Re-positioning div tags

I am grappling with div tags - I am a newbie and have created an experimental web page. However all was good until I started to add a spry menu. the right container moved and I cannot figure out how to get it to move left. I tried the positioning properties but could not get it to budge! Can anyone help. I only have 2 div tags "left_column" and "right_column" plus the container The page is here
http://web.me.com/suethomo/Site2/Index.html
This is how it used to look before I mucked around with the spry menu
http://web.me.com/suethomo/Site2a/Index.html
Thanks

You didn't close the left_column so the right column is in the left column. Add </div> before <div id="right_column">

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Hi!
I know that it is possible to position an AP Div Tag relative to the header using a template in Dreamweaver. However, I am not able to position to relative when using a table so if you know how then help would be appreciated! Thank you! (I am using CS5 by the way)

webdesigner3383 wrote:
Hi!
I know that it is possible to position an AP Div Tag relative to the header using a template in Dreamweaver. However, I am not able to position to relative when using a table so if you know how then help would be appreciated! Thank you! (I am using CS5 by the way)
Not sure why you want to do this as it can be hit and miss.
I would insert a <div> in a table cell and set its position to relative and then insert an absolutely positioned <div> inside of the relatively positioned one:
<td>
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</div>
</td>
I think that should work although I havent tried inserting <divs> inside a <td> cell for many moons.

Position Image at Bottom of Div Tag

OK, so this may be the stupidest question ever, but how do I
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> ok, is there a rule for when you should use an image as
a background as
> opposed to placing it normally?
No. But there are things you can do with a background image
that you cannot
do with a foreground one, and vice versa. I'm sure that's not
the answer
you wanted to hear however.
Anytime I need to place an image at a specific location
within a container
(like at the bottom, or the right edge), I'm thinking of
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Positioning multiple images at bottom of Div Tag

I want to position some images so they are side by side, at
the bottom of a div tag. So far the only way i've managed to do
this is by using a padding-top value. Is there a better way?
I also want these images to be centered horizontally.
Thanks

Are these cosmetic in use? Make them a single image
background.
#foo { background-position: center bottom;
background-repeat:no-repeat; }
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>I want to position some images so they are side by side,
at the bottom of a
>div
> tag. So far the only way i've managed to do this is by
using a padding-top
> value. Is there a better way?
>
> I also want these images to be centered horizontally.
> Thanks
>

Position images at bottom of div tag?

How do I position images at the bottom of a div tag?
These images are going to be used as links and Im using a
template which will double there size on certain pages, so I cant
use background images.
Please help as I cant believe this isn't possible!
James

I dont understand what you mean by;
'If you do not know the widths, and you want them all to flow
one after
the other, the make another div as their container, and move
the
"position:absolute;right:0px;" styles to the new div'
When I apply a rule for all images in the div tag, the images
all sit on top of one another;
.container img {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
If I set the images individually I can stop them from doing
this;
.container #image1 {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
left: 320px;
The problem however is that this design is for a template.
The images in the template will double in size when the user is on
that page.
If i use a pixel (or a %) value for the left position, then
the left hand side of the image is centered, not the centre of the
image. This means that the space between the images will vary when
one of them enlarges.
This could be solved if there was some way of making the
images sit next to each other, without specifying a position left
value (like when you insert images into a div tag with no rules).
Can this be done?
Alternatively, is there a way of using a position left value
which controlled the position via the center of the image, not the
left side? Then I could use % values and the images would still
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Problem with Flash in a Hide/Show Div Tag

What is the best way to handle Flash files on an HTML page
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Positioning instead (move offscreen)?
Visibility?
Other?

I would say off-screen is going to give you the best
cross-platform performance. I've found visibility show/hide
prevents the swf from working in IE while hidden much like you
alluded to. Of course in mozilla browsers hide doesn't behave the
same way.

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Hi
Ive just encountered a problem with dreamweaver cs4 at work.
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I've not see this before, so can't say why it would be happening. Would the pc be low on resources? but then again you say it happened even after a restart of the pc.
Maybe you could try the file cache and the personal configuration folder fix to see if it fixes any issues.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/417116#cache
PS: While I'm at it, it would be wrong for me to point out that using AP divs is not the optimum way to create a layout.... unless you know the repercussions of using them.
Here's why: (from the Dreamweaver FAQ)
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/477969

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<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" />

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<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>
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<div id="thumbs">
<div id="imagewrapper"></div>
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<p> </p>
<p> </p>
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<div align="left">© 2012 your footer text goes here</div>
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var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
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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

Noob question about DIV tags

Learning DW and CSS so patience is in order .
I've being reading numerous posts here and on the web about avoiding tables for laying out web pages. I can see the advantages in terms of cleaner codes and easiness of updating and changing sites at a later time. So I started learning about DIV tags (although tables is very easy for me) and have practice a few times with fairly good results, love the absolute positioning with it. Having said that, for the love of me, can't find a way of centering horizontally a page designed with DIV tags (due to ignorance), for example, 1 column/three rows page, after defining styles, size and colors I enclosed everything in another DIV tag, wrapper I think is called, but have not found a way of centering it on the page, text-aligment on the DIV tag only centers the text not the DIV itself, how to go about this? Help is appreciated.

love the absolute positioning with it.
Get over it. It's a trojan horse. Absolute positioning is not a general layout method.
To center ANY block (non-absolutely positioned) element, use CSS to give it a width and left/right margins of 'auto'. For example -
<div id="foo">...</div>
That div will be centered with this CSS -
#foo { width:300px; margin:0 auto; }
I think you are on the wrong path already, though. Stick with tables (which you say are very easy for you) UNTIL you a) understand CSS well enough to understand what absolute positioning is and why I say it's bad, and b) understand how to use float, margin, and padding to place things on the page. Then you are ready to move away from tables.

How to auto adjust the height of my div tag?

This is my website www.whistleandlisten.com
The white background is a div tag and whenever I add new content within the div tag I want it to auto adjust to extend the white div tag down as the page gets longer. I have tried css and set my height to auto but that makes it disappear. Right now I have to set it to a certain amount of pixels which gets annoying and sometimes I forget to after adding lots of content. PLEASE HELP.

To have an extensible height element, you should not apply the height property as you have done starting at line 9 of songcss.css
#whitediv
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -490px;
top: 0px;
width: 950px;
height: 2900px;
z-index: 1;
background-color: #ffffff;
background-image: none;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-position: 0% 0%;
background-clip: border-box;
background-origin: padding-box;
background-size: auto auto;
color: #ffffff;
box-shadow: #ffffff;
overflow-x: visible;
overflow-y: visible;

Why aren't my CSS and div tag boxes displaying the background images I'm plugging in?

I'm using the CSS dialog boxes to places images via the background image option into my dreamweaver site. Everything looks fine in dreamweaver but when I view it any of the browsers, two of the images I've place as div tag background images don't work....the overal background image of the site works, but these don't show up ....
here's my code if it helps to answer
<!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>Main</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image: url(images/realgrade.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
text-align: center;
html, body {
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 25px;
#wrapper {
width: 930px;
text-align: left;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/images/possible%20image. jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
#header {
height: 192px;
width: 237px;
background-image: url(images/logo_fill.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
position: absolute;
left: 35px;
top: -25px;
#mainNav {
background-color: #33F;
height: 200px;
width: 272px;
float: left;
margin-top: 233px;
#maincontent {
height: 600px;
width: 608px;
float: right;
margin-bottom: 45px;
padding-right: 25px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center 270px;
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/images/opaqueMaincontent .png);
#sidebar {
background-color: #F36;
height: 250px;
width: 272px;
clear: left;
float: left;
#footer {
height: 525px;
width: 870px;
clear: both;
padding-top: 45px;
padding-right: 30px;
padding-bottom: 30px;
padding-left: 30px;
background-image: url(images/footer_image.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin-top: 45px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
</div>
<div id="mainNav">
<p> </p>
</div>
<div id="maincontent"></div>
<div id="sidebar"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
here's what I'm going for
here's what I'm getting in the browser
Please help!

Your image files are pointing to your hard drive, not your server. You have this
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/imag es/opaqueMaincontent.png);
and you should have this
background-image: url(imag es/opaqueMaincontent.png);
Also, is your images file named imag es?
Gary

How do I overlap text in a Div Tag over an Image

Hi,
I have a large image which I would like to set as as border around the page.
Please see www.touchw1.com, it is the grey border with the 3 archways on it that I would like as a border. At present, everything on this screen apart from the contact details at the bottom are saved as one JPEG. I saved it like this as I don't know how to set that border as a border and then insert other div tags over, or in it? Can anyone help??
Thanks

Create a 'wrapper" and 'footer1' <div>
<div id="wrapper">
</div>
<div id="footer1">
</div>
Create some css:
#wrapper {
border: 1px solid #333;
border-bottom: none;
width: XXXpx /* width you require */
margin: 0 auto; /* centers wrapper horizontally in browser window */
#footer1 {
background-image: url(archway.gif); /*archway image plus borders */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: XXpx /* height of background archway image */
width: XXXpx /* width you require */
margin: 0 auto; /* centers footer1 horizontally in browser window */
Then start adding content to the 'wrapper' <div>. Insert your logo into a <h1> header.
<div id="wrapper">
<h1><img src="images/logo.jpg" width="XXX" height="XXX" alt="TouchW1 Sales and Press Agency - Central London" /></h1>
<p>TouchW1 is a newly created niche agency that specialises in all aspects of sales management, press and licensing, based in the heart of Central London</p>
</div>
<div id="footer1"></div>
Move h1 header into position in the 'wrapper" <div> with css:
h1 {
margin: XXpx XXpx XXpx XXpx; /* top, right, bottom, left */
padding: XXpx XXpx XXpx XXpx;
Do the same with the paragraph tag
#wrapper p {
margin: XXpx XXpx XXpx XXpx; /* top, right, bottom, left */
padding: XXpx XXpx XXpx XXpx;
Add rose as background to 'wrapper' <div>
#wrapper {
border: 1px solid #333;
border-bottom: none;
width: XXXpx /* width you require */
margin: 0 auto; /* centers wrapper horizontally in browser window */
background-image: url(rose.jpg);
background-position: top right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
Hummm that its really....add a 'footer2' <div> for the address line

Trying to make sense of div tags and css

i know that i am a few years late here, but i am looking ot make the migration from using tables and switching over to div tags and css. i have watched a few tutorials on you tube and am trying to understand everything.
please tell me if this is correct. a div tag is basically a table and css is what is used to style that div tag to meet your needs, is this a correct assumption??
if you go to my current site www.tankinz.com you can clearly see that the site is made up of tables, basically these boxes or tables contain a different item or package that a customer can click on and buy. by using div tags and css would each of these boxes, or tables be their own div?
sorry for sounding a bit moronic but i am trying to make sense of all of this.
please help!

Markup (html) contains elements, such as html, body, h1, h2, p, span, div and so forth. Hence a <div>-tag is part of an element; the other part being the </div>-tag.
The element structure of many web sites is basically (using HTML5 element names)
html
     head
     body
          header
          nav
          aside
          article
          footer
These elements can be positioned and styled using style rules (css). Depending on the style rules, the above structure can take on many different styles, without ever touching the markup.
Have a look here for a simple two-column layout using the same structure as above http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/csslayout/2-col/

Question on positioning div elements

I have a wrapper div and a footer div below that. I want to
center the wrapper div in the middle of the page and then position
sub elements within this wrapper div. For example, I would like to
create a "nav" div and an "actual content" div within the wrapper
div. I learned that I can relatively position the wrapper div to be
in the middle of a page regardless of screen width and then
absolutely position the "nav" div and "actual content" within the
wrapper div. The problem with this is that as soon as I absolutely
position the "actual content" div within the wrapper div then the
footer div jumps up the page to be right in the middle of the
wrapper div when it should be located completely below the wrapper
div. The other way of doing it would be to relatively position (or
don't specify) both the nav and actual content divs and just float
the nav to the left. This seems to work but I am wondering why the
footer jumped up when I tried to absolutely postion divs in the
wrapper div. Is there a way to not make the footer jump up and also
what is the standard way of doing this?

This may help you understand positioning a bit -
There are 4 different types of positioning:
Absolute
Relative
Fixed
Static
Here is a brief explanation of each kind of positioning (with
regard to
placement of elements on the page only)....
Position:absolute (or A/P elements)
This does several things -
1. It 'removes' the element from the flow of the code on
the page so that
it can no longer influence the size or position of any other
page element
(except for those contained within it, of course).
2. The absolutely positioned element takes its position from
the position of
its closest PARENT *positioned* element - in the
absence of any explicitly
positioned parent, this will default to the <body> tag,
which is always
positioned
at 0,0 in the browser viewport.
This means that it doesn't matter where in the HTML code the
layer's code
appears (between <body> and </body>), its
location on the screen will not
change (this assumes that you have not positioned the A/P
element within
a table or another A/P element, of course).
Furthermore, the space in
which
this element would have appeared were it not positioned
is not preserved
on the screen. In other words, absolutely positioned elements
don't take
up any space on the page. In fact, they FLOAT over the page.
Position:relative (or R/P elements)
In contrast to absolute positioning, a relatively positioned
page element is
*not* removed from the flow of the code on the page, so
it will use the
spot
where it would have appeared based on its position in
the code as its
zero point reference. If you then supply top, right,
bottom, or left
positions
to the style for this element, those values will be
used as offsets from
its
zero point.
This means that it DOES matter where in the code the
relatively positioned
element appears (, as it will be positioned in that location
(factoring in
the offsets) on the screen (this is true for any placement in
the code).
Furthermore, the space where this element would have
appeared is
preserved in the display, and can therefore affect the
placement of
succeeding elements. This means that the taller a relatively
positioned element is, the more space it forces on the page.
Position:static
As with relative position, static positions also "go with
the flow". An
element with a static position cannot have values for
offsets (top, right,
left, bottom) or if it has them, they will be ignored. Unless
explicitly
positioned, all div elements default to static positioning.
Position:fixed
A page element with this style will not scroll as the page
content scrolls.
Support for this in elements other than page backgrounds is
quirky
There are several other things you need to know:
1. ANY page element can be positioned - paragraphs, tables,
images, lists,
etc.
2. The <div> tag is a BLOCK level tag. This means that
if it is not
positioned or explicitly styled otherwise, a) it will always
begin on a new
line on the screen, and b) it will always force content to a
new line below
it, and c) it will always take up the entire width of its
container (i.e.,
width:100%).
3. The placement of A/P elements *can* affect the BEHAVIOR of
other
elements
on the page. For example, a 'layer' placed over a hyperlink
will mask that
hyperlink.
You can see a good example of the essential difference
between absolute and
relative positioning here -
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layersdemo.asp
You can see a good demonstration of why using layers for a
page layout tool
is dangerous here -
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layer-overlap.asp
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"Johnny the boy" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I have a wrapper div and a footer div below that. I want
to center the
>wrapper
> div in the middle of the page and then position sub
elements within this
> wrapper div. For example, I would like to create a "nav"
div and an
> "actual
> content" div within the wrapper div. I learned that I
can relatively
> position
> the wrapper div to be in the middle of a page regardless
of screen width
> and
> then absolutely position the "nav" div and "actual
content" within the
> wrapper
> div. The problem with this is that as soon as I
absolutely position the
> "actual content" div within the wrapper div then the
footer div jumps up
> the
> page to be right in the middle of the wrapper div when
it should be
> located
> completely below the wrapper div. The other way of doing
it would be to
> relatively position (or don't specify) both the nav and
actual content
> divs and
> just float the nav to the left. This seems to work but I
am wondering why
> the
> footer jumped up when I tried to absolutely postion divs
in the wrapper
> div.
> Is there a way to not make the footer jump up and also
what is the
> standard way
> of doing this?
>

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