I have searched and searched. Fiddled and tweaked. Spent hours trying different suggestions and code ideas...
How can I have the content on my webpage, be centered horizontally with regards to the browsers view port. No matter what I do, I always end up with uneven margins and it is quite noticeable.
The closest so far is:
#MyStyleName
{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 90%;
}
However, because I am using a percentage, no matter what I do with margins/alignment it just defaults to being on the left edge of the page.
extra info:
My issue relates to the top-level, most outer page element. The very first or that holds the content of everything else.
I am not sure what you are asking, but here is a example of af centered <div> with a percentage with.
I also added border-sizing: border-box which enables you to use padding.
#MyStyleName {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 90%;
display:block;
background:red; /* Only for testing */
box-sizing:border-box;
padding: 10px;
}
<div id="MyStyleName">
Hi!
</div>
If your #MyStyleName is a block element, then it should work. If not, then it's not gonna work. In such case you can add display:block; to the selector style.
Related
Problem
I have a header with the basic HTML structure
<div id="header">
<div id="logo"></div>
<div id="navigation"></div>
<div id="userInfo"></div>
<div class="headRight"></div>
<div id="callCenter" class="headRight"></div>
</div>
I cannot change the HTML. Currently it is laid out with floats, and navigation was aligned to the bottom of the header using padding-top. However, it only works when userInfo is 2 lines, and it can be 3 or 4.
What I need to do
Using only CSS, align navigation to the bottom for all nav heights while maintaining the original layout.
What I've tried
Half a dozen stack overflow solutions including the classics position:absolute and vertical-align:bottom on parent. (The former breaks the document flow, and the latter seems not to work because other elements get in the way.)
The fiddle
Cleaned fiddle best I could, but inspect will probably still be easiest.
https://jsfiddle.net/ohrhe4u5/1/
Notes:
The tabs should just touch the bottom of the header.
callCenter is misaligned in this example as well, but you can ignore. It's much lower priority.
New fiddle
I changed header, logo, and navigation to display:inline-block, allowed userInfo to float right, gave the nave extra height to make sure there's always room, and absolute positioned the headRight items.
That leaves me with this. A little janky due to the absolute positioning and forcing the nav height larger. Any better ideas?
https://jsfiddle.net/ohrhe4u5/2/
I generally dislike float for positioning where i can help it (this is a personal preference because i find it sometimes painfully unpredictable), as such, using a combination of position:absolute, min-height and margin i believe i have recreated what you're after.
Basically this solution works by position:absolute'ing the elements that we have some idea of consistent sizes of (the logo and the navigation), then have the header element take its height from the user data and links on the right. We add a min-height to the header element though so that should the user data be reduced to 2 lines, the height is still enough to accommodate the absolutely positioned elements (given they no longer affect the height of the header element by being absolute).
JSFIDDLE
CSS
/* new parts of the css */
#header {
min-height:112px; /* in case user data is made smaller */
padding:10px 10px 0 20px;
position:relative;
}
#logo {
width: 210px;
position:absolute;
top:50%;
width:210px;
height:62px;
left:20px;
margin-top:-32px;
z-index:1; /* bring logo above the user data */
}
#navigation {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:210px;
font-size: 20px;
height: 40px;
z-index: 1; /* bring navigation above the user data*/
}
#userInfo table{
margin:0 0 0 auto;
}
.headRight{
text-align: right;
padding-bottom: 0.2em;
}
I have a "Contact" section on my website, and I have a form section and a contact info section as two separate divs. The form acts just fine, but for some reason I can't get the contact info section to simultaneously stay on the right side while becoming less wide. I have an image so you can understand what the issue is: http://i.imgur.com/smjnXw1.png
I want them to be aligned horizontally next to each other. Thank you!
Assuming your form is correct since I can't see your code, you can edit the css.
#form{
width: 500px; /*fill in the width and height*/
height: 500px;
float: left;
}
#contact{
width: 500px; /*fill in the width and height*/
height: 500px;
float: left;
}
by default divs are as wide as they can be unless specified and a block element, so your #form is taking up the entire width space. Here is an example fiddle of what I think you're trying to achieve.
http://jsfiddle.net/valleydigital/j3qpeaym/
I think the solution is to apply a float:left to both your form and your contact info section. This way both of these will sit next to each other horizontally. Floats have normally been used to allow text to flow around an image, but sometimes they can be used to position items as well.
Check this out for some information and there are more informative links at the end of the floats post:
http://codemecrazy.wordpress.com/
Increase the size of the div in which u place the form div and contact div. Also give style with float left property.
<style>
#form #contact
{
float:left;
}
</style>
The background of my css class footer does not go across the entire width of the browser depending on how wide I keep the browser. It is making the page look odd because the footer is ending before the main content ends. The site is up at avidest.com so you can see what I'm referring to. Here is the css:
.Footer { width: 100%; padding:10px 0; margin:0px 0 0 0; text-align:center; border-top:1px solid #b3b3b3; background:#d9d9d9; background-repeat: top-repeat-x;}
The css was originally:
.Footer { width: 100%; padding:10px 0; margin:0px 0 0 0; text-align:center; border-top:1px solid #b3b3b3; background:#d9d9d9;}
but that didn't work either.
How do I make the footer go all the way from the left to the right side of the browser?
Thank you.
Looking at your webpage with chrome inspector, this error seems to be related with floating all the columns and header.
When you float an element, that element gets 'out' of the document flow. What this means is that this element actual size wont' be taken into consideration when it's time to layout things.
I usually don't want to have this behaviour on floated elements, so one way to avoid this is to set overflow: auto in the parent container.
Also, your header layout looks really strange. I'll update this when I have a definitive solution.
First update:
I have added said overflow: auto to every parent with floated elements and now it works for me. Please add that rule to the following elements:
.Header
.Logo
.body
Please note that with these changes your page will look messy (specifically, there'll be many scrollbars around).
This is because you have been a little too much strict setting things' size. I would let things flow more naturally instead. For example:
Settings logo size shouldn't be neccessary.
Bullet points on Header have too few height. I would remove it too.
Another thing I would do is to split the background image in 3 (or 2 at least, header and content). That way, things are a little more decoupled and easier to change. Try to think of each 'logical' block (header, footer, sidebars, login form) as an independent module that shouldn't share things with the rest (images, classes, etc).
I'm sorry that all this can't be explained in a comment, but please don't hesitate to ask me anything.
Have you tried left and right pixels at 0 maybe?
.Footer { left:0px; right:0px; padding-bottom:10px 0; margin:0px 0 0 0; text-align:center; border-top:1px solid #b3b3b3; background:#d9d9d9; background-repeat: top-repeat-x;}
I think it may be the container it is within
I have a "ribbon" type header on the top of my website:
#top-wrapper {
border-bottom: 5px solid #A1C1BE;
width: 100%;
background-color: #59554E;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
margin-bottom: 100px;
padding: 10px 0 0 0;
color: #C0C0A8;
}
The absolute positioning is needed to make sure it occupies the complete width of the user's browser (as far as I know). However, the rest of my webpage (the main body which contains all my other divs) is hidden behind this ribbon:
#pagebody {
width: 60%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
The only solution I have been able to find is adding a bunch of <br> between the end of top-wrapper and the start of pagebody.
Is there a better way of doing this?
As per my comment in another answer:
You can just use width: 100%, but make sure you remove the default gap it leaves with:
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
You should also check out necolas' normalize.css. It includes all of this basic CSS rules you're going to need in pretty much every site :)
Absolutely positioned elements (top-wrapper) are always on top of relative elements (pagebody), unless you do some hacky stuff with z-index (and even that is limited). What you probably want to do is move the pagebody element down just past the top-wrapper. I don't know how tall your top-wrapper is because it has no specified height. And you might not know it due to font-size differences. But overall, you simply need to add a top margin or padding to the pagebody tag, something like this:
margin-top:50px;
Absolute positioning takes an element out of the normal flow. You do not need absolute positioning to maximize width. You do that with width:100%.
There are many ways to do this. First, you can place your top wrapper outside the pagebody element and then just define its width as 100%.
If you have a graphic that is a ribbon and it is supposed to overlap the top of the pagebody element - as I think you are saying above - then you would use position absolute and z-index to place it above the pagebody element. Then add the proper padding-top to pagebody.
You didn't provide html so we don't really know what you're up to totally.
So I'm trying to code out my design for my new portfolio website, but I'm having a few issues there that research and hours of smashing my face against the computer screen have not yet solved. There are two big issues right now that I'm stuck on, though there is yet another that I'm currently considering if I even want to deal with at all.
The first issue is the menu. I want the typeface to go from regular to bold when you hover over it, or when you're on that page. Which works. Problem is when you hover over it, the other two items in the menu adjust slightly because the change in type weight pushes them out. My attempts thus far have all ended with failure.
The second issue is the footer. I want it to stay on the bottom of the page. My research has gotten me this far, but instead of what I wanted, now it actually stays at the bottom of the browser, not at the bottom of the content. Thank you for any help you can give!
The page in question can be found at: http://personal.justgooddesign.net/draft/
Your footer is getting jumbled up because you float left and clear right. My personal preference for footers always starts with this very clean method and builds from there. If you're getting confused, separate your inner content from the rest of the page and test away.
With fonts, you have to think more like a UI developer than a graphic designer. Unlike Indesign, Illustrator, etc, fonts and spacing aren't 100% pixel perfect. What will render one way in one browser will render a very different way in another. Bolding a font on the web will make it larger, and it will push spacing. To compensate for that, setup your menu elements to be a bit wider to compensate, then test like crazy. If you solely rely on margins and padding, then a bolded hover element is going to push the menu around every time.
Just a suggestion, setup your css in a separate file and load it in. The code will be cached, which will result in a performance improvement on subsequent loads. Further, you could save yourself a lot of code by doing one class to attach styling to your elements and being mindful positioning relative to other elements. There's no need to individually style every element in your portfolio for positioning.
You can fix the jump in the menu by setting a fixed width on the #menu li, so
#menu li {
display: block;
float: right;
width: 40px; //something like this.
padding: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 20px;
}
EDIT:
To fix the footer issue
remove height: 600px; from the #right rule
add a clearing br in between the #container div and the #footer div
</div>
<br style="clear:both;">
<div id="footer">
You have floating problems as you are not clearing your floats.
Your div#wrapper is always going to be equal to the height of the viewport.
Your div#container is collapsed beacuse you have floated div#left to "left", div#right to "right" and also have absolutely positioned div#footer. What this does is that, it takes these divs from the normal flow of the document and subsequently the div#contaiver is not "wrapped" around these three divs (div#left, div#right and div#fotter")
The same is the case with div#right. The div#intro and div#portfolio have been floated inside the div#right and it is not wrapping it's child divs.
Ther are many ways around these problems. I suggest this.
Include the following code after the last floated element.
<div class="float_clear"></div>
div.float_clear
{
clear: both;
}
For the menu, there is not enough space, Just add.
div#menu>ul>li
{
width: 50px;
}
Try this to fix your footer issue?
<p style = "clear:both">
<div id="footer">
Also
#right {
clear: right;
float: right;
height: 600px; //Remove this line
width: 490px;
padding: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: 0px;
}
add overflow:hidden to the container...
Whenever you have stuff that is floating, put a div around the floating content and give it
overflow:hidden;
display:block;
width: (some width);
That will fix most floating issues