Align two divs side by side - css

I have three divs.. Container, Content_1 and content_2.
What I want to do is position the two content divs inside the container, side by side. now I have half accomplished that.. But the thing is I want my container to automatically resize to the div that is highest. so the container height must be auto. With the code I have written on JSFiddle, the content_2 on the right sets the container height, but the content_1 on the left does not.. Please help I am completely stuck.
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div id="content_1">
</div>
<div id="content_2">
</div>
JSFiddle

Is this what you wanted?
jsFiddle Demo
.container {
background-color: #000;
width: 980px;
min-width: 980px;
height: auto;
position: relative;
margin: 50px auto 100px auto;
top:60px;
bottom:900px;
border:1px solid #000;
overflow:auto; /* <========= */
}

your divs closing tag is open: </div to </div>

The problem is that you forgot the clearfix. There are a couple of ways to do a clearfix on google, but the one that will fix this problem is adding overflow:hidden to your container div.
Check out my example on http://cdpn.io/sEwfI
.container
overflow: hidden;

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Make two divs side by side, one is resizable and the other has same height

I bring here a drama with css height.
I would like to make a layout, a div that contains 2 divs both in same line, one is resizable and the other must fit in the parent's height (same height as the first one).
The first div can have additional information (so i can't fix the height), so it will have more lines, the important is that it must not have a scroll bar. The second div must obey the first height, if it's bigger than it will have a scroll bar.
<div class='container'> <!-- parent -->
<div class='left'> <!-- resizable -->
</div>
<div class='right'> <!-- same height as left div -->
</div>
</div>
UNSOLVED CODE
The problem is that i can't figure out how to make it just using css. Or even it's possible just with css. I would not like to use js.
Someone please help me!
Fiddle
What you do is make the right one absolutely positioned which stops its height influencing the parent's.
RELEVANT CSS
.container {
background-color: gray;
display: table;
width: 70%;
position:relative;
}
.container .left{
background-color: tomato;
width: 35%;
}
.container .right{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:35%;
background-color: orange;
width: 65%;
height:100%;
overflow-y: auto;
}

Positioning a div within a parent div using auto margin or %

I was under the impression that when using % or auto for margins on a div contained within another div the position would be calculated in respect to the parent div.
So if I have a div with height: 50%, margin-top: 25% and margin-bottom: 25% the box should centre vertically within the parent div.
When I do this though the div centres on the page not the parent div.
The CSS
div#header {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
margin: 0px;
position: fixed;
}
div#leftnavigation {
height: 50%;
margin-top: 25%;
margin-bottom: 25%;
float: left;
}
And the HTML
<!--Title and navigation bar-->
<div id='header'>
<!--Left navigation container-->
<div id='leftnavigation'>
<p>efwfwgwegwegweg</p>
</div>
</div>
In my case there are other divs floated to the right of the one detailed above, but any one of them behaves the same way. I'm assuming I'm doing something daft but I've been over all the other questions I could find along these lines and still can't figure it out.
EDIT
Here's the JSFiddle as requested http://jsfiddle.net/ChtVv/
UPDATE
I've tried removing the margin constraints and setting the leftnavigation div to height: 100%, this works so the issue is with the margin attribute?
The reason it didn't work is that percentage-margins are percentages of the parent's width, not its height. You can tell this by using margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px;, and also by increasing the width of the right-panel in jsFiddle.
In all cases % (percentage) is a valid value, but needs to be used
with care; such values are calculated as a proportion of the parent
element’s width, and careless provision of values might have
unintended consequences.
W3 reference
CSS is tricky!! :D
This is a borrowed technique to centre vertically and horizontally, but it would involve changing your HTML and CSS. I am not sure how flexible you are with your code:
CSS:
#outer {width: 100%; border: 3px solid red;}
#middle {width: 100%; text-align: center;border: 3px solid green;}
#inner {width: 200px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;border: 3px solid blue;}
/* Courtesy: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html */
HTML
<!--Title and navigation bar-->
<div id='outer'>
<!--Left navigation container-->
<div id='middle'>
<p id="inner">efwfwgwegwegweg</p>
</div>
</div>
You can build upon this to achieve whatever you are after!
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pratik136/ChtVv/2/
Ok, so there are a lot of reasons why this would not work.
The main reason would be that your container has position:fixed;
When adding position:fixed; to a element, it no longer reserved it's space in the DOM and won't contain it's children.
I have made a example of the best way (in my Opinion) to center your child both Vertically & Horizontally
Here is a demo.
Demo
And here is the code.
<div id="container">
<div id="child"></div>
</div>
#container{
width:100%;
height:500px;
background:#CCC;
margin:0;
}
#child{
width:50%;
height:50%;
background:#EEE;
position:relative;
top:25%;
left:25%;
}

Div is not moving nearby divs

I have something like this:
<div class="top">top</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="left">left</div>
<div class="right">right</div>
</div>
<div class="bottom">bottom</div>
Relevant code in jsFiddle
As you can see, between top and bottom divs, there is a div container. I want this div container to move bottom dive as much as is needed (and i don't want it to be a fixed value - that means if, lets say left container will get much higher - the bottom div will be pushed down as well.
How can i do that?
This is a simple seeming problem that ends up being kind of tricky. The above suggestion about position:relative vs. position:absolute are a good first step. After that you need to make some room for the set width right div:
.left {
height: 100%;
min-height: 50px;
border:1px dashed red;
padding-right: 50px; <---
}
Then float your right div in the space you made:
.right {
float:right; <---
width: 50px; (This needs to match the padding-right value above.)
text-align: right;
min-height: 50px;
height: 100%;
border:1px dashed blue;
}
Finally, put the right div before the left div in the html:
<div class="top">top</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="right">right</div>
<div class="left">left</div>
</div>
<div class="bottom">bottom</div>
(Tested in Chrome and IE.)
See: Right div fix width, left div extend to max width?
You can check out a fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/x3QfG/1/
Will that work for you?
Right now you're using absolute positions for the left/right div's, so you will always need to know the height in order to position the bottom div correctly. What you want to do is float these instead, then clear the floats in the bottom div. That way the left/right can be as high as their contents, and the bottom div will always appear below.
.bottom {
clear: both;
}
.left {
float: left;
width: 50%;
min-height: 50px;
}
.right {
float: right;
width: 50%;
min-height: 150px;
}
I've modified your jsFiddle accordingly, and made the right div higher to show how the bottom always appears below.
Use floats rather than positioning them absolutely. That will make your architecture very much fluid and flexible.
After you apply necessary float values to your .left and .right, use a clearfix hack to contain your floated elements within the container. Now whenever any of the .left or .right divs increase in height, the bottom div will be pushed down.
Make Container Relative and left and right absolute,and for positioning set width rather than using float.

display: inline-block; divs behaving erratically

I have a main div, and three divs inside of it. They are all given a width 30%, and they are all centered within the main div.
I used display: inline-block; so that the three divs appear next to each other, but when I give them a height of anything, the two left-most go down a bit, and the right one stays where it should. All that's inside the divs is just simple inputs, nothing that could dynamically increase the div's size.
How should I fix this?
It's quite hard to work out the issue without any live code but give these a go. For the DIVs inside the main DIV, assign the class vertical-align:top
Another option (or as well as) is to set the line-height to the desired height rather than the height.
If you have no luck with these, I suggest you put your html and css up on jsfiddle.
Yes. the three inside divs must be floated to the left so that they should align exactly. without floating, they can create problems in different browsers.
CSS Code
#wrapper { width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0;}
.inner { width: 30%; float:left; min-height:50px; margin:0 5px 0 0;}
HTML Code
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="inner"></div>
<div class="inner"></div>
<div class="inner" style=" margin:0;"></div>
</div>
Here's a working solution. http://jsfiddle.net/j3zjg/
<style>
#container{
width:500px;
height:300px;
border:1px solid red;
}
#container div{
width:30%;
float:left;
height:40px;
background:red;
margin-right:5px;
}
</style>
<div id="container">
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
</div>

HTML/CSS Div placing

Yo. There's a tendency in placing divs to follow each other vertically, but what i'm trying to accomplish right now is to is basically to place a number of divs (two) inside a parent div like so:
<div id='parent'><div id='onediv'></div> <div id='anotherone'></div> </div>
And i'd like to place 'anotherone' just to the right of 'onediv'. Sadly, float:right is pretty much ruining the layout with the divs popping out of their parent divs and whatnot. Any suggestions are welcome.
Edit: It might be worth noting that the parent div and 'anotherone' has no height elements at all, with 'onediv' planned to be thought as the "height support" div, allowing the contents of 'anotherone' to make the parent div larger at will.
Edit again: Here's the CSS for the specified stuff:
.parent
{
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
border:solid black 1px;
}
.firstchild
{
width: 20%;
margin: 5px;
border: solid black 1px;
height: 180px;
}
.secondchild
{
width: 60%;
border:solid black 1px;
margin: 5px;
}
You can float both inner divs and give the outer div an overflow so that it grows with the inner divs.
Example:
#parent {
overflow: hidden;
}
#parent div {
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
Try this:
<div id="parent">
<div id="onediv" style="float:left;"></div>
<div id="anotherone" style="float:left;"></div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
I think this is what you want (note the re-ordering of DOM elements):
<div id="parent">
<div id="anotherone"></div>
<div id="onediv"></div>
</div>
/*CSS*/
#anotherone{
float:right;
width:50%;
}
#onediv{
float:left;
width:50%;
}
Note, if this is what you want, IE6 will still mess it up. ;-)
You certainly need to specify a width as indicated in #Kevin's answer to get the layout you described, simply specifying float left/right will not have the desired effect. Try specifying the width in pixels rather than a percentage. Failing that or if that's not appropriate for you, I think you possibly need to specify the width of the outer div (through css if you like).
#onediv { float: left; width: 50%; } #anotherone { float: right; width: 50%; }
Just use the <span> tag. Its the equivalent of except it doesn't start a new row.

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