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How to put a div in center of browser using CSS?

How to put a div in center of browser both vertically and horizontally using CSS only? Make sure it works on IE7 too. If everything fails, we may use javascript, but a last choice. Thanks!! ...

padding not even in IE

If you paste the following code into a test.html and browse with firefox,it's ok. But if you browse with IE,you can see that there are more space to the right of <a> element.: <style> li { display:inline; margin:0 90px; padding:6px 12px; background:#777777 none repeat scroll 0 0; } li a { color:#FFFFFF; text-...

background attribute in CSS

background:#777777 none repeat scroll 0 0; the 5 attributes it includes are background-color,background-image,background-repeat,background-attachment and background-position. My question is: Are background-repeat,background-attachment and background-position useless if background-image is none? Because according to the document,these...

What is the purpose of line-height, and what does white-space:nowrap do?

what's line-height supposed to do since there is already an attribute called font-size? And what does it mean when we specify something like: white-space:nowrap; ...

Force CSS Recache

Hi All, Is there any way to determine or force a CSS file to be re-cached if the user is operating off an old file? ...

Why doesn't a:hover work on an anchor without an href attribute?

In my application, I can't get the a:hover css style to work when my anchor tag doesn't have an href attribute. Is there any reason for this? ...

Why was the background color of the two input different ?

As can be seen,I didn't specify background color of input,but one is gray,ther other is white,why? <style> .baken { border:1px solid #888888; font-family:Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:130%; font-weight:bold; margin:3px; padding:2px; } </style> <input type="button" class="baken" value="answer you...

Is there anything wrong with writing parts of a webpage in XHTML with an HTML doctype?

Hello, I've just recently started learning HTML/CSS and I've been trying to teach myself sound web programming practices. I'm familiar with XML, so coding up webpages in XHTML was intuitive enough and it just seemed like a sound thing to do. However, I've been reading articles like this one and now I'm ambivalent. My concerns with cod...

a:active issue in ie6

I'm having some questions about changing the class/state of a link back to normal in ie6. I'm using a:active to change the background of a span when the user clicks on it. The target of the link is set to javascript:void(0), so clicking on the link just invokes a JS function I have. However, when the user releases the mouse button, the ...

extending a specific column header to include up/down arrows

Hi, I'm using MVC with the grid helper seen around. I'm trying to extend a column header since I have to put up and down arrows for a certain column. For example I call my header column sh and have the following using css to try to increase it but to no avail. I'm wondering if anyone has a better idea. I have heard of using javascri...

Can't figure out the jQuery selector

So Basically I am trying to keep the top level categories image of a down arrow turned on while hovering over the submenu's elements. I want to do this through jQuery on a hover function however I cannot for the life of me get a selector to target the sub menu items. Here is the code I am trying to run: $(document).ready(function() { ...

Cross-browser three column layout

Lets say I have one row with three columns - some buttons on left and right side and fluid middle width. If the contents of the middle column reaches over into the area of the middle column, the overflow should be hidden. This solution works well on Firefox but the output of Opera and IE6 is much different. <div style="width:/fluid/"...

How to center my a div in a table using CSS?

I'm trying to add a slideshow to one of my websites. The whole page is layed out in an HTML table (which I hate with a passion AND did not choose). I want to center my slideshow inside that paticular column. Here is what my CSS looks like: #slideshow { position:relative; } #slideshow IMG { position:absolute; z-index:8; opacity:0.0; } ...

removing the textarea border in html

I'm working with the textarea element in HTML and want to remove the border of the box - pls help and want to align the text in the bottom of my textarea pls help ...

Force a floated or absolutely position element to stay "in the flow" with CSS

I'm looking for a way to force floated or absolutely positioned elements to stay in the flow in css. I'm pretty much thinking css is stupid for not having something like flow:on flow:off to keep it in the flow or take it out. The issue is that I want to have a div element with a variable height, I have a floated image on the left in th...

CSS, overflow with safari, chrome and IE 6

Does safari and chrome support overflow? IE 6 or above, does it match with overflow correctly? ...

what is the meaning of "cascading " in CSS

Hi All, Just want to know whats the exact meaning of the term "Cascading" in CSS.I am getting different views ,So thought of asking here.An ex. will help :-) Thanks. ...

html icon show in firefox but cannot showed in IE..

link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/images/greenTheme/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" the above code work in firefox but doesnt work in IE, how to make it work in IE? ...

Combobox shows up in IE6 when a grey background image is used for the page

I am facing this queer problem: what i am trying to achieve is like on page load one pop-up would be shown where users need to do something to get the page going, a grey image background is applied to the body to keep the page inactive. But in ie6 the comboboxes of the page shows active and user can select values whish is so frustrating....

Selecting an element that has a specific class and ID

I tried this and it worked in all browsers (IE, FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari): .classname#id Still, I can't find this mentioned anywhere on w3c.org, can you point me to where this is mentioned? I mean if this is supported by all those browsers then it must be part of the standard, isn't it? Many thanks ...