flexbox one element fixed height, other filling - css

I want to make some kind of image viewer with some descriptive text below. Problem is, that the lower box with the description has a fixed height and the image should fill the remaining height of whatever container it is in.
I wanted to use flexbox for that, as I think it seems to be the most elegant and simple solution (without using JS).
This this code and codepen for my current work, which seems to work mostly:
html, body, #container {
height: 100%
}
#container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
#container > #image {
/* flex-grow: 1; */ /* not needed here? */
max-width: 75%;
background-color: #fcc;
margin: 0 auto;
}
img {
max-height: 100%;
/* HERE IS WHERE MY PROBLEM STARTS!; */
max-width: 100%;
}
#container > #text {
flex-grow: 0;
flex-shrink: 0;
background-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.7);
padding: 5px;
max-width: 75%;
margin: 15px auto 0;
/* TOP MARGIN DOESN'T WORK */
}
http://codepen.io/Kageetai/pen/AaCJy
I got most of it to work but the image is not resizing itself correclty. As you can see through the transparent background of the text box, it stretches itself over the border of the containing div and even behind the text box.
So how can I retain the image with the correct aspect ratio inside its container?
And furthermore the centering with margin: 0 auto; seems to make problems when resizing the window. The image is not centered anymore and the page needs a refresh to make it work again.
So does anyone know how to make the image behave correctly? :)

For image , you can set an height, margin and display.
For image container, give a 2 or 3 value to flex and none to other, so it fills as much space as avalaible.
DEMO
CSS used :
html,
body,
#container {
height: 100%
}
#container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
#container > #text {
background-color: #ccf;
padding: 5px;
}
#container>#image {
flex:3;
display:flex;
}
img {
width:auto;
display:block;
margin:auto;
height:100%;
}

Here's a more basic demo of how to achieve this.
<html style="height: 100%">
<body style="height: 100%; margin: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column">
<p>Toolbar</p>
<div style="background: #bbb; flex: 1">Image</div>
</body>
</html>
A demo can be seen over at Codepen.

Related

CSS Vertically Center in dynamically sized parent.

This is yet another question about centering vertically in a div, but I've tried lots of the solutions discussed in other answers to no avail.
Here's an example of the code to play with: https://codesandbox.io/s/z2qzxwk99x
The arrow-icon is centering vertically in the viewport, instead of the viewer-wrapper div. As such, it drops off of the image completely, instead of staying centered vertically, if you make the page very narrow.
.viewer-wrapper {
background-color: #1b8dbb;
position: relative;
}
.arrow-wrap {
position: absolute;
max-height: 100%;
line-height: 95vh;
background-color: #4cae4c;
margin: auto;
opacity: .9;
left: 0px
}
.arrow-icon {
background-color: orangered;
}
.comic-page {
object-fit: contain;
max-height: 95vh;
width: 100%;
}
<div className="viewer-wrapper">
<div className="arrow-wrap">
<LeftArrow className="arrow-icon" size={75} />
</div>
<img className="comic-page"
src="http://assets-production.rovio.com/s3fs-public/hatchlings_0.jpg"
about="This is an image"
/>
</div>
The magic here is Flexbox (and Grids, but Flexbox has way better browser support). Keeping the same HTML layout, you could use somerthig like:
.viewer-wrapper {
background-color: #1b8dbb;
display: flex;
align-items: flex-start;
}
.arrow-wrap {
background-color: #4cae4c;
margin: auto;
opacity: .9;
}
.arrow-icon {
background-color: orangered;
}
.comic-page {
object-fit:contain;
min-height: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
}
Depending on how much support you need of IE, there are different ways to accomplish vertical alignment.
If you don't have any need to support IE, you could use the flex display property:
.viewer-wrapper{
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
or, continue with what it looks like you're trying to do. What your missing to do so is the top: property. Since you've already correctly made the parent element position: relative, setting top: 50% will set your arrow to begin halfway down the viewer-wrapper element. From here you need to set a negative margin to correct for the arrow's height. Since it looks like you specify a size of 75(px?), you can achieve this like:
.arrow-wrap {
position: absolute;
background-color: #4cae4c;
margin-top: -37.5px;
left: 0px;
}
You shouldn't have to set any other margins.
A great resource for this, and what I used to help answer you, is howtocenterincss.com.

How can I put a div right next to a fixed-to-the-left div while keeping the fixed div's width auto?

I tried this:
<div id="fixed-navigation">...<div>
<div id="content">...<div>
and the CSS:
#fixed-navigation {
position: fixed;
width: auto;
height: 100%;
background: red;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
#content {
background: yellow;
}
See: http://codepen.io/zssz/pen/LGEJOJ
But this hides part of the content div below the fixed div, and setting an arbitrary margin-left or something on #content would just ignore the variable auto width on #fixed-navigation.
So what's the right CSS way to accomplish this seemingly simple use case? (I do want the fixed navigation to be fixed, that is it must always stay on the left side while scrolling through the content)
EDIT: Oh sorry, and I forgot to mention it should work in the majority of actual browsers out there including IE9, so alas not flexbox to the rescue.
Here's a flex box implementation:
http://codepen.io/achisholm/pen/OMPBmp
The essential stuff is...
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
display: flex on the container, in this case body, then...
#fixed-navigation {
flex: 0 0 150px;
height: 100%;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
#content {
flex: 1 0 auto;
height: 100%;
overflow-y: scroll;
}

How do i wrap a parent div to the width of a child div (dialog)?

Jsfiddle to demonstrate my issue.
I have a SPA (Single Page Application).
In the appliation several dialogs can popup on the screen.
Every popup has it own width and height.
The title and content of the dialogs are added by angularJs
The problem i have here is the size of the dialog.
Currently all popups are made and added seperatly. I want to change this into one popup with variable content. The problem that comes with this is that the popup must wrap the contents width.
Example (as shown in the Jsfiddle)
<div class="dialog">
<div class="titlebar"></div>
<div class="content">
The content that is added has css that tells it has a width of 400px
This means the dialog needs to wrap to this 400px
</div>
</div>
How do i solve this by only using CSS?
Some examples of the variation of popups (although the width of both look the same, this is not the case)
Use display:table for the dialog.
Here is your Updated Fiddle.
For young browser you may use :
1) display:flex; property (includes centering) DEMO
.backdrop {
position: fixed;
top:0;
}
.backdrop {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 100;
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
.dialog {
margin:auto;
position:relative;
}
2) max-content as value for width and not set any width to inner
content . (exept some padding to keep room for the close button) :
DEMO
Info on W3C about those new keywords value, soon avalaible i hope.
CSS updated
.dialog {
width: max-content;
z-index: 101;
margin: auto;
/* basic way t o center */
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin:-80px -150px;
}
.titlebar {
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
background-color: #000000;
border-radius: 10px 10px 0px 0px;
}
.title{
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size: x-large;
padding:0 50px 0 10px;
}
.close_button {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
line-height:30px;
padding: 5px;
margin: 5px;
border-radius: 10px;
background-color: #ffd549;
color: #000000;
}
.content {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.content-width {
background-color:#FFF000;
}
or as already said , use the display: table, inline-table
Using display: inline-block; text-align: center;
Works in ie >= 8.
Fiddle.
I don't understand the problem.
If you want to center the content-width div element, simply add margin: auto;.
If you want the container to fit the WIDTH of its content, you must change the display property from block to something else, like inline-block or table (as suggested by #jacelysh).
What is it exactly that you are trying to do?
A div without a set width will take up the width of the parent.
try this.
.content {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
min-width: 100%;
}
.content-width {
width: 100%;
background-color:#FFF000;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/VQA4k/6/
Checking again now. You can just remove the width from those two classes and it will work.
This is what you want I think.
http://jsfiddle.net/VQA4k/16/

CSS table and max-width in Chrome not working

This is my CSS code;
#wrap {
width:50em;
max-width: 94%;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color:#fff;
}
#head {
width:50em;
height:10em;
max-width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align:center;
position: relative;
}
#css-table {
display: table;
margin: 1em auto;
position: relative;
width:50em;
max-width: 100%;
}
#css-table .col {
display: table-cell;
width: 20em;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#css-table .col:nth-child(even) {
background: #fff;
}
#css-table .col:nth-child(odd) {
background: #fff;
border-right: 4px double #b5b5b5;
}
And my HTML code;
<div id="cont">
<div id="css-table">
<div class="col">123</div>
<div class="col">123</div>
</div>
</div>
When I scale the Firefox window, the table scales fine even down to 300px width viewport...just like I want to. But in Chrome, the table looks normal only when the viewport is wider than 50em. If I narrow the Chrome window, the table bleeds out on the right side of the wrap.
Is there a reason why is Chrome doing this?
Technically Chrome is following the rules because max-width should only apply to block elements.
From MSDN docs:
The min-width/max-width attributes apply to floating and absolutely
positioned block and inline-block elements, as well as some intrinsic
controls. They do not apply to non-replaced inline elements, such as
table rows and row/column groups. (A "replaced" element has intrinsic
dimensions, such as an img or textArea.)
The table (or in your case display:table) should technically not work or be supported. FF apparently obeys it fine, but you'll probably need to come up with another solution, either removing the display:table or the max-width.
max-width property
MSDN Doc
The solution I found was using table-layout: fixed and width: 100%
Create a div and give it a styling to display block and a max width. You may use traditional <table> and give it a styling of 100% width.
I was able to use a mixin(SASS) to fix the issue.
#mixin clearfix {
&::after{
content: "";
display: table;
clear: both;
}
}

vertical alignment of image inside a div

I want to set vertical alignment of image inside a div. I use img { vertical-align:middle}
but it is not working.
Using the line-height property will solve the problem:
<style>
.someclass {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 300px;
border: dotted;
}
.someclass img {
margin: auto;
vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>
<div class="someclass">
<img src="someimg.jpg" border="0" alt="">
</div>
This is a solution that doesn't require JavaScript (as my previous solution did).
You can achieve what you want by assigning display: table-cell to the containing div. Here's an example: http://jsbin.com/evuqo5/2/edit
I feel I must warn you that you will need to test this in every browser you intend to support. Support for the table-cell value is fairly new, particularly in Firefox. I know it works in Firefox 4, but I don't know about any of the 3.x iterations. You'll also want to test in IE (I've only tested in Chrome 10 and Firefox 4).
The CSS:
div#container {
width: 700px;
height: 400px;
position: relative;
border: 1px solid #000;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
div#container img {
margin: 0 auto;
display: block;
}
You won't need the div#container img styles if you don't also want to horizontally align the image.
If you're trying to do what I think, vertical align isn't going to work; you'll need to use positioning.
In general, position the container relative, and then position the image absolute, with top and left set to 50%, and then move the image back to the center by setting negative margins equal to half the width / height.
Here's a working example: http://jsbin.com/evuqo5/edit
Basic CSS is this:
#container { position: relative; }
#container img {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-top: /* -1/2 the height of the image */
margin-left: /* -1/2 the width of the image */
}
See this awser: How to vertical align image inside div
If you want to align horizontally also, add the right and left, like this:
div {
position:relative;
}
img {
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
margin:auto;
}
The following post has some useful references:
Text Alignment w/ IE9 in Standards-Mode
Also, depending on which version of IE you are testing against, you may end up needing some browser-specific hacks or some jQuery/JavaScript code.
If you have to, use a one-row-one-cell table and take advantage of the vertical-align property. This is brute-force, not overly semantic, but it works.
If you set the div display attribute to table-cell then vertical-align: middle; will work.
The vertical-align rule only affects table cells or elements with display: table-cell.
See this article from SitePoint for a detailed explanation.
<style>
/* change body to .someClasses's parent */
body {
width: 100%;
height:  100%;
display: table;
}
body > .someclass {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
text-align: center;
border:dotted;
margin: 0 auto
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="someclass">
<img src="someimg.jpg" border="0" alt="">
</div>
</body>

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