I am trying to make the following design for a web site.
The last time I made a web site, everything was usually done using a bunch of tables to align the element on the page. I can understand that this is not how we roll in 2011, where it's all about the css.
I have tried to implement the following design using css, but I have not succeeded.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
The layout is located here: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/828/layoutcx.png/
Edit:
I forgot to include the CSS and HTML I had produced so far. (The wife distracted me by shopping orders.) Sorry about that. I never intended for anyone to do my work, although I can tell that someone has already done it. Very helpful indeed, thank you!
My issue was with the "float" attribute/property.
Although I can, by dissection of the various suggestions, tell that there are things like !important that really are important.
You start from largest, end with smallest, go from top, to bottom, as that is way, you should understand HTML.
I won't show you any serious tricks or CSS3 fastest-way-to-do stuff, that you will need to learn by yourself.
With such a tasks, you do, like you would write a document, at first, you write a content, second, you format it.
Begin with basic HTML, sand continue with some basic construction of frames:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>My layout</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="zones_theSite">
<div id="zones_unb"><p>Universal navgiation bar</p></div>
<div id="zones_body">
<div id="zones_header"><p>Header</p></div>
<div id="zones_fnnb"><p>Flashing news navigation bar</p></div>
<div id="zones_fn"><p>Flashing news</p></div>
<div id="zones_main">
<div id="zones_lsb" class="column"><p>Left side bar</p></div>
<div id="zones_mp" class="column"><p>Main page</p></div>
<div id="zones_rsb" class="column"><p>Right side bar</p></div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
<div id="zones_footer"><p>Footer</p></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And now, with formatting. CSS can do anything you like, with divisions (DIV).
<head>
<title>My layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #616161;
margin: 0;
}
div { position: relative; }
p {
margin: 0; padding: 3px;
color: #FFF;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
.clearfix { clear: both; }
#zones_unb {
width: 100%;
background-color: #000;
line-height: 2em;
text-align: center;
}
#zones_body {
width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #616161;
}
#zones_body div {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#zones_header {
height: 100px;
background-color: #E20000;
}
#zones_fnnb {
background-color: #0078FF;
line-height: 2em;
}
#zones_fn {
height: 80px;
background-color: #003ACE;
}
#zones_main p {
color: #000;
}
#zones_main {
width: 984px!important;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #FFF;
border: 3px solid #000;
}
#zones_main .column {
float: left;
}
#zones_lsb, #zones_rsb {
width: 200px!important; height: 300px;
border: 3px solid #000;
padding: 5px;
}
#zones_mp {
width: 552px!important;
}
#zones_footer {
height: 80px;
background-color: #3FCE00;
}
</style>
</head>
Now, just replace last HEAD part with HEAD part in first HTML code and done. Next, you should seperate CSS to single .css file and tune it to your liking. :)
I think no one will give you the complete design, it's some heavy work.
You should have a look a this positioning tutorial to begin with. Then, if you have a precise question, come back here ;)
To create that layout and understand it, you are best off learning CSS as soon as possible rather than asking someone to create it for you. I'd recommend: https://developer.mozilla.org/es/learn/css
As a right direction push - the html would look something like:
<div id="navBar"></div>
<div id="middleBody">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="newsBar"></div>
<div id="flashingNews"></div>
<div id="mainPage">
<div id="leftBar"></div>
<div id="rightBar"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
And the CSS would be similar to:
#navBar {
width:100%;
height:30px;
}
#middleBody {
margin:0 auto; /* This will centre the middle body */
}
#header {
height:200px;
}
etc...
Such designs are easy to setup using CSS frameworks:
960 Grid System: http://960.gs/
Blueprint Framework: http://www.blueprintcss.org/
Something like this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div style="width:100%; height: 150px; background:#f00;">Header</div>
<div style="width:100%; height: 20px; background:#00f;"">Nav</div>
<div style="width:100%; height: 150px; background:#005;"">News</div>
<div style="width:100%;">
<div style="width:200px; float:left; height: 300px; border: 1px solid #000;">Left col</div>
<div style="width:200px; float:right; height: 300px;border: 1px solid #000">Right col</div>
Center text
</div>
<div style="width:100%; height: 150px; background:#0f0; clear: both;"">Footer</div>
</body>
</html>
This reproduces your layout reasonably well, with all the css inlined.
it is briefly something like:
HTML:
<div id="universial-navigation"></div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="navigation-bar"></div>
<div id="flashing-news"></div>
<div id="main">
<div id="left-sidebar"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="right-sidebar"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
CSS:
* { margin:0; padding:0 }
#universial-navigation { width:100%; height:20px }
#wrapper { width:960px; margin:0 auto }
#header { width:960px; height:200px }
#navigation-bar { width:960px; height:40px }
#flashing-news { width:960px; height:150px }
#main { width:960px; height:100px }
#left-sidebar { position:relative; float:left; width:180px; overflow:hidden }
#right-sidebar { position:relative; float:left; width:180px; overflow:hidden }
#content { position:relative; float:left; width:600px; overflow:hidden }
#footer { width:960px; height:100px }
Related
I have a blank HTML page and I want to align 2 elements...Vertically and Horizontally. These elements are a <img> tag, a <p> tag for text, and 2 <div> tags for containing those elements...
When I resize my window I don't want these elements to be cut-off by my browser. After countless hours of trying to figure this out, and searching Stack and various other websites...I came close, but I could never get it 100% like I want it...
There's this white-space at the bottom and the ride side of the bordered second div near the text, and the culprit appears to be the <p>. When I get rid of the tag the white-space goes away. However, I want the text under the image so I need it...
The white-space is making me question whether the content is placed in the center or not. How can I get rid of it?
HTML
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<p>
<img src="http://www.iconsdb.com/icons/preview/blue/square-xxl.png" alt="Under Construction">
<br> UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS
body
{
margin:0;
background-color: seagreen;
}
#container
{
position:relative;
height:100%;
width:100%;
min-width:400px;
}
#content
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%,-50%);
outline:3px solid red;
}
#content p
{
margin:0;
text-align:center;
font-family:Courier;
font-size:48px;
white-space:nowrap;
color:springgreen;
}
I changed you HTML to enclose your text in a span tag and removed the br:
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<p>
<img src="http://www.iconsdb.com/icons/preview/blue/square-xxl.png" alt="Under Construction">
<span>UNDER CONSTRUCTION!</span>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Then I added this to your CSS. It styles the enclosing span as a block, so you don't need to <br> tag in your HTML. It also uses line-height to adjust spacing above and below the line of text.
#content span {
display: block;
margin: 0;
line-height: .8;
}
And removed the position attribute from here:
#container
{
/*position:relative;*/ /* Removed */
height:100%;
width:100%;
min-width:400px;
}
Here is a sample fiddle
UPDATE
It appears the reason why you are seeing white-space still on Firefox is that you are using outline instead of border on your CSS for #content.
I don't know exactly why Firefox is rendering the outline differently. But if you change your CSS for #content to the following, you'll get the same result on Chrome, Firefox, Edge and IE (11).:
#content
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%,-50%);
/*outline:3px solid red;*/
border: 3px solid red;
}
Here is the updated fiddle
I have gone through your code . i have made some changes in above given code . I hope this gone be helpful to you.
CSS
body
{
margin:0;
background-color: seagreen;
}
img{
display: block;
margin: auto;
width: 50%;
}
/* add this css to remove the white space under text */
p
{
margin-bottom: -9px !important;
}
#container
{
position:relative;
height:100%;
width:100%;
min-width:400px;
}
#content
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%,-50%);
outline:3px solid red;
margin-top: 200px;
padding-top: 10px;
}
#content p
{
margin:0;
text-align:center;
font-family:Courier;
font-size:48px;
white-space:nowrap;
color:springgreen;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<img src="http://spectrumapartments.com.au/wp-content/themes/spectrumapartments/img/building/red-squares.png" alt="Under Construction">
<br>
<p>UNDER CONSTRUCTION!</p>
</div>
</div>
I GAVE IT ANOTHER TRY, HOPEFULLY THIS WILL SOLVE IT FOR YOU. YOU SOUND VERY DESPERATE.
*{
border: 0;
margin: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.container {
font-size: 0;
}
.container span {
font-size: 35px;
background: #ff8ea1;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.container span.no-space {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
height: .75em;
line-height: .75em;
}
<div class="container">
<span>Under Construction</span>
<div style="height: 20px;"></div>
<span class="no-space">Under Construction</span>
</div>
TRY THIS ONE!
I have been reading a few different answers to this type of question, as well as researching a bit on how to fix it, but I feel that my code is probably pretty messed up by now. I can't get my divs to sit next to each other so that I can create another larger div beneath them. I am very new at this and have been following tutorials and class reading to get this far, so I am sure something fairly simple or dumb is wrong. I just can't figure it out :-/. Here is the jsfiddle link http://jsfiddle.net/betyB/1/
CSS:
body {
background-image: url(superhighway.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-attachment:scroll;
background-color:#000000;
background-attachment: fixed;
}
#main1 {
position:relative;
z-index:1;
width: 600px;
height: 400px;
background-color:#000;
margin: 5px;
border: solid 4px #323232;
padding: 10px;
overflow:hidden;
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity:.50;
opacity:.50;
}
#content1 {
position:relative;
z-index:2;
top:-425px;
width: 960px;
height: 800px;
text-align:left;
color:#FFF;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 35px;
}
#main2 {
position:top;
z-index:1;
width: 600px;
height: 400px;
background-color:#000;
border: solid 4px #323232;
padding: 10px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:300px;
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity:.50;
opacity:.50;
}
#content2 {
position:relative;
z-index:2;
top:-425px;
width: 960px;
height: 800px;
text-align:left;
color:#FFF;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 35px;
}
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title Here</title>
<link href="MyStyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<!--
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
alert("");
</script>
-->
</head>
<body>
<h1>My Ideal Job</h1>
<div id="main1"></div>
<div id="content1">
This is to test the content of the div.
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<p></p>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
</div>
<div id="main2" style="float:right;margin:0;"></div>
<div id="content2">
Testing number two div.
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<p></p>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The first thing that you need to do is add the display: inline-block; property to your divs' CSS. Second, you may need to ensure that there is a whitespace (either via just adding a space or adding if that is not sufficient, in your divs.
Extra Info
Positioning divs can be very simple, or it can be very challenging depending on your implementation and what you are trying to achieve. Most of the time, when speaking generally about positioning divs side-by-side the simple answer is to use the display:inline-block property. However, if you are trying to space everything out evenly and provide the maximum amount of cross-browser support, the solution gets more complicated.
Check out this post. It provides a terrific description of the challenges and various solutions to positioning divs side-by-side with maximum cross-browser support. The post is primarily concerned with evenly spacing the divs, which you can decide to do or not to do, but it provides a lot of great background and extra info that you should know. I have used the described solution for over a dozen implementations.
Here is the code for that solution:
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div class="box1"></div>
<div class="box2"></div>
<div class="box3"></div>
<div class="box4"></div>
<span class="stretch"></span>
</div>
CSS:
#container {
border: 2px dashed #444;
height: 125px;
text-align: justify;
-ms-text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
/* just for demo */
min-width: 612px;
}
.box1, .box2, .box3, .box4 {
width: 150px;
height: 125px;
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
zoom: 1
}
.stretch {
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 0;
line-height: 0
}
.box1, .box3 {
background: #ccc
}
.box2, .box4 {
background: #0ff
}
And here is a link to the fiddle that he provided: http://jsfiddle.net/EDp8R/3903/
ok so I made this pen for you: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zpxJt it does what I think you want, but your html has several errors, missing you shouldn't be doing inline styles, I understand you're new to this so I get it. The layout you want to achieve can be difficult if your html structure is not correct.
Can someone tell me why the contents of page-view-count & num-of-days div spills into top-header in my implementation?
Markup:
<div id="top-stats">
<div id="page-view-count">count</div>
<div id="num-of-days">num of days</div>
</div>
<div id="top-header"This is a test</div>
CSS
#top-stats{
width: 100%;
}
#page-view-count, #num-of-days{
color: #666;
text-shadow:1px 1px #FFFFFF;
font-size:13px;
font-weight: bold;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
#page-view-count{
float:left;
}
#num-of-days{
float:right;
}
#top-header{
width:100%;
display:block;
background-color:#DBDB70;
border-radius:3px;
}
If I were to remove the float property it stacks up nicely inside top-stats.
See fiddle
I'm probably missing some simple rule but I'm probably looking too closely and need another pair of eyes..
#top-header{
clear: both;
width: 100%;
display:block;
background-color:#DBDB70;
border-radius:3px;
}
Fiddle
I'm trying to split my footer so that there is left aligned and right aligned text. I have the following but the two elements are displaying one after the other:
#footer {
clear: both;
background-color: #330066;
padding: .5em;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #fff;
}
#footer p .left {
text-align:left;
float:left;
}
#footer p .right {
float:right;
text-align:right;
}
<div id="footer">
<p class="left">
Copyright © 2009
</p>
<p class="right">
Designed by xxxxxx
</p>
</div>
Should be really simple I'm sure but I just can't get it working - can anyone offer any advise please?
Thanks
Helen
You're using footer p .right and not footer p.right (note the space character). This means the .right and .left classes don't apply to the paragraphs, but to descendant elements inside the paragraph. Or it could also mean a typo, causing your CSS to fail :)
Please copy your HTML here, so we can help you better.
Edit: I see you've now posted your HTML. My assumption turns out to be correct. Get rid of the spaces between p and .left/.right. Also, if you're floating the paragraphs anyway, you can omit the text-align properties.
#footer p.left {
float: left;
}
#footer p.right {
float: right;
}
Edit: In response to your comment: it should work. Here's a little test case:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test case for the CSS footer problem</title>
<style>
#footer { width: 300px; outline: 1px solid red; }
#footer p.left { float: left; }
#footer p.right { float: right; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>See http://stackoverflow.com/a/867599/96656 for details.
<div id="footer">
<p class="left">Copyright © 2009</p>
<p class="right">Designed by xxxxxx</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
have you tried setting a width for the left and right, eg 50% each
No need to remove the clear:both on the #footer as suggested before.
As said Mathias Bynens you must write "p.left" instead of "p .left"
You will need a clear both after the two paragraphs and end up with something like :
#footer {
clear: both;
background-color: #330066;
padding: .5em;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #fff;
}
#footer p.left {
text-align:left;
float:left;
}
#footer p.right {
float:right;
text-align:right;
}
<div id="footer">
<p class="left">
Copyright © 2009
</p>
<p class="right">
Designed by xxxxxx
</p>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
As paragraphs are block level elements, if you wish them to be displayed side by side you should remove the floats and set them to be inline:
footer p.left {text-align:left; display:inline; }
footer p.right {text-align:right; display:inline; }
Also I assume that should be either #footer or .footer beforehand?
Problem is that on your #footer you have a clear: both; which kills all floats.
It would be better if you have:
#footer {
background-color: #330066;
padding: .5em;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #fff;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
p.left { float: left; }
p.right { float: right; }
The width: 100%; and the overflow: hidden; will fix your problem, as it clears the floats after they are made.
With the code above you will be able just to have:
<div id="footer">
<p class="left">Copyright © 2009</p>
<p class="right">Designed by ****</p>
</div>
I have a header bar that spans horizontally across my web page, which is comprised of one div tag and three nested div tags.
HTML:
<div id="top-bar">
<div id="leftTop">
LEFT
</div>
<div id="rightTop">
RIGHT
</div>
<div id="centerTop">
CENTER
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#top-bar
{
margin: 0;
padding: 1px 4px;
font-size: x-small;
background-color: #005555;
font-family: Arial;
}
#top-bar .separator
{
padding: 0 7px;
border-right: 0px solid #fff;
border-left: 0px solid #fff;
}
#leftTop
{
display: inline;
float: left;
}
#rightTop
{
display: inline;
float: right;
}
#centerTop
{
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
}
And it works just great, except for the fact that the div tags are out of order in the HTML code, which I don't like. If I order the div tags by placing them Left, Center, and Right, in the HTML, then the Right div just disappears from the webpage! I'm guessing that it has something to do with the float and text-align attributes having a conflict.
Anyone have any ideas on what is going on here, or is there an easier way to do this in CSS?
Try float: left; on #centerTop or display: inline on all three without any floats.
This works fine, but it depends on what you need. If you dont know the height of the content and you want it to expand dynamicly, then this is not enough:
#leftTop
{
float: left;
}
#rightTop
{
float: right;
}
#centerTop
{
float:left;
text-align: center;
}
I just tested the code from the original post in Firefox 3.0.10, Opera 9.64, IE8 and Google Chrome 2.0.181.1
All browsers showed all 3 divs, not a single div fell off the screen... Are you perhaps using IE6?
I am running your HTML and CSS of FF 3.0.10.
When you re-arrange the CENTERTOP div to be between the LEFTOP and RIGHTTOP divs, the RIGHTTOP div doesn't fall 'off the page' but the "RIGHT" text just falls off onto the next line.
My solution is proposed below (you'll notice I have some additions and some best-practice techniques).
HTML CODE:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="global.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="top-bar">
<div id="leftTop">
LEFT
</div>
<div id="centerTop">
CENTER
</div>
<div id="rightTop">
RIGHT
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearer">
</div>
<div id="randomContent">
RANDOM CONTENT
</div>
</body>
CSS CODE:
#top-bar {
margin: 0;
font-family: Arial;
}
#leftTop {
float: left;
width: 20%;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#centerTop {
float: left;
width: 20%;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
#rightTop {
border: 1px solid green;
}
.clearer {
clear: both;
}
#randomContent {
background-color: yellow;
}
So you'll notice in the HTML that the divs are arranged in order from LEFT to CENTRE to RIGHT. In this CSS, this has been reflected by floating the LEFTTOP and CENTRETOP divs left. You will also notice that I have specified a width property on the LEFTTOP and the CENTERTOP divs, to enable you to space out your divs as wide as you want. (You'll be able to visually see your width modifications as I've added in a border on the divs). No width percentage property has been applied on the RIGHTTOP div as it will consume the remaining 60% of the width (after the LEFTTOP and CENTRETOP have consumed the 40%).
I have also added a CLEARER div. Think of the CLEARER div is a horizontal line break. Essentially it acts as a line of demarcations to separate the floated divs from the content below.
You can then add whatever content you want in the RANDOMCONTENT div.
Hope this helps :)
I don't know that it disappears, but it would drop down a line. Lot's of websites put it out of order for that reason (I know I do).
Another alternative:
#top-bar
{
margin: 0;
padding: 1px 4px;
font-size: x-small;
background-color: #005555;
font-family: Arial;
}
#top-bar .separator
{
padding: 0 7px;
border-right: 0px solid #fff;
border-left: 0px solid #fff;
}
#top-bar>div
{
float: left;
width: 33%;
}
#rightTop
{
text-align: right;
}
#centerTop
{
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
width: 34%;
}
And then put <br style="clear:both"/> right before you close your top-bar div.
<div id="top-bar">
<div id="leftTop">
LEFT
</div>
<div id="centerTop">
CENTER
</div>
<div id="rightTop">
RIGHT
</div>
<br style="clear:both"/>
</div>
Not sure if you want the width's defined like this, however.
Another solution:
Set the leftTop, centerTop, and rightTop to display:table-cell,
Set the top-bar to display:table-row,
Set a container to display:table
Set the width of the container and row (#table-bar) to 100%;
Set the width of the columns to the desired ratios (e.g., 25% for left and right, 50% for center)
caveat: table, table-row, and table-cell css display values do not work in IE 5.5 or 6 (and maybe Opera 8); but they do work nicely in all contemporary browsers. IE conditionals can be used to split code for IE > 5 and IE < 7.
TEST:
<html>
<head>
<title>3 Column Header Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
body#abod {
background-color:#F5ECBD;
color:#000;
}
#hdrrow {
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
border:1px solid #0C5E8D;
display:table;
}
#top-bar {
margin:0;
padding:1px 4px;
width:100%;
font-size:100%;
background-color:orange;/*#005555;*/
font-family: Arial;
border:1px solid #000;
display:table-row;
}
#leftTop {
margin:0;
padding:0 16px;
width:24%;
text-align:left;
color:#000;
background-color:#F0DD80;
border:1px dashed #f00;
display:table-cell;
}
#centerTop {
margin:0;
padding:0 16px;
width:40%;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
color:#000;
background-color:#F5ECBD;
border:1px dashed #f00;
display:table-cell;
}
#rightTop {
margin:0;
padding:0 16px;
width:24%;
text-align:right;
color:#000;
background-color:/*#F0DD80;*/transparent;
/*shows the orange row color*/
border:1px dashed #f00;
display:table-cell;
}
#footer {
padding:25px;
color:#000;
background-color:#F5ECBD;
}
</style>
</head>
<body id="abod">
<div id="hdrrow">
<div id="top-bar">
<div id="leftTop">
LEFT
</div>
<div id="centerTop">
CENTER
</div>
<div id="rightTop">
RIGHT
</div>
</div>
</div>
<h4 id="footer">Footer Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</h4>
</body>
</html>
Use relative positioning to swap the positions of the divs after they have been floated:
The HTML
<div id="top-bar">
<div id="leftTop">
LEFT
</div>
<div id="centerTop">
CENTER
</div>
<div id="rightTop">
RIGHT
</div>
</div>
The CSS
#leftTop {
width:33%;
float:left;
}
#centerTop {
width:33%;
float:right;
position:relative;
right:33%;
}
#rightTop {
width:33%;
float:right;
position:relative;
left:33%;
}
I use the same process in my Perfect Liquid Layouts to change the column source ordering.