div-layouts

a element not showing background image.

HI guys. I having a problem, although I dont understand why. I am trying to add a backgroung image for a "a" element, but it would only show part of the image ( so if I have Home as value, whatever space home takes that is what is shows of the image, if the value is empty it wont show anything of the image). Despite I have setted up th...

content and wrapper does not extend properly when content extends.

HI all, I am having a problem with my web page, because I have a wrapper around all element of the page (header,navigation menu and content) when the content expands due to the amount of data to display it would go over the wrapper without pushing it down, but on IE7 it does expand the wrapper. It is driving me crazy, and I can not figur...

make one cell or div shrink to give room for others

I have a line of cells (or divs): cell1 cell2 cell3 cell4 I want cell1 cell2 and cell4 to always show all their data (but also to shrink to fit), and if there is not enough room on the line, i want cell2 to clip its data in order to prevent a wrapping of the line. I also would like cell4 to align to the right of the row. cell1 c...

CSS Fluid Layout with 3 columns

Hello, Column B in the layout below appears wrong. I managed to make a 3 columns layout using http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/layouts/item/css-liquid-layout-31-fixed-fluid-fixed/. However, this assumes that the fixed columns A and B have the same height/have the same vertical starting point. In my case B has another fluid div above. ...

Arrange multiple divs how best to handle layout.

Basically, what I would like to do is to lay out some divs in a master div to simulate a table. The only difference is that sometimes a "column" needs to be a different size depending on the "row". So I'm trying to figure out how best to position the divs. Should I float the divs, abs position, etc... I just thought of another way. Sh...

How do I strongly suggest the size of a <div></div>?

I have a web page that is laid out in HTML and has some Silverlight imbeded into the main portion. This Silverlight needs to be absolutely positioned on the screen for reasons out side the scope of this question. In order to maintain the flow of the HTML which is statically positioned I wrote the code below. <div id="div2" style="heig...

Why are these floats wrapping in Internet Explorer?

My website, ReadyMadeWeb.com, looks great in FireFox, Safari, and Chrome, but of course IE has different plans for the floats used the in the #content area. You can see what I mean if you view the site in IE. The main column is pushed below the first sidebar. The content boxes and the de.licio.us sidebar both sit within another div. ...

Is there a way for CSS to determine and adjust for image widths?

Thanks to Erik's help on my last question, I was able to get my icon-left, text-right floating div example working: http://tanguay.info/web/examples/tablelessItemLayout However, because the images are various width's, I had to cheat a bit by putting in-line styles in some of the tags. How can I change this code so that: there are...

Position a button over another using CSS

I need some advanced CSS help here. I have a login button and a register button, I only want one to show up at a time. If the user is not logged in, the register button should appear on top of the login button. We have a complex & crazy backend which will generate the code for the register button if the server thinks the user is not logg...

Help with css, making a div by default be page length

Can someone help me with the css on this page? http://www.thepatstudio.com/pat/ I have a sidebar that has a certain length with links to the rest of the page. Right next to that is an area for text and a background image. I want the whole div to be the same length as the sidebar if the text is too short, and longer with the image at the...

What's the danger in not specifying widths for a floated element?

My understanding is floated elements must have their widths specified, or else unpredictable rendering may ensure. Is this true/false? Is it acceptable to float elements like DIVs and not specify widths? ...

Is there any tool to visually design html divs ?

As subject, thanks ...

100% height for multiple divs

I usually have my structure laid out something like this: <div id="all"> <div id="page"> <div id="header"></div> <div id="content"></div> <div id="footer"></div> </div> </div> Where the body will hold a background pattern, "all" will hold a dropshadow for the page going up and down, and "page" may often have a repeatin...

How to display text outside of the box of <div></div>

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set equal height on multiple divs

I need to set equal height on a series of divs inside another div wrapper. The problem is that I dont want the same height on all of them. The page kind of have 3 columns and the floating divs can be 1, 2 or 3 columns wide. The divs float left, so the following example will give me three rows of divs in my wrapper. How can I set equal he...

How do i make divs go into another row when full?

My code is something like the below. When theres 3 images everything is fine once theres 4 it gets full and moves the entire div.top into another row. How do i make the div inside top just start a new row instead? I tried writing .top width=500px but once it hits or passes it instead the images inside are squeeze together instead of eac...

remove/ignore float from outer div

This may sound weird but i have some css which aligns mys divs. In one place i also use http://www.brunildo.org/test/img_center.html which centers images. Now i want my divs inside a larger div to go to another line if this one gets full. float: left seems to be the answer. The problem is it ruins my formatting. Including solution in th...

Why are these divs not aligned and space between?

Why isnt everything aligned? No yellow should be visible and no orange should be visible except for the right side and bottom left where theres space for another image. Basically my images are pretty much aligned to the center (i have other pics not in this example which is easier to see). However in this case when i have 150px height i...

Div positioning problem related to Relative and Absolute positioning

Hello everyone. The problem I am running into is related to a footer I have absolutely positioned at the bottom of the page. Everything is fine until the copy on the page begins to extend further down the page which then causes my content wells to extend down, behind, the footer. Is there anyway I can force my content wells to 'push'...

Auto expand divs

Hi. Im not a web dev but I catch quickly. Excuse my grammer as I dont know the correct terms for web developing. I have a div(id=mainContainer) that has inside innerContainer which floats to the right. The mainContainer expands when comments are added but I also would like the innContainer to expands aswel. Is this possible? And how? ...