Create a div with text inside image. (responsive design) - css

I want to create a div which contains an image and text on it. Something similar to http://wearyoubelong.com/ How do I go about doing this? I am using Zerb Foundation Framework. As of now I have tried using position : absolute on the text, but that seems to break at a lot of places. Can you please advice me on how to go about this?

Let say you have a sample HTML like this
HTML
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<h1>Here goes some content</h1>
<p>Description about the product.
Some more desription about the product.</p>
</div>
</div>​
CSS
#container
{
background-image:url('http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00cZjaqNvWlEks/Men-T-Shirt.jpg');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:400px;
width:400px;
}
#content
{
position:absolute;
height:auto;
width:auto;
top:150px;
left:100px;
}
#content h1
{
color:Yellow;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:22px;
}
#content p
{
color:Red;
}
Just gave the main div #container a background-image , positioned div #content to absolute and then using top and left property float it according to your needs.
Live Demo
Hope this helps.
Edited to set #container div's height and width to auto
Updated Demo
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Div position - css

I'm trying to achieve, that the div's will behave like an example on picture, using css:
Is there any clean way to do this? I achieve this using javascript to calculate "left" div height and "main" div width and height. But i dont like this solution...is there any way to do this using css only?
Edit:
Page must not have scrollbar...so page's height is always max 100%, and no more...
thanks
If the sidebar (or any other div) is 100% height, and on top you have a 30px header, so that causes your container to be 100% + 30px height.
In the future you will have in css3 calc():
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/css3-calc/
This will solve your problem.
But for now you can add overflow: hidden; to the html and body section, but I recommend calculate the height of the sidebar ( container height - header height) using Javascript.
Check fiddle here
If you mean the two-column layout, you do it with pure CSS like this:
.container {
background-color: #aaaaaa;
}
.left {
float: left;
width: 100px;
clear: left;
}
.right {
margin-left: 100px;
background-color: #888888;
}
and HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="left">left</div>
<div class="right">right</div>
</div>
Live demo: jsFiddle
The div on top can be achieved without any special CSS. To place something below (a footer for example), you'll need to use clear: both.
Without any code it is hard to determine what you want. Here is a extremely simple version of what I believe you want.
HTML:
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="side">
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
CSS:
#header {
width:100%;
height:50px;
}
#side {
width:300px;
height:100%;
float:left;
}
#content {
width:660px;
height:100%;
float:left;
}
jsFiddle

How do I float a div in the center of the screen

I'm trying to create in HTML5 a view made of div's that displays in the center of the page while the background is grayed out. Something like the Silverlight child window. I am having a horrible time trying to get this to work.
You can easily do it with some basic css like so. This is just the css part not javascript to animate it or toggle. But it should be enough to get you started.
CSS
.div {
position:absolute;
top:300px;
width:300px;
height:260px;
left:50%;
z-index:1000;
margin-left: -150px; /* negative half the width of the div */
}
.background {
background:#000;
opacity:0.5;
position:fixed:
width:100%;
height:100%;
z-index:999;
}
HTML
<div class="div">
My Content
</div>
<div class="background "></div>
this is to make the page centered with 900px width, you add this to your div element:
width:900px;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;
for the background, you need to add the following style to you body element
color:gray;padding:0px;margin:0px;
you have to include a width in order to center an element. margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto; will not work if you did not include a width!

CSS Sticky Footer - Never works right for me

I've been trying to make this work for a while and it never seems to work out. I think its because my HTML structure is slightly different than the ones in the example. My problem is, on pages that are smaller than the viewport, the footer is not automatically pushed to the bottom, and the #main div is not extended to the footer.
Here's my HTML:
<html>
<body>
<div id='container'>
<div id='main'>
<div id='content'> </div>
</div>
<div id='footer'> </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here would be my basic CSS, without implementation of CSS Sticky Footer:
div#container {
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
}
div#main {
background-color:black
padding-bottom:30px;
}
div#content {
width:425px;
}
div#footer {
position:relative;
bottom:0;
width:inherit;
height:90px;
}
To clarify: Lets say the background of div#main is black. Now lets say, on a page, there's only 1 line of text in div#main. So I want to make the #main area extend all the way down to the footer (which is at the bottom of the page) even when there isn't enough content to force that to happen. make sense?
And One more thing. The #main area has a different background color than the body. So the #main background has to extend all the way down to the footer, cause if there's a gap, the body color peaks through instead
Try making the footer position:fixed.
http://jsfiddle.net/QwJyp/
Update
I'm a little bit closer: http://jsfiddle.net/QwJyp/1/. Perhaps somebody can build off it. If you remove the line with !important defined, it allows the main with height:100% to show up. But there's still a lot of extra padding at the bottom of the div which I can't figure out. I'll continue later when I have more time. Good luck! Hopefully this helps with some direction.
Here you go: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page
EDIT
Using the technique in the article above (tested - and works in fiddle):
HTML
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id='container'>
<div id='main'>
<div id='content'>Hello</div>
</div>
<div id='footer'> </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
html, body {
margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%;
}
div#container,div#main {
background-color: #333;
}
div#container {
min-height:100%; width:960px; margin:0 auto; position:relative;
}
div#main {
padding-bottom:90px; margin:0; padding:10px;
}
div#content {
width:425px;
}
div#footer {
position:absolute; bottom:0; width: 100%; height:90px; background-color: #ADF;
}
idea is to have #main with padding-bottom x, container min-height: 100%, footer after container and with margin-top -x
Try using with absolute position for the footer div
<div id='container'>
<div id='main'>
<div id='content'> </div>
</div>
<div id='footer'> </div>
</div>
Make sure that body height is 100%
html,body
{ height:100%;
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
div#container {
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
position:relative;
height:100%;
}
div#main {
background-color:black;
padding-bottom:90px;
}
div#content {
width:425px;
}
div#footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:inherit;
height:90px;
width:960px;
}
I know the html is structured differently than what you're working with, but perhaps you can alter your core structure to mimic this (because it works): CSS Sticky Footer
It looks like this group has done a lot of research on the topic and have found this it be the best (maybe the only?) way...through many different versions.

how to set a the minimal height of a div to adjust it's content

I'm trying to make a webpage with the following structure:
1 big div (main), and 3 divs inside it, a left shadow, content, and a right shadow.
these is the css code for them, mleft and mright are the shadows.
body,html{height:100%;}
.main {
width:900px;
height:100%;
}
.mleft, .mright {
width:25px;
height:100%;
float:left;
}
.mleft { background-image: url("shadowleft.jpg"); }
.mright { background-image: url("shadowright.jpg"); }
.content {
width:850px;
float:left;
background-color:red;
}
And the html is like this:
<div class="main">
<div class="mleft"></div>
<div class="mcontent">
(content, some text and images)
</div>
<div class="mright"></div>
</div>
I want this to be viewable in big and small screens, the problem is that when viewing in small screens or making the window small, the main div height goes below the height of content div, so the shadow is too short to cover content div.
I've been playing with min-height, but min-height:auto, doesn't work, and none of the values of "overflow" does what I want.
Any clean way of solving this that works on any browsers?
Should I use javascript?, redo everything another way?
Update:This is an image of how it looks
Update2: The height of main seems to be directly the height of the window (100%) so I main is always the size of the window, which if small it's less than the content inside it, I tried playing with min-height with no success. The expected result is that it resizes until it reaches the size of it's contents, when it should stop.
OK, I've deleted all the old stuff... found a solution using positioning :)
http://jsfiddle.net/Damien_at_SF/AtX4A/
Basically, the shadows sit inside the content div and with absolute positioning are placed at 0,0 left and 0,0 right (or you could move them outside the content using negative positioning)
UPDATE: put the main div back in and applied margin:auto to it's style in order to center the whole lot :)
HTML
<div class="main">
<div class="mcontent">
<div class="mleft"></div>
<div class="mright"></div>
(content, some text and images)>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
body,html{
height:100%;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
.main {
width:900px;
height:100%;
margin:auto;
}
.mleft, .mright {
width:25px;
height:100%;
}
.mleft {
background:green;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
.mright {
background:blue;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
right:0px;
}
.mcontent {
width:850px;
background-color:red;
position:relative;
padding-left:25px;
}
Hope that helps :)

CSS: navigation bar to expand to the whole page height

Im not too great at CSS but hopefully someone on here can help. I have the following mockup. (i have stripped out my content to make it easy to view)
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="body">
<div id="navBar"></div>
<div id="mainContent"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
my CSS is as follows:
html,
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
}
#container {
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
}
#header {
background:#ff0;
padding:10px;
}
#body {
padding:10px;
padding-bottom:60px; /* Height of the footer */
}
#footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:60px; /* Height of the footer */
background:#6cf;
}
now im unsure as to how to get the "navBar" to be the page height. I've tried adding height: 100% but that doesnt work.
Thanks,
Matt
Giving an element height: 100% will give it a height equal to that of its containing element, which in your case is #body. Since body in your example is only as big as it needs to be to hold its content, #navBar will be 100% of that height.
To fix this, you can make #container and #body height:100% to make them as tall as tho body tag, which takes up the whole page:
#container {
height:100%
}
#body{
height:100%;
}
In the interest of completeness, you could also set the top and bottom of #navBar:
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
bottom: 60px; /* height of footer */
To understand the difference, play around with This JS Fiddle. Mess around with the height and top, bottom, position properties to see how your changes affect the layout; just don't use both positioning methods at once!
Your issue appears to be that each parent DIV all the way up to the BODY tag must explicitely have a height of 100% for #navBar to have 100% height. This means you would also have to set the height of #body to 100% as well, since it is the parent container of #navBar.
Have a look at this site - I assume you want a two column layout - this site will show you how to do what you want. Hope it helps.

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