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CSS - Complex Design And Css
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I have designed a look for one of my buddies companies. However, it is quite complicated. I have attached the .GIF file for you to reference. The design needs to be cross-browser friendly. The navigation is going to be dynamically built using a backend application built in PHP. The nav_links will be text not images, as well as the text next to the "did you know" items. I imagine that the placement of some of the "did you know" items can be arranged to ease the slicing process. Also, the left main image (the guy) needs to be dynamic in that it rotates through images on refresh or a revisit (probably some javascript). On top of all that, I need the "featured" or "did you know" items i.e. the round images and text to dynamically change also. These will be likes into specific sections of the site. My major concern is getting the main header pieced together correctly while meeting cross-browser compatibility. I have some CSS knowledge but as i mentioned the design is quite advanced. Any ideas on how to correctly structure it to work? TIA BA Similar Tutorialslook 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. So I have a layout I am totally stumped on how to get it to work. Its a centered layout. I have three divs (left, center, right) the left and right divs can't scroll up and down but the one in the middle can. The scroll bar needs to appear on the far right (just like on a normal layout). I was able to get something very close by making the two side divs fixed, but when I do this and make the screen small so that a left-right scroll bar appears when I scroll only the content in the middle scrolls (so it overlaps into the left div). Any help would be appreciated. I can't post images but if you want more info message me and I can send you a picture of the layout I would like to do the following on a web page but not sure how. Tried a few things but it didnt display what I was hoping for... I want essentially a 3 layered background image. The main background is one image that is tiled in all directions The second image is tiled in x but attached to the top of the screen The third image is the same as the second image but attached to the bottom of the screen. Over the top of this I want to use html tables and have the background displayed through the empty table cells. Is this possible? Any help appreciated I wish to set up a table but do not know how to go a step further. What I have done up to now is... Code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.container {
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
}
.colLeft {
width: 30px;
height: 400px;
float: left;
background-color: beige;
}
.barTop {
width: 400px;
height: 30px;
float: left;
background-color: LightBlue
}
.colRight {
width: 30px;
height: 400px;
float: left;
background-color: LightGreen;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="colLeft">cl</div>
<div class="barTop">bt</div>
<div class="colRight">cr</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
But what I need to get is... Can you help me? Thanks! I am trying to create a completely non-uniform layout for one of my clients using only CSS. I would like to accomplish this using only floats that are cross-browser supported. The layout is split up into 9 different panels that need to be positioned correctly. Is this achieved simply by using float and clear? I have been experimenting and have been failing. What about positioning? Would kind of positioning would I use to arrange something inside of a parent div? See attached file for layout. P.S. I know I can get this exact layout done using tables, but I would much rather do this with some "simple" CSS. I'm having trouble with a table layout I'm trying to convert to a float layout my attempt so far is as follows Code:
--loop--
lfloat{
float:left
}
boatLeft{
width:100px;
}
#cls# gets replaced with a class that only sets the background for odd and even rows.
<div class="lfloat boatLeft #cls#" style="border-right:1px solid black;height:150px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="displayVessel(#rssearch.YSNNUM#);">View Details*<br />
<img id="thumb#currentrow#" style="border-color:white;width:100px;" src="#getpic.thumbpicname#" alt="#boatname#" />
</a>
</div>
<div class="#cls#">
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
<strong>Boatname</strong>
</div>
<div>
<strong>#BOATNAME#</strong>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
LOA
</div>
<div>
#loam#m / #loaft#' #val(loain)#"
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Builder
</div>
<div>
#MFGNAME#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Naval Architect
</div>
<div>
#hulldsnr#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Designer
</div>
<div>
#designer#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Decorator
</div>
<div>
#decorator#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Stylist
</div>
<div>
#stylist#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div><!--- clear the float for the outer div --->
-end loop--
in both ie and FF this looks terrible. I'm not sure If I should just be using a table here or if I should be using floats. Gary you should probably have somehting to say about that... the attachment show's how its supposed to look. The black boxes represent block level elements, not borders. Dave Does anybody know of a 3 column layout that does not use absolute positioning and uses X/HTML code like the following? I've found one where the left two columns are contained in an extra <div> (here), but I kind of need the opposite. Code: <div id="left"> </div> <div id="container"> <div id="main"> </div> <div id="sidebar"> </div> </div> My first time posting a thread, any help is greatly appreciated. After inserting an id to the body tag in order to achieve an active page in my image sprite navbar, all of my center aligned content becomes left aligned. Here is the associated css for one link: Code: body {
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
background-color: #000;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 50px auto 0px auto;
text-align: left;
width: 900px;
}
.........
#navbar {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#navbar li {
float: left;
}
#navbar a {
display: block;
background-image: url(images/main-navbar.gif);
padding-top: 50px;
text-decoration: none;
}
#home {
width: 182px;
}
#home:hover {
background-position: 0px -50px;
}
#home:active {
background-position: 0px 0px;
}
#home li.home a {
background-position: 0px -50px;
}
..........
And the html: Code: <body id="home">
<!-- Begin Wrapper -->
<div id="wrapper">
<!-- Begin Top Navbar -->
<div id="topnavbar">
<ul id="navbar">
<li class="home"><a id="home">Home</a></li>
<li><a id="events" href="events.html">Events</a></li>
<li><a id="menu" href="menu.html">Menu</a></li>
<li><a id="photos" href="photos.html">Photos</a></li>
<li><a id="contact" href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- End Top Navbar -->
.....................................
</div>
<!-- End Wrapper -->
</body>
Navigation bar works perfect but wrapper is not center aligned as it was previously. This is driving me crazy and I'm running out of time! Please Help. -Thanks I'm a designer first and foremost who is now working on learning CSS based layouts. In the past, I've always handed my PSD file off to a coder who generates the HTML/CSS. I'd like to learn how to do that portion myself. I know my way around the basics of CSS based layouts in setting up a standard 2 column layouts using floats and also 3 column layouts using absolute positioning for the left and right columns. The video tutorials from Chris at CSS-Tricks dot com were fantastic in getting me jump started by the way. Highly recommended. I'm now looking at how to draw up the framework for a more complicated layout in CSS rather than reverting back to old table based HTML but I'm stumped. Here is an image of the layout in question sans logo and content: codedpreview dot com/?view=5361 As you can see, in the body there are three columns, one spanning 50%, two spanning 25% and each column has 1 or 2 rows of section containers. This layout would be a no brainer using nested HTML tables. I'm confused on how to set up these rows within the columns using CSS. Would you essentially do the same and nest div tags within the three columns? Does anyone have any good tutorials or resources I could review in regards to setting up the body portion of this layout in particular? Thanks so much for your time and help! I'm designing a company website. I'm relatively new to CSS and I'm having trouble creating what seems to me a very simple design:
body background: fixed full page image
banner: fixed, 100 pixels high, full-width, transparent background
nav bar: fixed, 200 px wide, auto-height, opaque nav icons, semi-transparent tiled image background
content box: scrolling, auto height, auto width, opaque text, semi-transparent tiled image background
footer: fixed, 30 px high, full width, transparent background
mockup: Here is as far as I could get in the actual design: web page attemp Hi sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread, I have been given a project to take a fully flash website and convert it into xhtml and css. There are roughly 30 pages or so but Im am really unsure of how much I should be asking as a fixed price for the work. What does everyone else usually do? It looks alright in IE, but looks really messed up in Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape. I wanted vertical UL tabs down the left side. http://www.members.shaw.ca/welcomehere/test.htm please help. Hi everyone I'm very new to CSS and I'm having some trouble getting a layout to work as I want it to. I have attached the file as a .txt as HTML files are not allowed. Just change the extension to .html. The problem, in Opera, none at all. Firefox doesn't display it properly. IE does to an extent but it has horizontal scrolling. Being new to CSS, I have absolutely no idea what needs changing. If anyone could tell me where I'm going wrong, preferably with an explanation why it has gone wrong, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks very much I am trying to improve design of most popular div in one section (http://www.pearl.ru/isdunyasi/defaultinner.asp?Section=3). I designed something in photoshop but I am having hard time wth integrating it(http://www.pearl.ru/isdunyasi/newtable.gif). I cannot figure out how to do it because if I set what I designed as a background there is big chance texts will overflow as that area gets its values from the database. Code:
#innersubcontentpopular{
float:right;
width:300px;
height:450px;
background:#FFFFFF url(images/nheadlines_bg.gif) top no-repeat;
}
#innersubcontentpopular h1{
padding:0px;
margin-bottom:5px;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#innersubcontentpopular h2 {
padding:5px 2px 5px 2px;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#aaaaaa;
}
#innersubcontentpopular p {
padding:2px;
margin:0;
font-size:12px;
}
Hey everyone, I'm new to CSS, but now web design. I could find a way to build this design in tables, but thought I might try the CSS thing. I've been reading a bunch and have a general plan, but any advice on where my plan could be improved or if I should stick with tables would be great. hutec-inc. com/personal/css.gif On the right side of this page the border is messed up but, in the css the mathematics are all correct. I dont know whats wrong??? Have a look at the output of this code he Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Template</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#header {
border-top: #000000 thin solid;
border-left: #000000 thin solid;
border-right: #000000 thin solid;
position:absolute;
left:5%;
top:30px;
width:90%;
height:178px;
}
#nav {
border-left: #000000 thin solid;
border-bottom: #000000 thin solid;
position:absolute;
left:5%;
top:208px;
width:18%;
height:512px;
}
#content {
border-right: #000000 thin solid;
border-bottom: #000000 thin solid;
position:absolute;
left:23%;
top:208px;
width:72%;
height:512px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='header'> </div>
<div id='nav'> </div>
<div id='content'> </div>
</body>
</html>
Whats wrong??? Daniel Hi guys... I'm fairly experienced at webdesign, but I never actually used css for the *entire* design before (besides on one or two unfinished sites that came out badly). I was wondering if anyone could help me out designing the basic layout with css, and I can probably handle the rest. It would be much appreciated! I am new to web development and am in the process of learning XHTML, CSS, PHP and SQL. I need to know if i am making any major mistakes in my approach to making this site as far as CSS is concerned. The site is a simple file browser which displays files and their details in a table with a vertical navigation bar. Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"></div>
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="/dotastats">DoTA</a></li>
<li><a href="/phpmyadmin">phpMyAdmin</a></li>
<li><a href="upload.php">Uploads</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="content">
<table>
<thead>
<tr><td><a href="upload.php?sort=filename">Filename</a></td><td><a href="upload.php?sort=ext">Type</a></td></tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<?php
require("functions.php");
updateFiles();
$page = $_GET['page'];
$sort = $_GET['sort'];
if($sort == "")
{
$sort = "ext";
}
$files = getFiles($sort);
$i = 0;
$colours = array('even', 'odd');
foreach($files as $v)
{
if($i >= ($page * 20) && $i < (($page * 20)+20))
{
echo
'<tr class="'.$colours[$i % 2].'">
<td><a href="files/'.$files[$i][0].'">'.$files[$i][0].'</a></td>
<td>'.$files[$i][1].'</td>
</tr>';
}
$i++;
}
?>
</tbody>
</table>
<?php
echo "<br/>";
$pageCount = $i / 20;
for($i = 0; $i <= $pageCount; $i++)
{
echo " [";
echo "<a href='upload.php?page=$i&sort=$sort'>$i</a>";
echo "] ";
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Edit: Code: html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
a:link {text-decoration:none}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline}
#nav {
background: #9966CC;
height: 30px;
border: 1px dotted #000000;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align: center;
}
#nav li {
display:inline;
padding:0 10px;
margin:0;
font-size: 14;
}
#header {
background: black;
height: 100px;
}
#footer {
background: black;
height: 100px;
}
#content {
width: 800px;
margin: auto;
padding: 10px;
}
#upload {
text-align: center;
}
table {
font-size: 14;
}
table thead tr {
background-color: #6699FF;
font-weight: bold;
}
table tbody td {
width: 400px;
}
table tbody tr.even {
background-color: #B0C4DE;
}
table tbody tr.odd {
background-color: #CAE1FF;
}
table tbody tr:hover {
background-color: #9999FF;
}
okay, so what i want to achieve is a result similar to: www.simplebits.com anyways, first thing is that using divs when the browser is resized everything gets screwed up, however not on the above site. thanks, any help would be great. Chris Ok, this may be asking too much, but I have this design idea - http://tmh.netdbs.com/turnkey2.jpg But insofar as laying it out with CSS, I just am not sure where to begin breaking it apart and creating various divs so to speak, the main white area is where I will lay out various <P> tags and won't have a problem with that, but it is getting started that challenges me. I'd appreciate some feedback on how to approach this. TOm |
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