Question

I can’t quite seem to figure out how to do the CSS from the Photoshop mockup that I made. The image below shows what I want to accomplish. Basically, each Design/Revision block is a styled <li> tag, and I want to float the title to the left and the date/time to the right. Furthermore, I want everything to be vertically aligned.

Any ideas? I tried to use a table within each <li>, but that didn’t seem to work (or I just did it wrong).

Ideas?

Answer 1

Please see this Fiddle, should be what you are trying to do!

HTML

<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="#" title="" class="clearfix">
            Design 1
            <span>May 6, 2012<br>11:34AM</span>
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#" title=""class="clearfix">
            Revision 1
            <span>May 7, 2012<br>2:14AM</span>
        </a>
    </li>
</ul>

CSS

body {
    background-color: #000;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 20px;
    font-family: sans-serif;
}
ul {
    list-style-type: none;
}
li {
    display: block;
    width: 240px;
    background-color: #212121;
    border: 1px solid #212121;
    border-top: 1px solid #444;
}
li a {
    padding: 10px;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 18px;
    display: block;
    line-height: 24px;
    text-decoration: none;
}
li span {
    float: right;
    font-size: 10px;
    display: block;
    line-height: 12px;
    color: #999;
    text-align: right;
}

/* helpers */
.clearfix:before,
.clearfix:after  {
  content: '\0020';
  display: block;
  overflow: hidden;
  visibility: hidden;
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
}
.clearfix:after {
  clear: both;
}
.clearfix {
  zoom: 1;
}

Analise the CSS to learn more about float and document work-flow!

Read more about it:

CSS Float

Document Flow / Visual Formating

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