Content Div Before Header Div In Layout [Archive]

tmac187

02-21-2008, 11:08 PM

I apologize if this question has been asked before. I searched and couldn't find an answer in this forum. Do any of you CSS guru's know how to create a three column layout and have the content column div appear first in the source code, before the topsection div? I'm Ok at CSS, but not great and have been trying to figure this out. I am thinking absolute positioning will be needed for the header?

<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Fixed Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fixed-Fixed)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}

#maincontainer{
width: 840px; /*Width of main container*/
margin: 0 auto; /*Center container on page*/
}

#topsection{
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin: 0 190px 0 180px; /*Margins for content column. Should be "0 RightColumnWidth 0 LeftColumnWidth*/
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 180px; /*Width of left column in pixel*/
margin-left: -840px; /*Set margin to that of -(MainContainerWidth)*/
background: #C8FC98;
}

#rightcolumn{
float: left;
width: 190px; /*Width of right column*/
margin-left: -190px; /*Set left margin to -(RightColumnWidth)*/
background: #FDE95E;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">

<div id="topsection"><div class="innertube"><h1>CSS Fixed Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fixed-Fixed)</h1></div></div>

<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Content Column: <em>Fixed</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(10)</script></div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="leftcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>180px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(20)</script></div>

</div>

<div id="rightcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Right Column: <em>190px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script></div>
</div>

<div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a></div>

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

tmac187

02-22-2008, 02:35 AM

Ok, I figured it out myself and thought I would post how I did it. Please critique the code(possible problems,etc.) as you see fit. I just thought this would be a great way to get your content closer to the top for SEO purposes.

<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Fixed Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fixed-Fixed)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}

#maincontainer{
width: 840px; /*Width of main container*/
margin: 0 auto; /*Center container on page*/
}

#topsection{
position:absolute;
width:840px;
top:0;
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin: 90px 190px 0 180px; /*Margins for content column. Should be "0 RightColumnWidth 0 LeftColumnWidth*/
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 180px; /*Width of left column in pixel*/
margin-left: -840px; /*Set margin to that of -(MainContainerWidth)*/
background: #C8FC98;
margin-top:90px;
}

#rightcolumn{
float: left;
width: 190px; /*Width of right column*/
margin-left: -190px; /*Set left margin to -(RightColumnWidth)*/
background: #FDE95E;
margin-top:90px;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">

<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Content Column: <em>Fixed</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(10)</script></div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="leftcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>180px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(20)</script></div>

</div>

<div id="rightcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Right Column: <em>190px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script></div>
</div>

<div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS
Library</a></div>

<div id="topsection"><div class="innertube"><h1>CSS Fixed Layout #3.1-
(Fixed-Fixed-Fixed)</h1></div></div>

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