I have 3 separate graphical elements; the header, the footer, and the content-background. The content background is repeatable, and my intention is to allow the page to dynamically adjust without breaking any flow of the page. I've tried to achieve this by applying the 'header image' to a div at the top of the page - the 'content-background' to the container (of both the content area and the menu), and finally the 'footer image' at the bottom of the page - outside of the container.
It seems to work well when I have very limited content on the page - however, the moment I put a of content in the content area, it just hangs out over the edge of the images and looks awful, as opposed to repeating the background and nudging the other divs down.
I don't want to introduce overflow:scroll, or anything like such - and I'm desperate to try and avoid JavaScript. I'm sure I've made a flaw somewhere in my thinking, but I'm not too sure where. I have a feeling that I need to do something regarding positioning - and changing the heights of certain divs (container, content are still defined as the base; but whatever I set it at, it either has no effect or causes the page to look bizarre).
Instead of copying-pasting the walls of texts, I've posted the address to a temporary section on my website.
It seems like you have a few issues. Setting a height on #container is a problem, and not clearing your floats of your #content and #rightbar elements is another problem. My belief is that fixing both of those things will give you the result you're expecting.
From what I understand from your question, you want your div tags to become bigger as the text gets more and more.
The solution is simple: Use min-width instead of width. it will adjust itself
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Being new to CSS, I have looked at similar posts on stackoverflow regarding this issue, but none of the resolutions seem to help with my site.
I am using a template for the site and trying to edit the CSS so that the page will maintain one width, and not shift it's elements when the window is resized.
An example page can be found here: (removed link for client)
The content is contained within a wrapper currently set to relative position:
#page_wrapper
{
position: relative;
}
I tried to change it to this:
#page_wrapper
{
min-width: 960px;
}
This doesn't seem to be doing the trick though. When I resize the window, everything still shifts. Any ideas what else I need to change?
Your site is using Twitter Bootstrap: twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
It won't be a totally simple process to do what you want but a starting point would be going to this page:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/customize.html
There you could uncheck the "Responsive" checkboxes and change the Grid System elements to be whsatever you want. It may however be best to leave those as they are.
Then download the css files and replace the ones on your site and see if that helps (ensure you make a back-up of your current files first).
There are a few things going on here:
The navigation has float: right on it somewhere. This means that when its width, plus the width of anything it sits next to is wider than its container, it's going to shift so that it can fit.
Your min-width is too narrow If your min-width is 960px, but the width of your navigation, plus the width of your logo (the two elements that sit side by side), plus any margins, paddings, and borders, add up to anything more than 960px, then it's not going to sit in line. You need to either adjust your min-width, or adjust the calculated width of the elements to fit within that 960px minimum. This can be done either by making margins/paddings smaller, decreasing the text size, setting explicit widths, or any combination thereof.
your elements are probably moving around because you have them in the same tag so if you want your elements to hold their positions you need to use a different for each element and align them to your preference perhaps on css or inside the tag(that's up to you). Otherwise in a div tag if you follow the same procedure for each element you shouldn't have any problems. That goes for sentences too... you need to make each word in a sentence be in between individual
I'll admit that CSS is not my cup of tea, so it's possible that I'm missing something obvious here. My problem is that when I have an element that has both CSS properties of "clear: both;" and "height: 100%;" the element actually ends up going past the page height. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/d9mv7/
Notice that the blue frame causes a scrollbar to appear and exceeds the page height despite being "100%". When "clear: both" property is removed, it renders as expected (JsFiddle still adds an unneeded scrollbar, but when rendering normally, I don't have that issue).
My intent is to have the bottom div (the blue one in JsFiddle) go until the bottom of page height, but stop at the bottom of the page, drawing the border correctly, same way as on the sides. The problem is that I do have content above the div that has a float property, requiring div to have the "clear: both" property to render correctly (unless there is another way without having to hardcode the pixel size).
I've tried wrapping both the top (float element) and bottom div inside an additional div, such that their height is relative to that div instead of the page. This seemed to make the overlap smaller (and scrollbar shorter), but did not make it go away. Using "overflow: hidden;" will not work for me either, since it still makes the div and the content go beyond the bottom, only hiding the scrollbar. How do you guys suggest I handle this (preferably without JavaScript)?
As the two other posters suggested, I ended up going with a JavaScript solution. If someone can find a CSS-only solution that makes no assumptions about size/contents of the divs, please post it and I will change the accepted answer. Here is how I'm handling it for now (this uses jQuery, but similar logic can be done with native JS):
$('#second-panel').height(document.height-$('#first-panel').height());
Alternatively, if your divs have margins/padding/borders that are thick enough to matter and you want them included in the measurements as well (because element.height() doesn't), you can use outerHeight:
var secondPanel = $('#second-panel');
var borders = secondPanel.outerHeight()-secondPanel.height();
secondPanel.height(document.height-$('#first-panel').outerHeight()-borders);
the layout of my html page has a fixed div on top of the page. the content div then has a margin-top to compensate for the fixed div.
However, when the content gets scrolled down, if I do a search on page, the browser would sometimes show matches that would be underneath the fixed div, i.e. invisible.
For example, go to http://mincovlaw.com/services/worldwide_enforcement_checkup, scroll down a little bit, and do several searches for "know". You will see that the one closer to the top of the page will be found but will be hidden underneath the fixed div.
Is there a better way to achieve the same looks, while retaining the functionality of a search that does not get hidden?
Simple answer: no, because that's exactly what you're doing: hiding content. Think of it as if content ceased to exist, that's exactly what you're doing and what you're looking for. Anyway, I doubt many people will search in the page, it's not THAT common
In CSS 2.1, how can I put different divs next to each others? I found that there is a property float and values left, right, none and inherit and I guess they allow me to put for example picture A left and picture B right. But how can I put a picture B below picture A, or for example such that pictures are 15 pixels below the navigation bar of the site?
Even after editing the question, I'm still not 100% sure what you are after. You are mentioning two images and how they are positioned relative to one another but it sounds like the problem is really that they are overlapping another part of the page. Floating an element will allow you to position an element and have the rest of its parent's content wrap around it, like a picture in a news article for example. You can also position divs side by side but that gets a little trickier.
Originally, you mentioned wanting to position one image below another and have those two move together, in which case you would wrap the images in a div and then float the div however you wanted.
In this updated question, it sounds like you would basically just want the images to appear below your page's navigation bar. Without knowing the details, I assume the images are overlapping your page header because they are floated and they are siblings (at the same level in the DOM tree) with the navigation bar's markup. You could do a couple things to fix that. First, you could give the images a margin-top value that's equal to the height of the navigation bar. But that's definitely a hack. Here's a better approach...
Without example HTML, it sounds like you really have two different parts of a page - a header/nav bar and the body of your page. If that's the case, then I would use a div for each. The images would presumably be wrapped in the body's div and no matter how you float them it within that body div, they shouldn't ever overlap the header's div. For example...
<body>
<div id="navigationHeader">
Navigation Option 1
Navigation Option 2
</div>
<div id="pageContent">
<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/srpr/logo1w.png" style="float:left;" />
Even though the image is floated left, it still won't overlap the page navigation header.
</div>
</body>
floats etc requires a fair bit of study ( not that it's a huge deal but a bit more complex than you might think ) .....
figure out the following
inline vs block elements ( you can change the default setting)
clearing divs
these will help too
http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_float.asp
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html
reading your question again it looks like you might be finding that you need a clearing div beneath the two pictures ( this is non semantic by the way)
EDIT*the issue apparently comes down to the fact that, i need to use relative position on the large image, so i can adjust the top value. this causes the thumbs to be put on top of the main image. When i remove the relative positioning of the main image, the flow looks fine, but the top positioning is disregarded- i sort of need both to have the dynamic manipulation of this app im developing*
I wish I could understand why this happens like 90% of the time I go to code div layouts.
You have content in your div with a certain height, and then you have another div directly after it - and somehow it just goes right on top of the first one.
I wish I knew where the problem was, but I can't figure out what CSS is the cause.
Anyways, if you care to take a look, this is the sandbox of the issue I'm having:
the reference is changing because i keep updating it to check sorry.
http://www.drewswinson.com/DP/
I'm making a dynamic jQuery gallery viewer and the thumbs just don't want to put themselves below the image.
It happens all the time though; is there any reason content inside a div would allow subsequent divs to not be placed below the content its supposed to be filled?
You problem is the position: relative attribute on imageDiv.
It pushes the image down from where it should be. If you remove that, the static flow of the page will be used, which is what you want in this case.