So I have a design and it has multiple 100% browser width images down the page. I tried creating a few divs down the page and setting them to absolute position (even though the parent and following child were set to relative) but the text is floating behind the image.
I've tried a few other things and tried searching for an answer on here (without using jQuery) but I just wanted some more clear insight into how best to approach this. I have attached an image sample below:
The closest examples I can find usually only have 1 image at the very top of the page.
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I'm having some trouble with the current layout of my polymer site, specifically with regards to nested components and their associated scrollbars. I'll preface this by stating that by absolutely no means am I a CSS guru. I wish I was because I probably wouldn't be struggling with this as much as I am. Also feel free to jump straight to the jsbin URL as my issue may become apparent.
The situation:
I currently have a nested core-scaffold element, whose main content often requires vertical scrolling and thus it's vertical scrollbar becomes active as required. However, as it is nested, it's container(s) can also have scrollbars enabled. Ideally, I'd like a single scrollbar on the highest level element which can scroll the scaffold's content to it's full vertical extents, yet also cause the topbar to slide away as it does now when scrolling down. I've also noticed that the height of the scaffold's main content is determined by the first page that is loaded into it. Subsequent page loads with different heights does not cause the scrollbar height extents to change accordingly.
Please note that I've simply inserted an iframe loading external content into the scaffold's content section for the purpose of this jsbin demo. My actual site loads a bunch of data driven collapsible height containers within the content pages, wrapping horizontally as needed. Due to their collapsibility, their containing page therefore has a dynamic height. That height can vary from page to page as container heights within them vary.
Here is the jsbin. Whoever can remove me from this css hell will be considered my hero...
http://jsbin.com/muniqi/1/
In my initial jsbin sample code, you'll notice I have specified core-pages height as '100vh' the top level polymer element (i.e. my-app-element). The second level polymer element (i.e. my-scaffold-page-element), loads within the aforementioned core-pages. Therefore, the nested scaffold element's maximum height is 100vh. Further down the chain, when the scaffold-element's main content area's height flows past its host's height limitation, it caused a secondary 'inner' scrollbar to appear, which has a different vertical extent than the original outer scrollbar...so trying to use the outer scrollbar alone doesn't effectively scroll the inner content to its entire vertical extent, forcing you to use the inner scrollbar as well to get the job done. Ugly to say the least.
Now that I know that is the case, one way to reduce the likelihood of an inner scrollbar appearing for the nested scaffold element's main content area is to change it's parent element's core-pages height to something much greater than 100vh (400vh?). Doing so solves the problem in a roundabout way. The outer scrollbar can now be used to scroll the entire vertical extent of the nested scaffold's contents without an inner scrollbar occurring.
In the new jsbin example (below), you can witness the 'fix', which also happens to remove the reliance on core-scaffold, instead preferring to utilize its individual components in a more configurable fashion.
http://jsbin.com/muniqi/3/
I think the title explains it all but this is what I'm trying to do:
I have a site that is center-aligned and I want to have a fixed (or sliding, however you want to describe it) move down the page as a user scrolls. I am able to get this to work using jQuery when I define the 's position as absolute but obviously that creates it's position relative to the whole browser window. Relative to the content, it should be 980px to the right, but using Absolute it's somewhere in the middle of the page and does not stay in the same place on the page when the window is resized. Using position:relative puts the in the right place but does not allow it to move when the page scrolls, it scrolls with the page.
Does that make sense? I see all sorts of examples using absolute positioning which would work great if my site was aligned to the left but it's not.
Ideas?
You can see my site as a work-in-progress here: http://cdn.twelvestops.com/wordpress_one. Feel free to poke in the code and whatnot. (and for the record, the theme designer isn't helping much.)
Note: I know that my site isn't centered using auto margins but as if it was all text using the .center class in the CSS.
EDIT*the issue apparently comes down to the fact that, i need to use relative position on the large image, so i can adjust the top value. this causes the thumbs to be put on top of the main image. When i remove the relative positioning of the main image, the flow looks fine, but the top positioning is disregarded- i sort of need both to have the dynamic manipulation of this app im developing*
I wish I could understand why this happens like 90% of the time I go to code div layouts.
You have content in your div with a certain height, and then you have another div directly after it - and somehow it just goes right on top of the first one.
I wish I knew where the problem was, but I can't figure out what CSS is the cause.
Anyways, if you care to take a look, this is the sandbox of the issue I'm having:
the reference is changing because i keep updating it to check sorry.
http://www.drewswinson.com/DP/
I'm making a dynamic jQuery gallery viewer and the thumbs just don't want to put themselves below the image.
It happens all the time though; is there any reason content inside a div would allow subsequent divs to not be placed below the content its supposed to be filled?
You problem is the position: relative attribute on imageDiv.
It pushes the image down from where it should be. If you remove that, the static flow of the page will be used, which is what you want in this case.
I'm having one of those pull-my-hair-out moments that has become an all consuming obsession at work and I can't figure it out for the life of me.
I'm working on a site where I have a repeating background image (gradient of blue) and I need to put another image on top of that which goes beneath my "container" div. The large image that I'm having to put the "container" on top of has designs that appear to pop out of the sides.
The trouble that I'm having is this: when the user shrinks the window size, my buttons (that are within the container div) get all jumbled up and go one on top of another when I do this in IE and Firefox. I would like it to stay in the same spot on top of the large image in its spot despite the size of the window.
I think it has to do with absolute position, something that I'm not too familiar with, but I'm wondering if this is possible. I have also never used tables and have just used div tags to create sites. Fairly new at this - just have been designing websites for about a year now.
Help!
I am answering this without seeing an example, so bear with me.
It sounds as though the container div does not have a width assigned to it.
Since the container div doesn't have a width, it is shrinking and expanding causing the buttons to jumble up. Also, make sure that your buttons and such are positioned absolutely inside of your container div. Your container div must have position:relative; set in its style in order to absolutely position items inside of it. However, it sounds as though you have your positioning already set accordingly, it is just worth re-mentioning.
quick question. I have a tabbed interface for my site but I have all the parts of the site crashing into each other. How do I achieve a fluid layout where it simply resizes when the display is smaller. I read a few articles # alistapart and made my containing div relative to the browser window and every other div within the d container relative and still nothing. any clues on what else I should be trying?
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The two biggest problems I see are the banner ad on top of everything else, and the tabs running over to the next line.
The tabs seem to do that simply because you have too many. You'll either need to make them smaller/decrease padding, etc. or put fewer items in the menu.
It looks like the banner isn't positioned correctly. Margin/padding?