CSS help needed

Maxal posted this at 20:02 — 5th December 2007.

Joined: Dec 2007

I have created two divs called wrapper and storybox. Wrapper is supposed to hold everything on the page while storybox is a box to show latest news. I am putting the storybox inside the wrapper but storybox is appearing at the edge of wrapper, instead of being sitting inside the wrapper. You can see the attachment for a view of the layout and here is the code for wrapper and storybox:

div#wrapper {
position: relative;
margin: auto;
width: 750px;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px #000;
padding: 11px;
text-align: left;
background-image: url(bg.gif);
border-left: 10px #ddd solid;
border-right: 10px #ddd solid; }

div#mainstorybox {
float: left;
text-align: justify; 
font-family: Trebuchet, Verdana, Georgia, "Lucida Console";
font-size: 11px;
margin-left: 0px;
width: 380px;
background-color: #ebebeb;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
border-top: 1px #ccc solid;
border-bottom: 1px #ccc solid;
}

I want the storybox inside the wrapper. Any clue guys what I am doing wrong?

Thanx
Max

demonhale posted this at 03:55 — 6th December 2007.

He has: 3,278 posts

Joined: May 2005

can you post a live example of what's happening so we can easily see the problem... but I think it's the float:left property of the storybox, try replacing those with text-align:left...

calculator posted this at 13:15 — 6th December 2007.

They have: 40 posts

Joined: Nov 2007

probably the float left, or a missing clearing paragraph.

First, add this to your stylesheet - if you don't ealready have a clearing class:

.clear{ clear:both; }

And could you tell us if this is the HTML code on your page?

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="storybox">
</div>
<p class="clear"></p>
</div>

As demonhale said post a link to your work in progress - or the whole html/css not just the css.

Maxal posted this at 16:04 — 6th December 2007.

They have: 15 posts

Joined: Dec 2007

Thanx for the replies demonhale and calculator

calculator, your .clear thing solved the problem, but only partially. I have one more problem. I am including a php file in the main section via phpinclude. This file has a menu which has its own stylesheet. Once I include the menu.php, the storybox again goes out of the wrapper. Here is the full html code:

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<?php include("menu.php"); ?>

<div id="mainstorybox">
<br />
<img src="images/latest.gif" />
<span class="headmain">
AmazingBoyz amaze again</span>
<br /><br />
<a href="images/mainlarge.gif" rel="lightbox" title="AmazingBoyz in action."><img src="images/mainthumb.gif" align="left" border="0" /></a>
Following some intense competition under a visibly tense atmosphere, AmazingBoyz managed to snatch victory from jaws of  defeat, mainting their undefeated outing at the Class 2 compeition.<br />
<a href="#"><img src="images/readmore.gif" border="0"  align="right"/> </a><br /><br />
</div>

<p class="clear"></p>
</div>
</body>

And here is the CSS for the menu.php file:

<style type="text/css">
#tabs {
font-family: Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS" Verdana, Georgia, "Lucida Console";font-size: 12px;
width:400px; text-align:justified; background: url(icon/top.gif); margin:0px 0 0 0px; position: relative; z-index:1;}
#tabs ul {padding:0; margin:0; width:400px; list-style:none; position:relative;}
#tabs ul li {float:left; display:inline; width:125px; height:53px; margin:0 4px;}
#tabs ul li a.outer {display:block; width:125px; height:49px; border-bottom:1px solid #9c9c9c; text-align:center; line-height:45px; text-decoration:none; text-indent:50px; color:#777; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:3px; font-size:15px;}

#tabs ul li a.one {background:#fff url(icon/world.jpg) top left no-repeat;}
#tabs ul li a.two {background:#fff url(icon/key.jpg) top left no-repeat;}
#tabs ul li a.three {background:#fff url(icon/mail.jpg) top left no-repeat;}
#tabs ul li a.four {background:#fff url(icon/search.jpg) top left no-repeat;}
#tabs ul li a.five {background:#fff url(icon/profile.jpg) top left no-repeat;}
#tabs ul li a.six {background:#fff url(icon/draw.jpg) top left no-repeat;}
#tabs ul li div {display:none;}

#tabs ul li:hover {padding-bottom:132px; border-bottom:1px solid #fff; color:#000; margin-bottom:0;}

#tabs ul li:hover > a.outer {color:#000; background-position:0 -55px; height:55px; cursor:default;}

* html #tabs ul li a.outer:hover {padding-bottom:130px; border-bottom:1px solid #fff; height:55px; color:#000; margin-bottom:0;background-position:0 -55px; height:55px; cursor:default;}

#tabs ul li:hover div {display:block; padding:5px; position:absolute; left:4px; top:55px; width:381px; height:118px; border-bottom:3px solid #fff;}
#tabs ul li a:hover div {display:block; padding:5px; position:absolute; left:4px; top:55px; width:381px; height:118px; border-bottom:3px solid #fff;}

#tabs ul li a:hover div.tab_left,
#tabs ul li:hover div.tab_left
{background:#fff url(icon/tab_left.gif);}

#tabs ul li a:hover div.tab_center,
#tabs ul li:hover div.tab_center
{background:#fff url(icon/tab_center.gif);}

#tabs ul li a:hover div.tab_right,
#tabs ul li:hover div.tab_right
{background:#fff url(icon/tab_right.gif);}

.clear {clear:both; height:0; line-height:0; overflow:hidden;}
#tabs span.base {display:block; height:20px;font-size:10px; color:#bc8f8f; background:url(icon/bottom.gif) bottom;}
#tabs div h5 {font-size:11px; margin-bottom:10px;}
#tabs div p {font-weight:normal; text-align:left; color:#000; margin-top:3px;}
#tabs div a img {border:0;}
#tabs div img.image {float:left; border:0; margin-top:-35px; margin-right:5px;}
#tabs div a.unlock {background:url(icon/unlock.gif); display:block; width:30px; height:30px; margin:0 auto;}
#tabs div a:hover.unlock img {visibility:hidden;}
#tabs p.bold {color:#069; padding-top:5px;}
* html #tabs p.fire {margin-top:-15px;}
* html #tabs form {margin-top:-20px;}
#tabs p.buttons {text-align:center;}
</style>  