i'm trying to create a frame that will contain a dynamic amount of text.
it has rounded corners so a created 3 divs:top, body and bottom.
body will hold the content while top & bottom only display the respective images of the frame.
all this can be seen here:
http://www.m-challenge.com/nimrod/modular_frame.php
the problem:
there is a space those top and bottom divs and the middle one.
please take a look and any input would be highly appreciated.
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Your issue is that the p tag has some margin on top/bottom. Give it a margin of 0 to fix that. The same would apply if you put any h#, ul and similar tags in the box.
Also, can I recommend you not spend so much time making rounded courners this way and simply use CSS3's border-radius? I know, it's not fully supported yet but you have support from most browsers apart from IE, and IE users simply get a gracefull fall back to a square box. Just a suggestion
I think you should first reset margins and paddings:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
then apply the proper values, depending on the effect you want to achieve.
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I've given the elements a border so that you can see the inconsistent padding. The only thing I have added is a padding-left to each of the 3 elements. I'm trying to space the headlines vertically with even space between across different browsers. Can't figure it out.
Here is how it looks in Chrome:
http://postimage.org/image/ly5gzp0k5/
Here is how it looks in IE:
http://postimage.org/image/qa34t76al/
All padding top and bottom is set to zero. In fact, all css is reset to my knowledge and after hours of trying to figure it out, I decided to post on Stack Overflow hoping for any help someone could provide.
Thanks in advance.
You can use line-height to positioning your text vertically. Here is some example for how to use it.
Padding is handled differently in browsers due to different box models. You can use the css property "box-sizing" to set use one box model over another.
I'd suggest defining which box model to use in your css:
http://css-tricks.com/box-sizing/
i'm making a new site where the headings have backgrounds around them and a little padding.
This is a responsive site, so in some states the headings will break into multiple lines, resulting in them losing the padding to the right on the first line, and to the left on the second line. I am using display:inline since the padding needs to be adjusted around each line.
Is there any way to keep the padding when breaking lines?
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/gmW5X/
The padding is missing after introducing and before the ...
This does not need to scale down to old ie since the problem only appears at the mobile css targeted to primarely iphone. However, i'd very much like not to alter too much html :/
I don't see another solution but wrap each word in span... http://jsfiddle.net/gmW5X/4
display: inline-block;
do the trick.
jsFiddle
Could someone take a look at the following link of a work in progress test page for my new website - http://goo.gl/YwGiB
I'm new to CSS, and I have come across some issues that I can't figure out without some expert help. Could someone answer me three questions and possibly an explanation of how to amend it?
1) Why does my middle column by default split itself into sections, whereas my right hand column is pretty much the same but does not have the divisions? What could I do to cause that to default in the right hand column?
2) I am looking to have a box in the right hand column running parallel to the first box titled 'news' in the centre column, and then a second running parallel underneath this (with the box titled 'blog' but it will have an irregular length. What would be the best way to do this? Would this be a case for using the standard positioning commands to shift them into place or is there a better way?
3) I have stripped the padding and margins from my h1-h3 tags (specifically the h2 tag) yet there still appears to be space above the lettering. It is more pronounced when using the font MerceariaAntique which is going to be the final font, but unfortunately I am unable to amend my html file to show this right now. I am attempting to resolve it by adjusting the line-height but I am not getting anything consistent. Is there anything else I can do other than make line-height and margin adjustments?
Thanks in advance
Firstly, in your markup, you have divided your sections using the <div> element, which is completely acceptable, however you have used the same ID to identify each of them. This is what classes are for. IDs should be unique and only used once on a page, classes can be used to apply the same styles to multiple elements.
So this:
<div id="newsitem">
should be this:
<div class="newsitem">
Answers to your actual questions now!
By default, paragraph and headings have paddings and margins set. The reason your sections have spaces is down the margin on the paragraph tag. Removing this removes the space, but also brings the text together with the next heading. You can over come this by giving the <p> tags 0 margin and giving them padding, or giving padding to the section container instead.
If you want the boxes in the right hand column to line up with the ones in the middle column, you'll have to change how your layout works so that you have rows rather than columns I think. That would make it easier to line them up.
From your description, you should then have the following layout:
middle column | right column
middle column | right column
middle column
To maintain the background colour of the centre column, you could apply the background-color property to the class .centre or to be more specific .column.centre (this type of CSS selector might not work in IE6 though).
The issue with the H2 is down to line-height, each font may have a different line-height so you will have to play with the value until you get it right. If you find you're getting the top position right, but text underneath is getting closer or overlapping, give the H2 a padding-bottom value.
I see you are using h2 and h3, but I can't find an h1 that you mentioned. I'd remove "line-height" option from your css to prevent wrong/incorrect spacing.
To run div's parallel you need to have the same padding and margin on both divs (the left and right side). To do so just create a class "floatingColumn" that would float to the left and append it to both divs with all the margins and paddings.
This has always bugged the hell out of me. Why are lists like this? If you set margin and padding to 0, you would expect it to align normally at the left where the text around it would be, but no. That's where the text within the list item tags begins, then it renders the bullets and/or numbers to the left of that, overlapping borders etc. Why have they not fixed this yet? Who in their right mind decided that to be the behavior for lists? You can't even specify an accurate padding or margin for the left to keep the numbers aligned with the normal text because it does not automatically move right when the number count reaches a higher level (e.g. 9 -> 10, it's now 2 digits and takes up more space at the left).
Anyways, a question: Is there any simple way (not using JavaScript, etc) to fix this issue, preferably in CSS? I'd like to make the numbers at the left still aligned to the right but still have the entire list aligned to the left with the text.
lists http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8957/lists.jpg
I know you can achieve this using tables, but that's not really an ordered list, now is it?
Edit: Notice how the list-style-position property makes the tenth element push the text right, making it uneven. I want to move the dark blue box above right so that the left edge of the dark blue is aligned with the text around it, but I can't simply set a padding value because the amount it needs to move over changes depending on the number of items.
list-style-position http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9277/liststyleposition.jpg
To get that effect use: list-style-position:inside;
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_list-style-position.asp
Another (little old) article on the possibilities with lists: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/
As the other poster mentioned, the default position is outside.
Styling lists is very hard to deal with cross-browser due to the inconsistency and bugs. I would recommend using either JS or a server-side script to generate a span element containing the number and style it accordingly ( using a loop and whatnot ).
Pretty sure it's impossible to style cross-browser taking IE's horrible list rendering bugs into account.
http://www.wilwaldon.com/crossing/page3.html
If you look at the page in IE7 there is an ungodly amount of space between the top paragraph and the bottom spotlight area. It works fine in all other browsers.
If you know of any tricks or hacks to prevent this I'd greatly appreciate this :)
Thank you!
The reason you're getting all that space is because of all the top padding and margin you put on the #spotlight yourself. You seem to be adding all that space as a way of making enough room for the floats inside it. Don't do that. Make the div contain its floats by adding overflow: hidden to it. If that has unwanted side-effects, add the clearfix class to it, which is already in your CSS.
The reason you're seeing all that space in IE7 is because the #spotlight has a width, which is triggering layout. That causes it to contain its floats already, pushing all that top margin and padding up above it.
Oh, and don't use multiple id="spotlightbox". That's what classes are for. IDs must be unique. Use class="spotlightbox" instead.
if you set display:inline on your spotlight div it should render better in IE7...but that will break other browsers - so use the conditional css - or rewrite your style to be more compliant