I need to vertically align with CSS multiple elements inside my header.
At the moment, I am using this structure:
-Header
-Content div (This only set my width to 940 with paddings of 10px each side)
-Element 1 (Height: Known, 50px)
-Element 2 (Height: Unknown, bigger fonts)
-Element 3 (Height: Unknown, smaller fonts)
So I need to vertically align to the middle (50% of my header - size of the element) all of my elements and I need to make it cross-browser compatible...
I've found some suggestion by searching such as using a floater div, however I had a hard time trying to align all of my elements since they are not all of the same size...
EDIT
As requested, here is my HTML and CSS:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../CSS/mediadevis.css" />
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div class="content">
<div id="logo"></div>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Accueil</li>
<li>Nos services</li>
<li>Notre compagnie</li>
<li>Nous joindre</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div id="lang">English</div>
</div>
</header>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
background-color: #336699;
}
header{
background-image:url('../IMG/bg_top.png');
height: 90px;
}
nav > ul{
float: left;
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
margin-left: 10px;
padding:0;
color: #ffffff;
}
nav > ul > li{
display: inline;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
padding: 10px;
}
.content{
margin: auto;
width: 940px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
#lang{
float: left;
}
#logo{
background-image:url('../IMG/logo.png');
height: 50px;
width: 180px;
float: left;
}
Try these suggestions from Smashing Magazine:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/09/absolute-horizontal-vertical-centering-css/
Specifically, try this code, using the TOP, LEFT, RIGHT, and BOTTOM properties to position your elements:
HTML
<div class="magix">
magix!
</div>
<div class="more-magix">
More Magix!
</div>
CSS
.magix{
background: red;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
left: 0;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
width: 100px;
}
.more-magix {
background: blue;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
left: 0;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 500px;
right: 0;
width: 100px;
}
OR, check out Chris Coiyer's methods:
http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/
Related
I am a new css programmer and there is a very annoying problem in my code. when I put the grey bars in they are not touching the left side of the screen they touch the right side but not the left side and I do not know why there is nothing in my code that is stopping them so I do not know why it would be doing that please help me fix it thanks! (the big white space in the middle is supposed to be there it is for a picture.)
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>AndrewDevs.Com</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald" rel="stylesheet">
<style type="text/css">
#white{
color:white;
}
.large {
font-size:300%;
}
#green {
color:black;
}
.underline {
text-decoration:underline;
}
.bold {
font-weight:bold;
}
.picture{
position: absolute;
top: 45px;
right: 0;
width: 1870px;
height: 10px;
}
.greybox {
background-color:#a5a5a5;
position: absolute;
top: 380px;
right: 0;
width: 1870px;
height: 10px;
border: 3px solid #a5a5a5;
}
.connect {
background-color:#6b6b6b;
position: absolute;
top: 340px;
right: 0;
width: 1870px;
height: 40px;
border: 3px solid #6b6b6b;
}
.top {
top:10px;
width: 1870px;
height:700px;
z-index:2;
text-align: center;
}
.bottom {
background-color:#0a0a0a;
width: 1600px;
height:200px;
text-align: center;
}
.purplebox {
background-color:#6b6b6b;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0;
width: 1870px;
height: 40px;
border: 3px solid #6b6b6b;
}
.greenbox {
top:0px;
width: 1870px;
height: 500px;
z-index:2;
text-align: center;
margin:150px 100px 30px 10px;
float:center;
font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;
}
}
p {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="greybox">
</div>
<div class="purplebox">
<p class="large"></p>
</div>
<div class="picture">
<img src="code.jpg" alt="code" height="300" width="1870">
</div>
<div class="connect">
<p> Connect with me! </p>
</div>
<div class="top">
<p id="green" class="large">idfk</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="greenbox">
<p id="green" class="large">idfk</p>
</div>
<div class="greenbox">
<p id="green" class="large">idfk</p>
</div>
<div class="bottom">
<p id="white" class="large">Connect With me!</p>
</div>
By default the body on the page has this css:
body {
display: block;
margin: 8px;
}
body:focus {
outline: none;
}
at the top of your css file just add:
body {
margin:0;
}
this way you're working with 0 margins to begin with.
Margins of <body> don't matter because those grey bars are absolutely positioned to the right therefore they stick to the right side of <html> element. If the screen resolution (the width of your screen or window) is bigger then the width: 1870px;, they are gonna stick to the right side and leave an empty space on the left.
If you want those grey boxes to always stick to both sides of your screen, use width: 100%; or no width and left: 0; instead:
.connect {
background-color: #6b6b6b;
position: absolute;
top: 340px;
right: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
border: 3px solid #6b6b6b;
}
or
.connect {
background-color: #6b6b6b;
position: absolute;
top: 340px;
right: 0;
left: 0;
height: 40px;
border: 3px solid #6b6b6b;
}
Both will stretch the element to the width of their parent element.
But it is good to set the body's position to relative and get rid of its default margins. In my opinion, you shouldn't use the <html> tag for styling. It will make those absolutely positioned grey boxes stick to the sides of <body> and not <html>:
body {
margin: 0;
position: relative;
}
See this link to learn more about positioning: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp
I don't understand why my links are not the .pushMenu divs (left and right),
html:
<header class="header">
<div class="pushMenu" id="left">
<p>l</p>
</div>
<div class="pushMenu" id="right">
<p>r</p>
</div>
<div>
<span class="myTitle">title</span>
<span class="myBy">(by me)</span>
</div>
css:
header {
text-align: center !important;
line-height: 60px;
font-weight: bold;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; right: 0;
height: 60px;
color: #ffffff;
}
header div.pushMenu {
position: absolute;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
top: 10px;
border: 1px solid white;
}
header div.pushMenu#left {left: 10px;}
header div.pushMenu#right {right: 10px;}
header div.pushMenu a {
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
display: block;
}
see in action: http://jsfiddle.net/GDQdU/4/
what's wrong ?
This is happening because the line-height specified for the header is being rendered by the child elements also. Check below to correct this.
Remove the p tag from the a tag and the html will be like this r
and add line-height:30px to the a tag.
header div.pushMenu a{
line-height:30px;
}
DEMO
OR
If you want the p tag to be there then make the following css changes
header div.pushMenu p{
margin:0;
line-height:30px;
}
DEMO
I'm working on a brand new website and I'm trying to just get the basic layout going. I am using the ASP.NET MVC 4 generated HTML and I would like to get the DIV named body to fill the available space after making room for the header and thus anchoring the footer to the bottom of the browser window. However, what I'm getting right now is three panels just stacked on top of each other.
I would like a solution that would work if the browser supported HTML5 and one if it didn't
Please note I've inlined comments in the CSS to try and explain what I've tried.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>#ViewBag.Title - Title</title>
<link href="~/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
#Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="float-left">
<p class="site-title">#Html.ActionLink("Title", "Index", "Home")</p>
</div>
</div>
</header>
<div id="body">
#RenderSection("featured", required: false)
<section class="content-wrapper main-content clear-fix">
#RenderBody()
</section>
</div>
<footer>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="float-left">
<p>© #DateTime.Now.Year - ACME. All rights reserved.</p>
</div>
<div class="float-right">
<ul id="social">
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</footer>
#RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
</body>
</html>
CSS
body {
/* I'VE TRIED BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING TO SEE IF THE BODY ITSELF WOULD SPAN */
/* WITH NO OTHER CSS APPLIED TO THE body ELEMENT */
/*height: fill-available;*/
/*height: 100%*/
}
/* general layout
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.float-left {
float: left;
}
.float-right {
float: right;
}
.clear-fix:after {
content: ".";
clear: both;
display: block;
height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
/* main layout
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.content-wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 960px;
}
#body {
background-color: #efeeef;
clear: both;
padding-bottom: 35px;
/* I'VE TRIED BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING TO SEE IF I COULD GET THIS ELEMENT TO SPAN */
/* WITHOUT ANY OTHER CSS APPLIED TO THE body TAG */
/*height: fill-available;*/
/*height: 100%*/
}
.main-content {
/*background: url("../Images/accent.png") no-repeat;*/
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 30px;
}
.featured + .main-content {
/*background: url("../Images/heroAccent.png") no-repeat;*/
}
footer {
clear: both;
background-color: #e2e2e2;
font-size: .8em;
height: 100px;
}
/* site title
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.site-title {
color: #c8c8c8;
font-family: Rockwell, Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 2.3em;
margin: 20px 0;
}
.site-title a, .site-title a:hover, .site-title a:active {
background: none;
color: #c8c8c8;
outline: none;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* social
----------------------------------------------------------*/
ul#social li {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}
ul#social li a {
color: #999;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.facebook, a.twitter {
display: block;
float: left;
height: 24px;
padding-left: 17px;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: 16px;
}
a.facebook {
background: url("../Images/facebook.png") no-repeat;
}
a.twitter {
background: url("../Images/twitter.png") no-repeat;
}
Just snap the header and footer at the bottom of the page using fixed positioning.
header, footer{ position:fixed; left:0; right:0; z-index:1; }
header{ top:0; }
footer{ bottom:0; }
Then you can give your body the background your div#body had before. The div gets no background and will expand as much as needed.
div#body{ background:none; }
body{ background:#eee; }
This will look like the div would fill the remaining space of the page. Finally give your header and footer a background so that you can't see the background of the body under it.
header, footer{ background:#fff; }
By the way I would suggest removing body margins. body{ margin:0; }
I believe it's a bit impossible to do that with just CSS. You can make a webpage with 100% height like this:
html{
height: 100%;
}
body{
height: 100%;
}
#body{
height: 100%;
}
And then for header, body and footer you can do like this:
header{
height: 100px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: #f00;
}
#body{
bottom: 100px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 100px;
background-color: #fff;
}
footer{
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
background-color: #ff0;
}
It might work for a bit, but it'll break at some point. When you resize your browser, it'll be running out of room for your #body. If you want a better solution, you should use javascript. In your javascript, calculate how much space you have for your #body, then either adjust the height of header and footer. Or adjust the #body instead.
I have a list like this:
<html>
<head>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="testli.css">
</head>
<body>
<ul id='grok'>
<li>
<img src='na' class='cimg' />
<div class='cinner'>
<p>Title, max two lines.</p>
<p>Some longish text, max two lines, causes problems when too long.</p>
</div>
<div style='clear:both'></div>
</li>
<li>
<img src='na' class='cimg' />
<div class='cinner'>
<p>Title</p>
<p>Some longish text here which may wrap some and cause problems..</p>
</div>
<div style='clear:both'></div>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
// testli.css
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#grok {
list-style-type: none;
width: 200px;
}
#grok li {
background-color: lightgreen;
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: left;
}
.cimg {
width:70px;
height:44px;
float:left;
}
.cinner {
float: left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 10px;
font:14px;
}
when the text in the p elements is short, the layout behaves as I want - the thumbnail and the text should appear as if they're in two separate columns. I'm basically looking to recreate the thumbnails youtube has for recommended items - thumbnail on the left, some text in another column to the right of it. Title and text each allowed two lines of text each.
If the text is too long, the cinner div gets placed below the thumbnail. What's the right way to force it to always be to the right?
Thanks
You could do it by setting a min-height on the <li> and then absolutely positioning the image to the left of the title and description:
#grok {
list-style-type: none;
width: 200px;
}
#grok li {
position: relative;
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
min-height: 44px;
/* min-height fix for IE6. Ideally this would be in an IE6 only stylesheet */
height: auto !important;
height: 44px;
background-color: lightgreen;
}
.cimg {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 70px;
height: 44px;
}
.cinner {
padding: 0 0 0 80px; /* Makes room for the image so it doesn't overlap text */
font: 14px;
}
Add max-width to .cinner (if I don't mistaken - max-width: 110px).
I believe this is a beginner's CSS question. I am utilizing the method described in http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/examples/csslayout1.html to fix a header to the top and a footer to the bottom.
What I'd like to achieve now is two columns inside the content div. A left one of 200px and a right one that takes up the rest of the width.
Unfortunately, I can't get the left and right divs to display correctly: they just don't grow vertically, and if I make the right div "width: 100%" it positions itself underneath the left one.
What is the trick to make the left and right div take up all the space within the content div?
The layout1.css is the original one. I just added two entries: #left and #right
layout1.css:
/**
* 100% height layout with header and footer
* ----------------------------------------------
* Feel free to copy/use/change/improve
*/
html,body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 100%; /* needed for container min-height */
background: gray;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
color: #666;
}
h1 {
font: 1.5em georgia, serif;
margin: 0.5em 0;
}
h2 {
font: 1.25em georgia, serif;
margin: 0 0 0.5em;
}
h1,h2,a {
color: orange;
}
p {
line-height: 1.5;
margin: 0 0 1em;
}
div#container {
position: relative; /* needed for footer positioning*/
margin: 0 auto; /* center, not in IE5 */
width: 750px;
background: #f0f0f0;
height: auto !important; /* real browsers */
height: 100%; /* IE6: treaded as min-height*/
min-height: 100%; /* real browsers */
}
div#header {
padding: 1em;
background: #ddd url("../csslayout.gif") 98% 10px no-repeat;
border-bottom: 6px double gray;
}
div#header p {
font-style: italic;
font-size: 1.1em;
margin: 0;
}
div#content {
padding: 1em 1em 5em; /* bottom padding for footer */
}
div#content p {
text-align: justify;
padding: 0 1em;
}
div#footer {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0; /* stick to bottom */
background: #ddd;
border-top: 6px double gray;
}
div#footer p {
padding: 1em;
margin: 0;
}
// added the following:
div#left {
border: 1px solid red;
width: 200px;
float: left;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
div#right {
border: 1px solid blue;
float: left;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
layout.html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>CSS Layout - 100% height</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="layout1.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>header</h1>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
left column
</div>
<div id="right">
right column
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>
footer
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Just in case somebody else stumbles onto this question like me. This is what I ended up doing.
<div class="left">
text
</div>
<div class="right">
text
</div>
.left {
float: left;
width: 200px;
}
.right {
margin-left: 200px;
}
And for simpler cases (e.g., when you don't need border on the right element), you don't even have to specify left width twice: http://jsfiddle.net/j8T9v/1/
Another example, without setting up width at all. Left element takes as much space as it needs, right - the rest: http://jsfiddle.net/j8T9v/2/
The way I usually do it is by using the float and padding properties.
HTML:
<div id="leftCol">
content
</div>
<div id = "rightCol">
content
</div>
CSS:
#leftCol {
width: 200px;
}
#rightCol {
width: 100%;
float: right;
padding-left: 200px;
}
Should work.
So you are using float, and padding to put the div's side by side.
You might need:
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
in your #rightCol CSS style (Not tested btw... from memory)