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CSS - Css Page Length Woes...
Hey, so I've just formatted my first table-free html page, using CSS. It's mostly cool, except that the page length doesn't mesh with the amount of content...
http://mailwerx.ca/grundmans/about_us.htm The css is at... http://mailwerx.ca/grundmans/grundmans.css If anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me! I've played with this for hours! (And I know it's probably something small and stupid.) Thanks! -Jaeger Similar TutorialsHi folks. I'm so new at CSS it's sad. I'm using a css template and I can't figure out how to get the page shorter. I tried adding overflow, tried setting it to auto or inherit. Pretty sure I'm way off. I see in the stylesheet it's set to be 1100px but I don't need it that long on every page. This is my first post here so I will wait to see if anyone wants me to post the stylesheet. Thanx so much for the help! So, I want it so that depending on how much content there is on my page, it will be longer or shorter, so I don't have to stick to a fixed height. Draft: I was thinking I need to use a code similar to this link. Would anyone care to help me out? Our pages all validate and work fine in all browsers (opera, firefox, mozilla, ie6, 5.5, nn >= 4.8) but in ie 5.01 the page content is far too long...a badly drawn ascii example: normal view: nav | content nav | content nav | content footer-------- problem in ie 5.01 Code: | content
| content
| blank
| blank
nav | blank
nav | blank
nav | blank
| blank
| blank
| blank
| blank
footer--------
Hope that makes some kind of sense. Basically IE is pushing the nav down, but it also seems to be adding the contents height below the nav as well It's a classic problem, but I was just wondering if anyone could give me some help on it. Heres the link to the webpage (note, none of the links or owt work, it's just filler for the mo): Code: http://users.aber.ac.uk/jdg8/WebSiteHelp/ I want to the make the sidebars on each side stretch to the bottom of the page (Down to the footer) but it won't seem to go. I've tried following googles advice and it's not working either. Here's the code: Code: body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background:#FFF;
height: 100%;
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #FFF;
}
a:link{color:#00B800;}
a:visited{color:#39F}
a:hover{color:white; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold;}
#container {
width: 80%; /* this will create a container 80% of the browser width */
background: #666666; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
border: 3px solid #000000;
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
height: 100%;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: auto;
}
#header {
background: #999999;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
color: #390;
}
IMG.ukdm {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
/* Tips for sidebars:
1. Since we are working in percentages, it's best not to use side padding on the sidebars. It will be added to the width for standards compliant browsers creating an unknown actual width.
2. Space between the side of the div and the elements within it can be created by placing a left and right margin on those elements as seen in the "#sidebar1 p" rule.
3. Since Explorer calculates widths after the parent element is rendered, you may occasionally run into unexplained bugs with percentage-based columns. If you need more predictable results, you may choose to change to pixel sized columns.
*/
#sidebar1 {
float: left; /* this element must precede in the source order any element you would like it be positioned next to */
width: 22%; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
height:100%;
background-color: #555555;
background-image:url(backgroundshizzle.jpg);
padding: 15px 0; /*top and bottom padding create visual space within this div */
}
#sidebar2 {
float: right; /* this element must precede in the source order any element you would like it be positioned next to */
width: 23%; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
height:100%;
background-color: #555555;
font-size:14px;
padding: 15px 0; /* top and bottom padding create visual space within this div */
text-align:center;
}
IMG.albumom {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
font-weight:bold;}
#sidebar1breaker {
width: 4%;
height:680px;
}
#sidebar1 p, #sidebar1 h3, #sidebar2 p, #sidebar2 h3 {
margin-left: 10px; /* the left and right margin should be given to every element that will be placed in the side columns */
margin-right: 10px;
}
#navi{
display:block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align:center;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 17px;
}
#aom{
font-style:italic;
}
/* Tips for mainContent:
1. the space between the mainContent and sidebars is created with the left and right margins on the mainContent div.
2. to avoid float drop at a supported minimum 800 x 600 resolution, elements within the mainContent div should be 300px or smaller (this includes images).
3. in the Internet Explorer Conditional Comment below, the zoom property is used to give the mainContent "hasLayout." This avoids several IE-specific bugs.
*/
#mainContent {
/* the right and left margins on this div element creates the two outer columns on the sides of the page. No matter how much content the sidebar divs contain, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the sidebar spaces when the content in each sidebar ends. */
font-size:12px;
margin-left: 3px;
}
#footer {
padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
background:#999999;
text-align:center;
font-size:9px;
}
#footer p {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}
/* Miscellaneous classes for reuse */
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain its child floats */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
}
It should be noted that I'm not totally sure about CSS and most of it is either stolen from dreamweaver or rehashed together from old websites I made. Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. I'm wanting to extend a div all the way to the bottom of the page to give the effect of a white column. How can I make it extend all the way to the bottom if the content is too short to make it do this? The example is at http://www.wattersisere.co.uk/devshed. Thanks, Watters ok I've been playing with divs and trying to get them working well, but no matter what I do I can never get any site I try and create with divs looking as good as I could do with tables. I've just grown up using tables, and am irritated that that's the way it was because I would like to be using divs. I posted a thread earlier and got some good help, but have since decided on using a different design and can't quite get it the way I want it. so, this is a big ask, but could someone 'convert' this table based site to something that looks the same using divs so I try and relate how divs work to how tables work a bit better? thank you very very much to anyone that can. html Code:
<html>
<head>
<style>
@import url(template.css);
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table id='main' cellspacing='0'>
<tr>
<td id='logobox'>
logo
</td>
<td id='menu'>
menu
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id='content' colspan='2'>
content
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id='footer' colspan='2'>
footer
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
css Code:
body, html
{
height: 100%;
background-color: #fff;
margin: 0px;
}
td
{
border: 1px solid #000;
}
table#main
{
width: 60%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
td#logobox
{
width: 80px;
height: 80px;
}
td#menu
{
}
td#content
{
columnspan: 2;
}
td#footer
{
height: 1%;
}
I would really appreciate some help with this layout issue I am having. Look at this page in IE 9 - http://www.hotstepperspainting.com/.../assistance.asp Notice the menu wraps the last link around and onto the body of the page? Also note that the bottom nav bar is doubled up. Now in IE8 I don't have the menu problem but do have the footer issue. In IE7 it looks like it should. I would really appreciate it is someone could shed some light for me on this. Tom Hi I am having a nightmare trying to get my horizontal navigation items to fill the width of my page and looking the same in IE and FF. Here is the page http://www.designhomemanagement.com/new/ You will see that in IE the spacing is different. They need to fill the width of the design (760px) Please someone help me! Thanks I'm having trouble getting my background to render for my site. When I write the code in the HTML ex. <body background="images/currentbgimage.jpg"> it brings up the image fine. This would suffice if I could tell the image not to repeat. But you can't to my knowledge in the body tag. The image won't display if I write it in the CSS though. ex. body {background-image: url('images/currentbgimage.jpg')} or body {background: url('images/currentbgimage.jpg')} I also tried it with the JPG in the folder with the HTML code, but to no avail. Any help will be appreciated. Skolar Hey, all! I'm having a seemingly simple problem... and I'd really appreciate if you guys could help me out! I have no idea how to do what I want done, but I know it's possible. I want to give every <tr> in <table class="forumList"> a 'border-bottom: 1px solid #000;' style.... except for the last <tr>. HOWEVER, if a new table is created, I want it to start showing the border-bottom again... until the last <tr> in the table. How would I go about doing this? Having some problem's with this layout i'm 'attempting' to develop in CSS... The Div setup Code:
<div id="header">
Header
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="menu_left">
Menu Left
</div>
<div id="content">
Content
</div>
<div id="menu_right">
Menu Right
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
Footer
</div>
The CSS Code:
/* specific divs */
#container {
margin: -3px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#header {
height: 100%;
text-align: left;
border-style: dotted;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #000000;
}
#content {
width: 60%;
position: fixed;
float: left;
border-style: dotted;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #000000;
}
#menu_left {
width: 20%;
position: fixed;
float: left;
border-style: dotted;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #000000;
}
#menu_right {
width: 20%;
border-style: dotted;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #000000;
}
#footer {
border-style: dotted;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #000000;
}
I've been looking around I don't really know where I'm going wrong due to my lack of experiance with CSS.... But in IE it won't float the DIV [menu_right] i've tried using position absolute|relative|fixed none seem to work i've been trying different combo's of Floats and mostly anything I can think of if someone here would be able to spare some time to help a 'noob' i'd be very gratefull... Thanks Hi. K, the site (thus far) looks great in IE, as the CSS is functioning perfectly. However, when checked in FF, it pretty well ignores the CSS for the body. I"ve undoubtedly missed somethin', just don't know what it is. Thanks here's the css; Code:
.borders {
border: 1px solid #666666;
text-align:center;
}
}
.text {
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #333333;
text-align:left;
}
}
.listtext {
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #333333;
text-align:left;
}
table.menu {
border:1px solid #999999;
background:#CCCCCC;
}
table.menu a:link, table.menu a:visited {
display:block;
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
line-height:16px;
color:#006600;
text-decoration:none;
padding: 2px 2px;
}
table.menu a:active, table.menu a:hover {
color:#CCCCCC;
background:#006600;
}
table.menu a {
width:144px;
display:block;
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
line-height:16px;
color:#006600;
text-decoration:none;
padding: 2px 2px;
}
and here's the HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Kyrtsakas Law - Home</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="description" content="Kyrtsakas Law Office - Title Insurance from an experienced Real Estate Lawyer offers the best protection for your investment">
<meta name="keywords" content="Kyrtsakas, Law, Law Office, Lawyer, real estate, estate, will, title, Windsor, purchases, mortgages, power of attorney, attorney, CAW">
<link href="kyrtsakas_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body topmargin="0" bgcolor="#666666">
<table width="640" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="menu">
<tr valign="top">
<td align="center" width="640" colspan="6">
<img src="images/Kyrtsakas_header.jpg" alt="Kyrtsakas Law Office">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
<a href="http://www.kyrtsakaslaw.com/index.htm">Home</a>
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
<a href="http://www.kyrtsakaslaw.com/profile.htm">Profile</a>
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
<a href="http://www.kyrtsakaslaw.com/tools.htm">Online Tools</a>
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
<a href="http://www.kyrtsakaslaw.com/contact.htm">Contact</a>
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
</td>
<td class="borders" width="640" colspan="4">
<div class="text"><br>
Welcome to <b>Kyrtsakas Law Office</b>.<br><br>
<b>Christos Kyrtsakas</b>, <b>LL.B.</b> specializes in <b>Real Estate Law, Title Insurance, Purchases, Sales, Mortgages,</b> and readily welcomes <b>CAW Plans</b>.<br><br>
Call Chris today at (519)-974-6303, or drop by the office, located at 5655 Tecumseh Road East (across from the Fire Station), Windsor, ON.<br><br>
"<i>Having a Lawyer Makes it Safer for You</i>!"<br><br>
</div>
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
</td>
<td class="borders" width="640" colspan="4">
</td>
<td class="borders" width="106" colspan="1">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Thank you! Hi. I've been trying to add some basic CSS to my forums. Basically it's just this: Code: <div style="float:left;width:24%;"> </div> <br /> <div style="float:left;width:24%;"> </div> <div style="float:right;width:74%;"> </div> It works fine with just the first and last div. But it won't work with the middle div there. I dunno what CSS to use. Edit: I can understand why it's doing that, add left | at 24%, add another | at 24% beside it for || but the last | is 74% and won't fit so it goes on a new line. Then the second | stretches to 74% to fit the | at 74% below it. Hmm, might revert to tables. I'm working on reworking my flash site into a CSS/HTML site. Tired of dealing with flash. Anyways....I am working on this page currently and am having trouble getting 3 divs to line up properly in IE. They look great in Firefox! Take a look and let me know if you have any ideas. Any help is much appreciated. Here's the link www .crealities.com/2008/inspiration.htm I'm having serious problems with the Peekaboo bug in IE. At least I think its that - I've tried all the fixes listed on positioniseverything and none are fixing it... http://ucy.sitemakers.com/courses.php I've got a three column layout taken from alistaparts Holy Grail layout which I've had working on many other sites with no problems, but I have added another two column layout directly above the three column one in this case. The problem im having is a jumping div element, the left column. When you click on the Courses link the element is in the centre of the page but moving the mouse around the main menu items will make it jump back into place. On page refresh the column is in the right place. Wierdly hovering over the link in the centre column doesnt make the offending div jump back like I would have expected. Taking out the following IE hack from the CSS: *html #cc_l { left:22em;} Makes the div appear in the correct place when clicking on the Courses link, until I hover over the menu again - then it jumps off the left of the page! This is doing my nut in, anyone have any ideas? Please look at these two pages - www dot aamco-houston dot com www dot aamco-houston dot com/warranties.asp On the second page, in IE9, the navigation gets broken and put on two lines. In IE7, IE8, Firefox,etc. it looks fine. Can someone give me a workaround perhaps? Thanks. Tom I am trying to get my suckerfish dropdown menu to be centered on the page regardless of the resolution of the monitor. I know this is possible, but I just can't wrap my head around it. This is what I have so far: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!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" xml:lang="en" > <head> <title><?php echo $title_page; ?></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="site_files/style/web.css" /> <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="site_files/pictures/favicon.ico" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="site_files/ie_drop.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <p>NAVPACMETOCCEN San Diego Operational Home Page</p> </div> <div id="info"> <p>This page will be down at 1100 GMT on 20 June 2005. Click <a href="site_files/php/status.html">here</a> for more information.</p> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="index.php">Home Page</a></li> <li>Support <ul> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Ship Specific</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Unit Specific</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Detachment</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Mobile Env. Team</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Coast Guard</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Satellite <ul> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Infrared</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Visual</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Water Vapor</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Lightning</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Analysis</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Products <ul> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Warnings</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Forecasts</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Aviation <ul> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Products</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Contact Info.</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">OBS/TAFS</a></li> <li><a href="site_files/php/a.html">Aviation Links</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="site_files/php/links.html">Links</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="leftside"> <p class="leftmenu"><a href="http://www.navy.com">Navy Jobs</a></p> <p class="leftmenu"><a href="http://www.donhr.navy.mil/NoFearAct.asp">No Fear Act</a></p> <p class="leftmenu"><a href="http://www.navy.mil">U.S. Navy Website</a></p> <p class="leftmenu"><a href="html/privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a></p> <p class="leftmenu"><a href="site_files/disclaimer.html">DoD Disclaimer</a></p> </div> </body> </html> And here is the style sheet: Code:
/* This part tells us how the hyperlinks will be handled by the browsers, and also what the background will be */
a:link { /* This is the link standard color*/
color: #000000; /*black*/
}
a:visited { /* This is the color of an already visited link*/
color: #800080;/*purple*/
}
a:hover {/* This is the color your link will take when you move your mouse over it*/
color: #FF0000;/*red*/
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {/* This is the color and effect when you physically click on the link*/
color: #008080; /*teal*/
}
a { /*This tells the browser not to underline any links */
text-decoration: none;
}
/* This begins the header and the information notice portion */
#header {
margin: -14px -8px 0px -8px;
padding: 10px;
height: auto;
background: #000060;
}
#header p {
margin: 0;
height: auto;
color: #FFFF1B;
text-align: center;
font: small-caps 24px verdana, san-serif, serif;
}
#info {
margin: -1px -8px 0px -8px;
padding: 1px;
height: auto;
}
#info p {
margin: 0;
height: auto;
color: #0000FF;
background: #FFFFFF;
text-align: center;
font: bold 12px arial, san-serif, serif;
}
/* This ends the header and the information notice portion */
/* This begins the Drop-down menu portion*/
#menu { /* Top-Right-Bottom-Left */
margin: 0 0 0 145px;
padding: 0;
width: auto;
font: small-caps bold 12px verdana, san-serif, serif;
}
ul { /* all lists */
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
}
li { /* all list items */
float: left;
position: relative;
width: 125px;
}
li ul { /* second-level lists */
display: none;
position: absolute;
top: 14px;
left: 0;
}
li>ul { /* to override top and left in browsers other than IE, which will position to the top right of the containing li, rather than bottom left */
top: auto;
left: auto;
}
li:hover ul, li.over ul { /* lists nested under hovered list items */
display: block;
}
/* This ends the drop-down menu portion */
/* This begins the left-side menu portion */
#leftside {
margin: 100px 0px 0px -8px;
width: 115px;
color: #000000;
font: small-caps 12px arial, san-serif, serif;
}
.leftmenu {
margin: 5px 0 2px 0;
height: 15px;
background: #DDEEFF;
}
#pkinotice {
margin: 0px 50px 0px 125px;
font: bold 12px arial, san-serif, serif;
}
.pki {
border: 2px solid #FF0000;
As you can see, I've just moved it over manually 145 px, and that centers it pretty well if you are viewing it at 1024x768, but at higher resolutions, the 145px is not sufficient for the centering. If anyone has an idea on how to fix it, I'd appreciate help. The solution must be able to validate, and work in both IE and a compliant browser (mozilla or firefox is what I use). Also, if the style sheet code can be cleaned up, or you see mistakes, don't hesitate to tell me. I've been learning CSS2.1 for about 3 months now, but I am not a whiz at it... I appreciate the help. Many thanks... Bryan Hi, This will help explain it: http://www.mattvonfat.com Now there is a container DIV (the box that goes down to almost bottom of screen) and 4 DIVs in the container (Logo, two link bars and my content). My problem is that I want the content to fill up as much as possible and have the bottom link bar (which is bordered) to be at the very bottom. Now, I tried adding height: 100%; to my content style but that made it 100% of the body height. Is there way to get it to just fill up as much as possible? I just noticed that one problem could be that the containing DIV uses absolute positioning to make the container 50px from both bottom and top. Would this be a problem? Here is the css for both the container and the content: css Code: Original - css Code /* container */ div#outer { position: absolute; width: 700px; font: 12px Verdana; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000; top: 50px; bottom: 50px; left: 50%; margin-left: -350px; padding: 0px; min-width: 700px; } /*content*/ div#indexs { border-top: 1px solid #000000; padding: 10px; margin: 0px; text-align: center; }
Thanks for any help you can give me with this, Matthew [edit] Hmm and i just realised that it doesn't even appear in IE the way it does in mozilla so I have two problems...[/edit] I really hate having to hack IE because microsoft wont use w3c compliance, but nevermind that heres my problem. Its a basic problem with horizontal css menus on http://www.fasttracksites.com/tmp/test.htm In FF it displays perfect, no problems, however in IE it wraps like a normal ul does, can someone please help me? Hello Guys, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me here. I have been developing a site for a friend who is starting his own company. I'm a self taught web designer and I'm relatively fresh when it comes to CSS, but I thought I'd give it a shot. I decided to use a sticky footer as I think it makes for a cool look. Everything is working wonderfully in Firefox, but when I test in other browsers I have issues. 1) Safari & IE7 Strange things are happening with the main content not fully displaying The footer isn't "pushed" down by the main site contents and covers up some of the content. Safari is even weirder because it works sometimes when I move around the size of the window itself, making it thinner (my screen is fairly wide). 2) IE 7 My right hand floated div (#contentright) appears in the wrong place. This doesn't happen in Firefox or Safari and I have no idea why. As far as I can tell it should be within the wrapper, to the right of the left content. This is on the sub-pages - there is no right side on the home page. If anyone can help out with these issues I would be grateful. Site is at: <removed at users request> CSS is at: <removed at users request> Code is more or less W3C valid as is CSS, bar a few minor issues which shouldn't be relative to the above. Many thanks, Jo |
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