prevent bootstrap affix moving div to left - css

I'm trying to prevent my right hand side div from moving to the left after I have used the affix property.
Any iudea how I do this please. You can see the issue here, just scroll down please:-
http://monkeygetnews.jonathanlyon.com/bs.html
Thanks
Jponathan

When activated, scroll spy adds the class affix and position: fixed to the div it's spying on. This positioning takes the div out of normal flow and here the result is that it's floating to the left.
The solution is to add some css styling to float it where you want. In your page I think it would be something like:
.span3.affix{
position: fixed; /* to stop the div from scrolling */
top: 0; /* to fix the div at the top its containing element */
right: 0; /* to fix the div at the right of its containing element */
}
You might have to play with this a bit to get it where you would like. The important thing is that once you know the selector (in this case) is .span3.affix it's easy enough to work with.
Good luck!

Related

Strange container div behaviour

I'm asking this for learning purposes; there aren't any negative aspects on this behaviour, but I just wonder if this could have any negative consequences in the future.
So I have a container div: content_wrap, which has two other div's: side_bar and main_content. The container div is 980px width, and is used to center its contents using margin-left and margin-right.
It's doing this correctly, however, when I was debugging the page (in Firefox), I noticed that the browser renders the div as being 0x0px and renders the parent div off-screen. However, it does position the child divs correctly. See this JSFiddle for an example: http://jsfiddle.net/7fsXp/7/
I Googled this and most of the answers have something to do with floats and are solved by using clear:both, but I don't use any floats. I did notice that if I change the main_content div from position:absolute; to position:relative;, the content_wrap is displayed correctly. Or I can fix it by setting a height for content_wrap.
I don't actually need to be able to see the content_wrap, so there isn't really a problem, as it is doing its job in means of centering the child divs. I just wondered if it would be a bad practice to leave it like this? Is it a bad thing, or does it matter?
Try adding other elements to this HTML and enjoy the horror :D
There are actually many things in your code, that I wouldn't do. First of all, when an element is with position: absolute or position: fixed its layout is "ignored" by other elements or in other words cannot "push" any element and that is why your container is having 0 height. It's like they are ethereal (best explanation ever, I know).
You should check this article on positioning -- http://css-tricks.com/absolute-relative-fixed-positioining-how-do-they-differ/
The fact that they are in the place you expect them to be is that there are actually no other elements in the HTML and the absolute element is positioned relatively to the body and so is the fixed one (but that's what elements with position: fixed always do). Looks what happens when I add some other content to the parent div -- http://jsfiddle.net/7fsXp/13/
So long story short - you shouldn't form your layout with absolute or fixed elements if you can do it without them.
position: fixed and position: absolute take the elements out of the flow, so using either of these positions on all child divs will collapse the parent div entirely.
If you have content below a collapsed div, it will flow up and over/under that content like this.
You don't need to position the main_content div absolutely, but you'll need to change a few things to top align the sidebar and main_content.
DEMO
Since sidebar is fixed, it's using the document, not the container div as a reference for top, while main_content would use the body (unless you add position: relative to the container). Getting rid of the body's default padding/margin will fix the small alignment difference.
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#main_content {
//remove position: absolute;
margin-top:70px; //top: 70px won't work unless you specify position
}
It depends on what you are willing to do, but because the default position for div is position: static; changing the position: relative; will avoid the collapse of parent div.

CSS aligning element

I hate CSS, because always hard to predict what it will render into. Can you guys help me to fix this thing...
I need the right side of elements in dropdown menu aligned right under the arrow. First I thought if I do position:absolute, and then just move left to number of pixels, it will work, but if the username changes it breaks everything again
here's the fiddle for your convenience
http://jsfiddle.net/Mwd2A/1/
thank you
If I understood right, you want to when hovering the arrow, that submenu appears right aligned with the arrow.
If it is that:
Add css attribute to .userSubmenu
position: relative;
Add css attributes to .userSubmenu ul
position: absolute;
right: 0;
JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Mwd2A/5/

trying to use a negative margin in css on a list

I have been trying for an hour to get a list in a sidebar of WordPress to have a negative margin. Fooled around with margins, padding, sidebar placement in the php files... But the link images just keep disappearing behind the background.
Here's the page where I'm working: http://kirahenschel.com/
This is what I am trying to achieve:
http://emgraphics.net/kira/idea2-11.jpg
Ideally I'd also like that sidebar to be a finite height so the white boxes on the bottom spread, but I can cope with them being off to the right.
Anyone have any ideas? Neg margins are working fine on the logo, so it is just a list thing?
Thanks
If you're merely trying to get the list to be bumped to the left, why not use a CSS positioning property? Negative margins can get really wonky, and are (most likely) unneeded in this application.
#nameoflistdiv {
left: -20px;
}
You may also need to change the value of your div's position element, but this will bump your div and everything in it left, overlapping the container div.
If that doesn't answer your question, can you post the HTML and CSS you are using? The CSS code
margin-left: -20px;
really should work in this application as well, so show us what you've got.
Your negative margin is working as expected. The reason the images are getting cut off is because you have set overflow:hidden on the #main container. If you remove that property your images will appear.
#main {
background: url("images/blend.png") repeat-x scroll center top #2765CA;
clear: both;
height: 630px;
overflow: hidden; /* delete this line */
padding: 0;
}

Having issues with IE7 and floated elements (of course)

I'm working on a site that has a wrapper element, with a left and right sidebar, each floated within the wrapper. The left sidebar (which contains navigation) is clearing the right sidebar and pushing it to the bottom for some reason. I've tried fixing it in about 50 different ways. I originally thought changing the size and or margin would help. It didn't. I tried the 'display:inline' fix to no avail. I've tried a ton of other tweaks but I can not get it to work. You can view the site at www.ibgs2010.org and the css is www.ibgs2010.org/css/style.css (I'm trying to use a IE7 specific stylesheet to fix it). If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it. I've burnt about 3 hours today just trying to fix this one little issue.
Looks like the problem is with the ajaxloader div - set its width to 697px (same as sidebar right) and that should fix your problem.
Try to remove the margins and paddings on your sidebar classes and have a inside wrapper with the margin and padding set to it. More failsafe this way so that margins don't increase the size of your div element. Browsers have a different way of rendering margins and paddings to elements.
Hope that helped you out.
Cheers
I think it's just that the floating content is being considered too wide to fit -- so, it's floating it down to where it will.
Instead of float, you might try position with left and right, respectively:
.content.wrapper {
position: relative; /* establish boundary for absolute positioning */
}
.sidebar.left {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
}
.sidebar.right {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
}
I propose you add the following:
#ajaxloader {
width: 737px;
float: left;
}
The width of 737px is derived from the 697px width plus the 40px left padding of of .sidebar.right
With this addition the IE7 and Firefox versions should look the same, give or take a pixel.
I include the yahoo reset css as the begining of every page (or css file). It really helps to level the playing field. Also with IE, always remember to specify width (even if it's 100%) and if your floating, make sure to display:inline.

Div in lower left corner of wrapper div

I have a page with a wrapper div which contains a background image and all the content divs.
In this wrapper div I also have a logo div which should be placed at the bottom left corner of the wrapper without interfering with the contents.
I have managed to place the logo in the bottom left corner of the whole page (position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0;) The problem is that if you resize the width of the window, the background stays centered while the logo div goes left and sticks to the browser edge (as it should).
How would I go about making it stay to the edge of the wrapper div?
The reason it is not a part of the background is that the client wanted to be able to change the background without editing in the logo.
I have thought about not centering the wrapper, this would solve the problem.
I'm thinking about position: relative, but it doesn't seem to work.
I hope I'm clear enough, here is a link to the layout in case it helps.
http://development.pulsemedia.se/current/kingromeo/layout/
Make your wrapper div's position to be relative.
At the moment, your bandname div is not inside the wrapper. Put it in the #wrapper div, and set the wrapper to a position: relative;
I found my mistake. I had forgot to make the background-div fixed width so when the browser windows expanded, the background-div expanded too. Everything was behaving exactly as it should.
Put the logo div inside the wrapper div, and then set use some combination of these:
position: relative;
bottom: 0px;
float: bottom;
I'm not sure about the float: bottom, but I think you'll need it to prevent interference with the rest of your content.

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