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cannot colour div container

  • 04-02-2006 07:44PM
    #1
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. Bear with me, im new to this css positioning! consider the following code: 
    
          body {
		background-color: #CCCCCC;
	  }
	
	  #page {
		background-color:#FFFFFF;
		position: absolute;
		left: 10%;
		right: 10%;
		top: 21px;
		width: 799px;
		height: auto;
	  }
	  
	  #contact {
		position: absolute;
		top: 65px;
		right: 21px;
	  }
	  
	  #logo {
		position: absolute;
		top: 2px;
		left: 2px;
	  }
	  
	  #banner {
		position: absolute;
		top: 106px;
		left: 2px;
	  }
	  
	  .nav1 {
		border-right: thin dotted #6633FF;
	  }
---------------------------------------------
<body>
    <DIV id="page">
      <DIV id="logo">
        <img src="../logo.jpg" />
      </DIV>
      <DIV id="contact">
        <table width="10%" height="31">
          <tr>
            <td class="nav1">Home</td>
            <td>Contact</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </DIV> 
      <DIV id="banner">
        <img src="../banner.jpg" /> 
      </DIV>
  </DIV>

    I have the body set as a gray colour.The main container's (page) background colour is set to white. Now as i am adding smaller containers that contain images, tables etc, they are showing up in all the right positions etc but the page container hasnt got the white background.it just appears transparent and the only present colour is the gray background from the body.Can anyone help me out as to why this is happening? if i remove the two containers (DIV id="logo" and DIV id="banner") from the images, the main container shows up with a white background!Please help! many thanks,
    shamrock


Comments

  • #2
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,480 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    not sure but you may need to format the table. i.e. assign it a class where you specify the background color, font etc.


  • #3
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,333 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    I have a feeling the absolute positioning is stopping your 'height: auto' property of the page selector from working properly. Since there's technically nothing in the page container, the height is 0. Give it an absolute height and it should display.


  • #4
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    That makes sense alright sico. Ill give that a try this evening and see how i get on.Thanks for the help guys,
    regards


  • #5
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    yup that worked sice.nice simple fix.thanks for that.
    regards
    Shamrock


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