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Alicia Regular Member

Alicia

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Hi,

 

Can some guru help me to check what have I done incorrectly in this simple css layout? After I adjusted the div on top before the content div, the content and footer div is all aligned to far right which I never adjusted. I tried to move it back inside the container and align the content to left but failed. I am wondering how come the div from content to footer will move to such position.

 

Besides, can you give me an idea what I have done on the top positioning is correct or not. I can get the positioning of the div i want on top before the content but i am wondering why negative value is required to make it fit into the container.

 

Please advise and thanks.

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#page-container {
    width: 960px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

#main-nav {
    height: 30px;
    position: relative;
    background-color: #CFF;
    width: 300px;
    top: -95px;
    left: -145px;
    float: left;
}

#sidebar-a {
    background: darkgreen;
    float: left;
    position:relative;
}

#content {
    background: green;
    width: 960px;
    position: relative;
}

#footer {
    background: orange;
    height: 66px;
}

#logo {
    width : 200px;
    height: 100px;
    margin-top:52px;
    padding-left:10px;
    position: relative;
}

#mailinglistbox {
    width : 450px;
    height: 50px;
    background-color:#09F;
    margin-right:220px;
    float:left;
    position: relative;
    left: 225px;
    top: -115px;
}

#topcontactbox {
    width : 250px;
    height: 30px;
    background-color:#FF6;
    margin-right:120px;
    float:left;
    position: relative;
    left: 695px;
    top: -155px;
}

body {
    margin-top: 0px;
    background-image: url(images/mainbg.jpg);
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-color: #F0F4F5;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="page-container">
  <div id="logo"><img src="images/logo.gif" width="179" height="82" /></div>
  <div id="mailinglistbox">mailing list box</div>
    <div id="topcontactbox">contact</div>
    <div id="main-nav">Main Nav</div>
    <div id="content">Content</div>
    
    <div id="footer">Footer</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

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White_Lily Regular Member

White_Lily

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Hi I copied your code to notepad++ and played around with it, i have found the solution!

 

 

i have to admit i also tried "text-align:left" to no success.

i then tried "clear:both"

 

 

in the html this is a class 

<div class="clear"><>

 

 

Below is your fixed code:

 

 


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#page-container {
    width: 960px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}


#main-nav {
    height: 30px;
    position: relative;
    background-color: #CFF;
    width: 300px;
    top: -95px;
    left: -145px;
    float: left;
}


#sidebar-a {
    background: darkgreen;
    float: left;
    position:relative;
}


#content {
    background: green;
    width: 960px;
    position: relative;
}


#footer {
    background: orange;
    height: 66px;
}


#logo {
    width : 200px;
    height: 100px;
    margin-top:52px;
    padding-left:10px;
    position: relative;
}


#mailinglistbox {
    width : 450px;
    height: 50px;
    background-color:#09F;
    margin-right:220px;
    float:left;
    position: relative;
    left: 225px;
    top: -115px;
}


#topcontactbox {
    width : 250px;
    height: 30px;
    background-color:#FF6;
    margin-right:120px;
    float:left;
    position: relative;
    left: 695px;
    top: -155px;
}


body {
    margin-top: 0px;
    background-image: url(images/mainbg.jpg);
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-color: #F0F4F5;
}


.clear
{
   clear:both;
}


</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="page-container">
  <div id="logo"><img src="images/logo.gif" width="179" height="82" /><>
  <div id="mailinglistbox">mailing list box<>
    <div id="topcontactbox">contact<>
    <div id="main-nav">Main Nav<>
   <div class="clear"><>
    <div id="content">Content<>
    <div class="clear"><>
    <div id="footer">Footer<>


<>
</body>
</html>

 

 

PS: add the closing div tags after each opening div!!!

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