I need to make following kind of menu, but I don't know how I can align buttons to left and right with CSS, so that it will work in IE too. Menu should also have fixed height, but that seems to cause some problems..
|Button1|Button2|-----------------------------------------------|Button3|
|table here ------------------------------------------------------------|
|Button1|Button2|-----------------------------------------------|Button3|
It is so much easier to use a table to do this, why struggle with CSS?
<table>
<tr>
<td width="10%" align="left">Button1</td>
<td width="10%" align="left">Button2</td>
<td width="80%" align="right">Button3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
..inner table..
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="10%" align="left">Button1</td>
<td width="10%" align="left">Button2</td>
<td width="80%" align="right">Button3</td>
</tr>
If you really want to do it with CSS, try something like
<div style="width:400px;">
<div style="display:inline; float:left;">Button1</div>
<div style="display:inline; float:left;">Button2</div>
<div style="display:inline; float:right;">Button3</div>
</div>
... etc
CSS:
.buttonBar
{
float:left;
width:100%;
}
.buttonBar .left
{
float:left;
}
.buttonBar .right
{
float:right;
}
HTML:
<div class="buttonBar">
<div class="left">
<input type="submit" value="Button 1" class="button">
<input type="submit" value="Button 2" class="button">
</div>
<div class="right">
<input type="submit" value="Button 2" class="button">
</div>
</div>
<table>
.
.
</table>
<div class="buttonBar">
<div class="left">
<input type="submit" value="Button 1" class="button">
<input type="submit" value="Button 2" class="button">
</div>
<div class="right">
<input type="submit" value="Button 2" class="button">
</div>
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="left">
Button1
</div>
<div class="left">
Button2
</div>
<div class="right">
Button3
</div>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.left{
float:left;
}
.right{
float: right;
}
</style>
Why don't you use the float attribute?
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Menu</title>
<style>
.menu { background:blue;}
.lbutton {
background:green;
float:left;
}
.rbutton {
background:red;
float:right;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Object test</h1>
<div class="menu">
<div class="lbutton">button 1</div>
<div class="lbutton">button 2</div>
<div class="rbutton">button 3</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can do this with CSS and in IE if you force the elements to have the hidden hasLayout property:
<style>
/* allow buttons to display on the same line */
.menu-button { display:inline-block; }
/* make button float on the right */
.menu-button-right { position:relative; display:block; float:right; }
</style>
<div>
<div class="menu-button">Button1</div>
<div class="menu-button">Button2</div>
<div class="menu-button-right">Button3</div>
</div>