Linking DIV Tags

I have a left nav bar (div tag called .menu) and want my menu
items to link and display in the main content area (div tag named
.content), just to the right. How do I set the target to that
"content" area?
mahen

djmahen wrote:
> I have a left nav bar (div tag called .menu) and want my
menu items to link and
> display in the main content area (div tag named
.content), just to the right.
> How do I set the target to that "content" area?
You must use an iframe, which can be inserted into the
.content <div>.
Google for iframe.

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Div tags - changing link properties

Hi,
My page has two colors. In the top is the navigation and the
links need to be white due to the dark background. I did not plan
to use links in the body itself, but have been forced. The body
color is #efe9d1 and my links need to be dark. I am trying to use a
different style I named .bodylink to accomplish this. I have used a
div tag, and I am having the following problems. On my design view
of the page all my linked fonts are bold and white. When I view it
in my browser the navigation fonts are not bold and the second link
is correct. (note: in design view the body does not view correctly,
but the navigation does)
My script is attached.
Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

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> Hi,
>
> My page has two colors. In the top is the navigation and
the links need
> to be
> white due to the dark background. I did not plan to use
links in the body
> itself, but have been forced. The body color is #efe9d1
and my links need
> to
> be dark. I am trying to use a different style I named
.bodylink to
> accomplish
> this. I have used a div tag, and I am having the
following problems. On
> my
> design view of the page all my linked fonts are bold and
white. When I
> view it
> in my browser the navigation fonts are not bold and the
second link is
> correct.
> (note: in design view the body does not view correctly,
but the navigation
> does)
>
> My script is attached.
>
> Please tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> a:link {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> text-decoration: none;
> font-weight: bold;
> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>
> .bodyLink {
> color: #a14e23;
> text-decoration: none;
> font-weight: bold;
> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>
> <tr>
> <td align="left"
valign="bottom"><div><p><a
> href="mediavision.html" target="_blank"
>
class="bodyLink">Attendees•Articles•Videos</a></p></div></td>
> </tr>
>

Hidden and visible div tags, transparence and links - HELP....

I am showing different products in div tags that are controlled by simple javascript. I would like to add text links to open a new div tag about the related products, but also hide the original div tag that the link is placed on.
Please check this page out
http://www.aestheticgroup.fr/New/Inex/Inex_lipoAspirationR.html
and then click on the image for
CANULES D’ASPIRATION PROXIMALE
and then click on the text link:
manche BD 300 10
You will understand my problem. I'm trying to make this div tag (Canule d’aspiration Proximale) disappear instead of having them stack one on top of the other.
Do you have an idea of how I can add multiple functions to one click (close the div tag and open a new one at the same time)?
Thank you for your help!
Sooooophie

Hi Sophie,
I downloaded your site and yes, there was a typo in the script...
The script should read...
var curOverlay = null;
function overlay( aOly) {
var el = document.getElementById(aOly);
if (curOverlay) curOverlay.style.visibility = "hidden";     // THIS LINE HAS CHANGED
if (curOverlay != el) {
    el.style.visibility = "visible";
    curOverlay = el;
else
    curOverlay = null;
I also realize that wherever you call an overlayXX function that you are currently using, you'll need to replace it with a call to overlay('overlayXX')
I needed to add this to your onclick attribute for the close button... I tested this and it seems to work for the existing page.
here are the snippets from your page that I changed
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        <p>CANULES D’ASPIRATION <br />
        UN ORIFICE</p>
      </div>
and for the close button:
   <div id="close02"><a href='#' onclick='overlay("overlay02")' onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image43','','images/close.jpg',1)"><img src="images/close02.jpg" name="Image43" width="72" height="20" border="0" id="Image43" /></a></div>
You'll need to change this wherever you reference each overlay, in this case, it was for overlay02. The good news is you'll only need this function and not one function per overlay as you have now.
As I said in the previous post, I am off on vacation for a little over a week.
Good Luck!

What's wrong with my div tag / site won't center....

Hi,
I am re-designing a website and I cannot get it to center. I created a div tag and id it "wrapper" and created a css rule. I am sure its a simple mistake, but I cannot figure it out.....
Here is the CSS rules...
@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, address, blockquote, span, ul, ol, li, dl, dd, dt, ing {
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          padding: 0px;
#wrapper{
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          background-color: #9B9E6B;
ul {
          list-style: none;
table#content1{
          background-color: #00C;
          background-image: url(_images/content_bgrnd.png);
          background-repeat: no-repeat;
          font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif;
          font-size: 20px;
          text-align: center;
          padding: 8px;
Here is the code for the site......
<!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>Kiahuna 104</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
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<div id="wrapper">

<table id="header">
<div class="header"><img src="_images/newLOGO.jpg" alt="Kiahuna 104" width="1000"/>
</div>

<table width="1000" bgcolor="000">
<tr>
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I tried to assign a width in both the page and CSS and it still doesn't center. Here is a link to the site and the CSS....
http://taffyproductions.com/test/
@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, address, blockquote, span, ul, ol, li, dl, dd, dt, ing {
          margin: 0px;
          padding: 0px;
#wrapper{
          margin: 0, auto;
          background-color: #000;
ul {
          list-style: none;
table#content1{
          background-color: #00C;
          background-image: url(_images/content_bgrnd.png);
          background-repeat: no-repeat;
font-size: 16px;
          font-family: Papyrus, Arial, "Helvetica Bold", serif;
          font-size: 22px;
          text-align: center;
          padding: 8px;
table#imagegallery{
          background-image: url(_images/imageGallery_bckgrnd.png);
          background-repeat: no-repeat;
#imagegallery a img{
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    margin: 2px;
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#imagegallery a:hover img {
          border: 2px solid #C00;
table#footer{
          background-image: url(_images/footer_bckgrnd.png);
          background-repeat: no-repeat;

Can you change the default code that targets a new window to change the content in a div tag instead

I created a database for store locations. I was able to display the list of stores. Here though I don't want the list to show the number in front of it... I still need to find the CSS to edit my results for this one. However, more importantly, I don't want to open my results in a new window, I want to be able to target a DIV tag instead.
This is the code that is created to display the list of stores.
{module_webapps,5665,a,,,_blank,,50,,1}
Currently it opens a blank window. I'd like to target a div tag on the right of the list area where the store info can appear.
Perhaps the gurus at adobe can upgrade this feature? Target DIVs instead of new or blank windows, or using frames. Below is the screen of the links created from the DB.
Below is the blank window that it opens.
Would like to make it open in a div to the right of the list. Not sure how to change to core code that was created to make that change.

I'm doing something wrong. I have the list showing the stores in CA
<div class="flip" id="woodcontainer" style="width: 160px; height: 23px;">
<h1>CALIFORNIA</h1>
</div>
<div class="panel">
<script>
$("#infochange").load("{module_webapps,5665,c,41140}"); /* this creates the list of stores in CA where #infochange is the DIV I am targeting.
</script>
</div>
<br />
The code for the DIV where I want the details to load.
<div id="infochange"></div>
This doesn't make sense because I need to have something in the DIV as a holder of some sort?

Dreamweaver cs5.5 - div tags won't float next to eachother

I have being trying to get 2 div tags to float next to eachother for hours! I've been messing with the float and messing with margins, but what ever i do the div is always somewhat under my other div tag. I want them completely side by side. I have tried changing the top and bottom margins but that doesn't work either. how can i get them side by side? One is called 'textbox' and the other 'imagewrapper'. The code is:
<!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>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="style2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<style type="text/css">
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font: 1em/1.5 "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Unicode";
#wrapper {
width: 1064px;
margin: 0 auto; /**with width, this centers page on screen**/
background: #FFF;
text-align:center;
/**this styles image container**/
#thumbs p {
          float:center;
          width: 50px;
          height: 75px;
          /**this styles caption text**/
font: italic 14px/1.5 Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          color: #666;
          text-align:center;
          border: 1px solid silver;
          margin-top: 10px;
          margin-right: 5px;
          margin-bottom: 18px;
          margin-left: 5px;
/**recommend using same size images**/
#thumbs img {
          width: 50px; /**adjust width to photo**/
          height: 75px; /**adjust height to photo**/
          /**CSS3 drop shadows**/
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #666;
          -webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #666;
          -khtml-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #666;
          box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #666;
/**float clearing**/
#thumbs:after{
          display:block;
          visibility:hidden;
          height:0;
          font-size:0;
          content: " ";
          clear: left;
#wrapper #thumbs #imagewrapper {
          height: 362px;
          width: 280px;
          float: right;
          margin-right: 720px;
#wrapper #thumbs #imagewrapper img {
          height: 362px;
          width: 280px;
#wrapper #textbox {
          float: right;
          height: 300px;
          width: 600px;
          margin-right: 70px;
.clearing {
clear:left;
height:px;
width: 100%;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<img src="product and website photos/header.png" width="1064" height="116" alt="header" />

<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="#home.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Boutique</a><ul>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Women</a><ul>
<li><a href="bwt.html">Tops</a></li>
<li><a href="bws.html">Skirts/Shorts</a></li>
<li><a href="bwl.html">Trousers/Leggings</a></li>
<li><a href="bwa.html">Accessories</a></li>
<li><a href="bwd.html">Dresses</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Men</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Tops</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Bottoms</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Accessories</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Semi-Unique</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">T-shirt Shop</a><ul>
<li><a href="t-shirt shop.html">Men</a></li>
<li><a href="t-shirt shop.html">Women</a></li>
<li><a href="t-shirt shop.html">Unique</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="clearance.html">Clearance</a></li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
</ul>
<h2> </h2>
<div id="textbox"></div>
<div id="thumbs">
<div id="imagewrapper"></div>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<hr align="center" size="10" noshade="noshade" class="clearing" color="#999999" />
<div align="left">© 2012 your footer text goes here</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>

If you want to position 2 divs - one on left and other on right, the float for your left div should say float: left; and for the one on the right the CSS should say float:right;
In your code, I see you want imagewrapper to come on right and textbox to come on left. But your float for BOTH these say right. This is where the issue lies.
You can combine float:left and float:right to achieve side by side divs provided the overall width (container width+padding+margin) of both divs is less than or equal to the width of the wrapper div.
In the OP's example:
#wrapper = 1064+0+0 = 1064px
#textbox + #imagewrapper = 600+70+280+720 = 1670px = float drop

HTML or PHP visibility div tag problem in IE

Hi,
I have a PHP search function on a travel site a programmer
did for me. When you look at it in FF and Safari, it looks fine.
But in IE, there is a big blank space where the calendar function
goes. He has the div tag set to visibility:hidden. Any ideas how to
make it look right in IE as well?? Any help would be appreciated!
The PHP code is below:
He thinks the problem is here in this part of the code:
<div id="kalendar" style="visibility:hidden; width:0px;
height:0px; border:0;">
//then goes some tables
</div>
Any help would be much appreciated...we are stumped!
Thanks

>
http://www.bluehippotravel.com/surfingvacations
404 on that link.
> Does this tell you anything?
Unfortunately, yes. The person who coded this has no sense of
best practice
in HTML authoring....
I'd like to see the page in the wild if I could - can you
investigate the
404, please?
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> Murray,
> As always you are a genius :-)
>
> The only problem I still have, and only in IE, not FF,
is that the drop
> down
> menus are cutting part of themselves off...any idea why?
>
http://www.bluehippotravel.com/surfingvacations
> Top left...see how the arrows are cut off on the drop
downs?
>
> Not sure if its ok to post to page??
>
> I didn't do this part of the page...so not sure how it
was done...
> Does this tell you anything?
>
> <table bgcolor="#f7ebb3" class="search"
style="table-layout: fixed;
> padding:0px" border="0">
> <tr><td colspan="4" width="auto">
> <select size="1" class="search" id="country"
> onchange="javascript:listajzemlje(this.value)">
> <?php
> drzave();
> ?>
> </select>
> </td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="4" width="auto">
> <div id="state1">
> <input type="hidden" id="state" value="" >
> <input type="hidden" id="city" value="" >
>
> </div></td></tr>
> <tr>
>
>
> <td colspan="4" width="auto">
> <input class="search" id="hotel" name="hotel" value="
Hotel name
> (optional)" />
>
>
>
> <tr><td colspan="4" style="cursor:pointer;"
onClick="showKalendar()"
> class="search" >
>
> <img class="search"
src="images/btn-hotelmenu-searchbydate.jpg"
> alt="Search by
> date (optional) ">
> </td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="4">
> <div id="kalendar" style="display:none; width:0px;
height:0px;
> border:0;layout:fixed">
>
> <table border="0" class="submenucolor" align="center"
width="auto">
>
> <tr>
> <td></td><td></td>
> <td class="HotelSearchMenu" colspan="2"
align="right">In:<?
> $aCalendarParams=array(
> "sIconPath" => "./img/calendar.png",
> "iAction" => 1, //0=>reloadCurrentPage with get
param sDate,
> 1=>fill
> field sFieldName
> "sFieldName" => "DPC_date1",
> "iStyle" => 1, //0=>display calendar,
1=>display div on icon
> click
> "aMonthNames" => $aMonthNames["EN"],
> "aDaysNames" => $aDaysNames["EN"],
> "sDateFormat" => $sDateFormat["EN"]
>
> );
> new oCalendarPicker("calFixe1",$sDate,$aCalendarParams);
> ?></td>
>
>
>
>
>
> </tr>
>
>
> Thanks!
>

Please help! IE6 won't display my div tags!

My page looks fine in the other Mac browsers but the divs won't show up in Internet Explorer. Please tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it so that my div tags display correctly. Here is my source and CSS 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">

</style>
<link href="../navmenu.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="logo"></div>
<div id="nav"></div>
<div id="buffer">this is a buffer</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
     margin: 0px;
     padding: 0px;
#wrapper {
     width: 909px;
     background-color: #999;
     margin-right: auto;
     margin-left: auto;
     height: 54px;
     overflow: auto;
#wrapper #logo {
     width: 208px;
     float: left;
     background-color: #33F;
     height: 39px;
#wrapper #nav {
     background-color: #933;
     float: right;
     width: 701px;
     height: 39px;
#wrapper #buffer {
     width: 909px;
     clear: both;
     background-color: #0F6;
     height: 15px;

Because IE 6 is 5+ years old and hasn't been updated in a long while and the only reason it's still kicking in somewhat decent numbers is because some large companys utilized IE-only type features for internal applications and intranets and thus forced Microsoft to conitnue to support it beyond the original end-of-support date. :-)
By the way, potentially you could just give IE 6 a really bare-bones layout - but you'll need to make sure that that's acceptable for the project. Also it's good for your sanity if you stop trying to make the site look exactly the same in every browser. It's much easier to make it look "good enough" and make sure that the content is accessible and the site usable.

Centering a DIV Tag

Hi,
am having trouble / don't have a clue how to centre a div tag
to the center of the page? Can someone point me where am going
wrong. Here is the html code:
thanks in advance
hammer.

>>I think you'll find significant disagreement here
about the following
Yes, here, I definitely will find significant disagreement.
But I'm very
much of the opinion that publishing to the web is for the
masses, not just
for you folk with the time, motivation, and expereince to
deal with the
range of issues relating to css layout. The simplicity of
tables far
outweighs the gains of css layout at this point in time.
>>There is nothing worse than a morass of nested tables
spanned to death,
>>not
only for you as the maintainer of the site, but also for the
browsers, some
of which simply cannot render such pages. CSS layouts do not
have these
problems.
Here you are wrong. I would actually revese that whole point.
It is css
layout that are notorious fo rbrowsers laying out or not
rendering properly.
Tables never came close to having such issues. Even nested
tables, one level
deep, are perfectly fine.
>>some
of which simply cannot render such pages. CSS layouts do not
have these
problems.
Politely, where the heck have you been living these last few
years!!
>>Future maintainence, bandwidth usage, and simplicity
of layout are big
benefits of using CSS as opposed to tables.
simplicity of layout??? Again, I think you are missing the
argument here.
Its almost a given that tables are simpler to use for layout.
Almost all
books on teh topic agree, but point out the long term benefit
of css layout
despite the added complexity. So please don't use the
'simplcity' as an
argument here. CSS layout is the most intimidating and hard
to fathom thing
for most beginners, not just the new syntax but all the
nonsensical
(seeming) twists and turns that must be taken to get it to
work properly -
not to mention they are buggy as hell. Tables? They don't
come close to
being as nasty as CSS layout as it is today.
>>Everyone here (I think) agrees that if tables work
better for you, then use them. BUT use them correctly if you
are going to
do that. It's pretty simple, really....
Agreed. I personally use tables for average sized websites
which have to be
edited/maintained by general staff - you can teach tables oto
people inside
of amorning to a day. You'd need weeks to months to teach
enough CSS layout
to a layman and even then he'd think it sucks. I will be
using css for
layout about two browser versions from now.
I don't see the sense on jumping on a technology that, at
every second turn
you get, go here for this hack, do this to get around that
problem, IE
cannot do this so use this javascript fix, oh it doesn't work
while looking
at in dreanweaver but it will work in the browser, blah blah
blah...its
enough to put someone off web design for life.
I came to the web initially becuase I was amazed at how much
I could do with
so little knowledge - it was awseome. I think this should
still happen to
people today - it's quite empowering. I think the reality is
a lot more folk
get disheartned, confused and simply don't run with it. We
scare the crap
out them with css layout.
"Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:[email protected]...
>I think you'll find significant disagreement here about
the following -
>
> * CSS for layout is simply not there yet
> * Its only the accesibility issue which tables lose
points for
> * Possibly, the only benefit of css layout is that it
can be centrally
> goverened through a linked style sheet, but even this
can be done with DW
> templates and tables
>
> CSS for layout is certainly "there". Perhaps it's not
there for you, but
> it surely is for others.
>
> There is nothing worse than a morass of nested tables
spanned to death,
> not only for you as the maintainer of the site, but also
for the browsers,
> some of which simply cannot render such pages. CSS
layouts do not have
> these problems.
>
> Future maintainence, bandwidth usage, and simplicity of
layout are big
> benefits of using CSS as opposed to tables.
>
> But let's not make this a holy war. Nobody here is
saying that you have
> to replace tables with CSS. Everyone here (I think)
agrees that if tables
> work better for you, then use them. BUT use them
correctly if you are
> going to do that. It's pretty simple, really....
>
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> "Arrdvark" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]...
>> tables are much simpler, translate well to knowledge
people have from
>> other tools (ie; ms word) and can do layout quite
well. CSS for layout is
>> simply not there yet - it feels like one great big
hack and is difficult
>> for people to learn, especially causal web designers
who just dont have
>> the time to amass all teh knowledge and expereince
needed just to get a
>> simple css layout working in both major browsers.
One of the things that
>> made the web so big was how simple it was to publish
to - CSS layout is a
>> step backward in this regard.
>>
>> tables are still fine for most sites, a perfectly
valid choice. Its only
>> the accesibility issue which tables lose points for.
Possibly, the only
>> benefit of css layout is that it can be centrally
goverened through a
>> linked style sheet, but even this can be done with
DW templates and
>> tables, or dynamic pages and tables (ie: asp.net
master pages).
>>
>> I am 50 / 50 these days as to wether css layout is
worth the hassle for
>> the average website being bult by the avergae
person.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "FreakyJesus" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Very well said, Thierry
>>> And Arrdvark, I hear you on this:
>>> "it almost always causes total confusion as to
"why" this is the case
>>> and puts
>>> people right off CSS altogther."
>>> I am showing a friend how to use CSS (blind
leading the blind) and on a
>>> regular basis she's like "wouldn't this be
easier with tables within
>>> tables."
>>> Css CAN be very confusing.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
>>> Al wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:39:18 -0500, Murray
*ACE*
>>> > <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Not only something different, but an
inferior choice at that!
>>>
>>> > I guess it can sometimes be difficult for
an inexperienced user to
>>> > assess and evaluate multiple solutions. If
there are downsides to
>>> > public forums, that would be at least one
of them. It's hard enough
>>> > for newbies to assess a single solution,
but wading through a
>>> > sub-discussion between third-parties
micro-analyzing their personal
>>> > favorite solutions can be untenable.
>>>
>>> I agree, but I can also understand that it can
be frustrating for people
>>> (people in general) who try to help to see that
the OP (OPs in general)
>>> didn't even try a solution that didn't require
too much effort.
>>> IMHO, there was not much for the OP to go
through here since *early* in
>>> this
>>> thread, the OP had everything to make it work.
>>> First post FreakyJesus said to set up the
left/right margin of the DIV
>>> to
>>> "auto" and second post Murray gives a very
explicit "fix" for IE5:
>>> body { text-align:center; }
>>> #graybox { text-align:left; }
>>> Actually, just trying margin auto could have
been enough for the OP.
>>> Sometimes it is important to know "some"
Javascript, HTML or else to be
>>> able
>>> to implement (not necessary understand) a
solution, but here it was not
>>> the
>>> case.
>>>
>>> Nothing against the OP here, and nothing to get
excited either ;-)
>>> This is just a general statement about the other
side of the coin.
>>>
>>> > Note to self: Recite Serenity Prayer before
posting here in the
>>> > future.
>>>
>>> Let's hope that works :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thierry
>>> Articles and Tutorials:
http://www.TJKDesign.com/go/?0
>>> The perfect FAQ page:
http://www.TJKDesign.com/go/?9
>>> CSS-P Templates:
http://www.TJKDesign.com/go/?1
>>> CSS Tab Menu:
http://www.TJKDesign.com/go/?3
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Ap Div Tag Problem

OK so this is my first wbesite in dreamweaver so and i ran into a problem....i made a AP div tag but i can get it where i want it.....my backrground is center in the website and i put my nav links in a AP div tag so i could then put them in a certain area where i wanted.(i think is the only way i know hjow to do this) Well how can i get them centered left and right in the website but the top and bottom i want to place by hand???? they are where they need to be when i preview it in the browser but in the dreamweaver file they are down and to the right......i had to keep messing with it and previewin it until it showed up where i wanted it to in the browser. Im sure i have a setting worng either in my CSS or html.... Please help!

First rule of web design is to stop thinking like a graphic or print designer. Web pages need to be flexible to perform well on different devices, browsers, user settings, screen and text sizes. And web designers have almost no control over these user-centric variables.
The second rule of web design, you cannot precisely position text or other elements on top of big background image and expect it to stick. It just doesn't work.
http://alt-web.com/Backgrounds.shtml
If your navigation bar requires a background, it should be separate from the page background. You'll need to use solid colors or create image slices for your nav bar in your graphics editor.
Third rule, use default CSS positioning (which is no positioning at all). Align objects with CSS margins, padding and floats.
Basic CSS Layout. (No APDivs used, no animals were harmed)
http://alt-web.com/TEMPLATES/Basic-1-col-fixed.html
Also read this tutorial:
Taking a Fireworks (or Photoshop) comp to a CSS based layout in DW
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/web_standards_layouts_pt1.html
Good luck with your project!
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
www.twitter.com/altweb
www.alt-web.blogspot.com

Div tag problem

Hi there,
i am creating a website.i seem to be having a bit of trouble with div tag...i think.the navigation bar and the main content seem to be overlapping each other.any ideas?id appreciated any help.
thanks.
<body>
<div id="header">Heading</div>
<div id = "nav">
<ul id="Fyp">
<li><a href="html/Index.html">Home</a> </li>
<li><a href="html/Conventional.html">Conventional Encryption</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Public Key Encryption</a>
    <ul>
<li><a href="html/PublicKey-Confidentiality.html">PublicKey-Confidentiality</a></li>
<li><a href="html/PublicKey-Authentication.html">PublicKey-Authentication</a></li>
<li><a href="html/Public Key-Confidentiality and Authentication.html">Public Key-Confidentiality and Authentication</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">MAC Encryption</a>
    <ul>
<li><a href="#">MAC - Message Authentication</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Message Authentication and Confidentiality (Plaintext)</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Message Authentication and Confidentiality(Ciphertext)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
   <li><a href="#">HASH Encryption</a>
       <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Encryption after Concatenation</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Encryption before Concatenation</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Authentication</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Authentication and Confidentiality</a></li>
           <li><a href="#">Secret Value</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Secret Value and Encryption</a></li>
     </ul>
    </li>
   <li><a href="#">Self Test</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="main_content">
<p> </p>
<p>This is the home page for Message Authentication and Digital Signatures.This page will explain the funamental basis of these elements.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Authentication</strong>:</p>
<p><a name="#Authtentication"></a>
The Authentication service is concerned with assuring that a communication is authentic. Authentication acts as an warning or a alarm signal. The function of the authentication service is to assure the recipient that he message is from the source that it calms to be from.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Confidentiality</strong>:</p>
<p><a name = "Confidenitiality"></a>
Confidentiality is the protection of transmitted data from passive attacks. This makes sure that the message sent can not be read by anyboby except for the intended recipient .
</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Public Key:</strong></p>
<p><a name = "Public Key"></a>
</p>
<p><strong>Digital Signature:</strong>
<p><a name = "Digital Signature"></a></p>
</p>
<p><strong>Integrity:</strong>
<p><a name = "Integrity"></a> </p>
<p><strong>MAC Function:</strong></p>
<p><a name = "MAC"></a> </p>
<p>A MAC (Message Authentication Code) is a small fixed size block of data that is appended to the message. The technique assumes hat two communicating parties say (Source A and B) share a common secret key(k). When A sends a message to B, it calculates the MAC as a function of the message and the key. The recipient performs the same calculation on the received message using the same key, to generate a new MAC. The received MAC and the calculated MAC are then compared. If the received MAC matches the calculated MAC, then the message is said to be authentic.</p>
</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>
Footer - all about the designer and contact links go here
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Here ya go.
body {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
text-align:center;
font-size:1.0em;
font-family:trebuchet ms, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
#container {
text-align:left;
margin:0px;
width:1270px;
border:1px black solid;
padding: 0px;
#header {
text-align:center;
width:1270px;
#width:1022px;
height:100px;
font-size:2.0em;
background-color:white;
color:white;
padding-top:0px;
padding-right:0px;
border-bottom:1px black solid;
#nav {
width:1270px;
#width:1270px;
height:24px;
font-size:0.8em;
background-color:#20548E;
color:black;
border-bottom:1px black solid;
#main_content {
width:1270px;
#width:1022px;
font-size:0.9em;
background-color:white;
color:black;
border-bottom:1px black solid;
#footer {
text-align:center;
width:1270px;
#width:1022px;
height:100px;
font-size:1.0em;
background-color:#20548E;
color:white;
border-bottom:1px black solid;
#Fyp
{ margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
#Fyp li
{ float: left;
list-style: none;
font: 12px Tahoma, Arial;
#Fyp li a
{ display: block;
background: #20548E;
padding: 5px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
border-right: 1px solid white;
width: 140px;
color: #EAFFED;
white-space: nowrap;
#Fyp li a:hover
{ background: #1A4473;
#Fyp li ul
{ margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
   position: absolute;
   visibility: hidden;
   border-top: 1px solid white;
#Fyp li ul li
{ float: none;
   display: inline;
#Fyp li ul li a
{ width: auto;
   background: #9F1B1B;
#Fyp li ul li a:hover
{ background: #7F1616;

Div tags - I'm totally confused

I just finished a website that employed AP divs...and was
heartily chastised for doing so. So, I'm attempting to create
another site that employs div tags.
I created a new site and began working on the design. Banner
at the top (jpg image in a div tag - 760 px wide, no float, no
clear), left sidebar (jpg in a div tag - 154 px wide, no float, no
clear), attempted to create another div tag (right sidebar) but I
can't get the div tag to hug the right margin of the page at the
same height as the left tag. It keeps appearing below the left
sidebar div tag....I have no clue how to get the div tag to appear
on the right side of the page.....assistance would be greatly
appreciated. (I have lots of other questions, but if I can get past
this issue, I MAY be able to work those out myself).
David Bird

Well, because #leftsidebar is a block tag, and because you
have not
controlled its width, it occupies the full width of its
container, so there
is no room to the right for anything. And by the way, why so
many rules for
#leftsidebar img? Also, you have misformed the selector for
#rightsidebar.
Anyhow, this may be what you are after - not sure, though....
<!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>Home</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<link href="fsbstyle.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper"><div id="topbanner"><img
src="Art/topbanner.jpg"
alt="banner" width="760"
height="153" /></div>
<div id="leftsidebar">
<p><img src="Art/Sidebar.jpg" width="152"
height="474" /></p>
</div>
<div id="rightsidebar">Content for id "rightsidebar"
Goes Here</div></div>
</body>
</html>
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"SwampeastMO" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Murrary....Here's the fsbstyle code
>
> #wrapper {
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> font-size: 10px;
> font-style: normal;
> color: #000000;
> background-color: #CCCCCC;
> padding: 10px;
> width: 760px;
> margin-right: auto;
> margin-left: auto;
> }
>
> #leftsidebar img {
> width: 154px;
> padding-top: 0px;
> padding-left: 0px;
> position: relative;
> left: auto;
> }
> #topbanner img {
> width: 760px;
> }
> #leftsidebar img {
> padding-left: 500px;
> }
> #leftsidebar img {
> padding: 0px;
> width: 154px;
> margin-left: 600px;
> }
> #leftsidebar img {
> width: 154px;
> margin-left: 0px;
> }
> #right sidebar {
> width: 154px;
> margin-left: 452px;
>

DIV tags disappear when put over swf file background

I am working on a site which has a swf movie as a background
which fills the browser window(SWFobject). When I place DIV tags,
which reference a CSS id and contain swf files as well, over the
top (for absolute positioning, etc.) they disappear when previewed
in a browser . Is there a reason that the swfobject always takes on
top position in the browser? Do I need to change something in the
SWFoject javascript file, in the code or within either the CSS file
or the dreamweaver HTML code? Here is a link to a site that is very
similar to what I am working on.
http://www.pronghornclub.com
Any help would be most appreciated.

All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so
to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and
Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There
is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but
if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this
properly!).
Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
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"jlrowedog" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fb53q0$akk$[email protected]..
>I am working on a site which has a swf movie as a
background which fills
>the
> browser window(SWFobject). When I place DIV tags, which
reference a CSS
> id,
> over the top (for absolute positioning, etc.) they
disappear when
> previewed in
> a browser. Is there a reason that the swf file always
takes on top
> position in
> the browser? Do I need to change something in the
SWFoject javascript
> file, in
> the code or within either the CSS file or the
dreamweaver HTML code? Here
> is a
> link to a site that is very similar to what I am working
on.
>
>
http://www.pronghornclub.com
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
>
>

Div tags and text decorations

Hello,
Is there a way to control the a:link text decoration/color within a div tag? It seems as thought the Page Props is the only place, hence controlling everything on the page.
Thank you!!!!!!

Okay so I go to a doctor's aqppointment and look at all the action on this thread.
Just to flesh this out a bit more.
I'd only add one other thing you may not be aware of (not you Murray, rather Esther). You can also have links appear different based on the part of the page they are on. If you have a div, as one example, on the page, you can style all the links in that div, to which you have applied an id="oneID" thusly:
div#oneID a:link {
     color:red;
     text-decoration:none;
     border-bottom: dotted 1px green;
and in another part of the page, say in an unordered list with an id="anotherID":
ul#anotherID a:link{
     color:blue;
     text-decoration:overline;
And of course Murray, you were correct, as usual, in divining the OP's query.
E. Michael Brandt
www.divahtml.com
www.divahtml.com/products/scripts_dreamweaver_extensions.php
Standards-compliant scripts and Dreamweaver Extensions
www.valleywebdesigns.com/vwd_Vdw.asp
JustSo PictureWindow
JustSo PhotoAlbum, et alia

Div tag placement error

Hi-
I have placed text within a div tag that is wrapped within another div (Figure 1) but I can't seem to identify the proper placement. I tried to solve the problem by assuming that the placement of the div was incorrect. However, I cannot place a div within the area that I want (red arrow indicates correct placement), therefore, the text is appearing at the bottom of where it should, under what seems to another extraneous div. Any help in solving this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Two images: website in browser (left) and in design view from Dreamweaver (right).

You need a wider page to hold the floated links and iframe. Also your iframe is too short for the amount of content it needs to display.
I took the liberty of re-coding your page layout and in so doing removed a lot of the images and replaced them with CSS.   Copy & Paste this code into a NEW, blank document and see if it makes sense.
<!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>Steve Baisden | Home</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color:#e4e4e4;
width: 1100px;
margin: 0 auto;
.container {overflow: hidden; /*float containment*/}
.header {
background:#000;
border-radius:20px;
border: 4px solid silver;
min-height:83px;
width:1000px;
.header img.logo {
float:left;
margin:25px 0px 25px 25px;
.navMain {
margin:30px 28px 30px 0px;
float:right;
.navMain ul {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
.navMain ul li{
margin:0px;
padding:0px 20px;
list-style:none;
display:inline;
.navMain ul li a{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
color:#FFF;
text-decoration:none;
font-size:18px;
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";
text-transform:uppercase
.navMain ul li a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
/**persistent page indicator**/
body.home .navMain li a.home,
body.about .navMain li a.about,
body.portfolio .navMain li a.portfolio,
body.resume .navMain li a.resume,
body.contact .navMain li a.contact{
color:rgb(143,203,3)
.content {
border-radius:20px;
border:4px solid silver;
background-color:#428301;
width:1000px;
margin:10px 0;
padding:0;
overflow:hidden; /*for float containment*/
position:relative;
box-shadow:7px 7px 5px #999
#leftCol {
float:left;
width:249px;
min-height: 370px;
background:#FFF;
border-radius:16px 0 25px 25px;
.wrapLinks {
margin:10px 0px 0px 0px;
padding:3px 0px 0px 0px;
font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
.wrapLinks li{
margin:0px;
padding:9px 0px 0px 30px;
list-style:none;
.wrapLinks li a {
font-size:13px;
color:#428301;
text-decoration:none;
/**arrow after links**/
.wrapLinks li a:after {
content:' \2799';
.wrapLinks li a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
h2.title {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
font-size:24px;
font-weight:normal;
font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
/**carousel**/
iframe{
position:relative;
float:right;
width: 751px;
height:375px;
border:none;
margin-top:0;
border-radius: 0 16px 0 0;
#LearnMore{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background: url(http://www.sbaisden.com/images/button_content.png) no-repeat;
height:75px;
width: 145px;
position:absolute;
right:25px;
top:275px;
opacity: 0.8;
cursor:pointer;
#LearnMore p { /**move text off screen**/
text-indent:-9999em}
#LearnMore:hover{
opacity: 1.0;
.greeting {
clear:both;
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";
font-size: 20px;
font-style: normal;
color: #FFF;
padding:20px;
.bottom {
text-align:center;
margin:0px auto;
padding:0;
font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
font-size:16px;
font-weight:bold;
.footer {
font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
font-size:10px;
color:#666;
padding:0 20px;
margin:0;
clear: both;
</style>
</head>
<body class="home">
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<a href="index.html"><img class="logo" src="http://www.sbaisden.com/images/header_logo.png" width="241" height="27" border="0" alt="Steve Baisden" /></a>
<div class="navMain">
<ul>
<li><a class="home" href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a class="about" href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a class="portfolio" href="portfolio.html">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a class="resume" href="resume.html">Résumé</a></li>
<li><a class="contact" href="Contact.php">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="content">

<iframe src="http://www.sbaisden.com/carousel.html" scrolling="auto"></iframe>

<div id="LearnMore">
<p><a href="#">LEARN MORE</a></p>

</div>
<div id="leftCol">
<ul class="wrapLinks">
<li><h2 class="title">Transportation</h2><a href="portfolio.html">Get more information</a></li>
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<h4>Greetings! Welcome to my online portfolio.</h4>
<p>This website contains a collection of my academic papers, projects and maps that I have compiled into one
<br />source, displaying my abilities and skills within the realm of Urban Planning.</p>
<p>Please explore this site and feel free to leave a comment.</p>
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<p>***Certain pages of this site are still "under construction". Please check back for future developments.***</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2012 Steve Baisden</p>
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