I have a left panel with fixed position(it's always on the left side, nomatter how much you scroll) and also few elements in that left panel. On a certain event a mask appears(it goes over everything because position:fixed; z-index: 102).
My goal is when X event fires and the mask come up, to show up the holder element over the mask.
Here is a fiddle showing my problem: JSFIDDLE
Here is my HTML:
<div class="leftpanel">
<div class="just-random-elem" style="height: 30px;">just an element to move the holder abit down</div>
<div class="holder">asdasdas</div>
</div>
<div class="mask"></div>
<div style="height: 9999px;">Just to make sure both mask and leftpanel are with fixed positions.</div>
and here's the CSS:
.mask {
opacity: 0.85;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 101;
background-color: #000;
}
.leftpanel {
width: 250px;
height: 100%;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-color: red;
padding: 15px;
}
.holder {
width: 230px;
height: 90px;
background-color: #fff;
z-index: 99999; <<<<<<<<<< This is NOT working!
}
Your .holder element is no positioned, so z-index simply has no effect on it. You need to add a position value different from the default static – relative will do.
http://jsfiddle.net/DJA5F/4 works that way in every browser I tested – except Chrome. Can’t spontaneously say if Chrome is handling stacking contexts correct here and the others are not – or if it’s the other way around.
Works in Chrome as well if you put #mask into .leftpanel: http://jsfiddle.net/DJA5F/5 – might not be the nicest workaround, but since it’s postioned fixed, it does not actually matter, since the orientation for fixed is the viewport.
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is there any way to make single page website without position absolute? Because when I want to variable height of containers, absolute position is little bit awkward. I mean when I insert more content to one container, the other above it should move down. I've tried position static and relative, but it didn't work for me.
Now my css looks like:
<style>
#header {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 20%;}
#main {position: absolute; top: 20%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 80%;}
#about {position: absolute; top: 100%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;}
#contact {position: absolute; top: 200%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 50%;}
</style>
<body>
<div id="header">
content....
</div>
<div id="main">
content...
</div>
<div id="about">
long content which is covered with next div, because its "top" atribute settings
</div>
<div id="contact">
div which covers previous one's end
</div>
But when some container needs to be longer, problem is here..
Thanks for any help!
That depends on the style of your website. Of course you can set up anchors and have a one-page scrolling website, but I don't think that answers your question.
My suggestion is to try using absolute positioned elements as containers, and have your actual template inside them.
It would help if you provided some actual code or a specific issue you're having, as it's currently too vague.
I'll provide an answer to what I think you might be asking, though it isn't clear. I hope this isn't too basic.
Ditch the position property altogether.
Just have a div (which is by default 100% width) as your header at the top of your html. The content should be in another div below that.
Divs by default have 100% width, and their height is dependent on the height of their content. They will grow to accommodate taller content. These behaviors are because they have the property display:block .
You've used % which, if I remember correctly, is relative to the parent element. vh (viewport height) is relative to the height of the screen (100vh is the full height of the screen).
I added the background-color just so it's easier to see.
<style>
#header {
background-color: #777;
height: 20vh;
}
#main {
background-color: #999;
height: 80vh;
}
#about {
background-color: #777;
height: 100vh;
}
#contact {
background-color: #999;
height: 50vh;
}
</style>
Overview: I have a CSS3 pure navigation system on top of my page. I have a footer/copyright on bottom.
In the middle, I want a background image (parchment) cover, then on top of that parchment, I want a white layer for text with a left column and a right column. I can't seem to make it work using the relative position as my z-index doesn't seem to be working. If I put position "fixed", I can't use the right browser scroll anymore to go down. If I use position "absolute", then the background is right and the content on top is ok, but my navigation footer disappears. If I use position "relative", my navigation system is fine but the background doesn't show up anymore. It is ignoring the z-index....
The weird thing is I am using expression web 4 and it looks correct there...it just doesn't look correct on the web.
This is my site html to reproduce what I am seeing.
<!-- #BeginEditable "content" -->
<div id="page_content_back">
<div id="column_left">
<h1>About</h1>
<p>We are the best-Trust us</p>
</div>
<div id="column_right">
<h4>CONTACTS</h4>
</div>
</div>
<!-- #EndEditable -->
This is my css
#page_content_back {
position: relative;
background-image:url('../images/grayparchment_back.jpg');
background-size: cover;
z-index: 1;
width: 100%;
margin: auto;
padding: 0;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-color: #CCAA77;
}
#column_left {
position: relative;
margin: 0 50px;
padding: 0 2%;
z-index: 2;
top: 0px;
background-color: #fff;
float: left;
width: 65%;
height: 100%;
color: #393939;
}
#column_right {
position: absolute;
z-index: 3;
float: right;
right: 50px;
top: 370px;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #fff;
}
Okay, the problem is your div#column_left. It has a float: left property. Floating an element takes it out of the flow, so there's nothing within the div#page_content_back to give it any height. Remove that float: left property from the inner div and you'll see the image appear behind it. From there, you can add other elements after that nested div and the image will expand to encapsulate the new element. That said, if you use float or position: absolute, you're removing the element from the flow and that background image won't respond to its presence as a result.
I am working on a portfolio project. I have a relatively positioned image in a relatively positioned div. Using z-index I have a fixed position div on top of this, inside of which there are three floated divs, each of which has a cursor url specified in css. All of this is in another div. The aim is to have a previous, play and next cursor displayed on top of an image to control the display of images.
It works well in Safari, Firefox, Chrome. It does not work in IE (9,8 or 7). The cursor does not show when over the image. Somehow, the fixed position div is dropping behind the image, even though it's z-index says it should be above.
I have read a lot on this. I have considered the stacking contexts, and I believe they are OK in my code. I have investigated making all the objects have relative positioning in case fixed and relative positioning is creating different stacking contexts. This did not solve it. I have investigated quirks and standard mode. Nothing seems to work.
I have uploaded stripped back example pages of my problem here:
http://bigflannel.com/portfolio/ie-test
Any help very very gratefully appreciated. I'm 8 hours into debugging and stuck.
The HTML
<div id ="website">
<div id="media-panel">
<img id="image0" class="image" src="http://bigflannel.com/portfolio/admin/albums/album-5/lg/fk01117.jpg">
</div><!-- #media-panel -->
<div id="navigation-panel">
<div id="left-area"></div>
<div id="play-pause-area"></div>
<div id="right-area"></div>
</div><!-- #navigation-panel -->
</div><!-- #website -->
The CSS
#website {
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
}
#media-panel {
position: relative;
height: 600px;
z-index: 1;
}
.image {
position: relative;
max-height: 600px;
max-width: 600px;
z-index: 0;
}
#navigation-panel {
position: fixed;
z-index: 9998;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 1500px;
height: 900px;
}
#left-area {
position: relative;
float: left;
cursor: url(http://bigflannel.com/development/mobileApp/bigflannel-portfolio/images/prevL.cur), auto;
width: 500px;
height: 900px;
}
#play-pause-area {
position: relative;
float: left;
cursor: url(http://bigflannel.com/development/mobileApp/bigflannel-portfolio/images/playL.cur), auto;
width: 500px;
height: 900px;
}
#right-area {
position: relative;
float: left;
cursor: url(http://bigflannel.com/development/mobileApp/bigflannel-portfolio/images/nextL.cur), auto;
width: 500px;
height: 900px;
}
Unfortunately IE is very buggy when it comes to cursors. This is actually not a z-index issue. The layering is working as expected. You can test this by putting a background color on the #navigation-panel as it goes over the image. It has to do with IE and the behaviour of cursor.
Solution: (for IE9)
/* Background with no opacity */
#navigation-panel {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
You can probably fix with earlier versions of IE by using the filter.
I have a website which is 960px wide and want to put a picture outside of that on the right side.
Vimeo have done it on there homepage: http://vimeo.com
you can see a drawing of an origami bird that sticks outside the website width
without causing the screen to get horizontal scrollbars
How do they do this?!
origami bird Floating outside of Vimeos layout
New answer:
After some further inquiry, it seems that a critical aspect was that the box/image would not cause horizontal scroll-bars, while the content would. This was an interesting trick applied by vimeo, and was quite sneaky.
It has to do with a combination of min-width on body, and overflow-x: hidden on a non-immediate parent of the box/image. When combined with position: absolute, and a negative right, this achieves the desired result.
HTML:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="width_wrap">
<div class="crane"></div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body
{
min-width: 960px;
}
#wrap
{
overflow-x: hidden;
}
#width_wrap {
position: relative;
width: 960px;
height: 400px;
}
.crane
{
position: absolute;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
right: -40px;
}
Here is a minimal Fiddle, with outlines such that you can see what's going on: http://jsfiddle.net/rUj8s/2/
Original answer:
The position: absolute answers will most likely work, but will also take the image/div out of the normal flow of the document. This might not be what you want.
What you probably want is a negative margin-right:
.your_picture {
margin-right: -30px;
}
Or, perhaps position: relative, and a negative right
.your_picture {
position: relative;
right: -30px;
}
Or, lastly, position: relative, and a positive left
.your_picture {
position: relative;
left: 30px;
}
This is why negative margins and relative positioning exist. To move things relative to where they would normally lie.
.your_picture {
position:absolute;
/* this needs to be negative to have the image sticking outside of the width */
right:-30px;
}
#parentDiv{
position: relative;
}
#your_picture {
position:absolute;
right:-30px; /*change it to a number that you like */
top: 30px; /*change it to a number that you like */
}
html markup would go like:
<div id="parentDiv">
<div id="your_picture"></div>
</div>
I am trying to emulate a sort of pop-up help dialog for my web site.
When the user clicks help, a mask covers the whole page with a dark, partially transparent mask, and a helppage div with a higher z-order is made visible.
The helppage div is 80% wide and 90% high positioned absolute at left 10% and top 5%, all relative to body.
So far all is great.
The content of the helppage div is:
- a full-width header with a close anchor 20px high floating right.
- a iframe-div to occupy the rest of the helppage div containing:
- an iframe to display the html document in question
The problem:
I would expect the height of the iframe-div to be 20 px less than the helppage div, but for some odd reason it is 3px larger than the helppage div.
As a result the bottom of the iframe is invisible.
The html:
<div id="helpbox">
<div id="helppage" class="window" style="display: block; position: absolute;">
<div class="hd-header">
<a class="close" onclick="hidehelp()"></a>
</div>
<div class="iframe-div">
<iframe id="HelpPageFrame" src="/help-system.html"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
The css:
#helpbox .window {
position:absolute;
display:none;
z-index:9999;
}
#helpbox #helppage {
background: white;
width:80%;
left: 10%;
top: 5%;
height:90%;
padding: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#helppage iframe {
border: none;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#helppage .iframe-div {
width: 100%;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
}
#helpbox .hd-header {
height: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
overflow: hidden;
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
#helpbox .close {
width:20px;
height:20px;
display:block;
float:right;
clear:right;
background:transparent url(images/close_icon_double.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
}
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
edit As mixel pointed out, an important detail slipped, when I trie to simplify the scenario, that has been corrected.
Please, be accurate, when you are asking questions.
There is whitespace in '#helppage .window' selector. It selects nothing. Because of that '#helppage' is not absolute positioned.
There is no '#helpbox' element.
edit
Though you are still a bit innaccurate (you forgot to close 'DIV'), there is answer. You need to fill the remainder of '#helppage' with '.iframe-div'. If you set '.iframe-div' height to 100%, it takes 100% height of parent element - '#helppage'. To solve this problem you need absolute positioning for '.iframe-div':
#helppage .iframe-div {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
left: 0;
}
Or set height with javascript.
Check out this: Make DIV fill remainder of page vertically?
It's fairly common question.