxy and almost TOO structured. is there a design trick i can use to mix it up a little? specific examples would be greatly appreciated. I could see this as potentially being really easy to do or really hard to do. I'm hoping for the former. Suppose I have 3 divs, A, B, C and that I want the total width of A + B + C to equal the width of the screen. Suppose also that I want them to be inline. How can I have B to be a fixed width while A and C expand depending on the screen width (such that the width of A = the width of C)? Hi I am trying to make a table to display some stuff within a fix sized window. I want to have 5 columns of fixed width and one column that spans the rest of the remaining space. The Idea is to allow the widths of the first 5 columns to be changed by a script and having the last one adapting as needed... html Code: Original - html Code <div class="container"><table cellspacing="0"> <colgroup> <col width="40" /> <col width="220" /> <col width="120" /> <col width="65" /> <col width="40" /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>A</th> <th>B</th> <th>C</th> <th>D</th> <th>E</th> <th style="width: 100%;></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td style="width: 100%;></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <div class="container"><table cellspacing="0"> <colgroup> <col width="40" /> <col width="220" /> <col width="120" /> <col width="65" /> <col width="40" /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>A</th> <th>B</th> <th>C</th> <th>D</th> <th>E</th> <th style="width: 100%;></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td style="width: 100%;></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> css Code: Original - css Code div.container { height: 400px; width: 800px; overflow: scroll; } table { width: 100%; } td { border-style: solid; border-color: silver; border-width: 0px; padding: 1px 3px; } th { border-style: outset; border-color: silver; border-width: 2px; background: silver; padding: 1px 3px; }
It really does fill the entire space but the last column crushes all the other into their minimal width resulting in linebreaks between words inside the cells... Please help me Hi all, I've tried searching around for this issue, but I've not found any help so far and it's driving me nuts. I hope someone here can advise. This is an abridged version of the site's code for example: Code: <style type="text/css">
<!--
#main1 {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#left {
width:260px;
margin:0;
padding:0;
float: left;
}
#left-top {
background-image: url(../images/panel-top-left.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center top;
height: 16px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#left-middle {
background-image: url(../images/panel-middle-left.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
}
#left-bottom {
background-image: url(../images/panel-bottom-left.gif);
background-position: center;
height: 18px;
}
#logo {
background-image: url(../images/swalingslogo.gif);
background-position: center top;
width: 260px;
height: 120px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
/* Navigation List */
#navlist
{
padding-left: 0;
margin-bottom:10px;
width: 217px;
}
#navlist li
{
list-style: none;
margin-bottom:4px;
padding: 0;
font-size:1.2em;
line-height:1.8em;
width:217px;
height:32px;
background-image:url(../images/nav2.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-left: 0;
}
#navlist li a:link, #navlist li a:visited {
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
color:#039;
width:207px;
height:32px;
font-weight:bold;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
#navlist li a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color:#FF6600;
}
/* Testimonials */
div#fscroller {
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-image:url(../images/bg-testimonials.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
margin-left:8px;
}
div#fscroller p {
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
/* Middle Column */
#middle {
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
text-align: justify;
margin-left: 260px;
}
#middle #top-left {
background-image: url(../images/panel-top-rightleft.gif);
height: 16px;
font-size: 2px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#middle #top-right {
float: right;
margin-top: -16px;
background-image: url(../images/panel-top-rightright.gif);
height: 16px;
width: 20px;
font-size: 2px;
}
#middle a {
color: #003399;
}
#middle a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
/** Country Titles **/
#middle h2#unitedkingdom {
background-image: url(../images/title-unitedkingdom.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 26px;
width: 201px;
margin-bottom: 6px;
}
#middle h2#antigua {
background-image: url(../images/title-antigua.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 26px;
width: 128px;
margin-top: 16px;
margin-bottom: 6px;
}
/* Minisite Links */
div.minisite {
float: left;
}
div.minisite span {
display: none;
}
div.minisite a {
background-position: top;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 168px;
width: 190px;
display: block;
}
div.minisite a:hover {
background-position: bottom;
}
a#minisite-swimminglessons {
background-image: url(../images/swimming-lessons-uk.jpg);
}
.clear {
clear:both;
}
.hidden {
display: none;
}
.notopgap {
margin-top: 0;
}
.nobottomgap {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.inside {
background: #EFEFEF;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
-->
</style>
<div id="main1">
<div id="left">
<!-- Logo -->
<div id="logo"></div>
<div id="left-top"></div>
<div id="left-middle">
<!-- Navigation -->
<!--#include file="../inc/nav2.asp" -->
<!-- Testimonials -->
<!--#include file="../inc/testimonials.asp" -->
<!--#include file="../inc/special-offers.asp" -->
</div>
<div id="left-bottom"></div>
</div>
<!-- Middle Column -->
<a name="skipnav" class="hidden"></a>
<div id="middle">
<div class="top-left"></div><div class="top-right"></div>
<div class="insideleft"><div class="insideright"><div class="inside"><div class="gap-saver"></div>
<!-- UK Sites -->
<h2 id="unitedkingdom"><span class="hidden">United Kingdom</span></h2>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swimming Lessons</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Training</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Residential Courses</span></a></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<!-- Antigua Sites -->
<h2 id="antigua"><span class="hidden">Antigua</span></h2>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Soccer</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Parties and Events</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings International School of Swimming</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Babysitting and Nanny Agency</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings School of Rugby</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings School of Volleyball</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Training</span></a></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="gap-saver"></div>
</div></div></div>
<div class="bottom-left"></div><div class="bottom-right"></div>
</div>
<!-- End Middle Column -->
</div>
I've placed the Country Title in an H2 tag, then beneath that, each anchor is enclosed in a DIV, and is set as a left-floated block. Then I placed a spacer DIV (clear: both) to create a new line, then repeated with H2 and links. This all works fine in Firefox, IE7 and Opera, but of course IE6 is being a pig as usual. The spacer DIV is pushed to sit alongside the bottom of the left column, and I can't figure out how to (or if I can) stop this. I can't add in links properly, so I hope this is acceptable under the rules -- The site in question is: www.swalings .com/swalings/index4.asp and here's a screenshot of IE6 behaviour: www.swalings .com/images/swalings-ie6-troubleshoot.jpg Hopefully that's enough information to go on, please let me know if there's something I missed out. Thanks a lot! Rob Question title: A 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally and let them both scroll vertically Hello I did try several idea's, but all failed. Then I did search the web but found a list of > 400.000 in google. If someone is willing to tell me if it is possible and give me some directions, please do. Everything is welcome. I got a list with 3 columns ( basically you could say I have only two columns because 2-3 could be concatenated to together, but they have a different style and justification, but I could live to start with a two column sample) f.e line 1 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) ) line 2 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) ) line 99:.... e.t.c Column one has a fixed width of 32px. 'some text' can be longer then the wide available and value_two is with 3 spaces appended to column 2. I want that column one is fixed horizontal and that the second and the third column can scroll horizontally. Of course when there are more line's then the height of the container is should be posable to scroll vertically. Finally I need the color behind column one be different then the column 2 and 3. So what I did create is a container with two containers where the left one has a different colour then the right one and above those a container with the list. I have overflow on auto, so I get scroll-bars when necessarily. But my problem is that when I scroll horizontally that my first column scrolls away to the left. Basically my question is. How can I get a 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally ( first is locked in horizontal place ) and let them scroll both vertically? Hey, So I have a three column layout being implemented as such: html: Code:
<div class="content">
<div class="col1 column"></div>
<div class="col3 column"></div>
<div class="col2 column">
<div class="header">Header</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS: Code:
.column {
padding: 10px;
position:relative;
}
.header {
background:#cfe6f5;
color:#416383;
font-size:11px;
font-family:Arial;
font-weight:300;
padding-left:15px;
}
.col1 {
float: left;
width:250px;
}
.col2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.col3 {
float:right;
width:250px;
}
The problem is that the width of the header div extends all the way to the left and right of the page when it's in the middle column, but behaves the way I want it to (extends to the left and right of the column) when it's in the left or right column. Any ideas? Thanks. --Surgery Hi, hopefully you enjoyed the title, I had a good laugh thinking of it in that split second it took me to write it. So, I found a 3 column css layout on a CSS generator website, because I got sick of trying to hack up layouts I've made in the past that didn't work. Anyhow, it was working fine with one line of content in each column when I tested it out, however, once content in the middle column was added, and stretched vertically beyond a certain point, it will drag the left columns content down with it. The right column is not affected in any way. I have spent a few hours trying to look for reasons as to why it would happen, but I had no luck. I would appreciate any help... so thank you in advance if you take a stab at it. Here's the html: Code: <body> <div id="pagewidth"> <div id="header"></div> <div id="wrapper" class="clearfix" > <div id="twocols" class="clearfix"> <div id="maincol">Main Text, woot. (aka hi hi hi)</div> <div id="rightcol">Sidebar, yippee.</div> </div> <div id="leftcol"> <div id="navigation">test</div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"></div> </div> </body> and the CSS: Code: html, body
{
background: #333399;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
color: black;
}
#pagewidth
{
width: 750px;
text-align:left;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
background: #333399 url('images/bodycontent.gif') repeat-y center top;
}
#header
{
position:relative;
height:138px;
background: url('images/header.gif') center;
width: 100%;
}
#leftcol
{
width: 118px;
float: left;
left: 25px;
position: relative;
background-color: transparent;
margin:0; padding:0;
}
#twocols
{
width: 700px;
float: right;
position: relative;
}
#rightcol
{
width:180px;
right: 25px;
float:right;
position:relative;
background-color: transparent;
}
#maincol
{
background-color: transparent;
float: left;
left: 100px;
display: inline;
position: relative;
width: 390px;
}
#footer
{
text-align: center;
height:39px;
background: url('images/footer.gif');
clear:both;
}
.clearfix:after
{
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
.clearfix{display: inline-table;}
/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
* html .clearfix{height: 1%;}
.clearfix{display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */
/*printer styles*/
@media print{
/*hide the left column when printing*/
#leftcol{display:none;}
/*hide the right column when printing*/
#rightcol{display:none;}
#twocols, #maincol{width:100%; float:none;}
}
Again, thank you in advance if you can come up with anything. can i make my left column, the same height as my right column? or infact, if the left is taller than the right, the right extends to it and if the right is taller than the left the left extends to it? is this possible, cheers heres my css: left column, is #leftNav and the right column is #contentMain PHP Code: #content { margin:0px auto; padding: 0; width: 760px; } #contentMain { padding: 0; margin: 0; float: right; width: 632px; } #leftNav { color: #000; float: left; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 128px; } |
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