I am completely new to html and css so my question could be very basic but hope you guys can help me udnerstnad,
I am using following css code
body
{
background-color:Olive;
width:550px;
font-family:Verdana;
}
I am setting width to 550px and as a result all my paragraphs contract to 550px but the background is applied to the whole page even beyond the 550px
I understand that because of inheritance the child elements would have inherited the width property from body, but I was thinking that if I set width property of body to 550px then background should be visible in 550px wide area and not the full page,
I don't get the logic here..
If you apply a color to the html, for example html { background-color: yellow; }, you'll see this is not the case at all. The <body> tag is special in that it is intended to encompass the entire contents of the HTML page. When you apply a background, then, the default is for it to paint the entire background page, unless htmls background has otherwise been set.
See this jsfiddle example. Like the other posters above, I highly recommend using a <div> element to wrap, size, and color your content.
This is described in the CSS2 specifications as so:
The background of the root element becomes the background of the canvas and covers the entire canvas, anchored (for 'background-position') at the same point as it would be if it was painted only for the root element itself. The root element does not paint this background again.
Why not wrap your content in a div, and set the properties to that?
<body>
<div class="content">
... content here
</div>
</body>
and apply the same classes to the div
.content
{
background-color:Olive;
width:550px;
font-family:Verdana;
}
You can use a container div that wraps your whole page and acts like a "fake" body. Then if you apply these style to this div your problem will be solved.
css
#wrapper {
width: 550px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
}
HTML:
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
Piece of text inside a 550px width div centered on the page
</div>
</body>
You should try this http://jsfiddle.net/ajaypatel_aj/8tfKc/
HTML
<div id="wrapper">Test me!</div>
CSS
*{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body{
text-align:center; /*For IE6 Shenanigans*/
font-family:Verdana;
}
#wrapper{
width:550px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
background-color:Olive;
}
Answer is simple applied body color will set to whole page you must have to use div .
This is what you are looking for.
<html>
<head>
<title>
Your title goes here.
</title>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
#test
{
background-color:Olive;
width:550px;
font-family:Verdana;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id='test'>
Hello
</div>
</body>
Another answer is:
<html>
<head>
<title>
Your title goes here.
</title>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
html
{
background-color:white;
}
body
{
background-color:Olive;
width:550px;
font-family:Verdana;
}
</style>
<body>
Hello
</body>
</html>
Related
How can I change the color of a certain section in a web page ?
It is located above the footer. I want to make like 10px height and width that takes all the page. i will include social icons in that space.
How can I do that?
You can just add a class to the element you want to style. Let's say you want to change the background of a <section> element and the height and width you need, you can add a class="mysection"
Then you can add a CSS file or a style tag at the head of your HTML document with the following code:
.mysection {
background-color: red;
width: 100%;
height: 10px;
}
You can add a <div> tag or <section> tag. While applying styles in HTML, it should mention inside the <style> tag in the header section
Example
<html>
<head>
<style>
#test {
background-color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="test">
Test
</div>
</body>
</html>
I am attempting to write a simple 404 (Page not Found) error page for my website: bazingamanphdgaming.t15.org. This is my code so far:
<html>
<head>
<title>404 - Not found</title>
<style>
#title {
position:fixed;
top:40%;
color:white;
font-size:40px;
text-align:center;
width:100%
}
#link {
position:fixed;
top:45%;
font-size:20px;
text-align:center;
width:100%
}
</style>
</head>
<body style="background-color:black">
<div id="title"><b>404 - Page not found</b></div>
<div id="link"><br />
<a style="color:white" href="http://bazingamanphdgaming.t15.org">
Return to the BazingaManPHD Gaming home page.
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
However when I reduce the browser window's width the bold text in the #title goes over the link going back to the homepage. This is a screenshot:
Of course to fix this problem I would need to put a min-width property on the #title like so:
<div id="title" style="min-width:200px"><b>404 - Page not found</b></div>
I am using 200px as an example there, but it doesn't seen to work, whatever size I put it as. Any help would be appreciated.
Simply add this to your CSS:
#title {
white-space: nowrap;
/* rest of your styles */
}
This will prevent the text in #title from wrapping.
You could enable vertical align by setting display:table and display:table-cell to the containers.
html,body{
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
body{display:table}
.page {
background:black;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
.title {
color:white;
font-size:40px;
}
.link {
font-size:20px;
color:white;
}
<div class="page">
<div class="title">404 - Page not found</div>
<a class="link" href="http://bazingamanphdgaming.t15.org">Return to the BazingaManPHD Gaming home page.</a>
</div>
This way it will center whatever you put into it.
Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/f6c1wupL/1/
here is a fiddle to take a look.
Basically there were a couple problems in your css.
Setting the position of elements to fixed takes them out of the natural flow.
If your thinking about the page as a piece of paper these fixed elements are floating above the paper wherever you place them.
By putting them relative you are putting them onto the piece of paper so the position of other elements can have an effect on their position. i.e bumping them out of the way.
by marking them relative the 'top' selector no longer works instead to move the items down the page give them a margin-top to offset them from the the bounds of the body(it's parent element).
#title {
position:relative;
margin-top:40%;
color:white;
font-size:40px;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
http://jsfiddle.net/crnc6ht5/
Please note: I am new to CS. Brand new.
I want my button div to be placed horizontally inside the confirm div: example.
Right now my dialog-button div width is equal to the width of the confirm Div. Why?
I am just placing two buttons inside my Div, so it's width should be equal to 128 (the total of two button witdh). Similarly the height should be equal to button height, but it isn't.
Second i want that mt button-div placed center horizontally . I tried left: 50% inside my button-div. But it is aligning the left margin with the centre of the confirm div. How can i do it?
EDIT
--------------------------------------------------
May be I didn't understand correctly, but if you want it inside then put it inside.
<div id="message">
Are you sure you want to
<div id="dialog-button">
<button>Ok</button>
<button>Cancel</button>
</div>
</div>
Demo
Update 1
Right now my dialog-button div width is equal to the width of the confirm Div. Why?
Why, because <div>s are block tag, they always take 100% width of the containing element. It is not equal to the width of confirm Div.
To make the dialog-button take the actual width use display: inline-block as its CSS. Demo
Update 2:
To the best from what i understood. This is what you want. If not help me help you.
Update 3:
Ok, here is a demo with the image. I will leave the without image part to you. ;)
The div which the two buttons are in is actually the width of the of the comfirm div. The reasons why divs stretch to the width of their parent, is because that is block level element.
the reason every thing seems so confusing is that you have a lot left floating divs in your example. These are changing how things would normally laid out. To make things simpler why dont you try removing some of the more confusing elements. I suggest trying a more simple example like the one below:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ie-css3.htc" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/messageDialogStyle.css" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.7.1.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/puff.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.dialog.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="confirm">
<div id="message">
Are you sure you want to
</div>
<div id="dialog-button">
<button>Ok</button>
<button>Cancel</button>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
If you want to center a button. If you change the margin-left and margin-right to auto you will center any block element. try changing your css to the css below:
#confirm {
background-color: #ddd;
display:block;
width:400px;
min-height:120px;
position:absolute;
border:1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px; /*FireFox*/
-webkit-border-radius: 15px; /*Opera, safari*/
behavior: url(css/border-radius.htc); /*IE*/
}
#message {
width: 280px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
white-space: normal;
word-wrap: break-word;
margin:20px 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
#dialog-button {
border:1px solid #ccc;
position: relative;
}
button {
display:block;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width: 64px;
}
Note if you have to make the button a block element for the margin auto trick to work.
You can find more about block level element here.
For example, if you look at Facebook, they have a short blue bar on top that extends the entire width of the browser. I thought about using width:100%; but I know that it needs to have a parent element to be able to do that.
One way:
<div style="position:absolute;left:0px;right:0px;height:20px"> </div>
The document itself acts as a parent element. Divs, by default, are 100% of their parent's width.
What you probably need to do is set no margin or padding on the body element.
<html>
<style>
body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#strip { background: #89f; padding: 5px; }
</style>
<body>
<div id="strip">This is a nav strip</div>
</body>
</html>
Demo at http://www.coffeepowered.net/projects/navstrip.html
If you use a CSS reset, then this should Just Work.
Consider the next code:
#container {
width:500px;
}
#inside {
padding:10px;
width:100%;
}
If I choose width:100%; will it be the same as stating "width 480:px" (that is, calculating the padding already) or will it be as "width:500px"
Thanks
Joel
It will be like width:500px and adding the padding it will push the insides of overflow the #container..
But if #inside is a block element, then just giving the padding will make it behave as if it were width:480px
Example at http://www.jsfiddle.net/uA9LV/
It will be the same width as the parent container provided it's a block level element. So #inside will be 500px wide with 10px of padding on every side.
I put this in a sample document and the container div only resized 3 sides (left, top, and bottom).. and the inside div pushed it's boundaries outside of the container by 20px to the right.
I tested in IE8, Firefox 3.6.10, and the latest Chrome. Using various doctypes had no effect.
The code I used was:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
<style>
#container {
width:500px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
#inside {
padding:10px;
width:100%;
border: solid 1px red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="inside">
Hello World!
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Note: if you remove the Width declaration from the #inside div then you'll get exactly what you want. Which is an inner div that is 480px in width + 10px on each side for padding. See this link for more information on it: Solving the CSS Padding problem.