I have started to try to build a really easy website and trying to make it responsive. Something in the style of http://www.squarespace.com/ (Split up in different sections with different backgrounds etc that you just scroll throu) But i have a problem that I really cant figure out right now, I don't know how to make the foundation for this kind of site. I got the "menu" part quite nice, but as soon as I try to but some content on the first "part" or try to start the second part I run into trouble.
To try to explain I have two < p > that I tried to put on-top of the first part, and below to make the second part. I guess the explanation is not perfect, but hopefully the code can clear up my issue abit :)
Edit: Just took some random pictures to be able to show...
#logo img{
z-index: 10;
left: 4%;
top:20px;
max-width: 50%;
height: auto !important;
position: absolute;
}
#signup img{
z-index: 10;
right: 4%;
top:20px;
max-width: 50%;
height: auto !important;
position: absolute;
}
#main-container img {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
max-height:308px !important;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
margin:0;
}
#second-container {
}
<div class="container">
<div id="menu">
<div id="logo">
<a href="example.com">
<img src="https://tcrf.net/images/d/de/FBEAR-nosave.png" alt="" />
</a>
</div>
<div id="signup">
<a href="example.com">
<img src="https://tcrf.net/images/d/de/FBEAR-nosave.png" alt="" />
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="main-container">
<img src="http://www.reallifeglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/background-radi-700x300.png" alt="" />
</div>
<p>Ontop of background</p>
<div id="second-container">
<p>Under background</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
https://jsfiddle.net/gt2d6aa7/
Since the image in main-container is not set as a background image and it comes before the paragraphs in the source code, it is appearing on top of the paragraphs.
2 things you could do to get the paragraphs to show:
1) Set a position property on the paragraph style to make it appear on top of the image:
div.container p{position:relative;}
2) I would suggest setting that image as the background of your container and giving it a minimum height (in case your content does not increase the container size enough to fully see your image). Like so:
<div id="main-container" style="background-image:url('http://www.reallifeglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/background-radi-700x300.png');background-size:100%;min-height:300px;background-repeat:no-repeat;">
Then, make sure to close your main-container before opening the second-container, that way it creates a clean section for different content. The way you have it, second-container is inside the main-container and any content that you wanted to appear below the main background and top content would actually just appear on top of the main-container background.
The Squarespace site you linked to is a good example visually, but if you inspect their code it gets a little confusing for a beginner, since they are nesting the bottom sections (below that video presentation) in a section within in a div.
Twitter Bootstrap has some good examples of one-page layouts with cleaner markup to follow. This is a good example: http://blackrockdigital.github.io/startbootstrap-landing-page/
Here are their other examples: http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/one-page/
I am not an advocate of Bootstrap, since it adds a lot of unnecessary bloat in most cases, but these give a good indication of how to structure your page.
Good luck!
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I have an image which has to take full width. And I need to put a text and a button on top of it in a specific place. I looked over many topics but can not figure out how to make it fully responsive.
<div class"wrapper">
<div class="image-box">
<img src="x">
</div>
<div class="content-box">
<h1>text goes there</h1>
<a>anchor tag goes there</a>
</div>
</div>
so this is the layout but it can be changed if it gets me to the point I need.
If I understand correctly the parent div called wrapper should be set to position: relative and all the child divs to position: absolute, after that you just position all these child elements with top, left, right, bottom. So after testing this this is what I get. Since the image is always 100% of the viewport it gets smaller and smaller by height and width because of its aspect ratio. The text and button on the image just stays at a fixed place and after some point it goes out of the image.
Whats my mistake?
P.S found a lot of topics but still, I am messing something up. Thank you for your insights and help.
The image tag is used to create a separate element on the page. This is not really what you want... you want the content-box to have a background, right? Rather than using the image tag, use CSS to apply a background image.
here is a jsfiddle
.content-box {
/* set width and height to match your image */
/* if these are omitted, it will only be as big as your content, */
/* and only show that much of your image */
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
/* obviously, replace this with your image */
background:url('http://placecage.com/200/300');
}
<div class"wrapper">
<div class="content-box">
<h1>text goes there</h1>
<a>anchor tag goes there</a>
</div>
</div>
I think this is what you want. Also, this is a good occasion to use those HTML5 tags figure
and figcaption, but basically all you need is this kind of structure:
<div class="wrapper">
<img />
<div class="content-box">
<!-- Your content here -->
</div>
</div>
So what is happening here is that your wrapper's dimensions are fixed by the image, and then you position absolutely your content-box or the elements within. If you do not want to position them at the very top or bottom of your image, just use percentage values when positionning:
top: 10%;
figure {
position: relative;
}
figure img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
figure figcaption {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin: 0;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.7);
padding: 10px;
}
<figure>
<img src="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/mediumsize/PIA17011_ip.jpg" />
<figcaption>
<h1>The image title</h1>
<p>This is the image caption</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
I'm trying to display on one line:
a H1 element aligned to the left of the containing box
several "buttons" (A elements here) aligned to the right of the containing box
all being on the same baseline
Is it possible to do this with minimal markup (i.e. no wrapping elements) and without having to set precise heights, line-heights, margin-tops, etc.
<div id="block1">
<h1>What a great title</h1>
This link can kill you
Click if you dare
</div>
The fiddle here shows what I feel are two incompatible directions (inline-blocks and you can't align to the right vs. float right and you can't align vertically):
http://jsfiddle.net/GlauberRocha/bUsvX/
Any idea?
I did this to my site a quite ago: a h2 on the left, and a button on the right. Screen shot:
Code:
<div id="side_bar" class="clearfix">
<h2 style="float: left;">Charity Map</h2>
<button class="btn btn-primary" style="float: right; position: relative; top: 10px; right: 10px;">Submit</button>
</div>
You have a potential problem with that layout - what if your H1 is too long and so are the buttons? They will run in to each other. Because of this, no simple CSS will do - CSS doesn't do magic like that - it would have to imply some sort of solution to the above problem.
However, what you want can simply be accomplished using absolute positioning:
<div style="position: relative;">
<h1 style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0">What a great title</h1>
<div style="position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; text-align: right">
This link can kill you
Click if you dare
</div>
</div>
If you are really afraid that the header and the anchor container might run in to each other depending on generated content, you can use CSS max-width and overflow properties to restrict their containing boxes to some sensible values. The overflowing content will be hidden but at least the layout will not break visually. I assume the following modification of the above code (pardon the duplicate) would serve the purpose:
<div style="position: relative;">
<h1 style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; max-width: 50%; overflow: hidden">What a great title</h1>
<div style="position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; text-align: right; max-width: 50%; overflow: hidden">
This link can kill you
Click if you dare
</div>
</div>
To round off, you cannot achieve this using a straightforward CSS property combination, because with CSS (and HTML), content flows from left to right and top to bottom, or it becomes absolutely- or fixed- positioned which interrupts the flow. Anyhow, it does not want to remain on the same line, and you as the layout designer are left with resolving ambiguities such layout would introduce, such as what to do when the two trains running from each direction front-collide with each other :-)
It's hard to achieve without any wrapping elements or fixed values...
Adding a fixed line-height to both the Heading and the Links would solve your problem rather quick.
Align your Links with 'display:block; float:right' to the right.
Now Set "line-height: 40px;" to both the heading and the links
Should work, but only when the size of the heading doesn't change....
One potential approach to this, depending on your exact needs, is to use a table layout:
#block3 {
display: table;
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
#block3 > * {
display: table-cell;
}
#block3 > *:last-child {
text-align: right;
}
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bUsvX/39/
If you want the buttons strictly aligned right, I think this solution requires another element to wrap them:
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bUsvX/40/
I had the same issue.. Add display:inline to the h1, then for buttons: float:right; display:inline;
example (with use of Twitter Bootstrap):
<h2 style="display:inline">Users</h2>
<i class="icon-download-alt"></i>XLS
<form style="display:inline; float:right;">
<input type="text" class="input-medium search-query" name="search">
<button class="btn" type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
I'm working on a website that uses an older vBulletin message forum. The current setup works fine for the most part, however, when I open the forum in my mobile device, I see the ad banner (728x90) overlapping the logo image and it just looks bad. It gets even messier when looking at the banner css positioning because the top and right portions fit the needs of the rest of the layout.
My basic question is how can I redo this so that the banner doesn't EVER overlap the logo image while still holding the necessary offsets to fit the rest of the layout?
#container{
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
}
#logo{
width:230px;
height: 63px;
}
#advertisement{
height: 90px;
width: 728px;
position: absolute;
right:10px;
top: 7.5px;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="logo"><img src="logo.jpg" border="0" alt="Whatever" /></div>
<div id="advertisement"></div>
</div>
** Not my CSS or HTML
I would give #container the property "min-width: 958", and keep the width of 100%.
That way, the page will always be wide enough for both the logo and the advertisement.
I understand that there are several questions here about this problem, but I have a rather unique predicament. I'm working on a template that has to include certain tags, and has to work with other elements that are added to the template after I upload the code. I wouldn't worry about this, but I am having a time trying to get the footer to display at the bottom of the page. I can't alter anything about the footer, and it displays at the bottom of the div I'm using as a wrapper. The problem is if I set the height to a fixed value, there can only be so many comments made before the comment div overlaps the footer. I've tried several different solutions including setting the container div's height to auto, overflow to auto, bottom margin to 65 (height of the footer), and setting the overflow to scroll for the Comments div (resulted in very loose comments).
Here is an example of the problem and the template as it stands.
Here is the CSS styling for the container div (div id=Main)
#Main {
margin: 0px auto auto auto;
background-color: #808080;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: medium;
font-variant: normal;
color: #FFFFFF;
width: 900px;
position: relative;
}
Here's the CSS styling for the Comments div
#Comments {
background-color: #008080;
width: 450px;
height: auto;
top: 1750px;
left: 450px;
position: absolute;
overflow: auto;
}
And here's how the divs are stacked in the body
<div id="Main">
...
<div id="Comment_Form">
<!--[COMMENT_FORM=400,200]-->
</div>
<div id="Comments">
<!--[COMMENTS=400]-->
Comments
</div>
</div>
Since the page is going to be image heavy, I'm trying to keep the code lightweight (and probably failing at it pretty badly).
Thank you for your help and I'll post the template as of now if anyone needs it.
EDIT:
Okay, it's occurred to me that a) I need to redo the CSS and the divs that I have down, and b) I have no clue how to do it using pure CSS, or at least with out fighting it as one of you has said. What I'm trying to achieve is this:
I have no clue How to do this. and any help would be greatly appreciated (as well as any way to avoid having each and every element in its own div)
You seem to be really fighting your CSS on that page. Most of your elements are positioned absolutely within your #Main class. This will force you to specify a lot more layout than you really want to. It also means that if you have a variable quantity of comments or dynamic content, you'll find it that much harder to expand your content containers without others getting in the way.
I would strongly urge you to look at CSS frameworks or approaches that take advantage of grid layouts such as Nicole Sullivan's OOCSS framework.
You'll find that the structure (which has plenty of good, workable examples) is easy to follow and lends itself much more readily to the sorts of layouts that you're trying to achieve.
I hope this is helpful.
Here is a very basic layout that you can use.
In your CSS:
#header, #content, #comments{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#author-comments{
width: 100%;
}
#comment-box{
float: left;
width: 50%;
}
#comment-list{
float: right;
width: 50%;
}
In your markup:
<div id="header">
Header
</div>
<div id="content">
Contents
<div>
<div id="comments">
<div id="author-comments">
Author comments
</div>
<div id="comment-box">
Comment box
</div>
<div id="comment-list">
Comment list
</div>
</div>
It's really important that you use markup that makes sense without the styles. Don't see divs as plain boxes but as actual content containers that give structure to your document.
On a side note, you mentioned that you were concerned about the ammount of divs to keep your file light, compensating for the amount of images you're using. Don't worry about this. Text documents (such as HTML) are nothing compared to images in terms of file size. However, his doesn't mean you should throw markup as if it was free ;)
One last thing. I noticed that you are using <img> elements to render your decoration images. Try using CSS to set them as background images in the corresponding <div>s. This not only will help you to make cleaner and easier to implement structures, but also will draw a line between the images that represent content and those that represent decoration.
I'll write without any testing how I would code the layout on your image:
HTML:
<div id="header" class="centered"></div>
<div id="content" class="centered">
<div id="navigation"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
</div>
<div id="comments" class="centered">
<div id="author-comments" class="centered"></div>
<div class="centered">
<div id="comment-field"></div>
<div id="user-comments"></div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
* { margin:0px; padding:0px }
html { height:100% }
body { height:100% }
.centered { position:relative; margin:0 auto; width:960px }
#header { height:100px; background:#333 }
#content { overflow:hidden }
#author-comment { overflow:hidden; margin:30px auto }
#comment-field { position:relative; float:left; width:480px; overflow:hidden }
#user-comments { position:relative; float:left; width:480px; overflow:hidden }
Sorry, got no time to test now, but on first view, I don't see any problems with this code - write comments, if something doesn't work
Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with my css position. Basically I have a sidebar that is set to the left of the screen, which basically includes all my links for navigation. I want the sidebar to extend all the way to the bottom of the screen, no matter if the user minimizes or maximizes the browser, or their resolution. Even if the page happens to scroll I want the div to go all the way to the bottom. I'm having a lot of trouble with this and cannot get it to work correctly. Here is my code, if anyone spots the reason it is not working, any help is greatly appreciated.
HTML:
<div id="welcome">
Welcome <br> to My Site!<br>
<span style="color: red; ">(Beta)</span>
<div id="sidebar">Home</div>
<div id="sidebar">link</div>
<div id="sidebar">Link</div>
<div id="sidebar">Link</div>
<div id="sidebar">Link</div>
<div id="sidebar">Forum</div>
<div id="sidebar">About</div>
<div id ="sidebar">Requests</div>
<div id="sidebar" >"Pr0j3ct Un1ty"</div>
<div style="font-size: 20px;">Logged in as: <?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?> </div>
<div id = "sidebar" >
Logout </div>
<div style=" font-size: 16px;">Account Settings</div>
<div style="margin-left: 10px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px;"><b>© jm1llz 2010</b></div>
</div>
CSS Page:
#welcome
{
width: 15%;
float: left;
background-color: darkgrey;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
font-size: 24px;
font-family: Comic Sans MS;
font-weight: bold;
}
The best way is to use a background image. If you are not using a body background image now then the easiest is to create and image with the width of the sidebar.
body {
background-image: url(/images/bg.jpg); /* Wherever your image is located */
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
That will make the image go all the way to the bottom regardless of how tall your sidebar actually is.
Then on your sidebar, just style the div to fit within the image you created. If it's all the way to the left like you say then all you should need to add to your style is the correct width and maybe some padding.
If you are using a body background image than create another div with...
div { width: 100%; height: 100%; } /* You may need a float: left; as well */
...and place the above background CSS inside the new div. You will then have to add that new div just inside the tag in your HTML.
easiest practical way is to throw a bg image on your element that contains your floating sidebar with the bg color/graphic that repeats vertically. make sure the container has overflow/clearfix.
I think you are asking "how do I make two columns the same height?"
If that is the question, there are various 'tricks' to do it via CSS (such as meder's recommendation) but these days I'd strongly suggest just using javaScript. It's fairly trivial especially if you are using something like jQuery.
ON document ready, grab the height of each div and then force the shorter one to a height equal to the taller one.