css-floating

Why does 'clear:left' also clears right?

I've been struggling to get CSS floating to work (in my head). Note the following example: <style type="text/css"> div.container { width:500px; } div.left { float:left; clear:left; } div.right { float:right; } </style> <div class="container"> <div class="left">leftdata 1</div...

Cannot get float left/right to work for a div in Internet Explorer.

Here is the html: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css"/> <title></title> </head> <body> <div align="center"> <div id="main-header-content" class="content"> <div class="left"> Lorem ipsum do...

css float problem in a list

I'm having a problem sorting this out, basically it will be a list with icons and text below. Icon size remains the same but the text doesn't, as shown in the picture (http://i34.tinypic.com/33op84m.jpg ). The problem is when an Li has allot of text the rest float to the right of it. How can I sort this out. Mycodes is below: ul.iconi...

How to create a floating div in BHO dynamically?

Hi all, How do I create a floating DIV in a web page on load using BHO with C#.NET? I just want to inject an HTML code snippet for DIV that will display "Hello World" on the page. The div should have absolute position styles. -Datte ...

IE6 and IE7 floating bug inside a header

We have an anchor tag floating right inside a header issue. It works fine on IE8 and Firefox. Any idea how to stop it popping outside the header box? Here is the code below: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <style> .wrapper { bo...

CSS boxes will not float from lower right corner

Hi there, I've been searching for this solution for a while now... [bla bla... google.. bla]... I have created an example where I'm almost there, but not quite: http://www.mikael-sandbox.com/puzzlecss/ What I have left here is that I want the number 1 to always be in the lower right corner. This is the case as long as I have ONE singl...

css float problem

I have about 8 paragraphs which I would like to float left, but some of the paragraphs have more text than others. So when I view in a browser, I get the left to right floating that I want, but I get multiple short paragraphs in a column when some paragraphs are longer and some are shorter. What I want is for each new paragraph to be i...

CSS: Alternative method to positon absolute

Hi Guys, I have the following mark up: <div id="playArea" style="position: relative;"> <div style="position: absolute; left: 295px; top: -1px; width: 313px; height: 269px;">Hello</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 63px; top: 35px; width: 80px; height: 42px;">World</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 534px; ...

IE6 nowrap and floating problem

This is driving me nuts... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> .cantWrapper { white-space: nowrap; } .cantWrapper .floatedDiv { float...

Animate floating divs when they are moved

Hi, I have two columns, the one on the left is a grid of square, floated, jQuery draggable elements. The column on the right is a jQuery drop target. So when I drop a dropabble on the target it gets appended to the right column and hidden on the left, causing the grid to move to fill the space where that one just was. Is there a way I...

How to force div from unfloating.

I am usually using table to do layouting. But I would like to try out the layouting in Div. Here is the problem, When I "float: left" a div, it makes the succeeding div to float with it. I tried to put "float: none" to the next div to make it break a line but it does not work. Here is what I want to do using table: <hr style="width: 10...

Always one left floating list element with css

Hi, I have a navigation with the following html code: <ul id="nav"> <li><a>home</a></li> <li><a>login</a></li> <li class="selected"><a>shop</a></li> <li><a>help</a></li> </ul> What I want to accomplish is that the element with the "selected" class always appears at the left side of the navigation. So if shop is selected the ...

How to position relative elements with lots of next to a element that are not as high, floating left

Hello, I have a page where I have a menu to the left and to the right I have a new section with a lot of text. The text is positioned correctly to start with, but as soon as the text goes below the left menu's height, the text is positioned more to the left. I understand that this is because the section is floating (pls correct me if I'...

CSS: Nested elements without explicit width and word wrap

I am trying to position a caption below an image without explicit knowledge of the images' width. I would like the caption to extend to the full image width, but not to stretch the parent elements' witdh and wrap the lines instead. I would like to avoid using javascript (reading and applying widths to elements) or using max-width:123px ...

How do I convert this HTML-table layout solution to floating-div solution?

I often need to list items with various-sized images on the left and text on the right, like this: For 17 years, I have solved this with HTML tables, like this: <html> <style> * { margin: 0; padding: 0 } body { padding: 20px; } #content { width: 600px; padding: 20px; margin-left: auto; ...

Pushing Down Content in Webpage

I'm floating a div to the top of the window. However, it's covering the content at the top of the page, that is, it's not pushing down the very top of the page. Yet I see Stack Overflow doing this with their notification bar, because it's not covering the username/rep/links. Is there a way I can replicated this with CSS? ...

JQuery: Floating share box like Mashable?

I am looking for a jQuery plugin which can serve me the floating share box functionality just like Mashable implement in their new design: http://mashable.com/2010/03/12/flickr-co-founders-startup-hunch-raises-10-million/. In the left side on the page above Mashable has sharing options which stays on the screen when you scroll the page....

Menu floating to the right on IE and to the left in FF

I am working on a website that has a menu which behaves correctly on FF but not on IE (as usuall). On IE it floats to the right while it should float to the left, however if float is set to none it behaves almost correctly, attaching the onto the top of the container. Here's a live example. Here's the css: /* Navigation */ .navigatio...

Floating troubles on IE6 and IE7

The header of a sub-section of my site is made of 4 divs vertically stacked. A fifth div, that contains an image, is floated over those 4 divs, a bit away from the right border. This layout works well on Firefox, IE8, Chrome, and other browsers, but on IE7 and IE6 the div does not float over the other divs, messing my layout. How can i f...

Contact form contents spilling out of container div on window resize.

I'm trying to get my contact form to not spill its contents out of the parent div when I resize the viewport. How can I go about doing this? I have used float clearing to prevent this as I understood it was supposed to be used, but it isn't working. What should I do to fix this? here is the page in question. also I have a similar ...