hunchy Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Firstly! So happy i re-found this site!! I had joined a couple of years ago to participate in this community cuz i love web design - however after a major computer meltdown i lost many of the sites I was part of and lost all the URL's and passwords and whatnot that i had set up....so I stumbled upon it by chance and am glad to be back! I do have a question though: I am having a few troubles with a content box that i am trying to make grow with the content. My site has a block of text within a div (with a tranparency of 75% black) which lays over a wider transparent div (which is set to 50% black). However i know it is probably a really simple solution (i have been really sick and my brain is not working like it should) but i am trying to get both the outer boxes to grow/expand automatically with the text content.So its a text div within a darker transparent div , within a lighter transparent div. If you need code, I can recreate what i am doing but i also just had a darn blackout at my house and lost the file i was working on!? go figure...doh! If someone would tell me where i could find a method for creating a content box that grows as described accoding to the inner text box/div (or point me to a link) i would be eternally grateful. The illness i am recovering from has affected part of my brain so I am having to relearn/recall certain things that i knew before, so apologies if this is seems like a really silly questin but i cannot find much help on the web - could also be due to the way my brain is functioning and not searching for the correct terminolgy. BTW - the div is sitting ontop of a background within a page, so it is not the caontainer div. it is once element on the page that has text and content. Please let me know if you need more info - as i said, my brain capacity is not at it's best right now. Many thanks, glad to be back! Huchy :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hey Huchy. Perhaps you can post a link to the page you are working with? It'll be a lot easier to understand the issue you are having if I can visually see the page and the code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 It may just be a simple matter of adding "overflow:auto" to your outer div... Really can't tell till I see your code though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted December 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your reply - I had to rebuild my page after power surge lost it all. My internet was out for the last few days thanks to a second surge/blackout/whatever it was, so i haven't been able to reply. I managed to get it working thanks to your suggestion however (which luckily i saw before my connections went haywire) so thank you for the response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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