Hi
Sorry no screen shots or links...I want to achieve the following visual
effect:
I want three boxes to appear on screen, all within a parent box (so 4
in total).
Concerning the three inner boxes, I want them to appear in a two column
format. One box in the left hand column that will contain an image and
the two other boxes stacked one above the other in the right hand
column that will contain text.
Using relative positioning, I can achieve what I want for the three
internal boxes and this works in Internet Explorer (IE) and in FireFox
(FF).
However, when I add the parent box it "correctly" surrounds the
daughter boxes in IE, but appears as a thin strip in FF (i.e. the
daughter boxes hang out of the bottom of this box).
I can't use absolute positioning because I don't know how much text
these will contain, or how big the image will be.
The HTML text is simply three <div/elements embedded within a parent
<div/>.
Any help would be most appreciated in this.
Thanks
Griff 13  2471 
Griff wrote:
Hi
Sorry no screen shots or links...I want to achieve the following visual
effect:
I want three boxes to appear on screen, all within a parent box (so 4
in total).
Concerning the three inner boxes, I want them to appear in a two column
format. One box in the left hand column that will contain an image and
the two other boxes stacked one above the other in the right hand
column that will contain text.
Using relative positioning, I can achieve what I want for the three
internal boxes and this works in Internet Explorer (IE) and in FireFox
(FF).
However, when I add the parent box it "correctly" surrounds the
daughter boxes in IE, but appears as a thin strip in FF (i.e. the
daughter boxes hang out of the bottom of this box).
I can't use absolute positioning because I don't know how much text
these will contain, or how big the image will be.
Guessing, but would the inner boxes be floated. If so declare width and
height on containing div.
Louise
Guessing, but would the inner boxes be floated. If so declare width and
height on containing div.
Louise
Hi Louise
But...I don't know how big the parent box will need to be, because I
don't know how big the daughter boxes will be.
Give me 10 mins or so and I'll post some example HTML and CSS...
Thanks
Griff
Griff schrieb:
Give me 10 mins or so and I'll post some example HTML and CSS...
No, post the URL to a minimal example instead.
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)
Okay - here's the tidied up code....The effect in both IE and FF is
that the "daughter" boxes appear below the parent box.
NOTE: if I add [height:5px;] to the CSS for div#Border then it works as
expected in IE, but not in FF. It seems that I'd need to know the
ABSOLUTE height of the parent box, but without knowing the amount of
text of the size of the image I don't see how I can guess at that.
First the HTML
<body >
<div id="Border">
<div id="Left">Left </div>
<div id="Right">
<div id="Top">Top</div>
<div id="Bottom">Bot tom</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Now the CSS
body
{
margin:0px;
padding:8px;
}
div
{
padding:1em;
margin:1em;
border: solid 1px black;
}
div#Border
{
background-color:#333;
}
div#Left
{
background-color:#555;
position:relati ve;
float:left;
}
div#Right
{
background-color:#777;
position:relati ve;
float:right;
}
Griff wrote:
Okay - here's the tidied up code....The effect in both IE and FF is
that the "daughter" boxes appear below the parent box.
NOTE: if I add [height:5px;] to the CSS for div#Border then it works as
expected in IE, but not in FF. It seems that I'd need to know the
ABSOLUTE height of the parent box, but without knowing the amount of
text of the size of the image I don't see how I can guess at that.
<cut markup>
For a more likely approach especially as the generated height of the
left boxes is indeterminate, see http://www.boclair.com/test/contained-floats.html
Louise
Okay - that works in IE but not in FF. I'm using FF 2 beta 1
Griff wrote:
I want three boxes to appear on screen, all within a parent box (so 4
in total).
Go and read brainjar.com and their article on "css positioning"
(Floats are _meant_ to hang out of the bottom of things, unless you
tell them not to. IE gets things wrong again).
Andy Dingley wrote:
Griff wrote:
>I want three boxes to appear on screen, all within a parent box (so 4
in total).
Go and read brainjar.com and their article on "css positioning"
(Floats are _meant_ to hang out of the bottom of things, unless you
tell them not to. IE gets things wrong again).
Or check http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html for a nice compact
decription/solution.
Grtz,
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