I'm trying to lay 3 things out on my forum: a bunch of media links top left, a menu bar top right and a logo beneath them centered.
Using this approach it appears exactly how I wanted on my localhost setup. However when I upload them to my live website, it looks different? Different in the sense that the logo seems to "see" the media box as its left margin, whereas offline is disregards it and centers on the page. Same browser, everything is the same which is why it's so baffling.
#logo{
display: block;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#brdmenu {
display: inline-block;
float: right;
}
#media {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
padding: 10px 10px 0px 10px;
}
I hope this isn't spammy but full CSS (and how it looks live) can be seen here: www.strengthandfitness.co.uk
The issue might be a lack of width on the #logo. Updated code, works for me in Chrome/FF:
#logo {
display: block;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 650px;
}
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I am creating a website with Wordpress for my mother-in-law (that's for the girly design). Basically I am near completion, but I am way over my head with two issues in the CSS. These seem very basic issues even from my standpoint of view, but with hours and hours of tinkering I am fresh out of ideas and Google didn't help me this time. It's been a while since I have had to create or modify any CSS.
First problem:
I cannot get the horizontal menu to center. I have tried to remove the float:left, I have tried to replace it with float:none and I have changed the display: block and display:inline lines to inline-blocks but the menu stays in its position. Only difference I have managed to make is to move the whole menu to the top of the page and that's not desired. What could be the issue in this?
Second problem:
There seems to be padding (the white lines) at the top of the menu and at the bottom and top of the small menu (mobile). I have tracked down all the padding-lines in the CSS but none of them really make a difference, only one which removed the horizontal paddings and that's not desired.
I would be really glad if somebody spots where I have gone wrong!
The website is at http://janenlahwr.cluster020.hosting.ovh.net/
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tero Korhonen
Lappeenranta, Finland
Hi Tero,
the first problem has really quick solution - CSS3 Flexbox. You can read about it on this w3schools site.
Remove unnecessary float: left and add display: flex and justify-content: center to .main-navigation ul. So it should looks like this:
.main-navigation ul {
margin: 0px 0 0 0;
padding: 0px 0;
padding-left: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
Second problem you can fix with setting div.site-logo max-height = height your logo (I see that is 200px). So in this case should looks like this:
.site-logo {
min-height: 70px;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
line-height: normal;
max-height: 200px;
}
Edit:
Sorry, I forgott check for lower resolutions. There is problem with overflow. You set in style.css:640 overflow: hidden and it works correctly since resolution is above 800px. If not then activates this rule:
#media only screen and (max-width: 800px) {
#main {
overflow: visible;
}
}
that overwrites previous correct rule for #main overflow: hidden. So you have two options: delete this rule for screens over 800px or change this property from visible to hidden.
I hope I helped you with your problems :) Good luck!
For the menu problem, change your CSS rules like this:
.main-navigation ul {
margin: 0px 0 0 0;
padding: 0px 0;
padding-left: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
/* remove float: left; */
text-align: center; /* added */
width: 100%; /* added */
}
.main-navigation ul li {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
/* remove float: left; */
text-align: center; /* not necessary */
}
I have a Wordpress promoslider pluggin on the front of my website which is inside it's own div, the css looks like this:
#content.promoslider {
float: left;
margin-left: 16%;
height: 420px;
width: 840px;
background-color: #3397cc;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-bottom: 35px;
border: none;
}
On my laptop it is centred and looks fine but on different sized monitors (mainly wider ones) it isn't in the center. You can see it on my website's homepage http://designbyiliria.com/
Could some one please tell me how I can use #mediascreen to adjust the margin-left depending on which monitor it is viewed on I'm a bit confused.
Many Thanks
Set the margins to auto if you want it to be centered on varying resolutions.
#content.promoslider {
height: 420px;
width: 840px;
background-color: #3397cc;
margin: 20px auto 35px auto;
border: none;
}
Ok. This is really weird and I have spent countless hours in vain searching for anything similar. I will add code, but you'll need visuals as well, so I'll include a couple of cropped images to show you what I mean.
My goal: Simple. Push my horizontal nav bar in my footer about 25px below the top edge of the footer. (Footer has a static background image)
Code used: #footer ul {margin:25px}
Result: No change.
HUH? So I played with it... tried several variations, but nothing worked. NOW, I did find a workaround... used padding instead of margin... but it bothered me that margin wouldn't work so I kept trying to figure out if I messed up my code somewhere.
I used float in the body, but I cancelled it out. Validations all came out ok. So I accidentally stumbled upon Firebug (never used it before... and still don't know how) but in my aimless clicking, I noticed something odd... when I clicked onto my footer ul, a box overlapping the footer and content was highlighted. So it appeared that my margin did exist, but instead of pushing my nav list down... it kept the nav list static, and expanded into the content.
HUH? So I did a little experiment. I created a bright border around the divs in my content and footer and ul to figure out exactly what was happening. (My content section has three divs: content (floating left); sidebar (floating right); and contentWrapper that contains both).
With the borders on, I noticed that my 'outerContent' div was collapsed. A mere 20% or so of the height of the area. So after some (lengthy) research, I came up with the overflow-auto fix. And although I still don't quite understand it, it worked. The contentWrapper expanded to meet the footer, and the footer ul moved to where I wanted to.
So problem fixed, right? Well..... not exactly.
My previews did fine, so I went back in and deleted the borders so I can get on with the rest of the formatting. Only when I previewed again... the footer ul was right back where it started. At the very edge of the top of the footer.
I did the borders again... the divs seemed fine, except that the contentWrapper was now pushed slightly above the footer to allow for that margin.
Now the REALLY weird thing is that when I put the border around my footer... the ul margin works. When I take it off... the ul goes back to where it was.
What the #$#%!? Although I know of the workaround (the padding) I am worried about compounding whatever mistake I have made and repeating constantly in the future (I have to build another website after this). If someone can figure out what I did to screw things up... it would be GREATLY appreciated.
#contentWrapper {
overflow: auto;
padding: 20px 10px;
}
#content {
float: left;
width: 660px;
}
#content h1 {
padding: 0 0 20px;
}
#content h2 {
padding: 20px 0 10px;
}
#content p {
line-height: 160%;
text-align: justify;
}
#content img {
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;
}
#content ul {
line-height: 160%;
list-style: disc outside url("../images/Bullet-artsy1.png");
margin: 0 0 10px 325px;
padding: 10px 0;
}
#content .info {
margin: 5px 0 10px 250px;
}
#rightSide {
float: right;
line-height: 140%;
padding: 0 10px;
width: 220px;
}
#rightSide h2 {
margin-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
#rightSide p {
font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;
font-size: 16px;
text-align: justify;
}
#rightSide img {
display: block;
margin: 5px auto;
}
#footer {
background-image: url("../images/TCS-Footer1b-plain-230px h.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
clear: both;
height: 230px;
}
#footer ul {
list-style: none outside none;
margin: 25px;
text-align: center;
}
#footer ul li {
display: inline;
margin: 30px 0;
}
#footer ul li a {
color: #E8FAFF;
padding: 30px;
}
#footer p {
color: #E8FAFF;
text-align: center;
}
#footer img {
bottom: -60px;
position: relative;
right: -900px;
}
The site is not active, but I've uploaded a word doc with images showing what I am talking about. This is the link to Temp Share: http://temp-share.com/show/dPf3UCobW
Thanks in advance to everyone who can perhaps show me where I went wrong.
First, to prevent your margin from disappearing, either change the margin on the #footer ul element to padding, or add one px of padding to the #footer element.
In this fiddle, we've set the padding on the #footer to 1px and reduced the height by 2px to compensate.
FIDDLE
#footer ul {
list-style: none outside none;
padding: 40px;
text-align: center;
}
or
#footer {
background-color: #DDDDDD;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
clear: both;
color: #808080;
font-size: 12px;
height: 228px;
padding: 1px;
}
looking at the css, your padding settings on the <a> tags won't work the way you expect, since by default they are aren't block elements. Add this to the css to have them padded correctly:
#footer ul li a {
display: inline-block;
}
likewise, your ul li should be inline-block.
so ...
#footer ul li {
display: inline-block;
margin: 30px 0;
}
#footer ul li a {
display: inline-block;
color: #E8FAFF;
padding: 30px;
}
Basically, just be aware that when top and bottom margins touch, including those of parent and child elements, the largest margin is used, but the margin is pushed outside the outermost element.
I tested it using firebug and working fine. If you have problem you can add !important at the end as this
#footer > ul {
margin: 13px !important;
}
And even what you would like to do is to get some margin before and or after the ul. For this you could set margin and/or padding value to your #footer.
Hope this help!
This is for future reference. I simply wanted to add the following link to compliment Dom Day's above. I am still having difficulty conceptualizing the event but between the two links, it will help me research it until I find the equivalent to an 'adjoining/collapsing margins-for-dummies' site. www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html - Details near the bottom of the web page.
My private webpage's main content is not displaying strangely within Firefox. The header and footer bar both display and the main text is placed adjacent to them towards the right. Occasionally, the footer also moves above the main text. I'm guessing this is all one issue involving the positioning of DIVs that I'm somehow missing. [This has been solved]
The height of two DIVs that are equally as tall when displayed in Chrome is also different. This issue also occurs in Safari but in a different way. There is a 1 px gap between the logo and the navbar that isn't present when viewed in Chrome or Firefox. Can anyone think of a way to reset all of the browser defaults to prevent similar things from happening in the future?
The website is currently not online yet and I'm debugging it for final release. (I don't really want to release this in the current condition as it will frustrate anyone who doesn't use a webkit browser.)
Also, as a side note, anyone know how to fix the CSS errors I'm getting in Internet Explorer 9? The gradient in the nav bar is gone, some areas have missing background color, and all picture links have annoying boxes around them.
EDIT: I saw in an online CSS gradient generator what I need to do to make the gradients work in IE9. The background issue apparently stems from the same source.
Also, is anyone in Opera experiencing issues with the latest debug version at http://jsbin.com/ipixay/1? (Credit for this one goes to Sunyatasattva.)
The link to the fiddle (where the code is posted at) is: http://jsfiddle.net/aaQSD/7/ Please forgive me for the amount of CSS that's still there, but I can't tell which causes the Internet Explorer 9 problems.
My best guess is that the Firefox problem lies somewhere in this section of CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
font-family: Times;
background: #efefef url(pics/background.png) repeat top center;
}
#container {
overflow:auto;
width: 95%;
min-height: 100%;
min-width: 946px;
margin: 0 auto 10px auto;
}
#content-wrapper {
width: 100%;
float: right;
text-align: left;
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
}
#content-inner {
padding: 0 15px 0 15px;
}
.center-slide {
font: normal 62.5%/1.5 Times;
letter-spacing: 0;
width: 900px;
height: 485px;
position: relative;
padding: 20px 0 0 0;
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.boxes {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 900px;
}
.left-box {
float: left;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border-radius: 8px;
margin: 10px 5px 0 0;
padding: 20px;
width: 500px;
position: relative;
}
.logo {
width: 26%;
text-align: center;
float: left;
font-family: Times;
font-size: 65px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
padding: 10px 0 0 0;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(0% 22px 90deg, #0B3474, #517ABA);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 70%, from(#517ABA), to(#0B3474));
}
header {
width: 100%;
min-width: 863px;
background-color: #000047;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: left;
font-size: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}
nav {
background-color: #6a6a6a;
font: 16px Times;
min-width: 700px;
float: right;
width: 74%;
}
footer {
font-family: Times;
text-align: center;
background-color: #000047;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 10px 0;
width: 100%;
min-width: 863px;
}
Here is the list of things that have been fixed:
Unwanted boxes/borders around picture
Firefox display issue
Glitchy footer
EDIT: I'm currently working on making a fiddle with the minimal code to replicate the issue as suggested in the comments. I hope you can forgive me for my noobish mistake. Thanks, everyone who have responded so far!
EDIT 2: The fiddle is out! I've removed the pandora's box of code that used to be below.
The header and footer are displayed adjacent to the main container
Is there a reason why they are floated? Removing the float: left rule from the header, makes the container stack below it. If they need to be floated for some reason I am not seeing, perhaps you should consider adding a clear?
Logo height different from navbar element heights
This piece baffled me a bit: I think the culprit is browser default line-height property, which, on Chrome, is coincidentally making your elements align.
Your nav elements have a set line-height of 61, plus a vertical padding of 12 on both sides, adding up to 85px. Your logo has no defined line-height and a font-size of 65px plus a padding-top of 10px. In Firefox this is 10px short.
To fix this, just set the line-height to your logo element as well.
Here is a working JSBin of your code:
Working example
Internet explorer problems:
Missing gradient
Missing background
Annoying border
I don't have IE9 at hand right now, so I might look into it later if you need it, but here are my guesses.
As for the missing gradient, your CSS specifies only webkit and mozilla vendor prefixes. You might want to take a look at the -ms– prefix as well, and check which rules really need it and which don't.
I am skipping the missing background part because it's quite vague and I am not testing on IE right now.
As for the border around linked images, you could perhaps add this rule to your CSS:
a img {
border: 0;
outline: 0;
}
EDIT:
Safari annoying one pixel gap
As for the Safari annoying one pixel gap, it apparently comes from the fact that Safari doesn't calculate well your float: left + width: 26% plus float: right + width: 74%. Adding a .1% to the first element width fixes the problem, but it is not the most elegant solution.
The best solution for your problem at hand is to just float both your elements left. You can see an updated fiddle working in Safari:
Working example
I have edited your fiddle for it to work. I essentially just added float: left; to your #container. You can look at my edits for further details. http://jsfiddle.net/aaQSD/8/
I am not sure what i can do to fix it but I am unable to use css to align the images in 1 row and then another row like a gallery. Can anyone help. I have tried to float the div entry to left and still unable to get it correct.
here is the css for entry
.entry {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
padding-top: 1px;
}
Add
display:inline-block
to your div class .wp caption
See this article http://designshack.net/articles/css/whats-the-deal-with-display-inline-block/ as there may be some issues with Cross Browser but i think its only IE6, maybe 7
so in your case
.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #a87c31;
text-align: center;
background-color: #10050B;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
display: inline-block;
}