I am trying to figure out how to get divs that I want on the same line to stay there, rather than getting pushed below when the screen is resized.
For example, I have a sidebar and a main body on all the pages in my website that I will give a defined width. They will sit directly next to each other, with the same height.
Sidebar CSS
#sidebar {
width: 380px;
margin-left: 50px;
float: left;
background: #cee7f7;
padding: 1%;
}
Body CSS
.container {
width: 1125px;
margin-right: 10%;
float:right;
background: #fff;
padding: 1%;
}
You can see an example at www.dweeman.com/eb/sitetemplate.html (Ignore the bad design).
Basically what I want is for all my divs (logo, phone, sidebar, body, footer etc) to all remain in their respective positions regardless of the screen size, yet with defined sizes. Does this have something to do with the position property?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Also how would I best describe this for the title of my question?)
Try setting the min-width and min-height of the divs if you want them to stay a specific size regardless of the screen size.
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I'm trying to get a simple page layout where the navbar sits vertically along the right side of the user's window, taking up no more than 20% of the available space. The remaining 80% of space to the left is used for content.
I want the entire page to be resizable, so no matter how big or small the browser window is (within reason), the content will resize to the user's screen. Everything works and resizes great, but there's one problem with the navBar. Here's a CSS excerpt:
body{
background-color: #111111;
font-family: Roboto;
color: #cccccc;
font-weight: 300;
font-size: 14pt;
height: 100%;
}
#content{
width: 80%;
float: left;
}
#navBar{
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #00C9FF;
float: left;
position: absolute;
}
#welcome{
background-color: #222222;
text-align: center;
margin: 1%;
}
The Problem:
If I leave the code above as is, the navBar renders on the right side of the screen, as it should, but it is not 100% the height of the browser window. Note it still resizes when the browser window's WIDTH is changed.
If I set navBar's position to absolute (position: absolute) the navbar renders exactly how it should render, except it floats to the left side of the browser, basically making it on the complete opposite side of where it should be.
Demo: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/YPyvzO (remove position: absolute to see where the navBar SHOULD render)
I have tried several different things including setting "HTML" in CSS to height: 100% and several different position properties for navbar, all to no avail. I'd like for this to be done only in CSS, but I'm not sure if it's possible.
Add the following:
position: absolute;
right: 0;
to #navBar. One thing that took me a long time to understand is that position: absolute overrides everything, even floats.
when you resize the browser the width and height change, so for this purpose you have to use media query in CSS and in this you have to tell the browser that in this width the navbar should be in given width. and another option is that you can use bootstrap, in bootstrap you not write too much css. and all the work become easy.
I am truly stuck with this, basically I am using wordpress, and want a horizontal line to go across the page (breaking out of the inside container). This line should adjust to the screen size, so if you zoom out the line should keep getting longer, basically an infinate line.
So far the what i've managed to do is the following code:
.horizontalrule1 {
position:relative;
height:82px;
background: #f1f2f2;
overflow:hidden;
width:600%;
margin-left: -100%;
}
This technically looks fine but the issue is it's causing a scroller to appear at the bottom of the page because the width is set at 600%
If I set the width to 100% it doesnt make the line full width and stops it at the inside container which is about 990px.
All I want is an infinate line that will adjust itself to the screen size, so if you have a screen width of 1900px the line should be 1900px etc.
Hope this makes sense.
My html is:
<div class="horizontalrule1"></div>
To give everyone a better idea of what i want, check out onlywire.com, they have thick grey horizontal rules that stretch accross the site. This is exactly what I'm looking to do.
You want it to go OUTSIDE the DOM element?
.elementContainingYourHorizontalRule {
overflow: auto; /* or whatever, just don't set it to hidden. */
position: relative;
}
.horizontalrule1 {
position: absolute;
width: 600%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -300%;
height: 2px; /* or whatever. */
}
I don't know if this is the best way to do things -- if I were you, I'd make your containing element go the full width of the page and let your custom HR do it's own thing automatically. I understand that may not work with your design/layout though.
At any rate, your horizontal rule will never be able to know your page width if you don't give the container the full width as well. So you're stuck with an ugly 600% hardcode until you get your container full-width.
Try this which should force it outside the surrounding container using negative horizontal margins:
hr {
margin: 20px -10000px;
}
And to avoid horizontal scrollbar add this to body:
body {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
If you only want to apply it to specific horizontal rulers, add it as a class.
HTML:
<hr class="full">
In Style Sheet:
hr.full {
margin: 20px -10000px;
}
You should set your body's padding and margin to 0 :
body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
Id like to know why my inner wrap of the desktop css for this site is not working.
Basically if set innerwrap to margin:0 auto; and width: auto; there is no problem, but it's not centered on the footer or main div
When I have innerwrap as it's currently set margin:0 auto; and width:960px; you'll notice that the page presents a horizontal scroll bar after resizing the window a bit, and all the content is squished to the left with a white background starting to become visible.
Is there anyway to have it transition fluidly to the next tablet size layout without have a scroll bar appearing and content getting squished?
It shows Scrollbar because of the padding you apply in .innerwrap
Read this article about the Box Model
Use of padding on the sides of certain elements when applying 100% width to parent element its not recommendable because it adds width to the whole group, and since you,re using the browsers width it shows the scrollber to see the extra space you added.
My humble advice is that if you want a block element to appear centered apply an margin:auto style rule whenever is possible, the same also has to be displayed as a block element with no float.
Remove this:
.innerwrap {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 10%;
padding-right: 10%;
width: 80%;
}
Keep This
.innerwrap {
margin: auto;
width: 960px;
}
Since you are applying fixed margins for you social icons they will show misplaced, so don't use fixed margins for centering them, use percentage width instead.
you may want use a common class for aligning them
.social {
background-position: center center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
display: block !important;
float: none;
height: 150px;
margin: auto;
padding-top: 50px;
width: 30% !important;
}
For a.twittersocial and a.twittersocial:hover and the rest of the social links just keep the background properties.
Create a determined class if you need to apply common style rules to several elements (if there are many of them) and avoid usage of ID selectors whenever is possible, use classes instead (.daclass).
Use a web inspector like Firebug to track down styling errors.
Good luck Developer!
I have padding to the right of my archives and search page and I believe it has to do with my body element, however I'm not quite sure what is different on these pages are from the other pages on the site of which are all fine for style wise as they all use the same format. It's a wordpress website. As I said, it's only happening to this page and the search page and all others are fine, so I'm confused as to what it's doing.
html { font-size: 100%; overflow-y: scroll; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: url(img/BG.jpg) repeat; min-width:1024px; }
body { margin: 0px; padding 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.231; background: url(img/NAV-bg.jpg) top repeat-x;}
header { width: 960px; height: auto; margin: 0 auto; display: block;}
#container { width: 960px; margin: 20px auto; padding: 0 1.5em;}
aside { width: 260px; height: auto; float: left; position: relative;}
#main { width: 650px; height: auto; float: right; position: relative;}
#footer { width: 100%; min-width:1024px; display: block; height: 503px; background: url(img/FOOTER-bg.jpg) repeat-x; background-color: #821d20; position: relative; top: 100px; }
If you decrease the size of your window you'll notice that a scroll bar on the bottom of the page shows up and then the padding on the right starts to take shape. If you make your window larger that padding space is then gone and the scroll bar on the bottom disappears. Have I restricted my body tag in any way to have this happen?
I've looked through this one but I already have a min-width defined.
Website has strange whitespace on right side of the page when the browser is resized to a smaller window
In your style.css file at Line 108, remove the width attribute from the header tag to fix your horizontal scrollbar issue.
Fixed CSS:
header { height: auto; margin: 0 auto; display: block;}
For review, 3D View in Firefox browser shows the header as the gray bar with is the root of your problem. The other styles that create the text are not affected.
Tip: Right mouse-click the above image and view in new tab to see in original size.
Ah, if I'm understanding your problem correctly, it appears that the tag header, specifically its style width: 960px, is what is causing this peculiar occurrence. The containing div around the header, #main, only has width: 650px. As a result, the excess width of the header causes it to extend beyond the edge of the div.
The reason why it seems to be appearing as padding only at smaller screen widths is because the containing div around all that, #container, is centered by its margins - so the effects of the over-wide header won't become apparent until the browser is thin enough such that its right edge begins to overlap the right side of the header.
Rather than fixing this by just dropping the width: 960px from the styles of the header (which may mess up the site where this width for header tags is actually needed), I would suggest adding an overriding class to all offending tags, perhaps on the lines of .archive-header { width: auto; }. But I guess the solution is up to you, since you probably know the site better than I do.
I hope this helps! (I really do, otherwise you'd have read all this for nothing! Sorry if you did...) For the future, try downloading Firebug for Mozilla Firefox, which has a handy element inspector which will let you play around with the styles of elements to see what works. It should help you spot these kinds of issues on your own, so you can fix them quicker.
If you will notice when you visit... http://www.thebattleforarcadia.com/construction/index.html when you shrink the size of the screen the top bar content overflows it's parent div and runs over the rest of the website.
What I want to do is, if in-case the resolution of the receiving end is too small, I want to force them to have to use the scrollbar at the bottom so they can see everything. Just so the website is displayed properly.
Any coding ideas?
Thank you,
Aaron
Add...
min-width: 1260px;
at the
#news-container
css rule.
Your website will display fine in 1280x** resolutions but there will be a vertical scrollbar in anything less than that (in width).
Perhaps you could make the min-width 960px and make the text expand in two lines (pushing the top graphic a bit) ? Just a suggestion
EDIT: here's an example
#news-content {
float: left;
padding-left: 25px;
padding-top: 12px;
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
#news-container {
width: 100%;
background: url(images/news-background.png) repeat-x left bottom;
z-index: 10;
}
#news-header {
width: 150px;
height: 23px;
float: left;
padding-left: 25px;
}
The above example will make the header "Expand" when the resolution is shrinked without forcing screenwidth < 1280px users to use the vertical scrollbar
Give the body element or any other element that is setting the width you want a min-width to match that. This should make sure that whenever the page is being viewed on a smaller resolution have a horizontal scroll-bar
See here for Commonly used pixel sizes for webpages and their pros/cons.