I have the following HTML code with CSS:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.scroll
{
background-color:#00FFFF;
position:absolute;
top:0%;
left:0%;
width:10%;
height:100%;
}
div.hidden
{
background-color:#00FF00;
position:absolute;
top:0%;
left:50%;
width:20%;
height:100%;
}
div.menu
{
position:absolute;
top:70%;
left:20%;
width:80%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>The overflow property specifies what to do if the content of an element exceeds the size of the element's box.</p>
<div class="menu">
<div class="scroll">Scroll: You can use the overflow property when you want to have better control of the layout. The default value is visible.</div>
<div class="hidden">Hidden: You can use the overflow property when you want to have better control of the layout. The default value is visible.</div>
</div>
</body>
As you can see I want two of the divisions to have color - they don't and I can't figure out why. The file has an html extension and I have used both IE7 and FF 3.0.3 to test.
What perplexes me the most is that it is almost a verbatim copy of an example from W3C schools that does show color! Link to example: W3C example.
The problem is height:100%; . It means that the element use all the height of its parent, in this case the <div class="menu">, which is 0px because all its content is positioned with absolute.
You can either remove it if you want each div of have the size of its text, or set a height in pixel if you want to apply the same height to the both divs.
Remove height: 100%; from your div.scroll and div.hidden CSS classes.
Related
I have plans to create carousel with a background that spans the width of the browser.
To do this I set margin:0; padding:0; in the body and set my div that spans the background to width:100%. I chose this because it contains another div that has a left, and right margin:auto; making the second div centred within the div spanning the browser.
I encountered a problem trying to add the background image to the div that spans the width of the browser. When I use background-repeat:repeat-x; it is still just a 550x1 px sliver on the far left of the browser. It does not repeat. I have figured this is due to the 100% width. If I let go of the 100% width I encounter a problem of the inner div being forced to the right or left, depending on the resolution of the monitor being used. I do not want this to happen.
Does anyone know of a way I can achieve/simulate 100% width and still use background-repeat:repeat-x;?
EDIT, i use 2 divs because i am applying silverlight, and would like to place it kindof artistically on the screen. here is my code, it might make more sence what i am doing then. and if you still believe 1 div is better than 2, tell me that im wrong, but here is the code. it is very simple because much will be done in silverlight, or at least i thought it would be somewhat simple, but that's how it goes.
HTML
<%# Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Home.aspx.cs" Inherits="imd_data_Home" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Home</title>
<link href="styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id=NavContainer>
<div id="Navigation">
<img src="img_data/dem_Logo.png" id="Logo"/>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Carousel">
<div id="SilverlightContainer">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
body
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
background-color:#000061;
}
#NavContainer
{
width:900px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
#Navigation
{
height:75px;
width:100%;
}
#Logo
{
float:left;
}
#Carousel
{
height:550px;
width:100%;
background-image:url('img_data/carousel_bar_01.png');
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}
#SilverlightContainer
{
height:550px;
width:900px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
You don't have to take two div's to achieve what you want.
Just take your background image in the body like
body{ background:url(image path here) repeat-x}
and give your div
certain width and give it a style like
div#yourID{margin:auto}
This will work for you just fine.
You simply need only one div, the one you want in the middle.
<div class="centered"></div>
You set the background on the body:
body {
min-height: 550px;
background: url(path/image.png) repeat-x;
background-size: 1px 550px;
}
And then you have the centered div:
.centered {
min-height: 150px; /* whatever values you wish for height and width */
width: 300px;
margin: 75px auto; /* whatever values you wish for top/ bottom margin */
}
You can see it live at http://dabblet.com/gist/2774626
Try this:
body {
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:url(your-image.jpg) repeat-x;
position:absolute;
}
Solved! The problem was that I was not putting in the right location for the image carousel_bar_01.png.
I'm looking for suggestions how to set a div to min-height:100% when it has a 15px margin-top? What I want is for the div to touch the bottom of the screen (without triggering scrollbars), however when the content is too large to fit, it automatically expands below the screen limit, triggering scrollbars. Here's what Ive got so far:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body, html{height:100%; margin:0;}
body{background:#AAA}
#main{position:relative; width:970px; margin:0 auto; border:solid 1px #666; background:#FFF; margin-top:15px; min-height:100%;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
try duplicating this content until it does not fit in the box
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can use the following css to fix the div to the bottom
#main{position:fixed; bottom : 0px; width:970px; margin:0 auto; border:solid 1px #666; background:#FFF; margin-top:15px; min-height:100%;}
I found a solution: Use the new CSS3 box-sizing rule on body and set it to padding-top:15px; remove the margin-top on #main and it works exactly as described above in all new browsers.
I have a main div in the center of my page with an id of "panel".
I want to position another div, "toolbar" so that it is top aligned and flush against the side of the "panel" div.
Like so
And I want the panel div to remain centered. (Currently doing this by setting margin-left/margin-right to auto)
Absolute positioning on the toolbar breaks when I resize the window.
I've also tried floating them inside a wrapper, but invariably this moves the panel from the center...
This feels like it should simple, am I overlooking something? What is the best way to accomplish this?
Current live example here:
Example
Thanks for any advice..
Markup:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="toolbar">
Toolbar
</div>
<div id="panel">
Panel
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
#toolbar{
border:1px solid black;
color:red;
width:100px;
height:200px;
}
#panel{
border:1px solid black;
color: blue;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:500px;
height:500px;
}
See: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/ywc5f/
In the HTML, you can move #toolbar inside #panel, then use absolute positioning.
CSS:
#panel {
position: relative;
}
#toolbar {
position: absolute;
left: -102px; /* width of #toolbar + border */
top: -1px; /* border */
}
HTML:
<div id="panel">
Panel
<div id="toolbar">
Toolbar
</div>
</div>
User floats. See this fiddle.
you're using an absolute width for both of those so put them in another div as a wrapper and give it the width of the the middle one + (the narrow one x 2)
then use auto on the new wrapper div and use float left on both the interior divs
Okay, so I've got a problem - and I'd love to have it fixed.
I am using my favourite way of setting up a simple header/content/footer layout.
The problem is that any elements I add to the 'content' div of my layout can not be expanded to 100% in Internet Explorer (as far as I know, IE only).
I understand there is no height declared to the 'content' element, but because of the style of its positioning (declaring an absolute top AND bottom), the element fills the desired area. (The content element has a background color defined so you can see that the div is in fact filling between both the header and the footer.)
So my problem is, since the div is clearly expanded between the two, why can't a child be set to 100% to fill that area?
If anyone has any solutions, I'd love to hear them. (I'm looking for a solution that won't involve designing by an entire different layout.. or at least perhaps an explanation of why this is happening. I'm assuming at this point it's because of the lack of a height declaration -- but the div is expanded, so I don't get it!)
Here is the code as used on the page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>No 100% height on 'content' child div in IE</title>
</head>
<style>
html, body {
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
body {
position:relative;
}
#wrapper {
position:absolute;
top:0px;
width:960px;
height:100%;
left:50%;
margin-left:-480px;
}
#header{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
height:200px;
background-color:#999;
}
#content{
position:absolute;
top:100px;
bottom:50px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
background-color:#F7F7F7;
}
#content_1{
width:200px;
background-color:black;
height:100%;
float:left;
}
#footer{
position:absolute;
bottom:0px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
height:50px;
background-color:#999;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="content_1">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Try this:
#content_1{
width:200px;
background-color:black;
height:100%;
position: absolute;
}
IE 7 and below assign a value called "hasLayout" to elements that need positioning. Sometimes to work out little quirks like this you have to force an item to have a layout which in this case means setting its position to absolute.
Mark Up
<%# Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="test.aspx.cs" Inherits="Zuhaib.test" %>
<!-- Put IE into quirks mode -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<link href="css/general.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="css/outbound.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server" class="wrapper">
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<div id="left">
</div>
<div id="right">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
CSS
html, body
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
overflow:hidden;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
* html body
{
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
*{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.wrapper
{
position:fixed;
top:0px;
bottom:0px;
left:0px;
right:0px;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
* html .wrapper
{
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
#left{
float:left;
height:100%;
width:100px;
overflow:hidden;
background-color:Blue;
}
* html #left{
height:100%;
width:100px;
}
#right{
margin-left:100px;
height:100%;
background-color:Red;
}
* html #right{
height:100%;
}
Result in IE && FF
Resutls in IE & FF http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9871/ie3pxgapnl4.jpg
The result is same with both IE 6 & 7. How can I remove the gap between the divs?
Udate
I have two divs each with 100% height. the left div is a fixed width floating div. Even after giving correct margin-left to the right div, there remains a gap (3px) between the two divs. Where as in firefox it renders correctly.
The reason I have used quirk mode is to able to get 100% height for the divs
Can this gap be eliminated? Or is there a better way to do two column 100% height layout with pure css?
As already said, your code is full of hacks. Please remove especially the unnecessary definitions. If a browser does not support cascading style sheets, it will not support CSS anyway.
That being said, why not use position: absolute; for #right?
As in
#right{
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
padding-left: -100px;
width: 100%;
...
}
Remove the comment on top of the page
The "Put IE into quirks mode" thing
You are using a lot of 'hacks'. By that I mean the CSS selectors that begin with * html
I'm not saying that is the cause of the problem, but it is not good practice and is error prone.
1) try using conditional comments for the browser that has the gap problem instead of using those hacks
2) try editing your question by providing information about the version of IE you're testing against (my guess is IE 6 or even lower).
To be honest, if you're filling up the whole body with these divs, then you're better off giving one of them a transparent background and setting the background color of the body to the desired color, masking the problem.
Especially if, in trying to solve the IE issue, you're introducing a plague of CSS hacks into what should be nice and clean code considering the simple layout you're shooting for.
The actual problem is the whitespace between the closing div tag and the next opening div tag. If you put them together on the same line with no space between them, or fill in the white space with a comment, the whitespace will be gone.
<div id="left">
</div><div id="right">
</div>
or
<div id="left">
</div><!-- IE doesn't ignore whitespace between divs
--><div id="right">
</div>