http://jsfiddle.net/y88mq/1/
I have a simple layout with three containers: one, two, three. I am trying to get three to align at the top with one. Right now one and two are floated left and three is floated right. I tried combinations of clearing but it didn't seem to work. I would like to get this to work with just CSS.
<div class="left">one</div>
<div class="left">two</div>
<div class="right">three</div>
.left {
background: red;
width: 66%;
height: 200px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
float: left;
}
.right {
background: green;
width: 33%;
float: right;
height: 200px;
}
EDIT: I would like to keep the source order the same
If you must keep the order of the HTML the same, then all i can think of is to use:
position: absolute;
I have made the changes to your Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/hRdEf/
Hope that helps.
Due to the nature of CSS and its evil floats, I suggest you rearrange the order of the boxes. This will work fine:
<div class="left">one</div>
<div class="right">three</div>
<div class="left">two</div>
See: http://jsfiddle.net/y88mq/2/
Just place the "right div" at the top of the listed divs.
<div class="right">three</div>
<div class="left">one</div>
<div class="left">two</div>
..//rest of code
http://jsfiddle.net/y88mq/7/
<div class="left">one</div>
<div class="left">two</div>
<div class="right">three</div>
.left {
background: red;
width: 32%;
height: 200px;
margin-right: 20px;
float: left;
}
.right {
background: green;
width: 33%;
float: right;
height: 200px;
}
If you wrap columns one and two in a div, you effectively float the wrapper div and column three side by side and aligned at the top. The wrapper div will hold columns one and two stacked.
Extra advantage of this approach is that you can choose the align columns one and two on one line if there is more space available.
Semantically, your columns would still be in the same order.
Related
I have two divs with display:inline block next to each other, however the 2nd one's width can change to be so long that it will fall under the first div. That is fine, but the problem is that there is no vertical space between the 2 divs when this happens. I can solve this by adding margin-bottom to the first div, but then this causes the 2nd div to be a bit lower even when it is sitting to the right of the first div.
What browser are you using? As you can see below, two inline-block divs retain a margin when one slips below the other. (In fact, getting rid of the margin between inline-block elements is a bit tricky, but that's another question.)
#container {
width: 200px;
}
#top {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
}
#right {
display: inline-block;
width: 150px;
height: 100px;
background: blue;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="top"></div><div id="right"></div>
</div>
What you want is "vertical-align:top;".
I have 4 successive divs:
<div class="container">
<div class="child">A</div>
<div class="child">B</div>
<div class="child">C</div>
<div class="child">D</div>
</div>
Assuming each child div has varying content, of different heights, and a margin added for clarity, it displays as follows:
Without changing the HTML in any way (no adding classes to the divs, no adding intermediary column divs), I would like to achieve this layout:
The order in which the divs are placed does not matter much.
I've tried things along the lines of:
.child { width: 50%; }
.child:nth-child(even) { float: left; }
.child:nth-child(odd) { float: right; }
But the alignnments are off. Does any CSS wizard have an idea?
Does this work?
DEMO
.container {
width:220px; /* (child width)x2 + (child margin)x4 */
}
.child {
margin:5px;
background-color:#FF0080;
width:100px;
}
.child:nth-child(even) {
float: left;
}
.child:nth-child(odd) {
float: right;
}
Well you could use CSS columns, which has good partial support across browsers (primarily prefixed though), but full support is not so great.
Give them a try:
.container {
-webkit-column-width: 250px;
-moz-column-width: 250px;
column-width: 250px;
width: 520px;
background: yellow;
}
.child {
background: red;
margin-bottom: 10px;
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
Take a look at this jsfiddle for a demonstration: http://jsfiddle.net/xwwe3/ (complete with My First Colours to demonstrate what is happening).
The columns are set to 250px wide, which I found the .child didn't obey until given display: inline-block; width: 100%;. Then the width of .container is set to 520px to give the columns a gutter width of 10px with two columns (250 * 2 + 10 = 520)
So depending on whether you think the support is acceptable for your use case is up to you. Tweaking the heights of the .child elements does make some weird stuff happen, but I'd suggest you read up further on CSS columns and try and work out what is going there.
Alternatively, jQuery masonry is a popular way of achieving this.
So I've tried multiple solutions, but none seem to be working for my layout. What I'm hoping to have is 2 columns, each with 2 divs occupying 100% of the parents width. The height of each div is variable based on content.
So the idea is, the 2 columns on the left will determine the height of both columns, and the last div (in the bottom right) will be scrollable and occupy the remaining space.
I have an example in jsfiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/Split98/cndej/ but there are 2 problems with this:
a) It doesn't allow for div C to still be dynamic in height
b) I really don't want to use display:table-cell
Also, when I tried implementing this temporary solution to my site everything broke anyway. So instead of trying to fix something I don't really even consider a solution I'm tossing in the towel and asking for help.
Now I know there are TONS of questions about equal height, but I couldn't find a way to solve both my problems: have left and right divs the same height, and have all 4 divs occupy the space.
So at it's most basic form (and again, I'm hoping to accomplish this without table-cell if possible):
<div id="wrap">
<div class="left">
<div class="A">A</div>
<div class="B">B</div>
</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="C">C</div>
<div class="D">Need this to expand to fill</div>
</div>
</div>
.left {
width: 200px;
display: table-cell;
}
.right {
position: relative;
width: 200px;
display: table-cell;
background: yellow;
}
.A {
background: blue;
height: 100px;
}
.B {
background: pink;
height: 200px;
}
.C {
background: red;
height: 50px;
}
.D {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
top: 50px;
right: 0px;
background: green;
}
I'm also not opposed to using Javascript, but I'm not very strong at all with it. Preferably, if it's possible, I'd like to do this with CSS.
Thanks guys!
If choose JavaScript, you can use this solution with jQuery.
$(function(){
$('.D').height( $('.right').height() - $('.C').height() );
})
http://jsfiddle.net/cndej/3/
Yo. There's a tendency in placing divs to follow each other vertically, but what i'm trying to accomplish right now is to is basically to place a number of divs (two) inside a parent div like so:
<div id='parent'><div id='onediv'></div> <div id='anotherone'></div> </div>
And i'd like to place 'anotherone' just to the right of 'onediv'. Sadly, float:right is pretty much ruining the layout with the divs popping out of their parent divs and whatnot. Any suggestions are welcome.
Edit: It might be worth noting that the parent div and 'anotherone' has no height elements at all, with 'onediv' planned to be thought as the "height support" div, allowing the contents of 'anotherone' to make the parent div larger at will.
Edit again: Here's the CSS for the specified stuff:
.parent
{
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
border:solid black 1px;
}
.firstchild
{
width: 20%;
margin: 5px;
border: solid black 1px;
height: 180px;
}
.secondchild
{
width: 60%;
border:solid black 1px;
margin: 5px;
}
You can float both inner divs and give the outer div an overflow so that it grows with the inner divs.
Example:
#parent {
overflow: hidden;
}
#parent div {
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
Try this:
<div id="parent">
<div id="onediv" style="float:left;"></div>
<div id="anotherone" style="float:left;"></div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
I think this is what you want (note the re-ordering of DOM elements):
<div id="parent">
<div id="anotherone"></div>
<div id="onediv"></div>
</div>
/*CSS*/
#anotherone{
float:right;
width:50%;
}
#onediv{
float:left;
width:50%;
}
Note, if this is what you want, IE6 will still mess it up. ;-)
You certainly need to specify a width as indicated in #Kevin's answer to get the layout you described, simply specifying float left/right will not have the desired effect. Try specifying the width in pixels rather than a percentage. Failing that or if that's not appropriate for you, I think you possibly need to specify the width of the outer div (through css if you like).
#onediv { float: left; width: 50%; } #anotherone { float: right; width: 50%; }
Just use the <span> tag. Its the equivalent of except it doesn't start a new row.
I have been attempting to split a div into two columns using CSS, but I have not managed to get it working yet. My basic structure is as follows:
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<div id="object1"></div>
<div id="object2"></div>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="object3"></div>
<div id="object4"></div>
</div>
</div>
If I attempt to float the right and left divs to their respective positions (right and left), it seems to ignore the content div's background-color. And other code that I have tried from various websites doesn't seem to be able to translate to my structure.
Thanks for any help!
This works good for me. I have divided the screen into two halfs: 20% and 80%:
<div style="width: 20%; float:left">
#left content in here
</div>
<div style="width: 80%; float:right">
#right content in there
</div>
When you float those two divs, the content div collapses to zero height. Just add
<br style="clear:both;"/>
after the #right div but inside the content div. That will force the content div to surround the two internal, floating divs.
Another way to do this is to add overflow:hidden; to the parent element of the floated elements.
overflow:hidden will make the element grow to fit in floated elements.
This way, it can all be done in css rather than adding another html element.
None of the answers given answer the original question.
The question is how to separate a div into 2 columns using css.
All of the above answers actually embed 2 divs into a single div in order to simulate 2 columns. This is a bad idea because you won't be able to flow content into the 2 columns in any dynamic fashion.
So, instead of the above, use a single div that is defined to contain 2 columns using CSS as follows...
.two-column-div {
column-count: 2;
}
assign the above as a class to a div, and it will actually flow its contents into the 2 columns. You can go further and define gaps between margins as well. Depending on the content of the div, you may need to mess with the word break values so your content doesn't get cut up between the columns.
The most flexible way to do this:
#content::after {
display:block;
content:"";
clear:both;
}
This acts exactly the same as appending the element to #content:
<br style="clear:both;"/>
but without actually adding an element. ::after is called a pseudo element. The only reason this is better than adding overflow:hidden; to #content is that you can have absolute positioned child elements overflow and still be visible. Also it will allow box-shadow's to still be visible.
For whatever reason I've never liked the clearing approaches, I rely on floats and percentage widths for things like this.
Here's something that works in simple cases:
#content {
overflow:auto;
width: 600px;
background: gray;
}
#left, #right {
width: 40%;
margin:5px;
padding: 1em;
background: white;
}
#left { float:left; }
#right { float:right; }
If you put some content in you'll see that it works:
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<div id="object1">some stuff</div>
<div id="object2">some more stuff</div>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="object3">unas cosas</div>
<div id="object4">mas cosas para ti</div>
</div>
</div>
You can see it here: http://cssdesk.com/d64uy
Make children divs inline-block and they will position side by side:
#content {
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
}
#left, #right {
display: inline-block;
width: 45%;
height: 100%;
}
See Demo
You can use flexbox to control the layout of your div element:
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
#content {
background-color: rgba(210, 210, 210, 0.5);
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0.5rem;
display: flex;
}
#left,
#right {
background-color: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.5);
border: 1px solid #fff;
padding: 0.5rem;
flex-grow: 1;
color: #fff;
}
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<div id="object1">lorem ipsum</div>
<div id="object2">dolor site amet</div>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="object3">lorem ipsum</div>
<div id="object4">dolor site amet</div>
</div>
</div>
Best way to divide a div vertically --
#parent {
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.left {
float: left;
width: 60%;
}
.right {
overflow: hidden;
width: 40%;
}
Pure old school CSS
I know this post is old, but if any of you still looking for a simpler solution.
#container .left,
#container .right {
display: inline-block;
}
#container .left {
width: 20%;
float: left;
}
#container .right {
width: 80%;
float: right;
}
If you don't care old browser and need a simple way.
#content {
display: flex;
}
#left,
#right {
flex: 50%;
}
Floats don't affect the flow. What I tend to do is add a
<p class="extro" style="clear: both">possibly some content</p>
at the end of the 'wrapping div' (in this case content). I can justify this on a semantic basis by saying that such a paragraph might be needed. Another approach is to use a clearfix CSS:
#content:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
#content {
display: inline-block;
}
/* \*/
* html #content {
height: 1%;
}
#content {
display: block;
}
/* */
The trickery with the comments is for cross-browser compatibility.
This is best answered here Question 211383
These days, any self-respecting person should be using the stated "micro-clearfix" approach of clearing floats.
Make font size equal to zero in parent DIV.
Set width % for each of child DIVs.
#content {
font-size: 0;
}
#content > div {
font-size: 16px;
width: 50%;
}
*In Safari you may need to set 49% to make it works.
Divide a division in two columns is very easy, just specify the width of your column better if you put this (like width:50%) and set the float:left for left column and float:right for right column.