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How can I position the main content div in the middle without it collapsing to the left, when left sidebar is shorter than the content? Is that possible? I don't want to use a fixed height for the navigation, but can I somehow say "sidebarleft height = content height", or is there an easier way?
Thanks!
Actually you are floating only elements to the left without any wrapper element, so what happens is this..
Instead, wrap the other 2 elements inside a wrapper element and than float it to the left
.left_wrap {
float: left;
width: 30%;
}
.right_wrap {
float: left;
width: 70%;
}
.right_wrap > div {
border: 3px solid #ff0;
height: 100px;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="left_wrap">
Hello
</div>
<div class="right_wrap">
World
<div></div>
<div></div>
</div>
</div>
Demo
Better Demo
If you want even a better one, I would suggest you to wrap the boxes inside the parent containers, and instead of floating the child elements, float the parent.
Demo
Also, don't forget to clear your floated elements, just make sure you clear them, you can use a self clearing parent CSS like
.clear:after {
content: "";
clear: both;
display: table;
}
And call the above class on the element containing floated elements as their children, where in this case, it's <div class="main"> so it should be now
<div class="main clear">
<!-- Floated Elements -->
</div>
I'm not quite sure if this is what you mean but try:
#node-29{
float: right;
clear: left;
margin-left: 0;
}
This will position the div's next to each other and keep the main content to the right.
This can be quite complex depending on your existing theme.
I wrote this page a while back to shows you how you can do that.
http://linux.m2osw.com/3columns
More or less you need a first div that encompasses the left column and the content. That div is the one that gets centered.
To make it simpler you can set a specific width to the div and you get something like this:
div.page
{
width: 900px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
That will center the main div.
For the column and the content, both are float: left; div's. In order to "close" the lot, you want another div just before closing the main div. That one has a style that ensures that the main div has the correct size: clear: both;.
we can use margins to set the div position .we can either specify fixed margins or we can give percentage value ,so that it will based on the total size of the screen.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#main
{
background-color:yellow;
}
#main
{
margin-top:100px;
margin-bottom:100px;
margin-right:50px;
margin-left:50px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body >
<div id="main">
this is how we can display main div in centre
</div>
</body>
</html>
Related
OK, so here is my problem,
I need to have four DIVs in one line. The First three are float:left and the fourth one is float:right. The container has a specified width.
I need the third div to fill all the space from the second div that is floated to the left, to the fourth div that is floated right.
EDIT: DIVs #1, #2 and #4 have dynamic width as well... They have a certain padding and the content defines the width.
Why not turn the question on its head, and establish how to create the layout you want- in which case, likely the simplest approach would be:
Demo Fiddle
HTML
<div class='table'>
<div class='cell'>fit</div>
<div class='cell'>fit</div>
<div class='cell'>expand</div>
<div class='cell'>fit</div>
</div>
CSS
.table {
display:table;
width:100%; /* <-- will make the divs align across the full browser width */
height:50px;
}
.cell {
display:table-cell;
border:1px solid red;
width:1%; /* <-- will make 1, 2, 4 only fit their content */
}
.cell:nth-child(3) {
width:100%; /* <-- will make 3 expand to the remaining space */
}
Solution Using Floated Elements
Here is one way of doing this using floats.
Arrange your HTML as follows:
<div class="panel-container">
<div class="panel p1">Panel 1 - and a word</div>
<div class="panel p2">Panel 2 - Done. </div>
<div class="panel p4">Panel 4 - End!</div>
<div class="panel p3">Panel 3</div>
</div>
and apply the following CSS:
.panel-container {
width: 600px;
border: 1px dotted blue;
overflow: auto;
}
.panel {
background-color: lightgray;
padding: 5px;
}
.p1 {
float: left;
}
.p2 {
float: left;
}
.p3 {
background-color: tan;
overflow: auto;
}
.p4 {
float: right;
}
The trick is to place the floated elements (.p1, .p2. .p4) ahead of the in-flow content (.p3).
Use overflow: auto on the parent container to keep the floated child elements from affecting the layout outside of the parent element.
I added overflow: auto on .p3 so that the padding gets included within the containing block.
See fiddle at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/9G8rT/
Comments
The one disadvantage of this approach is that the order of the content is altered, that is, .p3 appears after .p4 in the code order.
Another side effect, which may be desirable in a responsive design, is that the child elements will wrap onto 2 or more lines as the parent container width gets smaller.
If you need to retain the content order in the HTML code, the CSS table-cell solution is a good alterantive.
The table-cell solution will keep the child elements on a single line regardless of the width of the parent container.
One final advangtage of the floated element solution is that it is more backward compatible than a CSS table-cell solution, but as we move forward, this is becoming less
of a compelling argument.
I aling divs in through right
{ float: right;}
but end of the page it (when divs become more than 4) the fifth div goes under other divs while page expands to down. I dont want this. I want height of the page become fixed and web page expand left to right always how can i do this.
Use min-width and display:table-cell example in fiddler : http://jsfiddle.net/HarishBoke/c8G7V/
On the top level parent element (presumably a 'body' tag) set the overflow-x property, in CSS, to scroll.
Something along the lines of:
body{
overflow-x: scroll;
}
Note that this possible solution may not be pre-IE8 friendly. As far as keeping the page's height fixed, define the height in CSS and set the overflow-y to be hidden. This will hide any elements exceding the parent element's height, rather than stretching the content.
You need a extra div with large width which contains other div's. This will not allow your body container to add new line when running out of space.
HTML:
<div id="container" class="clearfix">
<div id="wrapper" class="clearfix">
<div id="div1">Div1</div>
<div id="div2">Div2</div>
<div id="div3">Div3</div>
<div id="div4">Div4</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#container {
height: 275px;
overflow-x: auto;
overflow-y: hidden;
max-height: 275px;
}
#wrapper div {
float: right;
border:1px solid black;
width:200px;
height:100px;
display:inline-block;
}
.clearfix:after {
content: " "; /* Older browser do not support empty content */
visibility: hidden;
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
}
To make it more dynamic,you can first calculate the space taken by inner div and then some ettra space on the wrapper div accordingly
Javascript:
var width=0;
$('#wrapper>div').each(function() {
width =width+parseInt($(this).css('width'));
});
wrapperWidth=width+100;
$('#wrapper').css('width',wrapperWidth);
Updated Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ankur1990/mgxk5/3/
I'm working with divs and I managed to make the wrapper center by having this css:
.wrapper{
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0;
width:1100px;
height:100%;
}
then I have this inside that is floated left. It went inside but my problem is when it gets longer, it pass the wrapper div. The wrapper div should also adjust when the height of the div inside adjust but it's not working. When I also float the wrapper, it also adjusts but it doesn't go to the center anymore.
.inside_div{
float:left;
margin:5px;
width:400px;
height:100%;
}
What I tried to do is to float the wrapper div and use:
margin-left:200px;
to adjust it and to make it look that it's in the center. But I based it on my laptop's screen. It may not be centered on different screens with different sizes.
What I wanted to see is that the wrapper div will be centered in all screens and it will also adjust when the div inside adjusts too. I just don't know how to do it.I tried dfferent ways but still same result.
This is the html part:
<html>
<head>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="logo">
</div>
<div class="menu">
</div>
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="inside_div">
</div>
<div class="inside_div2">
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</body>
</html>
The inside_div2 is floated right.
Floated objects won't expand their parents. Your initial css height value is all that the parent container has to reference for its height. By the way, height:100% is generally not going to work for you and is rarely something you should include.
Without seeing exactly what you're trying to do, this would probably work fine. Although it depends a bit what you have inside the 'inside_div':
.wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1100px;
text-align: left;
}
.inside_div {
display: inline-block;
margin: 5px;
width: 400px;
}
I assume you wanted it off to the left since you were floating it left. But if you just want it centered, you can either just remove your float value and use margin: 0 auto; or use the css above and change text-align to center.
EDIT: Ok, so had to recheck your stuff above. I think what you want is simply this:
.wrapper {
width: 1100px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.inside_div {
width: 400px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
That'll center both of them, regardless of the size of the screen. You can add a height value to the inside_div if you need, but px values would be best, and if you have content in there is usually best just to let the content dictate the height without explicitly setting it.
Remove all height properties and add a "clearfix" class to your wrapper.
In your css, define ".clearfix" as :
.clearfix:before,
.clearfix:after {
content: " ";
display: table;
}
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
}
That should do the trick for modern browsers. You should definitely Google "clearfix" to learn more about it.
I have a fixed-width left div, and I want to make the right div fill the remaining space.
So far I've been taking this approach recommended by another SO poster, but it doesn't work if I have content inside the right div.
The content in the right div is set to width: 100%, so I would expect it to be no wider than the right-hand div, but it overflows the right div.
<div>
<div id="left">left</div>
<div id="right">right<div id="insideright">overflows</div</div>
</div>
<style>
#left {
float:left;
width:180px;
background-color:#ff0000;
}
#right {
width: 100%;
background-color:#00FF00;
}
#insideright {
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
height: 5px;
}
</style>
JSFiddle here, demoing the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/MHeqG/155/
What can I do?
I want to support older IE browsers, so I'd rather not use display: table-cell etc if I can avoid it, or at least not without a reasonable fallback.
Actually it's pretty simple... don't add 100% to the right div :)
just add the overflow property
LIVE DEMO
#left {
float:left;
width:180px;
background-color:#ff0000;
}
#right {
overflow:auto;
background-color:#00FF00;
}
#insideright {
background-color: blue;
}
...and if you even wondered how to make the red (left) div fill the remaining height...
DEMO
Not sure exactly what you're trying to do (your references to right are ambiguous). But if I'm understanding, you want the insideright to be nested within the right without overflowing?
Why not use a <span> instead? <div> out of the box is display: block; which will force a wrap like that. Alternatively, override this behavior by using display: inline; or display: inline-block;.
<div>
<div id="left">
left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
<span id="insideright">this should not overflow right</span>
</div>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/brandonscript/MHeqG/157/
I am trying to wrap a div called content with another div that has a different background.
However, when using "margin-top" with the content div, it seems like the wrapping DIV gets the margin-top instead of the content div.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
html {
background-color:red;
}
#container-top {
background-color: #ccc;
overflow: hidden;
padding-top: 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
height:30px;
}
#container-bottom {
background-color: #F1F4F2;
}
#content {
margin-top:20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container-top">
</div>
<div id="container-bottom">
<div id="content">
Hello
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So in the example, the div container-bottom gets the margin-top instead of the content div.
I found out that if I add a char inside container-bottom it fixes the issue.
<div id="container-bottom">
**A**
<div id="content">
Hello
</div>
But of course that is not a good solution...
Thanks,
Joel
What's happening is called margin-collapsing.
If two margins (top & bottom only, not right or left) of 2 elements are touching (or in your case, the top-margin of the inner div is touching the top-margin of the outer div), the max between them is used (in your case max(0, 20) = 20) and placed as far as possible from the touching elements (in your case outside the container div (the outermost element)).
To break this behavior, you have to place something between the 2 margins -> a padding at the top of the container div will do.
#container-bottom {
background-color: #F1F4F2;
padding-top: 1px;
}
#content {
margin-top:19px;
}
other solution (works, but may not suit your needs):
you can simply put a padding-top of 20 px in the container div:
#container-bottom {
background-color: #F1F4F2;
padding-top: 20px;
}
#content {
}
for more informations, this page explains it very well: Margin Collapsing
You could try adding a non-breaking space to the #container-bottom:
<div id="container-bottom">
<div id="content">
Hello
</div>
</div>
This is a suitable solution as it is often used to let a browser know that an element is not empty (some browsers ignore empty elements).
Margin-top is a mysterious creature because of its collapsing properties. I have found the easiest fix to this problem is to apply a 1px padding-top to the container-bottom div and change the content margin-top to 19px.