I'm having a little issue with couple of DIVs.
I need two DIVs to be positioned in exactly same place, and toggle them. As one div disappear, another should appear. This I will do using jQuery toggle().
The issue is that both DIVs should be part of the page flow and positioned exactly the same way. How I would achieve that?
So, there is some previous div, that occupies some place, has relative positioning and non-fixed sizes (dependent on window measures)
<div class="header">
... </div>
Then my div
<div id="galleria" style="height:700px;width:920px; margin:0 auto; border:1px solid green; ">
... </div>
and other my DIV
<div id="aboutDiv" >
This is ABOUT
</div>
Two later divs should occupy the same place. What positioning tags I could use?
The design adjusts to the window size due to flexible element -- very first DIV "header", so no absolute positioning is possible.
just put them one after another
<div id="galleria" style="height:700px;width:920px; margin:0 auto; border:1px solid green; "> ... </div>
<div id="aboutDiv" >
This is ABOUT
</div>
both should be positioned relative , when one is hidden then other will move up and they will be in the same place - as long as you are using toggle to always have one hidden and one shown
You either need a relatively positioned parent container with absolutely positioned children, or hide one and show the other when its faded out completely
Related
sorry if this question looks duplicate, but those explanations were in some way different from what I was looking for.
I have a DIV that is displayed a table. It has two DIVs as cells which also have their own DIVs inside.
<div class="theTable">
<div class="theRow">
<div class="cell1">
<div class="cell1Content">
cell one content
</div>
</div>
<div class="cell2">
<div class="cell2Content">
cell two content
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Now, when by any means (such as writing, or changing attributes), I enlarge the content of one of these cells (say cell2) instead of the content being enlarged from downward, and filling the area of the parent DIV (which is a cell), what happens is that the parent DIV actually expands from top. This behavior is not desired. I want the parent DIV to stay the same size, and the content to resize from bottom (downward).
I know this can be achieved using, position:relative, top:2em, but that's not what I am intending to do, because I do not want to disrupt the flow of the document, rather a simple answer as to how to get round this problem.
As in the case above, the CSS file is like this:
.theTable {display:table}
.theRow {display:table-row;}
.cell1 {display:table-cell}
.cell2 {display:table-cell}
.cell1Content {display:block; height:10em; background:blue;}
.cell2Content {display:block; background:yellow; height:5em; margin-top:2em;}
If you change the last line (margin-top:0em) you'll see, it is not only the child that is changing size, but also the parent. I don't understand why? And what can be done about it?
So what you want is that the cells start from bottom to grow upwards right?
Something like this could solve it:
http://jsfiddle.net/7y19n8eh/
.theTable {display:table}
.theRow {display:table-row;}
.cell1 {display:table-cell;vertical-align: bottom}
.cell2 {display:table-cell;vertical-align: bottom}
.cell1Content {display:block; height:10em; background:blue;}
.cell2Content {display:block; background:yellow; height:5em; margin-top:2em;}
What I did was to add vertical-align:bottom to the cells.
The vertical-align property sets the vertical alignment of an element and is compatible with all major browsers.
I have 2 elements beside each other by floating right and left.
the right element width is dynamic by padding of children elements which increase or decrease dynamically! but the left element is a simple DIV. I want it's width to change according to the right element width. how can it be done by CSS ?
example :
<div style="float:left"></div>
<div style="float:right;padding:5px 10px;">
<a>child1</a>
<a>child2</a>
<a>child3</a>
</div>
I am not 100% sure what you are trying to achieve, but if I understand right:
you have an area A in wich you are floating the right element with the 3 children
the rest of area A you want to fill with the left element
Is this correct?
Well the easiest way would be to wrap an inline-block element around the right element, that represents the whole A area and the right element floats on the right side of this parent element. Then all properties you assign to parent are going to represent the area A that is not covered by the right element. For example background color:
<div style="display:inline-block; width:100%; background-color:blue;">
<div style="float:right; right:0; padding:5px 10px; background-color:yellow;">
<a>child1</a>
<a>child2</a>
<a>child3</a>
</div>
</div>
Here you can see the result on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rKQXJ/
Short version: Why does overflow:auto cause a div to the right of a left floated div not to wrap its text around the left floated div? (Bonus: Is this an acceptable way to accomplish a column effect?)
Long version...
I have two divs that I wish to be next to each other, and displayed as columns. The div on the left has a specific width and height. And the div on the left is shorter than the div on the right. However, I do not want the text in the right div to wrap under the left div.
Here was my first attempt...
<div>
<div style="border:1px solid grey;
width:100px;
height:100px;
float:left;">
Div on the left.
</div>
<div>
Imagine lots and lots of text here...
</div>
<div style="clear:both"/>
</div>
...I knew the text in the right div would wrap under the left div. And it did.
Then I remembered a page I had created that had a column effect. I had copied and pasted it from I know not where. All it did was assign overflow:auto to the div on the right. It looks like this...
<div>
<div style="border:1px solid grey;
width:100px;
height:100px;
float:left;">
Div on the left.
</div>
<div style="overflow:auto">
Imagine lots and lots of text here...
</div>
<div style="clear:both"/>
</div>
Voila, the right divs text no longer wrapped under the first (left) div! The second (right) div appeared as a column.
So, I read everything I could find on overflow:auto and found no mention of why I should see this behaviour. Can anyone explain it to me?
Also, is this an acceptable way to achieve a column effect?
overflow: auto (or anything but visible) causes your second div to create a new block formatting context. This means the text within that div is now in its own formatting context, rather than sharing the same one as your first, left-floating div (which is the containing block of both divs), and so it is no longer allowed to flow around the first div.
Floats also generate their own BFCs, but that doesn't exactly relate to the matter at hand. It does however also prevent reflow, achieving a column effect, as shown in the other answers.
Is this an acceptable way of creating a column effect? I don't know, but it does seem unconventional. You can just float the second div as well instead for the reason mentioned above (although even that, in favor of upcoming true layout modes like flexbox and grids, is now seen as a browser compatibility hack these days, but is the best we've got for the time being).
Remember that inline content is designed to be able to flow naturally around floated content; see CSS2.1, §9.5 Floats.
Remember also that the purpose of overflow is to control content overflow in a box with a limited size. That it causes a box to create a new BFC, influencing floats as a result, is but a side effect, the reason for which is explored here. It's a lengthy read, but it includes a bit about preventing reflow, which I'll quote here for ease of reference:
And so, this change was brought about in CSS2.1, documented here. Now if you apply an overflow value other than visible only to the second box, what a browser does is push the entire box aside to make way for the float, because the box now creates a new block formatting context that encloses its contents, instead of flowing around the float. Here's what it looks like with overflow: auto for example:
Note that there is no clearance; if the second box had clear: left or clear: both it would be pushed down, not to the side, regardless of whether it established its own BFC.
By the way, yes, this means your clearing div needs to be there if you want to always clear the first div.
To get the divs next to each other they both will need a float and fit in the surrounding div.
Example:
<div style="width:200px;">
<div style="width:100px; float:left;">
content
</div>
<div style="width:100px; float:left;">
content
</div>
</div>
If you want the outlining div to grow with the largest div place overflow:hidden; to the div.. If that div doesnt have a height with it then it will scale with the larges div.
Preview:
http://jsfiddle.net/WzVBE/
Remove float:left from the first div.
<div>
<div style="border:1px solid grey; width:100px; height:100px;">
Div on the left.
</div>
<div style="overflow:auto; ">
Imagine lots and lots of text here...
</div>
<div style="clear:both"/>
</div>
DEMO
You can try this
<div style="width:800px; background-color:#CCC">
<div style="width:300px; height:100px; float:left; background-color:#CCC">
Div on the left.
</div>
<div style="height:100px; float:left; width:500px; background-color:#999">
Imagine lots and lots of text here...
</div>
<div style="clear:both"/>
</div>
I've captured an illustration of a CSS two-column layout I've set up, while using the following rule for the orange containers:
.embedded_post{
float: left;
width: 46%;
margin-right: 20px;
padding: 10px;
display: inline-block;
}
As can be seen, the second orange container on the right column is preventing the second orange container on the left column from floating up to the top left box.
This happens apparently since float:left automatically grants the element with a block level flow.
How can I get the second box on the left column to be positioned under the first one?
can you wrap your columns in another pair of divs, so that floating in the right column won't affect floating in the left?
<div id='left_column'>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
</div>
<div id='right_column'>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
<div class='embedded_post'></div>
</div>
css:
#left_column, #right_column {
float:left;
}
you've answered it yourself, there are a couple of options:
trick yourself by granting the div elements with an inline level flow, i.e. specifying display: inline (not recommended).
update the markup to be more semantic and alter the layout to conform to the desired result, e.g. replacing the divs with spans (preferred).
The second div on the left has less width than the rest of the divs, this might have something to do with it. Also, the combination with your (desired) structure and the margin-right isn't how I would do it. In fact, the margin-right may, depending on the with of the parent div of the embedded_post divs, screw up your structure and cause postioning problems.
It works fine when I try it.
p.s. keep in mind that in Firefox, the padding adds to the width/height of the div while this doesn't happen in other browsers.
How to (top) align 3 div that should be relative to a previous div (but not between them)?
I can't use floats or position:inline-block (if you set display:none on 2 divs the last one shouldn't move).
position:absolute neither because there's a relative footer underneath.
vertical-align:top doesn't work using spans - any workaround?
I tried using a wrapper but it can't work cause the height of the divs is not fixed.
The height of the wrapper gets completely ignored anyway (by the following footer) unless Im using relative children.
Any ideas?
HTML
the order is important and the wrapper is optional (to position the side divs)
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
<div id="middle"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
CSS
#left {float:left}
#middle {margin:0 auto}
#right {float:right}
#footer {clear:both}
unless someone comes up with something easier
ill accept my answer in 24h