Center page in IE - css

I am trying to center page on IE. If I force quirk-mode by adding <!-- some comment --> before DOCTYPE declaration margin: auto; doesn't work properly and page is adjusted to the left. If I remove the comment page is centered, but some other elements are in mess. Could you give me some hints how to solve this?

Setting margin-left: auto and margin-right: auto for the body using CSS usually does the trick.
Forcing quirks mode probably isn't a great idea, though.

Of course, being in quirks mode is not where you want to be so quit doing that. The problem will lie with the rest of the markup but, unless you give us a link or a jsfiddle with the complete markup, anything we say will just be a wild guess.
Does the page work in a modern browser (anything but IE)?

You can use a 50% margin, and a negative left position with half of your element size:
position: relative;
width: 600px;
margin-left: 50%;
left: -300px;

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Website scrolling to the right on certain pages

I have created http://amitchauhan.site88.net/EPC%20Website/Website%201/ as you can see on the home page the site fits perfectly without giving excess blank space on the right but on the rest of the pages i get excess space on the right. Can some one help me sort this problem as i dont think there is a problem in the css.
reolaces the existing CSS declarations for id address2 with this.
#address2 {
position: absolute;
/* width: 100%; */
height: 29px;
z-index: 3;
left: 21%;
top: 1526px;
}
The div with the id of address2 is the problem. If you remove the width: 100% it will fix this problem
You can fix this by adding html {overflow-x:hidden;} to you CSS.
This tells the browser to crop anything out of view that is out of the 100% width on the right or left.
Another option is to add html {width:100%;} to your CSS.
This tells the browser to move all elements into the 100% visible width. It would eliminate scrolling left or right, but may disposition elements if your site is not responsive.
Hope this helped!

CSS Issue for Firefox (extra padding)

Hi I am building a store on Volusion, and can't figure this problem out. The issue is that in IE, Chrome, Safari, my padding for search_refinement_filters is looking fine, but in Firefox, they are being pushed about 350 px to the right. Check out the Firefox CSS issue here
Please let me know if you can help! I have tried moving search_refinement_filters from the content div to content area, but unfortunately I wasn't able to configure that to work either.
Thanks!
It's due to the left padding and left margin on #search_refinement_filters. You also have some weirdness with the absolute positioning. You may want to add position: relative to #content.
Take a look at Firebug. It is a convenient tool for analyzing code in Firefox.
Just add following styles to your #search_refinement_filters div. Remove others.
#search_refinement_filters {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 232px;
width: 700px;
}
And then apply position: relative to your #content div.
#content {
position: relative;
}
As 2C-B said #search_refinement_filters has left padding and left margin. These can be removed or overridden to prevent the issue with the styling.
You should definitely get Firebug for Testing purposes if you don't already have it.
Get it here: https://getfirebug.com/
It is an invaluable tool for debugging html, css, and javascript problems.
Hope this helps.

Positioning of divs for Background images

Please excuse me if there are any mistakes in the following code or with my question, I don't know much about code but am learning :). Sorry for spaces in links and lack of these things - < - really struggling posting code :)
On my website http:// second to nature .co.uk/en/ I am trying to create background images with ivy down both sides of the website. Is it a prestashop website.
I did manage to achieve this with the following css code, however it would not work in ie 6-8 - because those browsers do not support css3.
background:url(http:// second to nature.co.uk/img/backgroundleft.jpg) top left fixed
no-repeat, url(http:// second to nature.co.uk/img/backgroundright.jpg) top right fixed no-repeat;
Therefore after some researching, I tried to create the wanted effect with two divs:
<div id="container">
<div id="inner-container">
</div>
</div>
And then use the following css to implement this.
And as you can see if you visit the site, the left image is shown properly, but the right does not show up.
#container {
background: url(http:// second to nature.co.uk/img/backgroundleft.jpg) repeat-y;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 130px;
height: 1000px;
}
#inner-container {
background: transparent url(http:// second to nature.co.uk/img/backgroundright.jpg)) repeat-y;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
width: 130px;
height: 1000px;
}
Can anyone see where I am going wrong or have a fix? Help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks
You have a typo in your CSS:
url(http://secondtonature.co.uk/img/backgroundright.jpg))
There is a double )) at the end of the URL where there should be only one.
HOWEVER ... your HTML is all messed up, and there's a better way to do this. Firstly, you have a whole bunch of meta tags and other asset links inside your body element, when they should all be up in the head.
A better way to do this would be to wrap two divs around your content (they would be 100% width by default) and place the bg images on each of those.
You could use Modernizr and then us CSS3 border image. Then the border image will show up in IE6, 7 and 8.
A shame that you have IE6 users to worry about. It's such a bad, buggy and unsafe browser.
http://modernizr.com/

CSS centering not working with margin auto and overflow hidden

I've noticed that if I view the page at wider resolution, the content of a section gets aligned to the right, instead of centered.
I use
margin: 0 auto;
width: 998px;
overflow: hidden;
It seems to have this bug, at least in Safari, Firefox and Chrome. I tried disabling overflow: hidden and it gets rid of the bug, but messes up my floats inside the content.
You can see an example at the page live here:
http://autouncle.dk/da/brugte-biler/Kia or http://autouncle.dk/da/brugte-biler/Ford (you have to view it at at least 1500px widescreen to see the bug).
Any ideas on what can cause this bug and what are possible solutions?
About the reason of the problem: this is due to the page-title element of your header:
#header-outer element contains some floated elements but you forgot a clearing, so the offset left of the main section of your site starts where the page-title ends. (you can verify this by hiding page-title element — when you set display: none the page is correctly centered)
So adding
body#basic_page #header-outer {
overflow: hidden;
}
you solve the problem
As a sidenote strongly avoid to put empty div only for clearing purposes: there're cleaner methods that don't require extra markup, like easyclearing
Your solution is removing overflow: hidden
To fix the float bug on the second example you gave try to use 100% of the width:
body#basic_page.brands_controller #content .text_info {
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 12px;
width: 100%; /* new rule */
}
Remove the
overflow:hidden
from div#content and put its contents in an extra <div> in it which has
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
This resolves the problem for me.

min-height 100% does not extend the full page in WebKit browsers

I have the following CSS:
#middle {
float: right;
width: 590px;
height: auto !important;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
My goal is to get the #middle div to extend all the way to the bottom. This code works perfectly in FF but does not in WebKit browsers. I've figured out that this is due to the float: right property, without floating, this issue doesn't persist
In WebKit browsers, it looks like min-height is being deduced and permanently set on the #middle div. This can be viewed by loading the page with the window contracted and then expanding the window to a larger size.
Here is a demo site of the issue: http://staging.similarblue.com/about/beliefs/
I realize I could use some JS to handle this (on window resize) but I was wondering if there's a pure CSS alternative.
Here is a screenshot of the issue: http://i56.tinypic.com/s49e37.jpg
Thanks!
Two lines up in your style.css file there's a height:auto!important declaration, which is overriding your height:100% declaration. Without that line, your site looks fine!
What you may be looking for is this. It's served me well in the past, hopefully it helps you!
What you could do is make the background div:
position: fixed;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
And then put the content in a separate div on top of the fixed background. Here's an example: Demo
EDIT: accommodated scroll.

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