I have this image:
http://www.problemio.com/img/phoneimage.png
But when I placed in inside a page like this:
<div style="float:left">
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/83Z5U.png" style="border: none;" />
</div>
<div style="float:left">
<p>
Some text
</p>
<p>
Some text
</p>
</div>
It got displayed as very big. Here is how it looks on a test page:
http://problemio.com/business/business_economics.php
Would anyone know why that happened? It is really unexpected. Here is the css I am working with
/* layout styles across the problemio project */
html
{
background-color: #ECE5B6;
#4a4647;
}
body, html
{
padding: 5px;
}
body
{
font-family: "Century Gothic",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 1.3em;
#background-color: #5C5957;
#background-color: #4a4647;
#background:url(/img/ui/background_image.png) top left no-repeat;
#background-size: 100%;
}
/* makes the background of the top bar gray */
.container
{
position: relative;
background-color: white;
overflow:hidden;
width:1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
border-radius: 15px;
}
.container_home
{
position: relative;
background-color: white;
overflow:hidden;
width:1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
div#bd
{
/* background-color: #f5f6f6; */ /* some form of gray */
background-color: white;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
}
/* styles for banner: */
.banner
{
position: relative;
height: 40px;
background-size:100%;
#background-color: #4a4647;
}
.site_title
{
float:left;
margin-top: -3px;
margin-left: 10px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #ffce2e;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
font-size:2.5em;
text-align: left
text-color: black;
width: 300px;
}
.site_login
{
width: 700px;
float:right;
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
font-size: 90.0%;
color: gray;
text-align: right;
text-align: bottom;
}
/*
.bgdiv
{
position:absolute;
right:0px;
left:240px;
top:0px;
bottom:0px;
background-image: url('http://www.problemio.com/img/ui/banner_background.png');
#background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
*/
/* styles for basic template */
.content .basic
{
background: #fff;
padding: 15px;
border: 1px solid #888;
border-color: gray;
text-align: left;
}
.content .basic h1{
font-size: 2em;
font-weight:bold;
text-align: center;
}
.content .basic h2{
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight:bold;
}
.content .basic h3{
font-size: 1.0em;
font-weight: bold;
}
#layout
{
/*margin:auto; */
#margin-top: 5px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
text-align:left;
/* background-color: #EDEDED; */
}
label span
{
float: left;
width: 15em;
}
p.half_text
{
font-size: 80.0%;
font-type: arial;
}
span.half_text
{
font-size: 80.0%;
font-type: arial;
}
p.half_height
{
margin: 5px 0;
}
.index_problem_title:visited
{
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
}
.index_problem_title
{
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
}
.index_problem_title:hover
{
text-decoration:underline;
color: gray;
}
footer a
{
color: white;
}
div.footer
{
text-align: right;
#color:#999999;
color: white;
background-color: black;
font-family:arial,times,serif;
font-size:18px;
#padding-top:20px;
line-height:150%;
position:relative;
float:right;
bottom:10px;
#height: 100px;
style: clear:both;
width: 1000px;
#background:url(/img/ui/footerbar.png) top left no-repeat;
}
#tabs-1
{
padding-left: 10px; !important;
}
.ui-tabs-panel
{
padding: 5px !important;
}
.ui-widget-header
{
background-image: none;
background-color: #EBEBEB;
padding-left: 50px;
}
.ui-state-default
{
background-image: none;
background-color: Gray;
}
To make adjacent,
<div style="float: left; width: 68%; display: inline;">
<img width="60%" height="60%" style="border: none;" src="http://www.problemio.com/img/phoneimage.png">
</div>
<div style="display: inline; float: left; width: 28%;">
<p>
Understanding and correctly forecasting the unit economics of your business is extremely important. It is a large part of a successful business plan, and the business itself. The term might sound complicated, but it is surprisingly simple. At least we will try to make it so with an example.
</p>
<p>
In an effort to make this material easy and fun to understand, we will actually go over the unit economics of a real business. Our example business: A single-location exercise gym. We will call it Bob's Fitness.
</p>
</div>
Actually , I just added some inline css to your code,you can made them in class or id also
#layout div img
{
max-width: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
Add this css in your page or place as you want.
I see you are modifying it :-) i'm testing with firebug!
In any case I tested it there
http://jsfiddle.net/eb56N/2/
I've just added
<img style="border: none; width: 100%;" src="http://www.problemio.com/img/phoneimage.png">
Maybe you already changed something.
Related
I know this sounds like an obvious question and answer, but I have spent a long time trying to figure this out, and for some reason, none of the answers are not working for me. Honestly, this is probably going to be a simple obvious answer I just can't catch. But here's the problem: I am making a website out of HTML5, CSS, and some PHP.
The issue is, that my links appear blue and purple with an underline. I know this is how they are supposed to look, but I have tried many different ways to re-style the links with text-decoration: none, and different colors and so on.
Here is my CSS and the HTML part with a link:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: brown;
}
.sidebar {
width: 25%;
height: 100%;
float: left;
background-color: #BC986A;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
.side-option {
width: 100%;
height: 155px;
background-color: #BC986A;
}
.side-option:hover, .side-option:focus {
background-color: #DAAD86;
}
.side-name {
font-family: "Indie Flower", cursive;
font-size: 1.8em;
margin: 2px 2px 0px 7px;
padding: 5px 5px 0px 5px;
}
.side-image {
width: 150px;
height: 97px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;
border: 0.3em solid #FBEEC1;
}
.info {
background-color: #659DBD;
width: 75%;
height: 100%;
float: right;
}
#name {
font-family: "Gloria Hallelujah", cursive;
font-size: 50px;
text-align: center;
color: #FBEEC1;
}
#s-name {
font-family: "Gloria Hallelujah", cursive;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
color: #FBEEC1;
}
#image {
display: block;
width: 384px;
height: 256px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border: 0.5em solid #BC986A;
margin-top: 10px;
}
#desc {
font-family: "Rock Salt", cursive;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
color: #DAAD86;
}
<div class="sidebar">
<a href="index.php?page=0"><div class="side-option">
<h2 class="side-name">Brown Bear</h2>
<img src="http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/static/photo/1x/Animal-Brown-Bear-Beast-Bear-Teddy-Bear-Mammal-422682.jpg" class="side-image" alt="Brown bear standing in tall plants.">
</div></a>
I'm not sure if you needed all that, but there it is anyway.
For hover color change you can use this css
.sidebar a:hover{color:red; }
For keep the color focus after click
.sidebar a:focus{color:blue; }
1) You need to change your code from </div></a> at the end to this: </div></a></div>
2)Links can be styled differently depending on what state they are in.:
a:link - a normal, unvisited link
a:visited - a link the user has visited
a:hover - a link when the user mouses over it
a:active - a link the moment it is clicked
You can read more about this in: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link.asp
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
a, a:link, a:visited{
text-decoration: none;
color: brown;
}
a:hover, a:active{
color: green;
}
.sidebar {
width: 25%;
height: 100%;
float: left;
background-color: #BC986A;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
.side-option {
width: 100%;
height: 155px;
background-color: #BC986A;
}
.side-option:hover, .side-option:focus {
background-color: #DAAD86;
}
.side-name {
font-family: "Indie Flower", cursive;
font-size: 1.8em;
margin: 2px 2px 0px 7px;
padding: 5px 5px 0px 5px;
}
.side-image {
width: 150px;
height: 97px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;
border: 0.3em solid #FBEEC1;
}
.info {
background-color: #659DBD;
width: 75%;
height: 100%;
float: right;
}
#name {
font-family: "Gloria Hallelujah", cursive;
font-size: 50px;
text-align: center;
color: #FBEEC1;
}
#s-name {
font-family: "Gloria Hallelujah", cursive;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
color: #FBEEC1;
}
#image {
display: block;
width: 384px;
height: 256px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border: 0.5em solid #BC986A;
margin-top: 10px;
}
#desc {
font-family: "Rock Salt", cursive;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
color: #DAAD86;
}
<div class="sidebar">
<a href="index.php?page=0"><div class="side-option">
<h2 class="side-name">Brown Bear</h2>
<img src="http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/static/photo/1x/Animal-Brown-Bear-Beast-Bear-Teddy-Bear-Mammal-422682.jpg" class="side-image" alt="Brown bear standing in tall plants."/>
</div>
</a>
</div>
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: brown;
}
is where you need to make changes to edit links
to change hover options:
a:hover {
style it here
}
and for already visited links on your site:
a:visited {
style it here
}
You asked how to style links.
a{
color: red;
cursor: wait;
font-size: 24px;
transition: color 0.3s, text-shadow 0.3s;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover{
color: green;
text-shadow: 1px 2px 3px #000;
text-decoration: overline;
}
a:active{
font-weight: 900;
}
Working link.
Here is my html and CSS-
<style>
.bottom-border {
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
color: #999;
margin-top: 0.1%;
margin-bottom: 1.5%;
}
.subheading {
position: relative;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: sans-serif;
clear: both;
color: #666666;
z-index: 1000;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: -0.4em;
}
</style>
<div class="bottom-border">
<h1><span class="subheading" >Hello World</span></h1>
</div>
I want my text to look like -
And current result is -
I can achieve expected one by setting background-color to white of span but i want to know other way of doing that as it's not ideal way.
You can do it this way which doesn't use background colour.
.lines {
line-height: 0.5;
text-align: center;
}
.lines span {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
.lines span:before,
.lines span:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
height: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid red;
top: 0;
width: 300px;
}
.lines span:before {
right: 100%;
margin-right: 15px;
}
.lines span:after {
left: 100%;
margin-left: 15px;
}
<div class='lines'>
<span>This is some super long text how about that</span>
</div>
You will need to change the widths of the lines on either side though.
Just add a white background to your span
.bottom-border {
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
color: #999;
margin-top: 0.1%;
margin-bottom: 1.5%;
}
.subheading {
background-color: white;
position: relative;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: sans-serif;
clear: both;
color: #666666;
z-index: 1000;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: -0.4em;
}
<div class="bottom-border">
<h1><span class="subheading" >Hello World</span></h1>
</div>
I guess what you want to achieve is something like this
body {
font-family: 'Cinzel Decorative', cursive;
background: url(http://s.cdpn.io/3/blurry-blue.jpg);
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: white;
}
h1 {
font-size: 3em;
text-align: center;
}
.embiggen {
font-size: 4em;
text-shadow: 0 0 40px #ffbab3;
}
.subtitle {
margin: 0 0 2em 0;
}
.fancy {
line-height: 0.5;
text-align: center;
}
.fancy span {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
.fancy span:before,
.fancy span:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
height: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
border-top: 1px solid white;
top: 0;
width: 600px;
}
.fancy span:before {
right: 100%;
margin-right: 15px;
}
.fancy span:after {
left: 100%;
margin-left: 15px;
}
<h1>Main Title</h1>
<p class="subtitle fancy"><span>A fancy subtitle</span></p>
Update/Add following to your CSS
.subheading {
background:#fff;
padding-left:5px;
padding-right:5px; /** You can change padding value**/
}
Another way is, to use
h1 .subheading{
background:#fff;
position:relative;
}
h1:before{
content="";
width:50%;
height:1px;
background:#000;
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:50%;
}
h1:after{
content="";
width:50%;
height:1px;
background:#000;
position:absolute;
right:0;
top:50%;
/** USE CSS to Create left line **/
}
I'm trying to create a hover effect that will change the color of the image to blue, as the mouse hovers it. I've already created a class for the images and styled it in my css but its still not working. I've also tried changing z-indexes but to no avail.
#import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Black+Ops+One:400,700); /*--- Header --*/
#import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700); /*--- Navigation --*/
*
{
margin: 0;
border: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body
{
background-image: url('../Images/background.png');
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.clearfix
{
clear:both;
}
#wrapper
{
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1120px;
overflow: auto;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#main_header
{
width: 100%;
font-family: 'Black Ops One', sans-serif;
background-color: black;
border: 1px solid black;
color: white;
}
#main_header h1
{
float: left;
font-size: 380%;
margin: -10% 0 0 2%;
}
#callout
{
margin: 50px 20px 0 0;
}
#callout h2{
text-align: right;
color: white;
}
#callout p{
text-align: right;
padding: 0%;
color: grey;
font-size: 20px;
margin-bottom: 3px;
}
#nav_menu
{
width: 100%;
height: 10%;
background-color: white;
}
#nav_menu li
{
display: inline-block;
margin: 20px 20px 20px 63px;
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
}
#nav_menu li a
{
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
}
#nav_menu li a:hover
{
color: grey;
}
#content_area
{
width: 100%;
margin: 10px;
}
.sub-menu
{
position: absolute;
background-color: white;
list-style-type: none;
width: 5px;
display: none;
z-index: 60;
border-radius: 15px;
}
#nav_menu .sub-menu li a
{
color: black;
}
#nav_menu li:hover .sub-menu
{
display: block;
}
#nav_menu li .sub-menu
{
width: 16.5%;
}
#nav_menu li .sub-menu li
{
display: block;
margin-left: 20px;
}
.sub-menu li:hover
{
color: green;
background-color: yellow;
}
/*--- Start Image Slider --*/
.slider{
max-width: 1100px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07);
}
.slider1 img{
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.slider .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-direction a{
outline: 0 none;
position: absolute;
text-indent: -9999px;
top: 40%;
height: 71px;
width: 40px;
transition: all 0.7s;
}
.slider .bx-wrapper:hover .bx-controls-direction a{
}
.slider .bx-wrapper .bx-prev{
background: url("../Images/arrow_left.png") no-repeat 7px 9px;
left: 0px;
}
.slider .bx-wrapper .bx-prev:hover{
background: url("../Images/arrow_left.png") no-repeat 8px 15px;
}
.slider .bx-wrapper .bx-next{
background: url("../Images/arrow_right.png") no-repeat 10px 12px;
right: 0px;
}
.slider .bx-wrapper .bx-next:hover{
background: url("../Images/arrow_right.png") no-repeat 10px 17px;
}
/*--- End Image Slider --*/
.one-third img{
text-align: center;
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
opacity: 0.9;
}
.border_section p{
font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
padding: 2%;
color: white;
text-align: justify;
}
.border_section h3
{
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
text-align: center;
color: white;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 1%;
}
.border_section
{
border: 1px solid black;
background-color: black;
}
.one-third {
width: 27.35%;
float: left;
margin: 2% 0 3% 4%;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
}
.guitarLogo img:hover
{
color: yellow;
background-color: blue;
}
footer{
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
height: 6%;
background-color: black;
overflow: auto;
}
footer p
{
margin-top: 1%;
color: white;
}
<div class="border_section">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/ibanezLogo.jpg" runat="server"/>
</div>
</section>
<section class="one-third">
<div class="border_section">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/fenderLogo.jpg" runat="server"/>
</div>
</section>
<section class="one-third">
<div class="border_section">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/gibsonLogo.jpg" runat="server"/>
</div>
</section>
<section class="one-third">
<div class="border_section">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/prsLogo.jpg" runat="server"/>
</div>
</section>
<section class="one-third">
<div class="border_section">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/ernieballLogo.jpg" runat="server"/>
</div>
</section>
<section class="one-third">
<div class="border_section">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/espLogo.jpg" runat="server"/>
</div>
</section>
If you don't want to affect other elements and change the background color of div element around your images, then create new class like myHover and add existing CSS to it, like:
HTML:
<div class="border_section myHover">
<img class="guitarLogo" src="../Images/Guitar Brands/fenderLogo.jpg" runat="server" />
</div>
CSS:
.myHover:hover {
color: yellow;
background-color: blue;
}
JSFiddle example: https://jsfiddle.net/59drat5e/4/
The selector would be img.guitarLogo:hover
But setting a background-color for an image will only affect the visible part around the image (if there is ANY), and color would only affect text (and there isn't any), so you will problably see no effect, even if it works.
It looks like that you are targeting the wrong element. The background-color:blue will only be visible if the image is transparent, otherwise most of the time the image will just overlap any background color for it to be visible.
What you should be doing is targetting the container element as shown below.
.border_section:hover
{
color: yellow;
background-color: blue;
}
DEMO
If you have images with transparencies or still if you want to set the background-color of the img just for the sake of it, then maybe you should write the rule as below.
img.guitarLogo:hover
{
color: yellow;
background-color: blue;
}
Try this code in your css
.guitarLogo:hover {
background: blue;
}
you can also overlay background color to image
.overlay {
position:relative;
width:400px;
height:auto;
}
.overlay img {
width:100%;
vertical-align:top;
}
.overlay:after {
content:'';
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
top:0; left:0;
background:red;
opacity:0;
transition: all 0.5s;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s;
}
.overlay:hover:after {
opacity:1;
}
<div class="overlay">
<img src="https://www.google.co.in/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" alt="" />
</div>
Your CSS:
.guitarLogo img:hover {
color: yellow;
background-color: blue;
}
Is incorrect, because the .guitarLogo already targets the <img> element - no need for img:hover.
Also, that isn't going to work, because there is no way you can set z-index to background only - it's possible only for elements.
The way to do what you want is to register :hover on parent container and in it by using pseudo element :before / :after as the foreground you can get the desired effect.
I've been having trouble fitting some content into a border. When entering more text, instead of extending to fit vertically it just continues past the border as shown in the attached screenshot:
And my CSS file is as follows:
body {
background-image:url(http://www.cs.aub.edu.lb/hsafa/cmps278/hw2/background.png);
background-repeat:repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 24pt;
text-shadow: 3px 3px #999999;
font-weight: bold;
}
p {
font-size: 8pt;
}
#content {
width: 800px;
margin: auto;
border: 4px solid gray;
border-radius: 20px;
background-color: #A2B964;
}
#banner {
height: 50px;
background-image:url(http://www.cs.aub.edu.lb/hsafa/cmps278/hw2/bannerbg.png);
background-repeat:repeat;
}
#banner img {
display: block;
margin:auto;
overflow: hidden;
}
#general {
float: right;
width: 250px;
border-radius: 0px 20px 0px 0px;
}
dl {
margin: 10pt;
font-size: 8pt;
font-family: Ariel, sans-serif;
}
dt {
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 10pt;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
li {
margin-left:0px;
}
#leftsection {
width: 550px;
overflow:hidden;
background-image:url(http://www.cs.aub.edu.lb/hsafa/cmps278/hw2/background.png);
background-repeat:repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
#rating {
height: 83px;
background-image:url(http://www.cs.aub.edu.lb/hsafa/cmps278/hw2/rbg.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#rating img {
border-radius: 20px;
}
.special {
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 48pt;
font-weight: bold;
color: red;
}
.review {
font-size: 8pt;
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #E8DC9B;
border: 2px solid gray;
border-radius: 10px;
padding-left: 8px;
padding-right: 8px;
}
.personal {
margin-bottom: 20pt;
}
.italic {
font-style: italic;
margin-left: 40px;
}
img.review {
padding-right: 5px;
}
#leftcol {
margin-top: 2%;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
float: left;
width: 47%;
}
#rightcol {
margin-top: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
float: right;
width: 47%;
}
#pages {
text-align:center;
margin: 5px;
}
#validated {
position: fixed;
top: 90%;
left:80%;
width: 600px;
}
#validated img {
opacity: 0.5;
}
I've added the HTML code on CSSDeck: http://cssdeck.com/labs/full/bldwwaec
It would be better if you put the HTML codes too.
The right side element is either fixed (or absolute) or float. If it is float, you can simple fix it with adding a <br /> at the end of its parent element and set clear: both; on it. Like this:
<div id="parent">
<div>aaa</div>
<div class="float-right">bbbb</div>
<br style="clear: both;" />
</div>
Now, the div#parent fits with the content and if you set a border on it, your problem would fix.
In absolute case, however, it is not as easy as I explained and recommend revising the use of absolute (or fixed) for that part.
Good luck,
Mohammad Ali Sharpasand
Of course today, float is no longer needed, as the flexbox is available:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layout/Flexbox
Also, grid is amazing:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layout/Grids
you have to put one more div over the id=content and you can call the calss=pagewrapper.
.pagewrapper{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 800px;
}
put float:left in your ID
#content{
float: left;
}
The problem appears to be the floating right column.
#rightcol {
float: right;
}
It would appear you need to clear the float, since floating elements are removed from normal page flow, the parent element will not expand to match the height. A simple solution is to add a clearfix to your parent element or class (in our case ID)
#content:after {
visibility: hidden;
display: block;
font-size: 0;
content: " ";
clear: both;
height: 0;
}
This should solve your issue, if you have more questions about this I would suggest looking here.
Assume following html page:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"/>
<div id="navigation"/>
<div id="leftcolumn"/>
<div id="content/>
<div id="footer"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
What I'm trying to achieve is that the leftcolumn div and the content div always have the same height. Sometimes the leftcolumn div is higher than the content div because there is little content and vice versa: when there is a lot of content, the content div is higher than the leftcolumn div.
The situation as it is now produces some lay-out shenanigans because the body background, leftcolumn background and content background are all in a different colour.
This is my CSS as-is:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #FFFEE9;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 900px;
height: auto;
}
#content {
float: left;
color: #006350;
background: #DEE3DC;
height: 100%;
display: inline;
width: 730px;
}
#contents {
margin: 35px;
}
#contents h1, h2 {
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
#contents p {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
#header {
color: black;
width: 900px;
float: left;
height: 160px;
background: #FFFEE9;
margin-top: 10px;
}
#navigation p {
padding: 3px;
}
#footer {
width: 900px;
height: 40px;
clear: both;
color: white;
background: #83422D;
font-size: 80%;
}
#footer a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
}
#footer p {
padding: 4px;
}
#navigation {
float: left;
width: 900px;
height: 25px;
color: white;
background: #83422D;
}
#navigation a {
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
}
#navigation a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#leftcolumn {
color: white;
background: #006350;
height: 100%;
width: 170px;
float: left;
}
#leftcolumn a {
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
}
#leftcolumn a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#leftcolumn li {
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
#leftcolumn ul {
margin-left: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
list-style: none;
}
.centered {
text-align: center;
margin: auto;
display: block;
}
#gallery {
height: 300px;
width: 650px;
}
#gallery img {
margin-right: 50px;
margin-top: 50px;
}
#gallerytext {
width: 400px;
font-size: 75%;
color: black;
position: relative;
margin-left: 155px;
margin-top: -100px;
text-align: justify;
}
I've tried using a combination of CSS styles like height: 100%, height:inherit, height:auto,... on the different divs (wrapper, leftcolumn and content) but I can't seem to get the result I want. Bottom line: what CSS styles should I use if I want the leftcolumn and content div have the same height, regardless of which one is higher at that time. (And without using javascript please).
JsFiddle example where the leftcolumn is larger: http://jsfiddle.net/CQPnF/4/
Example where the content is larger: http://jsfiddle.net/BQkme/
You can get your desired results with the use of display:table-cell rather float in your left and right panels :-
I have removed float from your #content & #leftcolummn and gave them display:table-cell; and its working fine as per your requirement.
UPDATED CSS
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #FFFEE9;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 900px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#content {
color: #006350;
background: #DEE3DC;
display:table-cell;
width: 730px;
}
#contents {
margin: 35px;
}
#contents h1, h2 {
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
#contents p {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
#header {
color: black;
width: 900px;
float: left;
height: 160px;
background: #FFFEE9;
margin-top: 10px;
}
#navigation p {
padding: 3px;
}
#footer {
width: 900px;
height: 40px;
clear: both;
color: white;
background: #83422D;
font-size: 80%;
}
#footer a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
}
#footer p {
padding: 4px;
}
#navigation {
float: left;
width: 900px;
height: 25px;
color: white;
background: #83422D;
}
#navigation a {
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
}
#navigation a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#container {
border:1px solid red;
overflow:hidden;
}
#leftcolumn {
color: white;
background: #006350;
width: 170px;
display:table-cell;
}
#leftcolumn a {
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
}
#leftcolumn a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#leftcolumn li {
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
#leftcolumn ul {
margin-left: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
list-style: none;
}
.centered {
text-align: center;
margin: auto;
display: block;
}
#gallery {
height: 300px;
width: 650px;
}
#gallery img {
margin-right: 50px;
margin-top: 50px;
}
#gallerytext {
width: 400px;
font-size: 75%;
color: black;
position: relative;
margin-left: 155px;
margin-top: -100px;
text-align: justify;
}
see the demo :- http://jsfiddle.net/BQkme/10/
This solution is a teensy bit hacky because you need some supporting markup, but it does work and I have used it before.
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks
The main issue I have with it is that you have to nest your content divs to a depth equaling the number of columns. In your case, it's not a huge problem because you'd only be nesting your content inside 2 container divs.
Your markup might end up looking something like the following:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"/>
<div id="navigation"/>
<div id="container_content">
<div id="container_leftcolumn">
<div id="leftcolumn"/>
<div id="content/>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You need to use absolute positioning.
Here is a working Live Demo.
Hope this helps.