I want to simply center 2 divs horizontally regardless of the screen width and without using a wrapper. I have the following simple code:
#div1 {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
#div2 {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
I created the following fiddle for illustration:
http://jsfiddle.net/axe89/
The reason I don't want to use a wrapper is that I want to make a cross platform website and if I define a width for the wrapper it will break mobile screen.
#setek has the solution above, just wanted to add this quick rule of thumb:
To horizontally center display:inline and display:inline-block items, use text-align:center;.
To horizontally center display:block items, use margin: 0 auto;.
as alluded to by setek, you can define a container for your divs, with a width of 100% so that it scales with the screen/device width. Also set its text align to center to achieve your desired effect.
#container{text-align:center;width:100%;}
here is your updated fiddle
and for slightly modified markup and css - http://jsfiddle.net/axe89/5/
Use css margin properties.
margin-left:40%
to the first div.
You can add
text-align: center;
to the body tag or to whatever you are planning to wrap the divs with.
fiddle link
Related
I'm fairly new to CSS coding. I'm attempting to center an image and cannot get it to center. From what I know, the relevant code is as follows:
The CSS Code:
#header img {
align: center;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-left: 10px;
}
The code as it is on the HTML file:
<div id="header">
<a href="$settings[shopurl]">
<img src="https://capa.lunarmania.com:2083/cpsess1188922546/viewer/home%2famysp0%2fpublic_html%2fimages/AmyPromos.png" border="0" align="center" alt="" />
</a>
</div>
I feel as though I'm missing something but I cannot find it or figure it out. Any help at all is appreciated. The image sits stubbornly on the top left of the webpage instead of centering in the header like I ask it to do.
A few problems. First, it's text-align, not align.
Centering things in CSS sometimes isn't as simple as setting text-align: center. Sometimes, you'll have a block-level element which is as large as its contents; in this case, if your div is as big as the image, it won't center the image because centering it in the div won't move it. Make sure that your div is also centered, or that it's as big as the thing inside which you want to center the image.
Also, text-align: center affects contents inside an element, not the element itself. So, in this case, you want the centering CSS on #header, not just the image.
Finally, if you want to physically center an element by itself, it needs to be a block-level element (i.e. display: block, which is default for divs) and have an automatic margin on the left and right. This can be achieved by setting margin-left and margin-right to auto, or using a shorthand like margin: topbottom auto or margin: top auto bottom.
In this particular case, you probably just want to set text-align: center on the #header element, but in general, "centering an image" is sometimes more complicated than just one line.
You need to center the text inside your #header rather than center the image. Check out this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/10py5mu6/
#header {
width: 600px;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
border: solid 1px #000;
}
I have a question about the scrollbar that appears when it does not fit.
For example here I have one news item. Below a screenshot of the layout:
And when you add more items the scrollbar will appear over the date.
It's default behauviour for a scrollbar to appear inside a div, but is it possible to
apply css when the scrollbar appears inside. For example I could use a padding-right: 16px;
to the container. The only problem then, is another container is floated to it and these are inside a big container then the layout would collapse because of the extra padding.
Is there another way to keep the layout without breaking apart?
Here is the link: http://jsfiddle.net/EANbh/
and the css to the container:
.container {
width: 200px;
height:200px;
border: 1px solid grey;
overflow-y:auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
/*padding-right:16px;*/
}
Regards, Chris.
Another option without using the padding is:
.item {
display:inline-block;
width:184px;
height: auto;
border-bottom: 1px solid grey;
}
.mainCoverWrapper {
position: relative;
min-width:312px;
background:red
}
I'm trying to center a div with min-width of 312px and make it expand according to its dynamic content while keeping it centered.
Right now the min-with doesn't work at all because it needs a float. I can't use a float because I need the div centered on the page.
In other words, div starts out with margin auto with a width of 312px and expands with its added content while being centered. Is this possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
http://jsfiddle.net/FVmvA/
Here's a working example of the parent to follow the width of the child, and the child will expand according to the text given in it.
.myCoverWrapper {
border: 1px solid Peru;
margin:auto;
min-width: 200px;
max-width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
background: red;
}
.test {
height: 100px;
margin: 10px;
background: cyan;
}
This makes the parent div follow the width of the kid.
This however, will disallow you to "center" it. There's no way you can have both. This is because you cant center an image without knowing the width of the element.
The solution is to use jQuery, to add CSS in when necessary.
Here's an example. There's some bugs, but well, you have the general idea.
If you want the width to be fluid, your best bet is to set display: inline-block; on the to-be-centered element, and text-align: center; to the parent element.
See: CSS center display inline block?
I want to wrap an image into an html DIV and, since I want this to be fully scalable with the size of the window, I want to set the width of the DIV in percentage as follows:
html
<div id="wrapper">
<img src="http://openclipart.org/people/netalloy/rally-car.svg" />
</div>
css
#wrapper {
position: absolute;
width: 50%;
}
#wrapper img {
width: 100%;
}
The image should determine the height of its container. This is because the image width is set to 100% and the image height is calculated accordingly maintaining the correct aspect ratio.
The result is visible on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/lorenzopolidori/5BN4g/15/
My questions are:
Why do all modern browsers render the wrapper DIV 5px taller than the inner image?
How can I get rid of this 5px gap, while still setting all the sizes in percentage and without using javascript?
Surprisingly, this happens in Chrome (21.0.1180.89), Firefox (15.0.1) and IE8, while IE7 renders it correctly, matching the height of the DIV with the height of the image.
Check this out :
http://jsfiddle.net/5BN4g/29/
It's a line-height issue :-)
You need :
#wrapper {
width: 60%;
background-color: #aaa;
margin: 50px auto;
line-height:0;
}
#wrapper img {
width:100%;
border: 1px dashed red;
box-sizing:border-box;
}
I used box-sizing to make sure the width of the image doesn't overflow the container
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Hi now add vertical-align:top in your img tag throw css
as like this
#wrapper img {
width: 100%;
border: 1px dashed red;
vertical-align:top; // add this line
}
live demo
OK, fiddling about, I found a good possible solution:
#wrapper img {
display: block;
width: 100%;
border: 1px dashed red;
}
Changing from the default inline display to a block display eliminates the line-height problem straight away.
This approach is also semantically correct because in this case what we really want is a single image wrapped in a DIV without any other elements in it, so the concept of line-height needs to be completely wiped off by displaying the image as a block.
It works on all major browsers: http://jsfiddle.net/lorenzopolidori/5Cpf2/3/
I think you shuold set align property to force browser show correctly img tag.
<div id="wrapper">
<img align="center" src="http://openclipart.org/image/800px/svg_to_png/74557/rally-car.png" />
</div>
DEMO
I think is because it doesn't see as a Table
i added the display:table in your code
And it looks fine now, check the link
Example Display Table
Your issue is that an image -- the <img> tag, to be exact -- is an inline element. All you need to do is set display: block on the image and the extra padding goes away. Demo.
I need to create a dialog box using custom images created by a designer. For purposes of this discussion, this the correct answer for my application. The dialog box must be able to withstand changes in width and height. This is easy to do with a table, but I want to maintain a table-less design, so I figured that I could do this using 3 rows of DIV's. For example, float an image to the left, float an image to the right, and put a DIV in between then with the image set to the background so that text can be entered over it.
Here is demo of my failed attempt to do this: (just one row shown)
http://www.seaburydesign.com/rounded/demo.html
As you can see, this almost working. But the DIV in the middle is only the size of the content inside of it, even though I have set the height and width. I need to keep the width flexible.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Remove the following line:
display:inline;
Besides being useless in this case (the inline behavior is already working because of the floats) "inline" property doesn't allow you to set the element's width or height. For a clearer understanding, read w3c's article.
If you make the rounded corners of your images white instead of transparent, you can apply the background-image to the header-tag instead of the middle div. This will create the impression that the middle div has the same height as both images.
Update
If possible (depending on what browsers you need to support), you could do rounded corners with CSS3's border-radius property, instead of using images. That would be something like:
header {
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-top-right-radius: 10px;
}
You could also try this border-radius CSS-generator to find the properties that suit you best.
The css display: inline in your container div's voids any setting for width. Use display: block; float: left; margin: 0 XXpx; for your div (with XX being the width of the images on the sides).
Edit:
Concretely this would be:
div#yourdiv {
background-image: url("images/module_header_bg.jpg");
color: white;
display: block;
float: left;
font-weight: bold;
height: 42px;
width: auto;
}
and both img tags
img {
float: left;
}
This creates a dynamic sized box for your content, or you set width of the div to a specific value like width: 300px instead of width: auto.