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How to get a div to resize its height to fit container?

How can I get the div nav to have expand down or have the height the same as it's parent div (container)? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt; <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="tex...

Google Chrome CSS/rendering bug?

Here is my website: link text On my website, it seems every updated browser (FF, Opera, Safari, IE8, IE7, and even IE6) seem to render the separating line between my content div and sideMenu div. However, chrome browser doesn't seem to want to render the background to the container div (link text) where the content div is. It seems li...

Formatting list items to alphabetize vertically and then horizontally when floated left

Assuming I have the following html: <ul id="a"> <li>a</li> <li>b</li> <li>c</li> <li>d</li> </ul> And the following CSS: ul#a {width:20px;} ul#a li {float:left; width:10px;} The current output is: a b c d The output I'm going for is: a c b d Is there any way to do this without breaking up the li's into...

Sidebar Div extend entire height of container

I have one container div holding two sidebars on each side and a content box in the middle. Standard 'blog' layout. The content is way past the sidebars, and the sidebar height stops at my last sentence. How can I extend the height so that is auto extends to the bottom of the page, thus the end of the content box in the middle? ...

CSS Optimization: Element ID vs. Class

With MVC and jQuery I am making significantly more use of CSS. A question that came to mind is what is the best approach for using Element IDs vs. Classes. If I use Element IDs the selectors in jQuery are shorter. For example: #imageTag... $('#imageTag') #searchTag... $('#searchTag') As an alternative it could be structured with a par...

ASP.Net MVC - Style List Item Based On Controller

My ultimate goal is to have a menu that adds a class to the list item that associates with the current page I am on. So I have it set up such that each controller will be associated with an item in my menu. I need to add a class to that list item (changing the color, background, whatever). Is there a simple way to do this? Pass a v...

default a:hover overriding ones with classes ie6

I have a default a:hover style as follows: a:hover { color: black; font-size: 8pt } However when trying to apply a class such as: a.myclass:link { font-size: 14px } a.myclass:hover { color: red } without the font-size, then it changes font-size back to 8pt. Now this seems like how it should work however it doesn't happen in ie7, f...

IE7 - Floated Image Disappears!

Ok. Here's the situation. I am styling a comments section on one of my websites. Here's an example markup: <ol class="comments"> <li> <a href="/view/profile/id/2"> <img src="/images/photo-thumb.gif" alt="johndoe" /> </a> <p class="pad-top"><em>written on Sunday 2nd of Aug...

Difference between IE6 versions

Whats the difference between version 6.00.2800 and 6.00.2900 of Internet Explorer 6? Can anyone confirm different CSS rendering between IE6 SP1, SP2, SP3 ? Should I browser test my pages across different Service Packs? ...

how to make 100% width for 2 div

I have 2 div in on page <div id="main"></div> <div id="panel"></div> and using float to make main at left, and panel at right #photos-main { float: left; width: 800px; position: relative; } #panel { float: left; margin-left: 830px; position: absolute; } I want to let panel fill with the left page space, which css should I use? ...

Web Page Design Get Distorted in Desktop PC Monitor

I am building my web application on my laptop but when I navigate the page on my desktop pc the layout of the div are distorted. I think the solution is giving percentage instead of absolute numbers like 240px to height and width of divs. What do you think ? Do you have another recommendations ? Thanks in advance. What I've done is ...

SharePoint masterpage css styles not showing for other users

I'm setting up a SharePoint Site where the masterpage is built using one of the existing masterpages as a starting point (Blue Band). When I test the site while logged in as the super admin, everything looks fine. But if I log in as a general user the default masterpage shows as Blue Band again. I'm guessing there must be some permissi...

SharePoint: CSS changes update in FireFox but not IE

Weird problem. I update the site CSS sheet and the changes show straight away in FireFox but don't show in IE. Using the Developer Toolbar in both apps the style changes are missing in IE. I've reset the browser cache but no dice. ...

Asp.net Root folder of website in CSS

So, I thought I'd try my luck on ASP.NET, didn't get very far before I found my first problem. I have a Folder Layout like so: \ ->Admin -->Admin.Aspx ->CSS -->Style.css ->Images -->bg.gif Default.aspx Default.master Both admin.aspx and default.aspx use the default.master page, which contains the line: <link rel="stylesheet" type...

CSS layout - footer is overlapping the content of page

I am new to CSS, I found an layout online, but I have a little problem customizing it. When the content of mainContent div is "higher" then the left menu, everything is working ok - but when the mainContent is smaller, it looks like this: The div order is visible through Firefox WebDevelopper addon. The .css file is as follows: body...

Tree-like Select in HTML

I'm trying to create a tree-like <select> using HTML and CSS. To maintain accessibility I'd like to avoid javascript if possible. I'd also like to avoid using &nbsp; instead of padding, as this prevents pressing letter keys to jump to items. What I have so far is this: <select> <optgroup label="fluffy" style="padding-left: 10px;">...

How to horizonatally center a floating element of a variable width?

How to horizonatally center a floating element of a variable width? Edit: I already have this working using a containing div for the floating element and specifying a width for the container (then use margin: 0 auto; for the container). I just wanted to know whether it can be done without using a containing element or at least without h...

how to hide parent div, keeping inner div visible?

Below is a simplified version of my problem. Considering the following piece of HTML: <div id="div1" style="display:none"> text i do not want <div id="div2" style="display:block"> text i want to keep </div> </div> But of course, "text i want to keep" will not be displayed because the parent div is not visible. Qu...

Which is better in asp.net 2.0?

Hi, can anyone tell me themes are better or CSS style sheets are better in asp.net for design? Please explain the concept also with an example. Thanks Rupa ...

Default textbox border-style and width.

IE7 and FFox seem to render textboxes very slightly differently by default. This seems to be fixed by setting their border-style and border-width css properties. The odd thing is, it seems that out of all the options vstudios intellisense gives me, none of them match? The closest I've found is border-width:1px; border-style:inset; ...