PrinceXML is really great and powerful but I’m offended by the way it manages header/footer.
I am trying to have 3 columns with different background colours to run on the full page height. Not a problem until you add a footer to include the page’s number.
In order to show the footer you need to add a bottom margin to the #page, but doing so cut the columns. I tried to use an absolute position without any luck.
Is there anyone who has some experience with complex layouts and page numbering with PrinceXML ?
As a DocRaptor developer, we run into these kinds of problems all the time. Prince headers and footers live INSIDE the page margins. This provides a lot of useful power, but sometimes complicates things, as you've noted.
Without seeing your exact HTML, I'd suggest the following:
Continue experimenting with a zero page margin and absolute positioning and a negative position/margin on the element inside the footer. I think this would work. It might work better if you used a header element. Prince gets weird and buggy on the edges when you do this kind of tricky stuff.
Alternatively, if your column widths are the same for every page/document, try faking the column background colors by using a background-image on #page.
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Am designing a site and am quite new to it. So my question may be naive. There are two pages index.html and aboutUs.html.
For this eg, i have removed most of the invalid contents with regards to my question. My question is related to how can we dynamically change or handle the length of the page based on the content. In my case, index.html does not have too much text, so the UI looks fine, however aboutUS.html has too much content, and the content overlaps with the footer. How do I handle such scenarios? For reference, I have added some images below, the first image has no overlap, but the second one has. You can find the source code over at GitHub (https://github.com/vnmshenoy/global)
Images
Your problematic classes seem to be imageDiv and overlap.
Both these have defined heights.
When the content inside the element is larger than this height, it is visible, but is actually spilling outside that position, and so appears on top of the next element. If you set a border on these elements, you will see what I mean.
You could always use the overflow:scroll style here and scrollbars will appear when this happens, but you'd be better making your design a bit more fluid with regard to heights, especially if you plan to make it responsive.
CSS - Floating two elements side by side
This conversation is similar to what I am trying to achieve. I have a % based layout and have an issue either the menu will get mixed in with the content or the content will fall below the menu when the page is shrunk or viewed on a mobile phone. I've spent several hours on this and cant figure out what I am doing incorrectly.
Problem child: https://www.tendercare-inc.com/new/
Update:
My biggest thing was getting something that worked well with Word Press as it uses very awkward controls and element names. I tried starting with _Underscores but it doesn't seem to have helped as much as I thought it would.
The basic problem is that you are specifying percentage based layouts for some elements like menu-sidebar and main-content but you're not consistent. The menu has a min-width of 200px. What do you want to happen when 200px is greater than 15%? Inside the menu you also have elements specified with exact pixel widths — the various cssmenu maker elements.
The site is very simple — basically a header, footer, side menu, and body. Yet you have two style sheets - one with over 800 lines — and a structure with site-content containing content-area containing site-main containing content-container. It's no wonder it's causing you grief. My advice would be to start over with a simple css framework (like bootstrap mentioned by #jaun above. Keep the structure of the html as simple as possible and avoid copy-paste design with things like menus. Also rather than trying things a seeing what's wrong, describe the behavior you want at various screen sizes and make it happen.
You should use bootstrap (getbootstrap.com) you can use col-md-6 clases to do that. Also mobile phone and tablet ajustment is supported
I've got to produce a print out of our records as per Creative's requirements. The layout is fairly simple, but it still makes use of the occasional highlight box and hairline ruler to divide up sections.
We have to support IE8, but for now, I'm developing in FF.
I currently have to go into Print Preview to examine my changes. It is a real pain to Close Preview, refresh the page with F5, then Alt-F+v to re-Preview every time I make the smallest change. Any way I can set my system up to view my changes more conveniently? I've got ReCSS, which is cool, but it does not work in Preview mode.
The only borders that seem to be supported are those around tables. So anywhere I need some element boxed, I end up wrapping it in <table><tr><td></td></tr></table> just to take advantage of the table border, which seems to be non-optional. Is there a more efficient way?
I need to divide content sections with horizontal rules (ideally several pixels thick, dashed or dotted). I have found no way to make a horizontal rule at all. I've tried styling my divs with border-bottom, which of course doesn't work. I've tried wrapping them in tables, then turning off the top left and right borders, which also doesn't work. I've tried <hr>, which also doesn't work. Ideas?
I hate to have to tell my Creative that they get text-with-a-side-of-text.
My website has a footer overlap in IE7, while fine in all later browsers.
here's the link:
http://www.kindreviews.com
i have tried finding a solution via google, but answers seem so variant.
Please help!
Thanks,
zeem
You've got bad encoding in your copyright area: Markup Validation of kindreviews.com - W3C Markup Validator. Scroll down in the validation report to see line numbers and source code. Fix that and then revalidate and see if there are other code errors.
And you have a low answer acceptance rate; see the FAQ https://stackoverflow.com/faq and accept answers to your old questions.
I have to say that the site layout is a bit messy: container DIVs with smaller widths and heights than the contents, too many negative margings, and the like..
For instance, the DIV #cuber_div containing the flash banner, having an height set to 515px, is overlapping the text, so the upper part of text isn't selectable.
Besides, the #footer DIV is outside of the #wrapper DIV, so relative positioning in buggy browsers such as IE < 8 gets messed up.
My personal suggestion would be to fix the mark-up and re-style the whole site from scratch.
It may take time, but far less than keeping the site like that and having it to break up every once in a while for seemingly no reason, and then go figure..
It's up to you to decide.
I am building a website but I started with a template and gutted it, changed a lot and got rid of the entire center section and now I have to start over with the body but whenever I try to insert the navigation menu, which is a javascript code that is inserted from another program I used to build it. Well, every time I try to insert the menu on the left side of the page, it falls outside the alignment of the header and footer, so instead of it being straight aligned with the header and footer on the left side, it is on the outside of where it should be. I'm absolutely retarded when it comes to this stuff so if someone could tell me the trick here and for building the content of the body. Just simple stuff like what html code and tags to use for making the boxes that you can insert things into, not image placeholders but boxes to input content like navigation menu or anything really?
HELP PLEASE.
here is the site.
Retairacket.thexdt.com
I also get an invalid URL error.
By the sounds of your problem though, you should be able to fix it relatively quickly and easily. I assume from the sounds of it that your header and footer are a fixed width and that there is likely a fixed width block within the body that is forcing the body to be wider when you add in the (most likely) fixed width nav as well. If that's the case, then you will just need to change the way you are controlling the widths to suit the new nav bar. So reduce the width of one block to accomodate the width of the new one, make sense?
Remember, I haven't actually seen what the problem is, so I'm just guessing from your question here based on the most likely sceanario.
I would also recommend learning the basics first. Designing a website isn't as everyone makes it out to be. As an extreme beginner without using WYSIWYG editors, coding HTML can be very complex. There aren't just "tags to use for making the boxes that you can insert things into."
Yes, there are <p> and <div> tags that will do what you want, but you need to understand what each tag does and when to use it.
I recommend the following sites:
w3schools
HTML Goodies
Webmonkey
Search Google for "HTML basics"
That URL isn't valid, apparently.
I also can't see your page, but I can see http://www.thexdt.com. Is the design similar to that page?
That page uses tables for the general structure. Is there is a large image or something bigger that the width of the external container?