CSS navigation on left side, picture on right issue - css

I am not exactly sure how to describe this issue, but heres goes nothing....
I have a navigation on left side of my site..
.headerWrapper {
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
float: left;
height: 745px;
margin-left: 40px;
width: 250px;
}
and right next to that is a class with an image inside of it....
.mainContent {
float: left;
padding-left: 5px;
width: 1000px;
}
the width of the image is 1000px and that is set in the image width attribute.
This layout looks good on my screen, but on other screens the image goes underneath the headerWrapper...Why is it doing this and how do I fix it?

The image goes below because there's not enough width area to fit in both the navigation and image. For minor fixes, try playing with the margin, padding (around 0) of the .mainContent, .headerWrapper and body to fit in both of them side by side.
However, for better adaptability to all resolutions you should use CSS Media Queries.
Here's a fiddle. Resize the result window and see the animation.
Basically, using media queries, you can define styling according to window size, for example in your case, you could reduce the size of the image to fit in low-res screens and so on.
Hope it helps. :)

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CSS Auto-height Div doesn't position itself correctly

I'm trying to get a simple page layout where the navbar sits vertically along the right side of the user's window, taking up no more than 20% of the available space. The remaining 80% of space to the left is used for content.
I want the entire page to be resizable, so no matter how big or small the browser window is (within reason), the content will resize to the user's screen. Everything works and resizes great, but there's one problem with the navBar. Here's a CSS excerpt:
body{
background-color: #111111;
font-family: Roboto;
color: #cccccc;
font-weight: 300;
font-size: 14pt;
height: 100%;
}
#content{
width: 80%;
float: left;
}
#navBar{
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #00C9FF;
float: left;
position: absolute;
}
#welcome{
background-color: #222222;
text-align: center;
margin: 1%;
}
The Problem:
If I leave the code above as is, the navBar renders on the right side of the screen, as it should, but it is not 100% the height of the browser window. Note it still resizes when the browser window's WIDTH is changed.
If I set navBar's position to absolute (position: absolute) the navbar renders exactly how it should render, except it floats to the left side of the browser, basically making it on the complete opposite side of where it should be.
Demo: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/YPyvzO (remove position: absolute to see where the navBar SHOULD render)
I have tried several different things including setting "HTML" in CSS to height: 100% and several different position properties for navbar, all to no avail. I'd like for this to be done only in CSS, but I'm not sure if it's possible.
Add the following:
position: absolute;
right: 0;
to #navBar. One thing that took me a long time to understand is that position: absolute overrides everything, even floats.
when you resize the browser the width and height change, so for this purpose you have to use media query in CSS and in this you have to tell the browser that in this width the navbar should be in given width. and another option is that you can use bootstrap, in bootstrap you not write too much css. and all the work become easy.

How can I stop divs getting pushed down?

I am trying to figure out how to get divs that I want on the same line to stay there, rather than getting pushed below when the screen is resized.
For example, I have a sidebar and a main body on all the pages in my website that I will give a defined width. They will sit directly next to each other, with the same height.
Sidebar CSS
#sidebar {
width: 380px;
margin-left: 50px;
float: left;
background: #cee7f7;
padding: 1%;
}
Body CSS
.container {
width: 1125px;
margin-right: 10%;
float:right;
background: #fff;
padding: 1%;
}
You can see an example at www.dweeman.com/eb/sitetemplate.html (Ignore the bad design).
Basically what I want is for all my divs (logo, phone, sidebar, body, footer etc) to all remain in their respective positions regardless of the screen size, yet with defined sizes. Does this have something to do with the position property?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Also how would I best describe this for the title of my question?)
Try setting the min-width and min-height of the divs if you want them to stay a specific size regardless of the screen size.

CSS Horizontal Rule to be full width & adjust to screen size

I am truly stuck with this, basically I am using wordpress, and want a horizontal line to go across the page (breaking out of the inside container). This line should adjust to the screen size, so if you zoom out the line should keep getting longer, basically an infinate line.
So far the what i've managed to do is the following code:
.horizontalrule1 {
position:relative;
height:82px;
background: #f1f2f2;
overflow:hidden;
width:600%;
margin-left: -100%;
}
This technically looks fine but the issue is it's causing a scroller to appear at the bottom of the page because the width is set at 600%
If I set the width to 100% it doesnt make the line full width and stops it at the inside container which is about 990px.
All I want is an infinate line that will adjust itself to the screen size, so if you have a screen width of 1900px the line should be 1900px etc.
Hope this makes sense.
My html is:
<div class="horizontalrule1"></div>
To give everyone a better idea of what i want, check out onlywire.com, they have thick grey horizontal rules that stretch accross the site. This is exactly what I'm looking to do.
You want it to go OUTSIDE the DOM element?
.elementContainingYourHorizontalRule {
overflow: auto; /* or whatever, just don't set it to hidden. */
position: relative;
}
.horizontalrule1 {
position: absolute;
width: 600%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -300%;
height: 2px; /* or whatever. */
}
I don't know if this is the best way to do things -- if I were you, I'd make your containing element go the full width of the page and let your custom HR do it's own thing automatically. I understand that may not work with your design/layout though.
At any rate, your horizontal rule will never be able to know your page width if you don't give the container the full width as well. So you're stuck with an ugly 600% hardcode until you get your container full-width.
Try this which should force it outside the surrounding container using negative horizontal margins:
hr {
margin: 20px -10000px;
}
And to avoid horizontal scrollbar add this to body:
body {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
If you only want to apply it to specific horizontal rulers, add it as a class.
HTML:
<hr class="full">
In Style Sheet:
hr.full {
margin: 20px -10000px;
}
You should set your body's padding and margin to 0 :
body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

Div fit according image width

I have a portfolio page with a image display with zoom.
I have this code: http://codepen.io/Mpleandro/pen/LvrqJ
The div that shows the image has a class of .display, on line 13 of the HTML and the css formating for this div isline 90.
The image width will be flexible, so I what I want is to make the containing div inherit the width of image.
I tried the css property auto, inherit and min-with, but nothing works!
Could someone help me?
P.S.: I need a responsive solution.
Thanks
since 1 year has passed you may not be interested in the solution, but hope that helps someone else.
I also had a situation like that where I needed a div to be of the same width as the image and this had to be responsive.
In my case, I set a fixed width for the div
.some-div{
width: 250px;
}
I also had responsive image:
img{
display: block;
max-width: 100%;
height; auto;
}
and then I added a media query with threshold when the fixed width of the div started to affect the responsive nature and simply addedd this:
#media screen and (max-width: 917px){
.some-div{
width: 100%;
}
}
For my project the threshold was 917px when the fixed width started to affect.
I guess it is a solution that will fit everyone since width: 100% after the certain threshold will always be the width of the image if the image is responsive.
I don't know how to give you a perfect answer, but I can hopefully send you in the right direction. First, you can forget about inherit or min-width because they are not what you want.
auto is the default value, and I think that the default behaviour is very close to what you want: the width of the div adapt to its content. If this is not the current behaviour, this is because of many other reasons including the positioning of that div. The thing is, you won't have a proper centering and sizing of the <div class="display"> with only CSS, because it would need a specific explicit width declaration.
Since you already use Javascript to display/hide the good images, you could use Javascript to set the width everytime you change the image that is in the box.
My best advice would be to use existing solutions which are tested, approved and look really good. A 2 seconds Google search pointed me to Fesco which you could try.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but if it is, I hope it will help!
If you want your image to fill the div, but to scale with the browser, try setting the width of your div. Next, apply max-width="100%"; height: auto; to your image.
The simplest solution would be to just set .display to display: inline-block;, which would adjust its size to the contained image. If you want to be responsive as well, you need to define an upper limit via max-height: 80%, for example.
Put together, it would look like this: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/IluBt
JS line 17:
$(".display").css("display","inline-block");
CSS for .display
.display {
position: relative;;
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
max-height:80%; /* <-- limit the height */
top:10%;
left:0;
margin:auto;
}
And to align everything nicely:
.loader {
color: red;
position: fixed;
width: 100%; height: 100%;
background: rgba(0,0,0, 1) url(../http://www.mpleandro.com.br/images/new/loader.gif) no-repeat center center;
text-align: center;
}

Smaller Resolution, Content Tries To Fit

If you will notice when you visit... http://www.thebattleforarcadia.com/construction/index.html when you shrink the size of the screen the top bar content overflows it's parent div and runs over the rest of the website.
What I want to do is, if in-case the resolution of the receiving end is too small, I want to force them to have to use the scrollbar at the bottom so they can see everything. Just so the website is displayed properly.
Any coding ideas?
Thank you,
Aaron
Add...
min-width: 1260px;
at the
#news-container
css rule.
Your website will display fine in 1280x** resolutions but there will be a vertical scrollbar in anything less than that (in width).
Perhaps you could make the min-width 960px and make the text expand in two lines (pushing the top graphic a bit) ? Just a suggestion
EDIT: here's an example
#news-content {
float: left;
padding-left: 25px;
padding-top: 12px;
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
#news-container {
width: 100%;
background: url(images/news-background.png) repeat-x left bottom;
z-index: 10;
}
#news-header {
width: 150px;
height: 23px;
float: left;
padding-left: 25px;
}
The above example will make the header "Expand" when the resolution is shrinked without forcing screenwidth < 1280px users to use the vertical scrollbar
Give the body element or any other element that is setting the width you want a min-width to match that. This should make sure that whenever the page is being viewed on a smaller resolution have a horizontal scroll-bar
See here for Commonly used pixel sizes for webpages and their pros/cons.

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