I've looked around for answers and I've tried plugging in everything I can think of, but I can't seem to figure this one out. I feel like I'm probably overlooking something really simple and obvious, but any help you can give would be really appreciated!
Basically I'm trying to customize this page so that the little character boxes are horizontally centered within their .wrapper div.
While the div itself is centered horizontally in the middle of the page (I've used padding: 0 15% for that), the content inside it is not.
Here is a pastebin of the entire code if anyone would like it. The relevant section is line 140. Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
The problem is the div containing the individual character boxes are using absolute positioning so any style you try to use on the wrapper div that contains them to center them will be overwritten by the absolute positioning. You could probably change the javascript that is writing the absolute positions to center the boxes in the wrapper div or you could possibly pad the wrapper. I was playing around with the numbers and had a couple boxes centered within the wrapper div but when it's resized the javascript rewrites the positions. I would've used bootstrap to make this page instead of using javascript to reposition things on resize.
Another alternative is
1) Remove padding on your wrapper div and set text-align center
2) For each of the character box, I am not sure what you are using the javascript for. If the javascript have no other use other than making those boxes horizontally center, you can remove it.
.chara remove the float center, remove height, add display inline-block, add padding 25px 0
3) .charaimg remove position relative, remove top, remove left
4) .charatitle remove height, remove position absolute, remove bottom 0
5) In your HTML switch the .charaimg and .charatitle
That should do.
And also for future question, it helps a lot if you can put your code in codepen or jsfiddle. It makes life easier for people who are helping you.
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I have been searching for an answer to this for some time.
i want to add space to the bottom of my web page, as content sits too close to edge.
I have tied 'padding-bottom' in wrapper tag, in body tag and in style tag.. not working.
any help on this appreciated..
thanks,
Keith.
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you have a serious design problem.
all your elements are relatively position with top offset, that cause the wrapper and body to be actually smaller then you think. because this offset is not taken in consideration when determining the wrapper height. (so the height of the wrapper is only the sum of his children height, without the offset between them)
when you add padding-bottom to the wrapper or the body, it works (of course), but you don't see it. because your elements overlaps the wrapper..
you will be able to see that I'm right by setting overflow:hidden; to the wrapper (or inspecting your site with a tool). suddenly, half of your content disappears..
you need to remove the position:relative; from your elements, and use margin-top instead of top to make the desired space between the elements.
That way: the wrapper and body height will be set right, and the padding will work as you expect it.
You're positioning relatively all your elements. That's causing the padding/margin problems too. Why would you position your elements like this?
Try removing relative positioning and add top/bottom margins to your elements. The results will be the same in terms of visual effect.
It will also be much simpler adding new sound boxes, as you don't have to calculate a top positioning for each one.
So basically the website I'm designing has 3 divs inside a container div. One floating to the left. Two to the right one above and one below. They work fine when the browser is maximized. Problem is, when the browser is resized, the right divs wrap below the left div even though I've set min-widths. I want the divs to remain where they are and a scroll bar to appear instead. I did try overflow, no luck. Any solutions?
PS- Initially I had added min-width for the inner divs too. They didn't seem to solve the problem, so I removed them.
A solution or a nudge in the right direction would be really appreciated.
Here's a link to the jsFiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/R62w4/3/
Thank you, Matthew. Although that fixed the wrapping issue, my site now has a thin line of pixels on the right hand side. Any idea how I remove it? It continues from the header till the footer. It isn't affected by any changes to the CSS elements pertaining to the header or navigation bar or footer.
Okay, I found the reason to the extra space on the right side. If I increase my margins for the outer div, the space increases. Is there a way to increase the margins without getting a space?
You might be able to wrap them in this:
<div style="white-space:nowrap;">
</div>
... to prevent that from happening.
It's hard to know exactly where the problem is, could you post some code or make a JSFiddle?
Update:
I believe the problem is that you are using % based widths and px for margins - it's easy to lose track of how much available space you have and subsequently your layout falls apart. Consider that two left floated DIVs of 50% width with 1px of margin each will break on to two lines every time because that's more than 100%.
I changed your fiddle a bit: http://jsfiddle.net/R62w4/5/
... just by moving the left margin from your first DIV and right margin from your other two to the parent container seems to give enough room for everything.
P.S. You can use % based margins and just make sure everything you want to be on one line stays <= 100%.
the simpl css framework shows you how to do percentage based columns with pixel based margins which is what you want.
Here's a sample of what's not working: http://jsfiddle.net/EJuzv/29/
I need to wrap everything within a div so that I may give a width, and center with margin:0 auto;. As it is, works in every browser except IE6. Everything I try results in losing my sweet divs that extend 100% to the stick footer.
Can anyone crack this case?
You may very well have tried this approach already, but maybe it'll help you crack this problem. Absolute-positioning the header against the top-left corner is unnecessary and just forces you to pad the "container" holding your three colored elements.
http://jsfiddle.net/piersadrian/mKQ89/1/
Two questions for this fiddle...
Why doesn't the middle text move under the left and right texts even though it has clear: both assigned to it?
Why doesn't the middle text go to the middle of the footer even with margin: 0 auto?
I did manage to get the text to the middle under left and right but I had to use a separate div around the <h7 id="middle">. Is there a way around it?
I'll be more precise. <h7> doesn't exist, so it is rendered as an inline element... So clear doesn't affect it!
(And you'll have to use text-align:center; instead of margin:auto;, unless you use a specified width)
I have this code: http://jsfiddle.net/5RbrL/
As you can see, the text doesn't go over the .box div. I would like to achieve the same, but the .box div should be attached to the bottom of the container.
First thing I tried was setting the container's positioning context to relative and making .box absolute, but this takes it out of the document's flow and text is placed underneath .box, which is exactly what I don't want to happen.
I do not know the height of the container, as it will depend on the amount of text inside it.
Is there any way to make the text fill the entire container, but leave the bottom right square empty (for a background graphic)?
[EDIT]
I apologise for not phrasing my question clearly: I would like the text to wrap around the .box.
Unfortunately what you ask can't be done with pure CSS.
You need a specific height to be able to float/position elements in this manner.
You could get around it be adding more elements, but this isn't preferable as then you'd have to invent some way to spread the last parts of text over to the empty element.
Well you could fake it by adding another element and somehow injecting the last lines of text into it.
Other than that, without a specific height I am not sure there is a real way to do it. HTML should come up with some kind of pathing system :D
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After some thinking and experimentation I have an easier solution, just include the element within the text (inside the <p>.)
Have you tried moving the image div to the bottom of the container (underneath your text) and then clearing the container with either a clear div or overflow:hidden? http://jsfiddle.net/5RbrL/14/
What exactly do you want to do?
if do you want the box in the bottom, you can put an overflow hidden in the container, and then move the .box to the bottom > something like this >
http://jsfiddle.net/3v2mr/
or the structure can't changes?