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Justify text to fill a div
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Is it possible to shorten a container (preferably div) so that the dynamically inserted text within becomes a "perfect" rectangle without increasing the height?
<div style="width:800px;">
<div>I'd like these words to look like below, but I'd like to "automatically" set it with a few lines of CSS rather than with jQuery or some other computationally intensive alternative.</div>
</div>
<br>
<div style="width:800px;">
<div style="width:530px;">I'd like these words to look like below, but I'd like to "automatically" set it with a few lines of CSS rather than with jQuery or some other computationally intensive alternative.</div>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/Q7gcb/
I'd like to do this with a single CSS setting if possible, but I can't find one. I'd also like to avoid a loop in javascript to do this because I have to do this to a lot of divs, and I don't want performance to suffer.
white-space doesn't seem to help unless if I'm using it wrong.
Many thanks in advance!
text-align:justify;
By itself doesn't help: http://jsfiddle.net/Q7gcb/4/
max-width + text-align:justify;
Doesn't work either: http://jsfiddle.net/Q7gcb/5/
I believe that what you are looking for can be found Here
"In DTP and word processing applications, this option is known as 'force justify'. Unfortunately, this is not an option in CSS."
div {text-align: justify;}
And you should set width value as well.
Set the max-width and text-align to justify.
div {
max-width: 500px;
text-align: justify;
}
Demo
Try this.
HTML
<div style="width:800px;">
<div>I'd like these words to look like below, but I'd like to "automatically" set it with a few lines of CSS rather than with jQuery or some other computationally intensive alternative.</div>
</div>
<br>
<div style="width:800px;">
<div style="width:530px;">I'd like these words to look like below, but I'd like to "automatically" set it with a few lines of CSS rather than with jQuery or some other computationally intensive alternative.</div>
</div>
<br>
<div style="width:800px;">
<div class="justify">I'd like these words to look like below, but I'd like to "automatically" set it with a few lines of CSS rather than with jQuery or some other computationally intensive alternative.</div>
</div>
CSS
.justify{
text-align: justify;
text-align-last: justify;
}
.justify:after {
content: "";
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Q7gcb/7/
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How can I align the bottom of an inline block (call it 'IB') with the bottom of the text - excluding descenders like that on 'g' - in a parent element (call it 'PE')? This should be in a way which generalises whatever the size of the text - I don't want to hardcode size-specific pixel values.
Here is an example of the HTML I'd use, with the classes I'd need CSS for:
<div class="pe">
Parent text line
<span class="ib" style="display: inline-block;">
- and child text line
</span>
</div>
And here's what I'd like it to look like:
OP updated saying: "Thanks, but I've edited the question to clarify I don't want to hardcode size-specific pixel values."
In that case, I'm afraid there isn't a solution that will automatically fix different lines with different text sizes. The other solution I provided isn't even perfect across all of the browsers with some combinations of font sizes, because Chrome/Opera round inexact values differently than Firefox/IE, so even with my solution, you'd need to use some browser-specific css. The only thing similar to an universal solution would be setting vertical-align: middle; but I wouldn't trust that to work consistently.
You can add below css to ib. And change the bottom margin to control alignment.
.ib{
display: inline-block;
font-size: 10px;
vertical-align: bottom;
margin:0 0 1px 0;
}
#Rorok_89 I know i am adding one more line of css but its justa way to do it in a different way. Your answer is perfect.
This seems to have worked for me: http://jsfiddle.net/Rorok_89/Z8TWH/
.ib{
display: inline-block;
font-size: 10px;
vertical-align: 1px;
}
OK so what would happen if I have 2 divs (one containing text, the other an image). The image always has a static width but the text varies. hence making its containing div variable.
I can make it work for all other browsers (except IE6 and IE7) by using CSS display:table. IE6 and 7 don't have that so I can't find a workable solution to center them all.
... so you know what I'm talking about...
.container{text-align:center; width:100%}
.container .centered{display:table; margin:0 auto}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">
<div id="text">varying length text</div>
<div id="image">IMAGE</div>
</div>
</div>
Quite apart from the lack of IE support, setting display: table as you have without its children using display: table-row/table-cell results in undefined behaviour. It doesn't make sense to put block elements directly inside a table element and the browser might do anything at all.
What you are trying to do is get shrink-to-fit width behaviour without using float, which is a normal way of getting shrink-width but requires that the block in question goes to the left or right not centre. Probably a better way of saying that would be to use an inline-block:
.centered { text-align: center; }
.centered span { display: inline-block; border: dotted red 1px; }
<div class="centered">
<span id="text">varying length text</span>
</div>
<div class="centered">
<span id="image">IMAGE</span>
</div>
(You have to use a naturally-inline element like span to make it work under IE<8; div would fail. There is also -moz-inline-box if you need to target Firefox 2.)
Are you using quirksmode or standards compliant mode? In other words have you included a DOCTYPE declaration at the top of your html page?
You shouldn't need to use display:table just margin:auto should do the trick provided you are using a standards mode.
In code we got from a "psd2html"-service, I see a lot of spans surrounding the contents of div-tags.
I know the difference between spans and divs, but I cant figure out why the code looks like this:
<div class="forgot-password">
<span>Forgot password?</span>
</div>
...
<div>
<span>Sign in</span>
</div>
Instead of just:
<div class="forgot-password">
Forgot password?
</div>
...
<div>
Sign in
</div>
I'm guessing its either some kind of cross-browser fix, or perhaps to "prepare" for the future if we want to put more stuff into the divs?
Edit:
Here is the CSS for the forgot-password part:
div.forgot-password
{
float: left;
width: 145px;
height: 22px;
margin-left: 3px;
}
div.forgot-password span
{
display: block;
float: left;
padding-top: 3px;
padding-left: 0px;
}
div.forgot-password span a
{
color: #C5C5C5;
text-decoration: none;
}
Although plain text can be "naked" in a div, some consider it good practice to wrap text content with an inline tag such as a span. This means you can separate out inline styles from block styling. With respect to your psd2html service, what you are seeing is an artefact of the conversion algorithm. Any algo is only going to have a finite set of rules. In this case I am guessing there is a rule like "wrap text in a span", and a rule like "wrap links in an a". In your example above, all your text content is a link, so you are seeing
<span><a..>text content</a></span>
From an HTML perspective, in this case the outer span is unnecessary. However it doesn't do any harm, and for styling purposes - unless you want to change the css - you need to keep them in.
To me it looks like overly complicated code. It would make sense if the code was:
<div class="forgot-password">
<span> some text </span> Forgot password?
</div>
So that you can discriminate text and links in CSS or jQuery.
Here we should look at the CSS to see what is done, but my first impression is that the span's could be removed since they add no semantic nor operational meaning.
To me, span has always been a way of quickly formatting text in a css compliant way. So I would suppose that they add spans to prepare for further formatting, but as no formatting is given, they don't apply any stylesheets, thus the span is "empty".
I'd say that these spans could as well be removed. They don't hurt in that case, but they don't have any use here.
It looks like these are buttons being marked up here, so it might be used for the Sliding Doors technique, so you can have two background images, so that if the content grows, you'll still have nice corners. It's probably just something they do on all things which look like buttons, but they might not use it to its full potential everywhere.
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How can I reorder my divs using only CSS?
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Closed 6 years ago.
Given that the HTML
<div>
<div id="content1"> content 1</div>
<div id="content2"> content 2</div>
<div id="content3"> content 3</div>
</div>
render as
content 1
content 2
content 3
My question:
Is there a way to render it as below by using CSS only without changing the HTML part.
content 1
content 3
content 2
This can be done in browsers that support the CSS3 flexbox concept, particularly the property flexbox-order.
See here
However, support for this is only in current versions of most browsers still.
Edit Time moves on and the flexbox support improves..
This works for me:
http://tanalin.com/en/articles/css-block-order/
Example from this page:
HTML
<div id="example">
<div id="block-1">First</div>
<div id="block-2">Second</div>
<div id="block-3">Third</div>
</div>
CSS
#example {display: table; width: 100%; }
#block-1 {display: table-footer-group; } /* Will be displayed at the bottom of the pseudo-table */
#block-2 {display: table-row-group; } /* Will be displayed in the middle */
#block-3 {display: table-header-group; } /* Will be displayed at the top */
As stated there, this should work in most browsers. Check link for more info.
It might not exactly match what you're after, but take a look at this question:
CSS positioning div above another div when not in that order in the HTML
Basically, you'd have to use Javascript for it to be reliable in any way.
This is one of the classic use-cases for absolute positioning--to change rendering from source order. You need to know the dimensions of the divs to be able to do this reliably however, and if you don't javascript is your only recourse.
I was messing around in Firefox 3 with Firebug, and came up with the following:
<div>
<div id="content_1" style="height: 40px; width: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 40px;">1</div>
<div id="content_2" style="width: 40px; height: 40px; background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0); float: left;">2</div>
<div id="content_3" style="width: 40px; height: 40px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin-top: -40px;">3</div>
</div>
It's not perfect, since you need to know the heights of each container, and apply that height value to the negative top margin of the last element, and the bottom margin of the first element.
Hope it helps, nd
I got it to work by doing this:
#content2 { position:relative;top:15px; }
#content3 { position:relative; top:-17px; }
but keep in mind that this will not work for you as soon as you have dynamic content. The reason I posted this example is that without knowing more specific things about your content I cannot give a better answer. However this approach ought to point you in the right direction as to using relative positioning.
One word answer: nope. Look into XSLT (XML Stylesheet Language Transforms), which is a language specifically geared towards manipulating XML.
If you know the height of each element then it is a simple case of vertical relative positioning to swap around the orders. If you don't know the heights then you either have to give them heights and allow the divs to get scroll bars if there is any overflow or calculate it all with JavaScript and add the relative positioning on-the-fly.
with jquery you can simply do:
$('#content2').insertAfter($('#content3'));
I don't think there's a way to do it with CSS, except to force fixed positioning of each of the divs and stack them that way.
Sorry for the slightly rubbish title. I could not think how to describe this one better.
I am trying to implement the Google Friend Connect members gadget on my site, (just got into the scheme and want to put it in without a major redesign, at least for testing sake).
My problem is as follows:
I have a container div that has a width of 90% of the main page (body). Inside this I am floating a div to the right and setting its width to 300px and putting the google gadget inside it. What I would like is to be able to have a div fill 95% of the space remaining to the left of the google gadget div.
I don't know if it is possible to be able to mix px and % with divs and widths.
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks
It is. You're looking for a semi-fluid layout. The quest was was originally the holy grail of CSS implementation... But as you can see from that link (they're doing 3 columns, 2 fixed but it's easy to alter), it's a problem long solved =)
If you prefer to avoid floats and clearfixes, use flex layout.
.main {
display: flex;
width: 90%;
}
.col1 {
flex-grow: 1;
}
.col2 {
width: 300px;
margin-left: 5%;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="col1" style="background: #518cf3;">Left column</div>
<div class="col2" style="background: #94d0bb;">Right column</div>
</div>
Note: Add flex vendor prefixes if required by your supported browsers.
I did a quick experiment as well after looking at a number of potential solutions all over the place. What I was trying to do was to have a mix of fluid and fixed rows and columns.
This is what I ended up with:
http://jsbin.com/hapelawake