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CSS Layout Question

I can't for the life of me find a way to make this work. If I have 3 divs (a left sidebar, a main body, and a footer), how can I have the sidebar and main body sit next to each other without setting their positions as "absolute" or floating them? Doing either of these options result in the footer div not being pushed down by one or the ...

Drawing in javascript with divs

In my quest to learn javascript (which seems to be my latest source of questions for SO these days) i've found this API for drawing http://www.c-point.com/javascript_vector_draw.htm Meanwhile I've been making some experiments with graphics, which tend to be heavy on the amount of stuff to draw. This guy is drawing with divs, every squar...

Formatting inline items? What does the general code look like?

This is a total newbie question, so thanks in advance. I'm trying to get my head around the difference between divs and spans, and when and how to use them. Say for instance, I want to have an image left justified, and I want the text to flow around the image on the right, while maintaining justification. If the text flows past the imag...

div tags-on and off

Should be super simple for you guys...div one gets clicked, div two appears. What I don't know how to do is make div 2 go away when div one is clicked again. <img src="/..." width="" height"" onClick="MM_showHideLayers('logo','','show','logoEasterEgg','',show')"> What should I add to this line of code to make the div 'logoEasterEgg' d...

Float 2 divs in a parent div and arrange such divs one below another

Hi, I am creating a web page with 3 columns. The middle column is where all the content goes. The content I want to enter has to be in the format of left aligned image, followed by some text next to the image. And this flows throughout the column with different images and corresponding text. Since my layout is a div based layout, I have...

How to stop arrow keys scrolling in two DIVs in a JSP page

I have a JSP page with various DIVs, one containing a table. I can select a row in the table and then change that selection using the arrow keys. That is fine. I select a row in the table and press a button which causes a hidden DIV to be displayed. This new DIV contains a SELECT pulldown. If I click on the SELECT pulldown and then us...

CSS: Create a DIV based on browser size.

Solved! Finished CSS and HTML at bottom. Ok, so here is the situation. I have a page with a div on the side, on top, and on bottom. The div on the side is on the left at 225px. The div on top is 25px, and the div on bottom is 20px. What I want is a div in the middle of them all, and so it resizes (and is scrollable) based on t...

CSS: min-height does not work.

Whenever I add the min0height property to the DIVs to make them 100%, it doesn't work. I have added them to all of the DIVs, including height: 100%; and min-height: 100%; but nothing works. What would I do to make it extend all the way? It just cuts off the background of the sidebar and the background color of the content area. (Forgo...

How to add a background Image using CSS that looks like a border down each side of a div

Basicly I want to create a custom border, down the left and right side of my content div. I have managed to create something that half works. The problem I am getting it aligning the divs so that are flush to the content div and look like borders rather than floating lines. It is hard to explain so please see the attack image of what I w...

CSS - What's the best way of creating a 9x9 Sudoku grid?

I am working on a few projects to improve my HTML and CSS. One of which is a simple Sudoku solver. I need to create a Grid in which to put either Labels or TextBoxes. I want a grid layout exactly like the Grid image in this question. What's the best way of achieving this? CSS... or tables? And how would I go about creating this? ...

Creating a div whose size is relative to a fixed width div and containing area?

I have a containing div (contentBody) that is N% wide. Within that div I have two other divs, contentLeft and contentRight. contentLeft is always 205px. I want contentRight to automatically fill the remaining space in contentBody. How can I achieve this? #div contentLeft{ width:205px; float:left; } #div contentRight{ width:<**1...

sIFR: Not working for custom divs more than once.

Using sIFR rev. 436, latest release. Replaces h1, h2, h3, h4 tags flawlessy, as many as I have on the page. However, if i try replacing a custom div, say Replace Me it replaces only the first instance, but not the others on the page. I tested this on the 2.0 release as well and got the same results. Is this just a limitation of the s...

Playing with PHP arrays

At the moment I have a single array made up of multiple other arrays ie: -- Category -- Subcategory -- Name -- Count -- Subcategory -- Name -- Count -- Subcategory -- Name -- Count -- Category -- Subcategory -- Name -- Count -- Subcategory -- Nam...

Divs smashing into each other

Hi, This is probably a ridiculously easy to answer question, but I have been stuck on it (I seem to run into this problem occasionally and always forget how to fix it...) http://nerdcomics.com/portfolio/pink_and_brwn/index.html I have created a page with a header, middle, and footer. Simple enough, right? Within the center, I have th...

How can I find out what div a div is in with javascript?

I have a page which will contain 4 static divs with IDs. I will be adding scriptaculous dragable and droppable effects to allow interaction by moving many dynamically generated divs from one div to another. I need to be able to find out which of the static divs the dynamic divs are in. How can I get this information? ...

hide show div when multiple nested layers exist

function showlayer(layer){ var myLayer = document.getElementById(layer).style.display; if(myLayer=="none"){ document.getElementById(layer).style.display="block"; } else { document.getElementById(layer).style.display="none"; } } I need this code to close the current layer and them open another. These layers exist in the content div and...

how to select divs with jquery like for example in photoshop ? (select area)

hello, have some divs, on some positions. i want select them with mouse, like when are you selecting object in photoshop. so i want to select group of divs. is that possible with jquery ? thanks ...

Are tables replaced by DIVs?

Possible Duplicate: Why not use tables for layout in HTML? I know everyone is all about DIV's and css and against tables now days, I have always used tables because they are so easy for me to visually see what I am doing while building, I am just now ventruing into the DIV world. So my question are tables completely replaced by...

CSS - Absolutely positioned divs are not sticking to right edge when "right:0px" in IE6

I found an example here of using rounded corners using a single image. I've got this working perfectly in IE7+ and FireFox. The following is an example tab layout: <div class="tab"><div class="corner TL"></div><div class="corner TR"></div> <div class="inner"><p>Test 1</p></div> </div> <div class="tab"><div class="corner TL"></div><...

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...