I have created a layout using DIVs/CSS. I have attached an example image and links below which shows how I would like things to be organized. Within the header, there is a logo and a menu which are cumulatively 1000px in width. The feature, content, and footer sections are also to be 1000px in width. However, the actual background images for ALL sections are 100% in width and are repeated horizontally.
Below is an example of what I want to do:
What I have actually put together so far (in terms of the design) can be viewed here: http://ohachem.com/2/. This is what I would like to follow. The CSS can be viewed here: http://ohachem.com/2/style.css
What is the best way to accomplish this? As you can see, the text in the "feature" section does not align completely in the centre. I've tried using clear:both, overflow:hidden, and several other methods, with no luck.
The "misalignment" of the "featured" text is caused by the floating logo. Because the float hasn't been cleared and extends outside of your header, it is causing that text to flow around it. Adding overflow: hidden to your #header element will correct it, but there's other ways to clear floats without adding extra markup.
Alternately, you could just make your logo the same height as the header. Right now the height property is set to the same value, but the logo has some extra padding, which is causing the overflow.
The website you're pointing to uses a liquid layout, here's a bunch of examples: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/layouts/category/C13/ .
One note, on your example, there's no positioning attributes that I can discern, a large part of making a layout responsive is ensuring it looks consistent across all browsers & screens.
I would Suggest you to use CSS3 Media Queries rather than Script for the Responsive/ Adaptive Web page design.
Please have a look at this
These do not process a lot, hence Light weight and most modern browsers and Devices support CSS3 hence a convenient and reliable Option.
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So I did notice that zoom related layout problems are commonly being dealt with, but I couldn't find an answer to my case - I wrote a WEB calc, and the buttons just slide out of place when zooming in and out, in Chrome and Firefox but not in IE. What is the way to fix it?
Give width:220px to your #main div
If you closely look at your CSS you will see that the buttons together(5 in a line) actually have more width than the Main div while resizing. Increasing the width to 220px solves that problem. Another solution could be to give max-width and max-height to all elements, another can be to properly layout your elements and don't just rely on the browser's positioning. Doing the latter is an trivial task.
For the sake of searchers, my solutions was to use a table to make the calculator eventually. I know using tables for layout is considered a bad practice, but considering a calculator shape is not supposed to adjust to new contents or to the size of the end-user's screen (at least in my case) it seemed to be the best implementation. It was the only way to avoid losing the layout shape in zoom-in zoom-out, which is kind of what div's are all about.
I am seeking help with trying to fix my background image fill issue. I wanted to have a sticky footer, which I finally figured out, but now if I view my site in a smaller window and then scroll down, my background image disappears. I understand that this is due to my height settings being 100% which makes my image be based off of the initial viewport size, but I can't quite seem to implement any kind of fix.
Here is the site I am working on (still very much under development): http://student.plattsburgh.edu/stipl001/index.html.
The problem is best viewed when looking at this page in a small window: http://student.plattsburgh.edu/stipl001/resume.html.
I have read many, many posts on various sites trying to figure it out (including this one: CSS: background image does not fill when scrolling), but I am not having any luck. I tried setting all the different properties for background in css that I could think of, including some of the newer ones. Then I experimented with the overflow property, but it just hides all of my text or creates a weird scroll-bar that makes my text scroll up over the header. I also tried moving my page background from body to html and my container background from container to body, but it didn't change anything, so I must be doing something wrong (perhaps the fact that I have the two background images to deal with?).
I'm just a coding newbie and have been teaching myself as I go along, so I would really appreciate specific suggestions on what method of fixing this would be best for my site, and how I can go about implementing it. After spending about 10 hours straight on this one problem, I am at my wits' end.
Thank you so much!
just change min-height:100% to min-height:1092px (the height of the image) and you'll be fine...
EDIT:
previous answer was a bit too quick, after having a second look on the code i noticed the error is caused by the floated columns: if you float an element, the container element will not inherit the height of the floated element - that's why the height was set to 100% of the initial window, and was not expanded if the content column got longer.
This can be fixed by adding an extra element in #container, after #rightcolumn, with clear:both on it - this will force the parent element to take over the height of its contents.
See http://jsfiddle.net/uS7Ba/1/ for a simplified example, including improved fixed footer.
Hope it helps...
I have a layout in which two divs appear stacked vertically inside a parent div which will be a specific height (due to containing a left hand menu). I wish the two divs to take up all the available vertical space. However, they must resize depending on their content. The easiest way to explain is with a diagram:
Reading the diagrams from top to bottom, this is the scenario:
both divs take up 50% of available height as this is sufficient to contain their content (this is the default).
there is a lot of content in top div and less content in bottom div. Top div expands to fit content and squashes bottom div.
reverse situation of (2).
both divs must expand to fit their content. Containing div must expand to accomadate.
I think I could figure out how to do this with a table, see the example here which is almost correct (in chrome anyway) except the outer div doesn't expand properly.
Is there a better CSS solution to this without using a table?
I cannot use JavaScript and solution must work in all browsers... including IE6 :(
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This can be done using CSS, with a feature called the flexible box model. It's an extension to the box model that's been in use in CSS since the begining, and allows you to do stuff like vertical stacking, etc, which wasn't possible before.
You would start off with display: flexbox;, and then use other related styles to define the characteristics of the layout you want. It is very powerful. You can read the full W3C spec for it here: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/
Now the bad news: It's a very recent addition to CSS. It actually has reasonably good browser support (albeit with vendor prefixes), but the problem you'll always hit is that it isn't supported in IE, not even IE9 (though it is planned for IE10)
Other browsers require vendor prefixes, so even for supported browsers you'll need to write your styles in four or five versions.
In addition - and this is the real killer - there isn't a good fall-back solution for browsers that don't support it. If you design your page using flexbox layouts, and load it into a browser that doesn't support them, it will be a disaster.
For this reason, it is hasn't really seen much use in the real world yet. It's time will come, but as long as IE9 and earlier are in use, it won't become mainstream.
You can see a full browser compatibility chart for the feature here: http://caniuse.com/#search=Flexible%20Box%20Layout%20Module
In the meanwhile, you're going to have to use a Javascript solution.
My recommendation is the JQuery Masonry plugin. I think this will be your best solution for now.
You could fake it using a 100% height wrapping div and a white border like so:
http://jsfiddle.net/cBV88/2/
You can also remove the fixed height and it will still work.
SuperStretch might get you part of the way there.
I understand this question is redundant but I was unable to locate an answer from my searches on here and other online forums. Here is my situation.
http://www.ci.fayetteville.nc.us/CityCommon/port/contact.html
On that page I have a 'separator' line that is to extend to the bottom of the page. Now, I have thrown in plenty of break tags to stretch the page. This shows that the background image (used as a footer images in a way) stretches to the bottom of the page fine. (That image is contained within div#content.
My question is how can I additionally get my div#rightContent to stretch just the same way?
I have my html, body and container heights all specific at 100% as well as another container div called #content. I am pretty stumped.
At the link you can view my source and hopefully point me in a good direction to achieve this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Make one background image that contains both the outer borders and the right-column divider. This technique is called "faux columns".
See: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux_columns
There are various CSS hacks to get equal column heights. The only one (IMHO) that feels 'standard' is to use display: table, but that doesn't work in IE (of course) so makes it less ideal.
As such, I find the solution that works best is a bit of JavaScript. You are already using jQuery so that'll make it even easier. Here's one example solution:
http://www.cssnewbie.com/equal-height-columns-with-jquery/
So, for a website I've been trying to get a specific layout to work across the IE browsers (FF + Chrome are a plus if they work, but usually they do).
Below you can see the layout I'm trying to achieve;
alt text http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2199846/layout.png
As you can see, this is just a slight variation of a multi-column layout that you can see around the internet. Just with some added extra's.
- no div should ever exceed the page height, if they do, they should just overflow (but normally that will only happen for the middle part)
- the "toggle" link should toggle the div below visible/invisible (got the jquery code and all, no issues there), but that toggle should offcourse expand/decrease the width of the middle div.
I'm at the end of my possibility's here, and tried changing to a full table layout, but that had the problem of always expanding when content got too much...
If any of you CSS heroes out there know how to make this layout, I'll be very grateful!!
EDIT:
What I forgot to add is that certain parts of this design should be fixed width/height. The top part should be 60px height, right and left side should be 200px width. And the small bar (+ toggle bar) should be 30px high.
Of course I'll try to work from the example posted below, but I thought I'd add this edit just in case someone finds it challenging to make (I know I find it challenging, yet I'm not so good yet in CSS for now)
http://jsfiddle.net/YGgTx/1/
this is a mock up of what you are trying to do I believe. As it indicated by the other posters you may want to use hide() to handle the menu effect. If there is anything wrong with this mockup let me know, I do not have IE6 installed but it works on 8.