I'm trying to figure out how to get the text No Managers in Database vertically positioned in the containing div like the input elements are.
I tried adding padding and margin, but they didn't work. Any thoughts on how this could be accomplished?
http://jsfiddle.net/SKTRn/
CSS
#none {
display: block;
font-size: 12px;
margin: 7px 0;
padding: 5px 0;
}
Basically, you just have to add display: block; to your CSS. I just took the liberty of changing the other styles to line things up a little better (and get the font the same size as the inputs).
In my .css, I'm using a fixed width, centered layout with:
#page-container {
width: 760px;
margin: auto;
padding-top: 10px;
}
All pages using the .css are the same width. If I insert bullet points into a div, it seems to move to the left by a few pixels and is no longer centered. This also happens if I insert an iframe.
Perhaps someone more experienced could suggest the cause?
[Edit]
It's being caused by the scrollbar appearing as I add content. Is there anything I can do about this?
To keep the page from shifting, you should set the body style to overflow:scroll so there's always a scrollbar.
What you're probably seeing is the default margin and padding of ul and li elements.
Use a web developer tool such as Firebug and hover over the element, you'll see the margins and paddings.
For example a ul element has some default margin (in yellow) and padding (in purple):
What you can do is apply CSS to reset those defaults:
ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
ul li { margin 0; padding: 0; }
Might be a bit too early in the morning for me but I struggling to figure out what I've done wrong here.
I have a page with 9 boxes and I would like them to be positioned with 3 on one line, 3 on another and 3 on the other.
Have a look here: http://dev.tim-morgan.co.uk/other/Untitled-1.html
Right now you can see, the list bullets are showing and each box looks like it's going down like a staircase since I put in float: left;
Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
You need to:
Move float: left from ul.tabs2 a to ul.tabs2 li.
Add overflow: hidden to .tabs2 to clear the floats.
Add clear: left to every 3n+1 li using :nth-child, try this:
ul.tabs2 li:nth-child(3n+1) {
clear: left
}
If you need to support Internet Explorer 8 and lower (no nth-child support), you can use http://selectivizr.com/, or just add the clear: left rule yourself to each relevant li.
You might want to remove the default styles on your <li>s, they could be interfering with the floating of the <a>s in the <li>s.
I’d suggest:
ul.tabs2 {
list-style: none;
}
ul.tabs2 li {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
For getting three in a row, #thirydot’s answer looks good. If you know how wide you want each box to be, you could set that width on the <a>s, then set a width on the <ul>:
ul.tabs2 {
width: 300px;
}
ul.tabs2 li a {
width: 100px;
}
In your css add this
ul.tabs2 li {display:block;float:left;width:33%;margin:0 0 10px 0;padding:0;}
and also add overflow:hidden and list-style:none to your ul.tabs2 if you don't want bullets.
I am building a menu system presented to the user in multi-column format. The column-count property in CSS3 gets me 90% of the way there, but I'm having difficulties with alignment under Chrome.
The menu is relatively simple:
an unordered list divided into multiple-columns by the column-count property
columns should fill sequentially, so column-fill: auto
menu items are represented as list items
each list item has a a clickable anchor tag, extended fully via display: block
The alignment issue I'm having is most noticeable with a top-border and some background coloring on each list item. In Firefox, the list items are always aligned cleanly across each column, never bleeding into the previous/next column. In Chrome, alignment is a crapshoot, varying with how many list items are present and any padding/margin properties.
I've posted the code for a simple test case here: http://pastebin.com/Ede3JwdG
The problem should be immediately evident: in Chrome, the first list item in the second column bleeds back into the first column. As you remove list items (click on them), you can see that alignment breaks down further.
I've tried tweaking the padding/margin for the list items to no avail: Chrome appears to have a flawed algorithm for how it flows content across a multi-column layout.
The primary reason I haven't ditched column-count altogether (in favor of manual generation/Columnizer/etc.) is that the menu system also involves drag-and-drop functionality across multiple sub-menus, and having the menu data laid out as a cohesive list-based hierarchy makes for clean code.
Is there a way to fix the alignment issue in Chrome or should I just give up on column-count for now?
ADDED:
jsFiddle prototype: http://jsfiddle.net/VXsAU/
JS Bin prototype: http://jsbin.com/ebode5/
You need each item in the column to be displayed as "inline-block". That will solve your problem without needing to use jQuery.
Additionally, each element can be specified to have width: 100% in order to get the them to use the full width of the rows.
Here is a working example:
$(document).ready(function() {
for( var i = 0; i < 24; i++ ) {
$("ul.newslist").append("<li><a href='#'>Item</a></li>");
}
$("ul.newslist > li").click(function() {
$(this).remove();
})
});
ul.newslist {
columns: 5;
background-color: #ccc;
padding: 16px 0;
list-style: none;
}
ul.newslist > li {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #000;
}
ul.newslist > li > a {
display: block;
padding: 4px;
background-color: #f6b;
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul class="newslist"></ul>
I managed to balance uneven vertically-aligned columns by applying margin-* properties to the elements inside the multicolumn'd container.
.content {
column-width: 15em; /* or could be column-count, however you want to set up multi columns */
}
.content > section {
-webkit-margin-before: 0;
-webkit-margin-after: 0;
}
As for vertical margins leakage. You can replace margin with pseudo-element. Then set its height to desired margin value. You also need to set -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; on the element containing pseudo-element so that it is not moved to another column. Do that only for webkit with the help of css-hack (not recommended) or js-detection (best way). Here is CSS:
.element {
-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid;
}
.element:after {
content: '';
display: block;
height: 20px;
}
I've played around as well, and several sources I've seen online make it seem to be a known issue with webkit. A good breakdown can be found here: http://zomigi.com/blog/deal-breaker-problems-with-css3-multi-columns/
Someday, CSS 3!
Maybe try a jQuery plugin like http://welcome.totheinter.net/columnizer-jquery-plugin/ ?
I was having trouble with vertical alignment on a multi-column list. Turned out that the problem was that I was using bottom padding on my list li's-- I changed the li style to use a bottom margin instead, and the columns aligned to top again.
My desired outcome was wanting to get a large list of links to display across 3 columns. Simply using column-break-inside:avoid; alone didn't work in webkit.
HTML
<div class="links">
<ol>
<li><a>link</a></li> <!-- x 50 -->
</ol>
</div>
css:
.links ol {
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-count: 3;
column-count: 3;
}
.links li {
display: block;
border: 1px solid $background-colour; //to appear invisible
-moz-column-break-inside:avoid;
-webkit-column-break-inside:avoid;
column-break-inside:avoid;
}
.links a {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
Solution (quirk if you will)
I added a 1px border around the list items which seemed to contain the margins of it's children and each column then aligned to the top.
Edit: This only seems to be required if you're using global border-box
html {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
*, *:before, *:after {
box-sizing: inherit;
}
I solved this by removing vertical margins on the child elements, and then increasing the line-height of the children to replicate desired spacing.
I also noticed I could fix this vertical alignment issue by removing the child margins and converting it to grandchild padding.
I'm struggling with this as well, for a reporting system with many many data and titles with padding/margin that I need to flow on several columns for wider screens.
I've worked around my first big deal-breaker, the padding of the initial title element, with the :first-child pseudo-class (this is included in an #media rule for wide screens not shown here) :
The columns definition :
.dimSlider .multicol {
-moz-columns: 4;
-webkit-columns: 4;
columns: 4;
}
Canceling padding on top when in .multicol
.dimSlider .multicol h3 {
padding-top: 0;
}
Cancelling padding and margin for the first element (color: blue; is so that I see if the rule catches) :
.dimSlider .multicol .criteria:first-child h3 {
padding: 0 2%;
margin: 0;
color: blue;
}
So far, this looks way much neater in my Firefox. I'll see if there's some more tinkering to do but currently in Firefox the text looks aligned on the top, what is the most important.
EDIT :
The problem seems quite worse with webkit-based browsers indeed. To solve it entirely, I modified the template in order to have a <div></div>around all the titled sections so I can add padding / margin at the end of the divs and not at the beginning of the titles. Now in webkit browsers it looks fine too.
BTW, using percentages measurements in multicolumns is quite tricky because the percentage seems calculated to the width of the column and not the global width of the parent element. I changed this by adding padding in the parent element of the columns.
But the biggest difficulty is that Firefox doesn't support any column-span or break-inside property, so when I have very few content, it is spread over the columns nonetheless, like one or two lines on each. Again, Smarty on the rescue :
{if $element|#count <= 10}
<div class="nocol">
{/if}
So far it works now for me...
while searching for information about this i came across your question and today I've been inspecting the elements of the list.
I found that the UL element applies a margin only on the first column.
Just apply 0 padding and margin in the css and they will align
margin:0;
padding:0;
hope it helps
I had a two-column ordered list, and the left column was pushed down by default margin - so it did not align with the right column.
This fixed it.
ol > :first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
I saw some solutions about placing -webkit-column-break-inside:avoid;. But that does not seems to work for me. Then I found out I have to place 2 things to get it working.
Place padding on the li, and give the property break-inside: avoid; on the li.
This is my code:
ul {
column-count: 2;
}
li {
font-size: 10px;
line-height: 12px;
padding: 10px 0;
width: fit-content;
min-width: 143px;
border-bottom: 0.5px solid #ccc;
break-inside: avoid;
}
this is solution for multicolumn space problem
ul li { line-height:40px; }
my menu is working fine on the good browsers. The code is all valid (so far!). In IE though it looks like a staircase, each menu item is a few pixels down from it left neighbour. It should all be horizontal.
Please have a look here
alt text http://www.digiflipconcepts.com/images/bbdc-menu-anomaly.jpg
Apply display: inline to ul.menu li.
my first guess would be either padding or margin on your li elements. see if this helps:
li {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
(spoke too soon, looks like you do have that in there)
on third glance, it looks like you're setting the following:
ul.menu li a {
display: block
padding: 11px 0 0;
}
see if removing that 11px padding helps