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Positioning, Overlap, and greater than 100% height/width

P: 70
Hello,

I have built a site that uses two divs, one verticle, and one horizontal as graphic style for the ite. The problem I am having is that if the browser is resized very small the divs are then smaller than the website is wide. I have tried fixed positioning but then i get the dreaded overlap when the browser is smaller than the website. Absolute positioning gets rid of the overlap but then brings on the width issue. Is there a way to fix this or am I done for? I have tried everything I know.

Specifically I am referring to the hstripe and vstripe parts of the code.

Here is my code:

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  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
  2. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  3. <head>
  4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
  5. <title>Chris Livengood</title>
  6. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
  7. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/index.css"/>
  8. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/links.css"/>
  9. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/universal.css"/>
  10. </head>
  11. <body>
  12. <div id="hstripe"></div>
  13. <div id="main">
  14. <div id="vstripe"></div>
  15. <div id="header"></div>
  16. <div id="headerright"></div>
  17. <div id="body">
  18. <div id="menu">
  19. <?php require("phpext/menu.php"); ?>
  20. </div>
  21. </div>
  22. <div id="content">
  23. <div class="right">
  24.  
  25. <img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="Chris Livengood" class="topphoto"/><br/>
  26. <img src="images/image2.jpg" alt="Chris Livengood" class="photo"/>
  27. </div>
  28. <h2>Chris Livengood's Racing Blog</h2>
  29. <?php require("blog/08_20_08_blog.php"); ?>
  30.  
  31.  
  32. <div id="clear"></div>
  33. </div>
  34. </div>
  35.  
  36. </div>
  37.  
  38. </body>
  39. </html>
  40.  
Here is my CSS:

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  1.  
  2. #hstripe {
  3.     width: 100%;
  4.     height: 55px;
  5.     left: 0px;
  6.     margin: 200px 0px 0px 0px;
  7.     position: absolute;
  8.     background: url("../images/hstreamer.gif") no-repeat left #ff0000; }
  9. #main {width: 780px;
  10.     height: 100%;
  11.     padding: 0px;
  12.     margin: 0px auto 0px auto;
  13.     border: 0px solid #ff0000;}
  14. #vstripe {
  15.     padding-top: 2px;
  16.     width: 30px;
  17.     min-height: 700px;
  18.     height: 200%;
  19.     background-color: white;
  20.     margin: 0px 0px 0px 160px;
  21.     padding-right: 25px;
  22.     position: absolute;
  23.     top: 0px;
  24.     display: inline;
  25.     z-index: 1000;
  26.     background-image: url("../images/streamer.gif");
  27.     background-repeat: no-repeat; }
  28. #header {
  29.     position: absolute;
  30.     height: 200px;
  31.     width: 160px;
  32.     margin: 0px 55px 57px 0px;
  33.     background-image: url("../images/header_left.jpg");}
  34. #headerright {
  35.     float: right;
  36.     height: 200px;
  37.     width: 565px;
  38.     border: 0px solid white;
  39.     margin: 0px 0px 55px 215px;
  40.     background-image: url("../images/header_right.jpg");}
  41. #menu {
  42.     position: absolute;
  43.     width: 160px;
  44.     top: 260px;
  45.     padding: 0px;
  46.     margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; }
  47. #sponsors {
  48.     background-color: white;
  49.     padding: 0px 2px 2px 2px;
  50.     width: 152px;
  51.     color: black; }
  52. #content {
  53.     float: right;
  54.     margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
  55.     width: 555px;
  56.     border: 0px solid white; }
  57. .right{
  58.     max-width: 300px;
  59.     padding: 0px 2px 2px 2px;
  60.     color: black;
  61.     float: right;
  62.     background-color: white;
  63.     margin: 7px -5px 7px 7px; }
  64. .topphoto {
  65.     background-color: white;
  66.     padding: 10px 10px 0px 10px; }
  67. .photo {
  68.     background-color: white;
  69.     padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; }
  70. .clear {
  71.     border: 0px solid white;
  72.     clear: both;
  73.     width: 100%;
  74.     height: 1px; }
  75.  
I don't believe you can see the verticle error on my live test site but this is only becuase i haven't added content.

The Live test version can be found here: Click

The home page validates but I haven't check the rest of them resently. They all appear to display correctly excluding the error I have mentioned.

Thanks for your help,
Chris
Aug 1 '08 #1
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P: 70
I hope all of the geniuses around are just struggling too, otherwise nobody cares.
Aug 1 '08 #2
drhowarddrfine
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You may need to reposition the div in the markup to do what you want. Using 'absolute' is causing the div to collapse as it should.
Aug 2 '08 #3
P: 70
Which div? I have tried various combinations but may have not found the right combination.
Aug 4 '08 #4
P: 70
Well i did a complete code rewrite. I was able to achieve a the same exact look but removed all of the erros I discussed in this post.

I will post a link and the follow up code once I transfer all of the information over to the new code base.
Aug 6 '08 #5

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