I am trying to have a background box behind my text and I cant get it to work. I have done this before and it worked fine, but I can't see where I have gone wrong this time. I have checked to make sure I have linked the CSS to the HTML correctly by changing the background-color, which worked.
HTML:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="SiteIcon.ico">
<title>Navigation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS/style for SubNav.css">
</head>
<body>
<h2><center><font color="orange" size="7">Navigation</font></center></h2>
<center>
<div id="1">The Online World</div>
<div id="2"><p>Animation</p></div>
<div id="3"><p>Creating an app</p></div>
<div id="4"><p>Mini Game</p></div>
<div id="5"><p>Gallery</p></div>
<div id="6"><p>Be Creative</p></div>
<div id="7"><p>About me</p></div>
</center>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
body {
color: black;
background-color: black;
margin: 0;
}
#1{
width: 7%;
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
padding: 2%;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.90);
position: relative;
}
The problem is not with the HTML / element ID - browsers have supported the "lenient" ID for a long time, which is why it is part of HTML5. While the HTML4 specification is different, if this was a major breaking change it wouldn't be in HTML5 - 'nough said.
The real issue the CSS selector, not the element ID. A CSS selector that begins with a number must have the number escaped.
That is, #1 is an invalid CSS selector while #\31 is valid - and matches elements with id=1.
This is a CSS parsing rule, for backwards compatibility now, and not an HTML or ID restriction. See CSS character escape sequences for gritties on escaping "odd" CSS selectors. Or see the w3c token/lexing train tracks. (For example, the selector to match id=1hello is #\31 hello, with the space - good grief!)
The corrected selector can be verified with this fiddle:
<div id=1>Hello world!</div>
#\31 {
color: blue;
font-size: 30px;
}
That being said, I avoid element IDs that are not trivial CSS selectors to avoid this extra work.
While ids can technically be numbers (in HTML5), it's got weird support in browsers because of backwards compatibility with the HTML4 spec.
ids should start with a letter for compatibility.
<div id="a1">The Online World</div>
and
#a1{
width: 7%;
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
padding: 2%;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.90);
position: relative;
}
works as expected.
Element IDs can't start with numbers. As soon as you change that, everything is good: http://jsfiddle.net/gr5956br/
body {
color: black;
background-color: black;
margin: 0;
}
#a1{
width: 7%;
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
padding: 2%;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.90);
position: relative;
}
<body>
<h2><center><font color="orange" size="7">Navigation</font></center></h2>
<center>
<div id="a1">The Online World</div>
<div id="a2"><p>Animation</p></div>
<div id="a3"><p>Creating an app</p></div>
<div id="a4"><p>Mini Game</p></div>
<div id="a5"><p>Gallery</p></div>
<div id="a6"><p>Be Creative</p></div>
<div id="a7"><p>About me</p></div>
</center>
</body>
Your original version with numbers (just so you can see that's the issue):
body {
color: black;
background-color: black;
margin: 0;
}
#1{
width: 7%;
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
padding: 2%;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.90);
position: relative;
}
<body>
<h2><center><font color="orange" size="7">Navigation</font></center></h2>
<center>
<div id="a1">The Online World</div>
<div id="a2"><p>Animation</p></div>
<div id="a3"><p>Creating an app</p></div>
<div id="a4"><p>Mini Game</p></div>
<div id="a5"><p>Gallery</p></div>
<div id="a6"><p>Be Creative</p></div>
<div id="a7"><p>About me</p></div>
</center>
</body>
You can also style the div's for less markup. And then style each link as needed. http://codepen.io/dfrierson2/pen/RNoWZe
body {
color: #fff;
background-color: pink;
margin: 0;
}
div {
width: 7%;
background: #fff;
}
#1{
width: 7%;
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
padding: 2%;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.90);
position: relative;
}
<html>
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="SiteIcon.ico">
<title>Navigation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS/style for SubNav.css">
</head>
<body>
<h2><center><font color="orange" size="7">Navigation</font></center></h2>
<center>
<div id="1">The Online World</div>
<div id="2"><p>Animation</p></div>
<div id="3"><p>Creating an app</p></div>
<div id="4"><p>Mini Game</p></div>
<div id="5"><p>Gallery</p></div>
<div id="6"><p>Be Creative</p></div>
<div id="7"><p>About me</p></div>
</center>
</body>
</html>
Do you mean something like this?
HTML
<body>
<h2><center><font color="orange" size="7">Navigation</font></center></h2>
<center>
<div class="background-box" >
<div id="One">The Online World</div>
<div id="2"><p>Animation</p></div>
<div id="3"><p>Creating an app</p></div>
<div id="4"><p>Mini Game</p></div>
<div id="5"><p>Gallery</p></div>
<div id="6"><p>Be Creative</p></div>
<div id="7"><p>About me</p></div>
</div>
</center>
</body
CSS
body {
color: black;
background-color: black;
margin: 0;
}
#One{
width: 7%;
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
padding: 2%;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.90);
position: relative;
}
You shouldnt use numerical numbers for ID's. Replace with characters and you will be fine.
Fiddle
Related
This is my code Im trying to get it centered in the middle of the page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">
<title>cp</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="well">
<font face="arial" size="5" color="#000000"><center><b>Control Panel</font></center>
</div>
</style>
<style type="text/css">
.span12{
background: lightblue;
color: while;
padding: 9px 0;
border-radius:5px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px #00BFFF solid;
margin: 0px auto;
width: 50%;
margin-top: 25%;
}
</style>
<div class="span12">
Welcome
</div>
<script src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>
It re-sizes with the page but I cant get the whole thing to be in the center of the page.
I just want the whole thing in the middle of the page
Remove the center tag and set margin-top:25%, It will solve your problem.
CSS
.span12{
background: lightblue;
color: while;
padding: 9px 0;
border-radius:5px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px #00BFFF solid;
margin: 0px auto;
width: 50%;
margin-top:25%; /* new */
}
HTML
<div class="span12">
Welcome
</div>
jsFiddle Live Demo
Hihi, I am trying to create a slide down menu using DIV, but hit a problem that I can't really figure out how to overcome. Let's take a look at the code below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#menu").click(function () {
$('#menuItem').slideDown('slow');
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 10px;">
<div id="menuItem" style="border: 1px solid blue; position: relative; z-index: 10; float: right; display: none; cursor: pointer;">
MenuItem1<br />
MenuItem2<br />
MenuItem3<br />
MenuItem4<br />
MenuItem5<br />
MenuItem6<br />
MenuItem7
</div>
<div id="menu" style="border: 1px solid blue; position: relative; z-index: 10; float: right; cursor: pointer;">
My Menu
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin: 50px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
<div style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; border: 1px solid red; padding: 10px; height: 500px;">
<div style=" position: relative; z-index: 1; float: right;">Form Element</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
All I want to achieve is to make my slide down menu stay on top of my form element div. Please advice how can this be done. Many thanks!
:)
Quick and dirty: I added an absolutely-positioned outer containing for the menu, and then applied top:40px to the content div to push it down to compensate for the height of the menu.
<div style="position:absolute;width:100%;">
<div style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 10px; ">
<div id="menuItem" style="border: 1px solid blue; position: relative; z-index: 10; float: right; display: none; cursor: pointer;">
MenuItem1<br />
MenuItem2<br />
MenuItem3<br />
MenuItem4<br />
MenuItem5<br />
MenuItem6<br />
MenuItem7
</div>
<div id="menu" style="border: 1px solid blue; position: relative; z-index: 10; float: right; cursor: pointer;">
My Menu
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin: 50px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; position:relative; top:40px; ">
<div style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; border: 1px solid red; padding: 10px; height: 500px;">
<div style=" clear:both; z-index: 1; float: right;">Form Element</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As I type this, dotty's already answered before me with a pretty much identical approach. However, in the code above, the individual menu divs are properly floating next to each other as you want them to, as they do in the first code you posted in the question.
There are probably some div and styling elements that are a little redundant there now.
Edit: It does occur to me now that the operation of the menu in dotty's code is actually probably how you intended for the menu to be.
Put the #menuItem div inside the #menu div, and set the #menuItem div's position to absolute and remove it's float.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#menu").click(function () {
$('#menuItem').slideDown('slow');
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 10px;">
<div id="menu" style="border: 1px solid blue; position: relative; z-index: 10; float: right; cursor: pointer;">
My Menu
<div id="menuItem" style="border: 1px solid blue; position: absolute; z-index: 10; display: none; cursor: pointer;">
MenuItem1<br />
MenuItem2<br />
MenuItem3<br />
MenuItem4<br />
MenuItem5<br />
MenuItem6<br />
MenuItem7
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin: 50px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
<div style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; border: 1px solid red; padding: 10px; height: 500px;">
<div style=" position: relative; z-index: 1; float: right;">Form Element</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I want to achieve this:
I want to display boxes, one main box and below each box a smaller box as you can see in the picture. I define this with the following html structure:
<div class='content'>
<div class='box'>
<a>test</a>
<div class='money'><div id='maxnumber'>
<h3 id='max'>max</h3><h3 id='digit'>0000</h3>
</div></div>
<div id='numbereuro'><h3 id='digit2'></h3>
<h3 id='euro'></h3>
</div>
</div>
<div class='utility'>test</div>
</div>
Here is a working example that shows the result without the smaller box: http://jsfiddle.net/
.box names the bigger box and .utility the smaller box below bot wrapped in .content. I use the following css:http://jsfiddle.net/76fXa/
.content {
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
font-size: 11px;
float: left;
}
.utility{
position:relative;
height:50px; width:100px; background:red;
}
.box {
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
background: #BBE3A8;
font-size: 11px;
float: left;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
.box {
position: relative;
padding: 5px;
width: 180px; height:auto;
cursor:pointer;
}
and I get the following result: http://jsfiddle.net/76fXa/1/
any ideas?
How about this quick fiddle I just made for you.
http://www.jsfiddle.net/ozzy/F3K8k/
Both .box and .utility should be put in another floated div so that they both are constrained within. Just a simplified example
<div id="content">
<div class="section">
<div class="box">
Large content area
</div>
<div class="utility">
Small content area
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<div class="box">
Large content area
</div>
<div class="utility">
Small content area
</div>
</div>
</div>
(attempting to preserve your class names where practical)
You could then set the inner divs to display block so that they fill the constrained area and set a fixed width to section (I will use 50% for demo purposes)
.section
{float:left; width:50%;}
.box
{display:block;}
.utility
{display:block;}
Set the other style properties as needed, and remember the box model when adjusting padding and margins. Sometimes applying too much or too little of either can break off to a newline if something is set wrong.
From what you provided I can't see why position relative would be necessary. If it was intended as an attempt to make the layout you demonstrated then I'd suggest removing it, unless for some reason you are absolutely positioning something within that div relative to it.
EDIT: Didn't realize you had two content divs and a fiddle posted.
http://jsfiddle.net/76fXa/2/
#ArtWorkAD: Is this is how you want it?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.content {
float: left;
font-size: 11px;
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
.utility {
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
background: red;
border-radius: 5px;
clear: left;
cursor:pointer;
float: left;
font-size: 11px;
height: auto;
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
width: 180px;
}
.box {
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
background: #BBE3A8;
border-radius: 5px;
cursor:pointer;
float: left;
font-size: 11px;
height: auto;
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
width: 180px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<div class="box">
<a>test</a>
<div class="money">
<div id="maxnumber">
<h3 id="max">max</h3><h3 id="digit">0000</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div id="numbereuro"><h3 id="digit2"></h3>
<h3 id="euro"></h3>
</div>
</div>
<div class="utility">test</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
http://jsfiddle.net/9Ugww/
I have a problem with Firefox to show this: (But IE show correctly)
<div id="main_div" dir="rtl">
<div dir="rtl">
<div class="outer_div" dir="rtl"> Text! </div>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<div class="outer_div" dir="rtl"> Text! </div>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<div class="outer_div" dir="rtl"> Text! </div>
</div>
</div>
======================================
body{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
div.main_div{
border: dotted;
border-width: thin;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
background: #ffffaa;
border-color: #FFCC66;
width: 100%;
float: right;
}
div.outer_div{
float: right;
padding-bottom : 5px;
padding-top : 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
width: 33.3%;
border: dashed;
border-width:thin
}
Why this happened?! tnx
You can't have pixel based padding when using % based sizing. Even IE doesn't get it right. If you look very closely (and change the size of the window), there is a white space to the left of your first div. When you add padding, it adds to the size of the div itself, so you have a div of 33.3% width + 20px (left-right). IE interprets this incorrectly and gives you a seemingly usable result. Firefox interprets this "as is" and you get the floated div.
What you need to do is apply padding to sub-divs inside your layout divs:
EDIT: Style Elements
body{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
div.main_div{
border: dotted;
border-width: thin;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
background: #ffffaa;
border-color: #FFCC66;
width: 100%;
float: right;
}
div.outer_div{
float: right;
width: 33.3%;
border: dashed;
border-width:thin
}
div.textformattingclass{
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
}
HTML Elements
<div id="main_div" dir="rtl">
<div class="outer_div" dir="rtl">
<!-- remove all content formatting from the style for the outer_div
and place it in a style for this sub-div //-->
<div class="textformattingclass">
Some text!
</div>
</div>
<div class="outer_div" dir="rtl">
<div class="textformattingclass">
Some text!
</div>
</div>
<div class="outer_div" dir="rtl">
<div class="textformattingclass">
Some text!
</div>
</div>
</div>
You are missing the closing tag for the outer div, and also, no div should have the same ID on the page... You should be using the class attribute :)
This is a follow up to this question. I've tried to come up with a solution that allowed me to have in-line labels in a multi-column form, by reading some of the answers provided in the question mentioned above I realized that it was much more simpler than I originally had though, this is my prototype:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style>
._20 {
width: 16%;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
}
._30 {
width: 26%;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
}
label {
border: 1px solid #B3B3B3;
font-family: inherit;
padding: 3px;
width: 100%;
}
input {
border: 1px solid #B3B3B3;
font-family: inherit;
padding: 3px;
width: 100%;
}
.box {
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px 0px;
background-color: #666;
}
.content {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
padding: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="content">
<div class="_20">
<p><label>Name:</label></p>
</div>
<div class="_30">
<p><input type="text" id="" /></p>
</div>
<div class="_20">
<p><label>Email:</label></p>
</div>
<div class="_30">
<p><input type="text" id="" /></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In theory this seems to work, but in practice all I get is this very weird result (in FF 3.5.6):
If I drop the p tags around the labels and input the result changes a bit:
What's wrong? Is there any hack I'm supposed to make use of?
How can I place the labels / inputs inside the box like they are supposed to?
I appreciate all input, thanks.
Try this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style>
._20 {
width: 16%;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
}
._30 {
width: 26%;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
}
label {
border: 1px solid #B3B3B3;
font-family: inherit;
padding: 3px;
width: 100%;
}
input {
border: 1px solid #B3B3B3;
font-family: inherit;
padding: 3px;
width: 100%;
}
.box {
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px 0px;
background-color: #666;
}
.content {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
padding: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;
overflow:hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="content">
<div class="_20">
<p><label>Name:</label></p>
</div>
<div class="_30">
<p><input type="text" id="" /></p>
</div>
<div class="_20">
<p><label>Email:</label></p>
</div>
<div class="_30">
<p><input type="text" id="" /></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
BTW, Check this out: How to create perfect form Markup and style it with CSS
Here's one. The main thing is the clear:both; div at the bottom, but there are a few more things changed too.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style>
._20 {
width: 16%;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
}
._30 {
width: 26%;
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 2%;
margin-right: 2%;
}
label {
border: 1px solid #B3B3B3;
font-family: inherit;
padding: 3px;
width: 100%;
}
input {
border: 1px solid #B3B3B3;
font-family: inherit;
padding: 3px;
width: 100%;
}
.box {
padding: 10px;
background-color: #666;
}
.content {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="content">
<div class="_20">
<label>Name:</label>
</div>
<div class="_30">
<input type="text" id="" />
</div>
<div class="_20">
<label>Email:</label>
</div>
<div class="_30">
<input type="text" id="" />
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
first of all you need to reset the padding and margins on the <p> elements
p,label{
padding:0;
margin:0
}
secondly, you are floating elements inside a block element without clearing them later... hence the overflow issue... here is a working version of the code http://jsbin.com/eheva3
Note: I have used the clearit method which requires extra markup
You can use either that or the "clearfix" method... google for "clearfix" to find out more
You should start with the simplest possible implementation that works and build whatever fancy styling you want up from there. Getting rid of all the extraneous tags, all you really need is:
<div class="box">
<div class="content">
<label>Name:</label>
<input type="text" />
</div>
</div>
You don't need to add more divs and paragraphs to get it to snap to a grid, just style the elements that are already there.