Same Height Image & Text - css

Is there any way I can make an image div scale it's height to the text beside it?
I'm designing a blog post element which has some text to the left and an image to the right, however the text and image go out of kilter at certain resolutions which doesn't look great. The best thing I can think of right now is just giving the image a static height but that doesn't really solve the issue and I'd have to put in different heights for different breakpoints which would look quite janky when resizing.
I am trying to emulate the look of this: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/france/paris#survival-guide
(Scroll to the 'Recent Articles' section)
HTML
<div class="recent-petra">
<div class="petra-content">
<h4>Petra</h4>
<cite>Oct. 4</cite>
<p class="recent-desc">Enim vitae pellentesque nec phasellus, quis in vitae, leo in eros donec, pede volutpat. Donec nunc mi vel, quis malesuada, sed proin curabitur orci ipsum volutpat, eu eu id blandit ultricies sodales</p>
</div> <!-- petra-content -->
<div class="petra-img"></div>
</div>
CSS
.recent-petra {
display: flex; }
.petra-content {
width: 60%;
margin: 0 5%; }
.petra-img {
width: 20%;
background-image: url('http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qWovdGs59MY/RykS9HDQGMI/AAAAAAAAAJo/s79SRNqRNok/s400/Petra+1.jpg');
height: 300px;
margin: 0 5%; }
The codepen is here: http://codepen.io/reskk/pen/ozPwAw - probably a lot better to look there so you get a visual example of what I'm talking about.
I mean.. is this something that is even doable with CSS? Am I trying to do something that is just a massive pain i.e. do I have to find appropriately-sized images etc. or can I achieve this using CSS?
I essentially want the image height to scale according to the height of the text beside it so that it's nice and responsive.
Thanks,
Reskk

You're on the right track with flexbox and background-image here. A couple of things are throwing you off. First is that you've got the image div set to a pixel height. That'll throw the equal height columns in Flexbox off. Second is that margins on divs inside the container count towards its height. So on CodePen, your paragraph has a native margin of 1em 0em, and since it's the last item in that column, the height of the column on the right is matching it.

The site you mention uses a fixed height at various breakpoints for images. It really is the standard way to do images (other way involves making height responsive, which in my experience makes the picture way too small at certain breakpoints. It scales diagonally, instead of by horizontally (width responsive)).
In order to scale your images with your text, you will have to use breakpoints using media queries, which will at various breakpoints change the height of the images and text of the content.
#media (min-width: 0px) and max-width(400px){
img{
width:40%
height:200px;
}
#divcontainingtext{
font-size:14px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 401px) {
/* insert new fixed height and new font-size here */
}
For more information on media queries see: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp

Related

In CSS flexbox, gap is not working with flex wrap

Yes, this has been asked before, and I have seen it work numerous times in online examples, but I must be missing something in my attempt:
main.wrap {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
/*flex-direction: row; the default */
gap: 10%;
}
<main class="wrap">
<div class="column">
<h3>Wrap with gap</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent tincidunt imperdiet justo, ac rhoncus urna sollicitudin vitae. Duis eu dolor eu dui tempor cursus. </p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar">
<h3>Sidebar</h3>
<p>Nullam posuere commodo quam eget ultricies. Duis luctus, mauris at iaculis tempor. </p>
</div>
</main>
Works fine with the default of no-wrap
See it here: https://codepen.io/breadwild/pen/abWMQPB
Thoughts?
Look, If you put flex on the parent element, it will be applied on only its children elements, not on their grand children elements. The marked two portion are the children here. flex-gap has been created in between them.
If you want to add gaps between h3, p tags- you need either to add padding/margin or to add flex on its parent element. Hopefully it helps. Feel free to ask further questions.
You're trying to apply a % gap, and that unit is relative to its parent. In this case, the parent has no defined height, so this is happening:
You can define a height or use the viewport unit for height vh, like this:
Sorry for not understanding your question perfectly. Please replace your CSS file with the given code. I guess you are asking for it. If not, please keep asking questions-
.wrap {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
flex-direction: row;
gap: 6%;
}
.column{
flex-basis: 47%;
}
.sidebar{
flex-basis: 47%;
}
In your wrap case your column and sidebar are wrapping into 2 rows, so there isn't a column-gap appearing as each occupies the whole width. (And there isn't a row-gap either between the 2 rows because - as mentioned in another answer - you're using a % value of a parent which doesn't have any height).
With wrap you're allowing the elements to wrap into new rows. So the browser looks at the each element, sees that there's enough text to occupy the whole line, so it allows that and places the elements on 2 rows.
With nowrap you're telling the browser to fit these 2 elements onto the same line. So the browser will do that, choosing a width for each element which makes them of a similar height, and allows the 10% gap in between.
So to get the same effect for wrap you need to constrain both elements so that they don't occupy the whole line, and don't then result in the wrap into 2 rows being applied.
You can do this by adding this CSS, for example:
.column {
max-width: 60%;
}
.sidebar {
max-width: 30%;
}

Responsive Cross Browser and Flexible way of "cross-background" images

Can anyone please point me out, or name some tecnhiques that may exist in order to achieve this effect, on a properly way:
Like this:
and again:
As you may notice, the point is to connect both lines. Some of those lines come from text boxes, that, since we wish to properly use EM unit for font-size, the box around the text, may change.
I have never done this before, I would appreciate any point outs, in order to investigate this "effect" further please.
Thanks in advance.
It doesn't matter if the fonts in the text boxes are in EM. If the font size change, the text boxes size will change, but that it doesn't mean that the space between them also has to change (it could has a fixed height -the background height-).
Here's a really basic example (try changing the body font-size):
<html>
<head>
<style>
body { font-size: 12px;}
.text { border: 1px solid #999; padding: 15px; font-size:1em; }
.line { background: url(http://www.agavegroup.com/images/articles/photoshopCurvedLine/curveFinal.gif) no-repeat center center; height: 50px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="text">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
</div>
<div class="line"></div>
<div class="text">
Eum, quis consequuntur culpa ex eius totam nemo.
</div>
</body>
</html>
If you do want the space between boxes height changing if the font-size change, you should set it height to EM and use a background images that's, lets say, doubled the container original height (so when the height change, more background it's revealed). You can see this changing height: 50px; to height: 7em; on the .line {} rule (the example image I've used it higher than the container).
This a really basic example. The markup depends on the design. If you need something more accurate (like: you need that the line starts and ends in specific spot), you should probably use absolute/relative positions.

Hiding the scroll bar on an HTML page

Can CSS be used to hide the scroll bar? How would you do this?
WebKit supports scrollbar pseudo elements that can be hidden with standard CSS rules:
#element::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
If you want all scrollbars hidden, use
::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
I'm not sure about restoring - this did work, but there might be a right way to do it:
::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: block;
}
You can of course always use width: 0, which can then be easily restored with width: auto, but I'm not a fan of abusing width for visibility tweaks.
Firefox 64 now supports the experimental scrollbar-width property by default (63 requires a configuration flag to be set). To hide the scrollbar in Firefox 64:
#element {
scrollbar-width: none;
}
To see if your current browser supports either the pseudo element or scrollbar-width, try this snippet:
.content {
/* These rules create an artificially confined space, so we get
a scrollbar that we can hide. They are not directly involved in
hiding the scrollbar. */
border: 1px dashed gray;
padding: .5em;
white-space: pre-wrap;
height: 5em;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
.content {
/* This is the magic bit for Firefox */
scrollbar-width: none;
}
.content::-webkit-scrollbar {
/* This is the magic bit for WebKit */
display: none;
}
<div class='content'>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris eu
urna et leo aliquet malesuada ut ac dolor. Fusce non arcu vel ligula
fermentum sodales a quis sapien. Sed imperdiet justo sit amet venenatis
egestas. Integer vitae tempor enim. In dapibus nisl sit amet purus congue
tincidunt. Morbi tincidunt ut eros in rutrum. Sed quam erat, faucibus
vel tempor et, elementum at tortor. Praesent ac libero at arcu eleifend
mollis ut eget sapien. Duis placerat suscipit eros, eu tempor tellus
facilisis a. Vivamus vulputate enim felis, a euismod diam elementum
non. Duis efficitur ac elit non placerat. Integer porta viverra nunc,
sed semper ipsum. Nam laoreet libero lacus.
Sed sit amet tincidunt felis. Sed imperdiet, nunc ut porta elementum,
eros mi egestas nibh, facilisis rutrum sapien dolor quis justo. Quisque
nec magna erat. Phasellus vehicula porttitor nulla et dictum. Sed
tincidunt scelerisque finibus. Maecenas consequat massa aliquam pretium
volutpat. Duis elementum magna vel velit elementum, ut scelerisque
odio faucibus.
</div>
(Note that this is not really a correct answer to the question, because it hides the horizontal bars as well, but that's what I was looking for when Google pointed me here, so I figured I'd post it anyway.)
Yes, sort of..
When you ask the question, "Can the scroll-bars of a browser be removed in some way, rather than simply hidden or camouflaged", everyone will say "Not possible" because it is not possible to remove the scrollbars from all browsers in a compliant and cross-compatible way, and then there's the whole argument of usability.
However, it is possible to prevent the browser from ever having the need to generate and display scrollbars if you do not allow your webpage to overflow.
This just means that we have to proactively substitute the same behavior that the browser would typically do for us and tell the browser thanks but no thanks buddy. Rather than try to remove scrollbars (which we all know is not possible) we can avoid scrolling (perfectly feasible) and scroll within the elements that we make and have more control over.
Create a div with overflow hidden. Detect when the user attempts to scroll, but is unable to because we've disabled the browsers ability to scroll with overflow: hidden.. and instead move the content up using JavaScript when this occurs. Thereby creating our own scrolling without the browsers default scrolling or use a plugin like iScroll.
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For the sake of being thorough; all the vendor specific ways of manipulating scroll-bars:
Internet Explorer 5.5+
*These properties were never part of the CSS specification, nor were they ever approved or vendor prefixed, but they work in Internet Explorer and Konqueror. These can also be set locally in the user style sheet for each application. In Internet Explorer you find it under the "Accessibility" tab, in Konqueror under the "Stylesheets" tab.
body, html { /* These are defaults and can be replaced by hexadecimal color values */
scrollbar-base-color: aqua;
scrollbar-face-color: ThreeDFace;
scrollbar-highlight-color: ThreeDHighlight;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: ThreeDLightShadow;
scrollbar-shadow-color: ThreeDDarkShadow;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: ThreeDDarkShadow;
scrollbar-track-color: Scrollbar;
scrollbar-arrow-color: ButtonText;
}
As of Internet Explorer 8 these properties were vendor prefixed by Microsoft, but they were still never approved by W3C.
-ms-scrollbar-base-color
-ms-scrollbar-face-color
-ms-scrollbar-highlight-color
-ms-scrollbar-3dlight-color
-ms-scrollbar-shadow-color
-ms-scrollbar-darkshadow-color
-ms-scrollbar-base-color
-ms-scrollbar-track-color
Further details about Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer makes scroll available which sets whether or not to disable or enable scroll bars; it can also be used to get the value of the position of the scroll bars.
With Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and later, when you use the !DOCTYPE declaration to specify standards-compliant mode, this attribute applies to the HTML element. When standards-compliant mode is not specified, as with earlier versions of Internet Explorer, this attribute applies to the BODY element, NOT the HTML element.
It's also worth noting that when working with .NET the ScrollBar class in System.Windows.Controls.Primitives in the Presentation framework is responsible for rendering the scrollbars.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms534393(v=vs.85).aspx
MSDN. Basic UI properties
W3C. About non-standard scrollbar properties
MSDN. .NET ScrollBar Class
WebKit
WebKit extensions related to scroll-bar customization are:
::-webkit-scrollbar {} /* 1 */
::-webkit-scrollbar-button {} /* 2 */
::-webkit-scrollbar-track {} /* 3 */
::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece {} /* 4 */
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {} /* 5 */
::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {} /* 6 */
::-webkit-resizer {} /* 7 */
These can each be combined with additional pseudo-selectors:
:horizontal – The horizontal pseudo-class applies to any scrollbar pieces that have a horizontal orientation.
:vertical – The vertical pseudo-class applies to any scrollbar pieces that have a vertical orientation.
:decrement – The decrement pseudo-class applies to buttons and track pieces. It indicates whether or not the button or track piece will decrement the view’s position when used (e.g., up on a vertical scrollbar, left on a horizontal scrollbar).
:increment – The increment pseudo-class applies to buttons and track pieces. It indicates whether or not a button or track piece will increment the view’s position when used (e.g., down on a vertical scrollbar, right on a horizontal scrollbar).
:start – The start pseudo-class applies to buttons and track pieces. It indicates whether the object is placed before the thumb.
:end – The end pseudo-class applies to buttons and track pieces. It indicates whether the object is placed after the thumb.
:double-button – The double-button pseudo-class applies to buttons and track pieces. It is used to detect whether a button is part of a pair of buttons that are together at the same end of a scrollbar. For track pieces it indicates whether the track piece abuts a pair of buttons.
:single-button – The single-button pseudo-class applies to buttons and track pieces. It is used to detect whether a button is by itself at the end of a scrollbar. For track pieces it indicates whether the track piece abuts a singleton button.
:no-button – Applies to track pieces and indicates whether or not the track piece runs to the edge of the scrollbar, i.e., there is no button at that end of the track.
:corner-present – Applies to all scrollbar pieces and indicates whether or not a scrollbar corner is present.
:window-inactive – Applies to all scrollbar pieces and indicates whether or not the window containing the scrollbar is currently active. (In recent nightlies, this pseudo-class now applies to ::selection as well. We plan to extend it to work with any content and to propose it as a new standard pseudo-class.)
Examples of these combinations
::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece:start { /* Select the top half (or left half) or scrollbar track individually */ }
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:window-inactive { /* Select the thumb when the browser window isn't in focus */ }
::-webkit-scrollbar-button:horizontal:decrement:hover { /* Select the down or left scroll button when it's being hovered by the mouse */ }
Styling Scrollbars - Webkit.org
Further details about Chrome
addWindowScrollHandler
public static HandlerRegistration addWindowScrollHandler(Window.ScrollHandler handler)
Adds a Window.ScrollEvent handler
Parameters:
handler - the handler
Returns:
returns the handler registration
[source](http://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/user/client/Window.html#addWindowScrollHandler(com.google.gwt.user.client.Window.ScrollHandler)
)
Mozilla
Mozilla does have some extensions for manipulating the scroll-bars, but they are all recommended not to be used.
-moz-scrollbars-none They recommend using overflow:hidden in place of this.
-moz-scrollbars-horizontal Similar to overflow-x
-moz-scrollbars-vertical Similar to overflow-y
-moz-hidden-unscrollable Only works internally within a users profile settings. Disables scrolling XML root elements and disables using arrow keys and mouse wheel to scroll web pages.
Mozilla Developer Docs on 'Overflow'
Further details about Mozilla
This is not really useful as far as I know, but it's worth noting that the attribute which controls whether or not scrollbars are displayed in Firefox is (reference link):
Attribute: scrollbars
Type: nsIDOMBarProp
Description: The object that controls whether or not scrollbars are shown in the window. This attribute is "replaceable" in JavaScript. Read only
Last but not least, padding is like magic.
As has been previously mentioned in some other answers, here is an illustration which is sufficiently self-explanatory.
History lesson
Just because I'm curious, I wanted to learn about the origin of scrollbars, and these are the best references I found.
10 Inventions on Scrolling and Scrollbars
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-hellstrom-textpreview-02.txt
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-mrose-blocks-service-01.txt
Miscellaneous
In an HTML5 specification draft, the seamless attribute was defined to prevent scroll-bars from appearing in iFrames so that they could be blended with surrounding content on a page. Though this element does not appear in the latest revision.
The scrollbar BarProp object is a child of the window object and represents the user interface element that contains a scrolling mechanism, or some similar interface concept. window.scrollbars.visible will return true if the scroll bars are visible.
interface Window {
// The current browsing context
readonly attribute WindowProxy window;
readonly attribute WindowProxy self;
attribute DOMString name;
[PutForwards=href] readonly attribute Location location;
readonly attribute History history;
readonly attribute UndoManager undoManager;
Selection getSelection();
[Replaceable] readonly attribute BarProp locationbar;
[Replaceable] readonly attribute BarProp menubar;
[Replaceable] readonly attribute BarProp personalbar;
[Replaceable] readonly attribute BarProp scrollbars;
[Replaceable] readonly attribute BarProp statusbar;
[Replaceable] readonly attribute BarProp toolbar;
void close();
void focus();
void blur();
// Truncated
The History API also includes features for scroll restoration on page navigation to persist the scroll position on page load.
window.history.scrollRestoration can be used to check the status of scrollrestoration or change its status (appending ="auto"/"manual". Auto is the default value. Changing it to manual means that you as the developer will take ownership of any scroll changes that may be required when a user traverses the app's history. If you need to, you can keep track of the scroll position as you push history entries with history.pushState().
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Further reading:
Scrollbar on Wikipedia
Scroll bar (Windows)
The Scroll Method
The Scroll Method - Microsoft Dev Network
iScroll on Github (referenced in the first section above)
Scrolling and Scrollbars an article about usability by Jakob Nielsen
Examples
Independent scrolling panels with no body scroll (using just CSS) - Ben Frain (10-21-2014)
Set overflow: hidden; on the body tag like this:
<style type="text/css">
body {
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
The code above "hides" both the horizontal and vertical scrollbars.
If you want to hide only the vertical scrollbar, use overflow-y:
<style type="text/css">
body {
overflow-y: hidden;
}
</style>
And if you want to hide only the horizontal scrollbar, use overflow-x:
<style type="text/css">
body {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
</style>
Content is clipped if necessary to fit the padding box. No scrollbars are provided, and no support for allowing the user to scroll (such as by dragging or using a scroll wheel) is allowed. The content can be scrolled programmatically (for example, by setting the value of a property such as offsetLeft), so the element is still a scroll container. (source)
Here's my solution, which theoretically covers all modern browsers:
html {
scrollbar-width: none; /* For Firefox */
-ms-overflow-style: none; /* For Internet Explorer and Edge */
}
html::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 0px; /* For Chrome, Safari, and Opera */
}
html can be replaced with any element you want to hide the scrollbar of.
Note: I've skimmed the other 19 answers to see if the code I'm posting has already been covered, and it seems like no single answer sums up the situation as it stands in 2019, although plenty of them go into excellent detail. Apologies if this has been said by someone else and I missed it.
You can accomplish this with a wrapper div that has its overflow hidden, and the inner div set to auto.
To remove the inner div's scroll bar, you can pull it out of the outer div's viewport by applying a negative margin to the inner div. Then apply equal padding to the inner div so that the content stays in view.
JSFiddle
###HTML
<div class="hide-scroll">
<div class="viewport">
...
</div>
</div>
###CSS
.hide-scroll {
overflow: hidden;
}
.viewport {
overflow: auto;
/* Make sure the inner div is not larger than the container
* so that we have room to scroll.
*/
max-height: 100%;
/* Pick an arbitrary margin/padding that should be bigger
* than the max scrollbar width across the devices that
* you are supporting.
* padding = -margin
*/
margin-right: -100px;
padding-right: 100px;
}
This works for me with simple CSS properties:
.container {
-ms-overflow-style: none; // Internet Explorer 10+
scrollbar-width: none; // Firefox
}
.container::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none; // Safari and Chrome
}
For older versions of Firefox, use: overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none;
I think I found a workaround for you guys if you're still interested. This is my first week, but it worked for me...
<div class="contentScroller">
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
.contentScroller {overflow-y: auto; visibility: hidden;}
.content {visibility: visible;}
If you're looking for a solution to hide a scrollbar for mobile devices, follow Peter's answer!
Here's a jsfiddle, which uses the solution below to hide a horizontal scrollbar.
.scroll-wrapper{
overflow-x: scroll;
}
.scroll-wrapper::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
It was tested on a Samsung tablet with Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich, both in the native browser and Chrome) and on an iPad with iOS 6 (both in Safari and Chrome).
As the other people already said, use CSS overflow.
But if you still want the user to be able to scroll that content (without the scrollbar being visible) you have to use JavaScript.
Se my answer here for a solution: Hide scrollbar while still being able to scroll with mouse/keyboard
Use the CSS overflow property:
.noscroll {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
overflow: auto; /* Or hidden, or visible */
}
Here are some more examples:
overflow-x, overflow-y tests
The CSS Overflow Property
In addition to Peter's answer:
#element::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
This will work the same for Internet Explorer 10:
#element {
-ms-overflow-style: none;
}
Cross browser approach to hiding the scrollbar.
It was tested on Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
Hide scrollbar while still being able to scroll with mouse wheel!
Codepen
/* Make parent invisible */
#parent {
visibility: hidden;
overflow: scroll;
}
/* Safari and Chrome specific style. Don't need to make parent invisible, because we can style WebKit scrollbars */
#parent:not(*:root) {
visibility: visible;
}
/* Make Safari and Chrome scrollbar invisible */
#parent::-webkit-scrollbar {
visibility: hidden;
}
/* Make the child visible */
#child {
visibility: visible;
}
If you want scrolling to work, before hiding scrollbars, consider styling
them. Modern versions of OS X and mobile OS's have scrollbars that, while
impractical for grabbing with a mouse, are quite beautiful and neutral.
To hide scrollbars, a technique by John Kurlak works well except for leaving
Firefox users who don't have touchpads with no way to scroll unless they
have a mouse with a wheel, which they probably do, but even then they can usually
only scroll vertically.
John's technique uses three elements:
An outer element to mask the scrollbars.
A middle element to have the scrollbars.
And a content element to both set the size of the middle element and make
it have scrollbars.
It must be possible to set the size of the outer and content elements the same
which eliminates using percentages, but I can't think of anything else that
won't work with the right tweaking.
My biggest concern is whether all versions of browsers set scrollbars to make
visible overflowed content visible. I have tested in current browsers, but
not older ones.
Pardon my SASS ;P
%size {
// set width and height
}
.outer {
// mask scrollbars of child
overflow: hidden;
// set mask size
#extend %size;
// has absolutely positioned child
position: relative;
}
.middle {
// always have scrollbars.
// don't use auto, it leaves vertical scrollbar showing
overflow: scroll;
// without absolute, the vertical scrollbar shows
position: absolute;
}
// prevent text selection from revealing scrollbar, which it only does on
// some webkit based browsers.
.middle::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
.content {
// push scrollbars behind mask
#extend %size;
}
Testing
OS X is 10.6.8. Windows is Windows 7.
Firefox 32.0
Scrollbars hidden. Arrow keys don't scroll, even after clicking to focus,
but mouse wheel and two fingers on trackpad do. OS X and Windows.
Chrome 37.0
Scrollbars hidden. Arrow keys work after clicking to focus. Mouse wheel
and trackpad work. OS X and Windows.
Internet Explorer 11
Scrollbars hidden. Arrow keys work after clicking to focus. Mouse wheel
works. Windows.
Safari 5.1.10
Scrollbars hidden. Arrow keys work after clicking to focus. Mouse wheel
and trackpad work. OS X.
Android 4.4.4 and 4.1.2.
Scrollbars hidden. Touch scrolling works. Tried in Chrome 37.0, Firefox
32.0, and HTMLViewer on 4.4.4 (whatever that is). In HTMLViewer, the page
is the size of the masked content and can be scrolled too! Scrolling
interacts acceptably with page zooming.
I just thought I'd point out to anyone else reading this question that setting overflow: hidden (or overflow-y) on the body element didn't hide the scrollbars for me.
I had to use the html element.
Copy this CSS code to the customer code for hiding the scroll bar:
<style>
::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
#element::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
</style>
My HTML is like this:
<div class="container">
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
Add this to your div where you want to hide the scrollbar:
.content {
position: absolute;
right: -100px;
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
height: 75%; /* This can be any value of your choice */
}
And add this to the container
.container {
overflow-x: hidden;
max-height: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
}
I wrote a WebKit version with some options like auto hide, little version, scroll only-y, or only-x:
._scrollable{
#size: 15px;
#little_version_ratio: 2;
#scrollbar-bg-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.15);
#scrollbar-handler-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.15);
#scrollbar-handler-color-hover: rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
#scrollbar-coner-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
&::-webkit-scrollbar {
background: none;
width: #size;
height: #size;
}
&::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
background-color:#scrollbar-bg-color;
border-radius: #size;
}
&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
border-radius: #size;
background-color:#scrollbar-handler-color;
&:hover{
background-color:#scrollbar-handler-color-hover;
}
}
&::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
background-color: #scrollbar-coner-color;
}
&.little{
&::-webkit-scrollbar {
background: none;
width: #size / #little_version_ratio;
height: #size / #little_version_ratio;
}
&::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
border-radius: #size / #little_version_ratio;
}
&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
border-radius: #size / #little_version_ratio;
}
}
&.autoHideScrollbar{
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: hidden;
&:hover{
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
&.only-y{
overflow-y: scroll !important;
overflow-x: hidden !important;
}
&.only-x{
overflow-x: scroll !important;
overflow-y: hidden !important;
}
}
}
&.only-y:not(.autoHideScrollbar){
overflow-y: scroll !important;
overflow-x: hidden !important;
}
&.only-x:not(.autoHideScrollbar){
overflow-x: scroll !important;
overflow-y: hidden !important;
}
}
http://codepen.io/hicTech/pen/KmKrjb
My answer will scroll even when overflow:hidden;, using jQuery:
For example, scroll horizontally with the mouse wheel:
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='/js/jquery.mousewheel.min.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("YourSelector").mousewheel(function(event, delta) {
this.scrollLeft -= (delta * 30);
event.preventDefault();
});
});
</script>
I believe you can manipulate it with the overflow CSS attribute, but they have limited browser support. One source said it was Internet Explorer 5 (and later), Firefox 1.5 (and later), and Safari 3 (and later) - maybe enough for your purposes.
Scrolling, Scrolling, Scrolling has a good discussion.
To disable the vertical scroll bar, just add overflow-y:hidden;.
Find more about it: overflow.
Can CSS be used to hide the scroll bar? How would you do this?
If you wish to remove vertical (and horizontal) scrollbars from a browser viewport, add:
style="position: fixed;"
to the <body> element.
Javascript:
document.body.style.position = 'fixed';
CSS:
body {
position: fixed;
}
In addition to Peter's answer:
In case you want to remove the scrollbar from an iframe, you would need to add the styles for removing the scrollbar within the website which is iframed. It is not possible to style elements within an iframe including the scrollbar.
Website which has an iframe:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Page Title</title>
<body>
<iframe src="/iframe"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
Website which is iframed:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Page Title</title>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0
}
.content {
scrollbar-width: none;
}
.content::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
.content {
height: 100vh;
overflow: scroll;
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="content">
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS word-wrapping in div

I have a div with a width of 250px. When the innertext is wider than that i want it to break down. The div is float: left and now has an overflow. I want the scrollbar to go away by using word-wrapping. How can i achieve this?
<div id="Treeview">
<div id="HandboekBox">
<div id="HandboekTitel">
<asp:Label ID="lblManual" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</div>
<div id="HandboekClose">
<asp:ImageButton ID="btnCloseManual" runat="server"
ImageUrl="Graphics/close.png" onclick="btnCloseManual_Click"
BorderWidth="0" ToolTip="Sluit handboek" />
</div>
</div>
<asp:TreeView ID="tvManual" runat="server" RootNodeStyle-CssClass="RootNode">
<Nodes>
</Nodes>
</asp:TreeView>
</div>
CSS:
#Treeview
{
padding-right: 5px;
width: 250px;
height: 100%;
float: left;
border-right: solid 1px black;
overflow-x: scroll;
}
As Andrew said, your text should be doing just that.
There is one instance that I can think of that will behave in the manner you suggest, and that is if you have the whitespace property set.
See if you don't have the following in your CSS somewhere:
white-space: nowrap
That will cause text to continue on the same line until interrupted by a line break.
OK, my apologies, not sure if edited or added the mark-up afterwards (didn't see it at first).
The overflow-x property is what's causing the scroll bar to appear. Remove that and the div will adjust to as high as it needs to be to contain all your text.
Or simply use
word-wrap: break-word;
supported in IE 5.5+, Firefox 3.5+, and WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari.
try white-space:normal; This will override inheriting white-space:nowrap;
It's pretty hard to say definitively without seeing what the rendered html looks like and what styles are being applied to the elements within the treeview div, but the thing that jumps out at me right away is the
overflow-x: scroll;
What happens if you remove that?
you can use:
overflow-x: auto;
If you set 'auto' in overflow-x, scroll will appear only when inner size is biggest that DIV area
I'm a little surprised it doesn't just do that. Could there another element inside the div that has a width set to something greater than 250?
Setting just the width and float css properties would get a wrapping panel.
The folowing example work just fine:
<div style="float:left; width: 250px">
Pellentesque feugiat tempor elit. Ut mollis lacinia quam.
Sed pharetra, augue aliquam ornare vestibulum, metus massa
laoreet tellus, eget iaculis lacus ipsum et diam.
</div>
Maybe there are other styles in place that modify the appearance?
I found that word-wrap: anywhere worked (as opposed to word-wrap: break-word mentioned in another answer).
See also:
What does "anywhere" mean in "word-wrap" css property?

Making a row of divs all be the same height using CSS

I have a row of divs that must all be the same height, but I have no way of knowing what that height might be ahead of time (the content comes from an external source). I initially tried placing the divs in an enclosing div and floated them left. I then set their height to be "100%", but this had no perceptible effect. By setting the height on the enclosing div to a fixed-height I could then get the floated divs to expand, but only up to the fixed height of the container. When the content in one of the divs exceeded the fixed height, it spilled over; the floated divs refused to expand.
I Googled this floated-divs-of-the-same-height problem and apparently there's no way to do it using CSS. So now I am trying to use a combination of relative and absolute positioning instead of floats. This is the CSS:
<style type="text/css">
div.container {
background: #ccc;
position: relative;
min-height: 10em;
}
div.a {
background-color: #aaa;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 40%;
}
div.b {
background-color: #bbb;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 41%;
bottom: 0px;
width: 40%;
}
</style>
This is a simplified version of the HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="a">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer pretium dui sit amet felis. Integer sit amet diam. Phasellus ultrices viverra velit.</div>
<div class="b">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer pretium dui sit amet felis. Integer sit amet diam. Phasellus ultrices viverra velit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer pretium dui sit amet felis. Integer sit amet diam. Phasellus ultrices viverra velit.</div>
</div>
This works, unless you change the min-height to something like 5em (demonstranting what happens when the content exceeds the minimum height), and you can see that while the text doesn't get cutoff, the divs still refuse to expand. Now I am at a lose. Is there any way to do this using CSS?
Here is one of those moments where you can get stuck between being idealistic or realistic. I understand that there is no semantic value to placing non-tabular data in a table strictly for formatting reasons but I don't want to see you bending over backwards to create a non-tabular solution to this problem simply for its own sake.
I am the first to shoot down non-semantic designs, trust me, but sometimes you need to face the fact that CSS + semantic markup does not work for all design scenarios. I don't know the accessibility needs of this site but I would recommend that you look to a more practical solution to this problem.
Cheers to you for approaching this the right way and looking for the proper way to solve it! Unfortunately this is one of the dark corners of CSS (along with vertical positioning within a block) that is just plain impossible to do without faux columns, javascript, or table cells.
Whichever you choose, please don't adhere to a standard for its own sake.
Making them exactly the same height can be a tricky thing, but if they just have to appear to be the same height, you may want to look at the faux columns technique.
I have tried a few other methods, but this is the most reliable way I have found of getting the effect, apart from using tables of course.
OK, the table thing turned out to be a little trickier than I thought it would be. It turns out the Javascript solution is actually the simplest (for my situation), since my app is an AJAX app and the framework uses Prototype.js. All it takes is a few lines of JS:
$$('div.container').each(function (element) {
var longest = 0;
element.descendants().each(function (child) {
if (child.getHeight() > longest)
longest = child.getHeight();
});
element.descendants().each(function (child) {
child.style.height = longest + 'px';
});
});
Thanks again for the help.
You can use JavaScript, but of course it will break without JavaScript enabled. Then there's tables, but this ruins the point of CSS. Perhaps seanb's answer could work, place a background image that creates the illusion that all columns go to the bottom. This is known as the faux background technique.
Or sit tight and wait for display: table-cell to be supported for all/most browsers.
Thanks for the answers, guys. I don't think the background image will work because the widths of the columns can also vary depending on how many columns there are (the user can change it). I guess I'll use tables :(
if your looking for a purely css option, and you can seperate the background of the block from the content then the answer is two have two bits of code for each block, one for the content, one for the background. this is how it's done:
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="content" id='one>
<div class="content" id="two>
<div class="content" id="three>
<div class="background" id="back-one">
<div class="background" id="back-two">
<div class="background" id="back-three">
</div>
Position the content divs using floats. Then position the backgrounds using absolute positioning (and a z-index to put them behind)
This works because the floats can set the height, and the absolutely positioned elements can have 100% height. It's a little bit messy, but does the job.

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