I have a website which is 960px wide and want to put a picture outside of that on the right side.
Vimeo have done it on there homepage: http://vimeo.com
you can see a drawing of an origami bird that sticks outside the website width
without causing the screen to get horizontal scrollbars
How do they do this?!
origami bird Floating outside of Vimeos layout
New answer:
After some further inquiry, it seems that a critical aspect was that the box/image would not cause horizontal scroll-bars, while the content would. This was an interesting trick applied by vimeo, and was quite sneaky.
It has to do with a combination of min-width on body, and overflow-x: hidden on a non-immediate parent of the box/image. When combined with position: absolute, and a negative right, this achieves the desired result.
HTML:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="width_wrap">
<div class="crane"></div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body
{
min-width: 960px;
}
#wrap
{
overflow-x: hidden;
}
#width_wrap {
position: relative;
width: 960px;
height: 400px;
}
.crane
{
position: absolute;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
right: -40px;
}
Here is a minimal Fiddle, with outlines such that you can see what's going on: http://jsfiddle.net/rUj8s/2/
Original answer:
The position: absolute answers will most likely work, but will also take the image/div out of the normal flow of the document. This might not be what you want.
What you probably want is a negative margin-right:
.your_picture {
margin-right: -30px;
}
Or, perhaps position: relative, and a negative right
.your_picture {
position: relative;
right: -30px;
}
Or, lastly, position: relative, and a positive left
.your_picture {
position: relative;
left: 30px;
}
This is why negative margins and relative positioning exist. To move things relative to where they would normally lie.
.your_picture {
position:absolute;
/* this needs to be negative to have the image sticking outside of the width */
right:-30px;
}
#parentDiv{
position: relative;
}
#your_picture {
position:absolute;
right:-30px; /*change it to a number that you like */
top: 30px; /*change it to a number that you like */
}
html markup would go like:
<div id="parentDiv">
<div id="your_picture"></div>
</div>
Related
is there any way to make single page website without position absolute? Because when I want to variable height of containers, absolute position is little bit awkward. I mean when I insert more content to one container, the other above it should move down. I've tried position static and relative, but it didn't work for me.
Now my css looks like:
<style>
#header {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 20%;}
#main {position: absolute; top: 20%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 80%;}
#about {position: absolute; top: 100%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;}
#contact {position: absolute; top: 200%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 50%;}
</style>
<body>
<div id="header">
content....
</div>
<div id="main">
content...
</div>
<div id="about">
long content which is covered with next div, because its "top" atribute settings
</div>
<div id="contact">
div which covers previous one's end
</div>
But when some container needs to be longer, problem is here..
Thanks for any help!
That depends on the style of your website. Of course you can set up anchors and have a one-page scrolling website, but I don't think that answers your question.
My suggestion is to try using absolute positioned elements as containers, and have your actual template inside them.
It would help if you provided some actual code or a specific issue you're having, as it's currently too vague.
I'll provide an answer to what I think you might be asking, though it isn't clear. I hope this isn't too basic.
Ditch the position property altogether.
Just have a div (which is by default 100% width) as your header at the top of your html. The content should be in another div below that.
Divs by default have 100% width, and their height is dependent on the height of their content. They will grow to accommodate taller content. These behaviors are because they have the property display:block .
You've used % which, if I remember correctly, is relative to the parent element. vh (viewport height) is relative to the height of the screen (100vh is the full height of the screen).
I added the background-color just so it's easier to see.
<style>
#header {
background-color: #777;
height: 20vh;
}
#main {
background-color: #999;
height: 80vh;
}
#about {
background-color: #777;
height: 100vh;
}
#contact {
background-color: #999;
height: 50vh;
}
</style>
I have a fixed DIV. The page contents should be displayed after the DIV, but they are under the DIV - partially hidden by it. How can I avoid this?
Here is the DIV's style:
#top_div {
position: fixed;
float: left;
top:0;
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
background-color: black;
}
we do not know your entire code, but if it is like
<div id="container">
<div id="fixed">fixed</div>
//a lot of html code here
</div>
put some top-padding to the .container div, padding equal to the height of the fixed div
Take a look at this.
Fixed Div
HTML:
<div>Fixed div</div>Can we see this?
CSS:
div {
position: fixed;
}
Now without fixed
HTML:
<div>Not Fixed div</div>Can we see this?
CSS:
div {
}
Just to show you what the difference is. You can see the div as position: fixed is sitting on top of the content after. The div will stay in that place always on screen. Thats what fixed does. You do not want this (I don't think as you didn't explain what you want it to do) so just remove it.
Example of position:fixed working on a page that can scroll, you will see it is always on the screen.
Example Here
Do not used fixed as this is what causes the problem for you.
I think you are trying to achieve this (http://jsfiddle.net/6Q9w4/8/)
.header {
height: 20%;
background-color: #4679bd;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
.content {
position: absolute;
top: 20%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
overflow: scroll;
}
I want to have a site that is 100% of the height of the browser at all times, with the width scaling with an aspect ratio when the height is changed.
I can achieve this using the new vh unit: http://jsbin.com/AmAZaDA/3 (resize browser height)
<body>
<div></div>
</body>
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
div {
height: 100%;
width: 130vh;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #f0f;
}
However, I worry about fallback for IE8 and Safari, as it this unit is not supported there.
Are there any other CSS only methods of achieving this effect?
I have a solution that works also with IE8 (using Pure CSS 2.1), but not perfectly.
because I need the browser to recalculate things when he get resized, and apparently it doesn't do that unless he has to (and I cant find a way to make him think he has to), so you will have to refresh the page after resizing.
as far as I know, the only element that can scale reserving his ratio is an <img>, so we will use the <img> to our advantage.
SO, we are going to use an image with the ratio that we want (using the services of placehold.it), lets say we want a 13X10 ratio (like in your example), so we'll use <img src="http://placehold.it/13x10" />.
that image will have a fixed height of 100% the body, and now the width of the image scales with respect to the ratio. so the width of the image is 130% height of the body.
that image is enclosed within a div, and that div has inline-block display, so he takes exactly the size of his content. witch is the size you want.
we remove the image from the display by using visibility: hidden; (not display:none; because we need the image to take the space), and we create another absolute div, that will hold the actual content, that will be right above the image (100% width and 100% height of the common container).
That works perfectly when you first initiate the page, but when you resize the page, the browser doesn't always measure the right width and height again, so you'll need to refresh to make that happened.
Here is the complete HTML:
<div class="Scalable">
<img class="Scaler" src="http://placehold.it/13x10" />
<div class="Content"></div>
</div>
and this simple CSS:
html, body, .Content
{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body
{
text-align: center;
}
.Scalable
{
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
}
.Scaler
{
width: auto;
height: 100%;
margin-bottom: -5px;
visibility: hidden;
}
.Content
{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
background-color: black;
}
Here's a Fiddle (don't forget to refresh after resizing)
I recommend you to copy this code to your local machine and try it there rather then within the fiddle.
In this similar SO question a CSS technique was found and explained on this blog entry that allows an element to adjust its height depending on its width. Here is a repost of the code:
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="dummy"></div>
<div id="element">
some text
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#container {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
width: 50%;
}
#dummy {
margin-top: 75%; /* 4:3 aspect ratio */
}
#element {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
background-color: silver /* show me! */
}
Demo Here
If this is sufficient for you, I'd recommend this technique. However, I'm unaware if the technique can be adapted to handle scenarios where you must have an element adjust its width depending on its height.
You can do it with the help of padding on a parent item, because relative padding (even height-wise) is based on the width of the element.
CSS:
.imageContainer {
position: relative;
width: 25%;
padding-bottom: 25%;
float: left;
height: 0;
}
img {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
}
Basically I have a Picture in a div nested in 2 divs. I wanted to overlay a piece of tape onto it at the corner of the picture.
So I made a div for that piece of tape image and put it at the bottom of the document giving it the position of relative and giving it these attributes.
#tape
{
width: 100px;
height: 65px;
position:relative;
left: 25px;
top: -662px;
}
And here is the Picture's attributes:
#character-spotlight
{
margin-left:50px;
width:250px;
height:250px;
float:left;
z-index:1;
}
Bot of these Div's are nested into
#content
{
width:800px;
height:1360px;
background-image:url(Cork.Board.png);
background-size:100%;
float:left;
display:block;
}
Which is itself nested into
#container
{
width: 1024px;
height:1600px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top: 50px;
display:block;
}
Here is the webpage
www.workaholicsfans.com/characters-files/Adam-Demamp.html
It works fine in Chrome but not IE and Firefox.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
(There is no link in your post) I can hardly believe the situation you described and provided css could work. The fact that you have it working in Chrome is just pure luck i guess, are you might have been playing with the numbers to make it fit.
The solution is actualy rather simple.
<div class='picture-wrapper'>
<img class='picture' src='picture.../>
<img class='tape' src='tape... />
</div>
then in the css
.picture-wrapper {
position: relative; /* this now acts as the reference for position absolute of the children */
}
.tape {
display: block;
position: absolute; /* position according to its parent */
top: 0; /* top position */
left: 0; /* left position */
z-index: 5; /* bring to front */
}
That should do the trick.
edit:
i just saw you added the link. If you want the piece of tape to overflow the picture edges, the easy way would be to add some padding-top and padding-left to the wrapper. something like this:
padding: 8px 0 0 8px;
Or if you want it to be absolute positioned according to the page container:
#tape {
height: 65px;
left: 325px;
position: absolute;
top: 300px;
width: 100px;
}
(But I must admit that I like PeterVR's code better since this keeps things relative, which comes in handy if you position 'new' stuff above the #tape div).
I'm having issues with the margins in browsers (other than Firefox) on this page:
http://jumpthru.net/newsite/commentary/
Here is the CSS:
#container3 {
float: right;
margin: 0 -240px;
width: 100%;
}
#content3 {
margin: 0 210px 0 -45px;
width:500px;
}
#primary, #secondary {
left:920px;
overflow: hidden;
padding-top: 40px;
position:absolute;
width: 220px;
}
Kind of a strange way to build up the page..
I recommend you to create a 2 column layout in main2..
Left for menu and right for the comments header, with beneath that the content and the recent comments div..
And, start using clearfix: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html
I fixed the issue in Chrome by changing this CSS:
#primary, #secondary {
left: 980px; /*was 920px*/
overflow: hidden;
padding-top: 40px;
position: absolute;
width: 220px;
}
I see you're using absolute position on #primary, this is based on the window so when i resize the window the "Recent Comments" section moves. So depending on the resolution of the users screen and the size of their browser this will move.
add position relative to the main2 div. Then change the left value on the #primary to right with a value of 0. this will keep it on the right side and always in the same place.
#main2 {
position: relative;
...
}
#primary, #secondary {
right: 0;
...
}
EDIT: The reason this works is when you use position: absolute the value is absolute the nearest relative parent element. if the element as no parent elements with position: relative it will be absolute to the browser window. Hope that makes sense.