I'm still relatively new to CSS, but after lots of Stack Overflow reading, I have figured out how to add "headers" to a panel. Yay, go me. But the problem I'm running into is that one of my panels in particular won't render properly in Firefox. I've been doing all development work in Chrome, and I just now noticed this issue. The weird part is, I'm able to add my "header" (might be better to call it a div wrapper?) to other panels and they look fine - it's just 1 panel that is giving me issues I can't figure out why. To see what I mean, look at http://www.mobiuspc.com in both Firefox and Chrome. The difficult panel in question is title "System Construction Area" - the teal colored border in Firefox sprays itself everywhere, whereas in Chrome it displays properly.
Here is the CSS to the difficult panel:
.dropareaparent
{
height:528px;
width:690px;
margin-left:332px;
margin-top:-540px;
background-color:teal;
text-align:center;
color:White;
}
.droparea
{
height:500px;
width:680px;
margin-left:2px;
padding:3px;
color:Black;
background-color:White;
text-align:left;
float:left;
}
Here is the CSS to a different panel that is working great in both browsers:
.primarystatdivparent
{
height:428px;
width:266px;
margin-top:-530px;
margin-left:1045px;
background-color:teal;
text-align:center;
color:White;
}
.primarystatdiv
{
height:400px;
width:256px;
margin-left:2px;
padding:3px;
color:Black;
background-color:White;
text-align:left;
}
Other than my absolute positioning (still learning how to float things), to me the CSS between the problematic panel and the perfect panel appear to be the same?
For reference, IE looks fine as well (other than slow Javascript execution).
It seems a bit over-complicated. If - for example - you float your filterboxareaparent left, there is no need for large negative margin on dropboxareaparent.
I'd try to position the elements in a more logical way so the results will be more consistent across different browsers.
You need a negative margin-top for .droparea as well.
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I don't understand because sometimes a simple color line doesn't appears with Chrome.
My line is defined with CSS code :
/* line warning */
.line_warning {
background-color:#ff9900;
color:white;
margin-top:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
height: 1px;
}
Apparently, I have this problem only with chrome (I use Bootstrap).
Thank you in advance if you have any idea to resolve it.
A quick solution would be to create your line with a border rather than a background colour...
.line_warning {
height:0px;
border-top:1px solid #ff9900;
margin-top:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
}
Interested to know if anyone can explain why this is happening, as it seems a issue in Firefox too.
UPDATE: I looked further into this, and found that adding a margin to your body fixes it.
body {
margin:0px;
}
This seems to be what normalize.css use - I have no idea why it works, though. Seems like a bug.
I have a bottom border of:
div#footer-case{
border-top:solid black 1px;
width:100%;
margin:8% auto;
}
but the border does not span the whole page, instead there are about 5px on the left and the right.
i set the width to 100%, but i do not know why it will not fully go left to right
If you don't want to edit the default browser margin of the body, try this:
div#footer-case
{
border-top:solid black 1px;
width:103%;
margin-left:-10px;
}
Tested with FF 8, Chrome 16, and Safari 5 on OS X Lion.
Browsers have default margin on the viewport, usually set in modern browsers on the body element. Try resetting it with this:
body {margin:0;padding:0;}
It may help in ongoing development efforts to implement a nice CSS reset such as this one:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Or even just studying default user agent stylesheets and how resets work would help understand all the fun little challenges we have to confront to get CSS to bend to our wills and behave consistently. Here's a nice article on the subject:
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070922/user-agent-style-sheets/
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.footer
{ height:125px; width:103; position:relative; background-color:#333; color:#FFF; margin-left:-10px;}
Ive been handed a design that has a particular header with style the type knocking out a rule like:
------ Text Content ------
Ive done this a couple times over the years but i was never happy with my solution. Usually it involved using numerous elements. Since these are headers id like to keep the markup as lean as possible.
My first thought this time around was to use box collapsing to my advantage: http://jsfiddle.net/cEcCL/
However there a are few problems here:
This relies on setting the background of the span to something opaque in order to knockout the line. Problem is most of these will probably be in the upper portion of the page where the gradient background hasnt yet faded to its solid
Actually i wasnt aware of this till i made the fiddle - the text seems slightly off center, not sure why that is.
While it can probably be managed, Im worried about the robustness of the vertical offsets to center the line on the median of the text line-box.. What if i have long header that goes to 2 lines?
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Here's a very quick example that uses a single h2 and the before/after pseudo elements.
h2:before, h2:after {
content:' '; display:inline-block;
height:0; width:100px;
border-top:1px solid black;
vertical-align:middle;
margin:0 1em
}
Obviously, there are some drawbacks:
No IE6/7 support
As it stands, you have to explicitly declare a width for the lines (but you might be able to mess with this)
Doesn't handle multiple lines too well, but again, you might be able to edit the h2 styles to make this work a little better
While not a perfect solution (I feel your pain here, this is a tough one), sometimes you can use background-attachment:fixed to remedy the background issue using the <span> technique if you are using a background image:
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/cEcCL/3/
<h2><span>Text Content</span></h2>
h2 span,
body{ /* Apply to h2 span and whatever the parent element is */
background:url(background.gif) fixed;
}
h2 {
line-height: 10px;
font-size: 18px;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px 0;
}
h2:after{
content:" ";
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
width:100%;
height:10px;
margin-top:-15px;
}
Of course this only works if the parent element can have a fixed background image, and won't work with CSS3 gradient backgrounds. It's a limited-use idea, but I just thought I'd bring it to light.
It seems only <legend> tags have this behavior, and I know of no way to emulate that with CSS, and I don't think you don't want to start using <legends> for headings...
I've built a site using the contempt theme (wordpress) and I'm changing it's CSS to make it wider.
The problem is that I can make it look great on either Internet Explorer or Firefox and chrome but not all 3 at the same time.
If I remove the sidebar tag:
#sidebar {
width:200px;
padding:20px 200px 10px;
}
the page looks OK on IE (as it now - physiocall.co.il) but the sidebar is hidden in Firefox and chrome.
If I add this little tag to the css -
The site looks great on Firefox and chrome (the sidebar pushed left to it's place)
but on IE it goes down - below the entire page.
Any ideas how can I change the css to make it look correct on both IE and Firefox.
Any ideas what cause FF and Chrome to render the css in one way, and IE in another way ?
Thanks.
the entire CSS:
#content {
float:right;
width:649px;
margin:-50px 30px 0;
padding:0 0 20px 45px;
}
#topbar {
max-width:950px;
height:25px;
line-height:23px;
background:#FFFFE6;
overflow:hidden;
border-bottom:1px black solid;
margin:0;
}
#pagebar {
background:url('images/blue_flower/pagebar.jpg');
width:950px;
height:35px;
border-bottom:1px black solid;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#pagebar .children li,#pagebar .sub-menu li {
min-width:105px;
border-left:1px #e1e1e1 solid;
border-bottom:1px #e1e1e1 solid;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#pagebar ul a {
background-color:#f1f1f1;
width:101px;
}
#page {
width:950px;
}
#sidebar {
width:200px;
padding:20px 200px 10px;
}
sorry to say that, but you should start from scratch and completly rearrange your html output and css. maybe this is a coding practice due to rtl but your #content appears before the sidebar and has a float:right while your sidebar is positioned left to the content with a margin-left:530px.
and your content has a 640 width..
that can't work out and is not to be fixed by some niffty css trick.
sorry.
Since it works in IE but not the modern browsers, this tells me you used IE as your initial test. Never, ever do that. IE is 12 years behind all others in modern standards and compliance. Inept at best, you should never trust IE to do anything right.
It's been a long time since I've used frames so I'm not sure that the lack of a doctype on your index page, which puts you into quirks mode, is causing the problems.
So, while reworking your markup, use any browser but IE for the initial test. Then look to see how IE screws it up. The quirks and bugs in IE are well known, as are the hacks to fix it.
The solution was
#sidebar {
float:left;
width:200px;
margin:-20px 10px 5px 5px;
}
It looks like IE and FF had the opposite default value to the float parameter, hence making it impossible to set it straight. once given a float value, the margin fixed the rest for both browsers.
Edit: Found out that this happens even though Cufon isn't even applied!
Edit2: My bad, looks like Cufon is creating the slowless afterall.
However, removing the line where I replace the menuwrapper font style with Cufon still results in sluggish behaviour. So it doesn't seem like it's got anything to do with applying cufon to the lists themselves.
Hi, I'm using Cufon to "embed" a custom font to my site. And this font is used on the main menu and I've encountered a bug or something where setting the height, padding or anything of the li:hover makes IE go sluggish. I don't know why this happens but the problem dissapears when I remove the property from the li:hover. It works fine in Firefox though.
So my question is, is there another way of getting around this?
What I'm basically trying to do is to position the li:hover because it has a background to it. And I want to skew it a few pixels towards the bottom.
My CSS looks like this:
#menuwrapper {
float:right;
margin-top:10px;
height: 65px;
}
.menuwrapper li {
float:right;
list-style: none;
margin-top:10px;
padding-top:18px;
padding-left: 23px;
padding-right: 23px;
height:23px;
}
.menuwrapper a{
font-family:georgia;
font-size:22px;
color:#ebebeb;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menuwrapper li:hover {
background-image: url(img/MenuHover.png);
padding-bottom:6px;
}
Could not understand what you mean exactly but as you said you want to get it a bit lower at the bottom, then you can do that with margin-top css property.
margin-top:10px; /* down it by 10 pixels */
Just have to lay this one dead I guess. Getting nowhere with it as it is now.