I'm making a webpage, but I can't seem to get my header div at the very top of the page. There is always a little gap above it. I've tried looking around, but all the solutions of tried don't work.
The webpage in progress
#body {
margin: 0 !important; <!--I thought these "importants" would fix it -->
padding: 0 !important;
}
#header {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 80px;
width: auto;
background-color: #3385FF;
font-family: 'Cabin', serif;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<body>
<div id="header"><p id="header_text">The_Grits</p></div> <!-- This is the div I want at the top of the page. -->
</body>
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: The problem has been answered now, thanks for looking anyway.
You need to remove the id selector from body and remove the margin applied to the paragraph element.
Remove the user agent default margin applied to the <p> element and the <body> adding this code:
body, p {
margin: 0;
}
#header {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 80px;
width: auto;
background-color: #3385FF;
font-family: 'Cabin', serif;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
Your paragraph p has default margin, because you have missed to add _text in your css rule #header.
Try this snippet:
#body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#header_text {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 80px;
width: auto;
background-color: #3385FF;
font-family: 'Cabin', serif;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
<div id="header">
<p id="header_text">The_Grits</p>
</div>
because you have to add: p {margin:0px;} or add the #header_text { margin:0px }
When you create a new style sheet, try to reset all element's padding and margin to 0px. This would help you.
http://jsfiddle.net/bpmck3wt/
#header {
display:block;
position:absoulute;
top:0;
right:0;
left:0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 80px;
background-color: #3385FF;
font-family: 'Cabin', serif;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
why don't you specify the position and the dispaly ?
First of all, #body matches the element with id set to body, you don't have such elements so it's completely redundant (it should be just body).
Secondly, "The_Grits" is within p, which adds its own margin. Add
#header_text { margin: 0 }
to your CSS.
See the demo:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<!--Above imports the font I'm using-->
<title>The_Grits Programming</title>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#header_text { margin: 0 }
#header {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 80px;
width: auto;
background-color: #3385FF;
font-family: 'Cabin', serif;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"><p id="header_text">The_Grits</p></div> <!-- This is the div I want at the top of the page. -->
</body>
</html>
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So I'm trying to build a basic layout for my site and I've run into a problem. The problem is some margins that I can't figure out where they're coming from.
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link href="/css/style.css?v=0.1" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Serif|PT+Serif" rel="stylesheet">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.png" type="image/png">
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="sidebar">
<p>sidebar</p>
</div>
<div class="main">
<p>main</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
style.css:
/* set defaults */
html, body, div {
background-color: white; /* Was #eee or #ccc */
/*font-size: 16px;*/
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
color: white;
font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;
/*font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif;*/
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.wrapper {
width: 100%;
max-width: 1200px;
height: auto;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
}
.main {
width: 80%;
height: 100px;
color: white;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
background-color: black;
display: inline-block;
}
.sidebar {
width: 20%;
height: 100px;
color: black;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
background-color: lightgrey;
display: inline-block;
}
p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
So when I render the page as shown I get:
But when I set the width on the sidebar to 19% I get:
As you can see I'm getting some margins to the right of both elements. I have no idea where this is coming from and the inspector is telling me I have no margins! Margin, padding, border and outline are all set to zero so I have no idea where this is coming from. Is there something I'm missing?
Edit: I should have said I'm trying to get the elements to display next to each other without wrapping.
Reason for this beacuse inline elements respect the word spacing between divs in the html. The space between first and second create an actual gap that you can see on the page.
You can easily remove this by removing the space between inline divs in the html.
div {
display: inline-block;
width: 50%;
}
<div style="background: green">Width: 50%</div><div style="background: red">Width: 50%</div>
But I hope this is not you are expecting, do not worry there are some otherways as well :)
font-size: 0;
gap between the two divs is due to word spacing therefore adding font-size: 0 to the parent container will remove the gap between the two divs.
.wrapper {
width: 100%;
font-size: 0
}
div {
display: inline-block;
width: 50%;
}
<div class='wrapper'>
<div style="background: green; font-size: 14px" class="sidebar">Width 50%</div>
<div style="background: red; font-size: 14px" class="main">Width 50% </div>
</div>
display: flex this method only suppport IE > 10 versions, you can apply display: flex to the parent container and apply relavent widths accordingly to child divs.
.wrapper {
display: flex;
}
.main {
width: 80%
}
.sidebar {
width: 20%
}
<div class='wrapper'>
<div style="background: green" class="sidebar">Width 20%</div>
<div style="background: red" class="main">Width 80% </div>
</div>
Actually here you are not getting the margin issue when you have two elements that has width:19% and width:80%, the remaining width:1% gets the gap that you mentioned as margin.
Simply set float:left; to both sidebar and main classes that avoid the margin issue. No need to change the width.
html,
body,
div {
background-color: white;
/* Was #eee or #ccc */
/*font-size: 16px;*/
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
color: white;
font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;
/*font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif;*/
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.wrapper {
width: 100%;
max-width: 1200px;
height: auto;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
}
.main {
width: 80%;
height: 100px;
color: white;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
background-color: black;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
}
.sidebar {
width: 20%;
height: 100px;
color: black;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
background-color: lightgrey;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
}
p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link href="/css/style.css?v=0.1" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Serif|PT+Serif" rel="stylesheet">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.png" type="image/png">
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="sidebar">
<p>sidebar</p>
</div>
<div class="main">
<p>main</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You have forgot to add the float. Please add the following css to your css so that it wont take margin
.sidebar, .main{ float:left; }
if you usnig float:left instead of display: inline-block; your margin will remove
This question already has answers here:
margin on h1 element inside a div
(3 answers)
Closed 6 years ago.
I have a problem where my h1 tags gets seperated from the top of my page - like this: enter image description here
I'm still very new to HTML & CSS, so I'm asking for your help. Also, I DID look around to see other posts about this and I've tried ALOT, but i can't seem to get it to work.
Here is my CSS & HTML:
html {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
body {
font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.header{
background: url("../images/artboard1.jpg") no-repeat top center fixed;
background-size: cover;
height: 100vh;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#logo {
color: #ffffff;
font-weight: 700;
font-size: 1rem;
float: left;
padding-left: 40px;
padding-top: 35px;
margin: 0;
}
nav {
float: right;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-right: 40px;
margin: 0;
}
a {
color: #ffffff;
font-weight: 400;
font-size: 80%;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-left: 3rem;
}
.content_top {
margin: 0;
margin-top: 260px;
padding: 4rem 0 8rem 0; }
.sub_title, .under_title {
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
}
.sub_title {
font-weight: 400;
font-size: 0.85rem;
padding: 0 0 5px 0;
margin: 0;
}
.logo_middle {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.under_title {
font-weight: 400;
font-size: 0.85rem;
padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
margin: 0;
}
.content {
background: url(../images/Untitled-2.png);
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #0D0E12;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.projekter {
background-color: #0D0E12;
margin: 0 auto;
padding 0 auto;
}
<html>
<head>
<title>Jakob Hoeg</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/normalize/3.0.3/normalize.min.css">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<header>
<a href="index.html"><img id="logo" src="images/logo_top.png" draggable="false"/>
<nav>
HJEM
PORTFOLIO
KONTAKT
</nav>
<div class="content_top">
<h4 class="sub_title">HEY, MIT NAVN ER</h4>
<img class="logo_middle" src="images/logo_big.png" draggable="false"/>
<h4 class="under_title">MULTIMEDIEDESIGN STUDERENDE</h4>
</div>
</header>
</div>
<section class="content">
<div id="content_cont">
<h1>Hello</h1>
</div>
</section>
<section class="projekter">
<div id="projekter">
<h1>Hello</h1>
</div>
</section>
</body>
</html>
Heh, it's a very interesting effect - "margin collapsing".
h1 has default margin-top.
Parent and first/last child
If there is no border, padding, inline content, or clearance to
separate the margin-top of a block from the margin-top of its first
child block, or no border, padding, inline content, height,
min-height, or max-height to separate the margin-bottom of a block
from the margin-bottom of its last child, then those margins collapse.
The collapsed margin ends up outside the parent.
To solve this problem add padding-top to container or replace header margin-top with padding-top. Also can set h1 margin-top to 0.
You can read more about it here.
could you add this style. It'll works.
#content_cont h1 { margin-top:0; }
Try not to set width and height for every objects. As other answers say you can move objects using margin in css. But my concern is adding unnecesary styles like width and height 100% for html, body, content and ... bringing some conflict to your design.
I've all of a sudden got a problem trying to display a background-image in CSS.
The image is invisible!
I'm trying to use this background image specifically for a certain location on the page, before scrolling down further to another image or background.
Can anyone shed some light on this situation and possibly provide the correct code/explain why I was wrong?
Thanks in advance!
HTML:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='style.css'/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="main">
<div class="container">
<h1>Move</h1>
<p> Form healthy habits to take your fitness to the next level. </p>
Start Now
</div>
</div>
<div class="supporting">
<div class="container">
<div class="col">
<h2>Move</h2>
<p>Become more active by tracking your runs, rides, and walks.</p>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="feature">
<div class="container">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
html, body {
margin: 0;
}
h1, h2, a {
font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;
}
p {
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.container {
width: 940px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
/* Main */
.main {
background-image: url ("https://yt3.ggpht.com/-QkqvzArFkYs/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/qw97foQDUbQ/s900-c-k-no/photo.jpg");
height: 600px;
}
.main h1 {
font-size: 150px;
color: white;
text-align: center;
}
.main p {
font-size: 18px;
}
/* Supporting */
.supporting {
text-align: center;
padding: 50px 0 80px;
}
.supporting .col {
float: left;
width: 28%;
padding: 10px;
}
.supporting h1,
.supporting h2 {
color: #ffa800;
font-size: 20px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.clearfix {
clear: both;
}
.supporting p {
color: #efefef;
margin-bottom: 20px;
line-height: 20px;
font-size: 12px;
}
.supporting .btn {
background-color: #eee;
color: #1c1c1c;
font-size: 18px;
padding: 8px 30px;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
}
/* Feature */
.feature {
height: 600px;
}
.feature h1,
.feature h2 {
color: #fff;
font-size: 40px;
margin: 0;
padding:50px 0 0;
}
/* Footer */
.footer {
height: 600px;
}
.footer h1,
.footer h2 {
color: #fff;
font-size: 40px;
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
padding:50px 0 0;
}
.footer p {
color: #fff;
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
font-size: 18px;
}
#media (min-width:600px) {
.main h1 {
font-size: 200px;
}
.supporting .col {
width: 30%;
}
.supporting h2 {
font-size: 40px;
}
.supporting p {
font-size: 14px;
}
.feature h2 {
font-size: 60px;
}
}
Remove space between url and ( in your CSS.
Copy paste URL in Browser if u can see it then may be add Id to div and hard code inside div, try to modify image size and style using view element in any one of the popular browsers.
Then create css for id and try it again .. Even I m new to Css but it always works ..
Or replace HTTP instead of HTTP.. if u dont have certificate then may be it will not show up ..
Maybe just remove the space in the CSS?
background-image: url("https://yt3.ggpht.com/-QkqvzArFkYs/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/qw97foQDUbQ/s900-c-k-no/photo.jpg");
I'm struggling with this project I'm doing for practice. I'm having trouble with the innovation cloud project. Please explain me how to fix this.
I can't manage to get the "Learn More" button to be below the paragraph in the header section.
I can't manage to get the image in the main section to float left of the Header and paragraph.
I also can't manage the jumbotron DIV to appear below main. The image fuses with main, it doesn't appear below it where it should be.
Here is the pen for a visual: http://codepen.io/alejoj/pen/xGBbwv
Thanks for your help.
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-weight: 100;
}
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 940px;
padding: 0 10px;
}
/* Header */
.header {
height: 800px;
text-align: center;
background-image: url('https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/projects/innovation-cloud/bg.jpg');
background-size: cover;
}
.header .container {
position: relative;
top: 200px;
}
.header h1 {
font-size: 80px;
line-height: 100px;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 80px;
color: white;
}
#media (min-width:850px) {
.header h1 {
font-size: 120px;
}
}
.header p {
font-weight: 500;
letter-spacing: 8px;
margin-bottom: 40px;
margin-top: 0;
color: white;
}
.btn{
width: 30%;
height: 40px;
border: none;
margin: 25px auto 0 auto;
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
}
.btn:hover {
background: #117bff;
cursor: pointer;
transition: background .5s;
}
/* Nav */
.nav{
background-color: black;
}
.nav ul {
display: table;
list-style: none;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 30px 0;
text-align: center;
}
.nav li{
display: cell;
vertical-align: middle;
float: left;
padding-left: 10px;
color: white;
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
/* Main */
.main .container {
margin: 80px auto;
}
.main h2, p{
display: inline-block;
float: left;
}
.main img{
height: 150px;
width: 35%%;
margin: 50px -5px 50px 0px;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
}
/* Jumbotron */
.jumbotron {
margin: 10px 0;
height: 600px;
text-align: right;
background-image:url('https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/projects/innovation-cloud/jumbotron_bg.jpg');
}
.jumbotron .container {
position: relative;
top: 220px;
}
/* Footer */
.footer {
font-size: 14px;
}
/* Media Queries */
#media (max-width: 500px) {
.header h1 {
font-size: 50px;
line-height: 64px;
}
.clearfix{
clear: both;
}
.main, .jumbotron {
padding: 0 30px;
}
.main img {
width: 100%;
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,300,500,100' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='style.css'/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="container">
<h1> INNOVATION CLOUD </h1>
<p>CONNECT YOUR IDEAS GLOBALLY</p>
<input class="btn" type="button" value="Learn More">
</div>
</div>
<div class="nav">
<div class="container">
<ul>
<li>Register</li>
<li>Schedule</li>
<li>Sponsors</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="main">
<div class="container">
<img id="mainImage" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/projects/innovation-cloud/cloud.svg" />
<h2>The Innovation Cloud Conference</h2>
<p>Connect with the best minds across a wide range of industries to share ideas and brainstorm new solutions to challenging problems.</p>
<p>Hear industry leaders talk about what worked (and what didn't) so that you can save time on your most challenging projects.</p>
<p>Learn about the latest research and technologies that you can use immediately to invent the future.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clreafix"></div>
<div class="jumbotron">
<div class="container">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Not entirely sure about your desired outcome, but it seems that this css was throwing off a lot of what you want to fix:
.main h2, p {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
}
If you remove that and change the right margin on your image from -5 to 50 it looks pretty good like this: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/BNbyEP
Floating elements can really throw off your layout if you don't "clear" the floats. Sometimes I add a br style="clear:both" after floated elements to keep the flow looking as expected (in the case of not seeing your jumbotron image where it should be)
You have your p set to inline-block. Remove this:
.main h2, p {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
}
You have negative right margin on your image. Change this:
margin: 50px -5px 50px 0px;
to:
margin: 50px 50px 50px 0px;
Not sure what you mean.
I've been meaning to replace the tables in my site with css positioning and have been trying to teach myself through tutorials etc. I've had some early success but it all came crashing down when I tried to create a sidebar. I'm hoping the problem has some kind of simple solution. The relative/absolute positioning of the elements is not going anywhere close to what I wanted to do. My goal is to have a sidebar with images that stack (float?) from top to bottom, with the middle elements being part of an unordered list. I got it to work once but now that stack on top of each other. It has to be the way I am setting the float and the absolute/relative positioning. After reading some articles here I tried adding a div wrapper to put them inside but I think I got myself even more confused. Is it possible someone could nudge me in the right direction? Here is the code:
CSS
body
{
background: #b6b7bc;
font-size: .80em;
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", "Segoe UI", Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 50px;
padding: 0px;
color: #696969;
height: 160px;
}
a:link, a:visited
{
color: #034af3;
}
a:hover
{
color: #1d60ff;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active
{
color: #034af3;
}
p
{
margin-bottom: 10px;
line-height: 1.6em;
}
/* HEADINGS ----------------------------------------------------------*/
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
font-size: 1.5em;
color: #666666;
font-variant: small-caps;
text-transform: none;
font-weight: 200;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
h1
{
font-size: 1.6em;
padding-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
h2
{
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 600;
}
h3
{
font-size: 1.2em;
}
h4
{
font-size: 1.1em;
}
h5, h6
{
font-size: 1em;
}
/* PRIMARY LAYOUT ELEMENTS ---------------------------------------------------------*/
.page
{
width: 960px;
background-color: #fff;
margin: 20px auto 0px auto;
border: 1px solid #496077;
}
.header
{
position: relative;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: #4b6c9e;
width: 100%;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
}
.header h1
{
font-weight: 700;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
color: #f9f9f9;
border: none;
line-height: 2em;
font-size: 2em;
}
.main
{
padding: 0px 12px;
margin: 0px 4px 4px 4px;
min-height: 420px;
width: 500px;
float: left;
}
.leftCol
{
padding: 6px 0px;
margin: 12px 8px 8px 8px;
width: 200px;
min-height: 200px;
}
.footer
{
color: #4e5766;
padding: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: center;
line-height: normal;
}
/* MISC ----------------------------------------------------------*/
.clear
{
clear: both;
width: 936px;
height: 35px;
}
.title
{
display: block;
float: left;
text-align: justify;
}
.bold
{
font-weight: bold;
}
p.clear
{
clear: both;
height: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#wrapper
{
position:relative;
height: 500px;
width: 900px;
}
#insidemain
{
position:absolute;
float: left;
width: 500px;
height 180px;
}
/* ---------------- Sidebar Items ---------------------*/
#sidebar /* Sidebar container */
{
position:absolute;
border-top: 1px solid #99CC33;
border-left: 1px solid #99CC33;
height: 300px;
width: 180px;
margin-right: 5px;
padding: 5px 0 0 5px;
}
#sidebarHeader
{
position:absolute;
height: 37px;
width: 172px;
float: left;
background-image: url(../img/TopMenu.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
#sidebarItems ul
{
position:absolute;
height: 27px;
width: 172px;
float:left;
background-image: url(../img/MenuItems.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
/*left: 6px;
top: 45px;*/
background-position: 0px -27px;
}
#sidebarFooter
{
position:absolute;
height: 46px;
width: 172px;
float:left;
background-image: url(../img/BottomMenu.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
And the HTML:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<link href="Styles/Simple.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="page">
<div class="header">header
<div class="title">
<h1>
Test Page
</h1>
</div>
</div>
<p class = "clear">clear</p>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="sidebar">
<div id="sidebarHeader">
</div>
<div id="sidebarItems">
<ul>
<li>test item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="sidebarFooter">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="insidemain">
main
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear">clear</div>
<div class="footer">
<a href="http://www.google.com/">
Blah blah test to see how far this will go across the page blah blha lorem ipsum and various other stuff that is meaningless etc
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Typically (for non-responsive sites especially), you'd have your .wrapper div around the entire content (header, content, sidebar, footer, etc). Then set your .wrappers width. Your .sidebar would have a set width and it would either float: left; or float: right; depending on the side you want it on. Set your .content div's width which would be less than or equal to your .wrapper width - your .sidebar width. Then add your .clearfix below so the .footer falls beneath everything. In most cases (at least for the large page chunks) you can avoid position:absolute; which helps make things more easily fall into place.
You really shouldn't have to float your div's or list. Those are block elements by default and will stack vertically regardless.
Also, as Scrimothy mentioned, you do not want absolutely positioned elements as that will take the element out of the page flow. In other words, they no longer take up "real" space in the page, and instead render at whatever coordinates you position them.
Similarly, floats also take up no space, except with other floated elements. That's why some UI developers will float almost every element on the page and "clear" them using a footer or at key breaks in the page. I personally don't recommend positioning in that fashion, but to each his own.
See if this quick tutorial helps you with some key positioning concepts: HERE
Don't target the same element with both float and position:absolute. It doesn't make much sense. Anywhere where you have float, you should get rid of position:absolute
Next, get rid of those silly class="clear" elements. Instead, target .footer with clear:both and .page with overflow-y:hidden;