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CSS - Negative Margins And Floating Divs
I'm redoing the layout of my site (www.brohawk.com) using floating divs with negative margins to produce a fluid left column and a fixed right column. I followed an article on A List Apart for the basics and got it working fairly nicely.
As a matter of fact, the site works beautifull in Mozilla/Firefox and with minmal errors in NS7. I've even got all but the forums working in Opera. I haven't even begun to work on making it IE compliant. Saving the worst for last. Anyhow, on all the pages except the forums, the divs line up perfectly. However, on the forums page, the right div doesn't stay up top, instead it wraps around under the left div. However, I still get all the space to the right of the left div where the right one should go. Anybody with Opera should be able to check it out and see what I mean. Anyhow, can anybody tell me why it won't float properly on that one page, but it works on all the others? Similar TutorialsI am having a problem with negative margins in IE7. On my website: commentsandcapers I am trying to get IE7 to display the right two boxes in the same way that Firefox displays them?? I have tried a few thing including position: relative in a whole bunch of places, none of which works. Do any of you have any idea how to correct this problem? Thanks! I'm working on a set of tabs within tabs (or subtabs). My code is something like this: Code: <ul class="tabs"
<li class="selected">1</li>
<li>2</li>
<li>3</li>
<li>4</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab_content">
<ul class="subtabs">
<li class="selected">1</li>
<li>2</li>
<li>3</li>
<li>4</li>
<li>5</li>
<li>6</li>
</ul>
Now, "tab_content" has padding of 10px, because the subtabs won't always be there. But I don't want the padding on the subtabs, so I was giving them a negative margin of -10px. This works in all browsers but IE, which applies everything but the right margin, leaving a white gap. See the image I'm attaching to see what the problem looks like. Anyone know of easy fixes for this? I am having trouble getting safari to recognize my negative margins. It works in IE6,7 and Firefox. I am trying to center the page but to get the first 327 pixels on the left and last 327 on the right to be a negative margin and my center column to have a 1000px fixed width. Here is my css. Any help would be great! .bkg-tile-left { background-image: url(/images/bkg-tile-left.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; width: 327px; text-align: left; float: left; overflow: visible; } #bkg-tile-right { background-image: url(/images/bkg-tile-right.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; width: 327px; background-position: right; text-align: right; float: right; clear: both; padding-right: -327px; } #bkg-right { background-attachment: scroll; background-image: url(/images/bkg-img-right.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: left top; height: 100%; } #bkg-left { background-attachment: scroll; background-image: url(/images/bkg-img-left.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; height: 100%; } #box1 { margin-left: -327px; margin-right: -327px; position:relative; } AND HTML <body> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="box1"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="bkg-tile-left" height="100%"><div id="bkg-left"><IMG SRC="images/spacer.gif" WIDTH=327 HEIGHT=718></div></td> <td valign="top"><table id="Wrapper" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td id="print_header"><dtml-var standard_print_header ><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1px" height="1px"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><dtml-var standard_html_header2></td> </tr> <tr> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" id="BreadCrumb"><dtml-var standard_html_breadCrumb></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <dtml-if standard_html_sidebar> <td valign="top" id="body_content2"><dtml-var body_content2></td> <td valign="top" id="Sidebar2"><dtml-var standard_html_sidebar2></td> <dtml-else> <td valign="top" id="body_content2"><dtml-var body_content2></td> </dtml-if> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td id="Footer2" ><dtml-var standard_html_footer2></td> </tr> </table></td> <td valign="top" id="bkg-tile-right"><div id="bkg-right"><IMG SRC="images/spacer.gif" WIDTH=327 HEIGHT=718></div></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> Does anyone know how to get this code to display correctly in Opera?
HTML4STRICT Code: Original - HTML4STRICT Code <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"> <style type="text/css"> p { } .mouse { display: inline-block; padding: 6px; margin: -6px; } .mouse:hover { background: #888; border: 2px solid black; padding: 4px; } </style> </head> <body> <p>A <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span> <span class="mouse">test test test</span></p> </body> </html> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" I has attached some screenshots of my results. When I hover over an element on the right or left edge of the screen, the background and border that results clips because of my negative margins. Hello, I used a negative value for the position of a div on this site: Code: www.godynamic.nl Everything is like it have to be in mozilla browsers but in IE the image is partly beneath the upper layer and hidden. I tried z-index but this will only work with absolute position types. Is there IE hack for this? Thanks for helping. In Internet Explorer 6, the following HTML and CSS with negative margins causes the first letter of the heading to disappear: Code: <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css" media=screen>
#siteBody {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
width: 700px;
margin-left: 2em;
}
h1 {
margin-left: -1em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="siteBody">
<h1>This is the heading</h1>
<p>
This is the content.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
There are ways to get the negative margin to work in IE properly, but at a loss of functionality. For instance, if I remove the width property from the siteBody CSS, and change the position to 'relative', the letter will appear. Also, if I remove the div and just place the 'siteBody' id on the body tag, then the first letter will appear. Any help is greatly appreciated as I've been searching for a solution for a couple of days now. Thanks, ---atomgiant Floating an element left, with negative margins cuts off portions of the element in IE6. Looks fine in FF and IE7. Page he URL Removed by poster XHTML: Code: <div class="miniContainer logos"> <h3>Logos</h3> <div> test </div> </div> CSS: Code: .miniContainer h3 {font: bold 11px Arial,Sans-Serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; margin: -17px 0 0 -3px; padding: 0 5px; float: left;}
.miniContainer {border: 1px solid #EEEEEE; margin: 0; padding: 10px; float: left;}
.logos {width: 125px;}
.features {width: 100px; margin-left: 10px;}
Is there a workaround for this? I understand why it's happening, but can't figure out a hack for it. i am trying to display a form from a website inside an iframe the problem is, this form displays perfectly in IE: but it displays wrong in FF: heres the CSS: Code:
#container{
width: 380px;
height: 288px;
overflow: hidden;
border: 3px solid #4398d4;
}
#container iframe {
width: 800px;
height: 600px;
margin: -305px 0px 0px -40px;
}
heres the HTML: Code: <div id="container"> <iframe src="http://wow.eroticagateway.com/signup/signup.php?step=signup&qualify=1&site=226&nats=NzUxNjg6MzoyMjY" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe> </div> any idea why this is happening? apologies if this has been asked and answered already - i did a search of the board but didn't find a clear solution. what i'm trying to do seems simple enough, but isn't turning out that way. lets say i have a page background of some color (e.g., orange). then i have a main container div that is centered with auto margins, and has a white background. i want this main container to start at 100px from the top (so 100px of orange shows above it), and the white background should expand to the bottom of the page - without scrollbars. if i set it's height to 100%, the 100px top margin is added to the 100% height of its parent (body + html), so it acts as if there's 100px of substance beneath the viewport and therefor shows scrollbars. i had assumed a negative bottom margin set for the same amount as the top margin would work, but alas it does not. obviously i don't want to just force-hide scrollbars by overflow:hidden or position:asbolute/fixed - if content in the container forces it to expand, it should do that. otherwise, even if there's very little content - or even none - it should expand to the bottom of the page. i've attached a very basic (non-working) example - any insight would be appreciate. not looking for a hack - i'm looking for the best way to handle this with best-practices. tyia 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" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" >
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
height : 100%;
}
body {
margin : 0;
background : #F90;
height : 100%;
}
div.wrapper {
margin : 100px auto -100px auto;
width : 500px;
background : #FFF;
height : 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope someone can advise me what's going on. I'm trying to make a page which has a div floated to the left of another div, which is absolutely positioned. There is another one floated to the right. I am using relative positioning to accommodate for different browser resolutions. This seems to work perfectly in FF and IE7 but IE6 seems to ignore the negative margin. Funny thing is that while the page is loading it is in the right place momentarily, but then it jumps back to the position it would be in without the negative margin. The page and the CSS all validates fine. <div id="main"> <div id="leftdiv" class="floatleft"> <p class="bold">Do you... </p></div> <div id="rightdiv" class="floatright"> <p class="bold right">Would you </p> </div> </div> #main { position: absolute; height: 70%; width: 70%; left: 5%; top: 100px; overflow: auto; } #leftdiv { position:relative; margin-left: -109px; top: 50%; margin-top: -160px; left: 20%; width: 198px; height: 299px; padding: 10px; } #rightdiv { position:relative; top: 50%; margin-top: -160px; right: 20%; margin-right: -109px; width: 198px; height: 299px; padding: 10px; } .floatleft {float:left;} .floatright {float:right; } Ok. I have coded loads of sites in CSS but have never come across this problem before, and have hit a big bloody brick wall on it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. So.... i have an outer div with a 1px border and other divs inside of this outer div, one of which i want to give a negative margin to so that it sits under the border of the outer div.... I thought i could just give the div i want to sit under the outer div a negative z-index, and this does actually work on FF, however IE6 and Safari 1.3.2 dont like it and it just appears above the border. does that make sense? here's the code so you can see what i'm waffling on about.... Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
<style type="text/css">
#outer {
border:1px dashed green;
width:750px;
position:relative;
z-index:1000;
}
#box1, #box2, #box3 {
width:200px;
height:200px;
position:relative;
}
#box1 {
background:red;
}
#box2 {
background:cyan;
margin-left:-10px;
z-index:-1;
}
#box3 {
background:silver;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="box1">box 1</div>
<div id="box2">box 2</div>
<div id="box3">box 3</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Bear in mind also that this is a simplified version of the page, and there is other stuff below the outer div that flows down as the text size expands.... thanks in advance for any help! graham Does anybody know what the css attributes would look like for the right margin divs like (e.g. #smr-00) found in this tutorial? (see link) css.image.text.wrap.tutorial.htm Hello, can anyone help me with this? I'm having trouble floating some divs and I can't find the problem. 1. navigation should be aligned with the bottom of the h1 logo 2. the content div should come next to the list of brands. The content div should overlap the black bg at the top. www. claeysconsult . be / misskado / index2.html Thanks in advance... Hi im experiencing big problems with creating this layout. I spent whole day with positiooning this divs but i cant do this final layout. Everytime i want to float divs to left DIV 1 and DIV 2 are ok but DIV 3 jump to new line under DIV 2 and dont fit the gap between DIV 3 and div 1 . Can someone please help me ? Thanks ... link to image : xipic.eu/ufiles/njf25uy8_divs.png Hello all, sorry if this is a "newb" question, but I am having trouble with the code on my site. The element "#arrival" is not displaying the proper height unless I literally type code in to fill it up the full 400px. I haven't implemented any paragraph styles, I just want to get the basic elements done for this landing page. How would I go about fixing this? Also, do I have to "float" the "#arrival" element? I would like to have the dog house overlap the first div element of the dog jumping (#dog) like in the jpg. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what it should like: http://i33.tinypic.com/2uh7evm.jpg But this is actually what is happening: http://www.amandambruce.com/DROH/index.html Thanks in advance, Amanda p.s. here is the code directly from the source: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"(URL address blocked: See forum rules)">
<html xmlns="html://(URL address blocked: See forum rules)/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>The Dachsund Rescue of Houston</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{
background: url(images/background.jpg) no-repeat top center;}
#contain{
width: 800px;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#menu{ width: 466px;
height: 98px;
float: right;
margin-top: 15px;
}
#dog{ width: 491px;
heigth: 257px;
margin-top: 19px;
margin-left: 22px;
float: left; }
/* margin-top is the menu plus the remaining pixels (19) so,
from the very TOP of the page. I guess you keep "adding"
*/
#community{ float: right;
background: url(images/community_spot.jpg) no-
repeat;
width: 231px;
height: 259px;
margin-top: 19px;
margin-right: 22px;
}
#arrival{
clear: right;
background: url(images/arrivals.png) no-repeat;
width: 800 px;
height: 400 px;
}
p{
font-family: helvetica;
font-size: 12pt;
color: #000000;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contain">
<div id="menu">
<a href="about.html"><img src="images/about_btn.png" alt="About
button" title="About" border="0"/></a>
<a href="adopt.html"><img src="images/adopt_btn.png" alt="Adopt
button" title="Adopt" border="0"/></a>
<a href="help.html"><img src="images/help_btn.png" alt="Help
button" title="Help DROH" border="0"/></a>
<a href="resources.html"><img src="images/resources_btn.png"
alt="Resources button" title="Resources" border="0"/></a>
<a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact_btn.png"
alt="Contact button" title="Contact" border="0"/></a>
</div>
<div id="dog">
<img src="images/jumping.jpg" border="0"/> </div>
<div id="community"> </div>
<div id="arrival"> lll
</div></div>
</body>
</html>
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Hi, If I have Code:
#parent {
background-color: red;
padding: 2px;
margin: 2px;
}
#child1 {
float: left;
}
#child2 {
float: left;
}
</style>
<div id="parent">
<div id="child1">
Some text
</div>
<div id="child2">
Some text 2
</div>
</div>
Then the two child divs will appear underneath the parent one, whereas I want the background from the parent one to be the backdrop for the two child divs. if I remove float: left then they appear in it, but underneath each other. I want them side by side. Is this possible with css? [code] <div id="wrapper" style="background-color:black;padding:2px;overflow:visible;"> <div id="left-floating-box" style="background-color:red;float:left;">asdfsadf</div> <div id="right-floating-box" style="background-color:blue;float:right;">asdfsadf</div> </div> [code] here is a problem, warpper div doesnt strech to the height of the floating divs, ofcourse when you get rid of floating then everything work but i need this to work as it intended and that is two floating boxes with in one div and this div would wrap around two floating boxes and that way background would stretch as well. I rember solving this problem. Long time ago, but for some reason i am stock right now with this problem. Any one can refresh or sugest anything. Thank you. I've used divs before and got them to work just fine. I've read previous posts and can't find the answer I'm looking for because it seems so basic. But here is my problem. I simply can't get the divisions to float left or right. They just sit on top of one another. Here is my style sheet code: Code: #container
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 800px;
}
#header
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: Blue;
}
#menu
{
background-color: Gray;
float: left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 140px;
}
#content
{
float: right;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 650px;
}
#footer
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 800px;
}
and my HTML: Code: <div id="container">
<div id="header" align="center">
<!-- #INCLUDE VIRTUAL="includes/example_header.aspx" -->
</div>
<div id="midsection" align="center">
<div id="menu">
<!-- #INCLUDE VIRTUAL="includes/example_menu.aspx" -->
</div>
<div id="content">
<!-- #INCLUDE VIRTUAL="includes/example_common_content.aspx" -->
<p>
Garbage.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer" align="center">
<!-- #INCLUDE VIRTUAL="includes/example_footer.aspx" -->
</div>
</div>
Thanks in advance for your help. Hi there! I'm using this code: CSS: Code:
#content {
margin-top: 75px;
width: 597px;
height: auto;
}
#left {
width: 110px;
height: 497px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
}
#right {
width: 485px;
height: 100px;
}
HTML: Code: <div id="content"> <div id="left"> </div> <div id="right"> </div> </div> --------- But the right-div goes under or over the left-div. I've tried clear:both; between the div's, but it didn't help. URL |
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