CSS Div Help - Making 3 columns by 3 rows layout

rubbed

02-10-2012, 02:03 PM

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg441/scaled.php?server=441&filename=helpi.png&res=medium

Hi all.

I am trying to recreate this website.
I have made a div called container that contains everything.

After I have made each div for the header and first 3 columns I am having problems getting the next 3 columns to align underneath.

I found that I had to create a second container for each new column.
I am not sure if that is right or wrong, or if there is an easier way?

I am also finding myself using negative margins alot to align columns or banner divs perfectly.
I have a feeling this is wrong too?

<body>

<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
<ul>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">Home</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">My Account</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">Rakeback</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">Promotions</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">Coaching</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">Refer-A-Friend</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">FAQ</a> |</li>
<li id="navhead"><a href="#">Support</a></li>
</ul>
</div> 

<div id="banner">

</div> 

<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">Ongame</a></li>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">Party</a></li>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">Microgaming</a></li>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">IPoker</a></li>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">Entraction</a></li>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">Cake</a></li>
<li id="navmain"><a href="#">Independant</a></li>
</ul>
</div> 

<div id="column1">
<h2>Rakeback</h2>
<div id=rakebackbox>
</div>
</div> 

<div id="column2">
<div class="mainpic">
<img src="img/pkr.png" alt="pkr" width="540px" height="295px"/>
</div> 
</div> 

<div id="column3">
<h2>Offers</h2>
<div id="offersbox">
</div>
</div> 

</div> 

<div id=wrap2>

<div id="column4">
<h2>Latest News</h2>
<div id=newsbox>
</div>
</div> 

<div id="column5">
<h2>Free Poker Coaching</h2>
<div id=main2box>
</div>
</div> 

<div id="column6">
<h2>Rakeback Calculator</h2>
</div> 

ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}

h2 { font-size: 16px; }

a { text-decoration: none;
color: white; }

body {background:#CCCCCC;
margin-top:-16px;
padding-top:0px;

}

#wrap {
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
height:395px;

background: white;
}

#header {
background-color: black;
height: 35px;
margin-bottom:0px;}

#header ul {
padding-left: 15px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}

#header li {
float: left;
padding-left: 6px;
color: white;
font-size: 15px;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:0px;

}

#banner
{ background-image:url(img/banner.jpg);
height:100px;
width:960px;
margin-bottom:0px;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

#navigation
{background-color: black;
height:30px;
margin-top:-16px;

}

#navigation ul {

padding-left: 30px;
}

#navigation li {
float:left;
font-family:arial;
margin-left:50px;
color: white;
font-size: 18px;
margin-top:5px;}

/* HEADINGS */

#column1 {
background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
line-height:1px;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:10px;
margin-top:15px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:left
}

#rakebackbox {
background-color:black;
margin-top:0px;
height:295px;
text-align:center;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;

}

#column2 {

margin-left:15px;

margin-top:20px;
float:left;
}

#column3 {
background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
line-height:1px;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-right:10px;
margin-top:15px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:right
}

#offersbox {
background-color:black;
margin-top:0px;
height:295px;
text-align:center;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;

}

#wrap2 {
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
height:1000px;
margin-top:-13px;
background: white;
}

#column4 {
background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
line-height:2px;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:10px;
margin-top:150px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:left
}

#newsbox {
background-color:black;
margin-top:-1px;
height:175px;
text-align:center;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;

}

#column5 {

margin-left:15px;
width:543px;
text-align:center;
line-height:2px;
background-color:black;
float:right;
height:25px;
color:white;
margin-top:15px;
float:left;

}

#main2box {

margin-left:0px;
width:543px;
background-color:black;
height:175px;

}

.headertab {
background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
}

Excavator

02-10-2012, 05:17 PM

Hello rubbed,
Maybe a different approach would make it easier. Look how re-using classes can lighten up your CSS - <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.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">
html, body {
margin: 0;
background: #fc6;
}
#container {
width: 800px;
margin: 30px auto;
padding: 0 10px 100px;
overflow: auto;
background: #999;
}
.wrap {
margin: 10px 0;
padding: 10px;
overflow: auto;
background: #ccc;
}
.column1,
.column3 {
height: 200px;
width: 150px;
background: #000;
}
.column1 {float: left;}
.column3 {float: right;}
.column2 {
height: 200px;
width: 450px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div class="wrap">
<div class="column1">
</div>
<div class="column3">
</div>
<div class="column2">
</div>
</div>
<div class="wrap">
<div class="column1">
</div>
<div class="column3">
</div>
<div class="column2">
</div>
</div>
<div class="wrap">
<div class="column1">
</div>
<div class="column3">
</div>
<div class="column2">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

sunfighter

02-10-2012, 06:10 PM

After looking at what Excavator did, mine looks puny, but here is my attempt to use what rubbed was doing. I commented out what was not needed and my additions are not indented. All changes to the css section.

<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>New document</title>
<meta name="generator" content="TSW WebCoder 2010" />

<style type="text/css">
#wrap
{
border: purple solid 1px;
width: 960px;
height:525px;
margin: auto;
background: white;
}

#header
{
background-color: black;
height: 35px;
//margin-bottom:0px;
}

#banner
{
background-color: red; // url(img/banner.jpg);
height:100px;
//width:900px;
//margin-bottom:0px;
//margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

#navigation
{
background-color: black;
height:30px;
//margin-top:-16px;
}

/* HEADINGS */

#column1 {
//background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
border: red solid 1px;
background-color:black;
color:white;
height:25px;
width:187px;
text-align:center;
line-height:1px;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:10px;
margin-top:15px;
//margin-bottom:0px;
float:left
}

#rakebackbox
{
border: green solid 1px;
//background-color:black;
//margin-top:0px;
height:295px;
text-align:center;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
}

#column2
{
border: red solid 1px;
width: 540px;
height: 295px;
margin-left:15px;
margin-top:20px;
float:left;
}

#column3
{
border: red solid 1px;
//background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
line-height:1px;
width:187px;
background-color:black;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-right:10px;
margin-top:15px;
//margin-bottom:0px;
float: right;
}

#offersbox
{
border: green solid 1px;
//background-color:black;
color:white;
//margin-top:0px;
height:295px;
width:187px;
text-align:center;
font-size:14px;
}

#wrap2
{
border: blue solid 1px;
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
height:230px;
margin-top:13px;
background: white;
}

#column4
{
//background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
background-color:black;
color:white;
height:25px;
width:187px;
text-align:center;
line-height:2px;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:10px;
//margin-top:150px;
//margin-bottom:0px;
float: left;
}

#newsbox
{
border: blue solid 1px;
//background-color:black;
color:white;
margin-top:-1px;
height:175px;
width:187px;
text-align:center;
font-size:14px;
}

#column5
{
background-color:black;
color:white;
width:510px;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
line-height:2px;
//margin-top:15px;
margin-left: 10px;
float:left;
}

#main2box
{
//width:543px;
height:175px;
background-color:red;
margin-left:0px;
}

#column6
{
border: blue solid 1px;
//background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
background-color:black;
color:white;
height:25px;
width: 220px; // 187px; done so "Rakeback Calculator" would fit
text-align:center;
line-height:1px;
font-size:14px;
margin-right:10px;
//margin-top:15px;
//margin-bottom:0px;
float: right;
}
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
</div> 

<div id="banner">
</div> 

<div id="navigation">
</div> 

<div id="column1">
<h2>Rakeback</h2>
<div id="rakebackbox">
</div>
</div> 

<div id="column2">
<div class="mainpic">
<img src="img/pkr.png" alt="pkr" width="540px" height="295px"/>
</div> 
</div> 

<div id="column3">
<h2>Offers</h2>
<div id="offersbox">
</div>
</div> 

</div> 

<div id="wrap2">

<div id="column4">
<h2>Latest News</h2>
<div id="newsbox">
</div>
</div> 

<div id="column5">
<h2>Free Poker Coaching</h2>
<div id="main2box">
</div>
</div> 

<div id="column6">
<h2>Rakeback Calculator</h2>
</div>
</div> 
</body>
</html>

rubbed

02-10-2012, 06:57 PM

Thanks for the extremely helpful replys, I learned alot from that and only wish I had of checked back here earlier.. have had my head stuck in this web design project and didn't realize where the time went.

Since my last post I have designed this:
http://nipoker.com/test/index.html

The css is probably a mess as it's the second website I have ever made so it might be complicated to look through but I am having some big problems.

Basically the site looks fine for me in IE/Chrome but in firefox the margins look off and there is no gaps between some of the columns.

For the 3 boxes:
What is rakeback
Refer a friend
About

I had inserted 1px gaps between each of the boxes, but for some people and on firefox it looks like it is one big box, as there is no gap and they look adjoined.

I inserted these 3 columns in a new wrap

#wrap3 { /* Wrap 3 contains next 3 columns: 'latest news' 'free coaching' and 'calculator' */
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
height:195px;
margin-top:0px;
background: white;
}

Here is the columns code

/* WRAP 3 Column Headers followed by Column body */

#whatisrb {
background-color:black;
height:185px;
width:319px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-right:0px;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:left;
position:relative;
}

#refer {
background-color:black;
height:185px;
width:320px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:2px;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:left;
}

#about {
background-color:black;
height:185px;
width:318px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:right;
}

And the HTML

<div id="wrap3"> 

<div id="whatisrb">
<h3> <span class="white"> What is </span>Rakeback?</h3>
</div> 

<div id="refer">
<h3> <span class="white">Refer</span>-A-<span class="white">Friend</span></h3>
</div> 

<div id="about">
<h3> About <span class="white">PokerPeice</span></h3>
</div> 

</div> 

It might be easier to save the files on the link I posted above if anyone can help.

Also have the same problem for the navigation headers, should be a 1px break below the "Rakeback" and "latest news" headings.

rubbed

02-10-2012, 10:48 PM

Anyone? still stuck :(

sunfighter

02-10-2012, 11:04 PM

Removed margin-bottom's, removed position:relative(try to stay away from these) made widths all 319px and added the 1px margins to the middle box:

#wrap3
{
background: white;
width: 960px;
height:195px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

#whatisrb
{
background-color:black;
color:white;
height:185px;
width:319px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
font-size:14px;
margin-right:0px;
margin-top:10px;
float:left;
}

#refer
{
background-color:black;
color:white;
height:185px;
width:319px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:1px;
margin-right:1px;
margin-top:10px;
float:left;
}

#about
{
background-color:black;
color:white;
height:185px;
width:319px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
font-size:14px;
//margin-left:0px;
margin-top:10px;
float:left;
}

rubbed

02-10-2012, 11:58 PM

thank you very much! been trying to figure that out for hours...

also have a similar problem with my navigation menu.

My headers "Rakeback" "Offers" "Latest News" etc are supposed to have 1px gap underneath them and the column under it, like a seperator.
It shows this 1px gap in chrome but not in firefox/IE.

Here is the code:

#wrap
{ /* Wrap 1 containing navigation banners and first 3 columns */
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
height:482px;
background: white;

}

#rakeback { /* rounded header box */
background:transparent url(img/heading.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
height:25px;
text-align:center;
line-height:20px;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;
margin-left:10px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-bottom:0px;
float:left;

}

#rakebackbox { /* content box below header */
background-color:black;
margin-top:6px;
height:275px;
text-align:center;
width:187px;
color:white;
font-size:14px;

div id="rakeback">
<h2>Rakeback</h2>
<div id="rakebackbox">
</div>
</div> 

Would really appreciate it if you could figure this one out