How can I make a div adopt the height of the screen?
I tried using height: 100% but this makes the div only as high as its contents - it just contains a single word of text. How can I force the div to use the screen height instead? ...
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how to make child divs always fit inside parent div?
My question is if there is a way, without using javascript, to cause child divs to extend to the borders of their parent, without exceeding those borders, when you cannot know beforehand the size of the parent div? Below is sample markup/styles demonstrating my issue. If you load it into browser you will see that #two and #three both ex...
What would cause myDivId.toggle() to work while myDivClass.toggle() does not?
I have some DIVs that I am using JQuery to hide and show using the toggle() function. This has been working fine. But I just recognized some relationships between some of these DIVs that would allow me to group some of them into a class. I was hoping that this would allow me to toggle the DIV class instead of each of the DIV ids. So ...
How to vertical align a text?
How to vertically align the text in a floated div? For example: I have a dynamic content with fixed height. if the content is small or big it has to automatically vertically align. Thanks ...
How to make this 'div box' for firefox?
For some kind of menu I would like a box of 300 pixels width, with the items in it aligned to the right. I came up with the following code which works just fine in IE and Chrome, but not in FF : <div style="width:300px;" align="left"> <div align="right"> <img src="images/item1.png"> <br/> <img src="images/ite...
Jquery how to append and remove on a div click event
Hi, I am new to using jquery and would like to know how to append and also remove the IDs from divs using the click event and appending to html. In the code below I have been able to append the IDs from clicking on a div, but am not sure how to remove. Whichever divs are highlighted yellow should be the ones that are appended. Clicking ...
is a DIV inside a TD a bad idea?
It seems like I heard/read somewhere that DIVs inside of TDs was a no-no. Not that it won't work, just something about them not being really compatible based on their display type. Can't find any evidence to back up my hunch, so I may be totally wrong. ...
Stretch div width to match another
I have an html layout like the following: <div id="header"></div> <div id="body"></div> <div id="footer"></div> If the header is a fixed width, how can I force it to stretch to match the width of the body - for cases where the body is wider than the header. ...
Need help understanding problem alternating visibility of a DIV by dynamically switching classes
This code attempts to dynamically switch the class of the StateContainer div from StateOne to StateTwo to alternate the visibility of the DIV. When I run it, I always see the following both before and after clicking the button. Visible first Visible first Visible first Visible first Would appreciate any suggestions for why this code ...
Text Overflow Problem & Text Non Wrap
Scenario: One header DIV with three DIV's inside side by side floated left. Problem: "Text" from HEADER_A div is overflowing into HEADER_B DIV and so on. Screenshot / CSS: #header{ height:127px; width: 718px; } #header_a { width:181px; height: 127px; color:#FFFFFF; float:left; } #header_b{ width: 363px; float:left...
CSS floats messed up
It doesn't stay where I want it, look at this: <div style="float: left; width: 30%"> <img src="{avatar}" alt="" /> </div> <div style="float:right; width: 70%; text-align: left"> {message} </div> <div style="clear:both"></div> Internet Explorer: Mozilla Firefox: I want the text to be in the top (tried vertical-align: top), and ...
Hiding a div with specific text as content
Hello. I've got a DIV I want to hide, but I cannot give it a specific ID... actually I cannot change the text of the DIV, since it is retrieved from a database, but I can add some html before it AND I know the exact text content of the DIV. It's something like: <div class="this_div">content_of_this_div</div> So, I thought that maybe ...
Need help with problem with absolute div positioning
I have these three DIVS - one red, one blue and one containing an image. I set the red div to the upper left at 0,0, and the blue div to the upper left at 0,111. The image div is also positioned in the upper left at 0,0 and stretches across the red and blue divs because the image it contains is transparent and I want the blue and red o...
How to Force Child Div to 100% of Parent's Div Without Specifying Parent's Height?
I would assume this is possible, but i just cant figure it out.. i have a site thats basic structure is set up as follows. <div id="header"></div> <div id="main"> <div id="navigation"></div> <div id="content"></div> </main div> <div id="footer"></div> The navigation is a left hand navigation with a content div to the right ...
Dynamically Resizing Gridview using JQuery not working in IE6
jQuery("#divID").width(); When I resize the div using the mouse it works fine in other browsers but not IE6. For some reason the width doesn't update unless I refresh the page. Anyone experience this problem with IE6? Any solutions out there? Thanks ...
moving text while keeping background-image in CSS
hello, I have a 'main_menu' div which contains a background-image that is repeating on the y-axis. Above this div I have another div which is used for a header. The problem is that the header div has an image which is about 75px in height. I would like to start the text in main_div about 50 px higher from where main_div's background-imag...
Can you control the order in which images (hidden vs visible) on a web page are loaded?
If I have two divs, one shown, the other hidden, I want the images in the visible div to load first and only then for the other hidden images to load. Is there a way to do this? <div class="shown"> <img src="a.jpg" class="loadfirst"> <img src="b.jpg" class="loadfirst"> <img src="c.jpg" class="loadfirst"> <img src="d.jpg" class="loadfi...
Why do bottom padding and bottom margins not help to add vertical spacing between these links?
I have a div with links in it. And I'm lining them up one over the other with <br> tags because I couldn't figure out how to add vertical spacingn with CSS. I tried adding a bottom margin and a bottom padding to the a style rule but it didn't seem to have any effect (why?). I could add another <br> tag to separate them more but I have to...
indented div with flexible width
I am trying to create a div that starts 200px from the left and extends to the edge of the page on the right but not beyond. Right now with 100% as the width it extends 200px beyond the page to the right. Without the width, it still extends beyond by 200px. Any idea how to make this work? #MsgBanner{ position:relative; background...
IE 7 and IE 8 do not render 2 consequent divs with float:left on the same line if there is a table in one of the DIVs
IE 7 and IE 8 do not render 2 consequent divs with float:left on the same line if there is a table in one of the DIVs which is 100% width + non-zero margin: <html> <head> <title>IE float left bug</title> <style type="text/css"> .inttable { width: 100%; margin: 9px; } .multicolumn { margin: 0px; border: 0px; padding...