Side Navigation Bar won't repeat? - css

I'm working on a website, and no matter what I do, I can't seem to get the side navigation bar to repeat. Because the bar is floating, I've created an image and told it to repeat. But it won't. Am I missing a step?
Here is the code for the bar:
#leftColumn {
margin-top:0;
padding-top:30px;
background:url(http://www.cnam.ca/uploads/images/left-column2.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
You can check out the problem at this website http://www.cnam.ca/annual-workshop

Looking at the #leftColumn element in Chrome developer tools, I see that the issue is with the height of the div, not the background-image. Your div height is only as tall as it requires to contain all the content. Adding height: 600px to that element confirms this, as the background image repeats.
You should look into faux-columns to achieve the result you're looking for.
http://alistapart.com/article/fauxcolumns

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Background image position relative to browser view-port instead of full website length

I'm trying to align a image to position at the bottom of the website, however, it aligns at the bottom of the browser and therefore leaves a gap when scrolling down.
Here's current code:
.pbg{
background: #e1feff url("http://d.cjshort.co.uk/img/mountains.png") no-repeat;
background-position: center bottom;
}
Thanks in advance.
By default browsers apply margin to the tag, that might be causing the gap you're seeing at the bottom of the page. You can do something like body { margin: 0; } or use a full-fledge css reset.
But like others have said, it's not super clear exactly what the problem you're having is.

Expand DIV to page bottom when scrolling down

On my site, I want to have a 'div' at the bottom of the page. It has no fixed height, but should always start '200px' from the top of the page.
The problem I am having is that when the content of the 'div' is very long, it's background doesn't expand when you scroll down.
Here is my code: JSFiddle (updated)
I have tried working with height=auto and border=auto, but then the 'div' doesn't stretch to the page bottom when there is less content and you don't have to scroll down.
Update:
Sorry for miss expressing my problem: I need the 'div' to have position: relative because I need it to be positioned in the center of the page with left=10% and right=10%.
I also updated the JSFiddle.
Update 2:
I guess there is no perfect solution to this problem. What I will end up doing: Having two 'divs'. The first div will have the page content on it and will not show the background when there is less content; the other div will be behind the content-div and won't scroll at all, but it will show the background for the div in front when there is less content.
I've changed some 'design' from your original to be able to satisfy your requirement.
First, here's my jsfiddle
#top {
height:200px;
background:#FFF;
}
body {
background:red;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
What I've done is I've set the whole page background to red. Made the #top height 200px with white background, so the #bottom would be 200px apart from the top. Now the trick I've done is, the #bottom is actually isn't touching the bottom if it has less content, but what you see is the illusion from the body's background and #bottom's no background.
Change it to position relative will work in your example fiddle.
add height: auto; to your div's css
EDIT:
and remove bottom: 0;

FIXED Div stays at the top but cuts off text with no scroll bars

I have some text that I display in a div with the following CSS:
.fixed-box {
position:fixed;
top:10px;
width: 270px;
}
This is so that when I scroll it always shows on the top of the screen. However when there is a lot of text the div gets cut off, because the position:fixed prevents it from scrolling down with the page it's on.
I was going to switch to an iframe, but is this really the best way to go?
Add overflow:auto; and set height property either to 100% or manually.
Here is code example http://jsfiddle.net/7ZVb8/

CSS - Images and Footer Problems

Ok, if you go here: http://opportunityfinance.net/Test/2013conf/index.html
You will notice 2 layout issues
This image of the 3 logos needs to be below the "Gold" <h4> tag. But for some reason it won't do it. I have assigned the <div> tag a position of relative since there are other divs within it that need to align the images to the bottom, and this does it correctly, however, it now won't go below the <h4>Gold</h4> HTML.
Next Layout issue:
I have been trying like hell to get a footer on the bottom of the page. Sounds simple right? WRONG! But now that I got the div to be at the bottom, it seems to be cutting off the top area divs above it. So, not all of the content is showing. Instead it is being pushed underneath of the footer. How can I fix this? Tried to put a padding on it, but now sure where and/or how? margin-top on the footer doesn't seem to do anything either.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated. I have been struggling like hell to get this simple layout in order. It should be a fluid layout, as I'm resizing text down as the page resizes also, which seems to be perfectly fine, except for these 2 problems :(
EDIT
Here is a pic of what it looks like when applying the container div a 100 pixel height value:
It is giving it too much space between the <h4>Gold</h4> and the 3 images. Atleast this is the case in Opera. Any possible work-arounds for this?
here's a fix for one
.body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
padding: 2em 2em 52px 0;
}
you have 3 logo's in one div, on that div add a height, for example
element.style {
height: 100px;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
}
Pretty basic stuff really, you should look into clearfix's here http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
When you add a float or position:absolute; to a div, in a way it gives up its reserved space so that causes the parent div to think that there isnt anything inside and therefor has no height, clearfix will fix these problems for you, reason i say is becuase the 3 logo's are all either floated or absolute;
this is the result i get

How do I keep my website content from moving during zoom?

I couldn't think of the right wording for this question, but here is my problem:
When users hit Ctrl+Plus to zoom in on my page, content seems to push each other around.
For example, I have a navigation div floating on its own on the top left corner of the page.
Then there is main content text that is centered in the page. When the user zooms in, the centered content quickly moves left towards the navigation and eventually starts wrapping around it and it looks awful.
Is there a high-level way that you can describe to me how to structure my page so that zooming keeps things stable and 'just zooms in' without distorting the original positioning?
This link from "A List Apart" covers some font sizing and fluid web development. It should give you some good direction of how to structure your page to adapt to changes in font sizes. You may also want to look into media queries because they allow you to apply styles based on certain characteristics of the browser or device.
How to keep code in center on zooming?
Center the code on zooming?
ANSWER:
< div id="wrapper"> Place this div tag outside the code < /div>
#wrapper
{
background-color: #F00;
width: 400px;//This width can be anything according to your need
margin-right: auto;//Note margin-right and left are allocated automatically
margin-left: auto;
}
Another Way
#wrapper
{
background-color: #F00;
width: 400px;
position:relative;
}

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