div-layouts

Div "default margins" out of nowhere.

Hi! even after many lines i've written in css and html, the css-behaviour still manages to surprise me - in a bad way. I was putting together a sample site for a friend to show him how he could build his layout, but Firefox 3.0.5 and IE8 create margins between my #header, #content, and #footer-divs out of nowhere. If i switch in IE7 Mo...

How can I float 1st div to left and the 2nd to the right?

I have a DIV with two update panels inside of them. The update panels render as divs but asp.net does not let me assign a class to a div. I can do this using jQuery by assigning css to the first child, then assigning different css to the 2nd or las child. Can I do this purely with css? Something similiar to this. .outerdiv div { widt...

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...

Expand div to take remaining width

I want a two column div layout, where each one can have variable width e.g. <div style="float:left">Tree</div> <div style="float:left">View</div> I want 'view' div to expand to whole width available after 'tree' div has filled needed space. Currently my 'view' div is resized to content it contains It will also be good if both divs tak...

Using jQuery.UI CSS Framework for DIV Styling

Hi folks, a Project I am currently working on uses the jQuery UI framework for some of its widgets. To provide the user with a global look and feel I would like to use the framework also for its css stuff. I am implementing at the moment a dashboard like homepage, where the user can see an overall status of its data. This dashboard is ...

Help with DIV layout and CSS height

Hi, Please see the screenshot. I am trying to produce a layout that allows me to apply shadow to either side of the main div using the divs left (headerLeft) and right(headerRight), I then have the content div(header) that holds the header content. This is all wrapped in a div (headerWrapper). I am using 4 divs to do this. I have it wo...

2 columns div for ie8 and ie7

i want a row with 2 cells, the row and the 2 cellsmust be in percent. i had tried to do it like this: #container { width: 100%; display:inline-table; } #sidebar1 { float: left; width: 30%; } #mainContent { float: left; width: 70%; } <div id="container"> <div id="sidebar1"> <telerik...

Problem with html,style,padding and div section (I think)

Hi I have the code below, which works lovely and does EXACTLY what I want it to do, except the header section is a a line down from the top of the div section and I would like it butted to the top.. is there anything I can do about this ? Thanks <div id = "Side1" style="width: 175px;height:210px;overflow:hidden;background-color: #AAA...

Aligning Divs with CSS

I know there are tons of articles all over Google on doing something similar to this, but the problem is that they all vary on the implementation. What I'd basically like to do is have a single div of a fixed width be aligned to the center of my page, with bars on the side stylable to whatever I'd like. In Flex (MXML), I could easily mak...

CSS Column Divs Help needed..

Hi everyone, I am trying to construct a page layout, where the left column has a fixed width and a height of 100% (of whatever the right column is) and the right column has a fluid width. I've tried various ways of doing it, but can't seem to get it right.. Here's my code: <div id="pageHolder"> <div id="topSection"> header goes ...

What do you think about designing an HTML table by using div ?

Hi, I have seen many HTML table related questions in SO. Many questions about browser specific bugs like CSS and JavaScript by involving HTML table is usually asked. A earlier version of DataTable YUI markup looks like as follows: // dynamically generated <table> <tr> <td>Some content</td> <td>Other content</td> ...

CSS Help - How can a DIV ignore css previously set on the page?

I am using AjaxControlToolkit CalendarExtender. Some previous rule in my stylesheet is affecting div's within the calendar. div#paymentRegion div { float:left; width:49%; } There are DIVs within the calendar that are being forced to 49%. How can I have the calendar ignore the previous settings and use the styles that come wit...

Question about divs in HTML web page building.

Whenever I create my own personal web pages, I've always had this problem with using divs to create a multi-column layout. I use the float attribute to align them to the left or right, but when I make the browser window skinnier, the columns re-adjust where one column falls below the other and other things mess up with alignment. I would...

find keyword in particular div only rather then whole document

hi i want to find and replace functionality in contentEditable div.i want to add one toolbar in which one find and replace button placed. when one press this button then one popup window open and ask for keyword to search when keyword is given then it will find only in given div id not whole document and highlight it. if any body know ab...

using jQuery to get absolute or relative position position of a div

I'll try to explain what i'm trying to get. I've a div with position:fixed (at the bottom of a page) into that div, there is some other divs. What i want is to show another div (with absolute position) aligned to the right with those divs... in other words, i wan't to know the left position of the divs... ...

How to prevent scrollbar from repositioning web page?

I have a website with center-aligned DIV. Now, some pages need scrolling, some don't. When move from one type to another, the appearance of a scrollbar moves the page a few pixels to the side. Is there any way to avoid this without explicitly showing the scrollbars on each page? ...

Side By Side Panes

I'm building a HTML template for my site and would like to have a main content pane on the left and a navigation pane on the right (similar to Twitter). I'm assuming DIVs are not the preferred approach since they are by defaulted listed top-to-bottom. I've played around with float:left and float:right but those cause the parent div to ...

How do i change the size of the different parts of the layout

Im using the following layout: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/holy-grail-no-quirks-mode.htm This is working exacly like it it should and i expected it to work, but im unable to change the size of the right bar and left "bar" ( I want to make them both smaler ). I have been trying to change values in hopes of understanding but CSS is...

my div tags are a mess

what program is good to tidy up or highlight matching div tags? I'm really confused at what div tags remain to be closed after nesting a few. I'm using notepad++ at the moment and it doesn't work brilliantly with divs unless I'm doing something wrong. ...

Problem with CSS and DIV height [UPDATED]

Hello, I'm building webpage layout which includes 5px wide DIV which i use as spacer, if i define my steyle like that div#main_spc{ display: block; width: 5px; background: url(../Images/contsep.gif) repeat-y top center; float: left; position: relative; } and put height inline <div id="main_spc" style="height: 356p...