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CSS - Creating (really) Dynamic Tables
I'm kind of new at the whole CSS thing (though I have lots of other web programming experience) and I was wondering if it's possible to create an inline dynamic table.
Basically what I want to be able to do is have the user enter in a number and hit enter (or a button) and have a table with that many rows (and a set number of columns) appear on the page without the page being reloaded. Is this possible to do with CSS in a way that most browsers support? If there is, can someone point me to a resource that would have information such as this? Thanks! Similar TutorialsI'm not sure if the title describes exactly what I mean, but here it goes. I'm working on this website: http://denartcc.org/d/ The menu along the top has images that change position when you hover over them. The thing that I'm trying to do is create something that looks like this site's menu: http://www.aopa.org/ Notice how hovering over one of the menu items reveals another blue bar that contains more links. This is what I'm trying to create. Unfortunately I'm stuck when it comes to comparing these side-by-side, and I just don't know how to create that secondary set of links. The code I'm using is below. CSS: Code: #amenu {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin:auto 0 0 0;
width: 930px;
height: 30px;
background-color: black;
position: relative;
border-bottom:medium solid white;
float:left;
}
#amenu ul {
display: none;
position: absolute;
}
#amenu ul li {
}
#amenu li a {
display: block;
text-indent: -900%;
position: absolute;
outline: none;
}
.home {
width: 120px;
height: 30px;
background: url(../images/menu/home.png) no-repeat;
left: 20px;
top: 0px;
}
.airspace {
width: 163px;
height: 30px;
background: url(../images/menu/airspace.png) no-repeat;
left:160px;
top:0;
}
.community {
width: 174px;
height: 30px;
background: url(../images/menu/community.png) no-repeat;
left:343px;
top:0;
}
.controllers {
width: 195px;
height: 30px;
background: url(../images/menu/controllers.png) no-repeat;
left:537px;
top:0;
}
.pilots {
width: 174px;
height: 30px;
background: url(../images/menu/pilots.png) no-repeat;
left:752px;
top:0;
}
#amenu a:hover {
background-position: left bottom;
}
#amenu a:hover span{
display: block;
}
HTML Code: <div> <ul id="amenu"> <li><a href="#" class="home">Home<span></span></a></li> <li> <a href="#" class="airspace">Airspace<span></span></a> <ul> <li>ZDV Airports</li> <li>Preferred Routing</li> <li>Try Something New</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#" class="community">Community<span></span></a></li> <li><a href="#" class="controllers">Controllers<span></span></a></li> <li><a href="#" class="pilots">Pilots<span></span></a></li> </ul> </div> I would like to use have a background of an html page white. I also want a 5% width border in black. I want it to be elastic so the dynamic content will always be displayed on the white and the border is consist as the page is built dynamically. I don't want to use tables. Does anyone have suggestions on where I might find more information on such a task. I have googled but not found what I am looking for. Am I asking to much? Thank You. 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 was thinking of using DIVs insteed of table to layout my page. The page would be dynamic meaing the text would come from DB so i would have new articles comming in daily. I will like I cant controll where the text is put on the text. If I use CSS width="20px" and hight"20px",, <-- Yeah i know it down to the pixle,, but that would mean i would need to make a new CSS for every article that where put into the db. <-- which would be a pain. So how can I keep the controll of placing my text without using tables ? Please help a new CSS user. I have <div> content that diplays at different sizes in IE and Mozilla, which makes lining up the <div> container below it difficult. How can I get the <div> container to expand to the size of the content height wise so that I can then capture it's height with js, setting the <div> container below it to it's proper poisition. Thanks. Hi Guys... (and Girls) Great Forum you have going here... I've got a quick question regarding Dynamic CSS. I need to mention now though - I'm doing some development work at the moment, but, I'm not a developer so my approach and question might seem unusual to the experienced guys out there. Situation: I'm currently building a new site which is styled completly with CSS - e.g. No Tables or Cells. It's the first time I've done it but it's working great! The website is currently a fixed 760px across so that it will fit into 800 x 600 screen. Market research suggests about 20% of the visitors to this site use a 800 x 600 screen resolution and so I don't want them to have a horizontal scroll bar, but I would like the site to be at least 800px across for everyone not using a 800 x 600 screen resolution. My question is - Can I use a Javascript function to grab the screen resolution of a visitor to the site and then dynamically update the CSS of the site depending on screen resolution? And if so do you think it's a good approach? I'm sure there are others ways to do it but I'd prefer to work within the skills I already have, which includes Javascript and PHP. Thanks for the help... Matt Edwards Thank you for your time and assistance. I am working on building my first website in 2 years. I am very interested in developing a good site interface with standard code that may be easily edited later. Specifically, I am interested in creating dynamic navigation menus that will be supported by as many browsers as possible. I have seen dynamic menus created with javascript, but I know I don't want to do that since some browsers do not support it/or do not have it enabled by default. Can you comment on whether or not CSS would be a good solution to get around this problem? I have never used CSS to create menus in the past, but it seems very useful for standardizing a site interface. I am also open to other suggestions, what would you do to accomplish this task? Hi I'm trying to CSS a dynamic table using Dreamweaver CS4 the problem i have is to set my css i have to have 2 rows 1 odd 1 even and dreamweaver only gives me 1. I've added a second row which just remains blank. Can anyone help Heres my html / PHP: <div class="donation_table"> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>FAMILYNAME</th> <th>FAMILYCODE</th> <th>DONATION</th> <th>DATE</th> </tr> </thead> <?php do { ?> <tbody> <tr> <td><?php echo $row_Recordset3['FAMILYNAME']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $row_Recordset3['FAMILYCODE']; ?></td> <td>$<?php echo $row_Recordset3['DONATION']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $row_Recordset3['DATE']; ?></td> </tr> <tr class="rowline"> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> <?php } while ($row_Recordset3 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset3)); ?> </table> </div> And heres my PHP code $maxRows_Recordset3 = 25; $pageNum_Recordset3 = 0; if (isset($_GET['pageNum_Recordset3'])) { $pageNum_Recordset3 = $_GET['pageNum_Recordset3']; } $startRow_Recordset3 = $pageNum_Recordset3 * $maxRows_Recordset3; mysql_select_db($database_MafiaLive, $MafiaLive); $query_Recordset3 = "SELECT FAMILYNAME, FAMILYCODE, DONATION, `DATE` FROM donations ORDER BY DONATION DESC"; $query_limit_Recordset3 = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_Recordset3, $startRow_Recordset3, $maxRows_Recordset3); $Recordset3 = mysql_query($query_limit_Recordset3, $MafiaLive) or die(mysql_error()); $row_Recordset3 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset3); if (isset($_GET['totalRows_Recordset3'])) { $totalRows_Recordset3 = $_GET['totalRows_Recordset3']; } else { $all_Recordset3 = mysql_query($query_Recordset3); $totalRows_Recordset3 = mysql_num_rows($all_Recordset3); } $totalPages_Recordset3 = ceil($totalRows_Recordset3/$maxRows_Recordset3)-1; Thank you Daniel I want to have a web page with a list on it that dynamically resizes to fit the browser viewport with a minimum distance between list items. Here's an example I faked in TextPad: Normal view: User enlarges browser: User shrinks browser: How would I accomplish this in HTML/CSS? Thanks! hi all ! I have some dynamic data that gets inside a cell in a table, the problem is that Im having problems to adjust the cell so the data can be seen more user friendly. The max width for the table is 1024 px. This is how it looks: Is there a way to make it look better using dynamic css,script,etc? Thanks a lot ! Hello all, I'm trying to create a site using all css positioning but I'm running into some problems that to me, shouldn't even be problems. The main issue I'm having is getting a container div's height to expand based on the height of divs nested inside the container. Vut all I get is the nested divs flowing outside of the container div. I don't have any code to share, because I have it so screwed up right now it wouldn't even help explain my issue. I'm going for a 3 column design, that is wrapped by said container div, and the container divs height would be based on the height of the longest div nested within. I've done alot of searching on the web, and the answer seems to be that this can't be done. But I'm giving it one more try here. I'm also a bit confused about relative positioning. Say that my conatiner div actually worked, and the height adjusted appropriatly. I have a left column, and a right column. both are position relative to the container. But when I do this, it seems to come out that the right columns top positioning is relative to the left columns positioning. If I design everything based on viewable browser area, and allow scrolling when necassery, css is a dream. But thats not very practical. It seems that css great for static websites, but not quite up to par for anything dynamic. Once I calm down and I'm not so frustrated, I'll start over and post some code if my explaination isn't descriptive enough. Any input would be appreciated! :-) Despite looking through the forum, having problems with dynamically creating an external CSS file. Can any one explain? Basically I currently have a CSS file: Code:
.normal
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}
.userdef
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FF0000;
font-weight: 800;
}
.big
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
I have set the site up so that the user can define there own colour of text for the userdef style, but im unsure how I can put this colour variable into the CSS file. I'm guessing I have to rename it into a .php file... but how will the browser still know its a CSS file?? Thanks very much for your help Ok im trying to have a division that expands with the content however, although this works in IE if i dont specify a height, in browsers like firefox the background color just stops even though the content carries on. Code: <div id="content"></div> Code:
div#content
{
background-color: #F3F3F3;
}
ive tried adding height: 100% but it doesnt make any difference Hi all, Bit of a stupid question this as I have checked w3 and w3schools et al and could find anything on this, but: Are wildcards usable in CSS? Example: I am going to be generating blocks dynamically, and instead of writting all these blocks into a stylesheet, I wondered if you could do it using wildcards. Example: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<!-- Creation date: 01.10.2004 -->
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#block {color: red;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="block">Text</div>
<div id="block2">Text 2</div>
<div id="block3">Text 3</div>
<div>Text 4</div>
</body>
</html>
Changing the #block reference to #block* doesn't work, any ideas? I don't want to have to add #block, #block2, #block3 {color: red;} etc... Hi All, I've got one of those wonderful CSS/javascript flyout menu's running on my website which is causing me a little bit of grief in Firefox and Safari. Firefox and Safari seem to be placing the 2nd and 3rd level items of the menu underneath all the other content on the page and therefore can't be seen. Seems to work well on Opera and IE. Here are the screen shots of what is happening in each browser: http://dev.platforminteractive.com.au/cssissue/css_ff.jpg - firefox http://dev.platforminteractive.com.au/cssissue/css_opera.jpg - opera http://dev.platforminteractive.com.au/cssissue/css_ie.jpg - ie You can take a look at the site and the coding behind it at http://dev.platforminteractive.com.au - just in development atm but this nav is causing me some grief. Hi all- I am building a tableless site out of divs/css and cant seem to get the one div positioned properly. I need to make the site as dynamic and liquid as possible so absolute positioning (i.e. width:320px; etc) is out of hte question... http://verticalextreme.com/about/hours_pricing.html i am trying to have the HOURS div and hte PRICING div inline with each taking up 50% of the main content width i currently have the following css: Code: #hours {
display: inline;
clear: none;
width: 50%;
}
#pricing {
clear: none;
display: inline;
width: 50%;
}
Thanks for any help in advance - rock on I have the task of creating a question with multiple correct answers without using form checkboxes (for reasons I won't go into here.) I've made a simple question that works by replacing the src of a tickbox image with a ticked one when that answer is selected. It works in IE5.5 and Firefox but in IE6 the images show when the page loads, then disappear on clicking and don't come back. Can anyone suggest why? I've stripped out all the branding etc and put the basic page at http://www.normanlamont.com/test/mu...pages/index.htm Here's the code that does it: Code: function markup(which) {
// toggle tickbox on and off until submit
if (document.getElementById('c' + which).className=="chosen") {
document.getElementById('tick' + which).src="../q_images/tickbox_0.gif";
document.getElementById('c' + which).className="not_chosen";
selected[which-1]=0;
}
else {
document.getElementById('c' + which).className="chosen";
document.getElementById('tick' + which).src="../q_images/tickbox_1.gif";
selected[which-1]=1;
}
}
Hi. I would like to create a gradient similar to the microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads Look how the gradients at the top and bottom of the page work. Im sure this is not simply repeating an image. Does anyone know how this works? or can point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to achieve this? I looked at the microsoft site in Opera and NS, and the dynamic grad only seems to work in IE. So im guessing that you can also set a bkgnd image? for the other browsers? many thanks. One thing I've never been able to replicate using CSS that you can do w/ tables is a simple content area with tab, where the border goes just around those areas and there's a set width for the tab but no set width to the area beneath it. I'll try to graphically depict what I mean he _____________ |************|____________________ |*********************************| |*********************************| |*********************************| |*********************************| |*********************************| ------------------------------------------------- Seems simple enough, right? Just imagine that's a solid border and the asterisks are the content area, and I want to create this using only CSS and divs. The tab, say, is fixed at 100px, but the area below is at some percent, say 90% of the page. The problem ends up being the portion to the right of the tab. I need to create a div there so that the top right border is drawn, which is really the bottom border of that space. I can't simply give the area below a top border because then it would place a border under the tab, and I want the tab to be seamless with the area beneath. CSS can't figure out what the remaining width of the div to the right of the tab (at least without using the under developed display:table-cell), so I can't specify the width of that div, which means I can't know how far to extend it to reach the right side of the area below. So, generally, as far as I can tell, the above depiction can't be done without tables. Can anyone find a workaround? Please let me know if I'm not explaining this well enough. Thanks! Hello, I am trying to aling two unordered lists side by side by each other. I want them to look like: Code: Example 1: Example2: *blah *blah *blah *blah *blah *blah I'm running into two problems: 1) I can't get them spaced apart from each other. I tried putting them in a table, but the cells just sit right next to each other so there's no space. 2) Since it is an UL, the dotted bullet points are centered, however, I would like them left-justified like the example. Is this possible? Thanks guys, [EDIT] After posting, the example does not display like I want it. I want a whole SPACE GAP between the two lists. The post made them run together. |
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