jQuery manipulating DIV but not its child elements

Question

This is my layout:

     <div id="outerwrap">
          <div id="innerwrap">      
             <div id="centerc">...</div>          

             <div id="rightc" style="font-weight:bold">
          </div>
          <div style="background-color:White;height:10px;top:284px;left:0px"></div>

          <div id="leftc">..</div>
        </div>
       <div id="footer"">...</div>

    #outerwrap
    {
       background-color: #EE44E7;
    }

    #innerwrap
    {
       background-color: #EE44E7;
       margin-right: 200px;
       top:0px;
       height:100%;
    }


    #leftc
    {
       position: absolute;
       top: 111px;
       left: 0px;
       width: 197px;
       background-color: #EE44E7;
       font-size: 10px;
    }

    #centerc
    {
       position: relative;
       margin-left: 199px;
       padding: 0px;
       background-color: white;
    }

    #rightc
    {
       position: absolute;
       top:111px;
       right: 0px;         
       width: 199px;
       color: blue;
       background-color: #EE44E7;
       font-size: 10px;
    }


#footer
    {
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
    width: 100%;
    height: 62px;
visibility: hidden;
    }

This is the query I wrote:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {

        $("#leftc").hover(
            function mouseover() {
                $(this).css({ width: "190px" });
                $("#centerc").css({ "margin-left": "195px" });
            },
            function mouseout() {
                $(this).css({ width: "25px" });
                $("#centerc").css({ "margin-left": "29px" });
            }
            );
    });
</script>

What I want is that when the page loads, the left div should only be partially visible. Now when the user hovers the mouse, the left div(leftc) should expand to 190px. On Hover out, it should return to the partially visible state.

The issue is that the leftc div also has some images and textbox inside it which do not get affected by the code shown above. They remain the same width?

The controls inside the div (leftc) look similar to the following:

<div id="leftc">
       <!-- Google Search Box Start -->
         <div id="searchBox">
         <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
                        <tr><td> <input name="ctl00$q" type="text" value="Google Custom Search" maxlength="100" id="ctl00_q" onclick="ctl00$q.value=''" onfocus="this.className = 'highlight';" onblur="this.className = '';" style="border-color:#94C7EF;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;" /></td>
                           <td align="right">
                              <input type="image" name="ctl00$_btnSearch" id="ctl00__btnSearch" src="images/search.gif" alt="Search" onclick="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions(&quot;ctl00$_btnSearch&quot;, &quot;&quot;, true, &quot;SearchGroup&quot;, &quot;&quot;, false, false))" style="border-width:0px;" />
                           </td>
                           <td width="5px" align="right">
                           <span id="ctl00__rfvQ" style="color:Red;visibility:hidden;"></span>
<input type="hidden" name="ctl00$cx" id="ctl00_cx" value="004354355454353138:kmy_68iupnm" />
<input type="hidden" name="ctl00$cof" id="ctl00_cof" value="FORID:11" /></td>
                        </tr>
                     </table>      
         </div>  
         <!-- Google Search Box End -->


         <br /><br />

         <div id="monthlabel">All this Month</div> 
         <div id="monthall">  
         <img id="ctl00_imgAuth" src="images/all/Jacor.jpg" style="border-width:0px;" /><br />
         <div style="margin-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.xyz.com/AllMonth.aspx"&gt;Jacor Jul</a></div>
         </div>
</div>

Answer 1

You should set your left div's style to:

overflow: hidden;

This will prevent and wrapping or overflow from being shown.