div-layouts

overlapping divs in my HTML template?

I am designing a few templates for my website. I am laying the divs out and specifying the height and width of each. I have a large container div named main_cont. Within the 'main_cont', I have three (3) container divs named 'cont_left', 'cont_center', and 'cont_right'. Each one of those divs have three divs within them named left_1, le...

Why certain DOCTYPE declarations cause 100%-height tables and divs to stop working?

It seems to me that some DOCTYPE declarations in IE (6-8) may cause the browser to ignore height="100%" on tables and divs (style="height:100%") E.g <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <title>Test1</title> </head> <body> <div style="border: 2px s...

CSS Problem: Text Sitting Below Fixed Position Div

Hi all, I have a website with a fixed background and another little image that is to sit in the center of the page which I have positioned successfully, however the trouble comes when I try to put another div in that is supposed to hold the text and content, it sits underneath the image. You can view my example here: (Please don't worr...

Jquery toggling each and every div with same id

I want to toggle a bunch of divs that each have the same id. My current jquery code only toggles one div. (I've tried using a mixture of .next and .parent.next, but haven't found anything yet) $('#body'+id).toggle('400'); So: There would be multiple divs with a '#body2010' id. I want to toggle all of those. ...

How to align the top lines of two <div></div>?

I want the top lines of two <div></div> to be aligned horizontally, how to do it? ...

Why are there so many underlines in this HTML file? The layout is out of shape too, how to correct it?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Uターンラッシュがピーク 新幹線や空の便、ほぼ満席 -Tenxian</title> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/...

table-header-group and table-footer-group in a Div

Is there a way of using table-header-group and table-footer-group in a div instead of in a thead or tfoot? ...

Content Column in Perfect center with attached Left and Right Columns

I'm creating a webpage where I need a content column in the perfect center of a block and two columns one on the left (float: right) and one on the right (float:left) attached to that content column. However I want the content column to be of a fluid size. At first I tried by centering a list of boxes. However the total width of the box...

How to force div from unfloating.

I am usually using table to do layouting. But I would like to try out the layouting in Div. Here is the problem, When I "float: left" a div, it makes the succeeding div to float with it. I tried to put "float: none" to the next div to make it break a line but it does not work. Here is what I want to do using table: <hr style="width: 10...

side by side divs

I've got 4 divs inside a parent div. To get them to appear side by side, I've given all 4 divs a style with float:left. The divs do appear side by side, but the parent div's height does not grow to encompass the height of the child divs. What am I missing? ...

Should this be in a table or a div or other?

Ok, I'm not trying to put fuel on the table/div debate, for this project I've already decided that I want to use divs for everything that's not tabular, so far it is working out well. I have one spot where I need to display name value pairs, so on the left I display the name (label) and on the right I display a value. It's not necessar...

Not able to move DIV around

Dear Sir, I have the following code:  Stock Update  Update Paper There is a TD inside which there is a DIV and inside DIV there is a Table. DIV's default style is display:none. On mouseover TD, the div should appear like a popup in a given position. But it is not happening. DIV is appearing in the same TD. ...

CSS - Equal Height Columns?

In CSS, I can do something like this: But I've no idea how to change that to something like: Is this possible with CSS? If yes, how can I do it without explicitly specifying the height (let the content grow)? ...

easy layout for graphic border in css? how to stop misaligned border graphics?

CSS is not one of my strong points! I'm trying to find a tutorial or something that will give me a premade div and css arrangement if I have a repeating top, left,bottom, right and corners graphic. I feel like I'm getting just close enough but then something breaks horribly. I don't want to use the new css3 implementation. edit: SOrry f...

Tool / plugin for laying out web page with minimal efforts applied on raw CSS

Hello people. First things first. I have been struggling while dealing with raw CSS to generate complex page layouts. It gets further complicated with browser vendors looking in different directions. Well, now that can't be changed. So after a lot of efforts I started looking for: A WYSIWYG editor that would take in content an...

Div Layout: static left column width , strechacle right column width

%19 Left Section Width, %80 Content width: But i want to fix left section to 200px and content section is the rest of viewable area's width. How can i do this with CSS? <html> <head> <title>TWO-COLUMN LIQUID LAYOUT WITH FLOATING BOXES</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0px; ...

How can i send inner div to bottom of parent div?

The div inside another div picture and code below. Because there will be text and images of the parent div. And red div will be the last element of the parent div. <div style="width: 200px; height: 150px; border: 1px solid black;"> <div style="width: 100%; height: 50px; border: 1px solid red;"> </div> </div> ...

How to stop <div>s from moving into each other with float defined?

Very straightforward CSS question that I haven't been able to find the answer to so far: I'm trying to lay out a page with two div's side-by-side in one row (using float:left; and float:right;) and then one div below them. The problem is that if the top row (defined as a div itself) is so wide that the space between the two divs can acc...

xHTML/CSS: How to make inner div get 100% width - margins

I have 2 nested divs and outer one has width:100% <div id="#outer" style="width:100%; border:1px"> <div id="#inner" style="width:100%; border:1px; margin:4px"> something inside ... </div> </div> But in this case inner div exceeds width of outer by 8px (margins). How to make inner div to get width of outer div minus 8px margin?...

xHTML/CSS: How to make inner div get 100% width minus another div width

I have 2 nested divs inside outer one, which has width:100%. Both nested divs should be in one line and first should get it size from it's contents: <div id="#outer" style="width:100%; border:1px"> <div id="#inner1" style="border:1px; display:inline"> inner div 1. Some text... </div> <div id="#inner2" style="width:100%????; bo...