Css help - how to close this box

HTML & CSS
1

hi i am building a site using mainly css for the first time,
my main content box is fine but to the left i have a sidebar menu and the box is open, anyone know how i close this please?
i also want to create the same type of box but a long horiztonal one across the bottom, any help with how i do that too would be greatly appreciated

thank you

(can be seen on this page)

http://www.cgwebdesigns.co.uk/oldstuff/index.html

2

Are you sure that’s the right link? It throws an error for me.

3

and this is the css doc http://www.cgwebdesigns.co.uk/oldstuff/style.css

thanks

4

These days, you are much better off doing away with the background images and using a border around your boxes, with the addition of border-radius. E.g.

#leftmenu {
  background: #fff;
  [COLOR="#FF0000"]border: 5px solid #420000;
  border-radius: 10px;[/COLOR]
  width: 204px;
  float: left;
}

You can then do away with the background images, unnecessary divs etc. Much cleaner. :slight_smile:

5

thats much better, thank you for your help

6

You’re welcome. I could go into why the border image method wasn’t working, but really, it’s so much nicer to use the border/rounded corner method that it’s not worth it. :slight_smile: