I know I've seen this issue described before, but I can't find it, or
the solution now that I need it.
I have some css-specified floating divs that contain images or text.
The text divs have a background color and text color that differ from
the rest of the page, and I'd like them to be positioned from the
right edge of the rightmost image div, to the right edge of the
browser window. In other words, if the browser window is 800 pixels
wide, and there is image content occupying the leftmost 650 pixels of
the screen, I want my text div to occupy the rightmost 150 pixels; if
the images are 500 pixels wide, the text div will be 300 pixels wide,
and so on.
(The above is a bit of an oversimplificat ion overlooking margins,
padding, div borders, etc., but it's the "big picture" I'm after).
By setting text div width: auto in my css, I get what I want in IE:
the text div is as wide or narrow as needed to go from some point in
the middle of the browser window to the right edge.
Not so though with gecko browsers. In current versions of both
Firefox and Netscape, the text div is forced down below the image
divs, so it starts at the left edge of the browser window and is 100%
of the browser window width.
So...
WHAT I WANT: Text div occupies 100% of the REMAINING width of the
browser window, filling in the part not occupied by other divs that
occupy anywhere from the leftmost 100 pixels to the leftmost 750
pixels of the browser window.
WHAT I'M GETTING: Gecko browsers force the text div to start on the
left edge of the browser window so it occupies 100% of the TOTAL (vs.
remaining/available) browser window width.
I realize that the Gecko browsers are adhering to the standard and IE
is not. But whatever the reason, I want to know how to get stuff to
render as I'd like it to, as described above.
18  5707 
day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote:
[snip] (The above is a bit of an oversimplificat ion overlooking margins,
padding, div borders, etc., but it's the "big picture" I'm after).
As per usual an uploaded example is worth a thousand words, your
description contains contradictions and lacks essential information.
Is this what you are after?: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spartanicus/day.htm
or do you want a "column" layout?
--
Spartanicus
On Mon, 23 May 2005 07:47:43 GMT, Spartanicus
<in*****@invali d.invalid> wrote: day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote:
[snip]
(The above is a bit of an oversimplificat ion overlooking margins,
padding, div borders, etc., but it's the "big picture" I'm after).
As per usual an uploaded example is worth a thousand words, your
description contains contradictions and lacks essential information.
Is this what you are after?:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spartanicus/day.htm
or do you want a "column" layout?
Thanks, good point. The following html is a stripped-down segment
from something I'm doing, that illustrates the issue perfectly.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { background-color: #333 }
..imgdiv { float: left; margin: 4px }
..textdiv { background-color: #009; margin: 8px; padding: 5px; float:
left; width: auto; color: fff; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="imgdiv">
<img src="foo.jpg" height="283" width="360" />
</div>
<div class="textdiv" >
<p>I would like this area to line up with the top of this div even
with the top of the foo.jpg image, and extending from just to the
right of the foo.jpg image, all the way to the right edge of the
browser. It shows up as I want in IE 6.0, but in Netscape 7.x or FF
1.x it shows up UNDER the image, extending across the width of the
browser window.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
day wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 07:47:43 GMT, Spartanicus
<in*****@invali d.invalid> wrote:
day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote:
[snip]
(The above is a bit of an oversimplificat ion overlooking margins,
padding, div borders, etc., but it's the "big picture" I'm after).
As per usual an uploaded example is worth a thousand words, your
description contains contradictions and lacks essential information.
Is this what you are after?:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spartanicus/day.htm
or do you want a "column" layout?
Thanks, good point. The following html is a stripped-down segment
from something I'm doing, that illustrates the issue perfectly.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { background-color: #333 }
.imgdiv { float: left; margin: 4px }
.textdiv { background-color: #009; margin: 8px; padding: 5px; float:
left; width: auto; color: fff; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="imgdiv">
<img src="foo.jpg" height="283" width="360" />
</div>
<div class="textdiv" >
<p>I would like this area to line up with the top of this div even
with the top of the foo.jpg image, and extending from just to the
right of the foo.jpg image, all the way to the right edge of the
browser. It shows up as I want in IE 6.0, but in Netscape 7.x or FF
1.x it shows up UNDER the image, extending across the width of the
browser window.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Don't float the .textdiv, only give it a left margin of 368px.
Or, if you want the text to continue below the pic if the text might
be long enough, do nothing. No margin, no float. (except for the float
on the image of course)
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Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:24:43 +0200, Els <el*********@ti scali.nl>
wrote: Don't float the .textdiv, only give it a left margin of 368px.
Or, if you want the text to continue below the pic if the text might
be long enough, do nothing. No margin, no float. (except for the float
on the image of course)
I see what you mean, but I want the .textdiv to be as wide or as
narrow as the browser window and the occupied space to its left allow
(because I'd like to use that class for divs that appear to the right
of other content as well, that may be wider or narrower).
day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote: As per usual an uploaded example is worth a thousand words, your
description contains contradictions and lacks essential information.
Is this what you are after?:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spartanicus/day.htm
or do you want a "column" layout?
Thanks, good point.
You haven't answered the question I put to you.
The following html is a stripped-down segment
from something I'm doing, that illustrates the issue perfectly.
No it doesn't. If you want a certain layout then create a line drawing
or something like that. Don't assume that people have access to IE, if
you want help don't expect people to open up their editor, copy and
paste your code, save it and then display it in a browser, *upload* it
and post the url.
--
Spartanicus
day wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:24:43 +0200, Els <el*********@ti scali.nl>
wrote:
Don't float the .textdiv, only give it a left margin of 368px. Or,
if you want the text to continue below the pic if the text might
be long enough, do nothing. No margin, no float. (except for the
float on the image of course)
I see what you mean, but I want the .textdiv to be as wide or as
narrow as the browser window and the occupied space to its left
allow (because I'd like to use that class for divs that appear to
the right of other content as well, that may be wider or narrower).
So you are floating the text div because you don't know how wide the
img div may become, right? I don't think you can do that, unless you
find a way to dynamically determine the width of the imgdiv, and use
that as the left-margin of the textdiv.
Floats can't "take up the rest of the space". (or at least not in all
browsers)
--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:37:17 GMT, Spartanicus
<in*****@invali d.invalid> wrote: day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote:
As per usual an uploaded example is worth a thousand words, your
descriptio n contains contradictions and lacks essential information.
Is this what you are after?:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spartanicus/day.htm
or do you want a "column" layout?
Thanks, good point.
You haven't answered the question I put to you.
The following html is a stripped-down segment
from something I'm doing, that illustrates the issue perfectly.
No it doesn't. If you want a certain layout then create a line drawing
or something like that. Don't assume that people have access to IE, if
you want help don't expect people to open up their editor, copy and
paste your code, save it and then display it in a browser, *upload* it
and post the url.
I don't want a column layout. I want a variable-width div that will
occupy whatever "remaining" space there is on the right side of a
browser window. The html snippet above illustrates what I'm doing,
although, yes, it would be nice to see it in IE to see what I'm trying
to do. Let me attempt a line drawing:
---------------------- ----------------------------------------------
| some content | | text div fills out remainder of screen|
---------------------- ----------------------------------------------
-------- ------------------------------------------------------------
| slim | | so the text div (same class) is wider = = = = = |
-------- ------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------- ----------------------------------------
| content wider now | | so the text div narrows = = = |
---------------------------- ----------------------------------------
Upthread, Els says that floats can't "take up the rest of the space"
at least not in all browsers. And that's what I'm trying to do,
without the use of php or something like that. I want the divs on the
right, all the same class, to go out to the edge of the browser
window, no matter how much space is taken up to their left.
How's that description?
day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote: I don't want a column layout. I want a variable-width div that will
occupy whatever "remaining" space there is on the right side of a
browser window.
The example I uploaded provides the described layout, did you bother to
look at it?
--
Spartanicus
On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:23:03 GMT, Spartanicus
<in*****@invali d.invalid> wrote: day <Da*@theraces.i nvaliddomain> wrote:
I don't want a column layout. I want a variable-width div that will
occupy whatever "remaining" space there is on the right side of a
browser window.
The example I uploaded provides the described layout, did you bother to
look at it?
I *did* look at it when you first posted it. Thanks. My first
thought was that it wouldn't work for what I was trying to do, but I
looked further at it and think I can adapt a couple other assumptions
I 'd made and implement as you did in the example. It will look fine,
and it's better than trying to figure out how to make a class that can
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