positioning

CSS - Placement of a div in the lower left-hand corner

I wish I were a CSS smarty .... How can you place a div container in the lower left-hand corner of the web page; taking into account the users scroll-position? Thanks in advance for any assistance. ...

Position An HTML Element Relative to its Container Using CSS

I'm trying to create a horizontal 100% stacked-bar graph using HTML and CSS. I'd like to create the bars using DIVs with background colors and percentage widths depending on the values I want to graph. I also want to have a grid lines to mark an arbitrary position along the graph. In my experimentation, I've already gotten the bars to s...

Seeking CSS Browser compatibility information for setting width using left and right

Here's a question that's been haunting me for a year now. The root question is how do I set the size of an element relative to its parent so that it is inset by N pixels from every edge? Setting the width would be nice, but you don't know the width of the parent, and you want the elements to resize with the window. (You don't want to use...

CSS centering tricks

My favorite equation for centering an xhtml element using only CSS is as follows: display:block; position:absolute; width: _insert width here_; left:50%; margin-left: _insert width divided by two & multiplied by negative one here_ There's also the simpler margin:auto method in browsers that support it. Does anyone else have tricky way...

CSS positioning div above another div when not in that order in the HTML

Given a template where the HTML cannot be modified because of other requirements, how is it possible to display a div above another div when they are not in that order in the HTML and both divs contain data that could produce a varying height and width. HTML: <div id="wrapper">     <div id="firstDiv">         Content to be b...

Div Positioning Problem

I am working on a site laid out with divs. I am having trouble with one in particular: the training photo div. If you go to http://php.wmsgroup.com/eofd6.org/education.html you'll see a photo underneath the left nav that has dropped down. I want it to snap right under that nav box. I have tried several different things with its position...

CSS "valign" Positioning

<div> <h1>Title</h1> <table> ... </table> </div> Now, the <h1> has a margin: 0; so it is at the top of the div. However I'd like the table to be placed at the bottom of the div, eg. valign="bottom" but for the whole table. ...

Centre Text Relative to Available Space in CSS

<div style="width: 300px"> <div id="one" style="float: left">saved</div><input type="submit" id="two" style="float: right" value="Submit" /> </div> I would like div#one to be centred in the space between the left edge of the parent div and the left edge of the submit button. ...

YUI Menu positioned behind div

I have implemented a YUI split button with a menu. The button with menu appears in a scrolling div between header and a footer divs. When exposing the menu near the footer div, the menu appears behind the div. I have tried positioning the footer div with a z-index of -1. I have tried positioning the div (within the scrolling div) con...

What is the simplest jQuery way to have a 'position:fixed' (always at top) div?

I'm relatively new to jQuery, but so far what I've seen I like. What I want is for a div (or any element) to be across the top of the page as if "position: fixed" worked in every browser. I do not want something complicated. I do not want giant CSS hacks. I would prefer if just using jQuery (version 1.2.6) is good enough, but if I need ...

How can I position an element at the bottom of its container in Firefox?

I have a table cell, and I want a div within it to always be at the bottom left corner. The following works fine in IE and Safari, but Firefox is positioning the div absolutely on the page, not within the cell (code based on the solution solution here). I have tested both with and without the DTD, which put Firefox in Quirks mode and S...

Relative positioning in Safari

It has to be simple, here's my CSS: .progressImage { position:relative; top:50%; } .progressPanel { height:100%; width:100%; text-align:center; display:none; } <asp:Panel ID="pnlProgress" runat="server" CssClass="progressPanel"> <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" CssClass="progressImage" ImageUrl="~/Images/Icons/loading.gif" ...

How to center an image horizontally and align it to the bottom of the container?

How can I center an image horizontally and aligned to the bottom of the container at the same time? I have been able to center the image horizontally by its self. I have also been able to align the bottom of the container by its self. But I have not been able to do both at the same time. Here is what I have: .image_block { width...

What would make offsetParent null?

I am trying to do positioning in JavaScript. I am using a cumulative position function based on the classic quirksmode function that sums offsetTop and offsetLeft for each offsetParent until the top node. However, I am running into an issue where the element I'm interested in has no offsetParent in Firefox. In IE offsetParent exists, ...

IE positions left sidebar below content

Hello, I am not familiar with this website but I am desperately seeking help with the website I am building. I'm sorry if I'm not in the right place or asking my question incorrectly, so please tell me if I do something wrong! I have built a simple website, consisting of four pages (index.html plus three others). In FF everything seems ...

Gwt-ext window positioning

How do I make an instance of gwtext.client.widgets.Window appear at specific DIV in my html ? I tried window.anchorTo(DOM.getElementById("Some_Div"),"left", new int[]{0,0}), thinking the window will anchor itself to div id="Some_Div" in my html. it didnt. ...

Div background doesn't position with the Div.

I have a couple of Divs which I style using a class and an ID, he div's themselves are emtpy since they are only placeholders for their background. Example Div: <div id='ranImg1' class='ranImg'> </div> Then I style them using this css: .ranImg{ position:fixed; z-index:0; width:250px; height:250px; display:block; } #ranImg1{ lef...

Flash/AS3; get/set absolute position of MovieClip?

How do you get/set the absolute position of a MovieClip in Flash/AS3? And by absolute, I mean its position relative to the stage's origo. I currently have this setter: class MyMovieClip extends MovieClip { function set xAbs(var x:Number):void { this.x = -(this.parent.localToGlobal(new Point()).x) + x; } } This seems to wor...

Help with positioning logo/navigation links

Screenshot of the problem: http://i36.tinypic.com/dfxdmd.jpg The yellow block is the logo and the blue box is the nav links (I have blanked them out). I would like to align the links at the bottom so they are stuck to the top of the body content (white box). How would I do this? Here is the relevant CSS and HTML. #header { height:...

Get Absolute Position of element within the window in wpf

I would like to get the absolute position of an element in relation to the window/root element when it is double clicked. The element's relative position within it's parent is all I can seem to get to, and what I'm trying to get to is the point relative to the window. I've seen solutions of how to get a the point of an element on the sc...