div-layouts

CSS layout that fills available space

I'm trying to do a seemingly simple webpage layout, but I'm hitting a wall. I'd like to do everything purely with CSS (no tables to muck things up, and no javascript dynamically resizing things) I'd like to have: A heading with a fixed height A footer with a fixed height Left sidebar with a fixed width Right sidebar with a fixed w...

GWT Html Layout Conventions

I've just started working with GWT and I'm already recognizing the extraordinary power that it possesses. I'm coming from a frontend world so the Java is a big learning curve, but I think that will actually help me build a properly laid out app (html-wise) instead of just relying on the default GWT panels that often end up using tables ...

Create div with title header

How would i create the below using pure CSS (no images, no tables, no javascript)? ...

Code to make div appear after a certain amount of time.

Hi, I'm looking for code that makes a div appear after a certain amount of time on a site. Here's the sort of thing I'm talking about: <div class="container"> <div class="secretpopout"> This is the div I want to pop out after a couple of minutes. </div> </div> I'm relatively new to javascript and jQuery, but I'm assuming I will need ...

css displaying divs inside a Tr fine in FireFox, but IE increases the width of the row...

I'm having some difficulty figuring out what is going on and how to fix it. I have some divs that contain some icons that are causing a width problem when displaying tabular data. If I remove the div's that contain the icons, the row width ends up the way I want it (See the firefox example below). Here's the view in Firefox which is w...

Middle Div not fully expanded in the row, pic included.

Ok, how do I get the Middle div to expand to it's entirety?? I've been wrestling with this issue for hours now. Please can anyone help me?? I'm not going to use tables, I know this has to be possible. Thanks. ...

Anchor HTML DIV tag to right of screen

Hello, I have a site that has 2 DIV tags, one floats left the other floats right. The left DIV contains text for the page, the other DIV is used to display a video. When I have text in the left DIV that fits the entire width of the screen the video shows up where I want it. However, a few pages have very little text and cause the video...

Pyramind of DIVs

Hi there, I'm trying to build a pyramid that's made of 4 DIVs. The layout looks like this: ------ | #1 | ------ ---------------- | #2 | #3 | #4 | ---------------- Moreover I need 3 additional DIVs starting at the center DIV (#3) and containing either #1, #2 or #3 additionally. These DIVs are used the build a sliding ef...

A Div with a floating Div inside, won't fit to the content

<div style="background-color:black"> <div style="float:right"> Test message </div> <div> This will show 'Test message' with white background because the parent div didn't fit the content. How can make the div fit to the content? (without using table, or display:table since it's not supported in IE) ...

how should I order my divs?

Here's the basic layout of a page I'm working on: What would be the best/easiest way to order the divs? C may or may not be visible (it's a news alert that only displays when there is news). A = Header, B = Menu, E&F = standard content columns, D = latest blog post. I'm thinking ABCEFD might make the most sense, but I could also see ABC...

Achieving a properly aligned sidebar in a DIV layout

I'm experimenting with DIVs to align my page's contents: http://labs.pieterdedecker.be/test/test.htm As you can see, there's something wrong with the sidebar. I got the sidebar DIV to be aligned to the right of the page by doing float: right, but when the text in the sidebar stops the main area takes over the width that should be used b...

CSS: Horizontally scrolling image inside variable width div?

I have... <div id="tabs"> <!-- ... --> <div id="interior-photo"> <img src="..."> </div> <!-- ... --> </div> ... and ... #interior-photo { overflow-x: auto; } Basically, I have a page broken down into a main section and a fixed-width right sidebar. Within the main section, I have my tabbed div. The entire page grows with...

Using CSS max-height on an outer div to force scroll on an inner-div.

I have an outer div with a variable height (and max-height) that's set with a specific pixel amount by JavaScript, containing two divs within. The 1st div is intended to hold a variable amount of content, e.g. a list of links. It has no height set. The 2nd div is intended to hold a fixed amount of content, and has a specific height se...

DIV Positioning Problems

I've got a page I'm laying out using the folder tab JS component included in the Taco HTML editor. It works pretty well, but when I tried putting a header on it, it separated the tabs from the rest of the content and took the footer I had underneath the tabs and displayed it in above them, near the header. To fix the tabs themselves, I...

Cut off text before read more

I have texts that most of the time fit in a div, but sometimes it doesn't fit. There is no way to determine how many characters/words/paragraphs fit in the div, so I can't cut it off that way. The div had a fixed height and width, so can we do something with that? Or do you have any suggestion how to get everything in the div, the corre...

resize div and its content on browser window resize

hi, is it possible to automatically resize div and its content when browser window is resized? i want text not to wrap. i want to adjust image and font size to have the same composition (or layout). is it possible to do it using CSS? thanks Martin ...

IE8 alignment in div issue

How to align the the button in center of div in IE8. Works fine in IE7 but not in IE8 <div id="dPopupFooter" style="background-color: #d9d9d9; position: absolute; z-index: 5; bottom: 0px; width: 100%; height: 30px; border-top: solid 1px #acacac; text-align: center; padding-top: 3px;"> <table><tr><td><xrx:CustomButton id="bt...

CSS issue with elements spanning columns

Hi folks. Overview: I'm trying to create a relatively simple page layout detailed below and running into problems no matter how I try to approach it. Concept: - A standard-size-block layout. I'll quote unit widths: each content block is 240px square with 5px of margin around it. - A left column of fixed width of 1 unit (245px - 1 blo...

JQUERY UI too much space from the top border to the haeder ...

I am trying JQUERY UI but I have a problem; the distance form the top of the border of DIV is too much even if the padding is 0. What can i do -> he theme is "smoothness" but I don't think it is a problem of the theme. Thanx for your help Alex function themify(){ $("div").addClass("ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all"); ...

Problem with website header in CSS

Hi I am currently rebuilding a website that uses a table layout and want it to make it with layers and css. The problem I am having is with the header. The header is currently a table at 100% width with 3 cells. [left frame][logo 800px][rightframe] <table border="0" width="100%" height="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> ...