HTML - Website Length Changing With Text Length.

I have a menu made up of one div and within that div are more divs to make up the separate menu items. I am trying to add a background colour to the holding div but it's not having any effect. When I investigate the div order in web developer it shows that it's not extending to the height of the menu divs inside it. Please help. It's menu_nav I am trying to put a background on.

HTML:

HTML Code:

<div id="menu_nav">
            <div class="mainMenu">
                <a href="#">HOME</a>
            </div>
            <div class="mainMenu">
            
                <a  href="services.html" onmouseover="mopen('servicesSub')" onmouseout="mclosetime()">SERVICES</a>
                <span id="servicesSub" onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" onmouseout="mclosetime()">
                    <a href="#">Website Production</a>
                    <a href="#">Hosting &amp; Domains</a>
                    <a href="services.html#design">Design &amp; Branding</a>
                    <a href="video.html">Video Production</a>
                    <a href="#">Interactive Media</a>
                    
                </span>
            </div>
            <div class="mainMenu">
                <a href="portfolio.html" onmouseover="mopen('portSub')" onmouseout="mclosetime()">PORTFOLIO</a>
                <span id="portSub" 
                    onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" 
                    onmouseout="mclosetime()">
               
                <a href="portfolio.html#websites">Websites</a>
                        <a href="portfolio.html#programs">Programs</a>
                <a href="#">Video</a>
                <a href="#">Animation</a>
                        <a href="#">Design</a>
                <a href="#">Web solutions</a>
                
                </span>
            </div>
            <div class="mainMenu">
                <a href="info.html" onmouseover="mopen('aboutSub')" onmouseout="mclosetime()">INFO</a>
                 <span id="aboutSub" onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" onmouseout="mclosetime()">
                     <a href="prices.html">Prices</a>
                     <a href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a>
                     <a href="aboutUs.html">About Us</a>
                    <a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
                 </span>
            </div>
        </div>

CSS:

Code:

* MAIN MENU NAVIGATION*/

#menu_nav a, #servicesSubMenu a
{
    text-decoration:none;
    color:black;
    
}

#menu_nav
{
      width:950px;
    background-color:#E6E6E6;
  height:auto;
    margin-top:0px;
  
    font-size:11pt;
	margin:auto;
}


.mainMenu
{
    float:left;
    float: left;
    margin: 0px 75px 0px 75px;
      background-color:#E6E6E6;
    line-height:30px;
}

.mainMenu a
{	
    line-height:20px;
    display: block;
    font-size:11pt;
    text-align: left;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color:#E6E6E6;
    
}

#menu_nav a:hover, #footer a:hover, #left_menu_column a:hover
{
    color:RGB(5,127,204);
}


/*DROPDOWN MENU*/
#servicesSub, #portSub, #aboutSub
{
    visibility:hidden;
    position:absolute
}


#servicesSub a, #portSub a, #aboutSub a
{
    width:150px;
    border-bottom:1px solid white;
    color:grey;
      padding-left:4px;
    padding-right:4px;
	padding:5px;
}

hello, new member here so hiya!

I have a site and I have a div containing all the page. At first I gave it a height just so I could put CSS in and see what it's like. After I have taken out the height though, the div shrinks to like 1 pixel. Why isn't it as long as it's containing divs - including left column, main section, footer?

Many thanks

Hi. I have a very discrete light blue color in the background from a previous template. It ends about halfway through the bottom area and I'd like to extend it throughout the entire page without moving/overwriting anything else please.

www.movehumanityforward.com

Thank you

This is one of these things where you probably should just go to bed and forget all the confusion.

My question: How the heck can you specify the length of the option field for a drop town list? I am sure ther is an embarrasingly simple answer.

Thanks a lot and good night!

hi
My code is-

<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<TR><TD>
<SELECT NAME="Date">
<OPTION>1</OPTION>
<OPTION>2</OPTION>
:
:
<OPTION>30</OPTION>
<OPTION>31</OPTION>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

it will show the numbers from 1 to 31 in the drop down with long scrollbar.
My problem is - I want show only 10 numbers.User need to scroll and select other numbers.
Is it possible?

The adage of 'give a man a fish and he'll be fed; give a man Dreamweaver and he thinks he's a designer' is alive and well with these glitches.

http://www.zenarchy.co.uk/test11.htm is a design draft and there are two problems.
The first is that the central span that houses 'High quality call recording software' doesn't match up to the end and sit flush. It's almost there in firefox but is miles off in IE. I'd like it to work in both.

<td width="100%" height="22" bgcolor="#91a2a0">
<p align="center"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>High
quality call recording software</strong></font></b></td>

is the code I've identified as relevant, but opening the hood and checking the source might be wiser!

2. How do I extend the columns on either side to sit flush at the bottom against the graphite baseline?

Your thoughts please (aside from get a pro to do it...)

Cheers!

Hi, I'm writing a website using tables (0 border and space etc.) so that things don't move around on different computers and browsers.

However, I've run into a bit of trouble with a particular cell. The one in questions is my navigation menu. I have it written in php as a separate page and used the include tag to load it onto the index. It consists of a table of height 600 and a single column with a couple of cells.

Now, from my reasoning, the the 600 table height of the nagivation menu/page should easily fit into the 600 cell height of it's space on the index. This is reflected when I view the page using IE - all of the border/frame images that I had made went together perfectly. However, when I view the page with FireFox, the navigation menu seems to be too short in that the first navigation cell does not immediately appear after the top border line. There is a blank white space. Also, it seems to have stretched that particular row because the right most border on the index, which is not connected to anything else and is it's own image, is centerized so that there is white space left (indicating the cell was incremented height wise).

Does anyone know if this is a fixable discrepancy?

A link to the test page is: VA Test Page

I can provide a link to the menu page if it's needed...

Anxiously awaiting a reply whether it's related or not

How do I figure out the lenght of the page (content, not browser window) so that I can make all of my regions line up at the bottom? I noticed that % in the height attribute is related to the window not content. I have also tried auto, but that is different for different content. My page has an outside region, a left nav bar and a content region, and I don't know how to make the bottom line up without tables.

Sorry if this is confusing. Thanks in advance.

Ok I know this isn't really a HTML issue, but to avoid complex clientside pixel-counting of fonts I've thought of something far more simple. I need to limit the length of a string to stop it wrapping. The first step is to limit the string's length in characters, using the following php script:

PHP Code:
function trim_string($string) {
  $trim_string = '...';
  $chars = 55;

  $chars_adjusted = $chars - strlen($trim_string);
  if (strlen($string) > $chars) {
    $string = substr($string,0,$chars_adjusted);
    $string .= $trim_string;
  }
  return $string;
} 


Fine, no problem. Now however the strings are not all of equal length because of differences in length of each character (see the warmdebate.com homepage for my debacle). I thought that a relatively simple solution would be to simple use some sort of CSS or HTML wizardry to stretch the trimmed string to a fixed length (like full alignment, only for a non-wrapped string).

Since this doesn't involve pixel counting or anything like that I figure it should be doable in CSS or HTML. Also, if there are any standard solutions to this other than what I'm proposing please let me know!

If you want to download a variable length text file, what would be the correct http headers to use?

I have a left menu column but it's not stretching down the length of the page. The page is quite long and when the links are finished on left column it just ends and as it has abackground colour it looks a little strange. It is floated left and the main_section is also floated left. It is the main section div that is long. I was thinking because this is in a div that the left coumn is also in that the left column would therefore stretch to the length of it's parent div.

Any ideas?


http://absolute-websites.com/services.html is the link so you can see what I'm talking about.

Here is a section of the HTML :

HTML Code:

    
              <div class="left_column">
                   <div class="breadcrumb"><p><a  href="index.html">home  ></a>services</p></div>
            <div class="icons"><p><a href="services.html#websiteProduction"><img src="images/webIcon-01.png" title="web building" alt="web building icon"/></a></p></div>

            <div class="icons"><p><a href="services.html#hosting"><img src="images/hostingImgIcon-01.png" title="Hosting & Domain Names" alt="Hosting & Domain Names icon"/></a></p></div>
            <div class="icons"> <p><a href="services.html#seo" ><img src="images/seo2Icon-01.png" title="Search Engine Optimisation" alt="Search Engine Optimisation icon"/></a></p></div>
             <div class="icons">  <p ><a href="services.html#marketing"><img src="images/advertsIcon-01.png" title="Marketing" alt="marketing icon"/></a></p></div>
            <div class="icons"><p ><a href="services.html#design" ><img src="images/designImgIcon-01.png" title="Design" alt="Design icon"/></a></p></div>
            <div class="icons"> <p ><a href="services.html#photo" ><img src="images/photoIcon-01.png" title="Photoditing" alt="Photoediting icon"/></a></p></div>
             <div class="icons"> <p><a href="services.html#video" ><img src="images/videoIcon-01.png" title="Video Production" alt="Video Production icon"/></a></p></div>
        
		</div>

        
        
        <div id="main_content" class="fl">
            <h1 class="h1SecHead" >>SERVICES</h1>
        
        

Hi,
I am new in web designing. I need your guidance. I want to break a word if it is longer than table width. May be I am not good at Engilsh. So I'll explain it using example. Following is my code.

Code:

<html>
<body>
<table align="justify" width="100" border"3">
<tr>
<td>
TE-sdf-sdf-hkjd
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

As here you can see the word "TE-sdf-sdf-hkjd" length is more than 100px. So the width of table becomes more than 100px. I want to break the word and fix the width of table to 100px. How can I achieve that? Waiting for your reply.

Hello,
I hired contractors to build a site for me. The site's front page has a small section for text, the developers added some placeholder text in this spot.
Now that the site is completed, I changed the text as follows:
I downloaded the index.php file from my webhost. I changed it to a txt file, then opened in notepad, found the placeholder text, changed it, saved the file, renamed the file back to php, then uploaded to webhost, replacing old index.php file.
When I load the page the following error message appears twice at the top of the window:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/XXXX/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/XXXX/public_html/index.php on line 2

Does anyone know what this error indicates ? (I'm not a programmer)
I did not save the old index.php file because I didn't think such a minor change would cause problems. The contract with my developer has ended and I don't want to start a new one for this. Any help appreciated.

Do you know that happens when a visitor does click one of the Link and change the text next?

Hello, i was wondering if anyone could tell me how i could make a function on my website, where the user is able to change the text size themselves. Like the function at the bottom of www.wired.com where they allow the user to change the text size of the website to 3 different sizes.

Thanks

Nat.