I'm attempting to set a table width in a newsletter I am generating using HTML. I understand that CSS can't be used with Outlook and that styling basically needs to be included with content.
What I'm really struggling with is trying to set a set width for the table. Right now it is too wide and I'd like to trim it down. I'd like to move the width to the green line instead of the red line.
I've tried playing with the following code but no luck..
Any help would be appreciated!
You've probably got another row or element somewhere with a larger width than 150px that is overriding what you've got. I'd be happy to help you out if you post more of your HTML. I used to create a lot of HTML emails so I've had this happen in the past, and it's usually something you're not noticing that is overriding what you want.
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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.
I'm trying to get emulate this textbox container. But the thing is I am trying to adjust the height of the header, this part:
They provide all the files (html, css, js) of that page here
I've been searching through the documentation.css file for a while now to figure out where it is I can adjust the height of that box but I have been unsuccessful so far. This is what mine looks like:
As you can see mine looks almost exactly the same just the height of that box is too big. I'm fairly new to web programming so i might not be looking for the right thing in the right place so I'm hoping some more experienced eyes can figure it out.
Thanks for any help
The css is minified, what makes it a little more complex for beginers...
But if you search for .main-content>header in the file documentation.css you will notice it's setting up a padding.
The demo in the link you posted has:
padding:15px 30px;
In your code the first number is probably higher than 15, setting up a higher top/bottom padding. Just adjust it as you will.
I am trying to use a div to push the contents of a webpage down by 150px (the space will be used for a header image later that I don't yet have).
However because the div is blank or empty, browsers are in effect, ignoring it.
The html:
<body>
<div id="header_block"></div>
.... rest of document....
The CSS:
#header_block{width:100%;height:150px;min-height:150px}
The rest of the document works fine, but, even when I get the header graphic, its going to be applied as a background image.
Is there any way to stop the browser from ignoring this header_block because it thinks its empty?
What you want to do is give the main <div> a margin-top:150px ; that will push it 150px down from it's position in the flow then you should be good to go insofar as making your background image appear.
you can use trans.gif (a blank small image) using width and height according to your need. Then proper space will set.
Regards,
Arun Kumar
Try this:
#header_block{width:100%; border:1px solid;height:150px;min-height:150px}
So that you will get a look for header_block.
Divs don't hide if you've set their height explicitly via CSS. If it is hiding you've got other problems, likely due to a typo or incorrectly linking a stylesheet.
If you need a placeholder image, I use http://placehold.it/ which I find very convenient.
I have no affiliation with placehold.it
Something like https://placehold.it/300x100 gets you:
I have a page who have left and right side who is in all page.
Now I want to make a table in middlecontent but their is very few space I can't make it big.
When I created it it's work but most of part was hidden [go behind right panel].
How can I make some style then they show all content in a width and height I have means nothing goes hidden. Everything need to show even I show information using many line for particular rows [td].
Any suggestion of how to do this?
I not sure I understand your question.
try use this :
<table style="width:100%">
if it doesn't help you, link to your page, or copy the code. so we can understand better the problem.
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?