Beginner needs help with css layout

Question

i'm new to using dw (cs3) and css, though i have some
background in html and coding. i'm creating a page using the "one
column elastic, centered, header and footer" layout and i have a
banner header with a horizontal spry menu bar at the bottom of the
header. the background color of the buttons on the menu bar is red,
and there's a yellow 5px border on the top and bottom of the red
menu bar, so it looks like there's red bar with yellow piping above
and below it, and this bar is between the header and body section
of the page. i've set these colors in the "ul.MenuBarHorizontal a"
rule.
now, the issue i have is that my menu bar does not extend
across the entire column, so there's empty space to the right of my
menu bar (between the end of the menu bar and the far right
column). i'd like the look of the red and yellow menu bar to extend
all the way across, but i can't figure out how to do this in css.
do i:
extend the menu bar all the way across the width of the page?
i can't figure out how to do this.
insert an image to make it appear as though the red and
yellow bar keeps extending to the right? if so, how will that image
remain elastic along with my page?
or is there a better solution?
i'm very new to css and i'm doing my best to figure out how
everything fits together. the last web site i built was in 1997 and
it was done in notepad. any help would be tremendous. i'm in
kinshasa, in the democratic republic of congo, and truth be told
there aren't a lot of dw gurus out here.
thanks in advance...

Answer 1

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"charliemooreiv" <[email protected]> wrote
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> i'm new to using dw (cs3) and css, though i have some
background in html
> and
> coding. i'm creating a page using the "one column
elastic, centered,
> header
> and footer" layout and i have a banner header with a
horizontal spry menu
> bar
> at the bottom of the header. the background color of the
buttons on the
> menu
> bar is red, and there's a yellow 5px border on the top
and bottom of the
> red
> menu bar, so it looks like there's red bar with yellow
piping above and
> below
> it, and this bar is between the header and body section
of the page. i've
> set
> these colors in the "ul.MenuBarHorizontal a" rule.
>
> now, the issue i have is that my menu bar does not
extend across the
> entire
> column, so there's empty space to the right of my menu
bar (between the
> end of
> the menu bar and the far right column). i'd like the
look of the red and
> yellow menu bar to extend all the way across, but i
can't figure out how
> to do
> this in css.
>
> do i:
>
> extend the menu bar all the way across the width of the
page? i can't
> figure
> out how to do this.
>
> insert an image to make it appear as though the red and
yellow bar keeps
> extending to the right? if so, how will that image
remain elastic along
> with
> my page?
>
> or is there a better solution?
>
> i'm very new to css and i'm doing my best to figure out
how everything
> fits
> together. the last web site i built was in 1997 and it
was done in
> notepad.
> any help would be tremendous. i'm in kinshasa, in the
democratic republic
> of
> congo, and truth be told there aren't a lot of dw gurus
out here.
>
> thanks in advance...
>