Non expanding container div - css

I am trying to set up a basic layout where the header and footer carry on across the width of the page no matter what resolution the user is set to.
I have managed this but now I am having a problem where the main container div will not expand properly height wise to encompass the divs within. It seems to expand to only a certain height and then goes no further, no matter what height or min-height style you change.
Here is the basic structure:
<div id="page">
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footClear"></div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
The footer code is to force the footer to stick to the bottom of the page no matter the height of the main container (id="page")
My CSS for these parts is:
#page {
margin:0 auto;
width:1000px;
background:red;
padding:0px;
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
margin-bottom:-47px;
}
#content {
}
#footer {
width:100%;
height:22px;
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
background:#000000;
text-align:center;
padding-top:3px;
font-size:12px;
}
#footClear {
height:22px;
clear:both;
}
A link to what to my site is here if you want to have a look: www.therapyoracle.co.uk/new
You can see the page div is in red, and does not carry on down the page.

On your live site, #page has height: 100% set, which is causing the problem.
It's coming from your ie6.css! This is how you're trying to make it load in only IE6:
<!—[if lt IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/css/ie6.css" />
<![endif]—>
The hyphens in the HTML above are wrong. Replace that HTML with this:
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/css/ie6.css" />
<![endif]-->
And ie6.css will then only be loaded in IE6, instead of all browsers, and your problem will be fixed.

If you take the height out of you body this will fix it for you as below
body {
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

Delete margin-bottom:-47px; and delete #page {height: 100%;} in ie6.css

Related

Scaling a 768px wide website for windows phone

At the end of my tether with this one.
My website: timjstevenson.com
Renders on everything except windows phone. No errors.
I am using the recommended head function
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/IEMobile\/10\.0/))
{
var msViewportStyle = document.createElement("style");
msViewportStyle.appendChild(document.createTextNode("#-ms-viewport{width:auto!important}"));
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(msViewportStyle);
}
And the recommended viewport metas
<meta name="viewport" content = "user-scalable=yes, maximum-scale=1, width=device-width /">
And the recommended CSS elements
#-webkit-viewport{width:device-width}
#-moz-viewport{width:device-width}
#-ms-viewport{width:device-width}
#-o-viewport{width:device-width}
#viewport{width:device-width}
but the site still renders at full size and doesn't handle the fixed / relative elements properly.
I have done a lot of research on this and read all the relevant blogs / forums.
The top of my CSS looks like this...
html
{-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;
-moz-font-smoothing:antialiased;
-ms-font-smoothing:antialiased;
-o-font-smoothing:antialiased;
-font-smoothing:antialiased;}
body
{max-width:768px; min-height:1028px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
background-color: #ffffff;}
#font-face {font-family: HelveticaNeue;
src:url(fonts/HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt.otf);}
#font-face {font-family: FuturaStd;
src:url(fonts/FuturaStd-Book.otf);}
div, span
{font-family: HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:120%;
font-weight:normal;
text-align:justify;
color:#202020;}
div.sitepage
{position:relative;
width:700px;
min-height:900px;
top:180px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
z-index:1;}
And the top of the html looks like this...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content = "width=device-width"/>
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="images/tjs_logo.png"/>
And I have read these but no luck...
http://timkadlec.com/2013/01/windows-phone-8-and-device-width/
http://mattstow.com/responsive-design-in-ie10-on-windows-phone-8.html
stackoverflow.com/questions/14654425
IMPORTANT EDIT: The issue appears to be with position:fixed DIVs. These DIV elements do not scale under windows phone IE.
SOLVED.
The problem is with Position Fixed DIVs with a specified width in pixels.
If the viewport is being controlled by media queries (specifically for WinPhone 7/8) then specifying a width greater then the screen width in a fixed div causes the problem.
Here is the start of my altered CSS - note the div.header and div.site entries. NO SPECIFIED WIDTH - just 100% inherited from body with a max-width thrown in.
body
{width:100%;
max-width:768px;
min-height:1028px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
background-color: #ffffff;}
#font-face {font-family: HelveticaNeue;
src:url(fonts/HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt.otf);}
#font-face {font-family: FuturaStd;
src:url(fonts/FuturaStd-Book.otf);}
div, span
{font-family: HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:120%;
font-weight:normal;
text-align:justify;
color:#202020;}
div.site
{max-width:768px;
min-height:1028px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;}
div.header
{position:fixed;
z-index:5;}
And Here are the media and viewport elements I used.
#media screen and (max-device-width: 25em)
{body
{-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;
-moz-text-size-adjust: none;
-ms-text-size-adjust: none;
-o-text-size-adjust: none;
-text-size-adjust: none;}}
#-webkit-viewport{width:device-width}
#-moz-viewport{width:device-width}
#-ms-viewport{width:device-width}
#-o-viewport{width:device-width}
#viewport{width:device-width}
And here is the head viewport meta tag in the html
<meta name="viewport" content = "width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.0"/>
Hope this helps.
T.

Background image not appearing in IE8

I have a background image that I'm trying to use as a logo. All's fine in Chrome & FF, but it's not showing in IE8. The background images simply don't load. How can I get them to show in IE8?
this is the code:
<header>
<h1 class="logo">
Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science
</h1>
</header>
css:
header {
margin: 0 10px 38px 7px;
padding: 30px 0 0 0;
}
header h1{
width:232px;
}
header h1 a {
background:url('images/logo.png') 0 0 no-repeat;
display:block;
height:89px;
text-decoration:none;
text-indent:-9999px;
width:243px;
}
Add in head of your page next:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
In css you need write default styles for new html5 tags:
header, footer, section, nav, article {
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html5shiv.js - create new html5 tags in DOM. Old browsers like IE8 don't know about html5 tags.
https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
Your
header h1 a {
....
}
needs a line-height.
give proper float property. it's affecting it.

Extra space between page elements in IE6

It goes without saying that I'm not having any issue with modern browsers. Here is my page code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<body onload="initializeWidgets();">
<!-- ### Banner ### -->
<jsp:include page="part_banner.jsp"></jsp:include>
<!-- Extra space occurs here... -->
<!-- ### Filters and Table ### -->
<div class="G_overallContainer">
<div class="G_subContainer">
<div class="G_subContainerSection">
<h:outputText value="Filtering Options" styleClass="G_subContainerSectionHeader"/>
<!-- ...here... -->
<!-- ### Filter bar ### -->
<jsp:include page="part_filters.jsp"></jsp:include></div>
<!-- ...here... -->
<div class="G_subContainerSection">
<h:form id="tableForm">
<div class="table">
<h:dataTable value="#{tableDataBean.data}" var="data"
headerClass="tableHeaders"
rowClasses="oddRow,evenRow">
</h:dataTable></div>
<!-- ...and somewhere after here -->
</h:form></div></div>
<h:messages layout="table" style="color:red;" showSummary="true" showDetail="false"/></div>
</body>
</f:view>
</html>
Here is my css for the nested div containers:
body {
margin:0px;
border:none;
padding:0px;
width: 100%;
}
.G_overallContainer {
position: static;
display:block;
border:none;
padding: .25em;
border-width: 0;
border-style: none;
border-spacing: 0;
}
.G_subContainer {
display: block;
border: none;
padding: .25em;
margin:0;
border-style: none;
background-color: #0f2d65;
}
.G_subContainerSection {
display: block;
margin: .25em;
border:none;
}
.G_subContainerSectionHeader {
font-style: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
display: block;
padding: .5em;
background: url(../image/steel-blue.png) repeat-x;
color: #000000
}
It looks like there is about 10 to 15px extra space in between each of these elements in IE6. I am tempted to blame the div tags as I am aware that there are some IE6 bugs that cause issues like this due to extra white space within the divs, but the extra space only occurs after certain div tags like the two subContainerSections and after the banner which contains no divs. I have tried setting all margins to zero but that does not solve the problem. It is as if there is something BETWEEN the margin and the border of the offending elements...
What do you guys think?
edit:
Threw my DOCTYPE up there for clarification
Here is an extremely cut down version of my page: link. If you view it with IE6 you will see the separation of the "filters" header from the body.
If you could throw up an example on jsFiddle that would help a lot, but I do know that IE6 has problems with horizontal spacing that can be fixed by settings the elemnts zoom,
.myhorzel{
zoom:1;
}

Div layout in the head of an HTML page [duplicate]

<div class="HeaderLink" id="Home">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>MDB1</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Index.css" />
</head>
<body id="HeaderFive">
<div class="HeadPanelElement" lang="en" id="HeadPanel"> Blog
Videos
Home
Contact
About MDB1 </div>
</body>
</html>
</div>
#charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
.HeadPanelElement{
position: absolute;
width: 10%;
left: -10%;
}
#HeadPanel{
left: 15%;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
border: dashed;
border-color: #C00;
border-width: 2px;
font-size: 1em;
Intentions are for the page to layout like this
Why aren't the position attributes working?
quick to do ...
#HeadPanel
{
display: inline;
width: 100%;
}
.HeadPanelElement
{
width: 10%;
/* or
padding: 10px; */
}
the real factor here is the display: inline; which will layout the div in a side by side fashion.
You are using 'left:' but you didn't include 'position:absolute'? Try that maybe it might help.
position: absolute; will help you get that interesting layout.
For declarations like left and top to make any sense, you need to apply them to positioned elements:
#foo {
position:absolute;
top:10%;
left:25%;
}
Your elements don't appear to have be positioned as absolute or relative.
There are many other problems with your markup as well that will cause many, many problems. All of your markup should go within the body tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Foo Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
#foo {
position:absolute;
top:10%; left:10%;
background:yellow;
padding:10px 20px;
border:1px solid #000;
color:#000;
width:30%
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- all markup goes here -->
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>
<!-- all markup goes here -->
</body>
</html>
Online Demo: http://jsbin.com/efukol/edit
There are a few things going on here:
The A element is inline, and things will sit right next to each other, like BlogVideosHomeContactAbout MDB1, as I am sure you have already seen.
This LOOKS like a list or menu, so use the appropriate markup. List markup would be best, or if you want to try HTML5, there is already the NAV element with is specifically for that purpose.
I notice that you are not using URLs in the a elements. It is better to use something which will not generate a 404 on the server.
Why are you bothering with target="_self" unless you are using frames, and if that is the case, please Google for Frames are Evil. If not, then A) _self is redundant, B) if you are using a Strict doctype, the target attribute is deprecated for accessibility reasons.
Naming your CSS file index.css might get you in trouble if the server is configured to use index. with ANY suffix to as the default page. Better would be something like style.css.
Now to get these things going across, you can go a few ways:
/* CSS using line list markup */
#HeadPanel ul {list-style-type:none;}
#HeadPanel ul li {display:inline; padding:.25em 1em .25em 1em}
/* CSS using floats list markup */
#HeadPanel ul {list-style-type:none;}
#HeadPanel ul li {display:block;float:left;margin: 0 .1em 0 .1em;padding:.25em;}
#HeadPanel ul li a {display:block; /*what ever else you want to do */}

Position elements with the div tag

<div class="HeaderLink" id="Home">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>MDB1</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Index.css" />
</head>
<body id="HeaderFive">
<div class="HeadPanelElement" lang="en" id="HeadPanel"> Blog
Videos
Home
Contact
About MDB1 </div>
</body>
</html>
</div>
#charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
.HeadPanelElement{
position: absolute;
width: 10%;
left: -10%;
}
#HeadPanel{
left: 15%;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
border: dashed;
border-color: #C00;
border-width: 2px;
font-size: 1em;
Intentions are for the page to layout like this
Why aren't the position attributes working?
quick to do ...
#HeadPanel
{
display: inline;
width: 100%;
}
.HeadPanelElement
{
width: 10%;
/* or
padding: 10px; */
}
the real factor here is the display: inline; which will layout the div in a side by side fashion.
You are using 'left:' but you didn't include 'position:absolute'? Try that maybe it might help.
position: absolute; will help you get that interesting layout.
For declarations like left and top to make any sense, you need to apply them to positioned elements:
#foo {
position:absolute;
top:10%;
left:25%;
}
Your elements don't appear to have be positioned as absolute or relative.
There are many other problems with your markup as well that will cause many, many problems. All of your markup should go within the body tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Foo Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
#foo {
position:absolute;
top:10%; left:10%;
background:yellow;
padding:10px 20px;
border:1px solid #000;
color:#000;
width:30%
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- all markup goes here -->
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>
<!-- all markup goes here -->
</body>
</html>
Online Demo: http://jsbin.com/efukol/edit
There are a few things going on here:
The A element is inline, and things will sit right next to each other, like BlogVideosHomeContactAbout MDB1, as I am sure you have already seen.
This LOOKS like a list or menu, so use the appropriate markup. List markup would be best, or if you want to try HTML5, there is already the NAV element with is specifically for that purpose.
I notice that you are not using URLs in the a elements. It is better to use something which will not generate a 404 on the server.
Why are you bothering with target="_self" unless you are using frames, and if that is the case, please Google for Frames are Evil. If not, then A) _self is redundant, B) if you are using a Strict doctype, the target attribute is deprecated for accessibility reasons.
Naming your CSS file index.css might get you in trouble if the server is configured to use index. with ANY suffix to as the default page. Better would be something like style.css.
Now to get these things going across, you can go a few ways:
/* CSS using line list markup */
#HeadPanel ul {list-style-type:none;}
#HeadPanel ul li {display:inline; padding:.25em 1em .25em 1em}
/* CSS using floats list markup */
#HeadPanel ul {list-style-type:none;}
#HeadPanel ul li {display:block;float:left;margin: 0 .1em 0 .1em;padding:.25em;}
#HeadPanel ul li a {display:block; /*what ever else you want to do */}

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