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navigation bar

Sent by karuna sagar k on 9 August 2007 20:08


Hi list,

I am facing problem in creating a page with a
navigation bar -

MARKUP:

<div class="main_container">
 <div class="nav_bar">
  <p>some content here</p>
 </div>
</div>

STYLE:

..nav_bar
{
	margin: 1%;
	width: 15%;
	background-color: grey;
	height: 98%; // i tried 98% thinking 1%+1% margin
(top and bottom) accounted (also, is there a way to
have comments in CSS?)
}

..main_container
{
	border: 1px solid black;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%
}

Now, when this is rendered, the nav_bar shoots-out of
the containing div. So, what I noticed here is that
the properties "width" and "height" refer to the
content box of the element and calculated as x% of
width of parent element (is that right?).

So, is there a way for me to specify the values for
the above properties relatively (as percent) and keep
the nav_bar inside the containing div? - i.e. I want
the nav_bar to occupy whole left portion of the
screen, with a white space between the border of the
containing div.

Thanks for the replies,
Karuna


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