/* redgreengold-lw.css is the stylesheet for "long-wide" pages with the plaid button menu; right column width is unrestrained; plaid background runs full length of page. The alternative sheet, redgreengold.css, restrains the page to 800 pixels wide, and is used for the site's opening pages that fit on a small screen without scrolling. */ body { font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background: url(plaid.png) repeat-y; /* This 206x91px background image tiles down the left side of the page vertically (y axis) and matches the background on the rollover buttons */ margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */ padding: 0; text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */ color: #000000; float: right; } a:link {color:#8b0000} /* unvisited link */ a:visited {color:#8b0000} /* visited link */ a:hover {color:#034013; font-weight: bold;} /* mouse over link */ a:active {color:#0000FF} /* selected link */ /* "buttonscontainer", "buttons" and "here" are styles that turn anchor links in the buttonscontainer area into clickable buttons with a background image on rollover */ .buttonscontainer {width: 95%; } /* set to 95% of the 12.9 em sidebar, not to the 206px of the background image; this mixture of percent, ems and pixels is confusing, and was arrived at by trial and error. */ /* ".here" is a non-clicakable pseudo button for the current location in the menu */ .here {color: #FFD700; border: 1px solid; background-color: #8B0000; padding: 2px; padding-left: 3px; font: 11px Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-color: #8b0000 #034B13 #FFD700 #000000; display: block; margin: 0px; left-margin: 0px; width: 100%; text-align: left;} .buttons a {color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid; background-color: #8B0000; padding: 2px; padding-left: 3px; font: 11px Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-color: #8b0000 #034B13 #FFD700 #000000; display: block; margin: 0px; width: 100%; text-align: left;} .buttons a:hover {border: 1px solid; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-right: 0px; background-color: #034013; background-image: url(plaid.png); /* the background image is the same 206x91px image that is the background for the page; actually; this is left behind by an earlier version of the page that did not set the background image for the whole page */ border-color: #006600 #99FF00 #99FF00 #006600; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; } .buttons a:active {border: 1px solid; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-right: 1px; background-color: #034013; border-color: #006600 #99FF00 #99FF00 #006600; color: #FFD700; text-decoration: none; } /* Tips for Elastic layouts This css template and many of the comments were provided with an old copy of Dreamweaver, but I've modified things a bit. Although it prefixes many styles with a string of gibberish, I've kept the original's practice of identifying the overall layout as "Two column Elastic with header," abbreviated as "twoColElsLtHdr." Back to the original tips: 1. Since the elastic layouts overall sizing is based on the user's default fonts size, they are more unpredictable. Used correctly, they are also more accessible for those that need larger fonts size since the line length remains proportionate. 2. Sizing of divs in this layout are based on the 100% font size in the body element. If you decrease the text size overall by using a font-size: 80% on the body element or the #container, remember that the entire layout will downsize proportionately. You may want to increase the widths of the various divs to compensate for this. 3. If font sizing is changed in differing amounts on each div instead of on the overall design (ie: #sidebar1 is given a 70% font size and #mainContent is given an 85% font size), this will proportionately change each of the divs overall size. You may want to adjust based on your final font sizing. */ .twoColElsLtHdr #container { text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */ /* The container holds the header, sidebar, main content and footer. It sets the left-aligned text. It could perform other functions, too: width: 50em; Width setting is not used on this page in order to use the left column graphic the full height of the page. Setting this to 50em would create a container that will fit in an 800px browser window, assuming text is left at browser default font sizes */ /*background: #FFFFFF; giving the container a different background from the page would be visible if a fixed width was used*/ /* margin: 0 auto; the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) would center the page border: 1px solid #000000;*/ } .twoColElsLtHdr #header { padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */ background: #FFD700; color: #8B0000; text-align: center; } .twoColElsLtHdr #header p { margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */ padding: 10px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */ font-size:small; } /* Tips for sidebar1: 1. Be aware that if you set a font-size value on this div, the overall width of the div will be adjusted accordingly. 2. Since we are working in ems, it's best not to use padding on the sidebar itself. It will be added to the width for standards compliant browsers creating an unknown actual width. 3. Space between the side of the div and the elements within it can be created by placing a left and right margin on those elements as seen in the ".twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 p" rule. */ .twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 { float: left; width: 12.9em; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */ background: url(plaid.png); /* top and bottom padding create visual space within this div; the background image is the same 206x91px image that is the background for the page */ } .twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 h3, .twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 p { margin-left: 10px; /* the left and right margin should be given to every element that will be placed in the side columns */ margin-right: 10px; } .twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 h3 { font-size:small; } .twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 ul, .twoColElsLtHdr #sidebar1 li { margin-left: 10px; /* the left and right margin should be given to every element that will be placed in the side columns */ margin-right: 10px; font-size:small; } /* Tips for mainContent: 1. If you give this #mainContent div a font-size value different than the #sidebar1 div, the margins of the #mainContent div will be based on its font-size and the width of the #sidebar1 div will be based on its font-size. You may wish to adjust the values of these divs. 2. The space between the mainContent and sidebar1 is created with the left margin on the mainContent div. No matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this left margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. 3. To avoid float drop, you may need to test to determine the approximate maximum image/element size since this layout is based on the user's font sizing combined with the values you set. However, if the user has their browser font size set lower than normal, less space will be available in the #mainContent div than you may see on testing. 4. In the Internet Explorer Conditional Comment below, the zoom property is used to give the mainContent "hasLayout." This avoids several IE-specific bugs that may occur. */ .twoColElsLtHdr #mainContent { background: white; margin-left: 14em; margin: 0 1em 0 14em; text-align: left;/* the right margin can be given in ems or pixels. It creates the space down the right side of the page. */ } .twoColElsLtHdr #mainContent h1 { font-size:larger } .twoColElsLtHdr #mainContent h2 { font-size:medium } .twoColElsLtHdr #mainContent h3 { font-size:small } .twoColElsLtHdr #footer { padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */ background: #FFD700; color: #8B0000; } .twoColElsLtHdr #footer p { margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */ padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */ font-size:small; text-align:center; } /* Miscellaneous classes for reuse */ .fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */ float: right; margin-left: 8px; } .fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */ float: left; margin-right: 8px; } .clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */ clear:both; height:0; font-size: 1px; line-height: 0px; } [if IE]>