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
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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
I built a quick jQuery image slider today, but there's one problem. The images, which are inside divs, have a gap between them, offsetting them.
I've isolated the problem here: http://jsfiddle.net/UgzsH/
float: left; gets rid of that gap, but apparently because of the elements they are in, they stack vertically.
Unfortunately from this computer I can only test in Firefox. Thanks for any help.
Test case uses http://placekitten.com/.
Floating is how you get rid of the gap, but the last floated element is dropping down because the container is too small. The reason you get the gap is because elements that are display: inline with each other preserve the whitespace you get from the markup itself - if you remove the whitespace (meaning line-breaks) you'll notice the gaps go away. This makes your markup uglier, or course, hence why you use float instead. Make your containing div wider and they'll fit.
It's because in your HTML you have spaces between the divs and such. Try putting all the images and divs in one line of your HTML without spaces between the tags. No spaces!
Hope this helps and good luck!
EDIT: Here's the updated code. It looks a bit messy, but there are no spaces any more!
I have been trying for 2 hours to get my footer to stay at the bottom.
I have been trying "Matthew James Taylors" technique, but no luck.
Anyone see what I am missing or doing wrong?
Here is a Live Example : http://glustik.com/essex/index.html
Any help would be GREAT!
I would attached the CSS Code with the { } but it always breaks for me.
I feel like the CSS to fix this will still be problematic, I would be tempted to rewrite the whole thing: HTML markup and CSS, otherwise I suspect there will be more trouble down the road.
Here are some things that are most likely giving you trouble:
Duplicate id values (as mentioned)
Unnecessary absolute positioning
Hard-coded height values on several divs
Unnecessary use of "clearfix" divs
Overuse of negative margins to compensate for padding on other elements (always problematic)
Minor but relevant: use of classes like floatRight, just as bad as using inline styles.
I think in general, instead of trying to control the positioning and height of everything - just let the normal content flow dictate it. Naturally, the last element in your markup (footer) should be on the bottom without all these over-thought restrictions.
Best of luck!
EDIT: Apparently I've come off as unhelpful, so I felt I should add a direct response: For a quick fix, to simply get the footer on the bottom:
Remove the height and bottom padding from #mainBody
(tested in FF4 and IE8). There will still be some padding issues within the footer, but that can be resolved in a number of ways depending on how you'd like to approach it. Once again, good luck with your project.
You have the footer positioned absolutely in #container, which is positioned relatively. therefore, its being positioned at the bottom of #container.
try moving it out of #container, or remove the relative positioning from #container
Because all of the content inside your main container (#mainBody) is floated, the container's only way to determine it's height is via the "height" property, which is set to 100px;. The footer is correctly rendering right below the 100 pixel height of the main container.
You have three options:
you can either properly clear your main container so that its height is dynamic based on its content using a clearfix like this
or you can set the height of the main container to something larger. I changed it to 700px and the footer rendered well below the main body.
or you can remove the height altogether, which will probably be the best solution in the long-run. Thanks to #Gaby aka G. Petrioli for pointing this out.
I've been doing this a long time and have never heard of this method. That doesn't make it bad, but the currently accepted version in my circles comes from Ryan Fait (http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/)
If you load this up in Chrome and disable the position:relative from the container it does properly glue the footer to the bottom of the page. That signals a problem to me, because it's contrary to what the tutorial says. Regardless, it accomplishes your goal.
You should take at least a look at Compass. It makes CSS so much easier. For your particular question, take a look at:
http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/layout/sticky_footer/
Make the following changes and it rendered fine in Chrome for me:
remove bottom:0; from #footer
change padding-bottom:167px; in #mainBody to the desired location (I used 455px and it looked pretty good)
using css how do I put a span on top of other spans.
I have several spans in the page and at the end of the page I have this
<span id="lastSpan" style=" margin-left:726px; margin-top:30px;"></span>
problem with that is that it never goes to 30px down from top. and stuck at same height.
any help will be appreciated
thanks
Span's are inline elements and don't adhere to margin on top and bottom. You need to set it to display: inline-block if you want margin to work.
spans are inline elements. you cant apply margins to them. use a div if you need a generic container with margins/height.
Inline elements can't be styled the same way as block elements. For one, they are (entirely?) unresponsive to margin and height commands. The solution is to add display: block; to your styling to force block styles.
span wont accept margin properies, cos it is inline element. You can change it to block element by display:block, float:left/right or position:absolute
This might be captain pædantry to the rescue, but that spans are inline-level has little to do with this. The fact that most (all) browser's house-style sheet implicitly sets the span's property on display:inline does unless the author or the user explicitly overrule this does though. As far as I know, the W3C does not define what the house style of browsers must be, but they do give some pointers for interoperability.
Of course, this might not be as relevant here, but there are actually some places where browsers don't pick their styles all the same. Notably Safari and Chrome do not place a dashed border under abbr by default while Firefox and IE do. Also, some browsers space paragraphs by using margin-top:1em; while others use margin-bttom:1em, in most cases this doesn't matter but there are some cases where defining explicitly which of the two you want in your site is in fact needed for a consistent look.