Make a relative position div follow a fixed position div when scrolling - css

so here's my problem. I have two divs, and i want to be able to see both of them when i scroll down the page. Both divs are in the same parent container. If i give the parent a position:fixed, the the bottom div get's cut off, because you have to scroll to see it's full height. So i tried this. I gave position:fixed to the top div, and position relative to the bottom one. The fixed one now scrools but the relative doesn't "follow it" or stay beneath it.
Any ideas?

If I understand you correctly, the answer is to position both divs absolutely within the fixed parent.
JSFiddle DEMO
HTML
<div class="parent">
<div class="topDiv"></div>
<div class="bottomDiv"></div>
</div
CSS
.parent {
height:1500px;
width:200px;
border:1px solid grey;
position: fixed;
}
.topDiv {
display:block;
background:silver;
width:100px;
height:100px;
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0
}
.bottomDiv {
background:red;
width:100px;
height:100px;
position:absolute;
top:130px;
left:0
}

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Position Element on bottom right corner of scrollable div

I'm trying to place a button on bottom right corner of a div which is scrollable.
Since it is a content editable div, when content in the div increases, scollbar appears and button gets hidden behind the scrollbar on IE.
How to fix this issue?
I made an example for you.
Wrap all in a container, and position the bottom in the wrapper
main{
width:500px;
height:300px;
position:relative;
}
div{
background:#fff;
width:500px;
height:300px;
overflow-y:auto;
padding:10px 20px
}
button{
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/8f0Loem5/
hope this helps

Fixed Div overlaps scrollbar of static div

I'm having trouble to to style my layout like I want it to. I have a content area #content (the grey you can see in the example image) with a yellow element inside. This div is position:static;height:100%;. Now I have a #left-panel div also, with position:fixed;height:100%;. The problem is, if the content area has not enough space a horizontally scrollbar appears. This will be overlaped of the fixed div. For me it is all logically, but I don't know how to get around this. My scrollbar of the #content-element should be visible the whole width of the window. So it would not be a solution for me to just reduce the width of the content if the panel is in view.
The whole css:
#content{
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:grey;
}
#left-panel{
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
width:300px;
height:100%;
overflow-y:auto;
}
Can somebody help me fixing this with pure CSS?
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/a2wn8x5z/1/
Your wrapper element is position:fixed; I think that you are talking about a overlay with a navigation panel on the left. Well, I had a similar situation and found out, that you can't use position:fixed; if your parent element is also position:fixed;. This will overlap the scrollbar of the parent wrapper (the overlay).
So you have to use position:absolute; instead or use this open source plugin to remove the width/height of the scrollbar from your element:
Scrollbar Fixer
perhaps your problem is in this code here
<div style="width:110%;border-right:10px solid black;height:200px;background:yellow;"></div>
remove the width:110%; and it should be good to go.
Here's the Updated Fiddle
Edit
I think I misunderstand what's the problem before.
Because on your case, you use position: fixed; for #wrapper and #left-panel, and both use stlye left: 0, their position will overlap each other in left from the viewport, you basically need to position the left of #wrapper not to be in the same position as #left-panel, so you need to add this to #wrapper
left:200px; /* the width of #left-panel (if left panel has border, add it to this too )*/
right:0;
and remove
width:100%;
here's the Updated Fiddle
to make sure it's what you want, try change the style of the div inside #content to width:200%; and add margin:20px;
Edit Two
the cause for the scrollbar to overlap each other is because in the fiddle you use position: fixed for the #wrapper, thus will not create a scrollbar in the body, then you add overflow:auto in the #wrapper, causing the scrollbar to be created for the #wrapper and not the body, so you need to change the CSS for #wrapper to this
#wrapper{
background:gray;
}
I don't include the height because for the div, the height is based on the child inside it, so you couldn't see the gray background, except you add some padding to it.
here's the Working Fiddle
First of all, you don't have to add "position: static;" style into your div, because it's static by default. There are two ways to solve your problem:
Add "position: relative;" into #content selector and declare #content after #left-panel in your HTML.
<div id="left-panel"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
#content{
position: relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:grey;
}
Codepen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/yoHxl
Or add "position: relative; z-index: 1" (z-index of #content should be higher of #left-panel's) into #content selector.
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="left-panel"></div>
#content{
position: relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:grey;
z-index: 1;
}
Codepen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/HgwDx
Best,
Marek

How to make second floated div to come on top of the first floated div?

I have two floated div in a wrapper. They are left and right. I wanted to make the right div to appear at the top of first div(left). Right should come first and left should come at second.
Here is the code
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left">
left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
</div>
</div>
CSS
#left{
float:right;
}
#right{
float:left;
width:100%;
}
#wrapper{
width:100px;
background-color: #000fff;
}
I'm looking to have the same 100% as width for right div. Is this possible without changing markup and doing changes in CSS alone?
JSFIDDLE
EDITED
I want the right div to be in top and left should in bottom after that. When i use position absolute for the right div then left div is hidden. JSFIDDLE.
Should look like this
Use the following css :
#left{
float:right;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#right{
float:left;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
}
#wrapper{
width:100px;
background-color: #000fff;
}
If you want place the right div before left, just remove the float:left property from #right.
Fiddle
If you want the right DIV above the left, you need to use absolute position
First of all clear the float, then set position:relative to the parent "wrapper" and position:absolute; to the right div.
Check out this fiddle
If you want to do this with just css you have to use absolute positioning. But only if you know height of each element and exact number of elements like this. Check this fiddle.
Let's assume each element has 20px height, then you can place one at top: 0px and second at top:20px. And to use remaning space like usual relative way, you must add padding equals to total height of your elements that has absolute positioning to wrapper.
Alternatively you can use JavaScript to change order in html.
I'm not too convinced by the answers so far. I would recommend avoiding 'absolute' and even javascript. Also if you want to make it friendly to all browsers you should really be specifying things such as height. It's a common misconception that a design can't be worked on every modern browser without huge hacks (i was doing it years ago for IE5.5 and firefox etc), its usually due to the CSS not being properly formed and valid. Now try the following:
#left, #right {position:relative; float:left; height:30px; color:white; width:inherit; }
#left{
background-color:blue;
margin-top:30px;
}
#right{
background-color:green;
margin-left:-100%;
margin-top:0;
}
#wrapper{
width:100px;
background-color: #000fff;
}

Css position:fixed code breaks divs positions

I have a simple HTML page and it contains two divs aligned vertically. The page is scrollable because of second div. I want the first div's position to be fixed, or nonscrollable, so that only the second div is scrollable. I added position:fixed to first div's css but this time, the second div was placed on first div, so the first div disappears under the second div.
CSS
body {
width:1000px;
height:100%;
margin:0 auto;/*body ortalama*/
}
#div1 {
height:300px;
background-color:#00CC66;
}
#div2 {
display:block;
word-wrap:break-word;
padding:30px;
font-size:72px;
background-color:#FF3;
}
HTML
<div>
<div id="div1"></div>
<div id="div2">
<p>
<!--Content Here-->
</p>
</div>
</div>
Fixed is always relative to the parent window, never an element. Once the position is set to fixed its taken out of the document flow.
Fixed positioning is a subcategory of absolute positioning. The only difference is that for a fixed positioned box, the containing block is established by the viewport.
so in the second div2 add these
position:relative;
top:300px; /*Bump it down by the height of div1;*/
Hope it helps;
You should add a height and set overflow auto instead of scroll because with scroll you will have the scrollbar always even if the content is less than the specified height. For example:
#div2 {
background-color: #FFFF33;
display: block;
font-size: 72px;
height: 200px;
overflow: auto;
padding: 30px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Add this css to #div2 (you'll need to specify a height for #div2 otherwise the the scroll bar won't know where to start):
overflow-y:auto;
height:50px;
See the example here: http://jsfiddle.net/38xkn/1/ (scroll to the right first as you've set the body width to 100px, then you'll see the scroll bar for #div2).
Okay, here is another option. It's layout is somewhat different but it should get the job done. It uses absolute positioning on div1 to get it to the top, and a percentage width to stop it covering the scroll bar for div2. It's not perfect so you may need to tweek it slightly.
HTML
<body>
<div>
<div id="div1">a</div>
<div id="div2">
<p> SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSDDDDDDDDDLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAMSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSDDDDDDDDDLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
body{
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin:0 auto;/*body ortalama*/
overflow:hidden;
}
#div1{
height:300px;
background-color:#00CC66;
position:absolute;
top:0;
width:97.5%;
}
#div2{
display:block;
word-wrap:break-word;
padding:30px;
font-size:72px;
background-color:#FF3;
overflow-y:auto;
max-height:50px;
padding-top:300px;
}
EXAMPLE:
http://jsfiddle.net/38xkn/6/

Relative positioning of two divs

I made this fiddle, I am expecting the red div to be positioned directly below the yellow one. They are not. How can I position both the div up and down relative to wrapper?
Guessing it should be simple, but I can't get it to work. I think I need to use relative. The 'bars' are time lines and 'float around' freely.
HTML:
<div class="wrapper" style="background:blue">
<div class="up" style="background:yellow"/>
<div class="down" style="background:red"/>
</div>
CSS:
.wrapper {
width:50px;
height:400px;
background:blue;
margin:1em;
}
.up {
position:relative;
top:100px; /*I want this one 100px from the top of .wrapper*/
height:100px;
}
.down {
position:relative;
top:200px; /*I want this one 200px from the top of .wrapper*/
height:50px;
}
position:relative relates to the previous div.
Div .up has height 100px, so to place .down directly below .up, .down should contain top:100px. Therefore, top:200px on .down will place it 200px below .up, which is not what you want as .up only has height 100px. Solve it by changing top attribute of .down to top:100px
If you want to position it relative to wraper, use position:absolute.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/6wSAJ/274
you dont need to set top:xx; if you want just to stack yellow and red
modify your html to be in format '<div></div>' rather than '<div />'

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