I downloaded a template and edit it. now I want to center the one_third elements but the
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
doesn't work.
This is the template in jsfiddle.
Can anybody help me?
For margin-left:auto; and margin-right:auto; to work, the element needs to have a width. So try something like:
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 600px;
UPDATE:
Since you seem to alter your examples all the time, here is a very basic understanding of how display and margins work:
To have any box centered within another box, you need to do two things:
a) Give the outer box a width (otherwise the inner box doesn't know what to center against
b) The inner box needs to have margin: 0 auto (this is the same as margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;)
Also, both boxes need to be block level elements (i.e. have display: block, NOT display: inline;)
So put together it will look like this:
HTML:
<section id="outer">
<section id="inner"></section>
</section>
CSS:
#outer {
width: 600px;
display: block;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#inner {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid green;
}
This will give you a green box of 200px by 200px centered within a red box of width 600px.
Now, if you want two elements side by side within the green box, you can add your inline elements there, i.e.
<section id="outer">
<section id="inner">
<article>Hi</article>
<article>Hi agian!</article>
</section>
</section>
#outer {
width: 600px;
display: block;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#inner {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid green;
}
#inner article {
display: inline;
}
Related
I am facing a same problem. I'm trying to create two separate rows (marked as red background color) to be aligned horizontally in the center. One of the row on the left side of center part, and second one on the right side of the center part.
Do I need to add something or change some values? I've been trying to do this for 2 hours now.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you :)
.others {
position: relative;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 70%;
background-color: #d0d0d0;
height: 500px;
margin: auto;
padding: 40px 15% 20px 15%;
display: table;
}
.others p {
margin: 0px;
height: 300px;
float: left;
background-color: red;
}
<DIV CLASS="others">
<P ID="leftside">
News will be shown here as they appear.
</P>
<P ID="rightside">
Here you will be able to see our products.
</P>
</DIV>
.others {
position: relative;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 70%;
background-color: #d0d0d0;
height: 500px;
margin: auto;
padding: 40px 15% 20px 15%;
display: table;
}
.others p {
margin: 0px auto;
height: 300px;
width:50%;
display-inline-block;
text-align:center;
float: left;
background-color: red;
}
<DIV CLASS="others">
<P ID="leftside">
News will be shown here as they appear.
</P>
<P ID="rightside">
Here you will be able to see our products.
</P>
</DIV>
Worked for me just by removing float:left; and add display:table-cell; to .others p.
Fiddle
.others p {
margin: 0px;
height: 300px;
background-color: red;
display:table-cell;
}
.others p {
margin: 0px;
height: 300px;
background-color: red;
display:inline-block;
}
i think you shouldnt use <p> for positioning.
use <div> instead.
also using float:left or float:right might solve your problem.
Read up on using floating items here:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_float.asp
Also, when using floats, browsers will assume there is nothing inside your 'container' <div>.
So i'd also suggest you read up on using css attribute overflow.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_overflow.asp
.others
{
position: relative;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 70%;
background-color: #d0d0d0;
height: 500px;
margin: auto;
padding: 40px 15% 20px 15%;
display: table;
}
#leftside
{
display:inline-block;
margin: 0px;
height: 300px;
width:50%;
float: left;
background-color: red;
}
#rightside
{
display:inline-block;
margin: 0px;
height: 300px;
width:50%;
float: right;
background-color: green;
}
<DIV CLASS="others">
<P ID="leftside">
News will be shown here as they appear.
</P>
<P ID="rightside">
Here you will be able to see our products.
</P>
</DIV>
You just need to provide to p a width value because you are floating the p elements to the left, every p element into the container will get out of the normal document flow and flow from left to right.
Just add width: 50% to every p element. like this:
.others p {
margin: 0px;
height: 300px;
float: left;
background-color: red;
width:50%;
}
Also provide a clearfix or overflow:hidden; to the .others in order to contain the floated elements within it's body.
Here is a demo to work with
Edit: Almost forgot. If you want to gain control onto your layout, provide also a min-width and a max-width value to the body container, so it doesn't strech to much on wide screens, nor it is contained to much on narrower screens. Also, try a css framework, like bootstrap. It will give you fine control onto your layout.
Cheers!
I am aware about the concept of 'margin-collapse'. But , why am I not able to see 10 px margin on the top of the first box here. The top box(which has the id 'first') should have 10px margin above it. If this is not the correct wat to get it, then what is it? And, why this doesn't work.
CSS:
#Main{
background-color: gray;
position: relative;
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
}
.box{
position:relative;
height: 60px;
width: 175px;
background: black;
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}
HTML:
<div id="Main">
<div id="first" class="box"></div>
<div id="second" class="box"></div>
<div id="third" class="box"></div>
</div>
I know one way could be that we can give 10px padding to the parent div. But then why doesn't this thing work?
The margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px in your code moves the "Main" box as well.
If you want to move the box with id "first" only, use position:relative; top: 10px;
jsfiddle demo
edit: I don't know to say for sure why this happens but my guess is it is because the display of the "Main" box is block by default.
When you use display: inline-block; on the "Main" box, the problem is fixed. (jsfiddle)
This is how browsers interperit the code. It does not output the expected result which would be a 10px gap between the top of the child and the outter parent. You could add padding-top to the parent, alternatively you could assign overflow:auto; to your main div.
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/2f4Kz/4/
#Main {
background-color: gray;
position: relative;
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
overflow:auto;
}
Another way around this is to add a transparent border around the main div (stops margin collapsing)
#Main {
background-color: gray;
position: relative;
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
border: thin solid transparent;
}
The third a final option (to my knowledge) is to stop the margin collapsing by setting padding-top: 1px; margin-top: -1px; to the parent div
#Main {
background-color: gray;
position: relative;
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
padding-top: 1px;
margin-top: -1px;
}
I am attempting to float 3 divs within a container div. I thought it would be simple but I'm having difficulty keeping them evenly spread apart. As I want the website to be somewhat responsive, so I can't have the spacing specified in px.
CSS:
#circlecontain{background-color:green;height:200px; width:1200px; margin:auto;}
.circle{width:200px;height:200px;border-radius:100px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:20px;color:#fff;
line-height:150px;text-align:center;background: rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
margin:auto; display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle;
}
Thanks in advance
Hold them inside 3 div elements with a width of 33% each, and use margin: auto; on round divs, this way they will be equal.
Demo
<div class="wrap_me">
<div></div>
</div>
<div class="wrap_me">
<div></div>
</div>
<div class="wrap_me">
<div></div>
</div>
CSS
.wrap_me {
width: 33%;
border: 1px solid #f00;
float: left;
}
.wrap_me div {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
border-radius: 100px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
margin: auto;
}
You can also hold this inside a single container with a min-width property so that your elements don't wrap incase of insufficient width
What Mr.Alien said isn't wrong, but
I'm having difficulty keeping them evenly spread apart
If you have three divs you want to distribute even along the full width of the container, you can float the left-most div to the left, the right-most div to the right and the middle div will get float:none and margin: auto, like so:
.container {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
}
.container div {
width: 25%;
height: 100%;
background: blue;
border-radius: 100%;
}
.inner-left {
float: left;
}
.inner-middle {
float: none;
margin: auto;
}
.inner-right{
float: right;
position: relative;
bottom: 100%;
}
See the jsfiddle.
EDIT:
updated fiddle - didn't save...
I have two DIVs inside one DIV. One of the DIVs is floated left, and so, the other div is to fill outer window.
If I enlarge or shrink the outer DIV I want inside DIVs to fill outer DIV in any case.
The sample code:
<div id="main_container">
<div id="left_container"></div>
<div id="right_container"></div>
</div>
and CSS rules are
#main_container {
border: 1px ridge blue;
overflow: hidden;
height: 93%;
}
#left_container{
margin: 10px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid red;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
min-width: 200px;
}
#right_container{
margin: 10px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid magenta;
min-width: 200px;
overflow: hidden;
}
Here is the jsfiddle code.
Reize the html window, you will see red one is not filling it when the other is on the bottom.
Edit: To clarify, I added images
#media screen and (max-width: 441px) {
#left_container{
float: none;
}
}
441px just an example (two blocks min-width + side margins + border - 1).
Add
width: 98%;
(Adjust as necessary)
To #left_container and #right_container
Give min-width to the main div.
#main_container {
border: 1px ridge blue;
overflow: hidden;
height: 93%;
min-width: 400px;
}
I'm trying to put three div together. One is on the left, one is in the middle, and one is on the right.
However, I'm experiencing a problem that the middle is not aligned properly.
My current HTML code:
<div class="three_contents">
<div class="left">Left</div>
<div class="right">Right</div>
<div class="center">Center</div>
</div>
My current CSS code:
.three_contents{
width: 900px;
border: 0px solid #000;
}
.left{float: left;
margin-top: 25px;
width: 290px;
height: 290px;}
.right{float: right;
margin-top: 25px;
width: 290px;
height: 290px;}
.center{display:block;
margin: 25px auto;
width: 290px;
height: 290px;}
However, when I add a 1px border in the the three_contents div, and the middle div is aligned. I have attached two screenshots and hopefully someone can help me to resolve this issue. Thanks a lot.
Problem with the middle div isn't aligned:
After I add the 1px border, and the middle div is aligned:
Put the margin only on the center div. Like so:
.three_contents
{
width: 900px;
border: 0;
}
.left
{
float: left;
border: solid 1px;
width: 290px;
height: 290px;
}
.right
{
float: right;
border: solid 1px;
width: 290px;
height: 290px;}
.center
{
margin: 25px auto;
display:block;
border: solid 1px;
width: 290px;
height: 290px;
}
I made a fiddle to show you this: http://jsfiddle.net/stakL/1/
EDIT: To be sincere, I also don't quite understand why it happens. But I can see that the margin-top property set on the left and right div's was taking the middle div's top position as the reference point to apply that margin.
On other words, the center div was 25px from the top, and the left and right div's were 25px from the middle div's top.