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01 March 2008, 04:57 PM

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Can anyone help with this simple problem?

This was created using the 1 column, fixed, centered, head & footer layout.

How do I get rid of the gap between the banner and the main content and insert a menu in there?

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01 March 2008, 05:34 PM

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Not used DW for years but try going into "modify" page propertys and setting the magin's to 0's.

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01 March 2008, 05:37 PM

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All of the margins are set to zero

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01 March 2008, 05:41 PM

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Here is the CSS:

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
body {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	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;
	background-color: #494848;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #container {
	width: 780px; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-color: #666666;
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	margin-left: auto;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #header {
	padding: 0 10px 0 10px;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
	background-color: #000000;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #header h1 {
	margin: 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
	padding-top: 0px;
	padding-right: 0;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	padding-left: 0;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #mainContent {
	background-color: #666666;
	padding-top: 0px;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 0;
	padding-left: 10px;
	vertical-align: top;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #footer {
	padding: 0 10px;
	background-color: #a4a3a3;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #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: 0px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}

And the HTML:

Code:

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Blah</title>
<link href="oneColFixCtrHdr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {color: #FFFFFF}
.style2 {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-size: 14px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body class="oneColFixCtrHdr">

<div id="container">
  <div id="header">
    <h1><img src="images/logo.jpg" width="388" height="71" alt="blah" /></h1>
  </div>
  <div id="mainContent">
    <h1 class="style1"> Welcome </h1>
    <p class="style2">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam,  justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam  ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo  porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis  ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean  sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at,  odio. Donec et ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce  varius urna id quam. Sed neque mi, varius eget, tincidunt nec, suscipit id,  libero. In eget purus. Vestibulum ut nisl. Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat  feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut,  sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh.  Donec nec libero.</p>
    <h2 class="style1">H2 level heading </h2>
    <p class="style2">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam,  justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam  ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo  porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis  ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean  sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
	<!-- end #mainContent --></div>
  <div id="footer">
    <p>&copy; </p>
    <!-- end #footer --></div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
</html>

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02 March 2008, 08:37 AM

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whats the latin text for??

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02 March 2008, 10:38 AM

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Its placeholder text.

I scrapped the idea of starting from scratch and edited a template in the end, far more successful

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03 March 2008, 08:18 PM

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try

css

*{margin:0; padding:0;}

body{
font:76% Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;
line-height:1.4em;
text-align:center;
color:#000;
background:#fff;
}

a{
color:#467aa7;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
background-color:inherit;
}

a:hover{color:#2a5a8a; text-decoration:none; background-color:inherit;}
a img{border:none;}

p{padding:0 0 1.6em 0;}
p form{margin-top:0; margin-bottom:20px;}

#container{
width:760px;
margin:20px auto;
padding:1px 0;
text-align:left;
background:#fff;
color:#000;
border:1px dashed #a0a0a0;
}

#header{
height:110px;
width:758px;
margin:0 1px 1px 1px;
background: #fff;
color:#000;
border:1px dashed #a0a0a0;
}

#header h1{
padding:35px 0 0 20px;
font-size:2.4em;
background-color:inherit;
color:#000;
letter-spacing:-2px;
font-weight:normal;

}

#menu{
height:2.2em;
line-height:2.2em;
width:758px;
margin:0 1px;
background:#fff;
color:#000;
border:1px dashed #a0a0a0;
}

#menu li{
float:left;
list-style-type:none;
border-right:1px solid #000;
white-space:nowrap;
padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
}

#menu li a{
display:block;
padding:0 10px;
font-size:0.8em;
font-weight:normal;
text-transform:uppercase;
text-decoration:none;
background-color:inherit;
color: #000;
}

* html #navigation a {width:1%;}

#menu .selected,#menu a:hover{
background: #fff;
color: #CCCCCC;
text-decoration:none;
}

#content{
float:left;
width: 720px;
font-size:0.9em;
padding:20px 0 0 20px;
border:1px dashed #a0a0a0;
}

#footer{
clear:both;
width:758px;
padding:5px 0;
margin:0 1px;
font-size:0.9em;
color:#000;
background:#fff;
border:1px dashed #a0a0a0;
}

HTML -

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css.css" />
</head>

<body>
<div id="container" >

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

<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="selected"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">another</a></li>
<li><a href="#">and another</a></li>
<li><a href="#">and another</a></li>
<li><a href="#">last one</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="main">
<p> </p>
<p>Info</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p class="small">Footer</p>
</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>