in HTML if I write <td></td> it is an empty column. how can I specify how much space it will take? I want an empty column like that to take more space than its default..the goal is I want to have two text boxes in the same row of my page like this:
TextBox1 somespace TextBox2 and for "somespace" I thought maybe I can use that <td></td> but it does not have enough spacing...so if you also have a better idea for how I can reach my main goal that would be cool.
thanks.
Use a CSS style:
td { width:42px; height:42px; }
Though, on reading your question it seems I would have to encourage you not to implement this to achieve what you desire. Instead, style the textbox controls to use a margin:
input[type="text"] { margin:12px; }
There is the possibility of separating space-wise using non-breaking white-space ( ), but I would discourage this, too, as it would be being used in the mark-up structure as a means of layout and design, when this should be dictated by abstracted styling.
put a margin on your textboxes that is the space you want to be between them
have a look here, you can play with the margin to decide how much space you need
http://jsfiddle.net/tzUph/
You can use CSS to target the <td> and specify a width parameter.
td {
width:20px;
}
Place a div inside the td and set the width on the div style. I found that simply setting width on td doesnt work
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Is it possible to make the table rows to overlap each other, using only css and html?
Please help. The page is here, when the user choose conditional leave, they will prompt with different additional field(s) to fill up. But I just want to know if rows can be set to overlap so the table will not be too long.
http://www.tritech.com.sg/consultants/intranet/leave_application/leave_form/index.php
Yes, it it possible using CSS and HTML to allow elements to overlap, and there are many techniques to do this, however in doing so you will cause the content of those rows to overlap. Unless you actually want to hide you content its not a good space saving technique. It would be better to reduce padding in the rows, and or cells.
Having said that..
tr
{
display:block;
position:absolute;
height:15px;
top:0px;
}
You need to set position to block to stop them acting like table rows, then position either relative or absolute depending on how you need to control them. then set the new top values to match. This style will align all table rows to the top of the table.. Important to note that the cells within the table will no longer be constrained to the element, this means they'll jump out of the table so will have to be hidden using overflow:hidden;
I hope this awnsers your question, but I would urge you to consider a better option than this. If you don't need the content to be displayed setting the elements display:none; Has a better effect and is easier to toggle either inline or as a class.
P.S would be a better example If I had sample code to use.
Is there a way to display a row of links horizontally without using float:left? It's way too hard to center a div when using float:left, I can never get it to work.
Use display:inline;
http://jsfiddle.net/tcQzL/3/
If your elements are inline elements they will display in one row, otherwise you must make them inline.
I'm not sure if I understood correctly, but just make new div-where your buttons are in. And in that new div make your links have float:left
Then just normally position that new divyou made.
But I think that those those earlier answers from Andrei S and mesiesta are more better.
you could try display: inline or inline depending on your needs (from what I know, inline-block offers more flexibility than just inline)
here, check this fiddle
There's a catch though if you use these, if you look in the fiddle, my first two elements are written one after another so that I don't have any gaps between them (that's why I added the borders) and the other ones are written one below each other and as you can see, there's the gap I was talking about. So keep that in mind while writing your code.
There are different workarounds about this, but if you do need borders, and not just the text, you should really consider using float to avoid any workarounds
You can use display:inline-block for that. Write like that
.link{
display:inline-block;
*display:inline;/* For IE7 */
*zoom:1;/* For IE7 */
vertical-align:top;
}
Check this http://jsfiddle.net/tcQzL/10/
Please take a look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/d3uc9/4/
I have a problem with this, as the two divs, in a table, next to each other, are not on the same margin line, even thought they share the same css class etc.
What have I done wrong in the example, and must I change to make them on the same margin-top line?
Thanks, I have tried to be as clear as possible.
What I mean is that they should share the same margin-top line, but they don't, and what must I do to fix this?
You just need something like:
td { vertical-align: top;}
Example fiddle
This says that the content of a table cell is aligned to the top of the cell rather than to the middle. This is needed because your left hand div is not as big as the one on the right.
Also I notice that you are duplicating ids several times in your HTML (eg <div id="stylized" class="myform">). This is not valid HTML and can potentially cause unexpected behaviour in browsers. IDs must be unique and if you want to identify multiple elements in the same way for style purposes then you should use classes.
eg.
<div class="stylized myform">
Just add to your css:
td {vertical-align:top;}
Adding valign="top" will make the column on the left align to the top of the row.
The problem is the vertical alignment of the table. The easiest way to fix it is to add valign="top" to either the <tbody> or <tr>. You could also do it through css by specifying vertical-align:top for the <tr>.
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
How do i replicate this kind of a structure using <div> or <span>'ed CSS
Depends on what you're trying to replicate.
With the simple example you've given, it's not easy to tell exactly what you're trying to achieve, but if what you're tring to do is put two blocks side by side (ie as columns in a page layout), you just need to create a couple of <div> elements and style them using CSS to appear next to each other. Depending on exactly what you want, there are a number of ways you could do the stylesheets.
One option would be to set them both as float:left;. Use width:... to set how wide you want them in pixels or percent.
If float is too complex for you (and it is quite a big jump in concept from a table-based layout), you may want to consider using display:inline-block; instead. This will also allow the <div>s to be positioned next to each other, but gives you more control over how they position themselves.
Finally, if the contents of the <table> is actually a table of data, don't be afraid of keeping it in a table - the <table> tag and its friends are still valid HTML, and putting tabular data into a table is still a good thing.
If you mean that you want to display two DIVs next to eachother, try using the css styles float:left or float:right. use another div with clear:left, clear:right or clear:both to reset following divs to normal behavior.
Here is a link explaining more about that:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp
(click the 'try it' links for very good examples)
I don't know if that's what you're looking for... but I hope so!
Okay, this is a weird one to me. Here's the HTML element I'm working with:
LOLZ http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/14571/screenshot_030_0O2o3D.png
A photo with a caption. Ideally, I'd like it to look like this, through pure CSS:
alt text http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/14572/screenshot_031_mp84u7.png
The width of the image's parent element needs to be dependent on the image's size.
I can change the markup all I need to. (The text isn't currently in its own div, but it can be if necessary.) Is there any way in CSS to accomplish this? I get the impression that I need to "force" the text to wrap as much as possible (which doesn't seem achievable), or make the whole element's width dependent on just one element and ignore the other (which I've never heard of before).
Is there a real way? Or do I need to use magical Javascript instead? (The JS solution is fairly simple, but fairly lame...)
Check out this great article on the best ways of handling the image-with-a-caption scenario.
Personally this is one of those cases where you gotta suck it up and go with that works.
Make the container a table with table-layout:fixed and put the image in the top row. You can also do this with pure CSS using the display:table-* properties (and the IE7-js library for IE6 compatibility).
What table-layout:fixed does is make the table drawing algorithm lock the width of each table column once the width of the first cell in that column is known. The caption will have nowhere to expand to so it will wrap to the width of the image (the first cell).
Alright, it looks like there's no simple solution that I can pull off. Thanks for helping me work that out :)
I think that, given how I'll be storing those images, accessing width won't involve constant recalculation. I may just use that server-side magic instead.
Thanks!
Here's a solution that probably does not work for you even though it does produce the layout you requested:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.a {float: left;
position:relative;}
div.b {
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
text-align: center;
background-color:gray;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="a">
<img src="http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png" alt="">
<div class="b">Caption text Caption text Caption text Caption text Caption text </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You see the reason why it is unsatisfactory if you place some content below the div a. It will overlap with the caption, because the absolutely positioned caption did not extend the parent div vertically. It still may work for you if you have enough white space below anyway or you are willing to reserve it.
I came up with a working and fairly clean solution.
The solution uses a table (or div with display:table if you prefer) and adds a second column to "push" the first cell into the minimum space it really needs. The table can be set to 1px width to stop it growing across the page. I've put together a demo to show this in action:
http://test.dev.arc.net.au/caption-layout.html
Tested and working in IE8, Firefox and Safari/Win
The table answer would work. Easily. I can't encourage its use but ease-of-use does have merit. I was going to suggest using the clip: CSS property, but I can't get it to work on my local machine (for some reason, though it renders the example at cssplay.co.uk perfectly).
The downside of this is that it probably only works if you define fixed-widths for the containers. I'm sure there must be a way, though. I'll keep looking.