CSS - Css: Need Help With Simple Layout
Similar TutorialsHi really nw to using css just starting out today lol. So i was wondering how i can get the two divs mod1 and mod2 to sit side by side and expand the advBar div height when more and more content gets added to both divs, rather than me specifying a height and floating the two divs inside the advbar div ? any ideas would be great. unless ive lost yas. Code: <body> <div id="level0"> <div id="level1"> <div id="topBar">This is the top navigation bar.</div> <div id="advBar"> <div id="mod1">2323 frwef sdf</div> <div id="mod2">s dfs dfsd fsd fsd f</div> </div> </div> </div> </body> Code: body { margin:0px 0px 0 0px; padding:0; background:#FFF; } #level0 { background:#FC0; } #level1 { padding-left:9px; padding-right:9px; margin-left:300px; margin-right:300px; background:#FFF; } #main { background:#CCC; } #topBar { padding: 10px; background:#FC0; } #advBar { padding: 10px; height: 90px; background:#FFF3AC; } #mod1 { border: 1px solid red; float: left; padding: 10px; background:#FFF3AC; width: 45%; } #mod2 { border: 1px solid red; float: right; padding: 10px; background:#FFF3AC; width: 45%; } I am working on this website : http://five-art.com and the code for the nav bar is : Code: <div class="content"> <table><tr><td><h1>[5]Art</h1></td><td class="navtop"> :: <a href="index.php">Call for Submissions</a> :: <a href="ms.php">Mission Statement</a> :: <a href="past.php">Event Archive</a> :: <a href="members.php">Members</a> :: <a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a>.</td></tr></table> </div> I added the table so that I could have two different font sizes without the text going to the next line. What would be the best way to do this with css. Thanks! Hi, I'm trying to constuct what, in real terms, is a simplistic page layout using CSS-P. Maybe I'm being stupid - but here goes... I am trying to constuct a page as follows: header (viewport width) leftMenu (width 150px) content (as wide as necessary) - top aligned with top of leftMenu footer (viewport width) - underneath the "tallest" of "Left Menu" and "Content" Easy huh? But, as soon as any content is greater than [viewportWidth - 150] (150=width of leftMenu), the content (depending, of course, on the CSS implementation) either slips below the leftMenu, disappears altogether(?), or has the footer right underneath the header with everything else below. I could do this with a simple table construct in under a minute. So please - CSS gurus, can you advise me how to achieve this in CSS, as it seems impossible (10 hours+)? I thought CSS was supposed to make design easy; If I'm not missing something and CSS can't achieve this (common) basic layout - what hope is there? All comments truly appreciated, HEX. Okay I am trying my best to let go of HTML tables and move to the wonderful world of using CSS for layout. I continue to find that, although it may be an archaic way of doing things, most of the time using tables for layout is the quickest and most accurate way for me to get the job done. Please don't hate, because I want to become more knowledgeable at using CSS! So in my latest project I have a problem. I have a navigation bar that stretches always accross my page. In that navigation bar I have two primary things: on the left I have a menu section, and on the right I have a login section. In the past I would have easily implemented the layout with tables, using something like this... <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr style="background-color: black;"> <td align="left">[stuff for my menu section]</td> <td align="right">[stuff for my login section]</td> </tr> </table> The end result would be a solid black navigation bar that would contain the stuff for the menu section on the left and the stuff for the login section on the right. Each would sit inside and flush against its respective side of the containing solid black navigation bar. Also, this navigation bar would automatically adjust its height to contain both sections, no matter how tall. Pretty simple stuff, right? So now I am trying my best to figure out how to do this with CSS. At this point I have only a very crude understanding of how CSS and divs work in layouts. I started out by making a container div... <div id="NavigationBar" style="background-color:black;"> </div> ...then I embedded a div for each section... <div id="NavigationBar" style="background-color:black;"> <div id="MenuSection"> [stuff for menu section] </div> <div id="LoginSection"> [stuff for login section] </div> </div> ...When I ran the page I quickly noticed the output was quite different than what I expected. It showed my black navigation bar, but it stacked the login section along the left side and just under the menu section. So after some reading I discovered I should be able to solve the problem by assigning 'float:left' to the menu section div and 'float:right' to the login section div. And so I did. While this did cause each to appear in the correct location (menu section on the left, login section on the right), it also had an undesirable effect. Each section, after attachment of the 'float' styles, was no longer contained in the parent div. As a result each no longer contained the background color of the parent. And so now, while I have a partial solution, I am still left wondering what I should do to continue on and solve this issue. What I really need is for each section to be *contained* within the parent div and also use its background color, while also aligning properly to the left or right sides of the parent div. In other words, I want the black background color of the navigation bar to be shown behind my menu and login sections. And if my menu should render at 40 pixels high, 300 pixels high...whatever, the containing parent div should adjust to contain it, just like an HTML table would. For me, setting 'height' values for the parent div (essentialy in the background) and then using 'float' styles is not a good solution. What if the menu is rendered using a different font and thus changes heights? And even more important, what if a user does not view the page in standard 96DPI mode? In either case the rendered heights of the menu and login sections could change. If I were using tables this would not be a problem; the table would simply adjust to the needed height, no matter what. How can I get the same effect when using CSS and divs? Quote: I just started working with CSS again, and I'm having problems coding my layout. The problem is he I'm testing on Firefox. div#wrapper is the problem. EDIT well, after playing with it some more, I have found out that this has no pattern to it at all, its pretty much just producing random results, so infinitely STUPID!!! Seriously. This is something that is so simple, and yet these idiots who come up with this crap make it so difficult. If you want to pad left and right, it shouldn't be this goddamn difficult. Sorry, I'm VERY pissed now, after working on something so basic for so long. I can only get a padding on the right for so far, and then it skips over to completely aligning to the right, while the left is so much farther over, even if it has smaller padding... what the hell. Heres the full code: index.html Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <head> <title>Elemental Concepts</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="upperwrapper"> <div id="banner"></div> <div id="memberswrapper"> <div id="members"> </div> <div id="membersfooter"></div> </div> </div> </div> </body> style.css Code: body { text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; background-color: #E8E8E8; } div#wrapper { width: 700px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0px 50px 0px 25px; text-align: left; background-image: url('mainbg.jpg'); height: 100%; } div#upperwrapper { width: 741px; margin: 0; height: 105px; } div#banner { float: left; width: 471px; height: 105px; background-image: url('banner.jpg'); } div#memberswrapper { float: right; width: 249px; height: 105px; } div#members { width: 249px; height: 98px; background-image: url('membersbg.jpg'); } div#membersfooter { width: 249px; height: 7px; background-image: url('membersfooter.jpg'); } div#wrapper, is the main div, which has a background. I need the insides spaced about 15 px from the left, and 15 px from the right. But for whatever reason, it usually ends up spacing 25 px from the left, and 5 from the right, the more I play with the numbers though, to get the results I want, the more obscure it becomes... it just WILL NOT do what I want, and WILL NOT follow any logical pattern with how it display. Help is really appreciated. I am completely and utterly lost... EDIT 2: Still working on it, and no progress, except the background image keeps disappearing every time I even think about touching the background attribute! I'm about to say **** it, and use tables. This is ridiculous. I just opened up IE6, and it looked even more obscure than it does in Firefox. This makes no sense. I just read a few tutorials on div padding, doesn't mention anything about this. Maybe its the floats causing the problem... but I don't see why elements on the inside could stretch the containing element, if it has fixed size and padding, and that still doesn't explain the IE6 problem's, which I'm not even going to get into now... since I have probably confused you enough already. I seriously think I could write an entire HTML/ CSS parsing engine, in any language, in less time than it would take me to code this layout properly in HTML/ CSS. Ridiculous. Well, I got the top working in Firefox, instead of floating left and right, the banner and memberswrapper, I floated one left, and the other had a left-margin. Though, I am almost 100% sure, the text, and other divs below are not going to align properly, with the edges of the above [banner and memberswrapper]. I am also afraid to see what this looks like in IE6. style.css Code: body { text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; background-color: #E8E8E8; } div { margin: 0; padding: 0; } div#wrapper { width: 725px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 25px 0 25px; text-align: left; background: url('mainbg.jpg'); } div#upperwrapper { width: 741px; margin: 0; height: 105px; } div#banner { float: left; width: 471px; height: 105px; background: url('banner.jpg'); } div#memberswrapper { margin-left: 477px; width: 249px; height: 105px; } div#members { width: 249px; height: 98px; background: url('membersbg.jpg'); } div#membersfooter { width: 249px; height: 7px; background-image: url('membersfooter.jpg'); } Edit Again: Looks just as bad as it did before, in IE6. The background image repeats horizontally, which it should have absolutely no reason to do so, the width is 50 pixels less than the images width, and the padding on the left and the right, are each 25 pixels, accounting for the full image size... and yet the full image and then some is displayed. If screen shots would help, I can take some. Or if you want to see what an impossible layout to code looks like, I can send you a zip of everything. Theres 2 options left, tables or absolute positioning. Need a bit of CSS guidance I would like somefeed back on what is a good way to structure a page template using CSS I would like the page content to be displayed 780 px width, Centered Header image at top 780 px wide Horzontal Nav below 780 px wide also 2 columns of content below footer at bottom Im sure this is a common layout as I have seen it on many sites. Im just not sure what the optimal way to set it up using divs. SEO being my primary concern Here is the layout: Code: <body> <div id="main"> <div id="header"> headet stuff here </div> <div id="nav"> the nav </div> <div class="content"> <div id="left_content"> left content </div> </cfif> <div id="right_content"> right </div> </div> <div id="footer"> footer </div> </div> </body> STYLE SHEET: Code: #main{ position: relative; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 780px; } #header { position: relative; width: 780px; height: 100px; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color:#8787d5; } #nav { position: relative; width: 780px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 1px solid #ffffff; background-color:#8787d5; background-image:url(../images/nav_bg.png); } .content { position: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px; border-left: 1px solid #8787d5; border-right: 1px solid #8787d5; border-top: 1px solid #8787d5; border-bottom: 1px solid #8787d5; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; background-color:#e9e9f5; } #left_content { position: relative; border-left: 1px solid #8787d5; border-right: 1px solid #8787d5; border-top: 1px solid #8787d5; border-bottom: 1px solid #8787d5; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; left: 5px; top: 5px; width: 325px; padding: 0; } #right_content { position: relative; border-left: 1px solid #8787d5; border-right: 1px solid #8787d5; border-top: 1px solid #8787d5; border-bottom: 1px solid #8787d5; top: 5px; left:335px; width: 440px; padding: 0; } #footer { position: relative; padding: 20px 10px 10px 10px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; color: #993300; text-align: center; } THe problem I am having is when I use relative position for left-content and right_content the right content is positioned to right of but at the bottom of the left_contetn div. I can get them to line up correctly using absolute positioning but then the content div that contains them and that also has the border and backgrond color does not expand vertically to to contain the left_content and right_content divs. any help is greatly appreciated thankya hey all, i am new to using CSS. (Yes i am very much behind the times). But i am trying to rectify that! Now the problem i am having is that i have a flash object that i simply want to align centered horizontally and it stays centered no matter what. but i would also like to position it y = 100 (x and y positioning) any ideas! I've been working in CSS, man, is it tiresome for a beginner! After much trail and error, I've come up with my first CSS page. Where I'm stuck, is in the area where all the text is. When I put more text into that page, none of the surrounding styles/boxes[?] adjust to the text format (also shown in a link below), and I can't seem to figure out how to center the entire page itself. Sorry, for the stupid questions, I'm a total novice, and can barely understand most of the CSS postings in this forum. Text extending instead of expanding layout: http://rafia.info/css/layers.bad.htm Thanks sincerely, rups27 Hi all, This is my first post here so go easy on me. Firstly, please look at this: h ttp://digitalformula.net/temp/layout.jpg - I can't post a proper URL since I'm a new user ... sorry for the space at the start of the address. Anyway, the top part is what I have now and the bottom part is what I'm trying to get to. Can someone please assist with the CSS for this? I know just enough CSS to be dangerous but I can't seem to find the right way to put the captions under the images without the image on the right dropping below the image and caption on the left. I've tried all different types of float etc but nothing seems to work - I know it's something I'm doing wrong as this is probably one of the more basic questions posted here. ANY help would be much appreciated! Thanks, digitalformula Hi. I'm making a registration and login pages with some additional information, and I'm wondering how to make them tableless? What I'd do with tables is put table in a table, because I want to do something like this: A 640px (or any other value) width box in the center of the screen, in which there is another box under some text, which is borderless login box. Same would go for the registration box. And without tables - I have no idea how to do it. Not sure if this is the right section, sorry if it isn't. Thanks. Hello, I am using an OS Commerce layout for a client's website. On this page - www.mts-diesel.com you will see how I have the homepage laid out in anticipation of design, with 3 divs of varying colors. One div with an id of #hp_left is where I want to put a nice jquery code. But when I insert that into #hp_left it breaks the whole layout, was seen here www.mts-diesel.com/index2.php I'm not sure what in the css in the code for this script is breaking my layout but Ithought someone here might be willing to shed some light. A big thank you. Tom I am working on the new home page which is based on a template. The left sideColumn is working fine, however I am having a few problems with the mainColumn layout. Here is a static image to show what I want it to look like Here are the problems I am having: 1) The #scroll box is place where I want it in IE but in foxfire it is right up against the left side of the #sideColumn partially hidden. There will be text that scrolls into this box and stops. I haven't started on the part yet - in case that makes a difference. Not my choice, but that is what the bosses want. 2) I want the image centered horizontal within the #mainColumn. Here is what I have for the css: #home img { margin: 5px auto 5px auto; } which I thought would do the trick, but it's not. 3) I want the p text to have a 40px margin on the right and left side like the .large does. Here is what I have for the css: #home p, .large { margin: auto 40px auto 40px; } It works for the .large (Welcome to Vitalograph), but not for the text below it. At one point I had it working, but after addtional changes fixing other problems, now it doesn't and I can't figure out why. Here is the xhtml starting at the 2 column part (wrapper): Code: <!--begin wrapper--> <div id="wrapper"> <!--begin side column --> <div id="sideColumn"> <span class="category">Products</span> <ul> <li><a href="/products/spirometers.html">Spirometers</a></li> <li><a href="/products/clinical_trials.html">Clinical Trials</a></li> <li><a href="/products/asthma_copd.html">Asthma & COPD</a></li> <li><a href="/products/smoking_cessation.html">Smoking Cessation</a></li> <li><a href="/products/resuscitaion.html">Resuscitation</a></li> </ul> <span class="category">Resources</span> <ul> <li><a href="/resources/contact_us.html">Customer Support</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/training_services.html">Training & Services</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/exhibitions.html">Exhibitions</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/newsletters.html">Newsletters</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/downloads.html">Downloads</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/useful_links.html">Useful Links</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/industry_information.html">Industry Information</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/industry_information.html">Sitemap</a></li> </ul> </div> <!--end of side column --> <!--begin main column --> <div id="mainColumn"> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main_Section" --> <div id="home"> <div id="scroll"><span>scrolling news will go hear and stop</span></div> <img src="/images/boys_bubbles.gif" width="485" height="333" alt="boys and bubbles" /> <span class="large">Welcome to Vitalograph</span> <p>Vitalgraph offers a wide range of spirometers along with other asthma management equipment with over 40 years experience. From simple hand-held units to sophisticated Windows based spirometry systems, we have it all. Check out our full line of respiratory equipment under the product category.</p> <p><a href="/about_us/about_us.html">more about us...</a></p> </div> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> </div> <!--end of main column --> </div> <!--end of wrapper--> Here is the vitalograph_master.css: Code: body { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff; color: #515151; margin:0px; padding:10px; } /*page container settings*/ #page { width: 750px; height: 600px; border: 1px solid #5094F9; background-color: #FFFFFF; overflow: hidden; margin: auto; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; text-align: left; } /*logo header and tag settings*/ #header { margin: 0; padding-bottom: 5px; width: 450px; height: 36px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5094F9; text-align: left; } #header img { vertical-align: -7px; } .tagline { color: #5094F9; font-size: 16; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; display: inline; clear: both; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 10px; } /*top bar settings*/ #topbar { float: top; height: 20px; background-color: #5094f9; clear: both; padding-left: 10px; text-align: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #topbar a:link, #topbar a:visited { background-color: inherit; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #topbar a:hover, #topbar a:active { background-color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #5094F9; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #topbar ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding-top: 2px; } #topbar li { display: inline; margin-right: 160px; } /*Main Section two columns under top section*/ #wrapper{ padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; } #sideColumn { float:left; width:155px; height: 78%; background-color: #5094F9; padding-top: 50px; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px; pading-right: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; } .category { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 5px; } #sideColumn a:link, #sideColumn a:visited { background-color: inherit; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #sideColumn a:hover, #sideColumn a:active { background-color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #5094F9; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #sideColumn ul { list-style: none; padding: 15px 0px 15px 10px; margin: 0px; } #mainColumn { padding: 0px; } /*footer*/ .footer { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px; color: #999999; } /*text*/ .large { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5094F9; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 15px; } Here is the home.css: Code: /*home page*/ #home { margin: auto; } #home img { margin: 5px auto 5px auto; } #home p, .large { margin: auto 40px auto 40px; } #home a:link, #home a:visited { background-color: inherit; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #5094F9; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #home a:hover, #home a:active { background-color: inherit; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #990099; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } #scroll { width: 560px; padding: 5px; background-color: inherit; border: 1px solid #5094F9; margin-bottom: 5px; } Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Hi there and thanks for reading & helping! I am new to this site, but here is my question: I need to build about a 20 page website. I have been told I should do the "layout" for each page using CSS. Is it possible for each page to "link" to one CSS file for layout instructions? I have found suitable CSS layout templates but am unsure how to link each page to the external CSS file for a basic "header, 2 column, footer" layout, or if it is even possible? Hello, I am creating the base design of a web site that consists in two horizontal bars: Navigation and Intro. "Navigation" will contain the menu. "Intro" will contain two items: a logo (image) on the left and a banner (flash) on the right. In this moment I have the following: http://www.27lamps.com/Beta/Bar/Bar.html I am not sure if using a background image is the best way to do this ... ... it seems to me that since the two bars are two different sections then I should use two divs. So the questions I have: 1. Should I use two divs, one for each bar, and setting the line- height in em instead of using the background image? 2. How to place side by side the logo and the banner and centered them vertically? 3. I would like the Navigation and the Intro bars to have a minimum height. Thanks, Miguel My layout is pretty simple. 1 large columb in the center that should extend the full length of the browser(minimum) regardless of how much text is in it. 1 column on either side of it for other content. I cannot get the middle column to extend to 100%. it stops at the data. Here is my CSS. Code: body { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #C10E0E; } #leftcolumn { display: inline; float: left; left: 15%; width: 150px; } #centercolumn { float: left; width: 511px; height: 100%; margin-left: 2px; padding: 8px; border-left: 1px solid #494949; border-right: 1px solid #494949; background: url(/images/bg.png) no-repeat top left; background-color: #FFDCAA; } #rightcolumn { float: left; width: 150px; margin-left: 1px; } #mainnav { width: 150px; padding: 0 0 0 0; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #C10E0E; color: #FFDCAA; } #mainnav ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; } #mainnav li { margin: 0 0 0 0; border-left: 7px solid #C10E0E; padding: 0 5px 0 0; } #mainnav li a { display: block; height: 15px; vertical-align: middle; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 0 0; background-color: #C10E0E; color: #FFDCAA; text-decoration: none; text-align: right; } html>body #mainnav li a { width: auto; padding: 0; margin: 0; } #mainnav li a:hover { background-color: #C10E0E; border-left: 7px solid #FFDCAA; color: #FFF; padding: 0; margin: 0; } #mainnav h3 { padding-left: 5px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: #F6D4A4; font-style: italic; } thanks! Hi there. I need help creating a certain layout. I need div borders around my layout, but without content inside them the background image is not seen. How could I resolve this without changing height:auto Thanks in advance Attached is my html page and my css file. The css is a template i got off ssi-developer. I'm changing it around a bit to fit my needs. The way I have the page now is fine I'm just curious to know if I can do this one thing. What I'm wondering is if I have to make different classes for the multiple rows that I have. Is there a way I can make the same layout without making all the rows. Once you see my files you will get a better understading of what I'm trying to accomplish. The site I'm working on is located at the following address: http://www.solinari.net/div.php On the left, the navigation is in two pieces - a left and a right piece. I need to have both pieces extend to the bottom of however long the page is. The bottom div's of both pieces of the navigation each have an image repeating vertically, my question is how to get the div to extend to the bottom of the page. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Solinari I'm working on converting a website from tables to div's and running into one little issue. The site is a basic header on top, navigation on left, content on right and a footer on the bottom. I would like the navigation div to grow in height to match the height of the content div so that the background fills the left side of the page. I have placed the nav and content divs in a container div and set a min-height on the container. I was hoping that that would let me place height: 100% on the navigation div but it isn't growing ever. Is there a way to get something like this done? FYI, the site is currently at http://users.adelphia.net/~mmorasch/ |