Does anyone know why this .inner div isn't containing this element that is floating right?
Here is a jsfiddle
<header>
<div class="inner">
<h1>Heading Level 1</h1>
<h2>Heading Level 2</h2>
BUTTON
</div> <!-- end .inner -->
</header>
add overflow: auto to .inner: http://jsfiddle.net/7Sunw/1/
float: left/right takes element somehow out of standard elements flow, so parent elements no longer stretches to it's size. You have to use overflow: auto to make it happen even if children elements are floated.
Try to add another div after header
<div id="footer" style="clear: both;"></div>
Should do it
Related
my html looks like this:
<div class="container">
<div class="header-content">
hello!
</div>
</div>
i've recently come into a situation where I need the 'header' to be 100% the window for a full-width background. usually i would do this css:
<div class="header-background-color">
<div class="container">
<div class="header-content">
hi!
</div>
</div>
</div>
unfortunately, i am fairly deep into a framework and can't wrap the container. i need to construct it within the container.
<div class="container">
<div class="header-background-color">
<div class="container">
<div class="header-content">
hi!
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
i can't figure out a way to accomplish this, and am wondering if this is possible.
if i use this css for header-background-color
background: blue;
left:0;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
the element looks right, but the page flow is interrupted.
does anyone know if my target goal is reachable?
i made a bootply to illustrate this http://www.bootply.com/129060
You can use a child (>) selector to select the first container element and set its width to 100% and remove the padding.
.example-3 > .container {
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
}
This assumes you'll always have a wrapper around it with a unique class name (or use body if it's the first div), but this also allows you to remove the position: absolute which is causing the overlap and the height can stay dynamic.
See forked bootply: http://www.bootply.com/129065
I've added a button that inserts a paragraph into the div so you can see how it's not affected by changes in height.
Only thing I can think of is using a dumby element to maintain the vertical space (i.e. set the height), and then use absolute positioning on the full width content (as you mention). This is really ugly and won't be a good solution if the height of the content is dynamic.
See #content_dumby element in forked bootply: http://www.bootply.com/129063
I'm getting some strange whitespace between two divs I have.
Each div has the css property display: inline-block and each have a set height and width.
I cannot find where the whitespace is.
Here is a Fiddle
You get whitespace there because you have whitespace inbetween the divs. Whitespace between inline elements is interpreted as a space.
You have:
<div id="left_side">
<div id="plan">
<h1>div 1</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div id="right_side">
<div id="news">
<h1>div 2</h1>
</div>
</div>
Change for:
<div id="left_side">
<div id="plan">
<h1>div 1</h1>
</div>
</div><div id="right_side">
<div id="news">
<h1>div 2</h1>
</div>
</div>
However, this is a bad way to do what you want to do.
You should float the elements if thats what you want to do.
Use:
float:left;
clear:none;
In both div
If you want to retain your coding layout, avoid floats and keep each div on it's own line entirely...
<div id="leftSide">Some content here</div><!--
--><div id="rightSide">Some more content here</div>
Only add this to your CSS
h1 {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
Space between div is only due to h1 Margin and Padding
This does the trick:
<div id="left_side">
...
</div><div id="right_side">
...
</div>
Notice how the right-side div starts immediately after the closing tag of the left-side div. This works because any space between the elements, since they are now inline, would become a space in the layout itself. You can mirror this behavior with two span elements.
Demo.
You can also add display: flex; to the divs' parent container (in this case, body). Fiddle.
best way is settings parent element's font-size to 0 then normal font-size to child elements inside that parent (otherwise inherits zero from parent)
Floated both of the elements left, also made the 30% width into 40% to fill all the space, but this isn't necessary. Please be aware, "inline-block" isn't supported by IE7 but can be fixed with a workaround.
http://jsfiddle.net/RVAQp/3/
Move these statements onto the same line:
</div><div id="right_side">
Tried using float instead of "inline-block", no problems. Just changed the display:inline-block to:
#left_side {float: left;}
and
#right_side {float: right; margin-right: 10%}
No apparent problems. Could be wrong.
Don't know why but I resolved this problem by adding border: 1px solid red;(vertical) and float: left;(horizontal) to related DIV style statement and white-spaces removed.
Parent div set to font-size: 0px and chiilds to wanted size like 17px :)
I have a block of html like this. Judging by the background color of the divs, the outer div is not containing the inner div, unless I remove "float:left" from the inner div, or add "float:left" to the outer div. Why is that? http://jsbin.com/ihiqoz/2/edit
<div style="width:900px; background-color:#1EFF1E">
<p>outside</p>
<div style="float:left; width: 25%; background-color:#BD78C8">
<p>inside</p>
</div>
</div>
You need to clear your float:
<div style="width:900px; background-color:#1EFF1E">
<p>outside</p>
<div style="float:left; width: 25%; background-color:#BD78C8">
<p>inside</p>
</div>
<div style="clear: left;"></div>
</div>
Floating elements break out of the layout, so your div doesn't get considered by the elements around it. The clear css property forces an element to move after the last floating element, so when you place an empty div below your floating element by giving it the clear style, the outer div will stretch to contain it.
#ray; if you have float in your child element so you have to clear it's parent so just write overflow:hidden in it's parent div to clear it.
For Example:
<div style="width:900px; background-color:#1EFF1E; overflow:hidden">
<p>outside</p>
<div style="float:left; width: 25%; background-color:#BD78C8">
<p>inside</p>
</div>
</div>
read this article for more http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
You can also add <BR> at the end of the div, after the floated one.
Edit: You need to clear the div.
I have a problem as I mentioned above.
In my web app, I'll be generating many divs dynamically by jQuery(ASP.NET MVC).
Each new div can have a different width, and all of them MUST be floated to the left
I tried (test) to float to the left 2 divs, but with no success. What am I doing wrong ?
Each div has a defined width, because when the total width of all divs > mainDIV's width, then the scrollbar will appear. Now, in that case, this 2 divs are not floated to the left
Here's the code
<div id="mainDIV" style="overflow:auto; width:100%;">
<div style="width:960px; float:left; background-color:Lime;">
a
</div>
<div style="width:960px; float:left; background-color:Red;">
b
</div>
</div>
You have to make sure that the containing div is wide enough to accommodate the floated div's side by side.
So in your example, you would have to set the width of the containing div mainDIV to at least 1920px.
You need an additional wrapper if you want the scroll-bars to appear on mainDIV:
html:
<div id="mainDIV" style="overflow:auto; width:100%;">
<div id="wrapper">
<div style="width:960px; float:left; background-color:Lime;">
a
</div>
<div style="width:960px; float:left; background-color:Red;">
b
</div>
</div>
</div>
css:
#wrapper {
width: 1920px;
}
I'd try to use CSS in a way that doesn't have to do style= for each element. Without more context and/or testing I can't guarantee it will fix your problem, but its possible it will and its better form.
Either set float:left for all div tags
div {float:left;}
put all div tags to be floated left in the same class
<div class="className" style="width:960px; background-color:Red;">
a
</div>
div.className {float:left;}
Also, make sure you do not specify any kind of absolute position as this will override the float. There appear to be some subtleties concerning float and width, so check those out too http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/01/css-float-theory-things-you-should-know/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
Quick question!
Does putting a "clear" element INSIDE a floated div do anything?
Like:
<div style="float: right">
blah blah
<div style="clear: right"></div>
</div>
Somewhere somehow I got the impression that this helps the div expand to contain the content inside of it. What does it actually do? Anything?
Thanks!
An element which contains nothing but floats will collapse in height, because the floated elements are no longer in the normal document flow. In such a case, clearing after the floats will allow the containing element to retain its height.
<div id="container">
<div id="float1" style="float:left;"></div>
<div id="float2" style="float:right;"></div>
<!-- if you use a clearing element, it should go here -->
</div>
Note that there are other ways to clear than using clearing elements, such as adding overflow:hidden; to the container styles.
In your example, since the div with clear: right is nested, it doesn't clear anything. Float applies to elements at the same level. If the divs were at the same level, the second div would appear below the div that has float: right. This page has some good explanations/examples of how float works: float tutorial
In your case, not much effect. the enclosed div (clear: right) is as good as redundant.
<div style="float: right; background: red;" >
blah blah
<div style="clear: right; background: blue;"></div>
</div>
With this, you can visually see if you enclosed div made a difference.