CSS - Choosing A Way To Convert From Tables To Css (float Or Absolute, Etc...)

on my page http://tampabay-online.org/cetr/news/

the left side :

Code:

.content {
	position:relative;
	width:300px;
	margin-left: 155px;
	margin-top: 20px;
	border:1px solid black;
	background-color:white;
	padding:10px;
	z-index:3;
}

and the two on the right are :

Code:

#right {

	position:absolute;
	width:200px;
	top:20px;
	left:500px;
	border:1px solid black;
	background-color:white;
	padding:10px;
	z-index:1;

}

#sidebar {

	position:absolute;
	width:200px;
	top:400px;
	left:500px;
	border:1px solid black;
	background-color:white;
	padding:10px;
	z-index:1;

}

If someone has a their font bigger on the artists section then the div will grow and go under the sidebar div.

Any way to make these relative or fix that problem?

Thanks!

Hi There -

Am converting another design from tables, working with a CMS (Drupal) and an existing CSS / table combination that I didn't write and have no choice about.

Think of the header as having three sections. The top section has logo on the left, search box on the right. Rounded corners. I'm cool with that section.

Then there's a space. Created a div for the space. Love the space. Problems with the space in IE. Will go into it later.

Then there's the next section. Rounded corners. Contains the entire page.

On the left is a pulldown menu, about 1 cm from the top. On the right is a tabbed menu. This menu has flexible height. It needs to be right up against the bottom with the menu below it. Call this section the tabbed menu section.

Third section. Immediately below that is a bar menu like the one Apple's got. Looks like a metal bar with divisions. Call this primary links.

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First, the space between. In IE, when you roll over the bar menu, the space disappears. Won't come back.

Initially, in the second section, floated the pulldown menu left and the tabbed menu right. That worked fine, except that the tabbed menu had a width of 100% and pushed up the pulldown menu so the section was too wide. When I put it to 65%, all hell broke loose with the bar menu in the third section below it and bits of it snuck up into the second section.

If I left it alone, and left the tabbed menu at 100%, when I checked over its container with firebug, it said that it was being affected by the primary links. I figured that out also because the background for that container was a really weird color that I finally found in the background of the navigation id and changed to white. Primary was overlapping it so I couldn't see it with firebug.

So after fiddling with several clearing methods, I gave up and decided to try a table. Table worked fine, and the second section looks good except that there's a one pixel space between the tabbed menu and the bar menu.

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It is my greatest wish right now to be able to float the pulldown to the left, the tabbed menu to the right and have the primary links stay below. I wish I could get the space to work and I wish for a clear understanding of it all so I can then figure out where to put the corners.

Anyone who can enlighten me on this would have my undying gratitude. I've been working on this all day and the deadline's tomorrow.

Code:

<div id="top part"
logo and searchbox
</div>

<div>
that pesky space that disappears in IE when roll over primary links
</div>

<div id=navcontainer>
dropdown and tabbed menu
</div>

<div id="navigation" class="menu> <!-- couldn't find the menu class in the css -->
<div id="primary" class="clear-block">
contains barmenu - very fussy
</div>
</div>

Here's the relevant CSS:

Code:

div#navigation {
  background: #fff url(../images/blue/menu-bg.png) 100% 100% repeat-x;
}


#primary {
  line-height: 30px;
}

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

#primary li {
  display:inline;
}

#primary a {
  font-weight:bold;
  display:block;
  float:left;
  padding:0px 14px 0px 14px;
  margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
  font-size: 95%;
}

#primary a {
  background-position:0% 0px;
}

#primary a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-position:0% -42px;
}

#primary a.active {
  background-position: 0% -84px;
}

#primary a {
  background: url(../images/blue/menu-div.png) 100% 0 repeat-y;
  color:#666666;
  font-size: 120%;
  font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}

#primary a:hover {
  color: 666666;
  background: #B8B8B8;
}

#primary a.active {
  color: 666666;
  background: #B8B8B8;
}

This is my first try at css and i have been at it about a week on and off. I have tried to use examples from here and the o'reilly CSS cookbook. I want to create a two column row of pictures with a caption. I selected DIV as the tool (my css is below). The container DIV looks great. I want the div.float, however, to start a second row when a third picture is added and to continue thereafter with successive two column rows. Unfortunately, each of my rows contain only one picture.

here is my css style sheet. A demonstration of the problem can be seen at:

http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/?How_to_create_pages
Code:

div.float {
    float: left;
    BORDER-RIGHT: #808080 2px solid;
    PADDING-RIGHT: 2px;
    BORDER-TOP: #808080 2px solid;
    PADDING-LEFT: 2px;
    FONT-WEIGHT: lighter;
    FONT-SIZE: medium;
    PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px;
    MARGIN: 16px 2%;
    BORDER-LEFT: #808080 2px solid;
    COLOR: #000000;
    PADDING-TOP: 2px;
    BORDER-BOTTOM: #808080 2px solid;
    HEIGHT: 200px;
    WIDTH: 150px;
    BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;
    TEXT-DECORATION: none
  }
  
div.float p {
   text-align: center;
   }
div.container {
  border: 2px dashed #333;
  background-color: #ffe;
  }
div.spacer {
  clear: both;
  }

MY HTML is like this:
Code:

H1>How to create pages</H1>
<P>The headings are used for splitting up the content file. An H1, H2 or H3 heading will dynamically split the document into new pages in the table of contents. An H4-heading is used as a heading within a page. See the following pages...<BR></P>
<P></P>
<DIV class=container>
<DIV class=spacer></DIV>
<DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 1" src="image1.gif" width=100> 
<P>caption 1</P></DIV>
<DIV class=spacer></DIV>
<DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 2" src="image2.gif" width=100>
<P>caption 2</P></DIV>
<DIV class=spacer>
<DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 3" src="http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/image3.gif" width=100>
<P>caption 3</P></DIV>
<DIV class=spacer></DIV></DIV></DIV>

Hi all,

I have a bit of an odd situation (prob not odd if you seen it before but I have no clue why its doing it!).... I have my webpage:

http://www.houseofhawkins.com/index.html

which works great in IE. the part in question is the menu tabs at the top. Within IE they keep the width I have given them.. In firefox they only go to the width of the text.

They are links with the following CSS attached:

div#Header #MenuSection a.MenuTab {

PHP Code:
 filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#A8DBA8', startColorstr='#A4B7A4', gradientType='0');
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 1.3em;
    background-color: #BCD6BC;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #A5BEA5 #BCD6BC #BCD6BC #A5BEA5;
    margin: 0 5px 0 2px;
    height: 1.5em;
    width: 140px;    
    padding: 5px 1px 1px 1px;
}

div#Header #MenuSection {
    float:left;
    margin-top: 30px;
} 





here is the HTML code for that part of the page.

PHP Code:
<div ID="MenuSection">
                    <a Class="SelectedMenuTab" Title="You are currently viewing the Home page">Home</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Curriculum Vitae for Jonathan Hawkins, Author of House of Hawkins">CV</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/projects/index.html" title="Portfolio of Work created by Jon Hawkins">Portfolio</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Online Photo Gallery of Jon, friends and family">Photo Gallery</a>
                    <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/games.html" title="Games created by House of Hawkins">Games</a>
                </div>
            <div style="clear:left"> </div> 





I just dont get why firefox wont be nice and give me the width I ask for... the oddest bit is if I put float:left into the menutab part they do work!

I wish to understand why its like this... I have attached the CSS and the file if that helps anyone.

Thanks for the help and advice.

I'm not confident enough with CSS to just use it, so I'm mixing it with some tables too.

I want a layout with two tables next to each at the top and then another below.

The two at the top are working fine, but the one below keeps jumping back up to the top.

I've managed to get an ugly fix by putting in a load of <br> but this doesn't work in IE7 (unless I add a lot more, pushing the content way down in other browsers) and isn't much of a solution.

The other problem I have is that I want to have the majority of my page with a white background, but to get a surrounding border I've set the body background to be a colour and then placed a div around all the content. I want this div to be the size of the page and so set it's height to 100%, but this makes it too small. Not sure why.

Here is my code for my page and CSS.

If anyone can help I'd be most grateful.

Code:

<!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></title>
<link href="incl/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function navon(num) {
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.backgroundColor = '#CDEB8B';
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.paddingTop = '0px'
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.paddingBottom = '0px'; 
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.borderTopWidth = '10px';
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.borderBottomWidth = '10px';
	
}

function navoff(num) {
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.backgroundColor = '#C3D9FF';
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.paddingTop = '8px'
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.paddingBottom = '8px'; 
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.borderTopWidth = '2px';
	document.getElementById("nav" + num).style.borderBottomWidth = '2px';
}
//-->
</script>

</head>

<body>
<div class="main">

<table width="29%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" align="left">
<tr>
<td><img src="" alt="" width="230" height="80" border="0" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

<table width="70%" height="60px" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" align="right">
<tr>
<td width="180px" class="nav" id="nav1" onmouseover="navon('1')" onmouseout="navoff('1')">link</td>
<td width="180px" class="nav" id="nav2" onmouseover="navon('2')" onmouseout="navoff('2')">link</td>
<td width="180px" class="nav" id="nav3" onmouseover="navon('3')" onmouseout="navoff('3')">link</td>
<td width="180px" class="nav" id="nav4" onmouseover="navon('4')" onmouseout="navoff('4')">link</td>
<td width="180px" class="nav" id="nav5" onmouseover="navon('5')" onmouseout="navoff('5')">link</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="70%">
some content
</td>
<td width="30%">
some more content
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

body {
	padding-right: 4%;
	padding-left: 4%;
	padding-top: 30px;
	padding-bottom: 30px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	letter-spacing: 0.1em;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #EEEEEE;
}
a:link {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.main {
	background:#FFFFFF;
	border: 10px solid #36393D;
	width: 89%;
	padding: 5%;
}
.nav {
	padding: 8px;
	background-color: #C3D9FF;
	vertical-align: middle;
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 24px;
	color: #36393D;
	cursor:pointer;
	border: 2px solid #36393D;
}

I need to get:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
a{text-decoration:none}
a:hover{color:#000000; }
-->
</style>

<body bgcolor="#eeeeee" text="#0060FF" link="#0060FF" vlink="#0060FF" alink="#0060FF">

to be able to use in a CSS. How? I'm not sure how to lay it out and so on... I want it so all links have no underscore, etc and they're all #0060FF dispite it being active, viewed and so on... When they hover, I need it to go black.

Thanks!

I am trying to position a footer at the bottom right hand corner of the page with style Code:

{position: absolute; bottom: 0px; right: 0px;}

However, the footer is not lying on the bottom, its about an inch off the bottom, interfering with a form field. How do I fix this?

When using Absolute positioning is it best to have the first <div> be static so that that the Absolute Positioning has something a reference point?
Thank you

I can't create a complicated webpage without using absolute positioning for areas.
For ex I want to create 2 top areas of screen width on top of page. Then I want 3 columns with 1st and 3rd columns having 3-4 seperate containers. Without using absolute I am way to confusied to get this happening.

yo.
i'm trying to convert my site to CSS. my old design was in HTML, and i made it in fireworks. each content table was made up of images in a table (it had rounded corners)

i want to start making my layout with CSS. how can i use these images for my old table in the same way with CSS?

thanks.

Hi,

the table is simple one as below.

Code:

<style >
table {
	border:1px solid #000;
}
</style>


<table width="200" border="1">
  <tr id="header">
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr id="content">
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr id="footer">
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

what i try to do is to have a container which contains 3 sub container. By using table the footer can be positioned at the bottom of the page regardless of the length of the content. How do i rewrite it using <div>? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I just stated handcoding and I am having a great time. Everything seemed to be going well on my first site until I previewed it on IE. After solving the nasty png issue, I realized that the two elements that I have absolute postioned a) screw the layout up in IE6 b) don't appear all together in IE7 and IE8, but doesn't screw up the flow.

The elements are an arm that is supposed to hang off the left side, and hair that sits above the contentwrap (you will understand once you look)

It renders perfectly in Firefox, safari and google chrome. Go figure.

I read I can't put hyperlinks because of spam, so if you don't mind helping out, please visit:

w w w . goscoblog. com/test/index.html

Thanks In advance

Hi,

I have a div which is centered in the area right of the menu. However, I am trying to get it so it sits absoultly center. The width of the menu is forcing its center line to be 180px right of true center.

Here is the link:
http://www.zombiemod.com/rm/nina2/about.html

Here is the HTML:

Code:

<div id="main-image-container"> 
<h5><b>ME: SWEDE & TAURUS</b> - It must be a good combination<br /><br /> 
Patient, reliable, persistent & determined. They will do their jobs to perfection, or at least as close to it as possible.
</h5> 
</div> 

Here is the CSS:

Code:

#main-image-container {
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
    width:600px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
}

Can anyone help me with this please? I tried to offset the main image container by -180px but that didnt work.

Hi, I was wondering if any CSS experts could give me some advice on how to position elements on a page. Right now I'm really into using absolute positioning because it just seems so easy to place things on an exact point on the screen irrespective of all other elements, but I am wondering whether that is considered bad practice, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for any correspondence.

The question is "What is the positioning context of a div positioned absolutely (e.g., div#nav{position:absolute;}); that is, where is the 0,0 coordinate from which any offsets will be measured?"

Is the answer "it will be measured from the top left"?