Css Width Element

[Lonelydreamer]

><div id=NAVIGATION1 style=" width:129; position:absolute;top:302px;left:135px;"> 
fajsdlfsfdsdfasdfasfddasfffffffffffffffff
</div>

 

Okay I have a navigation bar that is exactly 129 px but the width element refuses to work!! please advise.

[purplespider]

This could be because of your content in the div "fajsdlfsfdsdfasdfasfddasfffffffffffffffff". As this is just theoretically 1 long word it will stretch the div, rather than splitting it onto 2 lines, if you break up that "word" with spaces it should obey the width you have told it to, automatically putting a new "word" onto the next line when required.

 

There may be a way to make it split up your "long word" but I don't know how unfortunatly. However, unless you are going to have your site in welsh I doubt it will matter!

[Lonelydreamer]

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO.................. much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't do any designs without that thanks alot!!!!!!!

[borfast]

Also, I suggest you add quotes to the value of the id attribute, in order to make the code standards compliant

Edited August 17, 2004 by TCH-Raul

[purplespider]

lol, no problem! anytime!

 

I only started learning CSS a couple of days ago, and I had that exact problem! Simple solution, but still took me a while to figure it out!

 

James

[kaseytraeger]

In addition, you will need to specify the width in pixels, as in

><div id="NAVIGATION1" style=" width:129px; position:absolute;top:302px;left:135px;">

 

instead of

><div id=NAVIGATION1 style=" width:129; position:absolute;top:302px;left:135px;">

 

without the designation of "px" for pixels, the browser has to make a guess as to whether you are referring to pixels, ems, etc.

[borfast]

Humm... I had that in my post (about adding the px) but it's not there, now...

 

Maybe I accidentally deleted it when I edited the post