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Help preventing fieldset from allowing inside content to spill over border

Asked by: Bl248

How can I ensure the fieldset border does not allow the div with the help message to spill over. I've tried setting clear:both at the fieldset and the div level but no effect.

Needs to work in IE and FF

Attached is a working example of the issue
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="EditPlus">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="">

<style type="text/css">
fieldset {
  margin-bottom:1em;
}
fieldset p {
  padding:5px;
  margin:0px;
  margin-top:5px;
  margin-bottom:0px;
}
fieldset legend {
  font-size:0.9em;
}

form {
  margin-top:5px;
  margin-bottom:5px;
}
form div.notes p,
form div small {
  line-height:125%;
}

form div.notes li {
  margin-left:5px;
  list-style-position:inside;
}
form fieldset div.notes {
  float:right;
  position:absolute;
  right:30px;
  width:150px;
  height:auto;
  margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;
  padding:5px;
  border:1px solid #666666;
  background-color:#ffffe1;
  color:#666666;
  font-size:.75em;
}


form fieldset div.notes h4 {
  background-image:url(images/icon_info.png);
  background-repeat:no-repeat;
  background-position:top left;
  padding:3px 0px 2px 27px;
  border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px;
  border-style:solid;
  border-color:#666666;
  color:#666666;
  margin-bottom:5px;
  margin-top:0px;
  font-size:1.3em;
}

form fieldset div.notes p {
  margin:0em 0em 1.2em 0em;
  color:#666666;
}

form fieldset div.notes p.last {
  margin:0em;
  padding-bottom:5px;
}
form label {
    font-weight:bold;
}

</style>

</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form>
<fieldset><legend>Comment Display</legend>
    <div class="notes" style="clear:both;">
        <h4>Comment Options</h4>
        <li>Default mode for how comments will be displayed</li><li>Default order to display comments</li>
            <li>Set maximum number of comments to show - default is 100</li>xx
    </div>
    <table class="inputTable">
      <tr>
        <td><label>Display Mode</label></td>
        <td>
                  <select name="commentmode">
                        <option value="flat">Flat</option>
                        <option value="nested">Nested</option>
                        <option value="nocomment">No Comments</option>
                        <option value="threaded" selected="selected">Threaded</option>
                  </select>
            </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><label>Sort Order</label></td>
        <td>
                  <select name="commentorder">
                        <option value="DESC">Newest First</option>
                        <option value="ASC" selected="selected">Oldest First</option>
                  </select>
            </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><label for="commentlimit">Comment Limit:</label></td>
         <td><input type="text" id="commentlimit" name="commentlimit" size="5" maxlength="5" value="100"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
</fieldset>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Asked On
2007-06-09 at 09:50:27ID22623767
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,

css

Topic

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Answers

 

by: ThaSmartUnoPosted on 2007-06-09 at 12:24:48ID: 19249515

Changing the position:absolute to position:relative seems to work in ff 2 + ie7 (although I don't have an accessible computer right now with ie6 to test)

this is in the "form fieldset div.notes " section in your css.

 

by: Bl248Posted on 2007-06-09 at 12:56:25ID: 19249642

Thanks that does the trick. I wonder if you can help me with the next issue with this example. If you shrink the window size down, the div for the notes will push the field elements down and I wonder what the best way to handle that. Not so bad on this form but on others it is more an issue.

I tried adding to make the div a layer using z-index but that did not have the desired effect. Not sure really if that would be best anyway but think it may be the only option.

 

by: ThaSmartUnoPosted on 2007-06-09 at 20:38:54ID: 19251212

just change the <td> for the <label> to <td nowrap="nowrap"><label...

that will make that single column not wrap on spacing.

 

by: Bl248Posted on 2007-06-10 at 04:47:26ID: 19252643

Doing that just prevents the cell with the label from wrapping but the same scenario occurs. The html above is just a small extract from the real form but the same thing occurs with this example. It's becuase I have a table in a div and the complete table will jump down when you resize the window - the div for the help message then moves left and top.

If this used a table as the outside container then I could use nowrap to prevent this but is there a way using an outside div ?

 

by: Bl248Posted on 2007-06-10 at 05:21:00ID: 19252704

Using a fixed width div container around the form element will prevent this effect we see when you resize the window too small, but I need (or want) it to scale wider to fit the application theme as it does now.

What it needs is a min-width atttribute or similar way of preventing the helpnote div from pushing the table down when the window is resized too small.

 

by: Bl248Posted on 2007-06-10 at 06:18:00ID: 19252821

No Worries, I've worked out an acceptable solution.
Thanks for answering my initial question :)

 

by: ThaSmartUnoPosted on 2007-06-10 at 07:18:28ID: 19253015

Glad you could get that working.  Sorry, I couldn't help with the second question.

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