Im very new to the who css lark so am struggling quite a bit.
ive managed to build a basic div centred box with css embedded in my html. It looks fine in IE but loses all size in firefox.
Any sugestions guys.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #fff;
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none; /* suppression of useless elements */
width: 100%; /* precision for Opera */
}
li { float: left;} /* lists aligned to the left */
.menu a {
margin: 0 1px;
width: 80px;
height: 14px;
float: left;
display: inline;
text-align: center;
border: 0px solid gray;
color: #000;
background: #fff;
font-size: 10px;
}
.menu a:hover {
background: #ccc;
border: 0px solid gray;
}
.menu a:active {
background: gray;
border: 0px solid gray;
color: #fff;
}
.thrColFixHdr #container {
position:absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
width: 650px;
height: 400px;
margin-top: -200px; /* half of the height */
margin-left: -325px; /* half of the width */
}
.thrColFixHdr #header {
position:fixed;
background: #fff; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
height: 0px;
width:650px;
}
.thrColFixHdr #mainContent {
position: fixed;
margin: 0; /* the right and left margins on this div element creates the two outer columns on the sides of the page. No matter how much content the sidebar divs contain, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the sidebar spaces when the content in each sidebar ends. */
padding: 0; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
height: 330px;
width: 650px;
overflow: auto;
}
.thrColFixHdr #footer {
position:fixed;
width: 700px;
height: 30px;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
}
.style1 {color: #DDDDDD}
.style2 {color: #000000}
.style3 {
font-size: 85%
}
-->
</style><!--[if IE 5]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css box model fixes for IE 5* in this conditional comment */
.thrColFixHdr #sidebar1 { width: 180px; }
.thrColFixHdr #sidebar2 { width: 190px; }
</style>
<![endif]--><!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css fixes for all versions of IE in this conditional comment */
.thrColFixHdr #sidebar2, .thrColFixHdr #sidebar1 { padding-top: 30px; }
.thrColFixHdr #mainContent { zoom: 1; }
/* the above proprietary zoom property gives IE the hasLayout it needs to avoid several bugs */
</style>
<![endif]--></head>
<body class="thrColFixHdr">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<ul class="menu"><li><a href="/home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="/portfolio.html">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="/crafts.html">Crafts</a></li> <li><a href="/photography.html">Photography</a></li> <li><a href="/classes.html">Classes</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a></li></ul>
<h1 class="style3"></h1>
<!-- end #header -->
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
<h1> Main Content </h1>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div id="footer"><span class="style2"><strong>Miriana D'ambrosio</strong></span> Artist Designer Tutor
<!-- end #footer -->
</div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
</html>