footer's padding making it expand over its parent div width - css

I have a footer in my webpage with some text in it. When i try to add padding-left property to it, the width of the footer expands over the enclosing parent div element and this problem only happens with Opera and not with Chrome or Firefox or IE.. What should be done to correct it ??
CSS for footer :
footer {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #3399CC;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
width: 100%;
float: left;
}

Instead of adding an extra block level element inside of your footer, you should try the CSS3 box-sizing property with value set to border-box. The following footer definition should probably solve the problem for you:
footer
{
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #3399CC;
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
width: 100%;
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box; /* prefix accordingly */
}
To read a short introduction, visit the following link: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_box-sizing.asp

you can fix this problem by taking a div inside footer tag and apply padding to that div
<style>
footer {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #3399CC;
width: 100%;
float: left;
}
.footer {
padding-top: 12px;
padding-bottom: 12px;
padding-left:10px;
}
</style>
<footer>
<div class="footer">hello this is footer</div>
</footer>

That's a common sense. If you add "padding" and "width of 100%" you will get that result. Remove the "padding" or the "width of 100%" you will notice the problem no longer exist.
Add div tag between the parent-of-footer and the footer, and add the padding-left to that new div, like this:
<div id="parentOfFooter" style="background-color: #00ff00;">
<div id="paddingLeftProblemSolver" style="background-color: #ff8800; padding-left:50px;">
<div id="myfooter" style="color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #3399CC; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; width: 100%; float: left;">
i'm a footer
</div>
</div>
</div>

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Fix the alignment of two child divs

The project is to create a micro-blogging website similar to Twitter. I chose to name the site Chirper (how clever of me). Each post is structured by a parent div, an avatar div and a content div. The avatar and content divs are displayed inline, but they are not aligned properly. Any help is appreciated.
HTML:
<div class="chirp">
<div class="chirp_avatar_region">
<img src="img/avatar/default.png" alt="Avatar" width="64" height="64">
</div>
<div class="chirp_content">
<p>
USER
<span class="timeStamp">2013-11-22 16:43:59</span>
</p>
<p>
COMMENT
</p>
<p>
ReChirp!
</p>
</div>
The div's aren't aligned how I want them to be (level and 100% of the parent).
I can't post images, so here is a link to an imgur page: http://imgur.com/Mn9mE5q
Relevant CSS:
body {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
color: #000;
background-color: #666;
font-size: 1em;
}
/* Containers */
div {
margin-top: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 10px;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 3px;
border-color: #000;
padding: 10px;
}
div.pane {
width: 70%;
background-color: 0099FF;
}
div.chirp {
border-width: 1px;
margin-bottom: -1px;
width: 80%;
padding: 5px;
}
div.chirp_avatar_region {
display: inline-block;
width: 10%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
/*border-style: none;*/
}
div.chirp_content {
display: inline-block;
width: 80%;
height: 100%;
/*border-style: none;*/
}
div.chirp_avatar_region > img, div.chirp_content > p {
margin-top: 0;
vertical-align: middle;
}
You can either float your inner divs then clear the float following the container
or
use vertical-align:top to position your divs at the top of the container
Not entirely sure, but what I think is happening is that by defining position:inline-block, it's putting them on the same line, and making the line-height the height of the chirp_content container. In a sense anyway.
Set to vertical-align:top; and it should solve it.
Ex.
.chirp_content, .chirp_avatar_region{ vertical-align:top; }
JS Fiddle
Give to the avatar_region a float: left, and remove its width: and height: setting. Remove the chirp_content div, it circumvents the inlining.

Div picture cut out of div box

I was just adapting a webdesign, when I found a problem and couldn't slove it on my own.
I coded a heading and an article picture, both in the same div, with a border at the bottom of the div.
My problem: The border comes right after the title and doesn't integrate my picture.
Check out this fiddle to see what i mean: Click me!
Here is my code:
<div class="latestarticle">
<a class="articletitle" href="#" >Guitar Hero Experts Melt Your Face Off</a>
<div class="articlepicture">
</div>
and CSS:
.latestarticle {
border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
padding: 0px;
margin-top: 12px;
font-size: 12px;
}
.articletitle {
color: #CD5700;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
.articlepicture {
height: 76px;
width: 136px;
float: left;
margin-top: 12px;
margin-right: 9px;
border: solid #A3A3A3 2px;
}
I'm wondering why this is not working. This should work, anyway, add display: table; or display: table-cell; to your .latestarticle. It works fine. See Demo
Edit
Oh! I came to know this problem is happening because you have floated left to your .articlepicture and I hope you wanted to do as demo.
I have added <div class="articlegroup"></div> for your .articlepicture div and defined it display: inline-block;
DEMO
use css display: block to .articletitle
I think what you are looking for is a clearfix. You need to add a "clearfix" div as a sibling to a floated element if you want the parent to recognize the height of the floated element.
<div class="latestarticle">
<a class="articletitle" href="#">Guitar Hero</a>
<div class="articlepicture"></div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
Then define the .clearfix style in css:
.clearfix { clear:both; }
use disply:inline-block; for latestarticle .see here http://jsfiddle.net/WEHw4/5/

Background-color without height

I am building a fixed width site, 970px, centered, with a gradient as the surround. Originally the fixed width portion was white with several horizontal areas (menu, search area, product selection area) having a different background. This was accomplished simply with a background color of white for a div that is the next child of the body, which contained all the content of the page, and an override to the background color when needed. This worked fine.
Can I make these horizontal areas have the same background as the gradient, which will obviously be different at different places in the page? I thought I would simply keep the background-color transparent (the default) at all levels until I came to the parent of content I want white, making that parent's background-color #FFFFFF. This works if I specify a height to the area. However, the main body of the website will be of indeterminate height, and must be white (or something other than the gradient!). Are there any techniques through which I can force an element and its contents into a white background without specifying a height on that element?
Thanks.
Thanks for the response. I should clarify with code so that the question is clear. Sorry for that.
Here is sample HTML that illustrates the problem:
<body>
<div id="Page">
<div id="Header">
<div id="HeaderNavigationSection">
<div id="HeaderNavigationMenu">
<ul>
<li>Menu Item One</li>
<li>Menu Item Two</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="HeaderBannerSection">
<a href="#">
<img id="CompanyLogo" alt="Company Logo" src="" height="45" width="200" />
</a>
<p id="BannerSloganOne">Banner Slogan One Text</p>
<p id="BannerSloganTwo">Banner Slogan Two Text</p>
</div>
<div id="HeaderSearchSection">
<div class="HeaderSearchSectionLine">
<p class="HeaderSearchBoxLabel">Search Label One and Related Search Area</p>
</div>
<div class="HeaderSearchSectionLine">
<p class="HeaderSearchBoxLabel">Search Label Two and Related Search Area</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
First, here is CSS that works, using a page-level white background color and a section level different background color (yellow for illustration). This works throughout my code. I do not show any resets or basic settings. Note that the commented-out CSS for the #HeaderBannerSection is not needed (it appears in the code that doesn't work, which is shown after this code).
html {
height: 100%;
background-color: #D4D4D4; /* surrogate for browser-specific gradient */}
body {
text-align: center;}
#Page {
width: 970px;
margin: 0px auto 10px auto;
line-height: 1.2;
font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
text-align: left;
background-color: #FFFFFF;}
#HeaderNavigationSection {
height: 30px;
background-color: #FFFF00;}
#HeaderNavigationMenu {
display: inline;
float: right;}
#HeaderNavigationMenu li {
display: inline;
float: left;}
#HeaderNavigationMenu li a {
display: inline;
float: left;
margin: 8px 0px 10px 0px;
padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;}
#HeaderBannerSection {
/*width: 970px;*/
/*background-color: #FFFFFF;*/}
#CompanyLogo {
display: inline;
float: left;
width: auto;
margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;}
#BannerSloganOne {
display: inline;
float: left;
width: 330px;
margin: 20px 0px 20px 80px;}
#BannerSloganTwo {
display: inline;
float: right;
width: 300px;
margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px;
text-align: right;}
#HeaderSearchSection {
clear: both;
height: 68px;
background-color: #FFFF00;}
.HeaderSearchSectionLine {
clear: both;}
.HeaderSearchBoxLabel {
display: inline;
float: left;
margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px;}
Here are the changes to that CSS that attempt to make the html-level background color (namely the gradient) the default, through transparency, except where specifically overridden where desired (in this example, for the #HeaderBannerSection (with code from above commented out as needed)):
#Page {
width: 970px;
margin: 0px auto 10px auto;
line-height: 1.2;
font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
text-align: left;
/*background-color: #FFFFFF;*/}
#HeaderNavigationSection {
height: 30px;
/*background-color: #FFFF00;*/}
. . .
#HeaderBannerSection {
width: 970px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;}
. . .
#HeaderSearchSection {
clear: both;
height: 68px;
/*background-color: #FFFF00;*/}
This code does not work. The background-color for the section that should be white instead remains the gradient. This is true unless I specify a height for the section, then it all works. But I won't be able to specify the height for the main section (not shown) unless I do a jQuery to determine rendered height and then do a jQuery css height setting (not ideal, and haven't even tried it yet to see if it works). Incidentally, the offending code does work in IE6 and IE7 (at least as rendered in Expression Web 4 SuperPreview).
Thanks again for any help you can give me.
For your banner section try this jsfidle
the min-width property forces the div to have a specific minimum width if the content inside it is not enough to fill it (it will be the specified width by default until the content in it is so much that the div has to expand)
I've changed the background colour so that you can see the actual div # work
feel free to change to #FFFFFF once you are sure you have gotten it correct.

Image and text not vertically aligning when using Div tags and CSS

I'm not that great at CSS. I get how the properties work together but sometimes I don't get the results I want. I have a banner at the top of my page which contains a logo and some text.
They are contained in separate div tags in one larger div tag but my Text aligns to the top of the div tag while my image is centered vertically. How do I get the centers aligned vertically?
<div id="webBanner">
<div id="bannerImage">
<a href="Dashboard.aspx" title="Accreditation Data">
<img src="Images/logo.png" />
</a>
</div>
<div id="bannerText">
Accreditation Database (AD)
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#webBanner
{
height: 60px;
width: 100%;
vertical-align: top;
}
#bannerText
{
font-family: Arial;
font-size: xx-large;
font-style: italic;
color: #fff;
margin: 2px 5px;
}
#bannerImage
{
height: inherit;
float:left;
width: 223px;
vertical-align: middle;
margin: 2px 5px;
}
CSS vertical align does not work the way most people expect it to. It won't actually do anything at all in this particular case.
What you probably want to do is solve this with padding on your bannerText element.
For example, to vertically center 20px text in a 60px wrapper:
#webBanner {
height: 60px;
width: 100%;
}
#bannerText {
font-size: 20px;
height: 20px;
padding: 20px 0;
/* 20px padding on top and bottom plus 20px height = 60px total */
}
Note, the 0 in the padding refers to the left and right padding. You may want to adjust that depending on how your banner is designed.
Also, the "height: 20px" declaration is redundant if the only content in the div is text and the line height is not adjusted. I included it to provide a general solution.
#bannerText {
line-height: 60px;
}
Is one way..
I'd recommend something along the lines of this...
HTML:
<div id="webBanner">
<a id="bannerLink" href="Dashboard.aspx" title="Accreditation Data">
<img src="Images/logo.png" />
</a>
<h1>Accreditation Database (AD)</h1>
</div>
CSS:
#webBanner
{
height: 60px;
}
#webBanner h1
{
color: #fff;
float: left;
font-family: Arial;
font-style: italic;
line-height: 60px;
}
#bannerLink
{
display: block;
float: left;
height: 60px;
width: 223px;
}
You can adjust the CSS to vertically center the logo image by using margin:.
Given your text is inside a div, this may work:
#bannerText {
vertical-align: middle;
}
See this clear tutorial for more information on your options.

CSS: I can't put a button in the middle of a DIV element

I'm using CSS buttons from this tutorial:
http://www.oscaralexander.com/tutorials/how-to-make-sexy-buttons-with-css.html
I need to put a button in the middle of a DIV so it's centered. But I can't!
Here's the code of the button:
<a class="button" href="#"><span>Bring world peace</span></a>
And here's CSS:
.clear { /* generic container (i.e. div) for floating buttons */
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}
a.button {
background: transparent url('bg_button_a.gif') no-repeat scroll top right;
color: #444;
display: block;
float: left;
font: normal 12px arial, sans-serif;
height: 24px;
margin-right: 6px;
padding-right: 18px; /* sliding doors padding */
text-decoration: none;
}
a.button span {
background: transparent url('bg_button_span.gif') no-repeat;
display: block;
line-height: 14px;
padding: 5px 0 5px 18px;
}
Here's the code I'm trying to use:
<div align="center"><a class="button" href="#"><span>Bring world peace</span></a></div>
the align attribute for the div element is deprecated. You're better off defining a class for that div, like so:
<div class="centerize">
<a class="button" href="#"><span>Bring world peace</span></a>
</div>
And the CSS:
.centerize {
text-align: center;
}
Note however that setting the text-align will only affect the content inside the div. The div itself (should be) a block element, and depending on where it sits in the document structure, may not be centered itself.
Just to make a little more certain, you can do something like this:
.centerize {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
Now you can apply centerize to any element, and that element should take up the entire browser's width and center-align its content.
Modify the button class for these properties:
.button{
margin-left:50%;
margin-right:50%;
position: relative;
}
And wrap your link in the div like this:
<div align="center">
<a class="button" href="#"><span>Bring world peace</span></a>
</div>
The a.button is floated to the left. You could try float: none; on that element. margin: 0 auto; is also useful for center-aligning elements.
Does that help?

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