CSS - Onmouseover Column Bg Change

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

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;
    } 

Hello,

I am having difficulty with the center column on the following page: http://cbo4edu.org/index2.html

I want to widen the center column so that the CBO NEWS heading touches the blue line which divides the center and right column. When I try to add width to the style sheet the left column moves out of alignment.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

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.

hi all, right have got a problem which has been bugging me for days now. i have 4 columns in a row (inside a wapper div)which all will have different content image, text other divs/classes etc. now one of these columns will be quite fluid as it will have different text on each page meaning it will be quite long on some pages not on others. the problem i am getting is in the good browsers firefox etc its ok in IE6+. the wapper does'nt seem to see the divs in the content meaning it does not get filled, meaning that the footer flys to the top and not where it should be, i dont have a live version but heres the code: mainly thanks Dan

<!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>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#con {
width:940px;
height:400px;
background-color:#00FFFF;
}
#wapper {
width:940px;
background-color:#006666;
}
#box {
width:940px;
background-color:#000033;
height:40px;
}
#menu-pronuptia {
width:185px;
background-color:#6633CC;
float:left;
display:inline;
}
#menu-pronuptia1 {
width:185px;
background-color:#009900;
display:inline;
float:left;
}
#menu-pronuptia2 {
width:385px;
background-color:#0033CC;
display:inline;
float:left;
clear:inherit;
}
#menu-pronuptia3 {
width:185px;
background-color:#CCCC33;
display:inline;
float:left;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wapper">
<div id="menu-pronuptia">
<p>test</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<div id="menu-pronuptia1">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<div id="menu-pronuptia2">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<div id="menu-pronuptia3">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="box">
<p><br />
</div>
</body>
</html>

Hi,

http://www.dudley.nhs.uk/search.asp has a two column effect. The CSS for it is he http://www.dudley.nhs.uk/css/screen.css I was wondering why if there is a table in the right hand column with a width percentage over 77% there is some horizontal scrolling? This happens in IE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Janusz Jasinski

I am a HTML&CSS novice - I am trying to write a page using a three column layout but the column colour doesn't reach the footer.

I understand that this is a common problem and I've looked at a lot of examples on the web of how to work around this or create a better layout but I'm still not sure enough to know which would be the easiest and best to go within the page I have written.

I want to avoid images but other than that any help would be great!

I have validated the HTML & CSS and they are copied below (could any advice be really specific, as I said this is very new to me!).


Thanks

HTML:


<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Drivers Jonas Information Unit</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="djiucss.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="djiuprintcss.css" media="print" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="top">
<div id="picture">
<img src="GIF.gif" alt="DJ" width="200" height="100" />
</div>
<div id="heading">
<div id="title"><h1>Drivers Jonas Information Unit</h1></div>
</div>

</div>
<div id="left">
<br/><p><a href="about.html">About us</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="company.html">Company Information</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="legal.html">Legal information</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="landreg.html">Land Registry</a></p><br/>
<p><a href="research.html">Research</a></p><br/>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="title"><h2> News
</h2></div>
<ul>
<li>The Information Unit has recently acquired a set of new APC guides</li>
<li>If you would like any training on databases</li>
<li>The Information Unit has created an economy timeline </li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="main">
<div id="title"><h2>Main stuff</h2></div>
<p>Suspendisse adipiscing malesuada lectus. Cras vitae dolor. Donec consequat, lectus sed euismod consequat, ipsum mi mollis nunc, eget nonummy neque purus a tortor. Ut vel lorem. Curabitur mollis mauris id diam. Nam posuere. In placerat sapien ut nisl. Donec volutpat augue ut velit. Proin nec mi sit amet metus placerat egestas. Quisque porttitor massa eu lacus. Donec tristique, neque in sollicitudin euismod, enim tellus varius mauris, id vestibulum est massa id massa. Integer et purus. Vivamus condimentum tincidunt ipsum. Duis augue lorem, pretium vel, cursus at, vulputate sed, neque. Quisque justo. Nunc rhoncus. In ornare venenatis velit. </p>
<p>Donec facilisis ante sit amet mauris. Nunc fermentum orci eu quam. Donec vestibulum. Vestibulum ultricies nisl eu eros. Curabitur urna. Duis enim erat, lobortis nonummy, mollis non, porttitor nec, nisi. Phasellus pulvinar purus eu pede. In mollis. Duis sit amet dui et arcu rhoncus auctor. Integer est dui, pharetra vel, volutpat ac, luctus in, elit. </p>
<p>Suspendisse adipiscing malesuada lectus. Cras vitae dolor. Donec consequat, lectus sed euismod consequat, ipsum mi mollis nunc, eget nonummy neque purus a tortor. Ut vel lorem. Curabitur mollis mauris id diam. Nam posuere. In placerat sapien ut nisl. Donec volutpat augue ut velit. Proin ne</p>
</div>
<div id="bottom">
Drivers Jonas Information Unit
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS:

#top
/*DJ logo and page title - includes h1*/
{
color: black;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
background: #d31145;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}

body
{
color: black;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size:14px
}

img /*DJ logo*/
{
padding: 20px;
float:left;
}

#heading
{
text-align: center;
padding:20px;
}

/*main page title*/
/*should change all reds to DJ red: #d31145*/

#left, #right, #main
{
color: white;
background: black;
}

#left
{
float: left;
width:140px;
border-right:2px solid #d31145;
text-align:left;
padding-left: 1em;
}

#right
{
float:right;
width:140px;
border-left:2px solid #d31145;
text-align:left;
padding-right: 1em;
}

#main
{
margin-left: 150px;
margin-right: 150px;
border-left: 1px solid;
border-right: 1px solid;
padding: 1em;
}

#bottom
{
clear:both;
margin: 0;
color:black;
background: #d31145;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}

#title
{
text-align:center;
}

a:link {color:white}
a:visited {color:silver}
a:hover {color:#d31145}
a:active {color:#d31145}

Hello!

I'm new to CSS, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm working on this page:
sugarhooker[dot]com/testing/index2.html
*The CSS is included in the head

The right column is suppose to start where it says 'Are you hooked...'
It should be right underneath the navigation bar. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

hello. I am currently using a simple horizontal top menu with a vertical drop down. I would like to change the vertical drop down to be horizontal, multi column, and should accomodate more than one line, if possible. The example I'm going for is used as top navigation he
nfl - baltimore ravens home page
and he
ge home page

Here is the code I'm using currently (would like it to be all CSS).
####

ul#mainNavigation
{
padding-left:185px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li
{
padding:0 16px;
float: left;
display:inline;
position: relative;
list-style: none;
color:White;
_width:1px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.Seperator
{
padding:0px;
_width:1px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over
{
background-color:white;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over a
{
color:Red;
}
ul#mainNavigation li a
{
color:White;
text-transform:uppercase;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
display:block;
}
ul#mainNavigation a:hover {
color: Red;
}
ul#mainNavigation li a
{
display: block;
}
ul#mainNavigation li p
{
height:19px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li ul
{
display: none;
position: absolute;
background-color:Black;
opacity:.8;
filter: alpha(opacity=80);
-moz-opacity: 0.8;
margin-left:-16px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over ul
{
display: block;
z-index:999;
}

ul#mainNavigation li.over ul li
{
float: none;
background:none;
border:none;
white-space:nowrap;
padding:0px;
}
ul#mainNavigation li.over ul li a
{
color: white;
padding:5px;
border-bottom:solid 1px black;
}

ul#mainNavigation li.over ul li a:hover
{
background: #3d1f6e;
color: white;
}
~~~~~~~ HTML ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<ul id="mainNavigation">

<li>
<p><a href="Mainlink1.html">Mainlink1</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="link2.html">LINK 2</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.html">LINK 3</a></li>
<li><a href="link4.html">LINK 4</a></li>
<li><a href="link5.html">LINK 5</a></li>
<li><a href="link6.html">LINK 6</a></li>
<li><a href="link7.html">LINK 7</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li>
<p><a href="Mainlink2.html">Mainlink2</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="link2.html">LINK 2</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.html">LINK 3</a></li>
<li><a href="link4.html">LINK 4</a></li>
<li><a href="link5.html">LINK 5</a></li>
<li><a href="link6.html">LINK 6</a></li>
<li><a href="link7.html">LINK 7</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

####
Thank you, in advance!
~ lahddah

I have a button which is drawn using css background-image and it has a hover effect using css a:hover. I also need to have a click state for this button, so that each time the button is clicked it switches between two different states (4 states total). Is this possible? I'm assuming this will probably require JavaScript which I have little experience. Thanks in advance for any help!

I found some neat css code to display an image file to the user, but text to the search engines (which count more for internal linking when it comes to seo).



The sample code I found uses an h3 tag and is as follows:
Code:

<h3 id="header">
	<span>Revised Image Replacement</span>
</h3>

/* css */
#header {
	width: 329px;
	height: 25px;
	background-image: url(sample-opaque.gif);
	}
#header span {
	display: none;
	}

(full explanation found at: http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/)





I tried to do so on my site using anchor text, but can't get it to work. Nothing shows up at all
Code:

<a href="Apply_Now_Surety_Bond.htm" id="blank_button"><span>Apply</span></a>



/* css */

#blank_button a{
	width: 93px;
	height: 52px;
	background-image: url(apply.jpg);
	}
#blank_button span {
	display: none;
	}

You can see that the "Apply" button does not appear at: www*bryantsuretybonds*com/new (it should be the first one on the left)

This could be argued that it belongs in a JavaScript forum but I think the core of the problem lies in where the information should go so I shall post it here.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>My site</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
    <style type="text/css">
      #base { 
        clear: both;
        padding-top: 1px;
        border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;
        width: 100%; 
        background: #0f0f0f;  } /* end #base */
      #main_block { 
        background: #0000ff;
        margin: auto;
        text-align: left;
        width: 955px; } /* end #main_block */
      #main_content { 
        background: #ffffff;
        border-left: 1px solid #0000ff;
        border-right: 1px solid #0000ff; } /* end #main_content */

      #top_main_content { padding-top: 1em; } 
      #top_main_content ul {
        float: left;
        list-style-type: none;
        border-spacing: 0;
        border: 0;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        text-align: right;
        border-top: 1px solid #ff0000;
        height: 243px;
        width: 266px; } /* end #top_main_content ul */
      #top_main_content ul li {
        color: #00ff00;
        width: 266px;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ff0000; } /* end #top_main_content ul li */
      #top_main_content ul li a { 
        line-height: 26px;
        display: block;
        color: #00ff00;
        width: 266px; } /* end #top_main_content ul li a */
      .indent { padding-right: 1.5em; }
      #top_main_content ul li a:hover {
        background: #cfcf00; 
        color: #000000; } /* end #top_main_content ul li a:hover */
      #top_main_content #rotating { 
        z-index: 0;
        float: right;
        width: 687px;
        height: 242px;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ff0000;
        border-top: 1px solid #ff0000; } /* end #top_main_content #rotating */
      #default { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: visible; } /* end #default */
      #a { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #a */
      #b { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #b */
      #c { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #c */
      #d { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #d */
      #e { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #e */
      #f { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #f */
      #g { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #g */
      #h { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #h */
      #i { 
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden; } /* end #i */
    </style>
    <script language="javascript">
	  function change_graphic(to_visible) {
 	   var num_elements = 10;
	    var elements = new Array(num_elements);
	    var i = 0;
	    elements[i++] = "default";
	    elements[i++] = "a";
	    elements[i++] = "b";
	    elements[i++] = "c";
	    elements[i++] = "d";
	    elements[i++] = "e";
	    elements[i++] = "f";
	    elements[i++] = "g";
	    elements[i++] = "h";
	    elements[i++] = "i";
	    var temp = "";
	    for(i = 0; i < num_elements; i++) { 
	  	  document.getElementById(elements[i]).style.visibility = "hidden"; }
	    document.getElementById(to_visible).style.visibility = "visible"; } // end function change_graphic(path)
	</script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="base">
      <div id="main_block">
        <div id="main_content">
          <div id="top_main_content" onmouseout="change_graphic('default');">
            <ul>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('a');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link A</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('b');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link B</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('c');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link C</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('d');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link D</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('e');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link E</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('f');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link F</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('g');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link G</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('h');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link H</span></a></li>
              <li onmouseover="change_graphic('i');"><a href="#"><span class="indent">Link I</span></a></li>
            </ul>
            <div id="rotating">
              <div id="default"><img src="images/default.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="a"><img src="images/test_image_a.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="b"><img src="images/test_image_b.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="c"><img src="images/test_image_c.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="d"><img src="images/test_image_d.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="e"><img src="images/test_image_e.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="f"><img src="images/test_image_f.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="g"><img src="images/test_image_g.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="h"><img src="images/test_image_h.gif" alt="" /></div>
              <div id="i"><img src="images/test_image_i.gif" alt="" /></div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

What I have is a set of links that when hovered will change the contents of the rotating div to reflect information about that particular link. As the code stands now, whenever any other item is moused over, the div will reset to the default div.

What I would like to happen is whenever the top_content div is mousedoff (new word?), the content resets to the default.

Thus I should be able to hover over a link, change the content of the rotating div, and move from that link directly to the content and mouse around over there all I want without changing back to the default div.

To me, what I have should work in that I am thinking of nested divs as a parent/child relationship but that is obviously not how the browser is interpreting it. Any ideas on how I can achieve this? The JavaScript portion has been tested and works correctly.

Edited: This code also pushes the side menu into the border in Opera. This problem was addressed and fixed in a previous thread but I broke it again.

hello,

I did search the forum for this but it may be unique, I am using css onmouseover effect to change the background image of my menu from one image to the other to ceate the lighted effect. I am also using text display over these images. The text also "lights-up" with the hover effect. the problem i have though is I would like the text part to "light-up" with the image when the cursor is over the image.... not like it is now with the image lighting up before the text.

see URL for details.

I realize I could just use an image entirly, but since my menu is generated by php, this is not an option.

Edit I did find one source for getByID, but i cannot seem to make it work.... help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

I am about to go insane.. I am a total newbie to DHTML and Javascript and I am trying to do a onmouseover event to make an image display normally as a grayscale version of itself (with filter:gray) and when the mouse moves over it I want it to switch to the full RGB color version.

I tried to do a rollover with two seperate versions of the image and it worked, but for some reason IE 6 wants to load the image from the server again everytime I onmouseover or onmouseout. This is very slow, especially on my server.

I just want to change the image with DHTML filters..

General pseudocode:
<img src="blah.jpg" style="filter:gray" onMouseOver="style='filter:none'" onMouseOut="style='filter:gray'">

Can anybody help me? PLEASE???!?!?