How to make an element fixed with respect to the parent? - css

I have a container div who's content is quite large.
The container is set to position: relative.
The content has another div which I would like for it to be fixed with respect to the container horizontally--it should still scroll vertically.
When I set the div in question to:
position: absolute;
left: mypreferredleftpx;
I got weird results.
http://jsfiddle.net/Ey7vU/3/:
PRETTY PICTURE should scroll vertically, but not horizontally. It should remain fixed horiztontally with respect to the container.

Remove
position:relative
from .container
Updated fiddle here.

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One div scrollable and other fixed

I am having a CSS issue; See the attached image.
there have two fixed div.. where i will put my navigation and yellow area is my content area. content area will be scroll if content big..
but now problem i am facing content area position not fit properly. when i make other two div position: fixed then issue coming. please see my code and jsfiddle..
.midarea this div position not properly fit there. if you see jsfiddle then can under properly..
JSFiddle
You need .midarea to be fixed to match the others:
.midarea {
position: fixed;
left:260px;
right: 0;
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
...
}
With this your float and width are obsolete (but you can have them if you really want).
Also please, please lose every z-index and every float with a position: fixed or position: absolute.
Visualize
position:fixed is absolutely OK.
Just calculate the sum of width of both fixed nav-colums and set a padding-left with this calculated width to the div.midarea. So all divs inside the midarea begin right of the fixed colums.
And a z-index higher of the content is needed. e.g. z-index:999;

extend the background of a div to fill the parent div's height

I have tried a dozen different solutions and nothing seems to work.
http://betelec.ergonomiq.net/societe/offres-d-emploi
On the page above, I want the teal background of the left sidenav to extend to the height of the white container around it.
The white container gets its height defined by the height of the largest child div (in this case, the mainbody).
I have tried setting the sidenav's div height to auto, but the div remains fixed height. If I set the div to a very large number like 10000px and have overflow hidden, nothing gets hidden.
I am completely at a loss.
Set parent element to position: relative; and then the child element to position: absolute; height: 100%;
Live example.
http://jsfiddle.net/pQdAr/
It looks like your left sidebar is positioned by float:left.
The following post may help you. How to match height of floating sibling divs

Freezing a div within a div

My basic layout is a couple of divs within a div - http://jsfiddle.net/nxPhy/ - I'm looking for a css way to have the const div always visible regardless of any horizontal scrolling of the parent div (so only the content div is actually scrolled).
Add position: relative; to container, and remove floats and add position: fixed; to the block you want to fixate.
Result:
http://jsfiddle.net/nxPhy/1/
You want to add:
position:fixed
to the div that you want fixed. Doing this will position this div and it's containing elements fixed.

Absolute div shifts when scrollbar is present

i have a problem with the entire content of my page.
The problem being without a scrollbar present my content is about 20px to the right, but when a scrollbar is present it shifts to the left.
I have to compensate for this for an absolute postioned div by positioning it over the content by 20px until a scrollbar is present as it rests at the right hand side of the page.
This is a crappy fault on my behalf but i just want an easy way to fix this. Any quick and easy suggestions? Would i be better off making the main content div an absolute one?
One quick and dirty way is to always force the scrollbar to be visible with:
html { overflow-y: scroll; }
Not ideal, but it standardizes the appearance if the lack of scrollbar offset is breaking your design.
If I'm understanding your problem correctly, your absolute div is 20px off when a scrollbar is present? If that is the case what you can do is set a parent div that wraps around your content and absolute div.
Be sure to set this wrapper div to position: relative; so now your absolute div will be positioned inside the relative div instead of the document level. If there is a scrollbar, the wrapper div will be offset to the left by 20px (the width of the scrollbar) and the absolute div will also.
<div class="wrapper">
your content goes here
<div class="absoluteDiv"></div>
</div>
.wrapper { position: relative; }
.absoluteDiv { position: absolute; }
I don't think your content is actually shifting in any sort of buggy way; it's just that the presence of the scroll bar makes the viewport narrower. If you're using a layout that depends on viewport width (e.g. fluid layout, or fixed-width with centered content), this will cause everything to move by half the width of the scroll bar when it appears.
AFAIK, there's no sure-fire way to compensate for that, since the width of the scroll bar isn't known.

Div in lower left corner of wrapper div

I have a page with a wrapper div which contains a background image and all the content divs.
In this wrapper div I also have a logo div which should be placed at the bottom left corner of the wrapper without interfering with the contents.
I have managed to place the logo in the bottom left corner of the whole page (position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0;) The problem is that if you resize the width of the window, the background stays centered while the logo div goes left and sticks to the browser edge (as it should).
How would I go about making it stay to the edge of the wrapper div?
The reason it is not a part of the background is that the client wanted to be able to change the background without editing in the logo.
I have thought about not centering the wrapper, this would solve the problem.
I'm thinking about position: relative, but it doesn't seem to work.
I hope I'm clear enough, here is a link to the layout in case it helps.
http://development.pulsemedia.se/current/kingromeo/layout/
Make your wrapper div's position to be relative.
At the moment, your bandname div is not inside the wrapper. Put it in the #wrapper div, and set the wrapper to a position: relative;
I found my mistake. I had forgot to make the background-div fixed width so when the browser windows expanded, the background-div expanded too. Everything was behaving exactly as it should.
Put the logo div inside the wrapper div, and then set use some combination of these:
position: relative;
bottom: 0px;
float: bottom;
I'm not sure about the float: bottom, but I think you'll need it to prevent interference with the rest of your content.

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