I'm in the process of taking out tables from an entire site, and switching them to CSS Div's.
Here's the link of the first one I'm trying:
http://www.torelloengineers.com/legal_investigations.html
The problem is the content to the right is being put below the picture to the left, rather than being right next to it.
I created this in my CSS file: a container, row, and left, right, and middle for the table cells. I couldn't paste it exactly here because the text box wasn't allowing formatted code.
<div id="row">
<div id="left">
<h4><img src="picts/torello-safety-design.jpg" width="400" height="301"></h4>
</div>
<div id="right">
<h4>Lacking Good Safety Design - Missing Guardrail. Plainville, CT</h4>
<p>While returning to her parked vehicle after using an ATM.... </p>
</div>
</div>
I "dived" the content I wanted as left and right on the main page to where I wanted it, but the right content won't line up with the left.
I didn't see a CSS file that had the IDs #left and #right in it. Are the ids #left and #right floated left and/or right?
#left {
float: left;
}
#right {
float: right;
}
You might want to change those to classes too, just to make it easier to reuse them. :)
Try position:absolute or position:relative
<div id="right"> is formatted as a table cell. Check the vertical alignment for the text - vertical-align:baseline. Personally I would remove the table cell formatting and use a regular div.
Do this:
#left {width: 50%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top;}
#right {width: 50%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top;}
Adjust widths to your liking. Floats allow content to wrap around them, so they're an option as well.
While you're in there, change
"Here's a few examples of past work we have done for attorney's:"
to
"Here're a few examples of past work we have done for attorneys:"
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hope someone can give me a hand with this, I've searched but can't find anyone with the same problem.
I'm re-jigging a menu for my website and I need these .float-columns to appear next to each other, but in this set-up they appear under each other.
.main{
display: inline-block;
position:relative;}
.content {
position: absolute;
}
.float-column {
background: #FFF000;
float:left;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="content">
<div class="float-column">Column 1</div>
<div class="float-column">Column 2</div>
</div>
</div>
I can make them appear as expected by removing the position from the .content or removing the position/display from the .main, unfortunately I can't do this as it breaks the rest of the menu.
I've had limited success when specifying fixed widths for the .float-column and .content, but ideally I'd like to leave it flexible (so I can add as many columns as needed)
Is there any way around this? Am I missing something obvious?
JSFIDDLE
as per your requirement, you just need to remove inline block from the main class. That will make the columns align side by side.
I've captured an illustration of a CSS two-column layout I've set up, while using the following rule for the orange containers:
.embedded_post{
float: left;
width: 46%;
margin-right: 20px;
padding: 10px;
display: inline-block;
}
As can be seen, the second orange container on the right column is preventing the second orange container on the left column from floating up to the top left box.
This happens apparently since float:left automatically grants the element with a block level flow.
How can I get the second box on the left column to be positioned under the first one?
can you wrap your columns in another pair of divs, so that floating in the right column won't affect floating in the left?
<div id='left_column'>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
</div>
<div id='right_column'>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
</div>
css:
#left_column, #right_column {
float:left;
}
you've answered it yourself, there are a couple of options:
trick yourself by granting the div elements with an inline level flow, i.e. specifying display: inline (not recommended).
update the markup to be more semantic and alter the layout to conform to the desired result, e.g. replacing the divs with spans (preferred).
The second div on the left has less width than the rest of the divs, this might have something to do with it. Also, the combination with your (desired) structure and the margin-right isn't how I would do it. In fact, the margin-right may, depending on the with of the parent div of the embedded_post divs, screw up your structure and cause postioning problems.
It works fine when I try it.
p.s. keep in mind that in Firefox, the padding adds to the width/height of the div while this doesn't happen in other browsers.
I'm trying to convert my site from using tables to just using css and divs but I'm running into a lot of problems with trying to figure how to exactly do it, I've been looking for tutorials on centering a site with css and how to put divs side by side but I can't really find one that does both and I keep getting confused by how to exactly achieve this, I asked around a bit and I got told to use absolute positioning but still I can't really wrap my head around this.
So basically how would I arrange the 2 central div side by side while keeping the whole thing centered in the browser? The following image is the layout I'm trying to achieve:
the blue boxes are eventual other stuff I might want to put in them, such as a blog requiring again the use of side by side divs.
right now I have the following layout:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="banner"> banner </div>
<div id="navbar"> navigation links </div>
<div id="body"> stuff </div>
<div id="footer"> stuff </div>
</div>
General idea: http://jsfiddle.net/JjbJE/
A little specific but provide you a great adventure to learn HTML | CSS : http://jsfiddle.net/JjbJE/3/
float:left|right this property does the side by side trick
clear:both this property clear away the float property
Other things are pretty easy to learn, just head to W3Schools
First you need a main container to center everything. Then two separate divs. See the HTML below:
<div id="main">
<div class="box">Left Box</div>
<div class="box">Right Box</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
Here is the CSS you will need:
#main{
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
}
.box{
width:450px;
float:left;
border:solid 1px #000000;
}
.clear{
clear:both;
}
Hope that helps.
Here's my general overview on converting to a CSS based layout - if you have a table based layout, this is a good plan - in the end you can do more, Google will like you more, and it's much cooler.
My strategy is to look at all the groups of things on your page. Whatever needs to go into a group together, put inside a div. Assign this div a class and/or id to style it. If the divs are grouped, put them together in a div too.
In your case, you have two chunks of content to group inside of divs. Style them to be the size and shape you like, background, border, whatever is needed. Then group them together in an additional div, and center it. This and the rest of the page content can go inside a container div, which will determine the width of the page, how it's aligned, etc.
One possibility is to have a centered wrapper class and contain the divisons inside of that:
<div class="wrapper">
<header></header>
<div id="middle">
<div class="main-article clearfix"></div>
<aside></aside>
</div>
<footer></footer>
</div>
Then to style, center the wrapper, float the aside and main-article:
.wrapper { width: 1024px; margin: 0 auto; /* the auto centers it */ }
header, footer, aside, { display: block; }
.main-article { width: 50%; float: right; }
aside { width: 50%; float: left; }
.clearfix:before, .clearfix:after { content: ""; display: table; }
.clearfix:after { clear: both; }
.clearfix { *zoom: 1; }
Note: This is untested, and uses the clearfix from the HTML5 Boilerplate.
Update 01.22.2014: This "Holy Grail Layout" has ben solved by Flexbox. Check out Solved By Flexbox for more information on recreating this layout (and many more).
I recently start to learn CSS and table less design.
After reviewing some tutorials now I am involved with converting PSD Mockup to XHTML and CSS.
Most often my problem is to positioning elements and containers.
for example this below design:
I am converting this to CSS and HTML.
I have no problem with styling Input elements.
about main layout it seems two columns layout , right ?
How do I style containers ?
I wrote this code It displays better here.
I divided my page to two containers and valued (float:left) to left container.
As specified in jsFiddle link elements on the left side container had come out of the box (I think its because of float).
I can't set containers position to absolute.
Now please help me to refactor and change my code. And please explain to me how to position elements right ?
i think a
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
before the </div> of the container will work.
edit:
http://jsfiddle.net/xNwAc/5/
Try and have a wrapping element to contain your two columns. with W3C code, you'll want to use floated elements. The elements don't have any padding, you can work on them yourself, but it's a very basic structure to follow:
The CSS:
#wrapper { width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; background: blue; } /* positions it center of page */
#left { float: left; width: 50%; background: red;}
#right { float: right; width: 50%; background: green;}
The HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left"> Left content </div>
<div id="right"> Right content </div>
</div>
You have to set a new formating context on the container, with overflow:auto; eg.
I sugger you to read the specification which is very clear and useful.
As the exclamation point is not a part of the content you can place it as a background image.
ie I have a div, below is a hidden div, which is wider than the div above. I want to specify the div inside to have elements with greater widths than the div above. these elements right hand side is aligned to the right hand side of the div above, but since it is wider, want the left hand side to break out. The div below is on a diff layer than the div above as it only appears on clicking on trigger element of div above.
Basically its a drop down list, with some random elements are wider than the image element above which, when clicked drops this list. but i want the list underneath to expand to the left breaking out of the parent div, without specifying exact positions. Therefore, the elements are all children of the parent div and right aligned to it, just like parent.
Hmmm, hope you can follow. Really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
Negative Margins seems to be the best answer. If anyone knows of cross browser issues, please post here. Perhaps I will but shalln't be testing for them for a week or two.
You should probably just use a select tag (for accessibility's sake) even though it won't look as fancy. But if you're set on it, try something like this (and add your javascript code to hide/show the list):
#wrapper {
width: 500px;
}
#select {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 180px;
float: right;
}
#options {
float: right;
clear: right;
text-align: right;
}
and
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="select">pick one...</div>
<div id="options">
<div class="option">I'm short</div>
<div class="option">I'm a very very very very very long option</div>
</div>
</div>
If you end up using this, change the options div to a ul tag and the option divs to li tags, or something semantically closer to what you're building. I just used divs to cut down on the amount of css in my example.