nested-divs

DIV collapsing!

I have a few nested divs: <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"> <!-- a bunch of float divs here --> </div> <div id="body"> <div id="content"> <!-- a bunch of html controls here --> </div> </div> </div> wrapper style: width: 780px; margin: 20px auto; border: solid black 5px; header style: position: relative; ...

apply css to nested divs

I use the following code on my page: <div id="itemstable" class="item_type1"> ...other divs here... </div> And in my CSS file I have this code: .item_type1 div { background-image: url(images/type1.giff); } the problem is there are a lot of different item types so I will need to have a lot of lines in my CSS file. I was wonderin...

Nested DIVs - How to make it work for Internet Explorer 7?

Nested divs; works perfectly in Firefox-Opera-Safari, how to make it work for IE7? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html> <body> <div id="test-div-two" style="border: 1px solid magenta; float:left; margin: 2px;"> <div style="height: 20px; back...

Making right div repeat background based on left div's height

I have two div's in a container div, one floating left, one floating right. I have a php function for a search engine that spits out results, into the left div. what I need to do is have the right div repeat the background based on the height of the varied results on the left div. I have no idea how to go about this, any ideas? Right n...

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?...

CSS layout problems, floats, nested divs

Alright, I have received some helpful information on this personal site I am working on already. Somewhere in my jumbled mess of nested divs I have created some problems for myself. I have floated both that image and the text next to it inside another div and centered that div, which is fine. But in order to start a new paragraph belo...

Nested Divs Problem - Not stacking properly with content

Hi, I've an issue and need some help. I've some nested divs that look fine - as long as there's no content. Once I added some test text, as the pages may have lots of content, spacing appeared above the divs. Here's a link to a screenshot of the issue: http://www.stephencamper.com/screenshot/screenshot.gif ...and here's what the cod...

Overlap two Divs using float

I need to create following page layout using Divs. http://jsfiddle.net/6Lanq/ (please use horizontal and vertical scrollbar to see the exact picture. we have four zones) I accomplished it using nested divs and float but nested divs are not what is required. Other way of doing, that I know, is declaring "position:absolute" and setting z...