Re: [css-d] How to CENTER the content of this structure?

Setting text-align: center won't affect the floated elements inside a container. Try this: body { text-align: center; /* for IE */ } #root { margin: 0 auto; /* to center the stuff */ text-align: left;/* fix text aligning */ width: 70%; padding: 2%; background: #555;

Re: [css-d] This is driving me nuts (dont know what to call it)

The blue should be touching the top of the browser. http://ad.aaml.uniquethrudesign.com/ Try doing: #header img { margin: 0; } If that doesn't work, try zeroing the margin of div#main as well. Prabhath -- http://nidahas.com

Re: [css-d] Table to CSS Challenge...

I have tried to use to floating divs, one to the left and one to the right both with width 50%, and a static div. While this look OK on IE, is messed up on Mozzilla :( This is an easy effect to achieve. Check out the layoutgala entry: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/LayoutGala27.html Prabhath

Re: [css-d] css menu layout

Hi Travis, I was trying to do this with ul li but I can't seem to figure it out. I am really trying to stay away from tables on this. Does anyone have a good way to set this up? There are several ways this could be done, and this is a simple solution which uses absolute positioning (I

Re: [css-d] CSS 4 printing

On 4/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway to force background colors, images, and the like to show up on a printed page when printed from a web browser? Defining them in a print stylesheet (linked with media=print) will do. Prabhath -- http://nidahas.com

Re: [css-d] Float problems in Firefox 1.5

So, to reiterate, the main content starting with the graphic Welcome is improperly clearing the white Aurora logo. Both are floated left. This problem appears in Firefox 1.5 on my Win2K pc. Are you sure the Welcome graphic is floated? I can't seem to find the style rule that specifies this

Re: [css-d] Header and UL

On 4/7/06, Murphy, Percevial [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will note on this page http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/mph/customcf/headerbox.html, the background where the text Useful Links text appears is not the same width as the links below it. How can I set it so that they are both the same width?

Re: [css-d] XHTML Transitional CSS Positioning

You can see the behavior with the above line at: http://s92454869.onlinehome.us/test1.html The doctype turns on the standards compliant mode on browsers, so it's important to have it. Use position:relative on #vtp, and then use top and left css properties instead of margins on the absolutely

Re: [css-d] Centering of menu.

On 3/16/06, Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In following test site the menu does not appear inside its wrapper (the black border is purely for debugging) http://www.iysearch.net/new/test2.html Floated elements are taken out of the document flow, and thus are not contained in the wrapper.

Re: [css-d] Centering of menu.

http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/02/26/simple-clearing-of-floats/ The overflow:auto works a treat in FF but not IE I usually go for the method at positioniseverything.net. Just a matter of using those CSS rules, and applying

Re: [css-d] Using DIV's is a PROBLEM

On 3/17/06, Trash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again I miss using tables too much. The structure of layout what i want to make is this: Logo (fixed width height) Menu (fixed width height) Content (fixed width, 100percent height) Footer (fixed width height) Here's an easy way to go

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

Hi Mike, Everything works just fine, except in IE6/Win...?The section headers do not display... BUT, if you scroll up/down, each header that disappears off screen and then returns will display, or if you wipe your cursor on the screen, they display, and will kind of stay...but once you

Re: [css-d] Font choices in css

On 10/17/05, Tony Balazs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have based my css on some sheets I found online and have done my best to incorporate advice gratefully received from this site. In the body { I have verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Thing is, I don't understand why the choice is

Re: [css-d] floating background without scroll bars

On 9/16/05, rashantha de silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know/explain how the floating background is accomplished at this site http://www.sitevista.com It's just separate background images attached to diffferent elements - the fruit is attached to the body element, and the content

Re: [css-d] can i force width on a div? / working with blog system

on the left DIV the user uploads his data. if the user uploads content widen then 600px, the page breaks and the right div falls down beneath the left DIV how can i solve it? overflow: auto should to the trick (will add scrollbars for overflowing content). Prabhath http://nidahas.com

Re: [css-d] stylesheets won't apply

I have attached an external stylesheet to HTML pages which are all saved in the same folder. When I preview the pages on the Web (Explorer or Netscape), the first page I view has the styles applied. (colors, positions, fonts, etc.) But when I link to another page within the site, the style

Re: [css-d] Footer Extending

I am having a problem at: http://lamaison.org.uk/pages/pager.php http://lamaison.org.uk/styles/pages.css The footer extends out over the column. Could anybody explain why, please and maybe offer a solution for stopping it. The footer (#footer) is contained inside #anchor. Both

Re: [css-d] whatever:hover fast and easy via Dynamic Properties

On 7/12/05, Klaus Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Hucklesby wrote: Is there any way to get IE to understand focus? Looks like a good place to use Sons of Suckerfish [1], especially the Focus [2] part. Prabhath http://nidahas.com [1] http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/ [2]

Re: [css-d] margins in IE5.5 and 6

On 7/6/05, Virginia Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I've got a layout that's looking fine in browsers other than IE5.5 / 6 (big surprise there). The problem is that IE seems to be doing something funny with margins, thus forcing my main text area and my sidebar together. The other

Re: [css-d] FF problem!

On 6/23/05, Augusto Murri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! i've some problem to show well this box build in css.. In fact with FF i've some probem of visualizzation.. It would be great if we can have a look at the html and css, not just the screengrabs. Prabhath http://nidahas.com

Re: [css-d] float-clearing question (clear:both not working)

The problem I am having is getting the two wrapper divs to enclose the floats. (There are two wrappers because of the two background images - the logo on the right and the paintbrush on the left.) Use the easy and semantically correct method at PIE [1] Prabhath http://nidahas.com [1]

Re: [css-d] Challenge for the bored CSS develoer

What the challenge is... to try and get this website http://www.imax.com.au/ to look exactly the same but without tables :) I checked the site in Firefox/Win and the layout breaks. Do you want to keep these problems and redo the site with web standards, or is it time to get rid of _all_

Re: [css-d] question about validation/xhtml problems

What am I missing? Some of the stuff with javascript I find fascinating - but the P elements being undefined makes no sense to me. You are using XHTML, so you have to specify elements and attributes in lowercase. You'll have to replace the UL and P elements with ul and p. XHTML Spec:

Re: [css-d] Float breaks padding and border in Firefox

Sweet, that fixed it. Thanks a lot! Yes, having an extraneous div to clear floats does work. There's an even better way to do with clean markup: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html Prabhath http://nidahas.com

[css-d] Re: IE 5.0 PC - what should I be looking at?

- what kinds of things might IE 5 PC do differently than every other browser? Positioning doesn't seem to have any problems, other than the first blue box at the bottom having a double margin problem. (left margin) The nav menu is rather unreadable. There are no background colours, just red

Re: [css-d] CSS_layout_with_brower_problems

It looks perfect in IE6, in other browser it has various problems. Rob, first of all, don't design with IE. All versions of the browser has problems with CSS. Use Firefox to do the development, and then go on to do the tweaks and hacks for other browsers. It'll save you a lot of time and

Re: [css-d] Stuck on a couple of things

Here is the page: http://www.retroactive.com/gateindex.html In IE/Win 6.0 the image in Featured image does not show up. It does show up in all other browsers. This is strange.I wonder if enclosing the image in a p element would help. In IE/Win 6.0, the navigation bar on the right is

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

What could the reason be for this error? (I/O Error. Stream closed). The site is: http://nidahas.com Try validating the CSS. The content is served as application/xhtml+xml. Thanks, Prabhath http://nidahas.com I/O Error: Stream closed. Looks like the validator has started chocking on CSS.

Re: [css-d] background height for whole page

I thought applying the background to the BODY tag would make sense and not require any extra tags in my html, and it does work it the content goes beyond the fold, but if the content is shorter, the background image stops where the content stops. This is strange. If you applied the background

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

But I don't understand *why* the stylesheet isn't being seen -- it's a relative path; shouldn't the validator find it? I haven't had this problem before, and I always do my stylesheets the same way (or else, there's something I'm being really obtuse about). I've seen this error recently,

Re: [css-d] List spacing and Image Centering

navigation menu on the right is spaced radically different in Firefox and IE/Win (IE/Win is putting extra spaces between the li items). It's the dreaded white-space bug. Check out the fix[1] by Jon Hicks. Second, I cannot seem to get the images in the right sidebar to center within the div.

Re: [css-d] div height in IE

I think what you need to do is to contain the floated leftNav in mainBlock. Try this: http://positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html HTH, Prabhath http://nidahas.com On 5/27/05, Terry Jeske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.buzzjeske.com/untitled-1.htm I have a centered div mainBlock

Re: [css-d] size of new window

Looks like a case for a pop-up window if you want to control the window size. Accessify has a nice tutorial [1] that explains it pretty well. Go through the article and the comments too. BTW, target attribute is not available in XHTML Strict. Sitepoint has a workaround [2] by Kevin Yank.